“Beowulf” Trailer

I know it’s from us weekly but I agree that Brad is a sexy dad.
http://www.usmagazine.com/sexy_dads_slideshow

Brad Pitt - The Overnight Dad
Between the globetrotting and the humanitarian missions, this father-times-four makes time with his kids - Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 14 months - with Angelina Jolie. “He invents little games with them and loves taking them on walks, going to get ice cream. He spends every second with them,” an insider tells Us
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I’ve never thought he was sexy. he was good looking but never sexy. Now Johnny Depp is Sexy. Did he make the list?

Ok magazine is going full force lately.
They are doing a Tell-all Interview with Lindsey for their next issue!!!!!

215 Thank You : 07/27/2007 at 4:38 pm
201 T&L : 07/27/2007 at 4:18 pm
can someone post the video of the premiere of MAMS in Japan where you see Brad and Angelina flirting with each other. I haven’t seen that. Please and Thank You.
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Weird…it used to be on Youtube, but it doesn’t seem to be there anymore.
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http://angiejolie.free.fr/eng/smith.htm#videos

Click on this link and then open the video titled: Press conference Japan-EN0:04′59 - 11,1 Mo - WMV
source : Absolument Jolie

Thanks for the pictures and videos. Cute video -Preggy Jolie. It was cute and funny.

GOD BLESS US ALLLL.

GOD BLESSSS THE JOLIEEEEEEE PITTTTTTTTSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#229: bdj, I loved the books. Wouldn’t it be great if Brad could play the part of Quentin Collins, his cousin the werewolf?

They could trade by starring in each other’ production. However, Quentin is a bad guy and a bitter rival of Barnabas. Don’t know if Brad would like that.

230 Manon & 235 saraicita: Thank you very very much.

145 just saying : 07/27/2007 at 2:56 pm

This new thread is a BREATH OF FRESH AIR!! Not like the last thread!! Yeah, the last thread really SUCKED!! Well, anyway… WOW!! Angelina looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL and i cannot wait to see this movie!!

Hey guys, remember the “insider” that we have a couple of weeks ago (the one that was mad because Life and Style was stealing his information!!) Well, this fake insider said that Angelina was going to be in COMIC.CON and guess what?? Angelina was NOT in COMIC.CON!! This stupid fake “insiders” are worse than the dumb haters!! Yeah, this fake insiders are NOT fooling anyone; they are always lying!!
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Yeah. When I saw the news of the Comic.Con posted here I remembered what this “insider” had posted a few weeks ago. That they will split up after a Comic.Con Angie has to attend on early August and they are just waiting for it to announce it. But apparently the CC is already done and Angie wasn’t even there. She is on vacations with Brad and the kids.LMAO!!!

So let’s see what they will come up next.LOL!!

239 CMAR : 07/27/2007 at 6:16 pm

223 Re: tabliods : 07/27/2007 at 5:04 pm
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You are very correct in your observations. The thing is, perspective is everything and very often, those of us who are not americans, have front row seats to the dumbing down of america. It is not a pretty sight.

However, not too far from now, even those americans who are currently unable to see the writings on the wall, will have to wake up to the fact that we do not anymore live in a uni-polar world. Its gonna be a very rude awakening.

But to answer your question directly……..the tabloids will continue to succeed for as long as individuals are willing to blindly give-in to the corruption of their own conscience. There’s a population of a-moral people whom the tabloids have identified as their target audience………..people who are willing to accept that right is wrong and that wrong is right; that black is in fact, red and that blue is in fact yellow; etc. As long as they exist, tabloids will continue to have a market. Ce la vie.
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I second that.

Here is a report from someone who saw 20 minutes of this film.
I’m not a fan of violence movie but I will watch it because of Angie though Beowulf and Grendel are main charactors and Angie will seen only several minutes in this film.

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Quint has seen 20 minutes of BEOWULF in 3-D at Comic-Con! Holy Crap!!! How was it?!?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my impressions of reel 2 of BEOWULF in 3-D

They screened it tonight at the Horton Plaza… Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary presented it to a full theater tonight along with a longer, gorier trailer and the one that hit the net tonight.

You’ve seen the trailer. Imagine it in 3-D and you’ve seen what I’ve seen.

So, I’ll focus on the 20 minutes.

The story starts at the end of Beowulf’s fight with Grendel. I’m sure you’re familiar with the story (if you had to take English in high school, you had to read this), but if you don’t know it, then stop reading it here.

We get Beowulf doing a very primal yell of victory as he holds Grendel’s arm. The monster is trying to get out, but Beowulf screams out at him that he has been defeated by him, calling out his own name as he slams the door on the creature’s arm pit. Grendel’s arm falls to the ground, he howls in pain and slinks off into the snowy night.

Beowulf is butt-ass naked (he decides that this demon can’t be killed by any weapon made by man, so he strips of his armor and armory and fights him completely naked) as the hall calls out his victory.

This section had his genitalia being hidden like an AUSTIN POWERS scene. At one point it’s one of Grendel’s fingers in the extreme foreground, then it’s a helmet, a cup, etc. There was a split afterwards at to how campy this came off, but I thought it was a little distracting, but harmless. I realize they’re going for a PG-13 here and they can’t have Beowulf’s ******* waving around.

