No, I'm Beowulf!

No, I'm Beowulf!!

No, I'm Beowulf!!!

I was going to pick the topic, "The Greatest Story Ever Told" just to piss off the XXXtians, but the Spartacus joke was too hard to not pass up.

Great.

I'm betting they're going to fuck this one up FOUR times now.

God damn Christopher Lambert! >:(

Ack! Reviews of the Butlersticks movie:

Oh, that epic book. I read that, and why did they make that fugitive that killed his brother do it with the weird shesnake??? I was laughing in some parts of that story, I forgot the ending too. Well overall the story kicks @$$ and the Grendel has issues...

Edit: I'm will so watch the movie!!! Frickin' Awsome!

Well, there are two types of people when it comes to movies like this.

Those that like Conan the Barbarian and other movies like it.

And those that would rather see 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Guess which one that reviewer was...

What about me?

I like the book and want to see a faithful adaptation.

From everything I've read, this is far from faithful and doesn't even reference some of the better variants of the classic tale. >:(

Ugh.

This is a bunch of malarky.

Na razie,

Greg

The story is excellent. Making it into a movie? Not so excellent.
James-

I'll be thrilled if they follow through the life of Beowulf to the letter, but kinda have my doubts =P...

I always imagined Fabio as Beowulf...

As promised I watched the movie...and damn that was EPIC.

Spoilers: I don't like how they ended the movie with just the two of them starring at each other. Why does it show that his son was the dragon in the end? CG was awesome. I like the boobies, and it could have shown some more. And NO BOOBY EYES!!!??? wtf?

Overall the movie stuck to the major parts of the story. So I enjoyed it. Good movie.

Jesus, Misk. How do you remember a two year-old thread amidst all the other rubbish in this sub-forum? Big ups for having an elephantine memory.

Rotten hit this one up at a 70. Metacritic says it's a 59. Both are agreeably pleasant, although are not screaming endorsements. One critic was dismayed by the overuse of computer graphic'd characters. Something that irritates the living shit out of me. Another was bothered by the apparent "dumbing down" from the original legend. Quite a harsh comment, since the original tale was not exactly intended for literary snobs.

By the way, Neil Gaiman was responsible for writing the screen treatment.

Thanks. I use our Search engine once in a while to give it some purpose.

Misk, are you are the only person to ever follow the suggestions "RTFM" or "search motherfucker, do you do it?" on forums?

Anyway, I found the movie to be shit except for the boobies.

I AM BEOWULF!!!!!!!!



This is like 300, but with 1/10th the awesome and 10 times more boobies. It'd be a better movie if they just had Angelina Jolie standing around naked for two hours.

Oh yeah dude. There are "I am Beowulf" remixes already out on Youtube like the "This is Sparta" one.

300 had real boobies. They should have shown Angelina do it with the guy.

Angelina:Do me.
Beowulf:I...AM...BEOWULF!
Angelina:Yes, you are Beowulf, we know.

I must sadly add my signature to the book of those who found this movie to be truly, truly awful. In truth I can scarcely believe some of the talent involved in it - it's that bad.

The two best parts of it for me were the bubbly dragon breath underwater, and finding out that the thin pale guy from the Charlie's Angels movies played Grendel.

Yeah, apparently they changed major portions of the story to have Angelina Jolie as a golden titty monster who gets busy with Beowulf. Having read the story recently as part of a class, its really obvious how things were changed beyond keeping a few basic parts of the framework.

Instead of messing with this movie, you should just go and read Nibelungenlied, which is in the same Germanic tradition but done correctly and way more entertaining.

Shaun, are you taking Professor Adam's class?

I assume that is one of the COM teachers, in which case no.

I read it in a Western Humanities course.

Other than the stupid increases in tuition planned, State is pretty straightforward and uninspiring. The fact that I need a minor to hit 120 units might hold some promise, but it still isn't going to be COM. Its sad that a BA/BS degree has become somewhat worthless without an MA/MS to accompany it. Oh well, woe for another topic at another point in time.

Misk, if I remember correctly, in the real book... Beowulf doesn't fail and sleep with Grendel's mom.

Oh... and the movie was pretty shitty. Some parts they did a really good job on the models, but the animation was kinda choppy and "robotic". From memory, it doesn't feel as if we've advanced much further than we were when "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" came out.

I know, I meant the fugitive who was THE FUGITIVE at some point in the world. In the book I read he was supposed to be Cain, you know the guy who killed Able. He's the one who did that snake bitch. It didn't show it that way in the movie though.

I thought it was dope! What was that comment on overuse of CG? IT'S A FUCKING CG FILM!!!!!

I thought it was great. As usual, liberties were taken from the original story. There's always Beowulf & Grendel but I don't know how that movie turned out. It's only a couple years old too. Then there's the Christopher Lambert version which I also never had a chance to watch. I think part of my enjoyment was not knowing the story before seeing the film. After watching it I checked out the story and they could have really done an epic live action version of this movie. Now they won't be able to do it for at least 15yrs. Why oh why didn't they just show nipples and labia?!?! God damn...the movie was already close to R wasn't it? Oh and why didn't they show Grendel's mom and natural form?

Still liked it. Some cool shit going on in that film.

What's disappointing is that when making up/breaking down the film, Beowulf's buttox is the last frame of one real, and in order to check splices...

And of course, Angelina Jolie is naked halfway between two reel changes. Lame... How am I supposed to snip off a frame of that and get away with it now?