Beowulf

[Nameless Evil]

Originally Posted by SonOfTorah

I've already posted this over at the IMDB, but will say that Robert Zemeckis Beowulf film has a superb script that is kneecapped by the incredibly strange decision to make the film entirely animated rather than live action. Tell me if i am wrong, but there are [I]three[I] non-human characters in the whole movie, yet they go through the process of creating cg models identical to the actors that are playing them and motion-capturing them!

I mean, what's the point? Shoot the darn thing live action in the tradition of Lord Of The Rings and you'd have a film that would have taken at least double the box office.

A major missed opportunity.

Totally.

My wife loved the movie, for me it was just... meh