Beowulf (1999)

[jarrycanada 2483]

There can only be one, Beowulf!!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFOo3YBi-ZI

 

This movie is crap, NO Christopher Lambert trade mark dry laugh

and I was sooo looking forward to that too.

 

I would say it's on the level of Mortal Kombat.

[jarrycanada 2483]

Shit, I was so certain there was no dry laugh in this movie and yet was so wrong.

and the award for most insincere laugh in a major motion picture goes too?

Christopher Lambert !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FswhQmILLU

 

credit for this little gem of a clip goes to PlanBFromOuterSpace he's the man.

[ThomLockhart 3]

Watching it on Netflix and had to suggest it. I'm only 10 minutes in...

[jarrycanada 2483]

Watching it on Netflix and had to suggest it. I'm only 10 minutes in...

 

all bets are off once he reply's, will "thomas_lockhart" make it to the end of this film! I'll give him 45min mark.

for the record, the film is 95mins long.

 

I so forgot about that Christopher Lambert laugh clip, that brings a warm smile to my face each and every time I watch it. I'll have to save that for bad days to cheer me up.

[ThomLockhart 3]

I made it all the way through...I think. Kinda blacked out for a little bit.

[jarrycanada 2483]

I made it all the way through...I think. Kinda blacked out for a little bit.

 

ya that's a long ass movie isn't it.

[Lando 2019]

I just watched this (clearly I am on a Christopher Lambert kick with this and Highlander 3) and all I have to say is What.the.fuck?!?! This is perfect HDTGM fodder (more Christopher Lambert!)

• I got the sense that the filmmakers seemed to think that there was something of a story, but it seemed to have nothing to do with Beowulf outside of just borrowing names.
  
• I'm really not sure what is going on with the outer castle seige.
  
• Aesthetically this movie is like 90% medieval, 10% futuristic. If Steampunk has a relative that is less Victorian and more medieval, this film is the embodiment of it. Some of the weapons look ridiculously impractical (specifically the giant pizza cutters)
  
• This seems like a mish mash of other movies. It's part Predator, part Army of Darkness, part In The Name of the King and part Rhona Mitra's cleavage
  
• The best thing about the movie by far is the 90s industrial/electronic soundtrack
  
• The final fight scene has some pretty bad CGI, it looks like something from the Lawnmower Man.
  

[IJoinedJustForThis 35]

This one is both mystifying and incomprehensible, all the while featuring Christopher Lambert being a squinty, low-voiced knight of sorts. I got this once (thankfully with at least one other movie) for a movie night with two buddies, and IIRC we finished it despite being baffled by the experience. A terrible, terrible movie. This one is a hot to lukewarm mess, but the strange of it should do. No real connection to the myth, btw.

 

edit: huh, Rhona Mitra was in that one?

Edited January 20, 2016 by IJoinedJustForThis

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

Oh jeez, I know whenever the topic of "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" comes up, someone always makes the "Not even CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT would come back for it!" crack. Guess why...

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120604/trivia?item=tr1965207