What has been lost has been found...

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Shiloh's acting strange. When I got in the car to go look for her, she bounded into sight out of nowhere and readily got into the car. When I parked the car - seeing as there was nowhere to go to have to look for her - I tell you the dog threw a hissy fit, as if I had deprived her of some great joy (which, I suppose, I did, because Shiloh does enjoy riding in the van.

Galina and I watched Beowulf this evening, and if that's the future of movies, you can have it and them. Sure, the CGI is probably a zillion times better than whatever I could imagine, but there massively being something not right with very nearly everyone's movements and facial expressions more than overcame those effects - and I would go further and specify those necessary effects - that could not, but for computers, be rendered.

I also wasn't terribly thrilled by the "updating" of the story line to depict a tribe of beings with feet of clay, but hey, that's Hollyweird for you. What puzzles me, though - and here, I'm not confining my remarks to just this movie - is how everyone revels in being so "cutting edge," when all they're saying and showing is basically the same tired old thing over and over.

Cheers...

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I thought, in some ways, it was worse than the things Ray Harryhausen used to do with modeling clay. Because that was all about the best that he could do with what he had, in order to make the story better--and this was "WOW! We have CGI to play with! Let's use it for everything." I've gotten into Asian historical/pseudohistorical television dramas and movies, and even they, a group of directors who love effect for effect's sake, known when to use CGI with a light hand. Except for Tsui Hark, but he knows not the word "moderation" in any language.