The Northman

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Eggers is three for three now as far as I'm concerned because boy did, he knock this one out of the park but seeing his previous films it's really not all that surprising.

It's easily his most mainstream film yet and I honestly don't see why general audiences would hate it considering unlike The Green Knight its very straight forward and moves at a great pace.

I guess if people go in expecting the next Gladiator or Braveheart, they'll be disappointed, but I never found it boring or slow and there's actually more action in it than I was expecting as well.

Skarsgard is an absolute feral, beast here and his performance and physicality in this completely made up for his blandness in that 2016 Tarzan movie which I kind of hated.

Yeah, I felt the same way. I thought it would definitely be more palatable to a mainstream audience than Green Knight was. There's a few scenes that tend towards the more fantastic and mythologic, but it's pretty much exactly what you'd think it be. Just pure Viking brutality.

 

[Marvolo]

 

[Gothamsknight]

This film was phenomenal, unsurprisingly. Eggers just keeps making great film after great film and no matter the setting, he always manages to immerse you and make you feel like you are there in the past witnessing everything. I truly hope his Nosferatu movie comes to fruition someday.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

It's fun seeing the praise for this film as when I just saw the trailer I didn't know who was making it or really anything about it at all, so to me it looked like a well made viking movie that, in true Hollywood fashion, was made by someone that likely didn't know much about the period. I didn't pay much attention to it after seeing the trailer until I saw the buzz and and who had made it.

Now it may still play into all the inaccurate tropes for all I know, as I haven't really heard anyone talk about that aspect, but Eggers is an interesting filmmaker and the film certainly does seem to have something going for it. I may have to give it a shot in the theater if I can find a good time for it. Luckily I have only heard generic praise so nothing is spoiled.

 

[metaphysician]

B) People complain about a lack of originality in Hollywood and then don't show up for original films. Go figure that one.

I mean, that one is easy: almost no one complaining about that actually *wants* "originality" in the first place. They just want some different flavor of content than the current popular trends, and would be 100% fine with their particular tastes being catered to endlessly and repetitively.

 

[TheVileOne]

I mean, that one is easy: almost no one complaining about that actually *wants* "originality" in the first place. They just want some different flavor of content than the current popular trends, and would be 100% fine with their particular tastes being catered to endlessly and repetitively.

Inaccurate.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[Neno_Kos]

Going tommorow in cinema to check out this movie. To be perfectly clear wasnt interested much going in cinema till Top Gun release, but friend wanted to watch it so Ill check it out. Reasons overall? Life, money. I hate spending money I dont have. Going to cinema was luxury before and now is even worse.

I am sure nobody is interested in my life story but this **** is depressing. I work, I dont drink, I dont smoke, I dont do drugs, I dont gamble. Yet I still have no money to enjoy life to fullest and need to pick my interests, hell even movies I wanna watch carefully. Ticket prices for movies each time I go are going up. Food, gas, etc. life standard in general are going up, specially last few months, except my paycheck. Which is even worse than it was two years ago. Inflation when you are already poor hurts a lot. So each day I am on this Earth is worse than day before. And I dont even consider myself poor poor and I know many and good majority are even worse on this world.

That's reason why this movie will bomb. I am not suprised. This has nothing to do with originality and what people wanna see. But people skip going to cinema, and see maybe interesting or different movie or two and stick with what's popular because like I said cinema is luxury.

 

[Arachnerd]

The group of people in the comment section trash-talking him or calling him a boomer for this reasonable opinion is hysterical.

Edit: from another Twitter thread, nevermind lol

 

[NotNickFury]

Let Neptune strike ye dead, Eric Northman!

On the real, this movie was incredible. Maybe even as batty and insane as The Lighthouse at times. I hate to use the word 'epic' because it's so cliche, but it's an apt description of this great Viking fantasy film. I loved how violent it got, but the film never tries to glorify or hit you over the head with how gory it gets- that's just the violence of the time.

Two things reminded me of The Green Knight: the cinematography, and the premise of a life-changing event in a young man's life that sets him on a quest to fulfill a goal. Alexander Skarsgård and Anya Taylor-Joy stole the show, but everyone was on point with what screen time they got, especially a particular scene with Nicole Kidman in the latter half of the film.

I can easily see both this and Everything Everywhere All At Once possibly making my top films of 2022 right now.

 

[Black Narcissus]

 

[Boom]

This movie sucked.

Just kidding. Another Eggers masterpiece. A shock to no one. What a visceral experience. Felt it right down to the marrow.

1. The Lighthouse
2. The Northman
3. The Witch

 

[scarlet-witch]

I think this is Egger's best film. Very brutal, out there, and epic.

 

[Asr]

Ok so this movie blew me away and was so damn amazing I'm going to have to come back later to write more thoughts.

This gets 10/10 from me easily. It's Eggers' masterpiece, will more than likely top the year for me, and is also skyrocketing to probably my 2nd favorite movie of all-time behind Alien 1979.

There's only one thing Eggers could've done to make this an 11/10 for me, and that would've been to add a Scandinavian black metal song to the end credits. Missed opportunity IMO.

Edit: actually something more like this could've been a great end credits song (haven't yet found a black metal song that I felt fit the movie):

 

[Boom]

The Valkyrie sequence was W I L D.

Saw this in Dolby and the music shook the entire auditorium.

 

[Gothamsknight]

The village raid sequence was damn incredible! So many moments that shook me.

 

[-Arya-]

Looks like this’ll end up as a box office bomb. Maybe 50 million total Worldwide.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Just a stellar piece of filmmaking. I loved every frame. Bonus props to Nicole Kidman for a standout performance. 10/10. Everybody go see this.

 

[Arachnerd]

Looks like this’ll end up as a box office bomb. Maybe 50 million total Worldwide.

Sad to see unfortunately. Planning to see it next week with my close friend, so maybe it'll do better in international markets eventually.

 

[Neno_Kos]

Great movie. Just give Eggers to direct some Vinland Saga or SnK.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I was getting massive Berserk vibes more than anything. Overcoming your fate, the choice between love and vengeance…felt very much in keeping with what Miura was talking about in his opus.

Also this is a ****ing masterpiece, undoubtedly film of the year.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

While I'm glad it didn't end up being a complete BO disaster on the level of The Last Duel this movie definitely deserved to do so much better, but it was a hard sell from the beginning.

Hopefully, it does find a bigger audience when it comes to streaming and I also hope this doesn't hurt Egger's future chances with the studios for a shot at another risky, big budget movie.

After this I definitely want to see this guy go all out and make something truly crazy and out there like his version of Dragonslayer or even a God of War type film with his artistic sensibilities.

 

[Boom]

Hope it finds an audience on a streaming service down the road.

Just thankful we got it.

 

[Kane52630]

Saw it last night in Dolby Cinema, I was literally blown away by everything. Dat score.

When Alexander Skarsgård pulled a Ultimate Warrior at Claes Bang, that s**t was cinema.

 

[Asr]

I'm still coming back later to write another post (maybe even after a rewatch), but just wanted to say I was glad to see pretty early on that Eggers had an obviously bigger budget to play with for this movie compared to his previous ones. Really makes me want to see what he can do with an actual big budget.

Also got to see the new trailer for Alex Garland's Men, which also looks amazing. Dang I really can't wait to see that one either. So many great movies released this year already, and more to come, is making me feel like a kid in a candy store!