300 - What did everyone think?

[Robert Vermaat]

Or the fact that all the good guys in LotR are white, and the bad guys are all black or arab.

You call that a fact? I call that a severly mistaken statement. How black/arab is Saruman? (to name one)
But true, Tolkien was not a friend of southern and eastern peoples, and the asian, negroid and arab people seen in his books are helpers of Sauron.

See where I am going? It's a movie, dammit. Leave it at that.

Absolutely. I mean, I like Donald Duck, but I would never quote what he, Daisy Duck, Scrooge, Huey, Dewey and Louie are doing as tipickal for your ordinary duck in the pond at the back of the house.



Trouble is, many people do make such claims about this movie, and that's (for me personally) the reason to speak out against it. Not as a brilliant piece of action movie (which it no doubt is), but as a 'movie based on hisstorical facts'. For that is a blatant lie - If I made a movie about Alexander who became emperor of China I could make the same claim (well, there was an Alexander who conquered lands in the east, right?), with the same veracity.

Why can't they leave history alone instead of having to (harsher word edited) violate it? It's a fantasy comic, dammit!