Comments on: Beowulf DVD Review

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:03:38 +0000

One of my favorite films of 2007. The film has perfect acting, incredible visuals, a compelling story, a decent ending, and in the end I just felt more macho!

I gave the film a 9.5/10

By: Chibbi_Satan

Chibbi_Satan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:23:20 +0000

Its truly sad that most of the comments here have nothing to do with the rich and amazing story of Beowulf itself. While there where things in the movie to be desired (like the visually appalling job done upon the hands, and the eyes did seem to be a little creepy), the historical assumptions and accuracy of the look towards the time period where impeccable. Beowulf (alongside the Nibelung Saga) is one of the greatest European / Scandinavian stories ever written that truly captures the mindset of the people of that age and the fearless determination expected of those who choose a warriors life.

I give this movie a 9/10, for sheer absolute historical brilliance.

(I’d like to also point out the wonderful fact that Beowulf’s name has not totally been discovered as to what its meaning is. When the Grendal’s Mother makes statements about his name “Are you the one they call Beowulf? The Bee-Wolf…? The Bear?” she is making assumptions to the meaning of his name. Its pure brilliance on the part of the writers who included this!)

~Chibbi

By: MirkOwar

MirkOwar — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:45:07 +0000

(Spoiler)
How does slashing your arm off make any kind of difference? its not gonna get you any closer the dragons heart, actually its just gonna make the hole in the dragons chest higher and the heart even more unreachable!
simple physics!

apart from that the movie was awesome. Sure the 3d characters all had steven seagal s the expressional range but hey, at least the color scheme didnt give me a heradache like that 300 movie(also great)

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:29:30 +0000

I just posted this comment at StalePopcorn, but I felt the stats needed to get posted here, too.

“I still do not understand why the filmmakers would spend all the money to mo-cap the thing when they could shoot it live action, 300-style, for HALF the price, make the film look TWICE as good, and turn more of a profit when the final grosses are added up. According to Box Office Mojo, this thing had a RIDICULOUS $150 million budget. Worldwide, it has done $195 million, which is a great number for most flicks, but considering the cost of marketing and whatnot, I doubt that this film turned much of a profit, if any. DVD sales might not do much to soften the blow to the studio’s bank account. Now keep in mind that 300 had a $65 million budget, and we all know what happened with that flick. This is Sparta, indeed. If Beowulf had been shot live action with that budget, it would have been one of the biggest hits of the year. I just don’t get what the hell they were thinking when they decided to do this mo-capped.”

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:43:43 +0000

i appreciate the fact that watching this movie makes me feel like i’m getting an education in ancient literature (i was never forced to read Beowulf as a kid)

By: Sahil

Sahil — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:30:08 +0000

Doug you were 100% right about this movie. I loved every second of it. I only wished we saw a little more of Angelina. I would give it a 9.5/10. Unfortunately it didnt make alot of profit at the theater so I dont know how many times they are going to try something new like this.

By: takata

takata — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:48:31 +0000

I liked the movie,but the history looked some how incomplete,i mean after he becames king we didnt saw any of the so promised glory and fortune the Grendels mother(damn DIGITAL ANGELINA WAS HOT) promised to him.
But overall the i liked a lot,most of all the beautiful cgi.
We need more great warriors movies,that for shure,more sword fights,more blood and serious tone,and more MONSTAAAAAAAAA too!

By: Mikey M

Mikey M — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:32:42 +0000

I watched it last night thinking I would love it and I really disliked it. The motion capture was annoying and the story was undewhelming.

By: Phil Gee

Phil Gee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:24:36 +0000

Well I thought that Doug made an excellent point in his original review that for a movie which involves a lot of human characters interacting with unreal environments and creatures, and doing things that humans can’t do, it was great that the same guy who said “I WILL KILL YOUR MONSTAAAAAAAAAAAA” was the same guy who actually does later on in the film. Rather than watching Tobey Maquire & James Franco turn into CGI ragdolls in Spidey 3.

I mean you could never do that scene where he swims for five days and fights a sea monster (sorry, MONSTAAAAAAAAAAAAA) along the way in live action convincingly.

Plus, the real Crispin Glover is just too intense for younger viewers. He needed to be toned down a little;)

By: Toms

Toms — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:23:20 +0000

This is probably the worst movie I saw last year… so no DVD for me!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:38:30 +0000

I’m sorry, but there’s one thing that I never understood about this film. Why bother spending so much money to make the animation look real, when they could have just USED REAL ACTORS AND FILMED IT LIVE ACTION!!!! The animation was distracting at times for me, and they still haven’t perfected how to digitally render eyes in films like this. All the eyes are creepy and dead.

By: AjaxLou

AjaxLou — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:45:56 +0000

The image is that of a HD DVD case! Doug, did you see this in HD?