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fcarraldo's rating
The Vikings TV series seems to be spinning off a sub genre of 1000 AD action shows. At least that is how I see this one. Cross Ragnar with the High Plains Drifter. Distilled Man with No Name with a Ragnar L. haircut. Wish they had explained how a Norman boy transformed into a Viking bad-ass. Love the berserkers by the way. I like the style, the weird electronic score. It is more like a dream world than realistic.
The colors are black and white.
The landscape science fiction. Not even true to history.There were no stone castles three years after 1066!
No originality to the plot. Really it is the classic a stranger comes to town.
But that's OK I was entertained. I like it for what it is.
The colors are black and white.
The landscape science fiction. Not even true to history.There were no stone castles three years after 1066!
No originality to the plot. Really it is the classic a stranger comes to town.
But that's OK I was entertained. I like it for what it is.
I took one point off because I find so much explicit sex and nudity to be unnecessary. I recently finally finished watching it on DVD.
In any series like this there will be creative license. As long as they get the important historical stuff mostly right that's the main thing. There are little accuracies too, like painting the town red for a Triumph. Lots of backstabbing and double-dealing - so true.
I like the acting, the plot, the look. Most of all I like the way it tries to give a feel for everyday life in Rome. Not cleaned up. There's humor too, like when the newsreader (love that guy) does ads for merchants in between announcing the big political news.
Some viewers object to the British accents and expressions. Well, it is a translation, and the Romans had expressions, vernacular and curse words - what would actually be really weird and inaccurate would be to purge all of that and have them speak in some ludicrous "How art thou Lucius Septimus" baloney Latin-speak. The reason British actors are used in these is because they are Europeans and in a weird way dramas based on European history sound more authentic with European accents.
In any series like this there will be creative license. As long as they get the important historical stuff mostly right that's the main thing. There are little accuracies too, like painting the town red for a Triumph. Lots of backstabbing and double-dealing - so true.
I like the acting, the plot, the look. Most of all I like the way it tries to give a feel for everyday life in Rome. Not cleaned up. There's humor too, like when the newsreader (love that guy) does ads for merchants in between announcing the big political news.
Some viewers object to the British accents and expressions. Well, it is a translation, and the Romans had expressions, vernacular and curse words - what would actually be really weird and inaccurate would be to purge all of that and have them speak in some ludicrous "How art thou Lucius Septimus" baloney Latin-speak. The reason British actors are used in these is because they are Europeans and in a weird way dramas based on European history sound more authentic with European accents.
This is first and foremost an action film. Any messages or history lessons are incidental. It's not especially bloody by contemporary standards. It mixes Maya and Aztec and different historical episodes but that's artistic license. It is disgustingly hypocritical of Hollywood types who love movies celebrating sadism and cruelty to claim moral outrage when the violence here is motivated by the plot and based on actual events. In fact the worst violence is in the viewers heads they don't actually see as much as they think. It's just incredibly ambitious to risk making a movie that doesn't have bankable stars, isn't in English, about an alien civilization. Love it or hate it it is not a formula film.