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Title: The Northman
Post by: HACKANUT on December 20, 2021, 09:09:01 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMSdFM12hOw


New Rob Eggers looks promising.
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: polkablues on December 21, 2021, 01:52:49 AM
Holy shit, he convinced Björk to act again. Looks awesome, but Nicole Kidman's face is, yet again, a problem, and Anya Taylor-Joy's accent is rough.
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: pynchonikon on December 21, 2021, 03:15:20 AM
Of course Focus is advertizing it as the new Revenant à la Vikings, while the initial test screenings reported it is better described as Egger's version of Valhalla Rising.
Looks beautiful, nevertheless.
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on December 23, 2021, 10:27:14 AM
It's cool that it has Björk in it, but it all looks a bit po-faced and obvious. Struggling to work up any excitement. I disliked The Lighthouse intensely.
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on December 23, 2021, 02:21:09 PM
That's funny, The Lighthouse is what sold me on Eggers and improved my opinion of The Witch. This looks amazing.
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on April 04, 2022, 01:54:17 AM
https://twitter.com/JM3K/status/1510746325125582848
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: pynchonikon on April 04, 2022, 07:43:18 AM
https://twitter.com/nikowl/status/1510827279181815810
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: HACKANUT on April 04, 2022, 08:36:35 AM
Smiling Bjork is nightmare fuel :shock:
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: Robyn on April 05, 2022, 11:54:24 AM
Everyone's too pretty and clean
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: HACKANUT on April 05, 2022, 02:38:20 PM
Agreed. I'm kinda confused why this movie looks so much shinier than The Lighthouse. Not a good look IMO
Title: Re: The Northman
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on April 22, 2022, 06:44:31 AM
Saw this. I appear to be in a minority, going by the reviews, but I didn't like it much at all. It's turgid and portentous, loud and empty. Eggers strikes me as more of a production designer than a director, honestly. It felt like a God of War videogame with a veneer of historical respectability to me, at points.

I can appreciate wanting to support a filmmaker getting an 'original vision' made at that budget level, but I can't pretend to have liked it. I also found The Lighthouse very annoying, so maybe Eggers just isn't for me.

It reminded me of the work of Darren Aronofsky and Alejandro González Iñárritu: two of the world's silliest directors.