Beowolf (?)

[Presbyterian Deacon]

Has anybody seen this movie? What are your thoughts on it? I have not seen it, but understand it is out on video (dvd) now. My son (10 years old) wants to see it. I understand it is not rated, and that is some sort of digitally enhanced (whatever that means) live action thing. Would it be appropriate for 10 year old eyes and minds?

Thanks

 

[LadyFlynt]

Haven't seen it, but have read reviews. According to the reviews, the movie isn't true to the story/book and is very graphic. Basically a "don't see".

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

http://www.puritanboard.com/f86/beowulf-26755/

 

[Josiah]

My Wife and I didnt appreciate having to cover our eyes and ears for much of the movie. Next time I will just read the book.

 

[Presbyterian Deacon]

My Wife and I didnt appreciate having to cover our eyes and ears for much of the movie. Next time I will just read the book.

Then I shall certainly not let my son watch it. Thank you. Somewhere I heard someone say, "Never judge a book by it's movie!" I guess it's true in this case as well.

 

[SolaScriptura]

My Wife and I didnt appreciate having to cover our eyes and ears for much of the movie. Next time I will just read the book.

Obviously, some on this board will read that and think, "Oh! Then the movie must be terrible if someone on this board had to cover his eyes!"

Now, maybe it is because I'm oh so callous or maybe because I'm overly cynical... but when I read your entry I just have to know: Why, precisely, did you "have" to cover your eyes? What was the specific type of content that was so egregious that an adult man had to cover his eyes?

Was it gore? Sex? what?

 

[servantofmosthigh]

Mpaa

Has anybody seen this movie? What are your thoughts on it? I have not seen it, but understand it is out on video (dvd) now. My son (10 years old) wants to see it. I understand it is not rated, and that is some sort of digitally enhanced (whatever that means) live action thing. Would it be appropriate for 10 year old eyes and minds?

Thanks

My children are not allowed to watch PG-13 movies until, well, they're at least 13.

 

[sastark]

I realize I'm coming in late on this thread, but this movie is absolutely NOT appropriate for a 10-year old. Why? Gore and nudity (of the male backside variety). It felt like the makers of the movie thought they could get away with more because it was computer animated.

In addition to all that, it was a complete waste of time. I found nothing redeeming in the story or characters. Definitely pass on the movie and read the actual Legend.

 

[RamistThomist]

My Wife and I didnt appreciate having to cover our eyes and ears for much of the movie. Next time I will just read the book.

Obviously, some on this board will read that and think, "Oh! Then the movie must be terrible if someone on this board had to cover his eyes!"

Now, maybe it is because I'm oh so callous or maybe because I'm overly cynical... but when I read your entry I just have to know: Why, precisely, did you "have" to cover your eyes? What was the specific type of content that was so egregious that an adult man had to cover his eyes?

Was it gore? Sex? what?

While I love medieval combat and stuff like Braveheart, and I understand if marital sex is implied (as long as I don't have to watch other people do it), the way Beowulf portrayed it was....disturbing. The angles in which it was shot. The not quite reality/not quite cartoon picture enhanced--in a weird way--the stuff going on.

Disturbing was the way to describe it.

This movie ruined the book for a decade. The book was one of the finest retellings of the Christian story. The movie was a bunch of drunk vikings debauching whores and local barmaids.

And there was the heavily postmodern element in the movie. Beowulf's enemies weren't Grendel and Mrs. Grendel. It was Beowulf's notions of right and wrong and absolutes.

 

[py3ak]

I think some comments from Ms. Jolie herself might clear up any doubts:

She may be no stranger to taking risks, but Angelina Jolie's latest accomplishment is making her blush.

"I got a little shy," Jolie said Saturday, on the topic of seeing herself in a simulated nude scene for her new computer-animated movie Beowulf.

"I was really surprised that I felt that exposed," Jolie, 32, said at a press conference for the film in Los Angeles.

"There are certain moments where I felt actually shy – and called home, just to explain that the fun movie that I had done that was digital animation was, in fact, a little different than [what] we expected," she says.

Jolie – who in her role as a temptress killer lizard is painted gold but animated without clothes – explains, "I didn't expect ourselves to come out as much. I didn't expect it to feel as real, and so because of especially the type of character I play, it was kind of funny at first."