Even the Greek are criticizing it !!!!!

According to CNN,
THERMOPYLAE, Greece (AP) -- Greece's critics hated "300," but moviegoers here are lining up to watch the gory recreation of the Battle of Thermopylae in record numbers -- happy to lap up the Hollywood thrills and take an indulgent view of what detractors call a butchery of their ancient history.
Critics dismissed the movie as gratuitously violent and historically inaccurate, one magazine describing it as a "bloodlust videogame."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/27/film.greece.300.ap/index.html

To add to my earlier point as representing Greek as a democratic society. "Historians believe Leonidas was not a young man, unlike the way he's presented in the movie. And Sparta, of course, was not a democracy as it is depicted in the movie but a fearsome military power ruled with absolute authority."
What can i say, this is a typical Hollywood movie, but the action is tooo good to miss. Just bare in mind this is not historically accurate.
I guess this is one of those movies which the audience will like but critics will hate !!

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Historical war epic 300 has been criticised as an attack on Iranian culture by government figures.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6446183.stm

The "Good" in this movie are the Greek, while the "Bad" are the Persians and as for the "Ugly" the honor goes to Hollywood. I think in these historic movies, they think of the Greek as the west ( the democratic sophisticated people) and the Persians ( as the savages middle Easterners including Arabs and others).
I see clear signs of racism in this movies and other historic movies.
Nevertheless, looks like an enjoyable movie. I don't think its based on fact as the trailer shows a lot of fictions.