13th Warrior, a film from the novel by Michael Crieton had authentic visuals, but horse riding neandertals ruined it for me. Beowulf & Grendal Filmed in Iceland with Gerard Butler as Beowulf was nice visualy but did not include the whole story, hence missing the subtext & adding subtext that was never intended in the original. The most recent BEOWULF kept all 3 conflicts was visually stunning, but Angelina Jolie as Gendel's sexy mother was just too over the top, again adding subtext where no such thing was intended in the original poem. I wanted to barf. Nobody in Hollywood ( except the art directors) quite understands that the original is an elegy about the nature of story telling as a commmunity bonding activinty from the perspective of nostalgia over heroic honor codes & the wistful christian author's backward look at his fading ancestor's values, pagan to be sure, but some of them still worth identifying with. Namely, Only a man's reputation that he leaves behind matters & the community can only be a community when everyone is on the same page about social values & sharing the same sense of unity through story telling. It should have been done in Anglo-Saxon with subtitles, a narrative overlay framing the story by a scop " Whaet we gardena , in geardagum,Oft Scyld Scefing" etc. , & no screwing around with plot & the "digressions" which are essential to the themeatic structure. Why aren't there more literary scholars consulting on films? The REAL Beowuld has yet to be made into a film.