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Post by CT on Oct 2, 2009 10:25:09 GMT -5
just saw this for the first time and I liked it a lot. I've long read and studied about pre columbian trans oceanic contact between the new and old worlds, so I think that is why it appealed to me so much. An imaginitve look at what the interactions might have been like if Vikings landed in the New World around 800 ad. (it's been proven they landed in Newfoundland in 1000 ad, 500 years before Columbus, so this movie isn't so far fetched. Lots of great kills here, so I think a lot of horror fans could enjoy it. My only problem was the over the top Viking costumes, I know they couldn't have shlepped all that armor and weaponry across the atlantic! 4/5
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Post by Jen on Oct 4, 2009 11:41:43 GMT -5
I think we own this.....lol.....but haven't watched it yet. We'll make sure to watch it soon (well, after October is over).
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Post by CT on Oct 4, 2009 13:05:23 GMT -5
Yeah watch it next month and let me know how it was. You'll at least like the visuals and kills but I think the whole movie is pretty good.
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Post by GP on Nov 9, 2009 14:34:11 GMT -5
Worst viking movie ever. And Karl Urban should never carry a film again. Because he can't.
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Post by CT on Nov 9, 2009 15:55:02 GMT -5
Agree about Urban, but not the rest of the film. Vikings hacking up natives is just classic!
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Post by GP on Nov 10, 2009 8:58:50 GMT -5
They weren't vikings. They were GWAR for the post-Lordi era. With added eyeliner. I love Clancy Brown to bits, the Kurgen ruled my teens, but I feel sorry for him in this. He had nothing to work with. Could have been amazing.
Flawed it may be but The Thirteenth Warrior remains for me the best viking treatment around. I had high hopes for Outlander but the lead viking was so ineffectual it was depressing. Ron Perlman did a good stint though.
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Post by HNT on Nov 10, 2009 9:38:46 GMT -5
I admit that I haven't seen this yet, but to me the statement "best viking film" is the functional equivalent of something like "most touching and emotional moment on a Paris Hilton reality show."
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Post by Bone Daddy on Nov 10, 2009 14:04:54 GMT -5
Outlander was Beowulf dressed up as a sci-fi film. Utterly formulaic and predictable. Not a terrible movie, just a paint-by-the-numbers exercise.
GP-love your GWAR analogy, maybe I'll rent Pathfinder and have a few beers with it and mock it like MST3K!
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Post by Jen on Nov 16, 2009 13:06:46 GMT -5
CT, I wanted to like it, I really did.... The good: it often looks good, some of the action sequences and death scenes are done well. Clancy Brown is in it. And he's just awesome. The bad: the Vikings are caricatures, both sides seem incredibly incompetent (which explains why the Natives needed one man to completely rescue them, right? which maybe is a little insulting...LOL.). The overuse of slow motion is irritating. The dialogue is often really bad, and there is almost zero character development.
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Post by CT on Nov 16, 2009 13:21:56 GMT -5
LOL, the character dvelopment is when he suddenly changed from a 5 year old to a 25 year old!
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Post by HNT on Nov 16, 2009 15:17:45 GMT -5
So, then basically character development in this film has been reduced to growing pubes? Sweet
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Post by FireStar on Dec 10, 2009 23:48:01 GMT -5
I actually saw this for the first time a couple weeks ago and was surprised by it. I thought it would be alot different than it turned out to be, not too sure how I feel about it though. KInd of on the fence about it.
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