Disabled Congo Musicians Strike A Chord

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Day 61 of 365 (Year Two)

So I finally got to see Beowulf. It was a decent flick. I wasn’t blown away by it though. In true Hollywood fashion they changed the story a bit, but all in all it was pretty much like I remembered it from way back in High School. What bothered me the most was the fact that they did the movie entirely with digital effects and digitized actors. For the entire length of the movie I felt like I was watching a segue short between two chapters of a RPG video game. The characters where digitized yet still looked like the real actors. So why digitize them at all? The "special effects" weren’t anything I haven’t seen in a movie before so again, why digitize it at all? With movies like The Trilogy of the Rings, Stardust, 300 and others, why did they feel the need to make a fully digitized film? I just couldn’t help feeling that it would have been so much better had they used live actors and a mix of digitized and real effects. I guess the reason they did it was because they could. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the best reason to do anything!

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