Beowulf (the movie)

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Robertbert

And what was wrong with Stardust anyways?...

Aside from the fact that it was only in theaters a few weeks and didn't get the kind of global distribution it deserved?

I don't know whether Gollum is saying that Nesa saw it and was disappointed, or that she was disappointed because it still hasn't turned up in theaters where she lives, but I'm guessing the latter.

[Wiglaf]

I may go just for the IMAX 3-D. The IMAX is lame at least compared to the Fleet, the country's first half-dome IMAX, but the 3-D is nice. The motion capture, video game stuff seems like it might irritate me to no end however.

[Joel007]

I enjoyed the animation, they really managed to get human mannerisms and some little details I was watching for. If I wasn't admiring the graphics I probably would have forgotten it wasn't real people
And they did a great job of making grendel's mother halfway between sexy and scary.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

I don't know whether Gollum is saying that Nesa saw it and was disappointed, or that she was disappointed because it still hasn't turned up in theaters where she lives, but I'm guessing the latter.

Yes that is what I meant.....

[Nesacat]

Yes Teresa ... definitely the latter. Stardust did make it here and it barely lasted two weeks. Am very glad that we decided to go see it the weekend it opened. We'd have missed it otherwise. It's very hard for such movies here. Mirrormask did not make it at all for example.

30 Days of Night on the other hand, which is a terrible movie is pulling in crowds of people every single day. It makes no sense at all.

Am going to see Beowulf this Sunday. Am very much looking forward to it. Have the tickets and have taken the day off. I know it will be censored and I'll have to buy the DVD but it will be good to see what I can on the big screen nevertheless.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Am going to see Beowulf this Sunday. Am very much looking forward to it. Have the tickets and have taken the day off. I know it will be censored and I'll have to buy the DVD but it will be good to see what I can on the big screen nevertheless.

Whilst I enjoyed visiting your neck of the woods I must say I'm glad of where I reside. Talk about restriction of people's freedoms. EEK...

Good night now, hope you enjoy Beowulf...

[Joel007]

Beowulf was quite gory, so if they censor all the violence you won't have a movie left Then again, it's rated a 12A in England (some parents ignore the "A" bit and take their kids to see it before previewing it, a girl started crying and had to be taken home), so since it isn't done with real people it might escape censoring!

[purple_kathryn]

Originally Posted by Joel007

Beowulf was quite gory, so if they censor all the violence you won't have a movie left Then again, it's rated a 12A in England (some parents ignore the "A" bit and take their kids to see it before previewing it, a girl started crying and had to be taken home), so since it isn't done with real people it might escape censoring!

No doubt the parents will write a strong letter of complaint to someone

[Nesacat]

They won't bother too much about the violence. It's rated 13 here. They do however object rather violently to people kissing, nursing babies ... that sort of thing.

[purple_kathryn]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

They won't bother too much about the violence. It's rated 13 here. They do however object rather violently to people kissing, nursing babies ... that sort of thing.

OMG I can see most of a boob! will someone not think of the children!

[Nesacat]

Tell me about it. I never thought it made much sense at all the criteria for censorship.

Beowulf Sunday at the Imax ... yay. They definitely did some major CGI work on Ray Winston.

[Joel007]

Well it was the custom to be outrageously drunk and naked while dancing on the tables and chasing the women in those days. I wonder what the censors made of that?

[Nesacat]

Okay I've just come from seeing the movie. Cinema was packed and it was about half filled with children. The movie got a 'U' rating here. I don't know how but it did. So all the children got to see people being eaten and torn apart and everything. I think Joel was right. It skipped being censored because it was not real people. Several children started crying and had to be taken out.

They did an amazing job with the animation. I think I spent more time watching all the details than actually paying attention to the movie. Grendel's mother was quite something else. Terrifyingly attractive and they managed to make you feel very ambivalent about Grendel himself. In the end I was seriously cheering for the dragon. He was beautiful. I knew how it would end but still it was hard not to cheer for him.

As for the people, Beowulf and Hrothgar came out pretty well but the Queen looked quite plastic. The 3D worked very well with the flying objects and sea serpents and things getting killed by being stabbed through the eye from the inside.

[Kissmequick]

Well I went to see it and it was ok. Animations were pretty good. But the whole 'I am Beowulf!' - er rip off from the 300 anyone? And they could have kept more to the actual story instead of changing so much, I had to spend an hour explaining to my hubby that that wasn't quite how it was written.


There were only four people in the cinema too. A bit of a poor crowd.

[Delvo]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

The movie got a 'U' rating here. I don't know how but it did. So all the children got to see people being eaten and torn apart and everything.

It wasn't a matter of animation/reality. It was a matter of shown/hidden. When Grendel pulled someone in half, they cut to shadows on a wall instead of showing it actually happening directly. When Beowulf cut into his own arm, they showed the blade approaching the target but then cut away from there at the last moment. They were rather creative about finding ways to communicate to the audience that things had happened which weren't actually shown.