Beowulf

[Willets Point]

In honor of the film version of Beowulf opening today, here is the best Crane Pool Forum thread ever referencing Beowulf. This thread has greater imagination and better writing than the film appears to have.

[Vic Sage]

BEOWULF was pretty good, contrary to popular opinion.

The movie, i mean.

With a script by Neil Gaiman, one of the best fantasists of his generation, the story finally made some kind of sense to me.

I wasn't crazy about the "motion-capture" style of animation, but it did allow them to create imagery that would've been impossible with live action.

There's also a great song over the final credits, sung by Idina Menzel, "a hero always comes home".