Well, I'm hoping it's more faithful to the historical source than 300, which was a pretty but deeply stupid movie (and one that disturbed me in the fact that it made the SPARTANS homophobic, which is not unlike, say, making the Athenians a fascist police state, or making Caligula a model of Roman virtue). To be fair though most of the stuff I didn't like about 300 was more the fault of Frank Miller, for doing the immediate source material the way he did (WHORESWHORESWHORES (http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20060207whores.png)), than that of the moviemakers.

But I want Beowulf to be better not only because I want it to be smart as well as pretty, but also because I'm more attached to the original source material (having spent an entire semester recently in a class where we translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon).

Also I expect better from Neil Gaiman than from Frank Miller, I guess (with reason)? XD

ETA: Wow, comment editing works like a charm! :D