Gladiator

Happened to catch the Ridley Scott film again the other day.  Really a well-made film, despite its historical inaccuracies.  I'm realizing that he has made some excellent films, including Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down, The Duelists, and so on.  Just a very well-made film, with good acting from Russel Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.

Beowulf

The Robert Zemeckis film, based on one of the oldest stories in English literature.   Screenplay, I noticed, credited Neil Gaiman of Sandman fame.

I found the whole motion-capture computer animation thing to be a bit disconcerting.  Like it wasn't real, even the mundane parts with no special effects.

The dragon was good, I have to admit...and Angelina Jolie was very good as Grendel's mother.  But overall not much better than the somewhat more low-budget "Beowulf and Grendel".