Grendel - SciFi Movie version of Beowolf

[YankeyMCC]

Anyone else watch this? Particularly anyone more familiar with the epic poem than I. I'm only passing familiar with the Beowolf epic. I read some version in school many many (never mind how many :) ) years ago.

The movie was overall pretty limp. They seemed to be making a decent effort within the confines of a TV movie to tell a faithful version of the story but they weren't very imaginative in the presentation. Yet at the same time the character dialog was horrible when they were just retelling the parts of the Beowolf poem.

Anyway, one - I guess technical detail would be the way to say it - that did seem very odd and out of place was a sort of super weapon used by Beowolf.

There was no such weapon in the poem was there?

[stuntcat]

1. totally missed it

Grendel (by John Gardner I think) was/is one of my favorite books, I'm always rootin' for the monster :D
Anyway it's been like a decade since I last read it, I'm sorry to miss the show