300 Spartans

I saw numerous trailers of Frank Miller's graphic novel movie adaptation and I must say, I'm really impressed with the costumes and visual effects of the movie, not to mention that it's bloody gory. For once, the visual effects in this movie do the cinematography and the landscaping, which is breath-taking. I've personally read Frank Miller's graphic novel, but the movie takes on a whole new dimension. It's almost like a film noir, think Sin City, the director Zack Synder, captures the essence of colour scheme and angles as shown in the graphic novel.

I still cannot believe that under all that make-up, costume and chains, the King of the Persians, Xerxes, (shown above) is actually actor Rodrigo Santoro of Charlie's Angel 2 fame, not to mention his brief appearance in Love Actually and Lost!

The movie opens on 9 March 2007, let's hope that we get that opening here on the same day! I really can't wait for it!