The Northman - We Need More Movies Like This
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- The Northman wasn't exactly the movie I was expecting, but it turned out to be the movie I needed. Join me as I review this excellent historical epic from director Robert Eggers.
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As soon as the "professional" critics criticized it for "toxic masculinity" I put it on my "To be watched in theatres" list.
"Toxic masculinity"? Ha ha! Those people are soft and can't seem to understand that the legend the film is based on is set in a much simpler time. The world is not nice and those people need to get punched in the face for once and grow a spine so they can realize that.
Amen to that
It hilarious nowadays that if traditional critics reviews say it's bad than there's almost guaranteed to be a cult following for a film at least. Welcome to bazarow world
Such a shame that we can't get a Viking movie where the men are portrayed as gentle, sensitive, caring and understanding of the deeply complex nature of a woman's role in society and how they're much betterer than men. Like that Mel Gibson movie 'What Women Want' but with Vikings.
The Northman has a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and 82 on Metacritic. Both scores significantly higher than the audience rating, so it is pretty highly acclaimed by the "professional" critics.
I like how eggers made NO attempts of ever trying to make any of these characters relatable, instead he forces you into a journey to understand their mindset
I really enjoyed that too. The film feels very authentic to the historical period as well as the mythology and sagas. Unfortunately, judging by the user reviews on rotten tomatoes, a lot of people didn't like the film because they were expecting a formulaic action story in the style of the Vikings TV show or the Last Kingdom
I mean...this is a viking story from the year 900. How can anyone relate to it? Some people can't even relate to the ones before the internet...
@@tavirosu25 do you mean to tell me that you don't frequently dance naked around a fire, invoke the spirit of the wolf and raid the nearest Rus settlements? You're missing out.
This is why I like grimdark fantasy books. That characters are fascinating and complex without needing to be relatable at all.
@@The_Mystical_Platypus People on rotten tomatoes are willfully retarded, literally the lowest trash that think their opinion matters on a fucking dead website from the early 2000's.
Also the same type of person that type out their mentally handicapped advice on Quora.
Ethan Hawke is a woefully under appreciated actor. Has massively improved with age
glad im not the only one who thinks this
He’s been great all along the way. Since Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise and Training Day.
@@aserr5660 loved him since say 1. Before Sunset is one of my favorite trilogies
@@aserr5660 I like most of movies I saw with him. Still could not make to finish watching Before/After trilogy, feels very boring to see only dialog as a plot, occasionally trying.
Just saw him recently in The Black Phone. He was exceptionally threatening and it's totally worth the watch
Yes, this is the most historically accurate depiction of Norse culture ever put to film and was designed to be that way, the director actually changed the film slightly multiple times to accommodate what the historical expert was telling him
That's one of the things I love about Robert Eggers. He's extremely devoted to historical accuracy for whatever time period his films depict. As someone who studied to be a historian, I greatly appreciate this. I wish more directors were like him, but unfortunately, 99.99% of them couldn't care less about historical accuracy.
@@supermonkey321 I think it will change in the future, most of the modern directors are old and were taught way before the internet started to analyse and breakdown movies for their historical accuracy, in the future I believe the newer filmmakers will be more cognisant of making things more accurate
@@supermonkey321 "99.99% of them couldn't care less about historical accuracy." Of course they don't. Especially when it concerns EUROPEANS.
Who do you think controls all the media? Hollywood? You know who they are. They don't take any refugees either. They send them all to you. Who do you think came up with feminism? Communism? Who do you think promotes race mixing on whites and whites ONLY? You can't name them here either because it's THEIR website. Their fake names usually end with "berg" and "stein".
Legend
It's in no way historically accurate. The basics, yes, but they got a lot of the details wrong.
A movie that tells a good story, has great characters and respects the lore/history…sign me up.
minus the black female warrior part.
woke BS.
I saw a good movie the other day, 'The Outfit'. It was a break from the usual and free of wokeness. Worth a view!
It does NOT respect viking history. It portrays vikings as evil, filthy subhumans.
It was amazing, go see it. Worth every fee/moment of your time.
@@mirinah4719 If they do make movies like that, I can assure you that those cultures would be treated with utmost respect, unlike what they did to viking culture here.
What I love about Eggers' work isn't just how he captures the look of historical times, but the mindset. People didn't just talk and dress differently back then, they THOUGHT differently. Their values and morals weren't just different, but utterly alien to anything we'd recognize today. People inhabited worlds that were smaller, more dangerous, and more incomprehensible than the ones we inhabit today. Things that we explain with modern science were back then rationalized as the work of spirits and gods that were temperamental and lurking behind everything.
This is what I like about Eggers. He does very extensive research before making his films.
That's exactly what makes Eggers' works great.
He walks the thin lines connecting historical drama, character study, documentary fiction of group dynamics, psychological thriller, surrealist film about mythological symbolism and supernatural horror flick with such panache that in result he creates his own niche genre.
And every film he has made with this approach has an interesting story to tell in its very own style.
That's so refreshingly creative, stylistically innovative and narratively unique, and at the same time he shows how these classic tales can still speak to us today.
He has done his historical research well and understands constants of the human psyche just as well as the confinements of time, place, social imprints and psychological nurture, peer pressure and ideological/mythological bonds upon an individual's mindset, the effects of the natural, cultural and technological surroundings on social norms and the environmental effects of both shared world knowledge and secretive/exclusive in-group rituals/techniques on group behavioural dynamics.
In short,
Robert Eggers' movies are like a translation of a past zeitgeist into a present age cinematic art aesthetic.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” -- L.P. Hartley
sounds great. gotta check all his movies.
Holy Crap! Razorbeak, I can't tell you how refreshing it is to read someone that actually 'gets' history! (I say 'gets' because, as you explained, we simply *cannot* understand it. It is long since beyond our ken)
Thank you!
Spot on!! But you didn’t even mention William Dafoe’s short but creepy-awesome performance!
What a masterpiece Eggers is like Tarantino in that he always does something according to his specific vision and it is always interesting
Yesss he was great like always
William Dafoe was amazing as always...
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I remembered watching this in the cinema it was such a satisfying cinema experience. The volcano fight at the end was so memorable, dark, brutal and nihilistic. Two men who took everything from each other killing one another with nothing but death as an empty prize.
While I generally agree, I don't think your conclusion is accurate. Death was no empty prize to Amleth (hamlet?). The only way to keep his progeny safe from the king was to kill him, at any cost. The king's family was already gone, so for him it may have been empty if his revenge is empty, but for Amleth it was the way to preserve the lives of the future queen and her brother.
Oh my god, that climatic duel in the volcano was just an outstanding piece of cinema. In the dark of the theatre, with the minimal light and the resounding boom of the bass in the speakers all around, it rattled my bones in the best kind of way.
Thanks for the spoiler alert warning. Now I don't have to see it.
The Northman is the only movie this year where you’ll see two Vikings battle it out, butt-ass naked, while surrounded by lava.
Charlie Kelly vs Jack Kelly, 954 A.D.
and it was fucking awesome
Pretty based
Really wanted him to make it back to olga
I'm pretty sure it's the first time in history someone put those words together
This movie is actually based on real Scandinavian history/folklore, which also later became the template inspiration behind William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
So what is it? History or folklore? lol
Hollywood is NOT real
and Shakespeare couldn't write his own name
lol
@@je-freenorman7787 It's history and folklore. Ancient history that was written down centuries after it's events, and before that went down in generations as stories of ancient tales of heroes. The Vikings weren't exactly known for writing down alot themselves, and most documented history about them at the time was written down by the English and the French at the time, and alot of stories/ancient tales/folklore/history was also written down several centuries later in Iceland. So while there are most definately alot of truth and history to stories about legendary Vikings such as Ragnar Lodbrok for example, there is also a good portion of fairytales, as these stories have been told by word of mouth from generation to generation for several hundreds of years before they were written down, some of it is bound to have been exhaggerated to create more legendary and elaborate tales about certain events, while staying mostly true to actual historical events that have been cross referenced in several sources. So that's why it's ''history/folklore''.
