Beowulf & Grendel Trailer Online

I've always loved the Beowulf story. Can't wait to see this one!

i always pictured grendel as being more of a monster.. but maybe my memory is just bad.

Yeah, but realistically, he wouldn't have been a creature. More of a monstrous person. I mean, this isn't the Christopher Lambert Beowulf, which I must admit, was pretty entertaining in a cheesy B-movie sort of way.

Eeeh I don't know about this. After so many huge epic viking-like fantasy films this one seems to be pretty small and limp. This trailer is far from being good but who knows, this might be good.

This movie is so bad it will hurt all of your senses.

I saw it at the Toronto Film Fest and still curse the waste of tickets, this movie relies on the beautiful Ice Land scenery and nothing else, horrible script, acting, and SFX.

view at your own risk

Nord

Now I'm actually glad that I couldn't get tickets to go see this. I'll wait for the animation that's supposed to be coming out soon.

I have been following the making of, filming, and post production of this movie on the official website www.beowulfandgrendel.com . This trailer, along with all the pictures, interviews, and video clips I have seen on the site, serve to just make me that much more
excited about seeing this movie. I can't wait!! Sturla Gunnarsson and Andrew Berzins; a great cast, and the georgeous Icelandic backgroud "combined" have created a movie I don't want to miss.

For me when I was able to see this great epic at the TIFF in September it left such an impression on me that is still with me today. I started a Beowulf journey that inspired me to form a Beowulf Group and have our first Beowulf Warrior Challenge / contest, here is the link:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=100002934

Using Iceland as the backdrop was just sheer genuis and it just takes your breath away. I had read the epic poem many times and I feel that director Sturla Gunnarsson does the story more than justice. It was worth the air flight to Toronto and I know that 2006 will be the year of Beowulf.

The all star acting cast does not hurt either and Scottish actor Gerard Butler brings you back to the days when the sword was a must to survive.

A Must see!!!!

I was lucky enough to see this movie at the Vancouver IFF- I DID re-read the poem prior to going and read John Gardner's book GRENDEL, along with the screen writer's blog on the movie web site- where Andrew Berzins clearly states this is NOT the poem. Since the action of the story took place in antiquity, who's to say what is the true story- and who cares- THIS is a GOOD story not a documentary! Lots of movies spark an interest in a subject and one looks up more info..this one did as much for me. For someone who likes History I realized there was a major gap, namely pre-Roman occupation Europe. Since seeing the film I've read alot more particularly John Grigsby's Beowulf and Grendel, a study of the history and mythology of the period. NOW I really want to see the movie again. No this is not the usual one-way viewing experience that we ususally get in movies- it's a dynamic, talk about alot kind of film. I loved it!

I traveled 2000 miles to see this film in Vancouver Canada the 1st time, because buzz on the Beowulf Movie site indicated the story was tied to research I'd done on women's place in the Middle Ages. I was curious to see if the connection held up. It did. The character of Selma very accurately reflected the realities of the age and her plain spoken ways were pivotal to humaizing the tale. I found it to be a thoughtful, well told tale of stark human events which might have been the background for the Beowulf Poem. I liked it so well the I just made a 6 hour drive to see it a 2nd time in Palm Springs, California. This second viewing really allowed me to get how achingly human and exquisitly wild Grendel is and how he was the perfect mirror for the "civilized" warriors to catch a glimpse of themselves. On the whole this movie isn't a lube job for the eyes, it's an opportunity to feel the grit that was in them to begin with. It is an opportunity to expience shades of gray, get knocked off center and be made a bit uncomfortable with easy answers to complex problems. Fantasy it's not, it's a hard hitting story of very human frailties, that are as real now as they were then. It's a mirror for us to catch a glimpse of ourselves.