Annybody else want to watch Beowulf?

[Shell Beau]

I can't wait to see it! I loved reading it in high school!

http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

[Deep13]

1. Probably. When's it out?

These quasi-historical films are pretty popular.

[Shell Beau]

2. Sometime in November! I just enjoyed the story.

[wildhorses]

3. i want to see it, too. shell

:hi:

[TZ]

4. I would rather see a movie based on "Grendel"

actually. A far more interesting book from the monsters POV.....

[supernova]

6. That would be a cool movie too

Grendel in that book is a very interesting character, much moreso than Beowolf, actually.

I don't see any reason there can't be both. :-)

[stuntcat]

12. me too, I loved that book

(well I'm always on the monsters' side of everything anyway tehe) but that book is one of my favorites.

[Goblinmonger]

26. Check out "Beowulf and Grendel"

It combines both stories and the scenery is beautiful. They do a kind of weird thing with this female character they add in that I am not sure I like, but it does implement some of the concepts from Gardner's novel (goes a different direction in a couple instances, but still has the "Grendel as misunderstood" viewpoint).

[supernova]

5. I'm dancing in my seat for it!

Since I'm an English Lit geek. :D My English teacher in high school even made us learn a passage in Old English.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

7. Hey, Toots.

Movie looks good.

How have you been?

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

8. Hey cutie! Doing great!!! And you?

:hi:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

9. Living well up in CT.

And popping into the Lounge on occasion.

How's the Souf treating you?

[Shell Beau]

10. Souf? Hahaha!!

It is the same as always! But that's why I love it! ;)

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

11. I lived in Nashville for years

It's been a relief to relocate back up North to be amongst my Yankee brethren.

:)

[Shell Beau]

15. Oh yes, those good ole yankees!!

:P

It is almost like 2 different worlds.

[Bassic]

13. Yeah, I'd like to see it as well. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Oh hell no.

The preview makes it look like everything wrong with Hollywood adapting literature for the big screen.

We're talking Scarlet Letter style abominations.

But I could be wrong.

[Shell Beau]

16. It may suck big time, but I want to give it a try and see if it compares.

[Goblinmonger]

27. Nothing

and I repeat NOTHING could be as big of an abomination as Demi Moore's "Scarlet Letter" (or as I like to call it "Last of the Scarlet Crucible"). Did you read Moore's quotation that it wasn't a big deal to change it to a happy ending since not many people have actually read the book?

[bikebloke]

17. I hope it's better than the Gerald Butler version

Beowulf and Grendal. Crikey, some of those actors were wearing Monty Python beards.

[Initech]

18. Saw the preview the other day, it looks fucking amazing.

And the story is quite bad ass, I really want this one to translate to the big screen well.

[ceile]

19. I love Ray Winstone!

Can't wait!

[Shell Beau]

20. I am not really familiar with him! What else is he in?

[ceile]

22. Many good things.

"Sexy Beast" w/ Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203119/

"Victor" won an Emmy for it. I've seen the reruns on BBC America.

"The Proposition" w/ Guy Pearce and Emily Watson

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/

[Crabby Appleton]

21. Just don't drink too much mead while watching it - wicked hangover. nt

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. Ack.

Pure craziness, that was.

:cry:

[ashling]

24. You should see Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf

I saw an interview with this guy on ABC News Now. It was riveting. And true to the image that the 6th century Anglo Saxon would have witnessed.

I want to see the movie too, however

oops! almost forgot:

http://www.bagbybeowulf.com/

[yellowdogintexas]

25. oh definitely; I loved it too. The previews look good. nt

[WinkyDink]

28. God bless you! I taught it! "Gulped the blood, gobbled the flesh."

"When Grendel came creeping, accursed of God."

Good times. :)

[DarkTirade]

29. I want to see it

but I realize full well going into the theater that it may very well be a horrific ruination of a classic story.

[sarge43]

30. Looking for forward to seeing it.

FWIW, recommend Seamus Heaney's translation for anyone who hasn't read it yet.

Probably setting myself up for a GD type slam down, but I enjoyed The Thirteenth Warrior. Interesting take.