Originally posted by: TiptupXerxes was also portrayed as a giant man. I hope that didn't bother you immensely. At least at some point I'm hoping you would have been able to get into the fantastic mindset. The movie's based on a comic book after all and that's what comic books do. More comic book-to-movie adaptations should be like this in my opinion. Otherwise, perhaps Ridley Scott will make his version of the Battle of Thermopylae and then you'll be much more happy. 
Hey, don't put words in my mouth. I never said anything was wrong with Xerxes, although now that you mention it, he kind of looks and talks like Ra from Stargate. Anyway, I accepted the fact that he's a tall guy. Hey, why not, if Kareem Abdul Jabbar can be tall, so can Xerxes.
What you seem to have forgotten is that this isn't like the graphic novel. Believe me, I know, as I have it here in front of me (I pulled it out to see how the film compared to the book). There's no goat-man or Knives-A-Lot in this film. If anything, the writers made it MORE unbelievable by adding them. It doesn't seem very "fantastic" to me that there's this goat creature that comes out of nowhere and just disappears. It's like eye-porn.