re: 'The Northman' Discussion Thread | Directed by Robert Eggers | Now streaming

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liked it, but was a little let down. As you said beautiful film, average story, mixed bag on the acting. I think the movie was missing one good battle scene at the start featuring Amleth's dad to set the tone. I'm not one that NEEDS non-stop action and I didn't expect that in this film, but I think this is a film that would've benefited from it. Movie just zigged every time I wanted it to zag. 3/5 stars

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This is me. I was expecting a bit more horror elements. Him terrorizing his uncle’s village was the highlight. the first 30 minutes almost had me bailing (there were 2 couples who left and never came back.)

It finally settled a bit and I can say I enjoyed it, but some of that was out there and weird and I can handle weird.

Also it’s wild to me that Alexander Skarsgaard was banging Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies and she was his mom (that wanted to bang him) in this.

Upon further thinking on it, it’s well done, but there were just a lot of misses. Sometimes I think about incredibly well done movies where the director nails their vision ( Mad Max, Craxy Stupid Love, Interstellar) but we’re left with an amazingly flawed movie that missed the mark.

This is a movie where I feel like the execution was great but the director missed his intended vision.