You're crazy Mike, I think I have to disagree with you on almost every level. I went in to see it expecting a shitty movie, and I dug what I saw. I thought the animation was spectacular, leaps and bounds above anything else out there. Computer generated characters should look a little different from real life - why else would you do a film in that medium? Even on IMAX 3D, which is always lower resolution than a digital print, the level of detail was great. Storywise, I've always been very wary of action flicks because the stories are always terrible. But I felt Gaiman's script did everything it should've: tell as little story as possible in order to drive the action, but do it in an interesting way. Stemming from an 8th century (about? who knows) poem, which was more thematic than story-driven, the adaption was a success.

Basically, it was a 2-hour long erection of a film. It pinned me back in some scenes, more than I ever expect a movie to do these days. I dug it.

I agree with you on the technical merits of Beowulf. I just wish the movie was a little more worthwhile. Sure the action scenes were amazing in 3D, but everything in between them bored me to tears. I wanted more Grendel, and less emotionless story. Really it felt like a Disney World attraction that would never end.

I could have watched the first and last battle and walked away much happier.

So Scott agrees with me that you're flagrantly insane. This has nothing to do with Beowulf, we just sort of came to an understanding.

Well a 6.0 is pretty harsh I guess, but even if I was in a really great mood, I'd be hard pressed giving the actual film anything higher then a 7.  Duke agreed with me as well.

ask yourself this question: Would you ever watch this movie at home? I think your emotions towards IMAX may be clouding your judegement. Please read the Imax experience 9.0 portion of the review.

Please guys. This movie was utter garbage.  It was visually stunning, no doubt, but other than that, it was pedestrian at best in every other category.  Lame acting, overuse of awful wench jokes/sexual innuendo/cliche ridden one liners, and poor pacing (especially in the 2nd act going into the 3rd act).  I've spoken with a bunch of people in my classes who've seen the film and each one of them comes up with the same review : Pretty and empty.  Feel free to read through the rottentomatoes.com reviews. Even the positive ones speak of what should have been, extolling the visuals and condeming most everything else.  Mike, your 6 was far too high.  This is a movie that will certainly not stand the test of time and will thankfully be forgotten just weeks after viewed.

Bah Humbug

Duke