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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkwolf71" data-source="post: 3895909" data-attributes="member: 32433">Blood and violence is a joke in these times.You can see very nearly the same level on Prime Time Television as in Beowulf. Heroes has shown blood, bones, brains. 24 has violence enough to make any innocent cringe in abject terror. (Note, I watch and enjoy both of these shows.) The many versions of CSI can have crime scenes that can be compared to SAW.Now, Beowulf was indeed very violent but I'm not really surprised that it didn't get an R rating for that. No, what surprised me was how far they pushed the envelope with the nudity. The scene where Beowulf fights Grendal wasn't so much an action sequence, as it was an attempt to see how close they could come to showing man-parts without actually showing them and how often. It was, IMO, a slap in the face of the ratings board. Grendal's mothers nudity wasn't any better. Every curve, every muscular line was accented. Lack of nipples and genitalia is no 'free pass'. Or, it shouldn't be.Now, I'm no prude. I found the near-nudity of Beowulf to be humorous, if overdone. And the near-nude form of Jolie should be of interest to any man, but if I had kids... I wouldn't take a 13 year old to see that film. 15, maybe, 16 or 17 sure, whatever. But not 13 or younger.Anyway, good film. The CG was nice, but not superb. I did notice that the best, most 'real' shots seemed to be of Jolie's character in the close-ups of her face when she was barely moving. The fight scene with the dragon was absolutely amazing.</blockquote>

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