Movie Day
It was a weird Sunday, it snowed, it rained, it shined, it blew. It did all of that just on Sunday morning.
Linda had the day off so after we all got up and watched the Malaysian Grand Prix we went back to bed… I did cook a rather nice breakfast during the last quarter of the race but it was all over bar the shouting by then anyway. Hamilton did well considering the crapy deals he was dealt throughout the race.
Once we all got back up and were awake we decided on making Easter Sunday a Chocolate and Movie Day.
First movie up was 2007 Beowulf. The animated version, not the pants Sci Fi channel one.
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The movie itself is shot for 3D cinema viewing and some would say that it doesn’t really work for the small screen, I disagree. You don’t need all the bells and whistles of 3D to see the mega amount of work that went into the animation of this movie. The voice work is excellent. From Ray Winstones Beowulf who was rather insistent that he was “… There to Kill their MONSTER”, to the Gollumised(ack) language of Grendal it all worked for me and even Mum and Linda commented on the great casting.
The Story is the same story that is always told can’t really change a historical story can you? I don’t know much about the original story but it was more fleshed out that the aforementioned Sci Fi version. It expanded on the story behind Beowulfs Tryst with Grendals Mother.
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Thsi was definatly the better movie of the two we watched on Sunday. The second movie being the Uwe Boll craptastic In The Name Of The King - A Dungeon Siege Story.
This film is basically a sword and sorcery rip off movie. It rips on every decent fantasy movie that has been released in the last ten years. It’s biggest rip is Lord of the Rings. It seems that Boll has tried to cram over 12 hours of LOTR into 100 minutes of In The Name.
The Krul are rips of the Orcs
Jason Stathems Character is a combination of Frodo and Aragorn
The Krul on Horses are rips of the Ring Wraiths.
It was just a mess there were no redeeming features of this film at all. One wonders why such stars as Ray Liotta and John Rhys-Davies were thinking when they signed up for this mess. Oh well I tried it and for once I found next to nothing amusing about this film. Here are a couple of pics for the film:
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That’s about it for me on this one.
Until Next Time…