Talk:Beowulf & Grendel

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Hi guys, I just watched this great film but there's a couple of things alittle off about the synopsis. I'm going to make some minor adjustments, let me know what you think. --Ughmonster 02:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I;ve also biled down the directors discussion of theme from his commentary. --Ughmonster 02:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

that the artsy-fartsy Hollywood critics didn't like it is actually a recommendation :) "it is full of anachronistic cursing, tortured syntax, dark humor and lots of hairy, homely, filthy-looking people". Give me a break; the cursing is "anachronistic" because the dialogue is in English, not Old English or Proto-Norse, stupid, as such, just about every bit of dialogue in historical cinema is "anachronistic" (even the language in Passion of the Christ is anachronistic, for all its efforts at authenticity; I would have preferred hæman over fuck, but then I would have preferred the entire dialogue to be in Old English). As for "lots of hairy, homely, filthy-looking people", hello? it is set in the 6th century? Do critics still prefer "historical" movies of the ilk of Ivanhoe (1952 film) (or Troy (film)), with aseptic heroes sporting the season's haircut? The clumsy dialogue together with artificial "heroic" speech and "dark humour" is very much "period" and shows insight in the material; if you don't think the period has any "charm", well, maybe you should go and watch Casino Royale instead? If you object to Proto-Norse warriors saying "fuck" (ooh, potty-mouthed, we want our Germanic warriors to be cuddly and well-mannered), thinking it "mars" the landscape, maybe you should just watch the Iceland Tourist Board video instead. That's not to say the film scores 10 out of 10. I wonder why nobody objected to the horribly hollywoodesque Canadian witch ruthlessly inserted for romantic interest. Such quota-women invented by the marketing department ruin historical movies every time. dab (𒁳) 09:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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