The Northman - Viking revenge flick from the director of ‘The VVitch’ and ‘The Lighthouse’

It's like someone in Hollywood has decided that they want to release movies that are popular and can turn a profit again after being coerced into making woke propaganda for the better part of a decade.

I really want this to signal a trend, and I'm cautiously optimistic that it does. It started slowly and carefully with Joker and The Mandalorian, and the amount of genuinely entertaining, non-woke media being released seems to have been steadily increasing since 2019 and especially since late 2021 with stuff like Dune, Arcane, Netflix refusing to ditch Dave Chappelle despite the insane Twitter backlash, and now this.

I like to think that producers and publishers are slowly understanding that while Twitter is loud, volume is all they have. They have no interest in the IPs they ruin and certainly have no purchasing power so there's no use catering to them.
 
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Hathungor said:
It's like someone in Hollywood has decided that they want to release movies that are popular and can turn a profit again after being coerced into making woke propaganda for the better part of a decade.

I really want this to signal a trend, and I'm cautiously optimistic that it does. It started slowly and carefully with Joker and The Mandalorian, and the amount of genuinely entertaining, non-woke media being released seems to have been steadily increasing since 2019 and especially since late 2021 with stuff like Dune, Arcane, Netflix refusing to ditch Dave Chappelle despite the insane Twitter backlash, and now this.

I like to think that producers and publishers are slowly understanding that while Twitter is loud, volume is all they have. They have no interest in the IPs they ruin and certainly have no purchasing power so there's no use catering to them.
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I do think the tide is turning, a new decade always brings changes and the novelty of Woke is wearing off.

Especially in the case of Spider-Man making a shitload of money without any forced Wokeness I feel is sure to be making studios envious and wondering why they were even bothering with Woke to begin with.
 
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Hathungor said:
It started slowly and carefully with Joker and The Mandalorian,
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What the fuck have you been smoking? Both of these properties suck. Joker only coasts by on the pearl clutchings of journoscum, being itself a shitty fucking movie with its only saving grace being the backdrop of 1970s New York.

The Mandalorian... Just because it's the best of Disney Star Wars garbage doesn't make it any less garbage in of itself.
 
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Comicsgeist said:
Eggers makes kino not consoomer product so he probably flies beneath the radar of the coom brained twitterati, none of his shit comes accompanied by an action figure line so it's not worth caring about to their minds.
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Yeah this is not big enough to get noticed yet, but just wait until it hits cinemas. If it ends up demolishing a bunch of "progressive" movies at the box office the screeching will be deafening. Eggers' last 2 films were instant classics among film enthusiasts but comparatively tiny both in scope and returns.
The Witch had a 4 million production cost and 40 million box office, The Lighthouse cost 11 million and earned only 18.3. The woke propagandists don't care about art, only about visibility.

Prepare plenty of popcorn, both for the movie and for what it may trigger.
 
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I've been looking forward to this ever since it was announced. Glad we finally got some more details and a trailer. This poster looks dope too. View attachment 2816608
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Seriously, Vikings are this decade's Romans. Or zombies, pick your over-saturated trope-overdosed symbolic group.

As one with Swedish ancestry I didn't mind too much when shows like 'Vikings', and the odd kick-ass Beowulf adaptation and the above-mentioned 13th warrior were portraying the era, but with the rise of first the 'arty' Norse movies like Midsommar and like that one where the kid becomes an avatar of Thor and now this, I am sensing a flood of herring-eating mead-swilling nun-raping pseudo-vikings will be rampaging the media for the next 10 years or so.
 
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Hathungor said:
It's like someone in Hollywood has decided that they want to release movies that are popular and can turn a profit again after being coerced into making woke propaganda for the better part of a decade.

I really want this to signal a trend, and I'm cautiously optimistic that it does. It started slowly and carefully with Joker and The Mandalorian, and the amount of genuinely entertaining, non-woke media being released seems to have been steadily increasing since 2019 and especially since late 2021 with stuff like Dune, Arcane, Netflix refusing to ditch Dave Chappelle despite the insane Twitter backlash, and now this.

I like to think that producers and publishers are slowly understanding that while Twitter is loud, volume is all they have. They have no interest in the IPs they ruin and certainly have no purchasing power so there's no use catering to them.
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Hathungor said:
Yeah this is not big enough to get noticed yet, but just wait until it hits cinemas. If it ends up demolishing a bunch of "progressive" movies at the box office the screeching will be deafening. Eggers' last 2 films were instant classics among film enthusiasts but comparatively tiny both in scope and returns.
The Witch had a 4 million production cost and 40 million box office, The Lighthouse cost 11 million and earned only 18.3. The woke propagandists don't care about art, only about visibility.

Prepare plenty of popcorn, both for the movie and for what it may trigger.
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Hathungor said:
You have no idea how much I'd love to not constantly do this because it's exhausting. But the last 8 years have taken a toll.
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Oh I agree that it sucks ass how politicized media has become. Especially with how many reviewers (*cough*MovieBob*cough*) shit up their reviews with impotent politisperging, Personally, I try not to engage with it and focus on the film itself. It's much more satisfying and doesn't give me an aneurysm.
 
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It looks great so far, and I was surprised to hear that Bjork is in it. I thought she gave up acting after working with Lars Von Trier. Even for those that didn't care for the director's previous works, this looks like a movie you can enjoy without being into arthouse flicks. Vikings mixed in with a revenge film sounds like an intriguing genre combination.
 
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