Beowulf

[samfordbelle]

So as a lover of literature on the older side of things, and as a former instructor of Ancient myth, I was pretty excited to see Beowulf come to the screen

Comments

[cyberpunked]

"moronic majority of the movie going population."

Yeah never mind movie going...moronic majority (read 99.99999% ad infinitum)of people...is it just me or is everyone else on the planet just dumb?

[samfordbelle]

Hmm my opinion changes on that regularly...and by "that" I mean the percentage....something I thinkk 99.9%, sometimes only 60% or so....

By the way, happy belated birthday!! :)

[lotjeisgraaf]

A movie has to look REALLY cool for me to be able to get over the butchered story/fake history.
"Troy", for example, really bothered me a lot. "300" I thought looked pretty cool :-p

[samfordbelle]

Eh I was still bothered by 300...for one thing, they still (like older versions) couldn't let go of the "freedom for Greece" theme...

[lotjeisgraaf]

Well the whole story was pretty much worthless. I laughed out loud a few times ("They have a Cave Troll!", for example) but I still went to see it a second time with the students.

[prncssaurora]

I'm gonna say it's option B, given that that's the norm for movie adaptations... it's too bad, really.

[samfordbelle]

Yeah option A is basically wishful thinking for me. :/

[mi_wounded_soul]

in case you dont see it in my lj.

happy birthday :)