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Post by Desi Baggins on Oct 17, 2007 5:42:00 GMT -6
I saw a preview a couple weeks ago and I just then realized it is a CGI movie!
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 17, 2007 5:46:28 GMT -6
What is CGI?
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Post by Desi Baggins on Oct 18, 2007 6:37:42 GMT -6
Realife looking cartoon...computer generated image
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Post by Andorinha on Oct 18, 2007 11:14:50 GMT -6
Thanks, Desi, for the definition of CGI!
Hmmm, CGI, does that means the movie will have a weird "blue-tone" to it, but maybe that will give the monster-drama an even more eerie atmosphere?
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Post by Andorinha on Oct 23, 2007 8:58:23 GMT -6
Coincidence? 13th Warrior was on TV last night, and on another channel there was a minute long teaser for the new CGI version. Hmm, not sure I like the CGI touch, made it look cartoonish, but maybe once one gets used to the format it will play out alright...
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Post by Desi Baggins on Oct 25, 2007 9:41:37 GMT -6
CGI movies are weird to watch cuz they look real enough, but at the same time cartoonish...I am not a big fan of them......It is neat cuz any thing they would need to do as special effects for a real actor movie blends right in.........
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Post by fanuidhol on Nov 23, 2007 9:01:59 GMT -6
I went to see the movie a week or so ago. The poem is better.
I enjoy CGI from a technical standpoint, LOL. "That looks so real!" "Oh, that looks so fake!" Frankly, I was quite distracted. I really liked Beowulf's fight with the dragon. It reminded me of Gandalf and the balrog.
Spoiler: scroll down a few lines:
I disliked the choice of Gendel being the offspring of his mother and Hrothgar. Also, disliked the dragon (as a shapeshifter) being the offspring of Beowulf and Grendel's mother. Lots of implicit and explicit sex.
Fan
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Post by Andorinha on Nov 23, 2007 10:49:44 GMT -6
It's "out" already?! Hmmm, must be a cultural backwater here, no sign of it yet in the three movie-complexes within reasonable driving distance.
Meanwhile I am seeing plenty of local ads for "Golden Compass," opens on Pearl Harbour Day, what's with that? I like the trailers I've been seeing, better than the Beowulf images.
SPOILER ALERT
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Thanks, Fanuidhol.
Peculiar, everyone's gone all paternal with poor Ole Grendel. "Beowulf and Grendel," which I liked well enough to buy, provides a happy little father, a suitably "ogre-ish," neanderthaloid "Pop." Now we get a patented Freudian-connection "Dad" through Hrothgar. The Old English folkes seemed not to need the full, nuclear family complement, don't even recall any 19th/ 20th century commentator ever guessing about Grendel's paternity -- but something in our modern Hollywood sensibilities demands one? Curious...
Interesting Freudian twist on the genesis of the Dragon as well, keeping all the action in the family. Don't think I care for either of the connexions.
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 30, 2009 7:36:36 GMT -6
The DVD of Beowulf arrived from Netflix this week. I had forgotten this was a CGI movie and when it started up, I was surprised. I kept thinking I was playing a video game! It wasn't too bad, it more or less followed the poem content and in sequence of events. The CGI did kind of distract--the horses moved strangely! This version showed us that the noise of the celebration and any loud yelling sounds made Grendel mad. I know from the poem he did not like the people celebrating and having a good time, but I don't remember if it was the loudness that drove him nuts. I had forgotten Fan's comments above about Hrothgar being Grendel's father and Beowulf also being the dragon's father with Grendel's mother. If I remember correctly, Beowulf DID kill Grendel's mother in the poem, correct? So what was this insinuation that she lived and he fathered the dragonspawn? More Hollywood interpretation leading the true story slightly astray.
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Post by Andorinha on Aug 30, 2009 12:43:19 GMT -6
Hmm, I'll see if I can pick up a copy today at the DVD rental joint...
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Post by Vanye on Aug 30, 2009 20:48:21 GMT -6
I saw Beowulf in the theater & just found the idea of making Angelina Jolie Beowulf's mother to be totally bizarre!
By the way have you all seen the ad on top of the page for a website called geektogeek. It says people like you are on Geek to Geek. I do believe we have just been called geeks-tho it is not a first for me-how about the rest of you? 8^)
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Post by Fredeghar Wayfarer on Aug 30, 2009 21:45:40 GMT -6
By the way have you all seen the ad on top of the page for a website called geektogeek. It says people like you are on Geek to Geek. I do believe we have just been called geeks-tho it is not a first for me-how about the rest of you? 8^) I'm registered on Geek to Geek actually. Haven't used it too much yet. In any case, I'm okay with the label and use it myself. It used to be that being called a geek or a nerd was a bad thing. But in the last few years with things like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Narnia, and comic book movies going mainstream, there's been a cultural shift and being geeky is more accepted. Back on topic, I didn't care for the Beowulf movie. I thought I'd enjoy it since I love the poem and I love Neil Gaiman (who co-wrote the screenplay). But the "performance capture" technology just doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't look convincingly real yet but it's not stylized enough to accept as a cartoon. It's this weird hybrid with dead-eyed slightly off-looking people. That and the deviations from the original plot didn't quite work for me.
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