Indeed. In this case, it's from the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus. Tales of revenge are very common in Norse sagas. Some think that they glorify it, but I personally think they warn against it.
@@kjetilhansen5363 Most likely norwegians in this movie, as they were the ones to actually establish themselves on Iceland. Icelanders are all descendants of Norwegians
@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 I dont see much history in movies sorry. That was all Aryan culture back then and was converted by the Romans. Our real history has been hidden. There is no such thing as a Hero
Our days of the week are all named after Norse Gods, that connected to the Roma/Greko Pagan beliefs. Then it was all converted. Every government today is Roman and had been for hundreds of years
That part where he catches the spear and throws it back, has got to be one of the most primal things I've ever watched on film. You really felt like you were watching barbarians attack a town. It was also a trick that real vikings would do in order to gain prestige
I saw that scene 4 times, twas too badass
Primal is a brilliant word to describe that moment! The way he moves with the Bear skin cloak, almost like Peter Pan dancing around the campfire 😂
I watch that scene over and over.
That part seemed kind of silly to be honest. A little to Hollywood for me.
@@44magnum555 you taking the Mick? 🤣 It's literally something we have historical evidence of actually happening 🤣
The scenes with the Valkyrie are some of the most beautiful/artistic scenes I have ever seen in any movie and they make the mythological character believable as an immortal deity-like being without being over the top, I really loved this movie.
You mean Tessa Thompson doesn’t embody the pinnacle of how the mythical Valkyrie is to be portrayed?😵
@@williamflowers9435 gotta love the dumbasses in hollyweird deciding to blackwashing Brunhilde, even if it indirectly.
The ending scene is so beautiful...the way his eyes light up..the valkyrie...amazing movie. Just finished playing god of wqr ragnarok too so it made it even better
Does the Valkyrie have brackets??? Excellent film tho
@@jesusdelarosa1204that’s carvings/tattoos which is accurate from the sources.
They’re not supposed to be beautiful Angels but terrifying beings that bring only the best warriors to Odin.
My favorite thing about this movie is that they didn’t try to add heroic traits to Amleth, he was out for vengeance and butchers countless people to get it. The tragedy is he’s a giant Viking Berserker made out of nuclear hot rage who only knows his anger and even when he has the opportunity to live in relative peace he can’t give up his vengeance.
So.....like Guts from Berserk?
There were hints at a heroic side to him peppered throughout the film, which made it even more tragic. To name a few: the way he internally flinches at the barbarism involving innocents, the fact that he saves his half brother during the knattleikr match and then saves multiple slaves on different occasions, including Olga. These moments all paint him as a potentially heroic figure...but then there's another perspective.
Well he's a hero of another age and another culture. But there are some moments in which he is heroic in the way we mean it, as mentioned before
@@mateoreyes6921 no
So he's basically Kratos in God of War.
Just saw the Northman with a friend and this was my first Robert Eggers movie. My buddy that I saw it with is a huge fan. I wasn't sure about this movie but I got sucked in immediately. This is the first movie in a while where I was fully immersed. Even the weirder elements felt real. At no point was I pulled out of the movie or even feel like I was "watching" a movie. Instead I felt fully immersed in this world and when the screen went black I looked at my friend saying "that was awesome!". We need more movies like this.
@Elon and depp. And everyone can’t wait till it leaves… for good!
Watch Vinland Saga , it's amazing
Better than The Lighthouse ?
It flopped big time, so we won't get more movies like this.
@@rodycaz8984 Flopped? It came out a week ago and had done fine, pretty much off of word of mouth.
One of the best things about this film is that it wasn't fantasy, but the surreal and otherworldly scenes were actually a peek into the mindsets and experiences of the characters. And for them, there wasn't such a clear distinction between fantasy and reality that we have in the post-enlightenment era. These hallucinogenic and transcendent experiences were as real as anything for the characters, and so it's presented that way to the audience. The visions Amleth has (drug-induced or otherwise) were a fundamental part of how people in those times expeienced and understood themselves, others and the world around them. And Eggers lets us experience that first hand.
One of the many reasons this movie was so awesome.
why is no one talking about how good the soundtrack was for this movie!? All the deep bass throat singing, etc. Such an important part of the experience of the film.
The lighthouse was a masterpiece. The northman is Robert eggers going bigger and more ambitious with his style. Good to know people are appreciating movies like this
Aaand the Witch?
Nah, this movie was boring ass shit.
It was antiwhite as hell.
Sooooo.... We're all going to ignore the Witch? Movie scared the Toilet Duck right outta me.
@@giovannichiaranti9775 said the same thing before I saw your comment.
There's a making of video where Willem Dafoe comments about how Eggers approached The Northman with the same level of detail as The Lighthouse despite it being a profoundly larger production. Eggers himself comments on how the production crew had to basically ignore everything about viking culture in popular culture, films, TV shows, etc, and instead look at museums because he didn't want stuff that looked 'cool', he wanted stuff that looked as authentic as possible with the budget he had.
Also the score and sound design for this is phenomenal, it's a rare example of a 'cinematic film', something that is definitely best experienced in a cinema where you can feel the bass rumbling around you.
Completely agree. This film reminded me why I still have an AMC Stubs A-List subscription and go to the movies. Completely immersive cinematic experience.
Yes, but they could have constructed a device whereby “Ice Africans” could exist up north: They could have written into the script that ancient vitamin D pills were imported from Egypt (Byzantine or Islamic) that would have prevented the Rickets* and therefore permitted more diversity for the sake of diversity and historical revisionism.
* “follow the science.”
PS: 98% of properly coerced scientists agree with this, so it is absolutely true.
@Jesus Gonzalez go off king
needs more horned helmets to be realistic
The soundtrack shared a lot in common with Witcher 3. I love the hurdy gurdy
So few movies where scenes actually make your jaw drop -- this is one of them. Truly amazing piece of work. Eggers is fantastic. The Witch. Lighthouse. The Northman. Jesus, there's something to put on your resume.
The first two movies were very good yes, the witch was one of my favs..this film however did nothing for me, it was actually worse than I expected. kinda heartbreaking actually, the fight scenes were corny as hell..so cheeseball.
Eh, not bad but a bit overrated honestly
I'm honored to have witnessed this masterpiece on the big screen! Definitely was overlooked, don't sleep on this film peeps.
Only movie I watched at the theater in 2022. Great choice!
Between this and Dune, it's so refreshing to experience big budget, epic films that aren't just an endless conveyor belt of cgi action sequences, but are instead thoughtful visual journeys that immerse you in whole new worlds lovingly crafted down to the smallest detail.
Would say Batman also partly fits into this, although it didnt connect with me as much as Northman and Dune
I don't disagree but studios have to cater to the masses. While movies can be art it's a business 1st. Not many people are going to want to spend $100 million on an art piece that gets you $20 million in the box office. As a result we get the movies that make big $. Unlike other forms of art movies are a consumable. There's not 1 original copy worth more that it cost to make. Music has the same problem.
