This is ridiculous, people take this sort of a thing too serious. Personally, I think Frank Miller is the man. I don't think he woke up and said, "You know what would be a great addition to my portfolio? A comic book designed to discredit the Persian Empire!"

People are just too sensitive. I mean, it's a god damn action movie. Who in the hell goes, "Well, two hours of green-screen goodness has me convinced. I should dedicate at least this month to bashing the long extinct empire of Persia!"

I agree with whoever (I think Afs did) said this is just another Da Vinci Code/Passion of the Christ/Last Temptation scenario. People are going to get worked up over absolutely nothing.

"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."