Yeesh. I've just seen it, and liked it a lot. I don't see it as being any different in tone or implication than Blackhawk Down, Behind Enemy Lines, or the countless other recent movies about American toughness in the face of huge odds. Only this time they weren't Americans.
It's just the modern day cowboy flick, of testosterone fuelled American-style hardasses showing the world not to mess with them. Makes for cool movies, often, and is more like tapping into a societal thing about America vs the world rather than any particular political statement.
What got me most though, was less how tender Leonidas was with his family, and more that the Arcadians were portrayed as a neighbouring independent and somewhat more pathetic nation to the Spartans. Wasn't it Arcadia that was the neighbour that Sparta brutally invaded, conquered, suppressed and enslaved?
Oh, and the Civver in me was marking out over Immortals vs Phalanxes(well, A Phalanx)!
It's just the modern day cowboy flick, of testosterone fuelled American-style hardasses showing the world not to mess with them. Makes for cool movies, often, and is more like tapping into a societal thing about America vs the world rather than any particular political statement.
What got me most though, was less how tender Leonidas was with his family, and more that the Arcadians were portrayed as a neighbouring independent and somewhat more pathetic nation to the Spartans. Wasn't it Arcadia that was the neighbour that Sparta brutally invaded, conquered, suppressed and enslaved?
Oh, and the Civver in me was marking out over Immortals vs Phalanxes(well, A Phalanx)!
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