I was thinking the same thing myself. Maybe she comes from an alternate universe where the 13th Warrior wasn’t awesome? I’d check to make sure she doesn’t have a goatee. 
So apparently there’s an awesome movie called The 13th Warrior, not to be confused with the movie with Antonio Banderas? This is exciting!
So wait, people are irritated because Angelina Jolie shows up naked? And they’re complaining about her acting abilities?
(Yeah, she’s got two of them! 
)
Bizarro-Baldwin has spoken!
I like The 13th Warrior. And one of the things I like about it is that although it uses some themes from Beowulf, and was to an extent inspired by Beowulf, it doesn’t try to call itself Beowulf.
I find the idea of a hot seductive evil Grendel’s Mom infuriating. It’s as though Zemeckis knows he won’t get people to come see his stupid movie if he doesn’t include a smokin’ starlet vamping things up. The infuriating part is he’s probably right. Only nerds like me, who are interested in more than sex in their movies (and are frankly squicked out at watching other people breathe heavily all over each other), want to see the original Grendel’s Mom, the evil draugr-like creature who promptly jumps on our hero and tries to rip his freaking head off.
That would be awesome. IF the producers and directors can resist the urge to insert random pairs of tits that serve no purpose other than to be random pairs of tits. I want to see over-the-top heroism and Viking battles and duels and fighting against odds and friendship and betrayal and dying nobly; if I want to see boobs I’ve got a pair of my own to look at.
What’s with all the recebnt versions of Beowulf? There have been about four of them in recent years, and that’s since The 13th Warrior (which I liked, too. It’s based on a Crichton novel that I actually liked). None of the ones I’ve seen are terrifically faithful to the poem, but, on the other hand, I think the poem wouldn’t make a really good movie.
(Now Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight COULD make a good movie, although they haven’t made a good one yet. Not even Sword of the Valiant, even though it had Sean Connery as the Green Knight.)
It could, and almost certainly will be.
Hmmm. There was a ton of CGI in the trailer that IMDB has.
CGI is not good enough, yet, to replace decent actors and imaginative sets. But I guess it’s getting cheaper to do the CGI…
OT - I kinda liked 13th Warrior, too. What’s the beef with that film?
Ok, so the movie is CGI, but uses the likenesses of real actors. Why? Why not just save yourself millions of dollars and make CGI characters that look similar to real ones?
This does reinforce my theory that one day we’ll see new movies using old/dead actors in CGI, with them looking like they did in their heyday.
Or they could compromise and film the Vinland saga of Freydís Eiríksdóttir:
Topless AND pregnant! :eek:
I dunno. But I sometimes feel that there are insider info that gets around on what projects the various studios are working on, and somebody thinks “What do they know that we don’t know? Is there an untapped market we missed this year? We better make our own version of an asteroid-threatening-the-earth-with-tales-of-heroism-mixed-in movie…”.
(Get the tune (and watch the original video) here)
What the hell is Bob Zemeckis on?
What the hell is Bob Zemeckis on?
What the hell is Bob Zemeckis on?
What the hell is Bob Zemeckis on?
Grendel thought that King Hrothgar was a foo-o-o-o-ool
(was a fool)
he came and attacked from his p-p-p-pool
(attacked from the pool)
Grendel was the spawn of a hideous be-east
(hideous beast)
in this poem that’s a thousand years old at le-e-e-east
(thousand at least)
now it’s comin’ out as a fall movie
and Grendel’s the spawn of Angie Jo-olie
Grendel’s mom has got it goin on
her lips are full and her legs are so lo-o-ng
and she plays a tease offering immortality
you know there’s something wrong
when Beowulf falls for Grendel’s mom
Grendel’s mom has got it goin on
Grendel’s mom has got it goin on
See? HER tits served a purpose!
I had a medieval lit teacher once who said that the only people she’d trust to make a movie of Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight would be the Monty Python troupe, because “they know their medieval”.
Something I liked about “Jabberwocky” was that I could practically smell the Middle Ages. I wouldn’t have liked it so much if I could actually smell the Middle Ages, so I’m glad that they didn’t provide a John Waters-ish “Odorama” scratch ‘n’ sniff card to all the patrons.
Produced by the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society.
Bravo. 
Same here.
I liked 13th Warrior. Well, not a whole lot, but I didn’t demand my $$ back or anything. It had moments.
T13W had some great bits, but IMHO the Irish accents showed up a bit too much.
If it was absolutely Neil Gaiman’s Beowulf and it was directed by someone competent at their craft but completely under Gaiman’s thumb then I wouldn’t even hesitate. But everyone knows that scriptwriters for films are considered more suggestions than actual storytellers so its very possible that Zemekis ignored the bulk of the cool stuff Gaiman was sure to include.
So I’m going to see it because I like Gaiman but I’m not holding my breath for brilliance.