Monthly Archives: November 2007

I am BEOWULF!

Beowulf
Running time 1 hour and 53 minutes

Rating: ★★★½☆

I am ripper. Tearer. Slasher. Teeth in the darkness. I am Beowulf! I saw Beowulf last night with my friend Becca, so here’s a simple review of the movie. This review may contain spoilers.

For those who do not know the basic plot is about Beowulf, who must defeat a monster by the name of Grendel who is terrorizing a town. After that he must also rid the area of Grendel’s mother who seeks out revenge. Of course there’s a bit more to the story, but that’s the basic gist of it. The movie is based off a story that tormented students in their English class, which honestly I don’t remember every detail of the original story.

Visually since the movie is done in CGI it’s amazing, breath taking back grounds that will leave the viewer in awe. Some sorts look a little awkward at times, especially when it comes to some of the characters but beyond that visually the film is amazing. Personally I think it would have been much better with real people, but oh well. Angelina Jolie herself made a comment about her CGI-character self basically stating even she doesn’t look that good (her character is naked with some massive boobs that look very odd).

Storyline wise the movie starts out kinda eh, Grendel’s screaming in the beginning of the film had myself and other audience members laughing. You’d have to hear it for yourself to understand. Anyways, the story picks up a lot more towards the end of the film and becomes a lot more interesting.

Overrall Beowulf is a nice PG-13 film but contains a lot of gore, but beyond that it’s a good film. There’s even a 3D version where you wear 3D glasses and watch the film … after seeing the regular version I can not imagine how freaky it would be to see the 3D version. I give the movie 3 1/2 stars out of 5, it wasn’t bad but could have been a lot better.


Hello, Target.

I started my job at Target on the 22nd of October, and so far so good! I trained for over a week and last night was officially my first day on my own (although Friday and Saturday people called out so I was pretty much on my own anyways). Job isn’t hard at all, I basically get assigned a section in the store (I am hardlines, so that’s like toys, electronics, etc. all hard flooring areas) and I put stuff back on the shelves and just generally make sure the area looks nice. And of course I also help customers find things and what not, which is a pain so far since I am not sure where everything is.

Everyone I work with is very nice and helpful, so woot. My only complaint is having to work so many days in a row, since I am full time student. This schedule I am working Friday-Monday (I am glad today is Monday, I am so tired!) and next week I work Friday-Tuesday! Thankfully some days I don’t go in until 4, which is nice but every night I close (Target closes at 10 on everyday but Sunday which is at 9), but we still have clean the store even after so I may not leave until 10:30 or 11 or so. I am also hoping to get some random weekend off soon so I can go home and visit my family, it’s been months and I miss my dog lol. Bright side of it all? I finally have a job and of course since it’s the holidays I can now buy nice presents! My sister and I talked about getting our mother a nice digital camera (she still uses film), and my sister is so awesome she told me she’ll pay for the whole thing since she knows I am a college student. But I am going to show our mother how to use it, buy her a case for it, and a memory card + if we get it at Target I get to use my discount!

Class is starting in about 5 minutes so I suppose I should pay attention eh? I am so ready for Thanksgiving break though, at least we get Monday off!. How was everyone’s Halloween? I didn’t do anything, but my friend and I ordered a pizza so that was fun haha.