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[gogmagog]

Man, I really wanna go see the 3-D version of Beowulf when it comes out, since I hear that's way more awesome than the regular version. I'll have to see where it's playing around here (nowhere closer than Davenport, I'm sure, argh).

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[vagrant.livejournal.com]

It looks like an Anglo-Saxon 300. Which I guess is good if you liked 300. I've never seen the movie, but visually, it looked nice.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

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

[vagrant.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go into any movie expecting accuracy, because accuracy, unfortunately, doesn't sell tickets. Tits and men yelling "meme"-able phrases sells tickets.

And, crazy, I just noticed that Beowulf is a CG movie. I always assumed it was actors against a green screen like 300, as the commercials I had been seeing never really showed a good view of anyone's face.