After having seen the trailer for 300, I nearly wept -- and not with joy, either.

I'm not upset so much with the adaptation in and of itself (which I'm sure will translate from the comic book as well as anything), but that they chose to adapt it from the comic book in the first place. It would've been much much happier if they'd adapted say, Steven Pressfield's book Gates of Fire. He's a master of historical fiction, particularly with respect to ancient Greek culture.

Of course, in all fairness, I should probably direct my anger towards Universal Studios. They're the ones that hold the movie option on Pressfield's book, but have not yet bothered tried turning it into a movie.

In any case, I digress. Given that this looks to be a "fantasized" version of the battle of Thermopylae, I have no intention of seeing it. I would just end up saying ever 5 minutes, "Oh come on! That's not what happened!"