Beowulf

Today Jake and I managed to drop the whiny munchkin off at her grandparents’ house for the afternoon and go be grownups without a kid in tow. We really just grabbed a Starbuck’s and got Jake’s hair cut. We were a bit pressed for time but we really wanted to see a movie. So we went to the theater to see what was playing at what time and how long. At that point we didn’t care WHAT we saw, we just wanted to see something. So we ended up seeing Beowulf.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty good. I don’t remember the details of the story from reading it in high school, just enough to know that if you referred to someone as Grendel’s mother, that was a really bad thing. So I can’t say if the movie was true to the story or if creative license was taken. But I can say that it was really exciting. The animation was really cool, although I don’t understand why they chose to do it.

So yeah, there are a few things I wish we had been able to see instead but it was still very cool to sit in a theater and watch a movie and munch popcorn, like we used to do before we were parents. Not that there was life before parenthood. Was there? I can barely remember….

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