Beowulf v. LotR by way of Salon.com

I like a lot of the writing at Salon.com. They's gots their funny hats on over there when they're not try to burden us with the guilt of our greedy, destructive, Americano ways. Check out this essay.

Here's a blip:

Nov. 20, 2007 | Robert Zemeckis' new film "Beowulf" gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "the sublime and the ridiculous." Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a 3-D Disneyland ride so cheesy he should have called it "Anglo-Saxons of the Caribbean."