8. 300
If you went into Zack Snyder's hyper-stylish, ultra-violent comic book adaptation expecting historical accuracy, you were asking for trouble. The film is high-camp, featuring Spartan soldiers who love shouting ridiculous pro-wrestling-style catchphrases with their perfectly toned abs, before kicking messengers down wells and battling the enemy with fiery gusto. Though the Battle of Thermopylae was an unquestionably bloody affair, Snyder's film, drawing from Frank Miller's comic as it does, eschews realism in favour of something a lot more entertaining - stylish, brutal, dumb gore and wonderfully gratuitous nudity. The most ludicrous elements are probably the turncoat hunchback and the fantastical, gigantic creatures the 300 Spartans have to face off against, as well as the fact that Xerxes' army of Persians are depicted as highly camp fellows decked out in homo-erotic attire, who really aren't all that great at odds-in-their-favour combat. Oh, and the film completely omits any dishonourable Spartan trait, specifically that Sparta was a hot-bed for child abuse. I guess that would sort of be a buzz-kill, right? Fair enough, Zack.