Film Night: Beowulf in 3d

[erastes]

Surprisingly, it didn't suck!  I actually enjoyed it!  granted, Winstone's accent was appalling "Why did yer fink yer could kill me? You aren't the first or the hundref."

Bad casting, imho, but the animation is spectacular and the 3D is incredible - I'd actually never been to see a 3D film for years and so wasn't expecting black glasses and not those silly coloured ones that Dr who likes.  The technology is obviously coming along very nicely indeed - Beowulf nearly put my eye out with his sword (yes the metal type, more of that later) a couple of times, and I was tempted to go all Michael Caine and shout "Oy! Stop shaking those bloody spears!" but I did not. It was bad enough the moronic woman sitting behind me was trying to CATCH things floating over my head.

"Yes, madam, there IS a dragon in the cinema, should I phone the police or would be like to try and catch its tail again?" *rolls eyes*

There was more blood than my comfort zone managed and Grendel was truly truly scary and the violence was quite graphic but OMG we couldnt show a CGI cock 0h no no no no no!  That kind of threw me actually because it was the first really big action scene, Beowulf stripped off to his buff CGI self (yum) and then began a coy "joke" of covering his genitals with various props - and it was tacky and stupid and was totally inappropriate for the fight. Like the naked Bart scene in the Simpsons Movie.  However - it wasn't that awful and I actually quite enjoyed it.  (I realise that purists will probably be rolling in the graves, but I'm embarrassed to say I don't know the poem so I don't know how faithful it was and I don't know much about 6th century clothing but it LOOKED authentic to me.

BUT if you can make fab cgi men and wonderful "monstas" then why the blithering HECK can't they do horses properly!!!!!???

"Brit" meme gacked from zoepaleologa 

1. When was the last time you ate a pasty?

sunday - my local shoppe does the most divine Cornish Pasties and the most authentic outside Cornwall that I've found.

2. Did the Moomins freak you out as a kid?

No - I loved them. And I wasn't a kid either - I never read the books (they only had them in the original language in my school, which says a lot (same for Tin Tin and Asterix)) and only really got into them for the cartoons.

3. Got any A-Levels?

English, Biology

4. What's your favourite pub?

In the WORLD????  Impossible. Here's a few that stand out.  The Mother Redcap in Holloway Road, The Intrepid Fox in Wardour Street, just about any pub in Ireland, (specially Mohill) and any of the pubs on Poole Harbour.

5. What's your favourite pub grub?

Sausage inna bun. After pub grub  - Doner Kebab

6. How about curry, do you like it and what's your fave?

Some really hot the way mamma used to make.

7. Which national saints days do you celebrate?

St Patrick and St George but not for any religious reasons.

8. It's Christmas day. Morcambe and Wise or the Queen's Speech?

How old is this quiz? Morcambe and Wise?  The Queen's Speech is de rigeur, but other than that the television isn't on.

9. You are having a dinner guest over. You find out it's a SUN journalist, what do you do?

why would I invite someone like that to my HOUSE?  If he's lucky he might some some fat balls on the bird table.

10. What did you get up to last Guy Fawkes night?

Making sure the cats weren't scared. I used to like GFs until I realised what it was we were burning.

Comments

[aunty_marion]

I don't think Ray Winstone can do anything other than Cockney heavy. I was watching King Arthur yesterday (OK, it's after midnight, on Tuesday) afternoon, and he was just the same in that. And he was the same in Robin of Sherwood as Will Scarlett. But he does do 'Cockney heavy' rather well!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, but argh.. I didn't want Beowulf to talk like Jeremy Irons per se, but didn't want him as a Cockerney Gansta!

I remember when he did Henry the 8th and he went on all these interviews telling people how he'd had all these elocution lessons and had learned to Talk Posh and then when I watched it he was saying things like

"Oi've given yer laaand, Oi've given yer toitles!"

Hmm....

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

A cock means a rated R...Beowulf is PG-13 here which is the prime rating that studios aim for since you get the teens in that way.

I know Tim Burton got into a fight with his studio over Sweeney Todd cause the suits wanted a PG-13 and he would not cut down on any of the gore so it is rated R...which I am glad for:)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It should have been an R just for the gore. Hang on, then, was the Simpsons movie an R? It makes me smile wryly that we can have men tore in half or have their heads bitten off but no! no animated cock!

I didn't even want the cock, but doing that cover up joke thing (like so many comedy sketches I've seen) completely ruined the Grendel fight for me, which was - after all - the heart of the tale!

Happy Thanksgiving!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

There has been a lot of outcry here over what violence the ratings board will let into a PG-13 movie..yet if you say "fuck" more than 3 times, show a boob more than once or any full frontal nudity then that's an R.

But over the last 20 years more and more violence has seeped into PG and PG-13 movies that back in the day would have gotten a movie an R.

Mostly that is why I have to be careful about what I let the horde watch or check it out first, the violence and gore.

The Simpsons was PG-13 btw:)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it was because it had a 10 year old boy's cartoon cock. That'll be it.

:)

Personally I think Beowulf must have been very very tiny. Steroids will do that.