The Northman (and other Robert Eggers movies)

[The Gold Stream]

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The Witch ✅

The Lighthouse ✅

The Northman ?

can this man go 3 for 3 top tier films? i think so. he is reuniting with several of his previously-used actors


also Katie Dickie who killed it in The Witch is returning.

The Mountain from game of thrones will also be in it, which gives a little pause given his kind of 'meh' acting, but with Eggers' attention to detail/realistic stuff I'm sure they'll put his size to use. Or perhaps his acting isn't as bad in his native tongue

[SiegePerilous02]

I think he can. Both the Witch and the Lighthouse were great, and he's at the top of my list for new directors whose work I'm keeping tabs of (along witj Ari Aster and Rose Glass). I hope that remake of Nosferatu that he was going to make is still happening.

[Hellion]

I have faith he'll go three for three. The Witch is probably the best horror film I've seen in about 15 years.

I thought The Lighthouse was brilliant but my ability to appreciate it on a second viewing was overshadowed by giggles over Willem Dafoe's character ramblin' about his lobster. Movie was one of the gayest things I've ever seen, and I don't mean that pejoratively.

[SiegePerilous02]

I have faith he'll go three for three. The Witch is probably the best horror film I've seen in about 15 years.

I thought The Lighthouse was brilliant but my ability to appreciate it on a second viewing was overshadowed by giggles over Willem Dafoe's character ramblin' about his lobster. Movie was one of the gayest things I've ever seen, and I don't mean that pejoratively.

I was giggling even during the first viewing.

Did not expect that movie to be as successfully funny as it was.

[batnbreakfast]

Lighthouse was too weird for me and I have no idea what happened at the end but I loved the VVitch and am looking forward to Northman as long as there won't be any Mermaids. If you guys like depressing Viking tales while waiting for this movie check out Vertigo's Northlanders by Brian Wood.

[Username taken]

I haaaaated The Witch but I loved the Lighthouse.

I'm looking forward to this.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

I didn't like THE LIGHTHOUSE as much as THE WITCH but it was still an intense and unforgettable film.

But I am a big fan of anything to do with the Vikings, and I love this cast.

[thwhtGuardian]

This guy can do no wrong in my eyes so I'm in.

[The Gold Stream]

[Jack The Tripper]

I’ve noticed there’s no new thread for this, but maybe this can give it a bump.

Saw it the other night - fantastic movie. Absolutely brilliant imo. I liked it more than The Witch, but The Lighthouse still reigns supreme for me.

All the acting was superb, I don’t usually like Nicole Kidman but I thought she was great here

Trailers really deliberately miss-sold this film as something akin to Gladiator/Braveheart and I think that actually damaged it in the long run. It’s an Eggers film so you know it would never be that straight forward

I’d love to have seen what he would have done in-hindered by the studio process, but I hope one day he can get to a Tarantino/Nolan level where studios just let him push through with whatever he wants

I hope people go watch this film, but I don’t think its target demographic are all that willing to go back to cinemas just yet. Unfortunate.

[The Gold Stream]

i am waiting for the streaming release, and yeah i thought it was going to be more 'straight forward' than his other movies from the trailers

but overall hearing good things as well, still hyped for it

[BeastieRunner]

I’ve noticed there’s no new thread for this, but maybe this can give it a bump.

Saw it the other night - fantastic movie. Absolutely brilliant imo. I liked it more than The Witch, but The Lighthouse still reigns supreme for me.

All the acting was superb, I don’t usually like Nicole Kidman but I thought she was great here

Trailers really deliberately miss-sold this film as something akin to Gladiator/Braveheart and I think that actually damaged it in the long run. It’s an Eggers film so you know it would never be that straight forward

I’d love to have seen what he would have done in-hindered by the studio process, but I hope one day he can get to a Tarantino/Nolan level where studios just let him push through with whatever he wants

I hope people go watch this film, but I don’t think its target demographic are all that willing to go back to cinemas just yet. Unfortunate.

What kind of film was it then?

Trailer did give it an epic Norse vibe.

[Jack The Tripper]

What kind of film was it then?

Trailer did give it an epic Norse vibe.

It’s a lot more intimate, and a lot weirder than any marketing I saw, though definitely Eggers’ most accessible film.

There’s a lot of psychedelic imagery to do with visions/prophecy/lineage, and parts that you might come out of not knowing if they were real or not in the context of the story.

It also doesn’t hold your hand through Norse myth/lore - I was glad I spent a lot of my teenage years reading Thor comics for this reason haha

it’s not like army vs army or even clan vs clan. Don’t expect big Hollywood set pieces or over the top villains, or even a protagonist that is clearly in the right. It makes no concessions about how life was back then, with my friend even coming out of the cinema just saying he’s glad he was born now haha.

Most of the movie takes place on one plot of land even.

I hope that doesn’t turn you off the film, because I personally thought it better than the marketing suggested, but it definitely didn’t feel like an epic to me, very much a small scale story about revenge

[SiegePerilous02]

Saw this on Friday night with friends. Loved it much like I have loved all of his movies. Don't think this was quite as good as the Lighthouse, but better than the Witch (that was still a helluva debut though).

Soundtrack kicked ass. My favorite bits being during the first village raid, the Valkyrie sequence and the final fight

[JBatmanFan05]

I love Eggers, both personally (the dude is very genuinely weird) and as a film auteur.

I think it will be difficult for me to love an Eggers film more than The Witch, due to my preferences for old school gothic/satanic horror, but I'm super interested in anything he does.