This is one of the most crap movies I've seen in a long time. Its full of shouting along with one shitty storyline. Add to that the eery feel of the music. And its not cool watching a naked angelina jolie in pixelated form. A waste of one's money and time. Discuss.
Beowulf
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It looks awful from the trailers.
The 3d stuff is fantastic, but the entire backbone of the movie(storyline, etc) is pretty awful. Don't waste your money. Seriously.
Oh, that's a shame. I thought it was written or at least based on the graphic novels by Neil Gaimen? So I thought it may be OK..
A work colleague of mine wants me to take her to see it, she's married and it looks awful, but I think I'm still going to.
I think I would walk out at some point if I went to see it
Shitty storyline? You do know what Beowulf is don't you?
Maybe the screenplay is bad, or you are one of those that like stories such as Transformers.
I can't make my mind up, its on at the imax at the print works but the trailers look shit.
I was very close to doing that after the first 15 minutes of the movie had passed. I watched the movie at 1am in the morning(it was a late night show) and there was so much of screaming and shouting, I just felt really annoyed.
Seriously which part of Hero kills Monster, fecks with demon, then later kills his own offspring is nice?
isnt it based on a Nordic myth?
Anglo-saxon, I think.
just looked it up, the poem became famous in England by an anonymous writer but the story itself was Nordic
In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, an unnamed dragon. He is mortally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers.
In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, an unnamed dragon. He is mortally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers.
Ah, makes sense.
Go see American Gangster instead
I read Beowulf as a class assignment in high school, and was thus thinking of catching it at the movies as I assumed it had been adapted. Is the movie really based on a graphic novel? I may not be interest in that case, since I am not familiar with the Beowulf graphic novel, just the old Saxon poem.
Beowulf is also the oldest known written poem in the English(Old English) language from what I gather. I had pretty high expectations of this film but all the reviews I've read says it crap.
Would be suprising if it is REALLY bad. They have some real A-list actors in this thing. Thought the writing would be better. I was disappointed with American Gangster though, so nothing is ever a sure thing.
Where did you think the Saxons et al came from?
Who said it was nice? And I suggest you read the transcriptions of the poem.
Decent way to waste 2 hours, some parts were just stupid though. Like when he pops out of the seamonster's eye and yells BEOWULF!!! The whole audience laughed at that bit.
I won't be watching it because the poem is amazing. Seamus Heaney's translation from a few years back is a great read
Friends went for it yesterday. I firmly told them to feck off and saw batman begins again at home.
I was worried myself. I was trying to watch A Streetcar named Desire but the movie was taking forever to load. For no reason whatsoever I clicked on the Batman Begins link and totally forgot about the other movie.
Bale is class though
any good reviews of it at all??
is it all cgi'ed?
is it all cgi'ed?
Why do we fall, Bruce?
Shut up Alfred, and get me some apple juice.
...and for some weird reason the Danes have convinced everyone that they are some brave viking people. I stopped reading there... they have never been brave, nor vikings. Did you know that every single Dane that died in WW2 died from a bullet wound in the back. Sprinting north the cowardly feckers... they were never vikings. A free meal for the Norwegian, Swedish and the other proper viking people. feck the Danes!
The Danes are alright. I don't know why you seem to hate them so much.. Where are you from? Remember they gave the world Ålborg snaps, Smörrebröd and Peter Schmeichel so they can't be all that bad. It's a bit odd to say they weren't vikings when considering the Dane law and all the accounts of "Danish" viking raids across Europe. Furthermore you could argue that Danish and Swedish were the same thing in those days. We shared the same language(East Scandinavian) and the same traditions. There were no Scandinavian national states back then, just different tribes.
Ofcourse you shared the same language, we all did. There is one specific incident that proves this. The last heathen tribal chief of the Faroe Islands, who were proper vikings by the way, ask norwegians, anyways he sailed to Denmark around year 1000 to trade. He must have been in a good mood since he traded with those self righteous pricks, otherwise Denmark would be Faroese territory. The legend tells of both parties negotiating in their own native tongue and understood each other.
Norway was like 12 different regions back then and each had their own appointed King, if I remember correctly subjects to the Danish king who was above them. These 12 mini kingdoms were finally united under one king later on. A king who incidentally had the balls to tell the Danish king to feck off and where to stick it. And further incidentally that king was born in the Faroe Islands. Beat that.
A miniature history lesson for you there!
Norway was like 12 different regions back then and each had their own appointed King, if I remember correctly subjects to the Danish king who was above them. These 12 mini kingdoms were finally united under one king later on. A king who incidentally had the balls to tell the Danish king to feck off and where to stick it. And further incidentally that king was born in the Faroe Islands. Beat that.
A miniature history lesson for you there!
It must be a crap movie when what was brought out in the movie does not match the transcriptions of the poem.
I still kind of want to see it.