Beowulf in IMAX Theatre at the Mall of Asia
The nearest real life experience that I can compare to watching a 3D film was on a boat in Palawan when there was a full moon and the glittering stars littered the sky. I don’t know the scientific explanation for the optical phenomenon that had me thinking that one step would have me enclosed in the embrace of darkness while blinded by the brilliant jewels of the night. It was just magical…
And so was watching my first 3D film on 22 November 2007 where stars of the company logo seemed to float past my shoulder to join its counterparts on the screen, or the feeling that one could just stretch out one’s hand to touch the images onscreen.
I must be one of the last people in the metropolis who haven’t watched a 3D film in the IMAX Theatre at the Mall of Asia so apologies to the people near me as I reacted verbally, under my breath, of course.
Kudos to the team in charge of Beowulf. Ray Winstone was just luminously drawn perfectly in every scene. My favorites were a tongue in cheek scene of a naked Beowulf striding towards a sword that covered his own metaphorical sword, and the dramatic dragon sequence.
My favorite motion capture or mo cap character, however, remains to be Andy Serkis as Smeagol/Gollum in the Peter Jackson films of The Lord of the Rings. Alright, to be technical about it, Smeagol/Gollum is a computer generated character, but the exceptional acting feat of Smeagol/Gollum is owed largely, in part, to the motion capture performance of Andy Serkis.
The magic of 3D, however, still can’t escape the demands of good storytelling so there was a portion of Beowulf where I actually dozed off, and I found myself frequently and impatiently wishing the scene would finish faster, which were precisely the same sentiments I had with Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar Express.
Robert Zemeckis, incidentally, is also the director of Beowulf.
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