Also Anthony Hopkins plays a drunk.
So I saw this movie called Beowulf which is like Olde Englishe for “bay of wolf” and if you paid as much attention as I did in American history class you would know that the Bay of Wolf is how President Kennedy countered Castrol’s Bay of Pigs, right up until the pigs built a house of bricks to keep us out.
Also Rose Tyler visited it in her last episode of Doctor Who.
Beowulf was based on the oldest surviving novel in the English language written by Neil Gaiman. I’ve never read it but since I knew it was by Neil Gaiman I already had a pretty good idea what it was about when I went in: The Power Of Myth. For this movie Myth is represented by Angelina Jolie who plays a demon-goblin-mermaid-thingy, and Power is symbolized by her boobies.
The movie represents a departure for Crispin Glover who got typecast as playing only creepy thin guys (like his breakthrough role in Charlie’s Angels as “Creepy Thin Guy.”) In Beowulf he moves away from all that in his stunning portrayal of Grendel, a creepy thin ogre.
Beowulf is pretty much an okay movie. You have to see a naked guy but you don’t have to see any no-no bits. You get to see Angelina Jolie but you don’t get to see any no-no bits. It’s educational though because the creepy thin ogre speaks only Olde Englishe, which is like regular English only more German. Some times everything looks really See Gee Eye like in Shrek but in other places it looks totally realistic if you ignore the fantasy stuff like dragons and trees.
~Ariella Rasputin Wallflower
December 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Yeah, what is it with people and putting trees into their movies? I mean, come on! Doesn’t that mean they have to pay them? Otherwise it’s slavery, am I right?
Much easier to CGI them in, I say.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Um okay you’re just weird.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
But…. I’m pretty sure that trees are real! Wikipedia says so. Plus, in seventh grade, I totally did a project where we had to collect leaves and identify what kind of trees they were from! And they aren’t allowed to teach you lies in school! Except in english class. And there they call them “fiction”.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I don’t believe in them. I’m an atreeist. Teaching treeligion in school is a violation of birch and state.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
“Birch and state” made me lol.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Birch and state…. now we have to send you to PA… no, not Punsters Anonymous– PA… you know, Pennsylvania; the state. And where in the great state of Pennsylvania are you to be sent? Why to Pittsburgh of course. Ban puns are the Pitts.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:05 am
I don’t believe in Pennsylvania. It sounds too much Transexlwania, so it can’t be, just like rocky horror pctrue shöy… so what amiciaN is saying is as smart as “I’ll chase you up a tree!”