Grendel
 

Sucked!

How stupid was I that I thought they were actually going to use Grendel for "Grendel", huh?

I keep falling for shit like this.

Is this the movie with Angelina Jolie as Grendel's Mother? Of course it was going to suck. You should have known that going in.

Not Beowulf?

Yeah, Beowulf, the SciFi one. Sorry.
Unrecognizable.

This one, I assume.

They made a movie of that? Is it a cartoon?

Yikes. They can't leave anything alone.

Edit: or this one?

The one I posted is the one from the SciFi channel. I almost never watch the SciFi Original movies, they're almost all bad.

That Neil Gaiman one, I'm looking forward to, though. I'm a fan of Gaiman, and I've got no problem with Jolie's casting. Jolie is doing the voice and motion-capture for Grendel's mother; I doubt the creature is gonna look much like her.

How confusing. They managed to make it since 700 AD (give or take) without movie-butchering and now everyone's jumping on the Beowulf bandwagon (which wouldn't be a bad user title.)

as someone who was, until recently, intimately involved with the study of Beowulf and all it's intricacies, all I can say is:

I FCUKING HATED BEOWULF!

and, I rooted for Grendel.

Sorry the movie sucked. I know how that feels.

But, still, my idea of a Good Time is not listening to a bunch of egomaniacal :vikingsmi pat each other on the back because of this battle or that battle, playing wife swap via the auspices of 'peace keeping', whilst hoisting flagons of ale to their mustachioed lips and vowing to slay the coming dragon.

Or, maybe it IS my idea of a good time, I've forgotten.
;)

I thought the movie had camp value.

Why? Did John Waters say it did?

They had a neat idea and none of the tools to pull it off. It was so awful it became interesting. Was Waters the filmaker?

Which one are you talking about? SciFi or the one with the Highlander?

Highlander.

I am talking about the SciFi Beowulf.