Beowulf

ZeroCool · #1 11-16-2007, 04:34 PM

Anyone catching this tonight...Or saw it already...definitely looking forward to it.

skylark · #2 11-16-2007, 04:49 PM

I literally groaned when I saw the ad to this. I knew my husband would make us watch it; I'm just hoping we don't have to go to the theaters. It looks too stylized for my taste... I couldn't stand 300 and it looks exactly like that.

DaemonSeid · #3 11-16-2007, 05:03 PM

Run and hide skylark...run!!!! LOL

MysticCat · #4 11-19-2007, 09:21 AM

I would love to go see a good "Beowulf" movie, but I seriously doubt I'll go see this. I absolutely detest the style of animation they used for it. I couldn't stand it in "The Polar Express," and I don't want to see it with "Beowulf."

Skylark, you're supposed to encourage your husband to go see it with his guy friends.

That's what my wife does -- there's a group of husbands that go to see all the guy movies together. Last year for Valentine's Day, my wife gave me $50 in movies passes with the caveat that I could not use the passes to go see movies with her. Brilliant!

And of course she knows that if she wants to go see a chick flick with her friends, I'm not going to argue. Win-win for everyone!

nikki1920 · #5 11-19-2007, 09:25 AM

I saw it and was impressed. You get used to the animation after a few minutes. It was worth it.

MysticCat · #6 11-19-2007, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by nikki1920

You get used to the animation after a few minutes.

I really don't think I would. I'm serious, I found it beyond distracting in "The Polar Express" -- I would have walked out of the movie if the kids hadn't been with me.

skylark · #7 11-19-2007, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

I would love to go see a good "Beowulf" movie, but I seriously doubt I'll go see this. I absolutely detest the style of animation they used for it. I couldn't stand it in "The Polar Express," and I don't want to see it with "Beowulf."

Skylark, you're supposed to encourage your husband to go see it with his guy friends.

That's what my wife does -- there's a group of husbands that go to see all the guy movies together. Last year for Valentine's Day, my wife gave me $50 in movies passes with the caveat that I could not use the passes to go see movies with her. Brilliant!

And of course she knows that if she wants to go see a chick flick with her friends, I'm not going to argue. Win-win for everyone!

I totally agree... I would be more willing to see the movie if it didn't look like a freakin video game. And yeah... I do try to encourage him to see things with his guy-friends, but the movie ticket idea might be a good idea. He does lots of stuff with his guy friends, but mainly hunting/fishing crap. I'm not sure he has ever gone out with a guy friend for a movie. I tried to get him to have a guy's night out a couple weeks ago when I had my sorority's advisory board over for a Saturday night meeting / girls' dinner night. He ended up hiding in his "sport room" and reloaded ammunition and stuff all night. Maybe next time I have the girls over I'll get him two movie passes and tell him to see his stupid Beowolf.

RACooper · #8 11-19-2007, 06:30 PM

I've so far avoided going to see it, or talking to many that I know that have... I'm just too worried that it'll be a hatchet job on a great work - sorta like Beowulf & Grendel but in a more "Hollywood/Disney" animated 2 hour marketing advert vein.

FSUZeta · #9 11-20-2007, 09:34 AM

i am still scarred from having to read it for h.s. english!

AOIIalum · #10 11-20-2007, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

i am still scarred from having to read it for h.s. english!

When I first heard that they were making a Beowulf movie, I thought it was a bad joke. Are they trying to give people nightmares? I tell you, it's been over 20 years and the scars from that h.s. experience still run deep.

neosoul · #11 11-23-2007, 08:48 PM

it was crappy... the 3D was subpar at best...