Well, that's true for a bunch of internet-forum-nerds *puts on flamesuit,* but most people I know didn't even know that 300 was a comic
When Time Magazine and Entertainment weekly have it listed as one of the best novels of the last 25-75 years, it's FAR from unknown. Methinks that instead of calling people internet nerds you should read more books.
Also,it's bullcrap that you don't care for the adaptation of indy comics--there are PLENTY of other "unknown" comic books made into great movies:
Ghost World
A History of Violence
Road to Perdition
American Splendor
Akira
V For Vendetta (Okay, it's not great, but it was pretty damned good and would have been better if it had been a more faithful adaptation.)
Not great but good (Blade, Hellboy, Men In Black, Oldboy, The Crow)
Back on topic: I think the trailer looks pretty great. I'm still a little on the fence how this is going to play out.
Snyder did an amazing job with remaking Dawn of the Dead (like it or don't like it, it was a slick as hell movie) and captured 300 perfectly. The thing is, both of these are pretty vapid. Dawn of the Dead remake was pretty shallow (the original isn't really THAT deep anyways) and anything by Frank Miller (300, Sin City) is definitely cool, but almost always over the top stupid. You don't read Frank Miller because he's a good writer, but because he's a
cool writer.
Watchmen is a very, very, very smart book. V for Vendetta was also pretty good and while the movie adaptation was solid, the straying from the original only slightly hurt it--not because it was't "faithful", but because it simply wasn't as good. Watchmen while a MUCH better book is a very carefully laid one and small deviations could have a worse effect and it's always a shame when great books get poor movie treatments.
~Jason