Oct 9 2007More Terrifying, Not-Quite-Real 'Beowulf' Images
I can't wait until directors tire of this realistic CGI craze (as seen in Polar Express, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, and now Beowulf), because it's getting really disturbing to look at these soulless, not-quite-real effigies moving all-too-fluidly around the screen. Case-in-point, this new image of Grendel from Beowulf, though essentially a computer's rendering of an adult Pig-Pen, will haunt me for days.
New Beowulf Images [Empire]
Reader Comments
1. Uncle Eccoli - October 9, 2007 1:24 PM
Hwaet! This is not at all how I've pictured Grendel.
2. Lisa - October 9, 2007 2:22 PM
I'm with Uncle on this one.. I expected Grendel to be scary, and this guys looks like a more motile version of the rock monsters in The Neverending Story.
3. Kyle - October 9, 2007 2:41 PM
I think he looks like Vincent Gallo.
4. Saladtosser 75 - October 9, 2007 3:05 PM
It looks like he's made of Spaghetti-O's, with meatball eyes!
5. Caligula - October 9, 2007 3:09 PM
Grendel looks like Pizza The Hut right before he finished eating himself to death.
6. Chad - October 9, 2007 3:19 PM
Google "Uncanny Valley." It's the name of the hypothesis proposed by Japanese robotocist, Masahiro Mori, which gives a possble explanation for why this type of realistic CGI animation is creepy, while more cartoony CGI isn't.
7. Grace - October 9, 2007 3:40 PM
I'm just sick of all these people making movies of Beowulf, and they're not even following the storyline! The movie that came closes, I'm sorry to say, is Beowulf starring Christopher Lambert, in which a creepy goo monster is attacking an industrial hanger in the future. There's a lot of flipping and swords with handlebars attached, it's very poetic. This just looks like another crapfest with a lot of big name actors.
8. TD - October 9, 2007 6:26 PM
That picture of Grendel is about 4 or 5 stops overexposed. It doesn't look like that in the movie.
9. proteon - October 9, 2007 7:04 PM
Can anything really be described as a "craze" when the only four examples cover a good seven years? Jesus Vince CGI isn't fuckin new man.
10. ElleDriver - October 10, 2007 3:09 PM
Bert, sculpted entirely out of vomit?