Gone Baby Gone.....real interesting Missing Persons crime story.....great twist ending that you don't see coming.....
Beowulf...meh....really don't bother. If you want to be wowed by CG Actors rent "Final Fantasy".....honestly this is like the 2nd or 3rd version of the Classic Viking Poem in movie form and they have all sucked really. In one Grendel was a Giant.....the spawn of a human woman raped by a Giant....or something like that.......he was mean and nasty and you wanted him to die. In this recent version Grendel is a misshapen, almost undead looking pathetic beast that is the cross between a Demon (Mommy) and the Danish King......apparently the carousing Danes make his misshapen ears augment the sound to the point of it being painful so he goes bezerk and appears in wreath of blue fire killing all....except the King of course....can't kill Daddy I guess......but what got me is that Beowulf confronts the Demoness (Angelina Jolie) and ends up sleeping with her as well. Their son though isn't malformed but a Dragon who when he dies ends up taking a human form that is well built and healthy.......I guess the Heroic seed of Beowulf took better fruit or something.
Seriously folks...stop trying to make a movie out of a fireside tale of Hero Worship told in the 12th Century.....I'm sure the tale wasn't 2 hours long and they didn't really care about backstory.....Beowulf goes into the cave and slays Grendel......simple, to the point (do you really think Vikings cared about his Mom or who begot Grendel......)
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