This movie demands that you not only suspend your disbelief, you also suspend your common sense, decency, intellectual functions and reasoning skills, in order to work.
I don't expect your average movie going American to know current world events let alone historical ones however, if you take one look at how this movie is constructed (aside from poorly) and not realize the glaring inconsistencies such as supposedly professional soldiers not wearing body armor and the employment of mutated hell-spawn animals recruited to fight alongside what is presumably the Persian army, you're obviously going to enjoy this movie.
It's meant for people who would enjoy, without rhyme or reason, the spilling of blood of those they deem worthy of dying at the hands of the people whom they identify with. That's how propaganda is meant to work to entice cognitively challenged masses. There's nothing beyond reason within reason which could put you off enjoying yourself like you enjoy yourself hardcore erotica, by shutting off a majority portion of your brain which wasn't high functioning to begin with.
If I were to be so generously inclined to assume that Frank Miller and Zack Snyder were out to make a meta-movie about the biased depiction of war throughout history and that their general fan base were even capable of comprehending such a critique masquerading as such, perhaps I could also lump myself with the cognitively challenged.
I don't expect your average movie going American to know current world events let alone historical ones however, if you take one look at how this movie is constructed (aside from poorly) and not realize the glaring inconsistencies such as supposedly professional soldiers not wearing body armor and the employment of mutated hell-spawn animals recruited to fight alongside what is presumably the Persian army, you're obviously going to enjoy this movie.
It's meant for people who would enjoy, without rhyme or reason, the spilling of blood of those they deem worthy of dying at the hands of the people whom they identify with. That's how propaganda is meant to work to entice cognitively challenged masses. There's nothing beyond reason within reason which could put you off enjoying yourself like you enjoy yourself hardcore erotica, by shutting off a majority portion of your brain which wasn't high functioning to begin with.
If I were to be so generously inclined to assume that Frank Miller and Zack Snyder were out to make a meta-movie about the biased depiction of war throughout history and that their general fan base were even capable of comprehending such a critique masquerading as such, perhaps I could also lump myself with the cognitively challenged.