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Post by torisweettooth on Sept 1, 2008 15:50:20 GMT -5
Who Beowulf or GB?
I see GB in my bed during the party. lol
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Post by Dianne on Sept 1, 2008 21:24:03 GMT -5
Who Beowulf or GB? I see GB in my bed during the party. lol Looks around... "I see dead people..." |
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Post by torisweettooth on Sept 4, 2008 16:55:09 GMT -5
Silly nilly willy 4 shilly! ;D
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Post by Dianne on Sept 16, 2008 5:19:22 GMT -5
I'm going to watch this one tonight!!! I just got it from Net flix!!!!
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Post by torisweettooth on Sept 16, 2008 14:06:02 GMT -5
Awwwwwwwww...you suck....and swallow! Not fair! I need to do Netflix. Redbox sux now. (folds arms and pouts) 
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Post by Dianne on Sept 17, 2008 4:16:35 GMT -5
Awwwwwwwww...you suck....and swallow! Bawhahahahah! What the hell? ;D Anyway I watched it and he looked GOOD!!! Grendel was a Troll....I thought Grendel was the name of a girl....ha! Anyway I liked the movie the only complaint is I wish the girl in the movie had been different.. She was very pretty, but I thought she played the character..... the only way I can describe it is FLAT.....There was no spark, and I didn't think her and Gerry had any chemistry. How could anybody not have any chemistry with him?  ? |
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Post by torisweettooth on Sept 20, 2008 14:24:27 GMT -5
Awwwwwwwww...you suck....and swallow! Bawhahahahah! What the hell? ;D Hehehe...yes I tell all my friends that. It's like a substitute (in economy). Say suck and swallow immediately follows. ;D |
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Post by engchickie on Nov 9, 2009 12:00:38 GMT -5
Resurrecting this thread. WoW, it's been over a year since anyone has posted here.
Okay, I watched this on Saturday (God Bless Netflix). I'm an English teacher as some of you know already, so I've actually read the poem Beowulf . In fact I teach it to my Brit Lit class at the beginning of every school year as it is one of the oldest poems we have in print. No one knows who wrote it though and it was translated from Old English.
I was somewhat surprised by how much of the storyline was accurately presented. Of course there's always some poetic license taken.
Grendel is a blood thirsty monster in the poem without any real motive for his actions. I preferred the way they made him in the movie. We can almost sympathize with his vengeful behavior toward the Danes. Also, him being a troll instead of a monster eliminated the need for CGI. The whole spawn of Grendel was a movie thing only though.
Onto Beowulf...
In the poem he does come from a far off land to help the Danes at Hrothgar's request. He has superhuman abilities and is able to rip off Grendel's arm and kill him single-handed. He then fights with Grendel's mother in her underwater lair. Here his super human qualities come into play because he can hold his breath indefinitely. Beowulf later fights a dragon and dies of old age at the end. Because this movie is called Beowulf and Grendel, I wasn't expecting the whole poem. Then again, it was nice to see G actually survive until the end of the movie too (he dies in so many).
Onto Gerry's performance...
I think G, of course, was very good in this. This reminded me a little of Attila (costumes, long hair, time period); however, I think he was given more freedom to act in this than in Attila. I do wish that they had developed Beowulf's character more as the one-man fighting machine that he is in the poem. I was kind of disappointed that G didn't get to kick some serious a**. He was portrayed as more human in the movie. Then again, so was Grendel, so consistency of characters might have been the reason Beowulf was toned down some.
As a side note, I found it funny that they spiced this movie up with curse words and sex. Before I watched it, I wondered if perhaps I could show parts of this movie to my students. HA HA HA - that's not going to happen. I'm pretty sure that F*ck wasn't even introduced to the English language until the 19th century as a legal term meaning "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", yet it appeared in this movie dated at 600-700 AD. Also, the sex was extra. I can't say the G sex was bad (although too short, I might add), but Grendel - ewww!
Anyway, I've gone on long enough. That's just my take on this movie.
