Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thoughts on 2007: Beowulf

Beowulf! THE FUTURE OF MOVIES! ... not so much. With the hindsight of a few months it didn't exactly set the world on fire. I did happen to like it however. It was a surprisingly good adaptation/interpretation/what have you and come on! It featured CGI nudity! "Just look at the detail of Beowulf golden butt" was one of the better comments I've overheard in a theater. Grendel was also pretty gross. The 3D gimmick worked reasonably well, but completely blew me away with the dragon sequence. I think my favorite part might have been that it was given the 2nd lowest score ever for "christian values" on some website. May I remind you the movie was PG 13.

Recommendation: it's months after release and this was 3D event movie. Unless you go the jones for beowulf or naked CGI Tony Hopkins.

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