Monstrous

There have been a few teasing mentions of a movie version of ye olde legende of Beowulf coming out this fall. Evidently it is one of the computer graphics/live action mixtures, and features Angelina Jolie as Grendel's Dam. Now that is a scary proposition; look around, you'll find the trailer out there, showing Jolie slinking along in murky water in a cave, with a hint of reptilian tail dragging along behind. Well, as a kid, I used to like reading those comic book versions of the classics; I bet I would have been agog at a film version like this. No, probably I would have been hiding behind the couch, or running out of the room when the gore began to fly. Probably would do so today.
More my speed to meander through the back streets of 15th century Florence, observing a male protagonist rescue a vulnerable little contadina from the literal clutches of a conjurerer or a fake priest with a fake altar boy and a manic monkey. Those old time Florentines evidently liked pretty clunky practical jokes.