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Haven`t seen it yet - CGI puts me off a bit. But apart from visuals, how would it compare against, say, 'Beowulf and Grendel'? (If anyone has seen both.)
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| I think its great! I watched a few days ago, (didn't even know it was animated till i saw it). Even so, the story is brilliant. It shows so many facts of life. I also like the fact that there isn't a happy ending.
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| I have seen both, but don't really think they can be compared, because apart from being the same story about the same people, they have nothing in common. Beowulf is a shiny effects flick (with special effect nudity). There is acting and storyline in there, and lots of CGI animation, but there's more special effect than anything else. I mostly like it for the torso.
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| Liked the film lots, loved the Silvestri soundtrack. Jolly good fun. Had nice pace, good performances, all the right stuff. The CGI? I have to disagree with nearly everyone else it seems. The CGI was very good in places, where they'd spent the time and effort. However it was blatant that they just couldnt be arsed with other bits. Lets compare the obvious effort spent to get pebbles on a beach moving correctly and the effort spent on Grendel. To....The Horses... Ive seen better Horses on Warcraft. they were shite,. no realism in stride or pace, no real contact with the ground utter utter cack. Every time they apppear they cacked the feel of the film and made it look like a bad kids cartoon. This was carried over in other scenes too... main characters were superbly CGI'ed however the 'extras' were blatantly stock animations, many of them no more animated than a basic POSER model. This CGI issue carried further with me. Though obviously this is merer opinion. If you are going to hire actors such as Hopkins Malkovich and Winstone, character actors with extrenmely mobile and expressive faces Id be very very wary about digitising the crap out of them. At the end of the day CGI does not create a realistic human face yet. Thus the main actors looked like bits of their face were suffering from over -botoxing and a great deal of subtlety and visual information was lost from the performances. I particularly feel that Hopkins and the Queen suffered from this though greater effort had been spent on Winstone and Malkovich. Also. Dude if you are going to hire Angelina Jolie please do not give her a digitised body. (Though the heels were a nice touch.) Now Ive heard the director was keen to CGI the whole film because he wanted the CGI to be less obvious than it was when 'inserted' into live action. Now im not sure where hes been but LOTR and POTC both added CGI convincingly to at least the Level of BEowulf without having to resort to desperate cack animation in the background. Other than that. Film good. CGI... good by most standards... not comporable even with its usage in 300 let alone in films released 5 years ago.
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| Went to see it at the IMAX 3D cinema in Bradford - very pleased by it - I really liked the way you could choose whose point of view it could be seen from. Seeing Beowulf as a hero, or as another guy who sucumbed to Grendal's mother... And also how tales of vallor are probably made and sung down through history.
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Saw Beowulf and Grendel last night and I've got to say I was impressed. If the people who made Pathfinder and 13th Warrior had only gone to the same trouble.
I loved the gradual realisation, by Beowulf that he'd been duped and the real monsters where actually his friends in Heorot- and the fact that it didn't stop him from his heroic butchering (like a yank with a rainforest).
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| Not seen Beowulf yet but did like a film called The Pathfinder which was First People of the North Americas meet Longboat travellers. I did think it was going to be a potboiler but it was actually very good. I also enjoyed the new Tarantino feminist movie.
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Ulaylia (2/16/2008)
Not seen Beowulf yet but did like a film called The Pathfinder which was First People of the North Americas meet Longboat travellers. I did think it was going to be a potboiler but it was actually very good. I enjoyed the movie, it's just the lack of effort on costume- they were wearing Para boots- for less money they could have had 10th century Scandinavians, instead they had the extra's from Conan the TV series- same with 13th warriors, great film, wonderful concept- why did the 13 heroes have armour spanning over a 1,000 years of history, especially as Michael Crichton actually span the story from a real historical document.
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