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Beowulf (1999)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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