Beowulf (again)
"It's never over with you," I think Jack said to Daniel in an episode; I don't remember which.
It's never over with me either, nor, apparently, Canada's Globe and Mail, which features this late-breaking review of Beowulf, complete with some suggestions for an encore for Robert Zemeckis, a few other classic works of literature and how he could update them. My one beef against the journalist is that he places all the blame on Robert Zemeckis, when Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary wasted parts of ten years of their lives on this mess, and Gaiman, at least, knows better. I should read Anansi Boys to get the bad taste out of my head. The review is funny, and worth reading, I think, even if you haven't seen the movie.
I still wish I hadn't seen the movie, but it may come in handy next time I teach the poem. At least this time I'll know where some of the bizarre stuff some student is sure to start spouting originated. (Note to self: still ought to watch Christopher Lambert's "techno-feudal version"; might have better laughs than the Gaiman-Avary effort.)
It's never over with me either, nor, apparently, Canada's Globe and Mail, which features this late-breaking review of Beowulf, complete with some suggestions for an encore for Robert Zemeckis, a few other classic works of literature and how he could update them. My one beef against the journalist is that he places all the blame on Robert Zemeckis, when Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary wasted parts of ten years of their lives on this mess, and Gaiman, at least, knows better. I should read Anansi Boys to get the bad taste out of my head. The review is funny, and worth reading, I think, even if you haven't seen the movie.
I still wish I hadn't seen the movie, but it may come in handy next time I teach the poem. At least this time I'll know where some of the bizarre stuff some student is sure to start spouting originated. (Note to self: still ought to watch Christopher Lambert's "techno-feudal version"; might have better laughs than the Gaiman-Avary effort.)