Well I think I've found some talented folks to help me out with my Coloring issues.
and a few others have volunteered to computerize my Avatar Fire Nation piece, as seen here, pdink.deviantart.com/art/Color… . I'm so excited that these fine artist took an interest in this, I'm freaking pleased as punch here. I look forward with baited breath at the greatness that will be born from these unions. Once they've finished the coloring I'll link and post to the finals and I just know it will kick much ass. Go by their pages and look around, both are talented and great people.First Collab ever…
As for new art from me, well don't hold your breath. November is a little busy, but I'm going to try and sit down a draw a bit. Right now the only time I have to draw is during lunch (and sometime a bit after lunch) at work. So we'll see.
I did make it out to the movies, for the first time in a little while and saw Beowulf, to follow is what I thought of the whole thing:
Beowulf is an epic adventure following the heroic acts of Beowulf voiced by Ray Winstone. Beowulf travels to a distant land, a land cursed by demons and death. He journeys there to kill the monstrous demon and have his song sung through out the ages (hay look it worked). The monster is Grendel, voiced by Crispin, he is the half demon son of a mysterious water demon, a demon of beauty, charms and tempting promises. Grendel terrorizes the land, killing and eating the townsmen and its up to Beowulf, Wiglaf and his band of Geats to stop him.
So yeah that's the plot, well at least what I can say with out giving away too much, now on to the reviewing. To start off, the action was pretty good, there's not a whole ton of it, but what's there is pretty great. Beowulf versus the sea monsters and Beowulf versus the dragon are some of the best CG battles I've seen, very edge of your seat kind'a stuff. Also landing in the plus column is the breath taking backgrounds, the landscapes and backdrops were all amazing. The only other plus I saw was Bredan Gleeson's Wiglaf, the only one to show any depth or heart in this film. And sadly that's about it for the pluses, sorry for all you out there.
As for the bad column, well let me just say this… go to the bathroom and get a sandwich, we're going to be here for a while. Let me start with the Plot, while the story is some 1,300 years old, it just didn't translate well into a feature film. And I'm for one am not surprised, being that this is the latest in a long line of BAD Beowulf adaptations, there has be a at least a dozen bad movies, two mad TV shows, a Cartoon series and a few other disasters, I think its about time we stop beating this particularly dead horse, it doesn't work now move on. The next point of crapiness is the CG and while the action and backgrounds and landscapes were all beautiful the rest of the movie was an animated turd. The characters were poorly rendered and plastic, not to mention laughably disproportioned. At parts I thought I was watching Skrek the third again and not what was billed as a cutting edge state of the art CG film. Do not even get me started on Grendel, he looked and acted like Golem's retarded half brother, it was generally laughable.
Next the dialog and voice acting left a lot to be desired, what of the voices you could hear and understand that is. Maybe it was just the theater I went to (and for those who have seen it let me know if you had the same problem) but the voices were hardly audible over the needless roaring of the background, it sounded awful. The actors and screen writing didn't really give us much to try to hear any way; the dialog was chewy and lacked passion or drive save for Beowulf and Wiglaf. The rest of the cast including and especially John Malkovich and Miss Jolie were pretty horid and Anthony Hopkins was wasted and failed to shine. So well that's about it.
Well I'll do my best to be fair in the final scoring on this one but I tell you this now it wont be merciful. So again Beowulf fails to bring epic magic to the big screen and proves once again that Beowulf should keep his Geat ass in poems and short stories. So weighing in all the crap, with the fleeting pluses I have no choice but to give this movie a 4.0 out of 10.0 pretty poor really. So if you have to get out of the house to see a movie then see No Country for Old Men, I hear its pretty damn good and it HAS to be better then Beowulf.
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