Anticipating BEOWULF.

Honestly, I thought this was a parody thread. I'm shocked.

I'm not.

SCENE: HOLLYWOOD

PERSONAGE WITH MONEY: "They aren't making any more of those hobbit films. I smell an opportunity! Is that schmuck Zemeckis doing anything these days?"

http://www.fangoria.com/graphics/articles/3743_article.jpg

Still, I thought this was a parody thread too!! wtf

Then there is Angelina Jolie as the demon mother. Good God. If you've ever thought Jolie was attractive at all you will explode when you see her in this. The stills they showed me had her naked with this T-1000 like liquid gold covering parts of her body. There were 3 photos with varying degrees of skin shown, the last just barely covered what the skimpiest of bikini bottoms would cover. Her face is absolute evil seductress, as pretty as she's ever appeared on film before. Va-va-voom!

Thank you, Mr. Nerd. And:

Grendel looks absolutely nothing like Crispin Glover, at least in the stills I saw... well, he did look creepy and Glover is creepy, but it didn't look like Crispin in make-up or a suit. Actually, if he shared a resemblance to any cast member I'd say there was a slight Anthony Hopkins look to his face. According to Avary, he and Neil Gaiman went to the original epic poem and did as literal a translation as possible, with the only liberties filling in holes in the story, either gaps in time or something left unexplained.

Thank you very much.

now imagine that's Crispin Glover instead!!!!!!!!!!

FUCK

GOD

WHAT THE HELL

Uh:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-07/31402365.jpg

The first thing that leapt to mind was Alexander:

Angelina Jolie's lips look even fuller than usual. She's emerging naked from a pool of dank cave water, rivulets of gold streaming gently down her body.

"Giiiif meee sonnnn," she coos, in an Old English accent.

"wonders"

apparently jeffrey wells is already obsessed with it, so dud

mo-cap more like mo-crap amirite

btw the 12 eligibles are Alvin and the Chipmunks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, Bee Movie, Beowulf, Meet the Robinsons, Persepolis, Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, The Simpsons Movie, Surf's Up, Tekkonkinkreet and TMNT.

It would be awesome if the trailers were a big boondoggle and the whole movie was animation of an envelope getting pushed around on a desk.

s1ocki, imagine if Jay-Z had made a Beowulf album!

btw the 12 eligibles are every major studio animated release

So the actual nominees will be...?

Beowulf
Ratatoullie
Meet the Robinsons
Shrek the Third
Surf's Up

s1ocki, imagine if Jay-Z had made a Beowulf album!

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, November 8, 2007 9:45 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

beowulf bar mitzvah!

If all the Fox employees vote for it, I'd think the Simpsons get in. Also, aren't there usually just 3 nominees in the category?

Oh right.

I think Rat is a lock but the other two are a total tossup.

thanks for reminding me to put the ATHF movie in my netflix queue

Some ppl are 'buzzing' about Ratatouille for Best Picture.

(The only American film better than Ratatouille and The Simpsons Movie I'v e seen so far is I'm Not There, unless Killer of Sheep is eligible.)

Beowulf seems to be Fred Durst complete with backwards cap:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Beowolfposter.jpg

omg

showing up at award ceremonies dressed like that would blow more minds than his smiths t-shirt

It's not just me though is it? I mean it really does look just like Fred Durst. I keep seeing the poster everyday when I get off the bus and it's a headtrip.

Morbz you thought Ratatouille was better than Darjeeling Ltd?

alas, yea

since when does a stuffed animal have a 60% human likeness

pretty fuckin weird stuffed animal if you ask me

78% on rottten tomatos

Please to spot the unintended roffle in Kenneth Turan's review:

What is most troubling about "Beowulf," aside from the obvious, is what it says about the career of Robert Zemeckis, who has gone from being a director of stories like "Forrest Gump" to an orchestrator of eye candy and a willing slave to technological advances.

lol d'jour!

Am I the only one who saw this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Beowulf2.jpg

It was not so bad, but not so good, either.

lolz, Dargis in NYT worried about Jolie 3D breasts poking her eye out.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071114/REVIEWS/71115001

The movie uses the English epic poem, circa 700 A.D., as its starting point, and resembles the original in that it uses a lot of the same names. It takes us to the Danish kingdom of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins), where the king and his court have gathered to inaugurate a new mead hall, built for the purpose of drinking gallons of mead. The old hall was destroyed by the monster Grendel, whose wretched life consists of being the ugliest creature on earth, and destroying mead halls.

Following the 7:05 pm show of BEOWULF IN 3D on Tuesday, November 20th, Professor Dick Ringler will be holding a Q & A session in the North Lounge. Professor Ringler is an English and Scandinavian Studies professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who has recently published a new translation of the Old English poem.

this seems oddly sad to me

i saw this yesterday. it wasn't bad. the 3D looks fantastic.

I'll prolly go to see this. But not until AFTER No Country for Old Men.

I have to say that I am more than a little disappointed that I already know what Grendel looks like. The posters got his ugly ass all over the place. Would have been so much cooler if he had made an effective, revelatory entrance, right?

Oh I don't want to see Grendel beforehand! Buh. They shld keep showing pictures of only Jolie's nude. BECAUSE I have already seen it 40k times and it is okay with me.

okay this was beyond aweSome for real

No shit? I may have to see this. But after No Country for Old Men.

The whole "artfully placed things in the way of nude Beowulf" was a bit silly. He should have had no genitals, like Angelina Jolie.

Either that or they should release a 15 certificate version where his wang swings about in 3-D.

Thread just makes me :-( that Americans only know Ray Winstone as "the knight with 11 kids from King Arthur". And not "the fucking daddy now".

As my first foray into IMAX 3D, it's a fucking thrill-ride. Shangri-La for boyz. But still lol looking back at everyone in the theater wearing their glasses. Nerds.

Pretty much everyone hating on this movie needs to see it in 3D because it's fucking amazing. Not at all deep or thought-provoking, but sheer jaw-dropping spectacle.

very silly. 3d hasn't improved much since Captain EO it seems. still cool in a 2 hour long metal video sort of way.

I wld go see Captain EO in a second! Is that thing still in Disneyland?

no

Seeing it in 3D = awesome + lols + awesome lols. Can't imagine how ridiculous and tedious and ridiculously tedious it would be in 2d tho.

The sound and light presentation they still insist on showing before the main event is pretty roflicious too. Check out the AWESOME POWER of our 12,000 WATT SOUND SYSTEM... with some bad scat jazz.

Oh, we didn't get that. We did get two 3D trailers, though. For The Nightmare Before Christmas and some live action thing I've forgotten.

Holy shit this movie was bad.

It was like watching a video game.

lol did anyone get the U2 3D trailer?

YES

I sat at the very back of the cinema when I saw this so I didn't even get the one good thing abt watching this movie... looking at everyone wearing glasses. What a bummer. Good thing I didn't have to pay. I'd rather play Shadow of the Colossus again than watch those ripoffs, btw.

Whiney G. Weingarten + Will M. = RONG

I can't believe this thing got made.