Pros: Has some of the most trippy and awesome cinematography on the big screen. Bjork's small appearance being one of the best moments. The sound design is absolutely astonishing. See it in a screen with the best sound tech as possible. It's exactly what you'd expect from Eggers.
Cons: It's completely style over substance. The story doesn't really go beyond what you see in the trailer with "I will avenge you father..."
The tagline "This generation's Gladiator" is a load of shite. It's nothing like Gladiator.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0Cons: It's completely style over substance. The story doesn't really go beyond what you see in the trailer with "I will avenge you father..."
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
The tagline "This generation's Gladiator" is a load of shite. It's nothing like Gladiator.
I really enjoyed this, but I also set my expectations up way too high as it wasn’t as epic as I had envisioned it would be. 8.5/10 (I had 11 in my head going in)
Set, costumes, weapons, gear, buildings, and ships where top notch; they felt authentic. Those aspects coupled with Eggers style of using a single camera and close up shots for an entire scene puts you in the time period, also feels like you’re watching a much older film at times, which works considering the settings of his films. That first battle/raid is pure visceral brutality, loved it.
The heavy-handed use of mystic and supernatural elements was at the same time cool to look at, but took away from the story at times. Some of these scenes worked, some didn't, imo. I didn’t mind the extreme singular nature of the plot, this is straight up a revenge film and doesn’t pretend to be anything else.
As Jaden noted, this is an Eggers film, you should expect everything you see. I will be watching this a second time.
The setting only felt authentic because popular culture has made the vikings seems like something they never were. Shadiversity addressed a lot of the misconceptions about Viking history when Assassin's Creed Valhalla came out. Particularly the rubbish about Scandinavia being a frozen wasteland when it was actually warmer than it is now during the Viking period. That they never wore furs pointed out the way. That the stereotypical view of the berserkers being howling madmen with bear skins over their heads...None of it was historically accurate.
Hopefully he'll do a video on The Northman as well.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
The setting only felt authentic because popular culture has made the vikings seems like something they never were. Shadiversity addressed a lot of the misconceptions about Viking history when Assassin's Creed Valhalla came out. Particularly the rubbish about Scandinavia being a frozen wasteland when it was actually warmer than it is now during the Viking period. That they never wore furs pointed out the way. That the stereotypical view of the berserkers being howling madmen with bear skins over their heads...None of it was historically accurate.Hopefully he'll do a video on The Northman as well.
Uh, yeah it’s an action movie so…whatevs. 😛
Actually, considering all the historical inaccuracies in Gladiator, maybe the tag line for Northman was right after all. 😆
She does a good role and she's lovely to look at. She's a good actress.
He speaks mostly English with a mild accent and then some Scandinavian/Germanic sounding language that you read with subtitles.
Not sure if it's a current Scandinavian language, Old Norse or some made up language for the film. I think Old Norse though.