The film version of Beowulf did the written epic justice. The movie stayed decently close to the real version and the over the top images of the monster and the fight scenes really added to the film. When I first watched the film, I was skeptical of the CGI. I wondered why they didn’t they have the human characters as real people and have the monsters as CGI. Other films, like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, have proved that it could be done right and look pretty realistic. As the film went on I started to get used to seeing the CGI and after a while I started to forget that it was even there. The CGI looked too real and your eyes get tricked into thinking its real people. The fight scenes must be over the top and dramatic, after all Beowulf is fighting sea monsters, demons and dragons. The scene with the dragon really benefitted from the CGI. The scene itself is so outrageous that if it was a real actor fighting his dragon son, then it would have looked foolish and fake. Since it was CGI we were able to see the fantasy and truly epic side of Beowulf.
