3D again! I’m there!
count me in!
So it’s basically 3D rotoscoping, which I don’t think is new since A Scanner Darkly did the same thing (amongst others) only it was a lot more stylized.
>>>>There is a lot of parody and silly humor sewn into this movie based on the epic poem they force you to read in high school. <<<<<
Wait a second here! I teach “Beowulf” to high school sophomores, using the version from Dr. David Breeden down at the University of Texas (and available online). Students like it, and most of the boys in class absolutely love it. For boys, especially, it’s a great story with a lot of crude violence, and, surprisingly, some moral lessons about arrogance and virtue. Certainly it’s no PC epic. (Or to put it in the words of a 15-year-old guy: “I’m really tired of reading that the monster and the hero have to be friends, and the hero is some Amazon girl.”)
The movie sounds like someone finally understands “Beowulf” is supposed to be a ripping yarn. I’m going to get a big bag of popcorn and enjoy myself.
Hwaet, we gar-dena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð
feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah,
oð þæt him æghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan; þæt wæs god cyning!
Pings and greetings to all the Germanic philologist Freepers!
Sigh. I figured this was not something I could take my 12-year-old daughter to. A bit of a shame. She knows the story and is interested, but I guess Hollywood had to make it “interesting”. Guess I’ll see it without her.
When I attended community college and since Western Civ History was required of me, had to deal with the book version of the story which is not easy to read or understand. It is supose to be the first real book of western civ after the start of the dark ages.
Cartoon nudity is goofy. Put some clothes on!
Sneak-Peek of the New 10,000 B.C. Movie Trailer
www.movieweb.com | 09/10/2007 | Staff
Posted on 09/10/2007 8:19:46 AM EDT by Red Badger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893887/posts
This also stars John Malkovich who is vintage funny, obnoxious, weird Malkovich in this one.Little John Malkopee, now this one is a must see...
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She and I have the same opinion of Pitt’s mistress.
Maybe it’s just a “girl thing.”
I think I’ll just stay home and read the epic. While I love a new take of an old story and even a good parody on an old story (after all, a true parody is, perhaps, the greatest tribute possible), this sounds like a mockery.
i saw it opening yesterday at noon,
and it sux!
the special effects run over the movie.
simple plot, poor acting, goofy ...
waste of money.