Ok, so this might be a really obvious one, but 300 is a totally bamf movie regardless of whether or not you are Greek.  Therefore, I could not resist writing about its awesome Greekness.

As a Spartan myself, 300 is proof that Greeks have a reason to be proud.  We really aren’t as ethnocentric as we come off to be – ok, well we are, but I mean that there’s good reason for it.

Now, this movie has everything. There’s kick ass action, there are some great lines, and some seriously attractive people.  What more could you ask for?

I think what I, as a Greek, like most about the movie, though, is the fact that it shows people what the Spartans were all about.  Although it is a fantasized version of the story, you really do get to see how the Spartans perceived themselves and what they were thought to be.  Sure its a mythical take, but the time of the 300 Spartans was a time where mythology was truly believed in (and the Spartans were serious about their religion).  All that menacing sorcery that they Persians seemed to preform was a take on how the Spartans, who believed in that sort of thing, would have understood their enemies to be.

Furthermore, the character of the Spartans is absolutely unbeatable.  They’re all about glory.  Trained from a young age to be both strong and clever.  I mean, Spartans took some serious beatings back then.  And it wasn’t only the men who were strong.  Since the men were always off fighting, or training to fight, Spartan women were seriously independent.

Spartans were also pretty cool because their society was like an early communism.  I guess it worked pretty well back then.

Overall, 300 made every one who didn’t know about the Greeks see that Greeks are freakin awesome.

So basically what I’m trying to say by making 300 #5 on stuff greek people like, is that Greek people like movies that make Greek people look good – which is every movie that Greeks are in because you just can’t make a Greek look bad.