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

[poodleface.livejournal.com]

Are you serious? The fat naked Anthony Hopkins was brilliant! :o

I thought he made the best translation to the rendered world... him and Brendan Gleeson (Beowulf's right hand man).

Did you watch the 1010pm show? I thought I saw you walking out of the building as I was going in to watch "No Country For Old Men". Which no amount of spoilers could ruin, by the way... just give all the Oscars to that film and call it a day.

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

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

[ewin.livejournal.com]

They had a CGI preview for Coraline too.

AAAAAACK! Really?

[happyfunnorm.livejournal.com]

To me, the most distracting part of the movie (besides all the "Look! It's 3D!" moments was my constant querry "When is he going to dive to the bottom of the ocean and kill Grendel's Mother? Did I misread it, or am I remembering it wrong?"

Besides those 2 issues, I thought it was great fun.