Except Dune was all into pushing THE MESSAGE, pozzed to a good degree
@@eminkurtovic5477 what exactly is this THE MESSAGE that you speak of?
@@carsonnewton6923 did you even watch the video?
When his "go away now" sounds like a friendly uncle encouraging the kids to go outside and play, you know this movie is good
I love how you can always tell The Drinker's disposition towards the movie he's reviewing just by listening to his "Go away now" - such a priceless epithet!
I really liked that they did a good job at telling a very historically accurate film about a story that is grounded in Norse mythology pretty well. They even resisted doubling down on the classic Hollywood love story that viewers love so much in exchange for a tale that stayed true to the Norse virtue of dying well.
My biggest complaint with the film was the flattening of the supernatural it engaged in. The Drinker claims that the film remains unclear about whether what is happening is supernatural or not, but I disagree. Every major scene that had some supernatural element critical to the plot was (sometimes immediately) followed up by another scene that proved that it wasn't all happening for real. For instance, Amleth gets saved by some crows from a fatal situation in one scene, only for the audience to discover that he was actually saved by another character. In another scene he battles an undead villain just moments before it's revealed that the battle never actually happened and it was all in his head.
Admittedly, other parts of the film seemed to engage in some supernatural activity that wasn't watered down. Like when one character seems to be control the wind by prayers to the nature gods, and a couple times where Amleth has visions that influence his decisions in important ways. But none of these seem particularly important to the plot. Even Amleth's obsession with fate is made somewhat irrelevant by the main plot twist.
Heck, Amleth's sabotage of Fjolnir - one of the most significant sections of the film - involves Amleth causing mayhem within Fjolnir's settlement in natural albeit clever ways while the people constantly suspect that the mayhem is being caused by demons and the gods. The movie almost seems to be mocking religious belief at this point as mere fanciful superstition, only to tease the value of such beliefs within Amleth's character himself, especially regarding prophecy. It's a weird synthesis where the supernatural is valued only at the psychological level, but never to such an extent as to entail real-world meaningful consequences.
I thought the combination of supernatural elements with realistic reasons for them happening was actually a strength, not a take away. I looked at it as showing how an actual Northman, with belief in Norse mythology, would view the things happening to him. Even though there were realistic reasons for everything, Amleth is obviously a follower of Norse Mythology, so of course he (And by extension us as the audience) would see them from that lense.
I also think it ties in well with the themes of losing innocence and not everything being as it seemed. Just like how Amleth thought he was saving his mother, when really she was the one who orchestrated the whole thing, Amleth also views himself as a viking hero of legend going on an epic quest, battling undead Kings and riding with Valkyries. In reality, its not the case. Just like how Fjornir isn't a King, but just some asshole on a hill.
And what I think is the real magic of this story is that, despite all the fantastical elements not being real, despite his heroic quest not seeming to be so, he still accomplishes it. He kills his Uncle one-on-one in battle, making sure his own two children are safe from retribution, extending the tree, and dies with a sword in his hand, avenging his father, and goes to Volhol. Despite it all, it still ends as a Norse Saga. Absolutely beautiful imo.
I had mixed emotions on this movie at first. But compared to the absolute shit Hollywood has been putting out. The Northman is an absolute masterpiece of cinema.
it really is not :
it only disguise itself as an artistic movie with deep thoughts but when you really think about it - it is not a good movie at all .
and the fact that this is the worst era in the history of cinema and others are producing complete garbage
or that they perhaps portrayed vikings mythology and world somewhat more accurate than others does not change that .
i refuse to use "well yeah this is good because it is not so bad as the others" as an excuse or as redeeming quality .
the actors are cringe at times - the actor playing young amleth is terrible
(he is about as believable and immersed in his role that i expect him to pull out his iphone and take a selfie in the middle of doing his "northman impression")
the adult amleth supposedly in his mid 20s is played by an actor who is 20 years older than he should be and he gives me
" discount jaime lannister / n.c.waldaus stunt double during his captivity faze with brienne" vibes .
the best part/acting of the movie is nicole kidman revealing the true nature of her character and pulling out some shakespearean/oidipus level tragedy s...t on us -
that was actually really good and caught me off guard ,
because the rest of the movie was pretentious , self serious , boring s..t .
happy i was not in the theatre to see this one .
i usually agree with drinker 95% of the time , but on this one i just can´t .
the northman is only trying to fool everyone into thinking that it´s a good movie .
@@darkglobe406 I saw it purely on the grounds that I trust the Drinker. I was bored almost throughout the entire film. I watched Dune today, which I really enjoyed. The Northman, like Dune, had beautiful scenery, but the characters and dialogue were so cliched. I've no idea why people rave about it -maybe I'm just getting old.
@T Mac Exactly! It felt like a tragedy.
@@darkglobe406 I just watched and I agree, the OP is just another sheep who goes by what the Critical Drinker tells him to. It was ok, but not some masterpiece 😆
@@darkglobe406 I wish I had seen this comment before I tried to watch it. I got 28 mins in and gave up.
A movie that "just wants to tell a good story"? Heresy! On a happier note, I finally got my Critical Drinker Plushie. It's perfect.
Does it matter if it's a story BASED on truth? AMERIKKKA is a "good story". So what?
@we did it
Y vu
A movie that's just a movie, I can't believe this is genuinely an uncommon thing in modern high budget films. At this point you may as well ignore anything that's from a big studio.
why aren't there any black lesbian trans women vikings? -libtards
What are you even talking about dude. The whole point of movies is to force feed my ideology down your throat and show you how much more enlightened I am than you and that you're also probably a racist or something....geeze. Stop talking about things you don't know about bigot....who would even go to a movie that doesn't have "the message" beings injected straight into your veins. So many duckin weirdos on CZcams
It's really sad we live in a time where an enjoyable movie like this is the exception, not the rule.
Movies like this used to come out all the time before liberals get a hold of things and ruin everything they touch.
It's more the existence of Disney swallowing up other studios that is the problem.
That means producers/directors/actors end up having to follow their guiderule or risk being deprived of a lot of work.
That being said Everything Everywhere All At Once was better than The Northman and came out this year too.
Men from A24 is another one that just came out.
Ikr all robbert eggers movies had the same audience ratings. i truely feel sad about the society when cgi bloated garbage gets higher praise than these masterpieces. the imperfections and the pure storytelling is what makes these perfect
True!! 80 & 90s had such movies in full force.
Plenty of movies like this get released every year, you just want the movies to come to you, rather than look for the movies yourself.
Very good film. Looks incredible in person and the moral ambiguity of the plot makes it a fine art.
A minor correction: The Lighthouse was not inspired by vintage movies from the 50s. The style Eggers was trying to emulate with that film is german expressionism (1920s).
Honestly a masterpiece, not since Kubrick have we had a director that cares so much about details and accuracy and research, and it shows. He's made 3 superb movies and he's not even in his 40s yet, I just hope he gets to continue to evolve and perfect his visions without having to comply or bend to dipshit studios aiming for the lowest common denominator.
I hope so, but like Denis Villeneuve - his movies are struggling to break even at the box office. I just hope he can Continue to get backing for the great movies he wants to make. We need them.
I wonder how Robert eggers would handle sci-fi
@@mrnukes797 Well he's more into historical accurate stuff, not sure he cares about sci fi.
@@mrnukes797 He cares too much about history, he's honestly more historian than director, but I'm sure it'd still be sick
A friend of mine was an extra in this film. He spoke to him a few times on set. He said he was a really great guy. Regards his work he said he is somebody to watch. That was a good couple of years ago when the film was being made.
