Trailer Analysis: Beowulf

Posted on July 26, 2007 by E
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So the big bad Beowulf trailer is online and apparently right on time to start a feeding frenzy around the San Diego Comic Con. Nicely played in terms of setup but not so nicely played in terms of execution.

Click here to view the trailer before reading my comments. Otherwise, proceed…

The ‘trailer’ if one must call it that looks like they cut together just enough to make it look like they actually had something. The picture doesn’t look finished, the Quicktime plays funnily and if this puppy is coming out on November 16 of this year…the animators and server farms must be working under actual whips right now with big bald men screaming at them to improve their render ratios.

There’s very little in the clip that we haven’t already seen before. Imagery like that on the bridge was generated in Night Watch (not using motion capture technology might I add) and really, how impressive is it to be able to fly a virtual camera through flames anymore?

They also still haven’t solved that creepy oral movement that made The Polar Express such a disturbing watch. Add to that the bizarre accent for Angelina Jolie’s character and I have to wonder whether this clip is more likely to provide the reverse effect to what happened for 300 and actually kill interest in it (who knows, perhaps it’s only me who’s uninterested in seeing virtual Angelina Jolie’s ass on the big screen).

I guess time and box office will tell but I see no point to this exercise right now other than to show Ray Winstone as a younger, fitter and better looking version of himself, which would make it the weirdest by-product yet of tens of millions of dollars spent in the movie making enterprise.

   

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One Response to “Trailer Analysis: Beowulf”

  1. Simon on July 26th, 2007 8:27 pm

    That looked horrible. I’ll stick with Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel.

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