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BEOWULF posters... this is gonna be the balls!
Hey folks, Harry here... Just got sent these - from the site: FilmFocus.NL - and I find it very appropriate that I would be sent these from that region of the world. I'm dying to see anything and everything from this movie. Ever since I've heard it descibed as a living breathing Frank Frazetta-esque film... I've been dying to see how accurate that hyperbole is. Take a look...
From the IMAX Press release: IMAX Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Beowulf, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis, the filmmaker behind such box office successes as Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, the Back To The Future series and What Lies Beneath, will be released domestically in IMAX® 3D simultaneously with the motion picture's premiere in conventional theatres on November 16, 2007. The film will be released internationally within three weeks of the domestic launch. Beowulf will be digitally converted into IMAX 3D and re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. Paramount Pictures will be the distributor of the motion picture to IMAX® theaters domestically, and Warner Bros. Pictures will be the distributor internationally. Inspired by the 9th century English epic poem, Beowulf combines a digitally enhanced live-action filmmaking technology with an all-star cast that includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman and Angelina Jolie. Neil Gaiman (MirrorMask, the graphic novel Sandman) and Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) adapted the legend for the screen. “IMAX 3D has enabled us to tell stories in a whole new way, and we are very excited to offer moviegoers a chance to experience Beowulf in this incredible format,” said Robert Zemeckis. “IMAX lends itself to the incredible image detail in Beowulf and in 3D, it will transport the audience directly into the story.”
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Of the rich and famous. <br><br> That looks fucking sick.
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That is all.
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I hope this is better than the direct-to-video one with Christopher Lambert.
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grendel already had the smack put on him in that poster...
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I really want to like this. Please don't suck.
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kitchen is the cook.<p>Caesers are the paupers.<p>oh--weeeee--oh...
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WOO!! Beowulf is going to be sweet. I remember reading it in high school, and i did a parody on it. I think this might be better.
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sonofabitch.
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Seriously, I thought this fucker would get pushed back til next year. Can't wait. Confused though, is that supposed to be Winstone? He is Beowulf, right?
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Is that the baby alien from Alien 4, the one that got sucked out of the spacechip?
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which is it? "pride is the curse" or "ambition is the curse" geeze.
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Hope the film follows through.
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If by 'the balls' you mean it's going to totally bite, then you may be on to something. Judging by the posters alone, this looks like ass.
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HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTT!
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Hopefully they remain true to the story.
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alan silvestri will conduct a piece of beowulf score here in madrid. can´t wait!!
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why Harry was named as the 61 st Unsexiest" Man in the World?... umm... maybe there is nothing to talk about that.
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from what I hear.
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The girl is Angelina Jolie. Or, at least, she is if that character is the same as the one in the concept art that came out a while ago.<br><br> And it looks like she is, so there you go.
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Fuck I love that guy.
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BUT LOOK YOUNGER IN THAT PICTURE
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I'm psyched to see the film too but i'm sorry to say the posters don't do much for me. Yeah, the chick is mostly naked but these could just as easily be posters for some cheesy Xena spin-off.
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she is only providing her voice for the movie. The other female stars are listed as Robin Wright Penn (Mrs Spicoli) and Alison Lohman (white oleander, matchstick men).
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pg13? i imagine so. i've been waiting for zemekis to do something interesting for waaaaaaay too long.
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They look like posters for a Lost Odyssey movie. Or a God of War movie. Or anything else for that matter. I've seen that color palette and style in a million video games as of late, my interest in this film is falling.
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it took me 3 tries to read the word "ambition"
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That's a good point, actually. It's just that the concept art had her in it, pretty clearly, and Zemeckis' work in this field (like in POLAR EXPRESS) tends to just go with whatever the actor actually looks like.<br><br> Still, don't know for sure. Here's hoping.<br><br>
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all of that awesome production art and they had to yank it within few hours? That stuff was wicked cool, anyone save that shit? Or is asking a no-no? ;)
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not true. the kids in Monster House look very different.
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Angelina also did major motion capture work for this film. There were several pics of her with hundreds of little acupuncture looking shit all over her body.... so could be her?
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If anyone saw Monster House than they know how great that looked. Take that and then advance it and apply it to a photo realistic film. The mere fact that half the people on here can't tell if that is Angelina Jolie or not, instead of wondering if its CG or not should give you a hint of how cool this will be.
