Official Beowulf Thread
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cKGunslinger
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you're welcome 
but really i just don't see why animate famous actors. better to animate characters based on unknown actors perhaps like in final fantasy.
but really i just don't see why animate famous actors. better to animate characters based on unknown actors perhaps like in final fantasy.
Gunslinger08
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cKGunslinger
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Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
you're welcome
but really i just don't see why animate famous actors. better to animate characters based on unknown actors perhaps like in final fantasy.
Famous faces draw crowds. *shrug*
I'll definitely check it out, I love Beowulf, and being animated, I'm sure it's got a lot more potential to more closely follow the outright ridiculousness of some parts of the story.
Whoozyerdaddy
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Hmm...
<--- graduated in 1990. Took 16 semesters of english (took some creative writing and lit classes as electives)... Never had to read it.
Jeff7
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The only Beowulf that comes to mind is the cluster. Time for a quick browse of Wikipedia.
The name "Grendel" is familiar - though only from an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
I also didn't care for poetry. I tend to prefer terse or precise verbage, at least when this damn slow, convoluted brain of mine can recall the right words. Poetry had far too much flowery, ancillary (? - not quite the right word; not "vestigal" either, I'm trying to remember the word for it. Just unnecessary, or extra. "Superfluous," I think that's the word I want.) language to explain simplistic concepts. For me, reading poetry is like slogging through a lengthy explanation of how 1+1 = 2. Get to the damn point already!!!!
I am to poetry as the Borg are to disorderly civilizations.
SPOILERS!!
Grendel attacks some towns, eats some dudes and is a general douche. Beowulf, who happens to be that days Chuck Norris, decides he has had enough of his shit. So him and some of his homies go camp out, drink some fake wine and wait for Grendel. Grendel sneaks up in the night like a little bitch and attacks the people whom he believes to be drunk. Beowulf doesn't stand for that and chops off the little fuckers arm. The next night, Beowulf takes his +6 sword (Htrunting or some shit) and dives in a lake. Grendels mother, who is a total bitch, drags him to the bottom. They do battle, Beowulfs sword is actually a piece of shit, he picks up a mighty +18 sword of beheading and well..... beheads the bitch. He takes the head and scores mad chicks with it. Then this dragon comes because some stupid slave steals a cup or some shit from it's lair (not bilbo). Beowulf and some kid defend their city from the dragon, slaying it in the process. Beowulf is mortally wounded and he gets cremated and buried by the sea, along with all of the dragons loot because he is a bitch like that (and it was cursed). THE END!!
Grendel attacks some towns, eats some dudes and is a general douche. Beowulf, who happens to be that days Chuck Norris, decides he has had enough of his shit. So him and some of his homies go camp out, drink some fake wine and wait for Grendel. Grendel sneaks up in the night like a little bitch and attacks the people whom he believes to be drunk. Beowulf doesn't stand for that and chops off the little fuckers arm. The next night, Beowulf takes his +6 sword (Htrunting or some shit) and dives in a lake. Grendels mother, who is a total bitch, drags him to the bottom. They do battle, Beowulfs sword is actually a piece of shit, he picks up a mighty +18 sword of beheading and well..... beheads the bitch. He takes the head and scores mad chicks with it. Then this dragon comes because some stupid slave steals a cup or some shit from it's lair (not bilbo). Beowulf and some kid defend their city from the dragon, slaying it in the process. Beowulf is mortally wounded and he gets cremated and buried by the sea, along with all of the dragons loot because he is a bitch like that (and it was cursed). THE END!!
cKGunslinger
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animated??? it's the oldest english epic poem...how the F do you animate it before you have an actual live action version....uncultured asswipes
ViviTheMage
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AgaBoogaBoo
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SketchMaster
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I thought the best part is they are animating real actors, wouldn't it be cheaper to have them stand in front of a blue screen or something?
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There WAS a live version. It starred Christopher Lambert (Highlander, Mortal Kombat) with a freakin' fully automatic crossbow. Needless to say it was a terrible miscarriage of a film.
Eh, instead of seeing Beowulf where he fights Grendel, I'd rather see a movie where Grendel fights a wereworlf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_%28comics%29
Didn't realize the main characters were animated till that last scene where AH is talking. Crazy...
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