[quote=“Crazy Kenneth”]
that was the beauty of 300 - it really painted a black and white picture of good and evil, something that isn’t done very often anymore in todays uber-sensitive political correctness ridden society. If you take it serious it’s offensive and wrong, if you take it as a piece of entertainment it’s OK. And any kind of accuracy wasn’t what 300 was going for, if they were they wouldn’t have included tall monsters, which we all know didn’t exist, lol.
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I understand what you’re saying. Being extremely politically correct is basically a way of saying that you are not an interesting person with no unique feelings. I hate it as well.
But, my point was that there are going to be segments of society that will be offended by these movies, with legitimate reasons. They cannot take it as entertainment because these groups are used to being misunderstood to an extreme degree, and find further movement in that direction to be extremely offensive as it furthers that idea or even stereotype. While I agree on specific details, ie. we know giant monsters don’t exist, the overall feeling is one a negativity, and that negativity is based on that persons culture and “country”. Therefore, you can’t expect them not to intellectualize these movies, because they’re not even going to have a chance to see the entertainment value anyway, and they’ve been dealing with negativity based on their ethnicity already. It’s just another straw for many people.
I find many American movies about war offensive, but mostly to the viewers brain. You can rarely take anything in them seriously. I just tend to completely avoid them.