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well, SOMEONE had to say it...
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The reason the Netherlands got the first look is simple: the Cinema Expo International took place in Amsterdam this week and Hollywood came out to our capital and brought a ton of billboards and stuff with them. I was lucky enough to visit the event for Filmfocus.nl and of course I brought my camera along for the ride. By the way, Harry forget to mention (or maybe he didn't found it interesting enough) that there are a lot more pictures of billboards and posters on the website. You don't have to worry about confusing Dutch mumbo jumbo. I made it quite easy to click threw the different pages. You can visit them here: http://tinyurl.com/ywy63v
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posters suck big ol monkey balls. if it's supposed to look like a Frazetta painting come to life then maybe that's the direction they should've gone with the posters but hopefully these aren't the only ones we'll be seeing.
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. . . bring us a Frank Frazetta-esque movie? Doubtful. Don't get me wrong, Zemekis has given us some great films, but PE was an abomination, and nothing he's ever done has displayed any of the raw primal power of Frazetta. Hopefully he'll prove me wrong though. Btw, anyone seen Fire and Ice? Very cool animated movie made in part by Frank himself.
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My knowledge of the story of BEOWULF is not as great as maybe it ought to be, but I'm pretty sure only Jolie is playing a character who could reasonably have pseudo-magic-looking hair and also be functionally naked most of the time.
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evil breeds pain? yawwwwwnnnn
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posters look cool.
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http://tinyurl.com/3expu2 <br><br> Sure looks like Jolie, and that's certainly the girl from the poster. <br><br> And I had forgotten about MONSTER HOUSE (thanks s0nicdeathmonkey). I guess we'll find out eventually.
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raped my childhood! Waaaaaaaah!
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ha ha nobody has noticed the link to the DK teaser...poor souls who have yet to break down and cry at the terrible sound of the Joker's laughter ha ha
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So cool
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Isn't there going to be 2 versions? PG-13 and NC-17? That is what I heard. Thank god Tim Story didn't get his hands on this. I may sound funny to say Zemeckis is 'underrated' but I believe his is. His track record is second only to Saint Steven.
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Jolie plays grendels mom if I'm not mistaken. So she is a troll of somesort. If I'm not mistaken. This book was about as interesting to me as don quixote in high school, so I'm not excited all that much.
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What terrible looking promo art, it looks at best like some typical packaging for a meideval fantasy genre computer game, and at worst like some generic Sci-Fi Channel junk. Hell, they just did Beowulf last winter, didn't they? Or was that the Ring of Neuberling? I'll hope it's just the shotty photography, but I'm not digging any of that artwork. Grendel looks like a model kit scanned from a Previews ad page. They are also apparently tweeking the story, I don't recall a femme fatale anywhere in Beowulf--no one important enough to put so prominently on the ads without changing the story a lot. I mean Grendel's Mom could be turned into a vampy sex pot I guess, but, eh, that's taking more than a few liberties. Like I care if they did though.
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Why is she in everything right now? She is so fucking annoying ... she needs to stop being in the movies I want to see... seriously, isn't she so annoying?
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looks an awful lot like eragon, which is not good...
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wish I could bet on that fucker somehow.
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unless you are a poster collector or big fan...show me the trailer and then we'll see if the movie will be any good. Zemeckis is great but if it is another kiddie film, then I don't care...
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But I'll give it a shot anyway. I agree that the promotional art is a little underwhelming, but it's early and I like the people involved so I'll give it a pass. Poor, poor Grendel.
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And does not adapt well to the screen...i.e. TROY!! THis looks as interesting as pathfinder...and about as sucky
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A liveing Frazetta... Like the first Conan? Fuckin James Earl Jones and shit
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i want to see this movie but not digging these posters. and way to reveal the creature ahead of time. blah. dumb move.
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they did this! Thought they might've been runnin' out of ideas...
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I thought this was a Viking story. Or am I wrong?
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Again, hopeful.
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If it's shit, then all the Frazetta pinups can't save film's demise. Not even lovely Jolie (who regrettably has participated in the train-wreck of Alexander the Great, and even her impeccable charms couldn't forestall the downfall of that drivel.) Alas, I remain optimistic.
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You're correct that it's about Vikings but it was transcribed (presumably from another copy or some oral tradition) by a Christian Monk in Old English.
