[Grisham]

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Eggers is once again turning to real legends for cinematic inspiration. Based on "The History of the Danes," found in Books 3 and 4 of Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, The Northman follows Viking prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), who is ready to fulfill this life-long goal of avenging his kingly father, after witnessing his murder by his uncle, and reclaiming his birthright: a seat on the throne. (This story, in fact, is said to have inspired William Shakespeare's Hamlet.) Of course, Eggers' film won't be an exact retelling of Amleth's tale. Instead, he'll be taking some of the darker elements from the source material and forging a new kind of story.

The Northman will follow one theme: bloody, brutal vengeance against those who have wronged Amleth. His journey will not be cut and dry, however. There is expected to be an internal struggle as he is presented with two paths he can choose from: love for his family, or hatred towards his enemies.

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The Northman | Rotten Tomatoes

The Northman is an epic revenge thriller, that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.

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[Calcium]

A movie without forced diversity in current year? Sign me the fuck up.

 

[Stouffers]

It was AWESOME

 

[Kadayi]

Skarsgard is one of those effortlessly cool bastards in whatever he happens to be in (a bit like Mads). I was rather hoping he was going to get cast as Feud Rautha in Dune Part 2, though perhaps a little too old for the part at this juncture. Still, this looks suitably awesome.

 

[Stouffers]

Skarsgard is one of those effortlessly cool bastards in whatever he happens to be in (a bit like Mads). I was rather hoping he was going to get cast as Feud Rautha in Dune Part 2, though perhaps a little too old for the part at this juncture. Still, this looks suitably awesome.

What juncture? What two points are coming together?

 

[Kadayi]

What juncture? What two points are coming together?

juncture

1. a particular point in time: 2. a particular point in time: 3. a particular…

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[Stouffers]

juncture

1. a particular point in time: 2. a particular point in time: 3. a particular…

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Right, but it implies a convergence. Language is important, @Kadayi .

 

[CAB_Life]

Only movie I've truly wanted to see in the last decade.

 

[CloudNull]

Seeing it opening weekend. Looks good.

 

[Kadayi]

Right, but it implies a convergence. Language is important, @Kadayi .

Weird derail, but whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[Snes nes]

this movie looks awesome.

 

[555]

Eggers seems like a legit prodigy. First The Witch, then The Lighthouse, now this. I can't really think of any other director in the past 20 years or so that came out of the gate as strong as Eggers.

 

[Grisham]

 

[Grisham]

 

[cryptoadam]

How did this movie with a seemingly all white cast get made ?

 

[Pr0cs]

 

[CloudNull]

I just watched it. It was a great movie but holy fuck was it weird. I left the theatre not knowing how to feel about the movie. I guess it can praise it for being super unique.

Movie did a great job of making it feel authentic.

 

[bork]

I really want to go see this

 

[OuterSpace]

I enjoyed it but I wasn't in love with it or anything. Definitely a non-commercial movie and for me, the whole thing was carried by the visuals and tone. The actual story and characters weren't amazing or anything. Wouldn't mind giving it another watch now that I know what is is and what to expect.

Oh and I'm pretty sure my theater audience (Of like 11 people) hated it.

 

[Hinedorf]

Props to Robert Eggers! My favorite movie is Conan the Barbarian, this one is right up there in brutality and authenticity you typically don't get in most movies today. Not sure everybody would dig this but SMASH FUCKING HIT for me.

 

[Kadayi]

Managed to catch this. Surprisingly a lot longer than I expected it to be. Solidly directed and good performances throughout. Clear from the off that Eggars is a big fan of the original Conan the Barbarian film. Highly recommended.

 

[Stouffers]

Managed to catch this. Surprisingly a lot longer than I expected it to be. Solidly directed and good performances throughout. Clear from the off that Eggars is a big fan of the original Conan the Barbarian film. Highly recommended.

I'll catch this when it comes to home video

 

[Zefah]

Caught this on an airplane the other day and really enjoyed it. Honestly, it's relative straightforwardness was refreshing. Just a really well shot, acted, and paced film with a theme and setting that strongly resonated with me. I think I'll pick up the 4K Blu-ray to give it a proper viewing.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I loved it, because it was so many things I long for when watching movies.

On the other side, damn, it was like everything I thought this movie would be happened in the first twenty minutes, and the rest was something completely unexpected, story wise.

But holy shit, those last five minutes were something else.
Imagine Revenge of the Sith ending like this.

 

[WesternBlood]

Finally got around to watching this last night via Blu Ray.

Great attention to detail on pre-Christian influenced Viking culture. A mix of Icelandic, Swedish and Ukrainian cultures to tell the story shows it was an overly ambitious project by Eggers. I think everyone can agree that the stand out scene was in the ruins of a burial mound with the Draugr, where the protagonist gets his 'Vampire Sword'. Also, neat imagery of the guards/soldiers he cut up and and nailed to the wall in the shape of Odin's eight legged horse, Slepinir.

I could see how the movie would not sit well with people who have a middling attention to the type of story being told in the way it was told. A bit dry in parts, but an overall excellent movie if a Poetic Saga was put to film. I couldn't help but think about the Star Wars prequel where Vader and Obi Wan fight on the lava planet, where the finale culminated at the volcano. It had nothing to do with Lucas' nonsense, other than my own mind wandering and sort of laughing internally at the spectacle of it all. Very well done and great camera work. I think that the final scene would fit in any Kurosawa film between two swords men. It had that much artful representation between two adversaries in a figurative gates of hell.

 

[Bolivar]

I saw it for the second time this weekend and my estimation of this film has gone up considerably.

When it first came out in theatres, I felt like I had been misled into expecting to see an epic, because the core of the story takes place on a small sheep farm in Iceland. I originally suspected that this disconnect was intentional, and my interpretation was that the fantastical elements are mostly Amleth's delusions, contrasted against his mundane reality, driven by the narrative pattern of him seeing a shaman and then having his perception of reality shown to be a lie:

1. With William Dafoe's character, Amleth is told that he's being groomed to become a great king, but in the next scene his father gets brutally murdered, his kingdom is taken away, and Amleth's forced to row away alone by himself in the North Sea.
2. Bjork's character tells him to go on a grand quest for revenge against his father's killer, only to find that Fjolnir lost his kingdom and is now just a sheep farmer in Iceland.
3. The final witch directs him to the nightblade to take his revenge but as his plan almost comes to fruition, Amleth learns the truth that his childhood was mostly a lie and his mother is insane.

The Draugr fight is all but stated to take place within his imagination. Likewise, the first Valkyrie sequence is Amleth projecting that persona onto Olga, as you learn afterward that it was she that put him on horseback and rode them away. When he jumps off the ship at the end, it shows just how untethered he is from reality. Fjolnir is a disgraced nobody sheep farmer in Iceland - he's not going to have the resources to send agents to hunt down Amleth's family all across the North Sea.

Rewatching it, I can't deny how stellar the visuals are, and I think the totality of them taken together suggest that this is pure Norse mythology, and that all of the supernatural stuff wasn't just Amleth's imagination, but really happened within the story. I think this is going to be an all-time bro classic that's worth coming back to again and again, with your interpretation changing slightly each time. The extended takes are a masterclass in camera work, and they just keep happening through the entire story until the very last scene. Unbelievable film.