The Shrine

<div style='font: 14pt Draconwick, Modern; text-align: left; '>Good movie. Didn't start out as I expected it to though. I thought it was going to be a midevil knight movie where the main character kicks all ass. Kinda like Braveheart. It wasn't, and I like the way it was presented. I also like how the main character was not the "hero", it was someone else. Overall a good movie.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>If you liked that, go watch "Seven Samurais". A movie that spawned several Western, WWII and Sci-fi movies.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Did not like that movie very much. Kinda...blah.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>I loved that movie too, I remember back when it was in theatre, if a movie didn't turn out to be as good as we planned, sneak down the hall and into the 13th Warrior, it's a movie that's just plain fun to watch</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>One movie we didn't walk out of during that time period was Stigmata</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah I thought it would totally suck (judging from reviews, something I normally don't do), but I was wrong. It ain't no Oscar winner, but at the same time, it wasn't all THAT bad...</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Draconwick, Modern; text-align: left; '>I'm just giving my reveiw on it. Not as good as Braveheart, but you can't expect that.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Dissapointed me quite a bit. Did anyone else pick up that it was a retelling of Beowulf?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>I didn't say you thought it was bad. I was just saying what I expected judging from reviews and how I was suprised when it didn't suck as much as I thought it would...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Not I said the Ish...</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Draconwick, Modern; text-align: left; '>Hmmm... will have to take a look at Beowulf and see...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Beowulf? It didn't really have anything to do with Beowulf...the guys were Scandanavian, that's about it</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>That's "Seven Samurai" no plural S...and you're right : )</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I saw this in the theater when it came out. Two of my friends slept through it, the other two laughed at it, I thought that I had lost $3.50 . I guess that's why we haven't seen Antonio in any movies recently.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>The Story of the Movie is based on the book "Eaters of the Dead"</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Written by Michael Crichton, and he must have gotten inspiration from Beowulf.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The way they were drafted for the job is the first tip off—a king at a nearby land is being plauged by monsters and nearby tough guys help him out (wasn't he the hero a king in both the story and the movie?), holing themselves up in that... barn? house? castle? whatever it was, waiting the night for the monsters to come. Then there was going to the lair and slaying Grendel - I mean that evil woman.

The parallels are enormous. It's been a while since I've seen the movie or read the story, but I know for sure that 13th Warrior was based off of it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I suppose there are a few connections...I just couldn't remember the movie very well. Yeah, and after they kill the woman they have to fight her son, don't they? Sort of a reversal of the Grendel thing.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>There are more than a few connections. Do a search on google for "13th Warrior" and "Beowulf" to pop up a bunch of reviews, most of which mention it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Damn, even the king in the movie was named Hrothgar...didn't realize that</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>The other King (the Hero) is named something that rhymes with Beowulf as well, I forget the name though</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Eaters of the Dead is Michael Crichtons retelling of Beowulf as it could of happened in a real setting. In fact he tries to make the book seem as if it is real and based on new scientific evidence. It is in the afterword (sp?) that he tells you it is fake and based on Beowulf. Overall I really liked the movie.</div>