Ok now you’ve got me interested in watching one of the films.
Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🏹 Saturday, May 4, 2024
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I have been watching various movies, readings and videos of Beowulf and about Beowulf. ( I read the book a long time ago, before Heaney’s translation ) Here are some.
Beowulf by Robert Zemeckis. Whyyyyyyy. It could have been awesome but it looked like crap. 2 hobbits
Beowulf , documentary by Michael Woods, 4 hobbits
History documentary by some academic poetry chap, 3 hobbits
Beowulf 1998 animation with Derek Jacobi, 3 hobbits
The Hobbit , for following Tolkein’s texts on Beowulf and the book The Hobbit and for general awesomeness in heroic story telling, 6 out 5 hobbits. I love it even more now,
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The 1998 one is 30 minutes and on youtube ✅
the series with William Hurt was so bad I didn’t even review it
I yelled at the zemeckis movie, what a waste of actors
Michael Woods is always good, it made me want to travel all over England and see these places
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Monarch of the Glen by Neil Gaiman (a novella in his short story collection Fragile Things) sort of includes Grendle. It also serves as a small sequel to American Gods. I like his take.
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Apparently Grendel Grendel Grendel is awesome but I’ve never been able to find a copy. sadface
shiny_idea@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Is “Bea Wolf” on your radar?
It’s an illustrated children’s book about a children’s party in a treehouse.
But apparently somehow it’s an adaptation of the ancient epic?
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hwæt!