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Post by Dianne on Nov 9, 2009 12:43:50 GMT -5
I'm glad you brought this back up Engchickie, I really liked this movie. Gerry looked all uncivilized and brutish. I could see his character doing some raping and pilaging. If course I would have thrown myself right in his path. No...no you big strong Dane Don't......NO.....Stop.......Don't..........Stop.......Don't....Stop.......Don't....Stop...Don't Stop... don't stop....oh yeah...don't stop, don't stop, don't stop....wait, where are you going I said don't stop!  |
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Post by Leppardlady on Nov 11, 2009 12:24:25 GMT -5
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Post by dawne27 on Nov 11, 2009 12:40:00 GMT -5
Yes! engie  very cool movie and an all time personal fav  last week scotsmanstewart did an online LIVE chat with one of the actors (martin delaney...cameo in 'flags of our fathers' among many) it was utterly cool to watch this film, make comments back n'forth then question mr.delaney about scenes etc... -your points were good too! yepper...beowulf ' the Dragon Slayer his norsemen love him as.... -somewhere along the line i think f-u-c-k was actually an english term during high middle-ages? (1300-1600) overhead people on stockade in center square during punishment. yeah, not around 500-700 a.d. -agreed...the 'sex' scene was a little too brief for my taste LOL (or ggg?) |
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Post by dawne27 on Nov 26, 2009 20:55:14 GMT -5
SQUEAL!
i got it, i got it, i finally got it! and ran alllllll the way home, with it!
just received my copy of B&G....of course, early night before T-day HAD to watch it....and there was one thing gerry said right before that limpy, lame 'L-making scene'...'it's been a long time'....i wonder if he inserted that ad lib or scripted. b/c it gave a whole other perception to this brave hearted hero beowulf...interesting, huh?
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Post by canadia on Aug 25, 2010 15:19:14 GMT -5
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Post by terezoulini on Jun 2, 2011 15:27:50 GMT -5
Very flattering comments about Gerry in this Beowulf review. It's interesting because it was written before 300 came out. Scroll down the page, it's the second review, from Mir. www.amazon.com/Beowulf-Grendel-Hringur-Ingvarsson/dp/B000GIXEIG/ref=cm_cr_dp_orig_subjMovie, Just okay; Gerard Butler, Intensely Watchable; Iceland, bleakly beautiful, February 23, 2007 By Mir (North Miami Beach, FL USA) This review is from: Beowulf & Grendel (DVD) Unless you just get a kick out of-- 1. sweeping, windy, frigid landscapes with a sort of terrifying beauty 2. modern revisionism that updates a classic adventure tale's meaning 3. extremely attractive Northern European he-males --you may wanna skip Beowulf. And yet...and yet, I suggest you try it, even though I was less than blown away. Why? Well, certainly number one above. Visually, this film takes you someplace stunningly cool (metaphorically, not just literally), an environment so bleak in spots and so callous in others and so apathetic to human suffering, that it's a fitting background for this stark tale of revenge and bloodshed and loss and heroics and loyalty. A cold wind surely does blow, outside and inside the soul. Also, you may enjoy the revisionist take. Grendel is now the terribly injured party dealing with a sort of bigotry for his "monsterhood": He and his kind are hated for being different, ugly, smelly, not evil. (I believe, if memory serves from the long-ago high school reading, that Grendel did represent evil, and not merely a symbol of aggrieved minority.) And almost certainly you will enjoy the charisma of actor Gerard Butler. That man is good. He can act--see THE JURY or PHANTOM OF THE OPERA or DEAR FRANKIE or even CRADLE OF LIFE to see how he can inhabit various types of roles and make them come to life with that combination of personal magnetism, vocal expression, facial expression, body language and just plain emotive power. I have no idea why this man is not a huge, huge star. He's got everything it takes, the complete package of ridiculous good looks and acting chops and versatility. He can be funny or menacing or romantic or so vulnerable you weep. Perhaps 300 will do it for him in 2007. As to the others: Stellan Skarsgaard is dependably good as an actor, if not always top-notch. He's good here, definitely a man chased by a Gredelian fury for his bloody deed long ago. Sarah Polley is less effective as the witch, and yet not totally ineffective. She simply was miscast. (She was terrific in THE SWEET HEREAFTER and I liked her in GO! and know she can act. It's just not a good fit for her, this role.) Still, at the end of the day, Gerard Butler and the marvelous landscape are the two reasons to buy or rent or just borrow this DVD. Two potent forces of nature--Iceland and Butler--do manage to make a somewhat lackluster movie work in spots. Bottom line: Try it, because parts of it work. And if you're a Gerard Butler fan, buy it, because he is a gift to cinema and quite easy on the eyes and ears. And if you can't travel to a high Northern wilderness, but kind of want to, visit a remote and windy spot with BEOWULF & GRENDEL. |
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Post by bonnieallmine on Jun 2, 2011 17:07:17 GMT -5
I have Beowulf and Grendel, but I have two copies of Wrath of Gods, the documentary about the film, which Gerry co-produced. The English version and the Icelandic version with English subtitles. Great stuff with Gerry in it, for the extras (the documentary).
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