Beowulf!!!

[King of all Buffets]

....Is fuckin awesome, go see it right away. It expands on the original story and has alot of really cool characters and the visuals are out of this world....And I am sure that all the talk of Odin and Ragnarök is bound to give some of you huge boners.

[siobahn]

it was ok.. the special effects were nice, although the dialogue was a bit campy at a couple of spots. and it generally wasn't.. satisfying. it was still worth the extra $ to see it in 3D though.

[WBC]

it was ok.. the special effects were nice, although the dialogue was a bit campy at a couple of spots. and it generally wasn't.. satisfying. it was still worth the extra $ to see it in 3D though.

you sound like you were expecting money shots...... CGI literary porn is not a growth industry....

[Dutch Raven]

it was ok.. the special effects were nice, although the dialogue was a bit campy at a couple of spots. and it generally wasn't.. satisfying. it was still worth the extra $ to see it in 3D though.

I wonder if they'll have it in 3D over here... Imax would be a good second option, I think.

[GripFast]

i think it looks like a cool movie and i want to see it

and now for somthing completely different:

i think the mist would be sweet in 3d if they could some how incorperate the fog into it some how ive never been to an imax 3d so i dont know how much stuff they can do with those

[Acari Rotter]

I'm holding out for a Gilgamesh movie.

[GripFast]

I'm holding out for a Gilgamesh movie.


that would flow well considering parts of the original scripture are missing. what are they going to do just pull a monty python and have random swirling colors?

[Diana E]

So how many of you have had the pleasure of actually reading the story.. and finishing it?

[King of all Buffets]

So how many of you have had the pleasure of actually reading the story.. and finishing it?

we all read it here in Ontario in grade 11 English.

[Tokyohoon]

Same in BC, at least in my school. Mind, that was more than 20 years ago...

[Dutch Raven]

I read a big part of it in English class.

Not sure how much it was edited, updated (new language) or whatever.

[Diana E]

I read it of my own free will. It wasn't required reading in my highschool anyway.

[Dutch Raven]

I read it of my own free will. It wasn't required reading in my highschool anyway.

Sounds like a good highschool.:redface:

[SouthSide Eric]

So how many of you have had the pleasure of actually reading the story.. and finishing it?
I had an entire college class of it, in Old English....:cool:


Read it a couple two three times.(including in highschool at the damn Catholic Schools it was required...)! Read Grendel, by John Gardner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_(novel)

[Diana E]

Sounds like a good highschool.:redface:

We read other things like the canterbury tales by that crazy chaucer bastard and some other ridiculous crap that made me want to gouge out my eyes. Actually we did a lot of classic American literature. Not too much on the foreign stuff.

And it actually was a very good highschool thanky.. in the top 10 for my state.

[rachel]

We read other things like the canterbury tales by that crazy chaucer bastard and some other ridiculous crap that made me want to gouge out my eyes. Actually we did a lot of classic American literature. Not too much on the foreign stuff.

And it actually was a very good highschool thanky.. in the top 10 for my state.

We had to read beowolf in 10th grade honors english (i was a nerd). The book watership down made me want to gouge my fucking eyes out in (th grade. I HATED that book about stupid rabbits, and it was about a billion pages.

[Diana E]

We had to read beowolf in 10th grade honors english (i was a nerd). The book watership down made me want to gouge my fucking eyes out in (th grade. I HATED that book about stupid rabbits, and it was about a billion pages.

We had to read Of Mice and Men in freshman year. I never understood why we had to read that. It was pretty goddamn simplistic. I think my favorite school required reading book was probably Lord of the Flies.

[SouthSide Eric]

We had to read Of Mice and Men in freshman year. I never understood why we had to read that. It was pretty goddamn simplistic. I think my favorite school required reading book was probably Lord of the Flies.
It was better than Catcher in the Rye(not by much..)! Heh, all's you have to do is watch half of the old Looney Tunes cartoon and they quote half of, 'Of Mice and Men' in many cartoons...:cool:

[pxscooterskin]

We had to read Of Mice and Men in freshman year. I never understood why we had to read that. It was pretty goddamn simplistic. I think my favorite school required reading book was probably Lord of the Flies.

Read Beowulf a few times - though not at school.

