Video games sure have gotten better graphics since the days when I played Legend of Zelda on my 8-bit Nintendo. The trailer for the new Harry Potter video game made me want to run out and buy the game and a system to play it on. While movies make great video games, do I really want to see a movie that looks like it should come with a game controller?

Beowulf, the new movie from director Robert Zemeckis, is completely animated and it looks like a video game. Zemeckis is known for his work with special effects and animation (The Polar Express, Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Contact), but this time he may have gone too far. It’s obvious that Angelina Jolie is in the movie, but can you spot John Malkovich? Animation this realistic works in video games and in children’s movies such as The Polar Express, but here it is just too jarring. Plus, does anyone really want to see a movie based on a book that no one bothered reading in high school? SKIP IT.

Beowulf is not yet rated and opens on November 16. (official site)

I can’t quite figure this movie out. Certainly Daniel Pearl’s death was an awful event, but with all of the horrific events that have happened over the past few years, why is this the one that’s getting made into a movie? And why did Angelina Jolie decide to star in it?

I actually think that Angelina’s a rather shrewd woman, so I don’t think she’d sign on if there wasn’t something about the script that suggested it would be a better movie than the premise implies. Which is perhaps that’s the only reason that I’m willing to RENT IT. We’ll see if Angelina was right or not.

A Mighty Heart is not yet rated and opens June 22. (Official Site)