Originally Posted by Val_1

Even though I've been warned, I still must see this for myself. Oddly, I kind of liked hearing that Beowulf was not made sympathetic. Too many heroes are these days. The Greeks really understood heroes. Their heroes were often flawed people that performed extraordinary feats.

Originally Posted by mrklixx

I'm sorry, but the plot to the original story sounds pretty damn boring. I'm not talking about the prose or the imagery, I'm talking about the basic storyline. It's about as one-dimensional as it gets. How could anyone, except maybe Jesus Christ, actually "identify" with a perfect superhuman who buys it in the third act? I mean do the nay sayers really think that "Beowulf kills Grendel, Beowulf kills Mrs. Grendel, Beowulf gets killed in an unrelated Dragon incident" would have made a good film?