Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
talverri Sorry for the 'spoiler'. Excessive camera work, editing tricks and pushing the envelope of film taboos do not work with what is a period adventure drama. My spoiler - I stopped watching when we got an up close and personal shot of one of the vikings naked bum while he was evacuating. Meaning a graphic filming of voiding his intestinal tract.... I hope you don't get the picture, if you know what I mean. To bring an experimental style to a period piece requires careful consideration and a less is more approach. I do give points to the author for using an actual historical person, Thorfinn Karlsefni. His story is found in Eric the Red's Saga and Saga of Olaf Tryggvason... This story had and maybe has a lot of promise. Maybe somehow it can be resurrected.
dfx4360 If you want to see a viking's anus unload and leave a sloppy viking turd in the bushes, watch him wipe his ass, and see him kill his viking lover's monk friend,"Sancho",,, than this is for you... Otherwise, skip it! PS: The head-banging intermission to Pagan Metal was awesome! So IMDb doesn't like the fact i have less than 10 lines for such a shitty movie! So I'm BS'n for four more lines after this one. Why did he kill the monk? He was jealous that the monk was giving his friend foot rubs. Maybe he didn't like homo's? And that was not a passionate Indian lovemaking like this other review I read. She was stealing his Viking seed... Nothing more. His bracers staked in the ground. She raped him... Maybe she was paying him back for the way his vikings raped her mom? Like when the Indian killed the other viking. The look on his face was satisfied. Then you can read the expression as a first kill. Then the blonde one buries an axe in his chest like a 500 B.C. Frank.
william_fold2002 ...and where are YOUR cinematic masterpieces? How many Oscar winning films have you made, Jack? Severed Ways may have sucked, but at least they went out and actually tried to make a movie. I really hate all the would-be "Critics" here who do nothing but complain about how bad every movie is, but yet, haven't made anything worthwhile themselves. Jealousy isn't a very flattering thing, which most "Critics" seem to be.As far as the soundtrack is concerned, the music(although not really fitting into the movie very well), is at least different than the cookie-cutter music of almost every other "period" piece.
bergelmer-bergqvist First of all, some really good points have been made about the directing and whatnot. The movie stinks as bad as his poop did in the pointless shitting scene. Yes, vikings made poopie like everyone else.Did you ever stop to think about the Swedish "dialogue" in the movie?. First of all it is directly taken from Det Sjunde Inseglet by Ingmar Bergman (lawsuit?) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/ and it is no way connected to the story nor the subtitles (which are also not connected t the "story"). For example after he sees the Indian woman for the first time he comes back screaming "Skraeling" but in Swedish he is screaming "HÅLL KÄFTEN" which means "shut the f**k up!". The other man replies "Where are they?" but in Swedish he is asking his friend simply "Har du ont i magen?" which means "Do you have a tummy ache?". Does this make any sense? Many scenes filmed through the eye of the Indian woman (Atleast it could have been her, it is all so confusing) is filmed through what appears to be binoculars. This looks as stupid as it sounds, especially when you can see the damn binoculars moving infront of the camera.Someone said that it was good that the movie did not have a lot of dialogue. Both yes and no. The advantages of having dialogue is that people actually get a chance to understand what is going on with the characters and the story. For example, did Volnard turn Christian? Did he like the foot massage? Why was he sad, confused, angry, constipated, jealous, bored, tired, wondering why he did the movie or any other emotion that his ONE facial expression tried to express.What really amazed me about this movie is that it is so frustrating and funny to watch that you have to see it all. Just to see if it will make sense in the end (don't worry, it doesn't. Not in the least).Whether you like it or not, it is a great conversation piece. Watch it with a friend who has some knowledge (unlike the director) of movies and how to make them. Diss it like in Mystery Science Theater 3000, you will have the time of your life.And NO the soundtrack was NOT amazing, it was stupid and made no sense whatsoever. However the nature shots were beautiful but almost always pointless.This is a rape of viking culture and an affront to movie making. It simply leaves you confused and outraged. You want to talk to Tony Stone and ask just two questions; HOW? and WHY?.