Eggers is one of those increasingly rare directors who fully understands that movie making is VISUAL story telling. A lot of 'The Northman' is simply immersive world building, time taken to transport you back in time so you can lose yourself in the setting. It's not really critically important to moving the plot, but it makes the movie better than the sum of it's parts, so it's also not wasted time. It was the same with 'the lighthouse', which wasn't an overly complicated plot but the look and tone of the movie helped give the plot impact.
Many other directors these days from the the 'JJ school' of packing everything single minute of screen times with just stuff going on as if they're afraid 30 seconds of just admiring the scenery is enough for the entire audience to up and leave, which leads to ever more convoluted plots or actual wasted time as characters do nothing of any importance just to provide white noise
There is nothing wrong with minimalism, or retreading age old ideas in interesting ways. There are very few original stories left to tell, and the really good storytellers are the ones who know the devil is in the details.... not the quantity. A simple story told well will stand the test of time, and movies like 'The Northman' will be remembered long after most of it's contemporaries are simply forgotten.
Man. Well fucking said. Truly. 🤝
I loved it. I really hope it makes enough money in the long run that it's considered a success. We need more movies that actually feel unique. This one certainly does.
@@adonirammccarthy3994 making movies and the movie industry are two separate things - I feel like Eggers is a movie maker and whatever money gets made is merely a biproduct of telling great stories. Fuck me it's a beautiful thing.
Well said!
@@fiercedeitymetal yeah, Eggers has actually really good movies that will still feel relevant 20 years from now, regardless of how much they make in theaters. But I would love to see more mid budget stuff like this, so I hope it does well overall.
The Northman was a great movie. Had magical moments that you're not quite sure of it is all in his head.
Awesome movie. Truly fantastic.
Norse Mythology is rich with magic and visions...So it really happened and it was in his head at the same time.
One of the best movies I have ever seen.
@@chasehedges6775 wow your taste is awful 😆
@@thee_morpheus I really liked this movie tho and it’s my opinion
A movie where all the actors did there part superbly even all the minor roles had gravitas moments on screen that felt powerfully cinematic
You see, everytime someone like us Scandinavians are doing the acting for a movie about Scandinavian history and folklore it ends up perfectly.
This is indeed true.
Hmmm it's almost like it's their culture...
@@lastmanstanding7155 Indeed, my point is why these americans are in the acting roles of such movies when Scandinavians know it all better.
@@smoke1739
Nah I get ya. I agree. At the very least get people to help make everything as authentic as possible if you can't get certain people to act in the roles.
@@lastmanstanding7155 Yup
Loved that a lot of the shots are long and uncut, refreshing from seeing movies overly edited, cutting between 50 different angles every 3 seconds.
It had other resemblances to Tarkovsky, too. Especially Andrej Rublev
100%. The camera work and choreography was 100x better than any big budget film or show I've seen lately.
@@ChristophelusPulps but you gotta have coverage, coverage, coverage!!!
Couldn't agree more. So sick of that crap.
Yes, and I loved the scenes at night where it’s just silhouettes of Amleth doing his dark deeds.
The volcano fight scene, while silly was amazing.
One of the best movies I've watched in a long time. Glad to see the Norse mythology depicted with full expression
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that this was an interpretation of actual Nordic folklore/history. It was reapeated orally via epic poetry from the 900s onward, partly recorded by Saxo Grammaticus via manuscript, and was the inspiration by Shakespeare to write 'Hamlet'. This is a true treasure of historical myth into cinema, and it was fucking epic. One of the true modern treasures of European cinema recalling ancient tales. Way better than Hollywood's Beowulf.
Beowulf is underrated! Idk what you mean by that...
This movie was a Sheake spear ripoff 🤤
@@Ronin3453 It's a viking Hamlet... #BASED
Beowulf is a pretty different poem from a pretty different place and a superior movie to the Northman in several aspects.
Both are great, though.
You're surprised he didn't mention that??? Come on, man, you know that's a super niche area of historical (which is why you flexed your knowledge), yeah obviously he didn't about it beforehand
Years ago, my dad took me to see the movie Gladiator in the theater. To this day, it is one of my favorite films as well as one of my favorite movie-going experiences.
Hearing all the positive feedback, I decided to invite my dad to go see the film as his birthday is coming up. He rarely sees movies anymore but if the Northman is as good as people say, it will be a good film with a great memory attached.
It is going to be quite a bit different than Gladiator. Dont expect the Hollywood gamification and contrived dialogue that is inherent within Gladiator. You will be seeing something Ritter, dirtier, nastier, stranger and rough. I hope you both find it worth your time.
It’s going to be quite a different experience from Gladiator, aside from the time period and story and all; but man you and your dad are in for one hell of a true cinematic experience! Enjoy!
That's a good idea. I think I'll invite my dad too.
dont be a looser, watch predator or die hard with your dad , this film will be shit , its not manly its a tuttie futtie parade, go out side and do 100 press ups .... everyone.... and im taking to you drinker... eye roll emogi
That's going to be a tough call depending on your reasons for liking Gladiator. Gladiator was a complete Hollywoodation of history, but a lot of people seemed to like it. The Northman is a bit more realistic, but it still shows men being men, which is a rarity today, so your dad might like it. If you're not sure, go see it first and decide; but whatever you do make all the great memories with your pops while you still can.
This movie is a masterpiece! And probably the only movie that truly felt Norse to me, in feeling and mood, showing a more realistic view of that time period, but even more so getting into the mindset of people who believed their mythology was real and not fantasy, how it moved and motivated them. The cinematography was absolutely stunning and breathtaking, with an incredible cast. Robert Eggers is fast becoming one of my favorite film makers. We definitely need more movies and film makers like this!
If you want more films like this, make sure you support this one.
I left the theater thinking, “So, this is what film craft is. This is what you get when a creator cares about the art of film making and nothing more.” And for a moment, however brief, all of the bull shit politics and insanity was erased from the world.
@@roguewasbanned4746 makes sense. It is the legend that Shakespeare's Hamlet was based on.
@@roguewasbanned4746 The problem I had with this movie is that from the first trailer I predicted the whole "I will save you mother" plot twist. Because of that I knew how the movie will go and never really got gripped by the story itself and was just going through the paces so to speak while watching the movie. I enjoyed the movie from a cinematic perspective and I agree with everything The Drinker said. I just did not feel any emotion while watching it. Still a good move though. Just nothing new and a very predictable plot.
@@leonardopribic2661, with so much criticism, why do you believe that it’s still good? I mean, I just read your post and I feel the exact opposite; I feel like I should keep at least a 10-metre distance between me and this movie at all times.
This isn’t sarcasm, by the way, I’m genuinely curious as to what you found good about the movie and, under the weight of so much criticism, what saved the movie for you?
@@kennethguthrie180 The movie is very good as a film. Because it is shot well. The cinematography, soundtrack, ambience are all excellent. The characters are somewhat complex (except for the main guy), as much as they can be as this is not some biography drama and everybody is morally all over the place. Both the characters, themes and setting are realistic (though Kidman doesn't fit really) . And as the Drinker said, there is no woke politics or other bullshit that plagues other modern Hollywood movies. The action is very brutal but this is not 300 or some hack'n'slash action/adventure blockbuster. It is much more artistic. All of these are positives. The truly only problem I had is with the story. There is nothing new here and since it draws inspiration from other old classics like Hamlet (and every other revenge story), it is very predictable. The biggest plot twist of the movie can be easily guessed from the first trailer, you just need to imagine, "Now what would need to happen for the main character to have an oh shit moment with a big dose of irony?" Maybe it is just me. But I literally had the feeling as if I had read the plot beforehand and now I am just watching it for the visuals. And the main character for 95% of the movie is full on angry revenge mode, but this is not John Wick. We did not get an emotional start (with a puppy)so that we would care for his plight or that he has any other character traits except that he is very good at killing and looking good shirtless. Everybody is an asshole but nobody has the charisma to be likeable. With this movie, I did not care at all what would happen to anybody and was not surprised by anything that happened. I enjoyed it as a movie experience in the cinema but I was detached and not really engaged while watching it.
