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this just looks amazing....

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/300.html

Definetely waiting for this movie to come out. It's in the same bane as Sin City, and the visuals look amazing. It's about the famous Battle of Thermopylae, if you don't know what happened in this battle you should truly read about it. 300 brave soldiers, led by King Leonidas, held back hundreds of thousands of troops.

The best book ever written on this is "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. Brilliant novel that humanizes (however brutally) the people who actually did the fighting, unlike, I'm sure, a movie adaptation of a comic book will. Will the movie still be worth seeing? Heck yes.

We had to read Gates of Fire, sophomore year in high school for Mythology class and I remember it was an awesome book.

Gates of Fire is truly an amazing book and an amazingly historically accurate one at that (while it obviously focuses around fictional protagonists). The movie employs some obvious Hollywoodisms that are meant to attract the casual fan: the use of the quote about the arrows "blocking out the sun; 'Then we'll fight in the shade'" is overly romantic and such an accurate quote can never be historically linked 2400 years after the fact. The visuals however look truly astonishing and the portrayal of the Persians as an overly outlandish and brutal enemy with excessive pageantry in all forms is great in that it is exactly how the Greeks viewed the Persians. I can't wait to see this movie and a new adaptation to this story for modern audiences is long overdue, and I was wondering if it would ever come. One of the great stories in history, one that gives underdogs everywhere hope, and if nothing else rationalization in defeat.

Jester wrote:The best book ever written on this is "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. Brilliant novel that humanizes (however brutally) the people who actually did the fighting, unlike, I'm sure, a movie adaptation of a comic book will. Will the movie still be worth seeing? Heck yes.

Acutally the graphic novel was written and based off the same book that you all are refering to, and if Frank Miller is doing the work....its bound to be amazing...