A Review of the Other Beowulf Movie - Jack Budofsky
My original plan for this blog post was to watch every movie I could find that tells the story of Beowulf and then rank them based on how worth it it is to watch them. I figured that I would have more than enough choices to work with, after all the poem has existed as long as film has ten times over, giving filmmakers plenty of time to make interpretations of the story. But surpisingly, I could only find two movies across multiple platforms excluding the movie adaptation of the novel Grendel . My two choices were the 2007 moive titled Beowulf , which we all watched scennes from as a class, and the lesser known 1999 movie by the same name with Christpher Lambert. Here's my review of the latter. This version of the movie caught my attention because its description, whih stated the movie is set in a dystopian future. I was interested in how the story would adapt to this setting. The story...