@@roguewasbanned4746 Well, I had mixed feelings about the movie too. But no matter what you feel about the finished product, the point still stands that the filmmakers prioritized film craft first. Whereas, in most new Hollywood productions, it seems that political virtue signaling is always the first priority.
It was refreshing seeing a movie like this, one that isn't about "the message" and focuses on a good story, characters and historic realism.
Truth be told, movies with "the message" rarely seem to succeed
Remember when Hollywood use to make movies like that? (Brave heart, Gladiator to name a few).
But do not be too easily fooled.
The disgusting, vile forces that are so fond of subh°mans - *WANT* that we get culled drastically in a badly organized "civilwar" ( its just WAR, really - cut the civil out of it ).
So they show us cool, based and powerful Vikings to awake a similar masculine force in us now.
When the media is still against us and would support criminal subh°mans all over to fight us. Be aware. The crescentmoon is a banana.
@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly What the actual fuck are you talking about?
@u know what i did Yeah, you did about a billion spams 💩 head…
anyone who enjoyed this movie and would give anime a chance should totally try watching vinland saga. 10/10 would recommend
Silly as hell, but would 100% recommend
@@dwarfwithinternetaccess yeah, but the last episode of the first season was extremely good.
While the story didn’t grab me like it did most of you, I have to say this was one of the best looking films I’ve seen in a long while that didn’t rely on much of any CGI trickery. Eggers is a tour-de-force and, while The Northman isn’t a film I feel compelled to watch over and over (a lot like The Lighthouse), I’m glad I watched it and will be watching his career with great interest.
Yeah I found it really boring, nearly walked out. But I can’t deny how great the cinematography is.
Agree. Thin story. Acted and shot amazingly well though.
“It’s amazing in this time of all this Marvel nonsense, we were able to make a strange and original movie about Vikings that wasn’t based off an already existing IP or sequel.” - Eggers
Did he really say that?
He said marvel non sense quite literally in a interview I listened to some days ago, I don't remember which one tho :(
It's in a Forbes article / interview.
Robert Eggers: Well, it’s a good idea to make a Viking movie right now. I think the History Channel’s Vikings TV show inspired more TV shows and video games, all with a similar aesthetic that is completely invented but consistent, and the Marvel nonsense was also helpful. So, when I had a Viking script of a certain size, the studio’s marketing team said, ‘Yeah, we can actually make this work. Whoa!’ I’m super grateful that all that stuff I mentioned is in right now because I did not expect my third film to be so much exponentially larger and more complicated than my second film.
He said that as a compliment.
Eggers aknewledges how the Thor movies has sparked new interest again in the norse mithology in Hollywood
@@AlexDragonfire96 I just posted the full comment so people would see it in its proper context. While I personally view Marvel movies as garbage, it's easy to see that he did not intend his use of the word "nonsense" as a slight against Marvel. It wasn't praise, but nor was it a detraction. People are just eager to jump onto anything remotely resembling drama.
Skarsgård wanted to make a Viking film for a while and it shows in his very committed performance. Eggers was the right man for the job and I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't all in Old Norse like he wanted, but this was a visually arresting film that completely engrosses you in the world it sets up from the moment it starts with an erupting Hekla. It's entirely alien to today's modern values, and yet has a timeless familiarity that coincides with the twist at the end of Act II, making you question if you should even be rooting for Amleth at all. It's morally grey done very right while still cherishing the values and rituals the people of that time held dear. Despite all the fever dream sequences of spiritual enlightenment and rage, this is the most realistic film I've seen in a while. Eggers' signature in his three films seems to be meshing reality and the protagonist's own POV, which may or may not be hallucinatory or spiritual in nature, and ultimately comes to the conclusion that it doesn't really matter if it was real or not; as long as it affects the characters, it might as well be real. He did it in The VVitch, he did it in The Lighthouse and he does it in The Northman. It is uncompromising in its vision and accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do with no frills and modern baggage attached.
I honestly would love Eggers to do a biopic on Shaka Zulu all in the Zulu language (and the other Bantu tribes he conquered) as he seems to be the king of highly immersive period pieces with very high fidelity. I know it would be amazing. But because of the color of his skin, he wouldn't be "allowed" to and that's a shame.
This ^^ 🙌🏽🙌🏽
did he want the whole thing in old Norse? I remember reading that he wanted the intro monologue in old Norse, not the whole thing
@@haydeng3541 he wanted it all in Old Norse but realized he would never get the funding he wanted for it. The Berserker ritual scene and the end of Amleth's monologue at the foot of Mt. Hekla are the only scenes where characters speak Old Norse
Woulda been even cooler in Old Norse. Alas.
What I love about The Northman and Eggers is that the magic feels magical. It all seems real enough not to be merely dismissed as imagination, but there's just enough plausible deniability that it doesn't stray into the realm of straight-up fantasy.
i did worry about his girl left on a boat for weeks though, they did say it was a three week journey and he left, dived back to the coast. personally i wouldnt leave my gf with some grotty sailors
Legit, he finds out that his father was a shitty person. He loses his drive for vengeance. He decides “You know what I’ll just go and live in peace with my family”. Then 2 minutes later he’s a ball of rage again. For no apparent reason.
Honestly Mr. Eggers is slowly becoming one of my new favorite film makers since he isn't afraid to take chances.
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The best director in hollywood right now IMO
And he knows where to take them, there's always a great payoff that justifies the risk.
One of the best in our present tbh
@@Astorath_the_Grim Damn, last time I checked Denis Villeneuve was still breathing.
I loved how they didn't shy away from showing how brutal the times and culture of the Vikings were. You see them gleefully killing women and children and sacking villages - because that is a big part of what Vikings did.
no ray-pe though, they're still pretending that didn't happen
which is PC
@@seabreeze4559 No. They make it pretty clear that it's happening. Crystal clear in fact. They just don't actively show it on screen.
In the Seventies, a shampoo commercial used their savagery towards women as a joke!
That is a big part of what almost any culture did. lol.
@@FromtheHerts81 I would love to see that commercial.
I eagerly anticipated this film from its announcement but unfortunately didn't get a chance to see it in theatres. I just watched it yesterday on blu ray and god damn it was worth the wait. Incredibly well made and performed. I really hope that the box office performance doesn't hurt Robert Eggers career as he is exactly the type of director we so badly need right now.
Makes me want to go to Sweden and have a slice of Tunnbröd
Something to also keep in mind specifically about norsemen and their Berserker traditions, is that prior to going to battle, they would typically partake in the consumption of various mushrooms and other substances that would put them partially in a hallucinating trance, to blur the difference of their mind and reality to keep them fighting harder and believe themselves to be supernatural in their abilities - which they generally then turned out to become as a result (as in being able to overcome natural bodily functions and limitations and thus perform feats that would otherwise be impossible for a regular soldier to do.
