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Hwaet! Movie fun, part 2

  • Oct. 25th, 2006 at 1:35 AM
Bitch please
"Nice helmet."

"Thanks, I got it at Sutton Hoo."

Beowulf & Grendel

In which Beowulf, the Scotsman Geat with the most fabulously frosted hair, leads his highlanders fellow Geats to Iceland Denmark to defeat Longshanks Grendel and save the Danes, who have the most incompetent sentries the world has ever known.

Tony Curran tags along with the merry band of highlanders Geats, and serves as the hottest thing in the film. I would put Tony Curran in all movies. Sadly, he freaks out 3/4ths of the way through (he probably couldn't stop thinking what a better film The 13th Warrior was) and gets himself killed.

Not leading the Danes very effectively is Stellan Skarsgård, who looks good with red hair but sometimes forgets his pants and has to be put to bed by the long-suffering Wealtheow. Thaet waes ne god cyning. I prefer him with starfish.

Also hanging out in Denmark is a random witch the writers felt like sticking in (played by Sarah Polley), who forgot how to comb her hair after being fucked by a troll. I guess that could be pretty traumatic.

So Beowulf goes to Denmark, is embarrassed by drunken Hrothgar, gets mixed signals from the random witch, and eventually looks on in befuddlement as Grendel chops his own arm off. (The arm apparently being easier to cut than the rope attached to it.) Beowulf eventually tracks armless Grendel back to his cave, where he is assaulted by a deadite Grendel's aquatic troll mom.

He says "These people are fucked!", and takes his surviving highlanders Geats back home. His hair is still fabulous.

Comments

[info]matociquala wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 11:13 am (UTC)
best movie review ever.
(Anonymous) wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 12:55 pm (UTC)
mightn't i just marry you now?
[info]kendwoods wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 01:02 pm (UTC)
That was awesome!

And so the laugh I needed this morning.
(Anonymous) wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 01:33 pm (UTC)
If only Grendel had killed them all!
Great review. I kept thinking, who wrote this script?--but more importantly, why?

Maybe it was for the hair?
[info]electricland wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 02:04 pm (UTC)
Egads, it's so true.

*cough* Sarah Polley.
[info]stillsostrange wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 04:48 pm (UTC)
Oops, right. I was a bit addled by the end.
[info]electricland wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 09:39 pm (UTC)
sorry, it was very rude of me to do a drive-by copy edit! It's a disease. It in no way reflects on the general awesomeness of your reviewcap.
[info]retrobabble wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 03:47 pm (UTC)
Hah! Now I want to see it - if only for the fabulously frosted hair...
[info]cristalia wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 04:59 pm (UTC)
Thaet waes ne god cyning.

*laughs until ded*
[info]dakiwiboid wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 09:09 pm (UTC)
Damn!
That sounds so bad it must be GOOD!
[info]sovay wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 09:10 pm (UTC)
who forgot how to comb her hair after being fucked by a troll. I guess that could be pretty traumatic.

"It's a danger that looms for every young actress. Choose the wrong role, and the next thing you know, you're having sex with Grendel."
San Francisco Chronicle
[info]kyrialyse wrote:
Oct. 25th, 2006 10:31 pm (UTC)
note to self: when netflixing this, bring mead to swill and bones to hurl at screen.

second note: try to do this in someone else's house.
[info]throughsoftair wrote:
Oct. 26th, 2006 01:04 am (UTC)
Oh, that is deeply, deeply funny. Thank you for the laugh :)
[info]cultscomics wrote:
Oct. 26th, 2006 10:31 pm (UTC)
But you haven't seen the The really bad version of Beowulf starring Christopher Lambert....
[info]stillsostrange wrote:
Oct. 26th, 2006 10:33 pm (UTC)
Oh, yes I have.
[info]cultscomics wrote:
Oct. 26th, 2006 10:45 pm (UTC)
Great Pity to you then.

I can't think how Frosty Good Hair! Beowulf could top I Come From The Planet Ziest! Beowulf.

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