Well I don't really know what to think of this. The computer animation in this film has the Spielberg inside of me jumping up and down with excitement but then this movie has the historian and scholar inside of me screaming in rage. I want to know what you guys think.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beowulf/large.html

So, this would be...301?

I watched that trailer twice... and I must say its a little difficult to see the connection to the original story.

At least it will inspire more people to read the original.
Thats really the most positive thing I can say after seeing the preview.

That's kinda what I was thinking also. Not sure why they don't make a movie closely based on the story. It would make a great movie.

Dan P wrote:

I watched that trailer twice... and I must say its a little difficult to see the connection to the original story. At least it will inspire more people to read the original. Thats really the most positive thing I can say after seeing the preview.

I have to admit I'm a tad disappointed, why do they all look vaguely Graeco-Roman? It seems Hollywood has had a severe imagination failure.

I was hoping to see weapons and armour based on the Vendel/Valsgärde and Sutton Hoo finds. :(

Ah, it's all the same "Days of Yore" (TM) costume department...

it sortof reminds me of conan the barbarian

i thinkk'll itll be a fun movie.......cuz it has nothing else going for it = )

Great........... Just great.............................. This is what, the third or fourth version of Beowulf on film that they have butchered and ruined??????? Its beyond sad that such beautiful true ancient poetry that is perfect as is, has to get into the hands of idiots and ruined.........

Beyond what Korey said about changing the story what kills me is CGI does not have the limitations real life does in getting armor and costumes for the actors; why do the armor so wrong?

Sad part is that this movie is why Beowulf and Grendal did not get a national release last year. :wtf:

I really liked the other Beowulf movie with (coincidentally?) Gerard Butler.

http://www.beowulfandgrendel.com/

but this new one makes the 300 look like masterpiece theater

What is that accent Angelina is using? Is she supposed to be hungarian or something?

Mike,
I think that this should do for Beowulf what that last film did for Arthur, which is to confuse a whole new generation about the original legends, except for those who still take time to read... but thanks to those happy few, the real stuff will live on where the hollywood crap will just make another layer in some land fill site .

Maybe the problem is that the "moral" or "lesson" from the original Beowulf (as I read it, that its good to be strong, brave, honest, and generous) is too simplistic for a modern audience that wants things like self-doubt, romance, temptation, flaws that make heroes seem more human, and the rest of that stuff.
In between the scenes of big dudes ripping the arms off monsters.

From what I can tell from that trailer it looks like Beowulf has an affair with Grendel's mother possibly fathering Grendel....Just a slight deviation from the original ;)
And yet I'm such a geek I'll still probably go see it....