So the whole idea of hallucinations and the blurred line between what is real and what exists solely as conjurings inside his mind, can be traced as a direct reference to how Berserkers lived and fought.
I like mushrooms too.
@@deraykrause4517 Great you are one step closer to being a Berserker. Now just go out and pillage some English settlements.
Funny enough, this is only half true..
Mushrooms *were* involved, definitely, but not in the way we used to think.
According to more modern research, it seems that one warrior was volunteered, and he consumed copious amounts of mushrooms and mead.. his buds only a little. Then, when old mate inevitably had to urinate, they did so in a large bowl, which was topped up with more mead or ale. His buds drank this.
The reason being, the amount of mushies needed for the feats described, would also make the bloke too sick and nauseous to do those things. Drinking his urine essentially used his body to filter out the bad stuff, while still getting the benefits.
Likely the OG usage of the term "pissed".. 😉
Mushrooms were explicitely involved in the movie too, I mean that's at least part of the reason for the hallucinations
Can you cite your sources where this has been proven? All of the scholarly educators I've found claim there is zero proof of this.
Was hoping he’d give this exposure. The soundtrack was also insanely good. Saw it in a Dolby cinema theater. Was insane
I actually thought I was having a trip flashback during the cave king vision quest ceremony with Willem Dafoe chanting in the darkness lol.
Hurdy Gurdys are so cool
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This movie exudes *Toxic Masculinity* in all it's forms.
Sound was amazing. I'll be honest the the constant scenes were everyone is screaming their face off got a tad annoying
The best movie I’ve seen this year. Waited to watch this review until I saw it. Watched it a couple days ago and it blew me away. Robert Eggers is definitely one of the best directors of our time and I can’t wait to see what he does next.
It’s interesting to me how Vinland saga and this movie the main character shares a backstory that are very similar. Both on the quest for vengeance for their fathers and growing up in war pillaging and raiding. Opportunities to leave the life to peace but choosing to stay in their path for their quest of vengeance.
The visuals were breathtaking, the characters were nuanced. This wasn’t a heroic tale, and the movie made it clear from the moment we saw Amleth as an adult. And the understanding how Fjolnir was no longer any kind of king, just a man merely hanging on to what is left of his loyal followers, and family, just sunk that point in further. It was uncomfortable at times, but damn if it wasn’t completely compelling! It was a gem in this creatively dry time for movies.
Did you play with yourself while watching this?
Reek, naw man. We invited your mom over.
@@jjones797 Did you use a condom?
It was a heroic tale, but not a classical western cinema hero. He was the hero of the story, but like most norse stories, that doesn't at all mean he's a "good" person.
@@brigandboy1425 I mean, kinda. My only knowledge of Norse stories comes from mythology stories. And I always took them to be highly metaphorical rather than literal. Take for instance the story of Thor's first encounter with the world serpent, the giant who manned the boat was killed by Thor for simply trying to save his life. But giants represented chaos, so in that sense, it was heroic of Thor to spit in the face of chaos trying to get in the way of a glorious battle. It wasn't meant to be a human-on-human interaction. I think this movie needs to be taken much in the context of a story like that, instead of literally. In my original comment, I was going at it with a mindset of classical western archetypes, but from a Norse perspective, yeah it's a metaphorical story through and through. Or maybe I'm wrong and it was meant to be taken at face value, and Norse culture really was so harsh that Thor killed a giant for cutting the rope because it was not okay to save everyone's life.
The mere fact that the director didn't attempt to "diversify" the movie or push "the message" was enough to win me over from the beginning.
This is an antiwhite movie that portrays the vikings as evil, filthy subhumans. You'd NEVER see non-White cultures portrayed in this way.
As the horses broke the hilltop - you could see the pride flags waving in the wind. 😂
I don't think this is a good reason to like a movie. Don't get me wrong, a lot of movies these days push an agenda and create poor stories and characters as a result, but to say you knew you were going to enjoy it purely because of this is indicative of a deeper problem. There have been great movies with diverse casts, and bad movies that didn't try to push an agenda. I'm not saying this film wasn't good, but I am saying that whether the film did or didn't push an agenda shouldn't be the primary reason to enjoy it.
@@Drengodr To be clear, I didn't say I was going to enjoy it because it didn't push diversity, etc. What I meant is I respect the director and was more willing/excited to see it since the director wasn't trying to push the same narratives down the audience's throat compared to a large majority of other movies made today.
@@imsteph21 That's definitely fair. At this point, I'm just worried that the hyperfocus on this sort of thing is giving people on the other side of the line ammunition. It's fine to point out an agenda as a potential reason why a movie failed, but because such things can almost always be traced back to badly written characters and plot elements, I'm not sure it's necessary. I understand the sentiment, but when it can so easily be misconstrued as bigotry it becomes ultimately unhelpful.
That space alien line caught me off guard 😂
He really said it
Great Job! Keep up your great important work! Appreciate it. Love your reviews. 🙂❤
I worked with Mr Skarsgard on the tv series The Stand in 2019. I remember asking what he had coming up afterwards and he mentioned a “Viking project that he’s really excited for.”
I couldn’t be more pleased with the end result and his performance. He is a seriously kind man and he deserves praise for this movie.
If The Stand was an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, then its timing was painfully ironic.
@@FromtheHerts81 the very same
Love this comment!
The Stand reboot was a letdown as well. The casting was so potential...and then again not...
@@castle0417 I absolutely agree. Some of the cast did an amazing job and did their best with the material given. But we had Amber Heard and Ezra Miller … and well…. Can imagine how that was.
‘The Witch’ by the same director is also definitely worth a watch! Less action, but similar artistic / dark style
Eggers is amazing. One of the very few directors I'll watch in the theater by default. Dude has the artistic vision and love of the art and hasn't sold out to the modern agitprop Hollywood system
My favourite horror film
Don’t you mean The VVitch?
Great movie
I’ve lost count as to how many times I’ve seen this movie. It will forever be on my top movies list to continue to watch before I die.
I watched this in theaters with my dad and it was awesome
If you are thinking That the plot of this movie sounds a little familiar and that Amleth kind of sounds like Hamlet then you would be right.
The saga of Amleth, prince of Jutland is the direct inspiration for William Shakespeare's Hamlet. There was an earlier attempt to bring this
saga to the big screen in 1994 with Christian Bale as Amleth, but I guess "Prince of Jutland" wasn't a catchy enough title for an international audience
Not as catchy as Norseman.
God. Did every single person immediately watch the same 2-3 CZcams videos leading up to this movie?
I swear you guys sound like parrots. “HAMLET!”, “AMLETH!”…”CAWWWW!”
Everyone fucking knows this at this point. Nobody will shut up about it. Christ 🤣
@@drawmelikeafrenchgirl I have a question: who's the sadistic bastard that forced you at gunpoint to read all those thousands of Hamlet comments?
@@drawmelikeafrenchgirl No, I didn't watch any CZcams videos. I've known for decades.
@@mikeroman5208 Some people can read very quickly believe it or it, so while I’m swiping through comments repetitive words start to pop out at me. I’m sure it’s nice to spend 30 minutes combing a 100 character comment, but for people like me, we can skim over about 50 comments in 30 seconds.
So while nobody “forced” me to read any of them, it’s a ludicrous straw man argument to make and doesn’t - in any way - invalidate the fact that all of a sudden everyone overnight became experts in Hamlet (specifically) and Amleth.
Perhaps it’s just me though. I hadn’t read Hamlet in 20 years, and didn’t even draw comparisons to it while watching this movie, but I guess every other person here clung to every word of that play - just waiting for a moment like now to say “aCtuAlLy iTs jUsT lIkE hAmLeT!” to each other. That or they read the play annually for fun.
