noodles wrote:
Ararat - very good movie, although they didn't look very hard into the quebec girl's side of the story so the stuff she did was kind of unexpected and random.
Ararat was a serious letdown for me. Too confusing and boring.
I guess I should add this here:
I bought this today, just finished watching it here at work (I love this place!). It's a re-telling of one of the most famous Norse tales. Beowulf coming to the aid of King Hrothgar as a beast, Grendel, goes on a murderous rampage across the countryside. It's a different take on the old Norse poem. Grendel isn't necessarily a mindless, ferocious killer in this movie. He's basically just out for revenge and not interested in anyone but a select group.
Grendel looks pretty cool. He's called a "troll" in the movie. He's got like a prosthetic muscle suit on, which is odd. You can't really tell unless you really pay attention, though. I guess you just can't find muscular dude with Popeye's forearms without going prosthetic. Haha.
It's light on action, but heavy on intrigue and suspense, which I thought was interesting. It works, though. The dialogue is cool and not overdrawn. The cussing was a surprise, though. Haha. And the witch came off a little un-Witchlike. She seemed more like a sitcom smartass at times.
There are two really cool scenes. One in the beginning where Beowulf is killing some dude and he beheads someone and the body runs headless for like three more feet before plopping to the ground! Hahaha. It looked awesome. Then toward the end when the Christian dude gets bitch-slapped! Another cool scene. You gotta watch it, though.
This movie is worth buying. It's a new release it seems, was on sale for $17.99.
I saw it one hour ago. Without a doubt one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Absolute genius!
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