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Pride ? Ambition ??? can't they make up their minds ???
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GEICO CAVEMEN the movie.
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Stupid racist mofo. Why is Zemeckis associating himself with him? Well the movie will rule anyway.
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I think this is a case of some shitty marketing for something badass, because marketing doesn't know how to sell the coolness of this. So, we end up with blah posters. I have high hopes for this project.
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This looks badass. It'll make people forget The 13th Warrior....oh, wait, they already have....
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thats all I have to contribute.
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Remember, this will be (I believe) the first reunion of George McFly and Zemeckis since BACK TO THE FUTURE.
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I have high hopes for this movie, but I have to say those posters are actually incredibly retarded and quite disappointing. But again, the movie could still be fantastic. And Ray Winstone is a god among men.
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I'm sold. This looks top notch.
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June 30, 2007, 4:26 a.m. CST
Remind me of that major female character in "Beowulf"?
by SalvatoreGravano
It's been a few years, but I could swear the only female character was Grendel's Mother. I assume the rock in the middle is supposed to be Grendel. What's the point of casting Crispin Glover if he's covered with rubber and looks like a CGI troll? Oh, right. He's a fan favorite. I had high hopes until I saw the pre-production "art". I had some hopes until I saw these posters. Now I see this won't be a scab on Crichton and McTiernan's magnificent adaptation/non-adaptation.
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the greatest living Irish poet Seamus Heney translated Beowolf into the english langauge, sometime ago. He is the only poet to do so.
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Can't show that in America, methinks. Even if it's just a single de-nippled boob.
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Um, yeah, that looks more live action, but not as ridiculous as Christopher Lambert looking like Sisqo in that other "Beowulf" movie. ("Thong tha thong thong thong...") I think I'm only interested to see what Gabriella Pescucci has come up with for her first CGI rendered attempt at costume design...
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slappy sloppy jones posted this like 12 hours ago....http://tinyurl.com/2gpl82
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methinks I'll have to check thos one out now. Thanks for the update.
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Looks too sweet to be true. This film together with the imax 3-d release could bring a well needed breath of fresh air to cinema.
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Looks too sweet to be true. This film together with the imax 3-d release could bring a well needed breath of fresh air to cinema.
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One is Winstone and it seems he only makes the voice, the other has his body and the third has Beowulfs face. It seems like they overcomplicated it, but I guess that Zemeckis likes Winstones voice so much that he wanted him for the part although he isn´t exactly built as a mighty dragon slayer.
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about the logo. The logo on the official page looks much more beowulf. It captures the bronze of that age much more so than the modern golden letters. So Zemeckis and co, stick with the official page logo design with the dragon head on the "B" that looks awesome. Check this out geeks and say if I´m not right: http://www.beowulfmovie.com/
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How unoriginal.
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Lots of sites had it DAYS ago, and it's already been revealed as fan-made. Thats why no one is bothering to report it anymore
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There's details that look too right: The transformation of the BB logo to the DK logo, the cards being the same we saw at the end of BB and in the recent promotional campaign, the way the music combines perfectly with the rain, lightning and voice...and the laughter is amazingly creepy! Got any arguments to prove its fake?
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it's all "too right" because the fan used those exact details to make this trailer. They even went for the "camcorder-in-a-theater" shaky look to make it more convincing and to hide the quality of it. You can tell the only actual filmed footage - the cards - looks a little amateur-ish. <br>I'm looking for the news link now that found its origin - will post when I can find it again.
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Ruth is lustless. Grendel looks like Gollum after he took radio active steroids or does Grendel live in a toxic swamp? He seems to have a headache--must be from the noise of all the revelry in Heorot--which by the way looks like a castle of some sort. That is certainly not true to the epic. I just pray that Danes will not have horns on their helmets. Finally, I wonder if the movie will have any of the Christian themes and ideas in the epic or will it simply ignore them.
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on the Transformers TB...well i looked at it again and its true that the camera panning is kind of unprofessional even if disguised by the jerky movement of the video...oh well shit la vie...the laughter is amazing though...good faking!
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Oops, sorry, wrong tagline.
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Though it was a major studio release with a huge BO star in it (Hanks), and it made a good amount of money, CAST AWAY was still a very underrated movie. That movie is a frickin' masterpiece. So yeah, when BEOWULF is released, like, I'm there man.
