I hate to bad-mouth one of the more intelligent actresses of our time, and one most loyal to her Canadian Roots, but she really dropped the ball on this one, and it affects the whole movie's credibility. If she'd been crazier, dirtier, more savage, more a part of the threatening ...
There’s lot of differences and similarities between the poem and the movie.. The story starts when the kingdom of Hrothgar was plauged for 12 yrs by a monster named Grendel. The monster attacks in the night and kills off nobles and warriors. The news of attacks reaches Beowulf, a great...
The biggest aspect of this movie is the reworking of the epic poem. It's trying to inject human nature into a fantasy. It's a terrific idea to try. Not all of it is successful. And it really takes too long to get going. If the movie is about Beowulf & Grendel, they really need...