beowulf

[ghini]

I saw Beowulf in 3D last night.  All in all it was good. 

In the big fight between Beowulf and Grendel, Beowulf is naked.  Since this is a PG-13 movie, there are conveniently placed elbows, candles, swords, smoke, shadows and more to keep us from seeing full frontal Beowulf.  It got to be like an Austin Powers movie.

Just for the record:

Using CGI to make a virtual, naked Angelina Jolie:  good!
Using CGI to make a virtual, naked Anthony Hopkins:  bad!

They had a CGI preview for Coraline too.  In 3D.  Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick in 3D!

Comments

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

but i want to see the naughty bits!!!!

[uglor.livejournal.com]

There was talk of releasing an R or NC-17 version at the same time, with more blood and naughty bits. They decided that having multiple rated versions of a movie which already has 3 different versions out (regular, Imax and 3D) would just be too confusing.

Pray for naughty bits on DVD.

[violin.livejournal.com]

I'm almost sure they'll do a naught bits version on dvd-- just re-render from a slightly different angle, or delete those strategicly placed elements...

I just finished reading Coraline the other day. Very very good. About 10 pages in, I start to realize "Man, Gaiman writes this story a lot. Neverwhere, Mirror Mask, and now this." 5 pages later I forgot all about that.