[Sca-cooks] Fw: OT & OOP: Beowulf

[Terry Decker]

> I do enjoy some "male-oriented" films - action films and horror
> movies (but not some of the very cruel recent ones). However, i've
> never fantasized about gigantic pecs and shoulders and washboard abs
> all shiny with oil - Beowulf was just a bit too "glossie" in the
> trailers i saw - looked more like an entrant in a body building
> competition (not a fantasy of mine), and not a Medieval hero.
>

Ah, but Beowulf isn't a Medieval hero.  He's really among the last of the 
Bronze Age heroes who "took valor" and followed the warrior's road to glory 
and the immortality of being remembered long after they were gone.  Most of 
the movie is glossy and designed to titillate modern senses, but on a couple 
of occasions, they capture the essence of Beowulf the warrior, but not often 
enough for my taste.

> I suspect that the film did benefit from 3D - is it in 3D everywhere
> or just in special theaters?.
>

I believe that some showings are 3D while others are not.

> I saw those 3D Warhol films back in the 70s (Frankenstein and
> Dracula) for which viewers were given polarizing lens in cheap
> frames. Nothing like the effect of a bit of internal organ hanging
> off the end of a gaff over your lap. Ah, the memories of my youth...
> -- 
> Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
> the persona formerly known as Anahita

I didn't catch any of the 3D movies in the 70s, but I did see some of the 
ones in the 50s.  AFAIK, all of the 3D effects depend on the fact that the 
eye can not properly focus on both red and blue at the same time.  The new 
glasses have one lense tinted red while the other is tinted blue (I was able 
to ascertain that from colored lights on a clock in the theater), just like 
the old cellophane 3D glasses, but the optic qualities are far superior.  I 
think the new glasses use polarization to reduce or eliminate scattering 
effects and sharpen the image.

Bear