Beowulf

Post by **Dacey** » November 13th, 2007, 1:48 pm

Some early reviews for the film:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beowulf/

Code Horror · Post by **Code Horror** » November 13th, 2007, 1:54 pm

4 good reviews, not bad. The film is going to rock.

"This. Is. BEOWULF!"

Sorry, I had to make a 300 joke, those kind of jokes make me laugh. XD

Post by **Ben** » November 13th, 2007, 2:28 pm

Apparently, CH, he does scream "I AM BEOWULF" quite a lot of times through the movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter review link I put into today's front page.

Code Horror · Post by **Code Horror** » November 13th, 2007, 3:22 pm

Ben wrote:Apparently, CH, he does scream "I AM BEOWULF" quite a lot of times through the movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter review link I put into today's front page.

I smell Beowulf jokes, what about you?

Post by **Ben** » November 13th, 2007, 4:35 pm

I like New York in June, what about you?

Code Horror · Post by **Code Horror** » November 13th, 2007, 6:11 pm

Ben wrote:I like New York in June, what about you?

I like Horror and Anime, what about you?

Post by **Ben** » November 14th, 2007, 7:28 am

I like a Gershwin tune...

Post by **Dacey** » November 14th, 2007, 9:02 am

Interviews with the cast can be found here:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=39026

Post by **rebelrex** » November 14th, 2007, 10:40 am

Nice!

I came across this pretty cool interview with Roger Avary, Neil Gaiman and some of the cast...sounds like Gaiman doesn't return his schoolbooks!! HA!

Finally, I get to see it this week!!!

Post by **Meg** » November 14th, 2007, 5:13 pm

Reviews seem to be quite good so far...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beowulf/

Post by **Dacey** » November 14th, 2007, 5:25 pm

I'm getting more and more excited about this.

Post by **lordcookie** » November 20th, 2007, 10:08 am

This was a lot better than I was expecting. All the trailers I had seen for it looked terrible but I went along for the 3D experience (which was great) but was also treated to a solid movie as well. The actual 'animation' is still a little off but the dead eye problem which plagued Polar Express isn't quite as pronounced.

Alot of empathy is created for the characters, including the likes of Grendel, which gives a bittersweet taste to Beowulf's victories. I'm not sure how much of my enjoyment came from seeing 3D in the cinema for the first time or from it being a good film but it is well worth seeking out if you can get to a 3D screening or an IMAX theatre.

Post by **Ben** » November 20th, 2007, 4:01 pm

Beowulf is beoloody awful!

I counted only FOUR blinks in the entire movie.

Characters did not LOOK at each other. Not as in not at them or looking through them, it was worse...they weren't actually looking at them in their line of vision.

Why did Beowulf have girlie hands?

What's with Angelina's naked kitten heels?

Why didn't Grendel look better than Gollum?

Why did everything look texture mapped on?

Why did the battle scenes feel like you were watching someone else playing a (bad) video game?

Why did they bother hiring actors when mo-cap performers like Serkis and Tdudyk (?) know their craft much better?

Why did they then try and make said CG models look like the actors when we all know what a REAL Hopkins and Malkovich look like?

Why did Beowulf not look like Ray Winstone even when he was old? Why did he look like Boramir?

Why did Bob Zemeckis' directorial skills completely vacate him?

Why wasn't I emotionally engaged with ANY of it?

Why did I laugh at unintentional moments?

Why didn't they shoot the actors on VFX screens and put in everything else after? Perfect solution all around.

Why, when someone was REALLY shouting on the soundtrack - going mad with rage - could their pathetic CG model only muster up a bit of a slightly annoyed frown?

Why...um, well that's just it...

Why?

Post by **Jeroen** » December 2nd, 2007, 3:05 am

Ben is absolutely right, the film was terrible!!
I'm so glad I got to see this in 3D or it would have been another 10 bucks gone to waste.

And to continue the why rant...

Why didn't you get emotionally involved with the Main Character?

Why did the ending make no sense?

Why doesn't anything really happen in the film?

Why was Beowulf naked all the time?
So why did it become one big Austin Powers joke?

Why did Antony Hopkins agree to do this?

And most importantly, Why has Motion Capture not advanced in all these years?? It still looks as terrible and unnatural as ever!!

Here's hoping Jackson and Spielberg get it right witht Tintin.
Cause even though Monster House was stylized, the animation itself still looked damn afwul.

Post by **Randall** » December 2nd, 2007, 2:21 pm

The problem, of course, is that mo-cap isn't animation all by itself. Like any other technique--- old-fashioned rotoscoping, drawing from life, etc.--- it requires the intervention of artists to turn it into art. Rely on technique too much, and that's all you've got; just technique. Mo-cap could produce great films, but the artists need to get more involved. This means the actors must ACT with their bodies as much as their voices, and the animators must be allowed to tweak peformances to produce better animation where needed.

And, as always, story is KEY.

Still, I look forward to seeing Beowulf just out of academic interest.