So I wen't and saw it....
I really want that two hours and 8 dollars worth of life back. All it did was piss me off to the point where I need to come here and rant, and then go to Livejournal and rant, hopefully pissing off enough of YOU so that YOU all rant, and the world knows how much we HATE THAT FUCKING MOVIE!!!!!
Firstly, the story line sucked, and felt very much simpled down from something that was originally epic and grand. I figure that is because it's an american movie. Visuals were beautiful, butttt...of course...american movie. Huge visuals for lots of idiots with low IQs. Terrible storyline, wretched plot holes. Decent acting.
The Demonization of the Vikings was so outragious that it sickened me, and pissed me off to no end. I can handle vikings being portrayed as the bad guys in a movie, because from a lot of peoples perspectives, they WERE the bad guys-the enemy. However. This was like...out to make them look absolutely awful, and with NO redeeming qualities. For one, they were there to commit Genocide, and "cleanse these lands before we settle here". They were portrayed as racist animals, and infact the boy who was raised by them said that where they come from "they are all beasts. Nothing more. They live for hate." It's fucking bullshit. The vikings call the native americans "animals" and when the kid speaks icelandic they're like "so you DO speak like a human". The action scenes suck. No good FIGHTS. the vikings go into a village and kill every single person, to the point where they chase the single survivors all around the woods like idiots. Its like they are orcs chasing the prized hobbits for Isengard. Mindless and stupid. THey are easily tricked, also, and portrayed as big, slow idiots. The truth is the vikings prized cunning over strength, and any Asatru, or person who knows a thing about the Norsemen, would know that. And worst of all, it shows them killing their own comrades. Twice. Once because a general is angry, he beats one of his soldiers to death, and then at the end the leader kills his second in command so that he can take the guys knife and use it as a pick to climb a cliff. How very unheathen and how very unviking.
THe Movie sucked. I'm pissed. You all should be -_-.