See, I’m the kind of person that is okay with admitting I don’t know every single thing immediately, and that when I don’t - I just Google it.
But hey, what do I know? 🤷🏻♂️ Maybe you all just like bursting into the comments with your favorite youtuber’s talking points and presenting them as your own thoughts? Or maybe every other person in here really just is an avid Shakespeare historian, but just with “Hamlet” of course.
Who knows? 🤣
I was about an hour into this movie when it suddenly dawned on my that there wasn't one single bend of the knee to modern-day culture and the gods of "diversity". And I actually grinned; right there in the cinema.
Thank you Robert Eggers. Thank you for just making a very good film, without any politics or gratuitous amounts of genuflecting to the gods of woke.
that avatar is awesome, ahahahahahaha
@@user-dj8xm9hc9l 😁
I'm not entirely sure I like the artistic tone of The Northman, but I definitely love the fact that unlike many other movies these days, there is an artistic tone in it.
One of my favorite movies of all time, and to debut in a time when we needed this movie the most.
I remember reading an article defending the Eternals. The writer said the people giving it negative reviews missed the point and it was good. He didn't mention plot, character development or anything. All he mentioned was representation. He never answered the question, "Is the story good?" It's good to hear that our entertainment industry can still put out a compelling story on rare occasions. I wasn't really interested in this movie because I think the viking thing is kind of played out. This review changed my mind. I might go ahead and see it in the theater.
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@@Chkprofilename lol Indian man tricking people but they fail at it 🤣
@CCP Tube can't believe that the trailers made me pay to see that garbage
@@matthewk2501 Or the spirits whispering from all corners of the cinema during the initiation scene. Creepy.
Since you already watched Cowboy Bebop, might wanna try Vinland Saga. It's also about Vikings. Good cast, great antagonist and good narrative. It's a pretty good story. Despite being made in Japan and being an anime, it managed to have more historical accuracy than most western shows
It’s kinda sad that Japan manages to portray the Viking culture more accurately than the west, where the Vikings came from.
I thought it was a bit weird sometimes but still really good. A breath of fresh air really. Good that it's not like all the others. And yeah the actors where all great 👍🏼
Dude. I just discovered your channel. Listening to your commentary, you might as well be on my back porch with my friends, BBQ and beer in hand, joining in our conversations. I love your content! Keep it up!
Robert Eggers is a breath of fresh air, every time.
Northman was incredible.
100 percent. Can't wait to see what he does next.
It was brutal but very good
@Colin it was not brutal, it was not a good movie, and I fell asleep during it.
The movie is great yes. It is intensly and beautifully well shot and the story isn't bad either. Yes we have to support more movies like these and yet I was kinda disappointed with this film. This is by fat Eggerts worst film, still being great. For me it was way to violent. I do know and understand that it belongs to the story and to the lives the people lived at that time and yet for me it felt like the first hour was the best part of the film and the second hour kinda fell flat.
Go watch it anyway but it didn't subvert my expectations in a good way. I kinda thought the movie didn't really have much to offer from a different point of view.
@@Leprutz
I agree. It was violent, but Eggers never compromises for historical accuracy.
The ritualistic slaughter/pillaging/slavery was extremely uncomfortable to watch.
But it was an accurate portrayal, and something that is sorely needed in mainstream media. It fuels the veins of historians everywhere.
The Northman proves that good cinema can be as simple as having a half decent creative idea and the skills to use a camera right
Drinker, this was my fav movie of the year. Thanks for the rec!
I feel like the only reason people are raving about this movie is because Hollywood has been pumping out so much crap for so long.
It was ok. 6-7/10 for me. My feeling at the end was “wow. What an utterly purposeless life to live.” and in the same way I left feeling like nothing had really been accomplished.
I can't wait to see his take on the vampire. Hoping he'll take them back to the terrifying, hideous monsters they were at the start.
@@gilbertgodfrey1818 so you casually justify murder, think vicious killers of the night are better than your relatives and are not excited for shows about evil vampires. You’re relatives are either evil or you might just be a violent person who your relatives don’t like thus making you see them as mean
The witcher 3 type vampire monsters would be cool
I want 30 Days of Night sort of vampires again
Oh oh sh- *tyler one scream* WHOOOOOAH
@@gilbertgodfrey1818 hahahahhahahaha you have no f hashtag clue.
I just rewatched The Witch last night after seeing The Northman last week. Eggers has a knack for making an "artsy" movie, without making you think it's an art house movie. Same with The Lighthouse. I saw a lot of people thinking that this was supposed to be some epic action movie set to Norse historical/mythical ideas, and I was asking people if they've ever seen any of Eggers work. If you're expecting a Michael Bay style action film, you'll likely be disappointed. If you like good story, and great cinematography, you'll like this movie.
I was expecting an action movie and honestly I'm glad I got this, it just utterly blew me away
I just finished watching this one for the first time in what I can say will make for many times. And, since I'm not a connoisseur of ocular culinary cinematic delights viewed and expressed in higher cognitive forms of comprehensible cognitive conveyance (like our hero Drunkler who made this very video), I can only sum this Film up in the most simplest of terms: Masterpiece! . . . Robert Eggers, you have a new fan.
Excellent work as always, sir!🙌🏼😎
This movie was phenomenal on every level. storytelling, cinematography, pacing, everything
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Haven't watched it yet nor this video, but I'm excited now.
OwO
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What made the cinematography phenomenal?
This isn’t about the story of the film, but I love the shot where Amelith’s (or Amlith, not sure how to spell his name) father is shot in the shoulder. He’s staggered, but you can tell he isn’t overly wounded. That is armour doing its job. They also used decently accurate Viking arms and armour (eg. in this film we get beautiful spectacled helmets and nice mail hauberks, whilst in others we get no helmets and leather garbage for armour). Just makes me feel more immersed.
you watch enough movies and you begin to wonder why people strap that bulky heavy stuff to their body.
Yeah, they kept it realistic, and the ratio of spears to other cqc weapons was pretty accurate.
I think it's spelled "Hamlet". Seiously.
Agreed. But his father wasn't wearing mail under his clothes when he was hit, those arrows struck true into him. If he wore mail the arrows would not have penetrated..
This has been a gripe of mine for ages. In "Vikings" and "The Last Kingdom" as you say nobody wears helmets and they fight in the learher jerkins they wear in everyday life. Even though Bernard Cornwell often described Uhtred becoming a "god of war" as he gets armoured before a battle. I gave up on both series as I couldn't take the ahistorical crap anymore.
Loved this flick. I was surprised and delighted by this storytelling.
Love how the valkyrie was depicted in the film. Not some pretty damsel but a fierce worrier willing to take ones soul to Valhalla
Anna Taylor-Joy is beautiful, Bjork's Seeress is my favorite character in the film, and Nicole Kidman's character is not supposed to look like she belongs: she is not Norse -- she's a Breton from northwest Frankia (France) captured as a slave and brought to Iceland. IOW, they were all perfect for their roles.
Kidman’s plastic face detracted from her role though. I don’t know if anyone else noticed but she really doesn’t look natural anymore and wasn’t fully expressing with the Botox and fillers. It’s sad what this degenerate society pressures women to do these days and I hope it changes.
ATJ is a sexy space alien
Next to Skarsgard and Ethan Hawke's performances, Anya's performance was absolutely wonderful to watch!
