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2008-03-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2008-03-04 06:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 My ex-fiance saw Beowulf in the theater. After it was over, she sent me a text message: "Saw Beowulf. Putrid"

Mind you, she's got two degrees in English and is a huge Tolkien fan. She probably read Beowulf in the Old English, or at the least in a side-by-side translation.

I feel sorry for anyone involved with that movie if they should cross her path.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-03-04 08:00|| 2008-03-04 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, and if anyone's tempted to see "Pathfinder", don't. God, that movie sucked, despite having some promise -- a story about a Viking child orphaned in Vinland? Interesting!

Except, it wasn't. It was cliched and ham-handed. The Vikings were straight off a heavy metal album cover -- horned helmets, Games Workshop armor. They brought horses to the New World, and actually had cavalry. There was a scene where the hero stole a shield and rode it down a snowy mountainside, with Vikings following him the same way. I swear, one of them hit him half a dozen times with a mace, and it did NOTHING.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-03-04 08:03|| 2008-03-04 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Hollywood throwing their millions into educating the rubes only to find out that no one really cares what they think or say anymore. The whole Hollywood scene reminds me of a fading silent-movie star. They still believe in their own greatness and the rest of the world could care less.

Posted by Crease Poodle1618 2008-03-04 13:13|| 2008-03-04 13:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah guys, the fight with the dragon was worth the price of admission. Those of us who had to read Beowulf in the original (Hwaet! We Gar-Dena in geardagum.....)just take it as another Hollywood "inspired by" remake.

Posted by RWV 2008-03-04 14:35|| 2008-03-04 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I might watch it for the Sci-Fi and CGI animation (and the Dragon fight) but not for the 'story'.

How many people saw the 'Beowulf and Grendle' movie from a few years ago? That had Grendle as just another misunderstood misfit who was 'wronged' when the [bigoted] villagers killed his father. And of coure it had the hapless (and powerless) christian preacher.

And your right, Pathfinder was horribly bad and stupid.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-03-04 14:58|| 2008-03-04 14:58|| Front Page Top

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