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

Movie was dope as fuck. Been a long time since I saw a movie that I enjoyed as much.
Is also nice to have a movie with a protagonist who is very rounded.
 
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I just came back from it and it kicked fucking ass. It's on par with the original Conan The Barbarian.
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That's a very, VERY high bar. Conan is absolute peak viking and philosophy kino. The intro alone, "the riddle of steel", Thulsa Doom, the epic soundtrack...


Conan's father believed that the answer to the Riddle of Steel was the sword, only in your sword can you trust. Thulsa Doom believed that the answer to the Riddle of Steel was flesh, the hand that wields the sword. The scene at the end of the movie where Conan is holding the severed head of Thulsa in one hand and his father's broken sword in the other showed them both to be wrong. The true answer to the Riddle of Steel was the unbreakable will of the warrior that commands both flesh and sword.
From beginning to end, a perfect movie.

Found a pretty good review, getting real hyped for this.

 
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Now one of my favorite Viking films, up there with Eric Fleisher's The Vikings


and Mario Bava's Erik the Conqueror


And the Icelandic-Swedish production When The Raven Flies, where a vengeful Irishman plays the bands of Vikings that slaughtered his village against each other

 
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On the one hand, I'm hopeful that Northman and Elden Ring are big bangers, but on the other that means the other movies/games are gonna be super shit afterwards. That said I'm satisfied by these two alone.

Tell the anime industry to man the fuck up and create something as equally good as these two.
 
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Commander X said:
Now one of my favorite Viking films, up there with Eric Fleisher's The Vikings


and Mario Bava's Erik the Conqueror


And the Icelandic-Swedish production When The Raven Flies, where a vengeful Icelandic man plays the now rival gangs of Vikings that slaughtered his village against each other

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Don't forget Valhalla Rising which is a Viking horror film.


WULULULULU said:
On the one hand, I'm hopeful that Northman and Elden Ring are big bangers, but on the other that means the other movies/games are gonna be super shit afterwards. That said I'm satisfied by these two alone.

Tell the anime industry to man the fuck up and create something as equally good as these two.
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Funny, there is one scene that reminded me of Elden Ring:

Our main character breaks into a tomb to get a magical sword and has to fight a corpse to get it. The only way to defeat the corpse was to knock it into the light which is a thing in a few crypts in Elden Ring where you have to lure enemies into the light in order to beat them.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Don't forget Valhalla Rising which is a Viking horror film.



Funny, there is one scene that reminded me of Elden Ring:

Our main character breaks into a tomb to get a magical sword and has to fight a corpse to get it. The only way to defeat the corpse was to knock it into the light which is a thing in a few crypts in Elden Ring where you have to lure enemies into the light in order to beat them.
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I really really disliked Vallhalla Rising as I found the movie to be a bore.
 
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Just saw the movie. I'm honestly tired of Viking/Norse stuff, but I still enjoyed it. It's brutal, at times surreal, and has some cool cinematography. I have never in my life been afraid of Nicole Kidman, but I was today.

And one particular scene reminded me of this
 
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So just got back from Viking Hamlet, it was pretty rad. The visuals were fucking amazing, my personal favorite being the Valkyrie riding to Valhalla. This was my first time going to the movies in years and I have to say I wasn't disappointed at all and felt like I got my money's worth. I wish more modern movies were made like this because the filmmakers clearly had a passion for this.

Be prepared to read about how racist a movie set in 893 A.D. Iceland is though for not having minorities in it.
 
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So just got back from Viking Hamlet, it was pretty rad. The visuals were fucking amazing, my personal favorite being the Valkyrie riding to Valhalla. This was my first time going to the movies in years and I have to say I wasn't disappointed at all and felt like I got my money's worth. I wish more modern movies were made like this because the filmmakers clearly had a passion for this.

Be prepared to read about how racist a movie set in 893 A.D. Iceland is though for not having minorities in it.
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No woke pandering either!! Sign me up I might as well go see it this week.


Edit: Woke critics are piss at the movie, I'm definitely going to see it.
 
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So I just saw this movie the other day, and I was overall pretty impressed.

To be honest, my initial reaction was one of slight disappointment, but that's only because I had unrealistically high expectations for this in hindsight due to being such a massive fan of The Lighthouse. The more I let it sit with me though and divorce myself from said unrealistically high expectations, the more I like it.

What I really admire is how Eggers refused to sugarcoat things or hold peoples' hands when it comes to the setting he's trying to recreate. He resisted the urge like so many films of this ilk to make the protagonist a bruiser with a secret heart of gold: instead, he totally commits to him being a rage-filled monster who isn't concerned with contemporary moral standards. Things like him taking part in raids where he and his fellow berserkers burn a house full of women and children and killing his mother and kid half-brother in cold blood simply wouldn't happen in a lesser film due to fears of alienating the audience. We also see this in how the film doesn't slow down to explain the various rituals and traditions that were part of Viking culture included in it, but rather trusts the audience to intuitively grasp what these are so that they may vicariously partake with the characters. The film does a great job of making the viewer feel immersed in the setting which it takes place in, and to me encapsulates one of the great things about the power of cinema, which is the ability to provide an singular audiovisual/narrative experience that transports us into a world that is not our own.

Also, I got my wish with regards to both the female leads, seeing as how we get some very sexually-charged scenes with both Kidman and Taylor-Joy. So consider me a happy camper.
 
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