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Post by Sir George, Spanish Rebel on Jul 26, 2007 21:39:58 GMT -7
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Post by AmericanIdiot1987 on Jul 28, 2007 14:44:00 GMT -7
Looks nice, good choice of Anthony Hopkins.
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Post by IceMan on Dec 3, 2007 21:04:13 GMT -7
I saw this version. Not bad, but the animation annoyed me. The Gerard Butler version is still my favourite.
I would give it a 6 out of 10
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Post by Administrator on Dec 4, 2007 21:40:06 GMT -7
The film's downside is the way is drastically differs from the book. According to the real legend, Beowulf is a perfect hero. Here however, he's made out to have his weaknesses, and with a tragic flaw. Then they have him take over Hrothgar's kingdom totally goes against the book. The brief battle scene that follows, even though it wasn't in the book, I admit was a nice addition and probably the only thing not from the legend that I thought could have a place in there. Then they have the dragon be Beowulf's son. Once again, big difference from the actual legend.
Since I'm taking Humanities right now, I can't help but compare it to other myths. Whereas the real Beowulf has a Homeric view of the hero (a hero that is ideal), this Beowulf borrows more from Virgil. In Virgil's Aeneid, the hero, Aeneas, sleeps with the Carthaginian queen Dido. When Aeneas dumps her, a curse is placed that serves as an etiology (or cause) for the Punic wars later on. In other words, the sins of the father haunt the later generations. Sounds familiar huh?
Perhaps they were more concerned with the idea that the mistakes of our fathers affect the generations to follow. An interesting (and true) idea I admit, but very different from the actual book. So, I guess that I'm kind of disappointed in that sense, seeing that many people will rather watch this movie now than read the actual book, and consequently get their facts wrong about the story. However, there were some good points. I'll say that some of the shots were excellent (particularly that shot that starts in Hearot, flies through the forest, and ends up in Grendel's lair) and the technology has improved a lot since they last tried this with "Polar Express." But still, the major changes to the story are troubling. Then again, Hollywood is known for that...
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Post by IceMan on Dec 4, 2007 22:55:44 GMT -7
I agree with those points. I loved the art and design in the movie...I even bought the Art of Beowulf book.
Even most of the armour seemed accurate, except Beowulf's
and his wasn't so far off.
I also thought their Grendel was quite stupid.
Really, really bad Grendel.
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Post by Administrator on Dec 5, 2007 9:27:28 GMT -7
Yeah, the Grendel in this film looked like a guy born out of vomit that had serious speech problems, and a head somehow related to those stones from Easter Island. Kind of looked more cartoonish than realistic to me.
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Post by Lord Revan on Dec 5, 2007 13:11:32 GMT -7
the Grendel in this film looked like a guy born out of vomit LOL! Ha ha it did! Makes you wonder how something so ugly could come out of Grendel's mama  |
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Post by IceMan on Dec 5, 2007 21:44:30 GMT -7
the Grendel in this film looked like a guy born out of vomit LOL! Ha ha it did! Makes you wonder how something so ugly could come out of Grendel's mama If the dad looked like me.... Ahem, ok. This is the real Grendel.  |
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Post by Master Chief on Dec 11, 2007 20:20:45 GMT -7
Man, grendel's mom was hot...
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