Lacking graphics? I didn't notice any lack of graphic quality. And aside from Xerxes' appearance, the rhino, making Ephialtes deformed, and maybe making the Spartans being a lil bit buffer than they probly were at the battle of Thermopylae, they pretty much followed Herodotus's accounts of the battle. And they made that movie with a meager budget too, so that's more kudos for them. I mean if you didn't like the movie then oh well...I still love it hahah.