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Originally Posted by SolaScriptura  Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.  | 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.