Monday, October 19, 2009

Beowulf Not Bad

So this coming week is already (hopefully) the worst of this semester. But since last week was the second worst week of the semester I officially took Saturday off to spend with my family and recharge my brain. The end of the day I topped off with a movie, Beowulf and Grendel. It's recently come to my better half's notice that Gerard Butler seems to come up a lot in the movies on our Netflix list. Um, er, well, yes. And as I was pretty certain this movie was going to be really bad, I was unusually apologetic and embarrassed.

I'm here to tell you, this movie wasn't bad at all! Low production value, sure, but with a famous text to butcher and a lot of historical stereotypes to overcome, I was expecting the worst. Okay, so they threw in a love interest which was completely gratuitous, but overall it was entirely surprisingly decent. So hubby couldn't laugh at me too much. He even allowed me to watch Gerry host SNL. Again, I was pleasantly surprised. How about you?

2 comments:

The romantic query letter and the happy-ever-after said...

You made me smile,thank you. I LOVE your blog and will come again now I've found it. All the very best,
Simone

Alice Audrey said...

I was also pleasantly surprised for the same reasons. I think the tossed in romance (yeah it was unnecessary, though fit well enough) was actually refreshing because it deviated from the epic poem.