The Northman

[Dennis Taylor 18848]

Didn't find a thread, this looks bad ass

 

[next2naus 439]

why not

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19128]

Alexander Skarsgard as a Viking.  Yes, please.

[gsoda3 3274]

looks good.

[Jerry Callo 8709]

Pretty sure I spotted one of the Knights who say Ni.  I'm in.

[CooterBrown 18015]

[Michael Knight 12989]

the lighthouse was weird

[MissingInAction 25132]

Love movies about my ginger ancestors. We sure were stabby.

[Nivek 16949]

Is ever so, ever so satisfying 

[Reynolds Woodcock 4788]

Take my money, Eggers

[CooterBrown 18015]

Looks like he’s using that same claustrophobic aspect ratio as The Lighthouse.

[52-80 19205]

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

yass

[CooterBrown 18015]

Never mind. Found the widescreen trailer on YouTube. It’s glorious.

[Knoxtnhorn 6064]

Lol at Bjork being in it.

[Mileslong 4728]

Ancient period piece, revenge, war, Nicole Kidman, yeah I’m in…the only thing missing are nazis…

[mchookem 16342]

oh. ohhhh. 

Alexander Skarsgard as a real Eric the Northman. 

oh myyyyyyy. 

i'll be in my bunk. do i have a bunk? i need a bunk. 

[Michael Knight 12989]

Early reviews are hype

 

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-northman-reactions#intcid=_gq-uk-right-rail_a40b14a6-028b-4a42-889d-2d45fe06038d_popular4-1

[Macanudo 12999]

On 12/20/2021 at 2:07 PM, MissingInAction said:

Love movies about my ginger ancestors. We sure were stabby.

Were?  When did it stop?

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19128]

I get to see this the night before it comes out in a Q&A with Skarsgard himself.  YUM.  But yeah, cannot wait for this one.

[DanRydell 799]

I need reviews from people who hated The Lighthouse

[CooterBrown 18015]

The best review I saw said something like "for 2 hours, I alternated between "OH HELL YES" and "OH HELL NO"."

 

 

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2680]

On 12/20/2021 at 5:01 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

Lol at Bjork being in it.

ever seen Dancer in the Dark?

[mr. sunshine 2830]

On 12/20/2021 at 1:55 PM, Michael Knight said:

the lighthouse was weird

True but if a couple of hours of Dafoe going bug fuck crazy is wrong I don’t want to be right 

[YChang 3455]

I need reviews from people who hated The Lighthouse

Didn’t hate it. Just thought it was super weird.

[billfromlaketravis 11520]

What are streaming options? I can see it in theaters, but 9/80s Fridays off are my precious now. 

[ztejas 43524]

Kind of want to see this. Dafoe looks like he took LeBron levels of HGH for it. 

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

On 4/7/2022 at 6:59 PM, mr. sunshine said:

True but if a couple of hours of Dafoe going bug fuck crazy is wrong I don’t want to be right 

Is there any other kind of Dafoe?

[HenryJames 66135]

NM

Edited April 9, 2022 by HenryJames

[huge 3795]

Intense!

[NorthLoop 14218]

On 4/7/2022 at 6:59 PM, mr. sunshine said:

True but if a couple of hours of Dafoe going bug fuck crazy is wrong I don’t want to be right 

 

On 4/8/2022 at 8:19 PM, Grade of D as in David said:

Is there any other kind of Dafoe?

 

[CooterBrown 18015]

Did any Alamo Victory members get a ticket to the secret early preview on Monday at Lakeline? I was taking a nap and didn’t see the email until it was sold out.

[Guest]

Hey another Skarsgard playing a Viking. If you go back and look at that family’s portray of ancient / medieval characters, primarily Celtic / Viking “barbarians”, it’s astounding. Still I’ll watch just about anything Stellan or Alexander are in and this is no exception. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19128]

Go see it.  Really well done.

Oh hey!

 

[CooterBrown 18015]

Just got home from seeing this movie.

