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The New Beowulf movie.
Inlander:
Only if you had some industrial-strength throat lozenges back home.
onewheelwizzard:
I really enjoyed what they did with the plot. Here's why:
1. Beowulf was a believable character. I mean, obviously he was just a big dumb action hero, but in this movie (unlike in the poem) he actually acted like a human being to a certain extent. His flaws made him real.
2. The symbolic link between Hrothgar's (lack of) majesty and Grendel's appearance, and between Beowulf's renown and the dragon's power, was really cool. I quite like the way they tied those two formerly unrelated plot points together and completely reinvented the nature of the myth.
3. The climactic battle was freaking cool.
4. The way they presented Wiglaf was perfect.
It basically was just a moving version of a really fucking awesome graphic novel revision of the Beowulf story. I mean, it's just a comic book in movie form. But it was a comic book I'd definitely read.
PatentAbsurdity:
I thought the visuals were gorgeous, actually.
On the other hand, I ended up seeing it with my mom because all my friends live in different parts of the state, and it's kind of hard to enjoy any movie when she keeps poking me and asking me to explain the plot. Especially since I've never read Beowulf, and I only know enough of the story to tell that they were making half of it up.
Also? That visual gag where they kept blocking his junk?
My mom was sitting next to me and rooting for them to show something already. Listening to your mom talk abut a CGI figure like he's a male stripper is seriously uncanny.
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