@@cringeproof100 She looked awful on Nine Perfect Strangers though. Like ugggh!
ATJ is such a lovely lady, Nicole is good actress, but looks unnatural.
what a crazy time we live in where movies about superheros who can literally do anything and bend the forces of reality to their will are boring and a film about vikings is imaginative😂
Because it’s one of the few movies that has something new instead of “the message”
@@marcar9marcar972 What's the message? And why are you against the message?
@@blackalien6873 go away now
@@blackalien6873 they get all butthurt about LGBT or whatever. Sad ppl.
@@blackalien6873 "the message" is bad, they tried to pretend to hide the negative of "the message."
Mr.Drinker, you have a great talent saying out loud what some people might keep to themselves and it's awesome.
Wish your liver the best.
Spot on as always my dear Drinker. Another movie that defies the usual hollywood mass tropes. I kinda expected a more action packed Viking movie, but I hadn't watched a trailer, so that's on me. After a few hours of letting the movie sink in, I really appriciated the thought provoking story, that not all is good an evil, but usually somewhere in between.
I really loved the creative cinematography, that was pleasing and interesting to look at. The fact you often didn't know weather it was real or his imagination, was a great way to show unreal fantasy without removing the movie from it's grounded realism.
You mentioned Conan the Barbarian as a possible inspiration for this movie, but actually the story of Amleth is the "original" one (there are some versions of it), being also the inspiration for the Shakespeare's Hamlet tragedy 👍🏻
Also a bit of Macbeth (the "cant escape your fate" theme)
Pretty sure he knew which way around it was.
Robert E Howard indeed more likely used the original Amleth story rather than the Shakespeare Hamlet as inspiration for Conan, albeit with a heavy dose of pseudo archaeological mystery added in (Conan's sword is from Atlantis).
I wish they'd do a proper Conan movie. Swartz was all wrong, and the movie just didn't make it for me. I had been a childhood fan since long before the movie and was very disappointed. Weak, just "product".
If you like this then I would highly recommend the anime "Vinland saga" which also tells a subversion on the revenge story set during the Viking period that has a great story, plot and themes with multi layered characters and historical accuracy. It's about a boy who's father is killed by another Viking and ends up following him around, seeking to get revenge by defeating him in an "honorable warriors duel". Vinland saga is remarkably grounded for an anime series and has no shortage of brutal realistic violence. I could not recommend it enough.
Vinland Saga is unreal, you're bang on the money about it sharing the subversion of the vengeance story trope, can't wait for season 2.
I'd love for drinker to try some anime out if he hasn't already, the medium is so full of very high quality stuff
I also like, how it's a saga, so not completely historical but with some mythical/legendary stuff in it. That made it possible for Thorkel to be an absolute beast and a marvel to watch.
Didn't expect to find fellow Vinland Saga fans on this channel. I would absolutely recommend the manga too if you're interested in that type of media (although it does head in a slightly different direction from what you're used too by the anime)
Right, now it's arriving the 2nd season, it's sad that for a realistical Viking saga we had to trust Japan!😢
I heard that the 2nd season is more about character development and much slower paced than the first season, with less action. That's just from a CZcams preview, not from my own judgement
This was so good. Me and the work pals all love it.
I let out an audible sound of relief when you said you enjoyed The Lighthouse. Literally its my favorite movie.
*wipes sweat from forehead*
A simple premise, executed beautifully. The score was stirring, the visuals were incredible, a great deal of historically authenticity, and absolute brutality. Also some well done moral ambiguity. The movie didn’t need to hold your hand and lead you to it. This movie absolutely amps you up as you get to commune with a part of you that daily life and polite society obscure from you. I was buzzing leaving the theater and I will be seeing it again.
In my opinion this is what cinema is supposed to be. A captivating tale that can allure you and wrap you in it's story, and even at times change your perspectives. This is what alot of movies today are missing.
Or it takes you nowhere. It’s either really bad or really good depending on who watches it. I am in the former partyz
@@roguewasbanned4746 Yeah, I like drinker and can certainly appreciate the craftsmanship of the movie, but it was a snooze fest for both me and my wife.
@@roguewasbanned4746 I have to agree. This movie didn't work for me at all.
@@roguewasbanned4746 well my guy, sometimes, it do be like that
The movie truly does feel epic, the whole while it was reminiscent of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek myths. The twists, the tragedy, the nebulous supernatural elements, even some of the more poetic dialog was all positively epic.
This movie dared to have white people in it. This incredibly rare display of antiracism must be supported. The Tribe wants whites gone from cinema and streets. Let us instead simply say no.
Actually it's the other way around Shakespeare's Hamlet was inspired by Amleth
It only felt unintentionally funny. How did you not die of laughter during the pretending to be dogs scene?
I like that we didn't have to be pounded over the head with "THE MESSAGE".
I watched this movie and it is the most epic movie I have seen in modern cinema. And it's cinematography was amazing. The parts you couldn't tell if they were in his head or not were amazing as well. This was truly a movie actually worth spending money on and highly recommend seeing it as well.
Came here after watching in theaters. Dude I'm still speechless, I got in my car and drove home with the radio off just thinking about what I just saw and I agree.. we do need more movies like this. Didn't know it was the same director from the Lighthouse but man it blew my expectations out of the water. Brutal and beautiful.
Go watch 'The VVitch' and 'The Lighthouse' by Eggers as well, then. Each time he does this thing where he hooks up a costume film with the zeitgeist mindset of the period, connects it to psychological group or relationship dynamics, social norms and supernatural beliefs and short-circuits these historical drama & psycho-thriller elements with a mythical horror flick ambience. If you are hooked on this type of genre-bending approach, by all means go for more. Each movie by Robert Eggers is unique in style, setting and theme.
I hate everything that comes out in cinemas. Except this. This movie is good. Watch the Lighthouse first. Symbols, omens, dreams, rituals and violent theatre verging on horror are all at play here. You’re in good hands and with “Northman” the director clearly enjoys telling the story he has for you.
Refreshing.
The Witch was good as well. The Lighthouse was a fever dream. Excellent filmmaking
is there a reason i should watch the lighthouse first? it sounds entirely uninteresting to me, but this northman one seems up my alley, though i stopped this show at 1 minute to prevent spoilers, so i don't know what expectations were subverted yet.
What kind of personality disorder does Queen Gudrun most embody? She seems to hide it well most of the time. But when she drops the mask, boy does she...
Lighthouse is free on Prime right now. I watched it a few days before. It's good to get the vibe, eggers really does have a unique visual language.
I watched the Lighthouse because it got recommended online a lot and it featured Willem Dafoe and Robter Pattinson wich I consider as good actors. But I didn't get the movie at all. The acting was good, especially from Dafoe, but I felt there was no plot, no goal, nothing except a fucking weird ass movie that grossed me out. It felt like what I imagine being on acid feels like.
I love the fact that he was ulfhednar and not a berserker. It just shows greater research into history and Norse military units. Love it.
What I liked about Amleth is that, despite his access to the supernatural/spiritual elements, he was a human who got serious injuries that he could not come back from.
I also like how his motivation to kill his uncle transformed. He wanted to save his mother and avenge his father, but that changed after she told him the truth about his feelings towards his uncle and the true character of his father. I believe his motivation was tampered by this truth, and he considered leaving the vengeance all behind to run away with the slave. But his motivation for vengeance reignited when he received news that he was going to bear twins, and could not fathom being on the run from his uncle for the rest of his kids lives and the slave’s. He sacrificed himself to assure the safety of his heirs.
Really enjoyed this movie!