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Lets start this. I'm not sure yet what this will look like, but I'm looking at the suggested list of topics and themes. And today, I think I'll talk about: Scenes to Pin Up and Label "Like This"
Sooo… Let's talk about this little, tiny detail from my beloved Beowulf movie from 1999 with Christopher Lambert.
Is this a good movie? No, I'm afraid not. The setting is some weird post-apocalyptic, diesel-punk-ish, techno-soundtrack ladden and so much doesn't make sense. The dialogue is cheesy AF and the acting is either overdone or none-existent. It's perfect.
I found it half-way finished on telly one night and fell in love hard. However, I couldn't find it on DVD, Bluray or even streaming for months and one day, youtube showed me a review of a release by Retro Gold 63 and now I own it.
However, this post shall not be about me singing praises the praises of perfect trash movies. (That could be a good theme, actually. Me just squeeing about trash movies.) This is about one scene, or one tiny moment of a scene in Beowulf. Spoilers ahead.
This is after Grendel has been killed and his mother reveals herself. (Did I mention the bad CG already?)
I'm not quite sure which language this is. The movie seems to not be well known and I was happy to find this clip.
Grendel's mother transforms into some kind of scorpion monster and if you go to 1:40~ you see her tail popping out behind her, swishing over her head to pierce open the ribcage and finish the transformation. And this brief scene is, unironically and bad cgi aside, perfection. I seem to like my monster transformations to be on the somewhat painful or body-horrory side. Your whole body is changing, of course things need to break and tear.
Grendel's mother just using her scorpion tail to easily help her transformation, just makes so much sense for her character, too, it brings me great joy. [Unrelated, but I find similar joy in John Wick always making sure to finish with a headshot. Makes so much sense for his character, I get giddy about it. (I only ever saw the first movie, though.)]
So, yeah, one perfect moment in an otherwise… differently perfect movie. 🤣
Sooo… Let's talk about this little, tiny detail from my beloved Beowulf movie from 1999 with Christopher Lambert.
Is this a good movie? No, I'm afraid not. The setting is some weird post-apocalyptic, diesel-punk-ish, techno-soundtrack ladden and so much doesn't make sense. The dialogue is cheesy AF and the acting is either overdone or none-existent. It's perfect.
I found it half-way finished on telly one night and fell in love hard. However, I couldn't find it on DVD, Bluray or even streaming for months and one day, youtube showed me a review of a release by Retro Gold 63 and now I own it.
However, this post shall not be about me singing praises the praises of perfect trash movies. (That could be a good theme, actually. Me just squeeing about trash movies.) This is about one scene, or one tiny moment of a scene in Beowulf. Spoilers ahead.
This is after Grendel has been killed and his mother reveals herself. (Did I mention the bad CG already?)
I'm not quite sure which language this is. The movie seems to not be well known and I was happy to find this clip.
Grendel's mother transforms into some kind of scorpion monster and if you go to 1:40~ you see her tail popping out behind her, swishing over her head to pierce open the ribcage and finish the transformation. And this brief scene is, unironically and bad cgi aside, perfection. I seem to like my monster transformations to be on the somewhat painful or body-horrory side. Your whole body is changing, of course things need to break and tear.
Grendel's mother just using her scorpion tail to easily help her transformation, just makes so much sense for her character, too, it brings me great joy. [Unrelated, but I find similar joy in John Wick always making sure to finish with a headshot. Makes so much sense for his character, I get giddy about it. (I only ever saw the first movie, though.)]
So, yeah, one perfect moment in an otherwise… differently perfect movie. 🤣
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Date: 2025-01-05 17:55 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2025-01-05 18:45 (UTC)From:Lol
She did kill pretty much everyone who had survived Grendel's onslaughts before. So she had had a lot of fun.