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[tigerbaby]

[META][SPEC] Trailer #2 before early beowulf screenings?

[Helo]

I read Beowulf about 20 years ago and I'm going to wait until the DVD is sitting at my local Blockbuster instead of spending money on it at the theater. As for the trailer, common sense is telling me it'll be available online around 0.03 seconds after it's seen in the theaters. That'll work fine for me.

[Euchre]

"Wednesday the 15th"?
Uh, except that the 15th is a Thursday.

[dr_worm]

[tigerbaby]

dang and its thursday night .. so much for it making the net before friday

[Euchre]

I think Beowulf will be pretty cool.
I like that they are actually bothering to cover the larger story than just Beowulf slaying Grendel. As to those decrying it's video-realistic animation nature, it's not like it'd be all that easy to do some of the things in the movie without being computer generated. Instead of adding CGI to an otherwise very expensive production they opted to make it all possible and easier to blend by animating it all - so much the better. I'd actually contemplated how you could possibly make the story into a movie as I was reading the more original translation. It goes off on such tangents that writing a decent screenplay would be hard enough, and as with such sagas it becomes outrageous and surreal at points so that the slightly surreal appearance of the animation should suit it fairly well.

Anybody remember 13th Warrior?
That's what you get when you try to turn a saga type story into a live action movie. Not exactly ideal.

[Stumper67]

I have read Beowulf at least 30 times in my life, as I was an English major in college and it's a favorite among lit professors for its symbolism and other literary devices...

I've also done about 10 papers on Beowulf.

[uiowahawk]

beowulf thursday

[Patiently waiting...]

Wouldnt the theaters have the film by now

[bewarethanatos]

I saw an interview with the writers/creators or someone on G4's Attack of the Show.

It was a neat interview. They said they wrote the screenplay specifically for 3D back in something like 1997. I thought this was just going to be a regular animated movie, but apparently it's only released in IMAX 3D and the regular movie theater's digital 3D.

I haven't really bothered to read up on this movie so forgive me if this is all common knowledge.

[stugots]

the cliffs notes will be better than the movie......mark my words

[e2c]

the viral marketing for 1-18-08 is so good it can even make people watch other movies that got nothing to do with the actual film they want to see. now thats impressive hahaha.

i bet some geeks wud still go n see snakes on a plane 2 if there were rumors of a new 1-18-08 trailer before it.

[casemyo]

"just dont take any class where they make you read beowulf"

-woody allen

[Kaliyuga]

Can't tell you whether the movie'll be any good, but Beowulf has a solid pedigree in place for its script (Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery), and for that primary reason, I'll go see it. I hate Zemeckis and his current CGI fetish, but the plot might actually work.

[Liberal Squared]