It is really good. Not quite what I was expecting but damn it’s good and you’re fully immersed in a completely foreign culture that’s never been on film like this.

I was glad to see Anya Taylor-Joy has no qualms about nudity and I look forward to her having a very long career.

[Reynolds Woodcock 4788]

Awesome movie. 

[WBT 20643]

11 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

I was glad to see Anya Taylor-Joy has no qualms about nudity and I look forward to her having a very long career.

[ATexanAbroad 627]

going to see it tonight in Colombia

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19128]

This is a movie I am definitely going to go see in the big theater.  It was great hearing Alexander Skarsgard (even better seeing him), but I want to see it on the big screen.

[WBT 20643]

Saw it tonight, great movie.  Eggers is one of the best going right now.

[ztejas 43524]

On 4/22/2022 at 9:28 PM, CooterBrown said:

I was glad to see Anya Taylor-Joy has no qualms about nudity and I look forward to her having a very long career.

[Reynolds Woodcock 4788]

11 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

This is a movie I am definitely going to go see in the big theater.  It was great hearing Alexander Skarsgard (even better seeing him), but I want to see it on the big screen.

Not sure if you’ve been yet, but the Drafthouse in FiDi is great for this kind of movie. The sound they have going there is top notch. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19128]

37 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Not sure if you’ve been yet, but the Drafthouse in FiDi is great for this kind of movie. The sound they have going there is top notch. 

I have not, but that is good to know.  I love what New York Magazine says about this movie.  It os very accurate.  

 

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Robert Eggers - he of The Witch and The Lighthouse - is back with what is surely his most ambitious period myth to date: an insanely violent, stylized, fevered Viking revenge epic.  Visceral, psychologically complex, and quite possibly the most metal movie ever made.

 

[Michael Knight 12989]

visceral is definitely the word for it

[ATexanAbroad 627]

I am of scandanvian blood, first generation american on my mothers side. I am into the mythology but I am not sure what to think about this. Your average person is not going to like it and that makes me ecstatic but it just kind of felt like a random story that was drawn out very long without a lot of character development or anything. Like you were dropped into an alternate universe and were suppose to know what was happening. I need more time before I decide how I feel. 

[DanRydell 799]

Robert Eggers is a weird fucking dude

[mchookem 16342]

lordy mercy

Spoiler

'all that hate's gonna burn you up, son!'

what a visual frenzy. captivating. 

[deadshank 24653]

Saw it yesterday.   It was good.  I like films attempting to capture the primitive nature of man back in the old days.   

Spoiler

Shakespeare’s raw material for Hamlet.   

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by deadshank

[CooterBrown 18015]

Just remembered a line that cracked me up.

“They worship a corpse nailed to a tree!”

[CooterBrown 18015]

Just saw that it’s a bust at the box office.

We can’t have, or deserve, nice things. An original, visceral, challenging film can’t attract the average moviegoer. It has everything you’d think would bring the crowds. But, hey, we want our movies to be recycled and shallow enough that we can TikTok while watching. This is why we will get The Faster and the Furiouser 18 soon.

https://screenrant.com/northman-movie-box-office-bomb-budget/amp/

[DanRydell 799]

18 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Just saw that it’s a bust at the box office.

We can’t have, or deserve, nice things. An original, visceral, challenging film can’t attract the average moviegoer. It has everything you’d think would bring the crowds. But, hey, we want our movies to be recycled and shallow enough that we can TikTok while watching. This is why we will get The Faster and the Furiouser 18 soon.

https://screenrant.com/northman-movie-box-office-bomb-budget/amp/

It's a movie by a director who is largely unknown to the average moviegoer (and to the degree he is known, it's for being weird and esoteric), with lead actors who are either unknown or known from niche TV shows, plus it's pretty fucking weird and gory. I'm not sure Gladiator is a hit if it had been directed by Spike Jonze or Danny Boyle and starred Luke Perry and Tilda Swinton and had a bunch of bizarre ancient religious imagery and prophecy and witchcraft.