Got to agree, out of all the required reading that is a book I still go back to. A classic.

[bat_girl]

I hated Of Mice and Men (although I do like some of Steinbeck's other books) and I really, really hated Catcher in the Rye. I felt quite ripped off when I read it ... some big classic. Pffffft.

[Andeskin]

I had an entire college class of it, in Old English....:cool:


Read it a couple two three times.(including in highschool at the damn Catholic Schools it was required...)! Read Grendel, by John Gardner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_(novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_%28novel))

Grendel is a wicked novel. Hail for that! His writing reminds me a lot of Faulkner for some reason.

[PortsideMartyr]

Beowulf is one of the few pieces I can read repeatedly. It was pulled from my school's curriculum a long time ago for some reason. Does anyone else recall this happening?

[DIYWMD]

So how many of you have had the pleasure of actually reading the story.. and finishing it?


My pop used to read it to me when I was a kid. All I remembered was the "and grendel crawled into his cave to die" anticlimactic part

[Justice]

Beowulf is one of my favorite stories, and although I'm sure this movie isn't going to do it justice, it's the first time I've heard of a film actually including the full story.

[eddie shots]

fuck beowolf. this is the shit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCsojSPfIaU

[Virginiasc]

fuck beowolf. this is the shit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCsojSPfIaU



I now know what I'm gonna do when I grow up! Because in Darkon, I'M in control.

[eddie shots]

im watching right now and laughing my balls off. people are crazy

[Virginiasc]

im watching right now and laughing my balls off. people are crazy

Yeah, but it kinda looks likes fun.......

[eddie shots]

no but these motherfuckers bring it home with them.

[Virginiasc]

no but these motherfuckers bring it home with them.

Yeah, thats a bit creepy. I can see them at the dinner table having a serious discussion about tommorrows "battle". And saying stuff like,"Its my destiny!"

They kind of remind me of the all those hardcore civil war reanactors. Only alot less smart.

[eddie shots]

brothers knocking each other out at the family buisness, marital problems, broken friendships, id say they are a little troubled.

[Virginiasc]

I just saved that shit to my Netflix, it comes out early next year on DVD.

[Justice]

fuck beowolf. this is the shit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCsojSPfIaU

I would do this in a heartbeat.

[Virginiasc]

If you thought that was funny......


http://www.darkon.org/

"When participating in Darkon, you should always go by your "Battle Name."

[eddie shots]

im going to make a profile and go on the forum and say i am the ultimate king warrior mercenary of darkon. that should be fun.

[Virginiasc]

im going to make a profile and go on the forum and say i am the ultimate king warrior mercenary of darkon. that should be fun.

Oh, shit, I didn't even see the forum. I might have to sign up.

[siobahn]

oh my holy god... those people are insane. on the message board, go to 'in character forum'... then "punitive expedition against western invaders". can you guys picture grown men typing these things? i thought it was hilarious until i realized how damn fucked up it is.

well.. it still is pretty funny.

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[Virginiasc]

If you live in Nurgle, you need to be careful......


Braxus is coming back!!!

[Virginiasc]

These guys don't play around......

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[King of all Buffets]

If you thought that was funny......


http://www.darkon.org/

"When participating in Darkon, you should always go by your "Battle Name."

It would be awesome to bust in on of there big battles...but dressed all wrong like a group robots or WWII soldiers....i can imagine the angry nerds.

[siobahn]

It would be awesome to bust in on of there big battles...but dressed all wrong like a group robots or WWII soldiers....i can imagine the angry nerds.
the crying, the confusion, the wanton acts of suicidal rage.. the online report-backs.

"today's battle between king keldar and the forces of aquilonia met and assembled as scheduled, when suddenly, like a wave of locusts over the southern field, came the invaders, and with them the realization that something had gone horribly, horribly wrong..."

[grouchybastid]

....Is fuckin awesome, go see it right away. It expands on the original story and has alot of really cool characters and the visuals are out of this world....And I am sure that all the talk of Odin and Ragnarök is bound to give some of you huge boners.

No, no, no! Why is this necessary?? It is why I refuse to see this piece o' crap. :mad:


I read it of my own free will. It wasn't required reading in my highschool anyway.

Me too. I think I was 13 or so when I read it, and loved it from the start.