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No matter if the movie turns out to be living, moving Frazetta-like artwork, if the script isn't good then it's going to suck. TROY looked great on-screen for example, but damn, what a wasted opportunity; other than Eric Bana's performance, that movie was the height of mediocrity.
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Well played sir. If only someone would have the balls to make another Chuck Norris movie in the vein of the recent explosion of love for all things Norris on the internet.
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Where is it? Even more baffling than the lack of interest from the studios to cash in on Chuck's newfound cult icon status is the fact that many of his greatest movies are not readily available to buy. And the great of all is of course the CHUCK NORRIS ANIMATED SERIES! It's certainly better than the RAMBO toon and that's on DVD. That having been said, I'd buy a box set with the MR. T cartoon as well. Christ the 80ies were insane! How did anyone get out of that decade alive?
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Oh yeah. and i really got some identification and healing from the posters tag lines. Thanks!
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Crispin Glover's doing the voice of Grendel, right? "Beowulf...I am your density!"
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whoever compared it to god of war above is spot on. Let's break this down shall we? New technology made that is very expensive. Inventors of it want it to be widely used so they can make money. Generic fantasy bullshit swallowed wholesale by LOTR-loving masses. Generic fantasy bullshit reliant on new technology has massive marketing campaign. Makes shitloads of money as a result. Suits think: "mo-cap makes us money." May the circle be unbroken......
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is that "everybody wins", if by everybody i mean the people on the money side of things and not us serfs who actually pay to see the fucking thing.
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I have been reading AICN for years and I have finally joined to say what I have been thinking all this time... NO ONE CARES IF YOU Are first!!! GET OUT OF THE 4TH GRADE ALREADY! GEEEEZ! I bet you cried to your mommy when someone cut the lineright?? oH yeah..And Beowulf looks Amazing.
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I have been reading AICN for years and I have finally joined to say what I have been thinking all this time... NO ONE CARES IF YOU Are first!!! GET OUT OF THE 4TH GRADE ALREADY! GEEEEZ! I bet you cried to your mommy when someone cut the lineright?? oH yeah..And Beowulf looks Amazing.
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haha haa
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Ummm... no.. I am not frustrated... i simply find the level of chidishness insufferable and finally allowed myself a moment of venting. I can see my comment may have struck a nerve in you though, no?
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Lusty Ambition is the Pain. Deal.
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I agree with you. It's hard to gage the age here often. It actually seems that people age backwards in these talkbacks. Though occasionally the reverse seems to happen & marvels of eloquence sprouts from seemingly barren sources.
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Than my balls in loose linen boxers catching a seabreeze in Juneau.
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back to the primal reptile reflexes?
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otherwise methinks not
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won out the casting call over Jackson's LOTR Orcs...please tell me the big G is going to look more impressive than THAT...please?
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The movie is motion capture CGI, like Polar Express except hopefully without looking like corpses bouncing around like marionettes. Nobody is covered in rubber.
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Crazy fucking shit, nevermind the fact that it is Beowulf. I heard about this but had no idea it was animated.
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& print em and frame them on the wall.
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The tag lines lead me to believe they are at least headed in that direction.
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Are we sure this isn't poster concepts or something thrown together for a trade show? That Pride poster looks EXACTLY like Sawyer from Lost and I KNOW I've seen a shot of him, shirtless, in that exact pose with his hair like that. I'm wondering if they just used some existing pictures for temp art.
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But the cast sounds tip top and Harry's back! as a transformer!!!
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you are god damn right about that one friend. this thing exists SOLELY to make enough money to convince hollywood that mocap is the wave of the future. the wave of the future. the wave of the future. the wave of the future. the wave of the future.
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started a fad. All warriors now look buff on screen.
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Crispin Glover's in this? I'm so there!!
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expecting a "Van Helsing" meets "Hook" type of score
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300 was R-rated, and made a shitload of money. Beowulf won't cost $150 million (40-80, I can't remember). "This thing" exists 'cause Gaiman and Avary were shooting shit one day and Gaiman helped Avary out with this script idea he had and Zemeckis said "Sounds cool, let's do it." Literally - go read Gaiman's journal. None of which matters, because Zemeckis said there will be a PG-13 and an NC-17 version, which is fairly easy to do when the movie is CG, and sounds fine by me.
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