The King is awoken (Anthony Hopkins) and told the monster is defeated. At the same time, Grendel stumbles to a body of water where he meets his mother, a water demon, so even the shallow pool Grendel finds takes him to his mother (Angelina Jolie).

Now, this was by far my favorite part of this footage. You don’t see the water demon, nothing more than her hands, as she consoles her dying son. Crispin Glover as Grendel will be the master stroke in this film, I have no doubt. As he dies, he speaks to her… and it’s in this moment we get a piece of Glover’s work. The speech is in this weird half-Danish half-English dialogue. You get what he’s saying. He’s hurt. He’s dying. He takes comfort from his mother, who asks him calmly who did it. He utters an incomprehensible sentence before capping it with “Beowulf,” and then finally slumping, eyes dead.

Let’s talk about Grendel. He’s lumpy, cancerous. He’s obviously mutated. Very fleshy, disproportionate. I visited the production offices a while back and described this design. I love it. His face is mutated so badly his jaw is exposed, teeth sticking out. Yet, in his final moments he didn’t look unkind in a weird way.

Back to the grand hall, Beowulf is congratulated and given treasures.

If you go back and read my set visit report, you’ll see they let me shoot a scene and it was during this moment. I can’t be positive… but I swear to God one of my pieces of framing made it into the film.

The process had a digital world I could walk around with, monitors showing my progress in this world roughly animated. The King (Hopkins) gives a speech and gestures to Grendel’s arm mounted in the Hall. I shot this low, with Hopkins on the extreme right side of the frame, arm outstretched and Grendel’s limb fitting perfectly above his arm, next to his shoulder.

Now, the rest of this scene was nothing like I shot it, but I’m going to pretend that was my shot. Hehe

This sequence gave us good looks at Ray Winstone as Beowulf (doesn’t look a goddamn thing like him), Brendan Gleeson, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich and Robin Wright-Penn.

Another good moment is a nightmare Beowulf has as he’s visited by the vengeful demon mother who wants a child to replace the one taken from her. She appears to Beowulf as the Queen (Wright-Penn) and when he doesn’t take to her advances, a part of her demon being shows through and attacks. He awakes, screaming, to find that it was a nightmare. But then he sees that the bodies of the rest of the men in the hall… maybe 20 or 30… are strung up in the rafters. Pretty fucked up and gory.

He gets the story from the King, finds out about the Demon mother. Beowulf flips. “How many do I have to kill? Who’s next? The demon father, the demon brother, the demon aunt,” etc. Hopkins pretty much says that he has nothing to worry about from the demon’s father (insinuating it was he himself who sired Grendel) and Beowulf and Wiglaf (Gleeson) go in search for the monster.

This was a pretty beautiful scene as Beowulf along investigates a deep, magical cave. He’s slowly stalked by the demon mother until she reveals herself. When she appears to him, she slowly walks out of the water a naked Angelina Jolie. Liquid gold moves over her body, revealing all by the nipples and cootch (again, thank you PG-13). She seduces Beowulf, literally stroking his sword until it dissolves into a gooey puddle (nice imagery, yeah?), promises him his own kingdom, riches, fame… all he has to do sire her a child.

The animation didn’t look completely finished to me. It was a little inconsistent. For instance, Robin Wright-Penn never quite looked right to me. She was the most “video game cut scene” looking of the characters. I don’t know if it was just because he has such a detailed, brilliant face, but Hopkins was by far the best looking of the group.

For those worried about the eyes being dead, like in POLAR EXPRESS, then you have nothing to worry about. What is left is a little stiffness to the movements and some troubled mouth movements. Now, none of them are huge deals, but when you watch this movie you’re going to be so amazed at what they achieved for most of it, that any little thing that can break that illusion will stand out to you.

On the whole, it was beautiful. It might not be life-changing… but who knows? I’ll need to see it in context, but my major worry wasn’t the animation, design or color palate, but if the acting was going to feel stagey, since that’s how they shot the performance capture.

I guess I needn’t have been worried with such great actors, but even good actors can lose focus. Here, though, everybody was amazing. Like I said, I can’t wait to see more Crispin Glover as Grendel. So amazing.

The 3-D was well done. Again, not in your face, but giving everything a greater depth.

That’s it for my thoughts on the screening. Be back with more Con stuff… keep an eye peeled.

-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com

244 konnitiwa
Thanks. That was a very descriptive report. He wrote a very exciting, detailed account of the 20 minutes.

145 just saying
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That is right!! the fake “insider” was saying that Brad was going to dumb Angelina after Angelina appeared in the Comic.Con promoting Beowulf!! So now that this Comic.Con event is over and Brad and Angelina are together… i wonder what next LIE this Maniston’s fans are going to say pretending to be “insiders”!! this Haters are really PATHETIC!!

#237: I’m bummed. I never saw the series but I did read some of the books. They had the guy that plays him on TV on the covers of the book
and although he was scrawny and dark as a vampire, didn’t think he was all that goodlooking. Thought Frank Langella made a better vampire (but what do I know? at the time I didn’t foresee Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, along with Antonio Banderas would come along one day. Nor Gary Oldman for that matter).

Now that Johnny Depp would make a fantastic bloodsucker. He already has the gaunt and eerie look down pat.