[Sca-cooks] FW: Beowulf poem as movie review

Kathleen A Roberts karobert at unm.edu
Thu Aug 18 12:52:42 PDT 2005


On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:43:53 -0400
  Irmgart <irmgart at gmail.com> wrote:
> the movie? the movie is real... and *horrid.*
> 
> The verse is really quite accurate in summarizing the 
>movie. And less painful.

i shared it with some friends on the kingdom list, who 
other than genteely busting a couple of guts with the 
translation, informed me that this movie was so bad that 
it could only be bad.  (as opposed to so bad it's good)


cailte
who would usually be fond of an 
apocolyptic/adventure/water movie....
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which 
sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
W. B. Yeats
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Kathleen Roberts
University of New Mexico
Office of Freshman Admissions
Administrative Asst. III
505-277-6249



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