alrik-lanzow
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I've almost given up the idea of the film-industry ever depicting vikings in a fair and historically correct way.
The costume design in this series is not only anachronistic but excruciatingly daft; vikings weren't dressed in rags of leather, nor did they sport drab colours.
Stop dressing vikings like biker-gang reject thugs. The leather "armor" looks ridiculous.
Vikings were, according to most research, highly fashionable and wore fine, dyed clothing of quality textiles and weaponry to match to show off their status. They were traders as well as raiders and would be able to acquire fine textiles, as opposed to skinning the local ox.
Notable vikings would carry highly decorated quality swords, not crude axes.
Not sure what impact crude, brown leather would have on people.
The dialogue spans from god-awful to slightly tolerable and I'm pretty sure King Knut of Denmark never talked with a dialect reminiscent of count Dracula of Transylvania.
The acting is overall decent, not spectacular.
The visuals are mostly good, as well as a rich scenery. Some use of crude cgi rendering and backdrops is distracting though, in particular where ship-armadas are depicted.
The fight choreography consists of the usual horse-***t spinning and flailing about with weapons and noone ever wears a helmet.
That said, the story is decently engaging and once you accept the series as a "switch off your brain"- fantasy adventure it's decent. Some decent characters here and there.
Give it a go, it's light entertainment.
The costume design in this series is not only anachronistic but excruciatingly daft; vikings weren't dressed in rags of leather, nor did they sport drab colours.
Stop dressing vikings like biker-gang reject thugs. The leather "armor" looks ridiculous.
Vikings were, according to most research, highly fashionable and wore fine, dyed clothing of quality textiles and weaponry to match to show off their status. They were traders as well as raiders and would be able to acquire fine textiles, as opposed to skinning the local ox.
Notable vikings would carry highly decorated quality swords, not crude axes.
Not sure what impact crude, brown leather would have on people.
The dialogue spans from god-awful to slightly tolerable and I'm pretty sure King Knut of Denmark never talked with a dialect reminiscent of count Dracula of Transylvania.
The acting is overall decent, not spectacular.
The visuals are mostly good, as well as a rich scenery. Some use of crude cgi rendering and backdrops is distracting though, in particular where ship-armadas are depicted.
The fight choreography consists of the usual horse-***t spinning and flailing about with weapons and noone ever wears a helmet.
That said, the story is decently engaging and once you accept the series as a "switch off your brain"- fantasy adventure it's decent. Some decent characters here and there.
Give it a go, it's light entertainment.
I like schlocky shark-movies as much as the next guy, but this was excruciatingly bad on many levels.
Awful effects, ludicrous script, boring cinematography and, to top it off, the movie takes itself way too serious.
The characters are bland, cardboard cutouts and none of them are remotely likeable. The fact that the movie emphasises that they're video-bloggers (in ill-timed, dreary flashbacks) made me wish for the cast to become sharkfodder that much sooner.
I simply couldn't finish watching the thing and I can't say I'm sorry.
The characters are bland, cardboard cutouts and none of them are remotely likeable. The fact that the movie emphasises that they're video-bloggers (in ill-timed, dreary flashbacks) made me wish for the cast to become sharkfodder that much sooner.
I simply couldn't finish watching the thing and I can't say I'm sorry.
