awful just awful (shakes head in sadness)

Rating: 1/10 (19 November 2007)

I guess that i am a purist or i guess that a poem that has stood the test of time for thousands (I repeat actually thousands of years old) would not be ravaged like this. I tried to enjoy the movie and the horrible script that just recycled one-liner after one-liner "I am here to kill you Monsta indeed." Every line was a rip off from the now cliché Gerard Butler line "THIS IS SPARTA!!!" This movie took away everything that i loved from the poem and made it into something almost dirty it made this epic hero that stood not only the horrible monster Grendel but also his horrible mother, and then in his older days he still could beat up a dragon into something dirty. It made Beowulf seem to be a braggart perhaps it was an autobiography for Gaiman who writes all right but most of his tooting comes from his own horn. It reminded me of Troy which ruined the Iliad for exactly the same reason: none. It makes me sick to think that both of these epics are good enough to remain relevant and exciting for THOUSANDS freaking THOUSANDS of years is not good enough for Hollywood writers who have to "improve" the story line.
Mr. Gaiman the true monster in this story is you, I just hope that you have not weakened Beowulf enough because he is indeed the monster killer i am just not sure that he could survive this massacre.