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A big dissappointment...really...

what was?.. this movie?

if anything... worth a rental...

Even a bigger dissappointment than 300 ...

Even the technology (3D), still has a lot to develop, it is still not at its best.

EDIT: But the animation was actually very good.

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[Post edited by mvckalel on Dec 19, 2007]

I was wondering myself if this movie was any good. I have yet to hear any positive reviews aside from people saying the animation is good but that doesn't make a movie.

For me, it was kinda of exciting for watching this 3D movie that sounded a lot like 300 but better (oh, and I paid $11/person).

The animation is really good, the 3D is not, regardless of whatever Spielberg or Cameron or Lucas would tell you, a good 3D effect is years, far from being enjoyable. However, there is a preview for a 'sewing' movie and that, was awesome, it was the 3D highlight of the whole movie (yes, a preview), but only for that movie, not for Voyage to the center of Earth (?), oh, and that U2 promo, was also good, but only good.

As for the movie? It is a PG-13 Beowulf!!! There is gore, yes, deaths, yes...but again, think the PG-13 Robocop...The story is regular, nothing out of this world. The ending is astonishingly horrible, unexpected, but not making any sense (for me at least).

But, you have to realize that I didn't like 300 (just after watching 300, we got to watch Wild Hogs, and that was way better entertaining), but I was really excited about this movie. It let me down, specially when on one scene you see Beowulf young, and just a second after, he is old. No battles? No more gore? No more glory?

I'm not a pro reviewer, but you get my idea...

Robocop's first cut was NC-17 and had to be "de-gored" enough for an R-rating.

No, think the awfulness of Robocop 3, a PG-13 version of Robocop...

"I didn't like 300 (just after watching 300, we got to watch Wild Hogs, and that was way better entertaining)" --mvckalel

Oh, dear.

But, more important, what's a "'sewing movie"? I picture people with needles and thread darning socks in 3-D.

Hmmm. Darning socks. Is that the PG-rated version of damning socks?

John

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[Post edited by John J. Puccio on Dec 19, 2007]

Your sarcasm is better than anybody else in this site ...

And as much as many of you all love 300, it was a big dissappointment (for me) and again, the ending was horrorible!

As for the 'sewing movie', it was just a needle and a button, and the needle stuck out in 3D, it looked awesome that was the highlight of the evening...did anybody else see this preview???

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[Post edited by mvckalel on Dec 19, 2007]

Are you sure you saw this in a digital theater?

The 3D presentation was amazing. I saw people psychically move out of the way and reach for the screen during the movie.

The detail in the animation was a major step-up from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, capturing not only the true body movement of actors Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich but the subtle differences in skin tone and texture. Unfortunately the film cost $150 million to make and only took in $79 (domestically) so far.

You pretty much don't like any movie in this genre if you don't like 300, after that statement you have to take what you say about Beowulf w/ a grain of salt.

Beowulf is a pretty good movie w/ some great moments. It gets pretty high on the badass-o-meter when he just goes balls to the wall against some great monsters. Don't expect an epic story on Beowulf then this aint for you, but it is fun and super bad-ass. BTW the animation is incredible.

Beowulf isn't as openly homoerotic as "300" so, really, what's the point?

Not as homo-erotic but it does show our hero Beowulf sleeping, jumping around, and fighting naked. ) of course this is offset by seeing Jolie naked.

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[Post edited by richiro33 on Dec 19, 2007]

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Don't expect an epic story on Beowulf

Kind of funny considering it's considered the first Epic story in English Literature. The movie was supposed to follow the Original story more closely then past film versions and it sort of did. Until there was one huge departure and liberty taken during the middle. Well at least as an English Lit major I was geeked for the use of olde english during the movie.

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[Post edited by richiro33 on Dec 19, 2007]

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Beowulf isn't as openly homoerotic as "300" so, really, what's the point?

Ok now I know you didn't see the movie. Beowulf fights Grendel naked in a room full of men. It doesn't get more "homoerotic" than that.

I expected Beowulf to be an epic (as somebody said above) like Ben-Hur or the Lord of the Rings, not an empty story like 300 (aside from the gore, what else was there to be entertained by? I grew tired of the visuals after five minutes, or was it seconds?).

Again, Beowulf's animation is amazingly good, but the 3D is not.

Mvckalel if you preferred 'Wild Hogs' to 300 than...well what do you even say to that. With that said, I will admit that 300 was a little lacking in plot and relied heavily on it's visual appeal.

I prefer being gored to death by wild hogs to watching '300.' What do say about that?

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[Post edited by csjlong on Dec 20, 2007]

So now because I prefer a comedy instead of a plotless movie I like 'bad' movies? Just because I was in fact entertained by Wild Hogs and bored by 300 I'm not good? Just because 300 didn't care on making sense and I didn't like it I'm bad?

I'm looking forward for a Wild Hogs sequel, not a 300 sequel...

EDIT: Oh, and let's just not get into the Blade Runner 'great movie' thing...

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[Post edited by mvckalel on Dec 21, 2007]

Hey, mvckalel. My wife and I saw the preview of the "sewing movie". We were really excited to see it when it came out but we forgot the name. I can't find anything about it on the internet. Do you remember what the name of it was?

Thanks,
Ben

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Oh, and let's just not get into the Blade Runner 'great movie' thing...

I'm with you on that! Blade Runner is sub-par in my book. The only thing that's great about it is it makes for good nap material -- works much better than sleeping pills.

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[Post edited by Tim Raynor on Jun 28, 2008]