Si.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Thank you kindly, mi amigo!

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*promote

Thank you kindly, mi amigo!

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*promote

Wait, a 9.99999 out of 10? Then how can you call it a God-awful piece of shit?

I personally enjoyed the CGI. To me, it was a guy's movie through and through. It had scantily clad women, it had gore and violence, it had well thought out action sequences (come on, that ending with the golden dragon was awesome.)! The CGI made it into a near photo realistic cartoon, and being a hardcore fan of comic books and anime from yesteryear, I was glad I didn't have to watch another "actor superimposed over CGI background" movie like, say, Phantom Menace.

And Malcovich's character was a Contagonist (embodies obstruction, envy), which is an important part of story structure, especially when dealing with archetypal characters which Beowulf most certainly does. Some believe the story of Beowulf to be a Christ allegory, which can also be said to be a monomythic Hero's Journey. Malkovich's character, Unferth, is jealous of Beowulf, because Unferth is unable to slay the Grendel. Hardly a puny role.

The "I am Beowulf" line is probably played out a bit because it sounds very reminiscent of the 300's "This is Sparta!" line which we've heard a zillion times now. I will concede this is unfortunate, and it also bothers me a bit, too. Still...

I AM BLANKFIST!

And well done at that.

I like that commercials are picking up on the internet memes. Can anyone think of the next thing they're gonna jump on? Ron Paul, Sparta?

Someone should dub "This. Is. Sparta!" at the -1:49/2:35 mark.

Upvote for "Madness, not sparta"

this is sparta? What?

No but seriously that's what it sounded like that guy was about to yell, lol.

Still, interesting/fun concept. I'm a sucker for bio-armageddon movies.

I downvoted the "don't feed the trolls" comment because it's naively out of place in this thread. This thread has featured some of the most level-headed and intelligent comments from all three sides of the issue I've seen in ages, on the sift, and in general. And anyone who's been at the Sift any time knows that I don't dispense praise towards q-shroom lightly, but his points were ultimately well made and I'm rather ashamed of the amount of downvotes his initial comment received.

I've experienced and witnessed all sorts of prejudice, and it all sucks hard.


"What is the difference between a civil union and a marriage?"

Funny, I was thinking of mentioning that in Polish, a marriage is a marriage, a "Ślub". The legal "civil marriage" is a "Ślub cywilny".

Run a google search on 
46;lub koscielny (Church Marriage), however, and the links plummet - because adding anything else to "Ślub" is pointless because it's ASSUMED in that Polish society that you're referring to the church service if you're not qualifying it with the "civil/civilian" adjective.

This theory holds true if you swap out "marriage" for "wedding" and conjugate the words appropriately.

So what's the point of my Polish linguistics lesson? Consider the rest of the world where reducing a wedding to some abstract contract rather than a holy union blessed by God is like talking about a recipe for baked goods that does not reference any food whatsoever in its ingredients list. It's madness.

[The truly clever punster/geek will now somehow elegantly append "Sparta" to that last paragraph... and then make some reference to the way those boys swung both ways.]


"I am so tired of christians acting like they have it so tough. America is 70% christian. SEVENTY PERCENT!!!! Not only is whining like this becoming annoying but it's becoming dangerous for the rest of us. "

Yeah, are they really real' Christians. And by that I mean "love your neighbour types". The crazy nutjobs who claim to pray daily but then bomb the poor and execute minorities by the busload don't count in my books.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cats, horse, dog, hovercat, helicat, funny, sparta, monorail cat' to 'cats, horse, dog, hovercat, helicat, funny, sparta, monorail cat, lol cats' - edited by swampgirl

Insane?

THIS IS SPARTA!

u guys are all crazy. i must be the only one on the interbutts that still finds this is sparta stuff hilarious. i particularly liked the dragonballz reference. "9000?"

I'm pretty certain I saw the same exact Sparta remix video on vidsift before... just with different images

I'm calling dupe. It's not exactly the same.. but it has pretty much all the same stuff:
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-Is-Sparta-Techno-Remix

Are you encouraging sober sifting, MarineGun? For shame. I'm with swampgirl, except I'm drinking Bushmill's. It's still whiskey, so it's good enough for government work.

And I like it, ringo. It's one comprehensive video that brings closure to the whole 'This is SPARTA!' meme. That by itself is worth an upvote.

Hey, I know..but it was Sat I just looked at what I sifted last night

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Now, now, SG...
We all know that booze and sifting don't mix.. Tsk tsk tsk.