So why did this movie do so poorly?
It wasn't slow, it was straight forward, good performances, nice visuals, and have decent action scenes.
What else is the common theater-goer looking for?
So why did this movie do so poorly? It wasn't slow, it was straight forward, good performances, nice visuals, and have decent action scenes.
>What else is the common theater-goer looking for?
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/
Look at 1 and 2. They're both capeshit. I guess the answer is that people want the same thing over and over.
Who tf cares about vikings
this, the nonwhite masses just want to CONSUME. No one cares. They just want simple black and white moral stories which align with popular liberal morality today.
Fast and the Furious 36?
>Perfect.
Capeshit 421?
>Please more!
Star Shit 74: The sequel prequel?
>OH MY GOOOOOOOD!!!!
I have a bad feeling that even if they tried to watch The Northman, they wouldn't enjoy it because it's so different to what they've been programmed to enjoy.
I don't really care because I enjoyed it and that's what's important.
they wouldn't like it for sure. My brother and his wife purported to "love viking stuff" didn't like it because it wasn't the juvenile black and white shit on the tv with the negress shield maidens (YAASSS QWEEEN!)
According to the site it did profit since it did 110 million with a budget of 70-90. Am I missing something?
Not the right fit for modern audiences
can't be bad word of mouth if nobody showed up to watch it
no people of color. representation matters like financially.
it was shit
It's literally all about marketing budget; the content of a movie makes zero difference, only how much is spent to push it.
I didn't realize it until the Half in the Bag review, but apparently it is shotakino. I will be purchasing a ticket tomorrow if it's still in theaters
It did USD 75 mil so far. It cost too much, that's all. It's kino.
i love how all the movies i like make people angry, not just critical but actually emotionally rattled. i dont enjoy things because they upset people, its just a pleasant aftertaste
It’s a middle of the road movie. It’s not even close to being a must watch for anyone. Why is everyone surprised?
>It’s a middle of the road movie. It’s not even close to being a must watch for anyone
combine that with a long ass runtime and you have a recipe for disaster
I didn't like his first two movies for one. This came off more like an artsy something than a viking epic, which I feel like I've seen a million times already btw.
This movie would gain at least 2/10 if they cut out all the stupid rituals and hallucinations. It was pretty fricking slow to get started and put me in a bad mood.
this is the most interesting and important part of the story you fricking moron. It's an exploration of what it actually meant to BE a pagan. What it meant to actually BELIEVE in their religion. How low IQ are you?
maybe if they worshipped jesus the movie wouldnt have flopped
True, they should've put Israeli flags all over the posters and christcucks would pay hand over fist to get in there
it was fricking boring. People don't watch a movie with a ripped viking on the cover to see them crawling on the ground like dogs burping and farting.
The best scenes are the ones showing rituals, prophecies and visions.
Nobody watches non-franchise shit on theaters anymore
>It wasn't slow
yeah it was. Pacing was brutally off. Also it’s plot was such a simple premise for a viking movie. I really expected something a little more clever from Eggers. It was genuinely disappointing
Because people only pay to see reboots and sequels.
Shill harder.
whites are box office poison
Why does medieval kino keep failing in the box office but so many medieval tv shows are top runners?
>Hidden Figures
aka Madea Goes to the Moon
Crackers worship Black folk, Black folk don't worship Crackers. Simple as.
i just watched it, i liked it. i dont think its as good as apocaylpto though. i see the two movies being compared here which is why i bring it up.
apocalypto kicks ass. I wouldn't recommend northmen to anyone there's no comparison.
>It wasn't slow, it was straight forward,
It was a solid 30 minutes too long and I say that as someone who enjoyed the whole ride. Can you really imagine the average moviegoer sitting through that much movie without Marvel quips to tide them over?
The plot was even dumber than a marvel movie.
>puts his waifu in danger for no reason
>oh no she's in danger how could this happen
>oh no now I have to fight during the daytime, my only weakeness
Did it not occur to him to keep the fricking sword unsheathed?
Dumbest, most poorly executed revenge ever.
>pagan larpers celebrating a movie that shows how barbaric and weird viking debauchery was, then the main character kills tons of pagans, impregnates a Christian slave, then his daughter becomes Saint Olga, patron saint of converts
So we gonna get a movie about her or what? She looks pretty cute in her paintings.
that would be interesting but she wasn't a martyr, I don't think. Pretty sure she just got sick and died.
rarely if ever will they make films about non-martyred saints.
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 is peak female martyr kino
Not enough troonys and LGBT issues discussed
It was the only thing me and some of my friends wanted to see like all year but no theaters near us showed it, and even if they did we probably wouldn't have gone. Post Covid theaters are shit and are raising prices more to cover their end, frick it I'll wait til streaming.
Viking shit is played out. Should have just gone full on fantasy or something.
It was never in as far as movies go. All the succesfull vikings media has been TV shows. And as pointed out by
same goes for pritty much all medieval themed media. Why is that?
I figure a lot of the people consuming said media does it out of an interest in the world and world building rather than the story that simply has to be good enough to keep the audience there. Vikings is a good example of this (story is dogshit honestly) a movie doesn't have the same capability of world building
Assasins creed vallhalla and the latest god of war game were both the most succesfull releases of their titles
>it was straight forward
It wasn't. A lot of Cinemaphile seemed to not understand it actually, and I'm guessing you're among them.
Chuds championed it as some sort of pro white nationalist shit and so people avoided it in droves. Right wing politics is cancer and box office death. .
Same goes for vikings and the last kingdom which were both massively succesfull
boring predictable plot
by the time he arrives on the island and you see its a barely defended hovel, theres no real suspense to the rest of the movie
No marketing
No big stars
Arthouse director
All contributing factors but I think the biggest one is theaters are dead. People will go once every few months to see the newest capeshit but anything else (especially if it's not related to a franchise) seems to bomb.
i want to kiss anya's eyes
The world is not in a good state. People are sad. People are not going to go to the kinoplex in 2022 to see a bloody story of revenge. It's like what's happening with Dune (2021). If you can't say the word "Jihad", then it's not a good time to do a Dune adaptation.
The mood audience is important. Movies do not exist in a vacuum.