Originally posted by: theredbaron

Originally posted by: C3PX
I agree with how out of place those creatures seemed. What I found funny after reading the comic series is that it takes itself very seriously in comparison to the film. The only of the creatures you find in the graphic novel are the elephants and it is just one panel of them falling off the cliff. No Rhino, no orc guy in chains, no bomb throwers, no knife hands, no goat guy. And Xerxes is just a head taller than Leonidas, he is a big guy but you in no way get the impression he is a giant. Once this comes out on DVD I am considering making a edit that matches the book.

I beg to differ. I very much got the impression that Xerxes was a gigantic, larger-than-life god-man. And I haven't even seen the movie yet.

I didn't say he was a friken midgit in the graphic novel, just that he was only a head taller than Leonidas. In the graphic novel he seemed a realistic height, while in the movie he was unrealistically large.

Nobody should diss the graphic novel until they have read it. It is actually a pretty serious piece of work. Frank Miller had a passion for the subject and made a very enjoyable retelling of it. The giant wolf scene is the most fantastical part of the graphic novel IMHO. But giant wolves fit into mythology, knife-hands is just a lame looking CGI character added in for the heck of it. It feels like those parts were added to acknowledge that it is a comic book movie, but I felt they were unecessary and really did a great job of lowering the quality of the film.