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Hwaet a Movie - Episode 3 - Beowulf and Grendel
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It's time for the third installment of our side project known as Hwaet a Movie! In this episode, we give the Saga Thing treatment to the 2005 Canadian-Icelandic film Beowulf and Grendel. If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor and watch it (even if our review might not cast it in the brightest light). The film stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, and Sarah Polley as Selma the witch. Don't worry if one of those characters doesn't sound familiar. And while the film could be better in a number of ways, we do appreciate much of what they were attempting here.
As an added bonus, the film was shot in Iceland. That means that no matter what's happening at the front of a scene, there's always a beautiful backdrop for this interesting interpretation of the epic Old English poem about a monster-fighting Geat in Denmark.
Each Hwaet a Movie episode includes an exhaustive summary and discussion, a brief Q&A, and then our final ratings categories for the film's take on Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's mother. We conclude by rating the film for its faithfulness to the source material and then for its entertainment value.
This one takes a while to get through, but that's because this one offers a lot of grist for the mill.
We'll be back after Valla-Ljot's Saga with the next installment of Hwaet a Movie. And don't worry, we've only scratched the surface of Beowulf movies so far.
195 episodes
Manage episode 432524131 series 3368735
It's time for the third installment of our side project known as Hwaet a Movie! In this episode, we give the Saga Thing treatment to the 2005 Canadian-Icelandic film Beowulf and Grendel. If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor and watch it (even if our review might not cast it in the brightest light). The film stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, and Sarah Polley as Selma the witch. Don't worry if one of those characters doesn't sound familiar. And while the film could be better in a number of ways, we do appreciate much of what they were attempting here.
As an added bonus, the film was shot in Iceland. That means that no matter what's happening at the front of a scene, there's always a beautiful backdrop for this interesting interpretation of the epic Old English poem about a monster-fighting Geat in Denmark.
Each Hwaet a Movie episode includes an exhaustive summary and discussion, a brief Q&A, and then our final ratings categories for the film's take on Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's mother. We conclude by rating the film for its faithfulness to the source material and then for its entertainment value.
This one takes a while to get through, but that's because this one offers a lot of grist for the mill.
We'll be back after Valla-Ljot's Saga with the next installment of Hwaet a Movie. And don't worry, we've only scratched the surface of Beowulf movies so far.
195 episodes
Tous les épisodes
×1 Holiday Special (2025): Egil's Yuletide Carol 37:52
1 Hwaet a Movie - Episode 5 - Beowulf: Prince of the Geats (2007) 2:17:50
1 Saga Short 13 - The First Tale of Halldor Snorrason 1:23:42
1 Hwaet a Movie 4 - Grendel (2007) 2:08:33
1 Episode 39c - Valla-Ljot's Saga (Judgments) 1:35:00
1 Episode 39b - Valla-Ljot's Saga (chapters 6-9) 1:29:06
1 Episode 39a - Valla-Ljot's Saga (chapters 1-5) 1:35:46
1 Hwaet a Movie - Episode 3 - Beowulf and Grendel 2:03:32
1 Saga Short 12 - The Tale of Thorleif Earl's Poet 1:42:03
1 Saga Brief 26 - The Post-Classical or Rogue Sagas: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Merkelbach 1:18:29
1 Episode 38h - Svarfdaela Saga (Judgments) 1:39:15
1 Episode 38g - Svarfdaela Saga (chapters 22-27) 1:39:00
1 Episode 38f - Svarfdaela Saga (chapters 18-21) 1:26:15
1 Episode 38e - Svarfdaela Saga (chapters 14b-17) 1:30:22
1 Episode 38d - Svarfdaela Saga (chapters 10-14a) 1:12:43
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