Funny review on slate.com at
hysterical. will the 3-D still give me a whopper of a headache?
Just seeing the trailers have made me reluctant to view this. I think I can contain myself till it comes out on DVD.
djm
Give your money to Seamus Heaney instead of Hollywood and get his translation.
Hell, get the bilingual version - it’s better than out-takes and trailers on the DVD extras.
If you want 3D animation, just get someone to throw the book across the room every five pages.
Mukade
Got them both. Nothing beats reading it in the original Old English. Not even Heaney. This film… feh. The trailers do not inspire. I’ll wager it’s as much like the poem as “O Brother Where art thou” is like the Odyssey.
I didn’t care for the Heaney translation. I thought the Raffel was much better.
I liked it. Great 3D effects. Excellent modeling and texturing.
As a 3D type artistic kind of person those are the things I look for.
I can’t imagine it without 3D though.
And beyond.
Besides, even the best 3D animation is creepy-looking.
Who the hell cares? I’ll risk it:
Aaaaargh! There’s nowhere to put the mousie’s nose! It’s unnatural!
I take it the beheading of Grendel’s mother will not be the part of the film you are waiting for.
Okay, Beowulf awesome yet tragic character, based on the trailers, I don’t know if I can truly judge it. So far all the trailers got me excited about is the fact Ray Winstone is the voice of Beowulf, Angelina Jolie that scares me so her as Grendel’s mother is great I guess. But from what the trailers showed, it seemed as if a lot of the movie is incorrect in the description in the epic tale. But I will be the judge of it when I see it.
By the way, I saw a castle where is the mead hall?
Also Beowulf, what instrument do you personally associate him with.
Myself, I associate him with the pipes.
Though not from the same region or time period still, I think if he could be the pipes are a good association.
With most movie adaptations of books, I think it’s best to judge them on their own merits, or lack thereof. Which is “better” is sort of irrelevant-- did you enjoy both for what they were?
I am no Beowulf fan, but I’ll be dollars to donuts that this movie is not a strict retelling of the story. Still, it looks pretty entertaining in it’s own right as a spectacle and I intend to watch it with that in mind (plus, I love 3-D movies 
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It’s not a book it’s an epic poem from a manuscript, written around the year 1000 A.D. or C.E. which ever you perfer.
as well this poem would be an easy adaption, all you need is in the text, it is wonderfully illustrated and an amazing example of 9th century text and how oral traditional tales are changed
because it is figured that the tale of Beowulf dates back before Christianity had spread to what is now Scandinavia
I am sorry if I offended you in anyway but I really prefer if movies stick to the actual written text of an epic, book, what have you. I can understand certain things being taken out, I have just come to terms with why Tom Bombadil wasn’t in any of the LotR movies.
Anyway we have our own opinions, now let us share a pint.
BEOWULF
PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world’s renown.
Famed was this Beowulf: {0a} far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.
So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father’s friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come warriors willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.
Whose translation for Beowulf is that Walden?
It’s not Heaney’s. Thankfully. 
What don’t you like about Heaney’s?