BEOWULF: full CGI movie?

[dartingd]

i enjoyed it, but it left the story too open for a movie that won't make enough for a sequel...i mean in the book doesn't his friend kill "angelina" at the end? nothing happened there..

[Ran]

I give the movie a "B" rating at best. Lots of boring parts were hard to stay awake through. The movie strayed greatly from the original story, but I guess I can somewhat understand considering how random the last battle with the dragon is in the original story. Grendel looked retarded as well. I failed to see how anything in the book made Grendel appear to be a f*cking troll. I was expected some sort of Behemoth looking monster. Also, WTF was up with him just walking into the cave? Fail. He should have had to swim for whatever long time he did in the book.

The graphics were no where near what I expected. While some parts were very impressive and smooth, others were choppy, simple, and made me think I was watching the first Shrek movie. The scene with Grendel's Mother (Angelina Jolie) was about retarded, appearance wise. The first part had her super-imposed or whatever it is to give it a life-like appearance, then the next second it was completely CGI and looked like crap.

Very disappointed with the movie as a whole.

i enjoyed it, but it left the story too open for a movie that won't make enough for a sequel...i mean in the book doesn't his friend kill "angelina" at the end? nothing happened there..

No

In the original story, Beowulf kills both Grendel and Grendel's Mother. Angelina's role SHOULD have ended when he first went into the cave and confronted her. The last battle with the dragon (in the original story) was just some random @ss fight that happened because Beowulf wanted to go treasure hunting.

The movie strayed heavily from the original story. I'm sure they were going for an original approach and, for what it's worth, they didn't do that horrible. Yet I still would have preferred the original story.

[dartingd]

^^^We never had to read Beowulf in high school. It's funny because we read "The Perfect Storm". I watched the movie, never read the book, and still got an "A" on the essay for the book, lol.