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Originally Posted by hellfire1
Exactly. I found the characters more likeable and was therefore more drawn into the movie, making it more suspenseful for me and caught myself wincing at certain torture scenes which I found 10 times more gruesome than Hostel (if that's all people are looking for in a film)... just overall the better movie imo, and this coming from a guy who made such movies like Blue Crush and Into the Blue.
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Well said. *knods sagely*
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Anyhoo... Stardust and Dead Silence (kinda).
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What did you think? I absolutely ADORED Stardust... Thought that it was whimsical and very well done (and the first time that I've enjoyed Robert DeNiro in a LONG time)... I really need to get my hand on the Neil Gaimon novel... Dead Silence however... Ech. Blech.
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Today...
Me and my boyfriend's family went to see
BEOWULF 3D
My initial responses to Beowulf's previews:
1. That looks AWESOME!
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2. Wait, that looks like crappy CGI.
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3. Well, maybe it'll look better in 3D...
Yeah, not so much.
Honestly, the beasties were spectacular (Grendel, the Sea Monsters, and the last battle, a Dragon). They looked incredible and the action scenes were definitely enjoyable.
HOWEVER
For most of it, I just felt as though I were watching a video game. The story and the writing were terrible, and they should have just stuck with action... The humans looked awful (because of the method of transposing CGI, they looked as though they were stepping out of some king of RPG to the big screen... Dull faces, unrealistic hair and all of the issues that comes from creating CGI people).
The only human character who stuck out was John Malkovich, who was honestly enjoyable... But he didn't have enough screen time.
The themes of the story were pedantic parables about pride, bravado, and hubris... Nothing new with no attempt to make them novel.
I had heard a few reviews that had claimed that the movie was tongue and cheek, but the movie took itself far too seriously to be self conscious in anyway, shape or form.
Some parts were pretty to look at, but overall it was yawnable...
C+/B- (The special effects were really INCREDIBLE... There were just too little beasties. Alas).