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an_lagat_glas

fannish roundup

Dec 21, 2009 10:00

OH MEL GIBSON NO. Though really, at this point I should be surprised if someone makes a good Viking movie. The Viking Sagas is probably the least bad of the lot (basically consisting of all the most exciting bits of the sagas), though the best by far is Útlaginn, which was 1) actually filmed in Iceland, in the places the saga names and with ( Read more... )

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lalumena December 21 2009, 20:29:27 UTC

I just feel like Vikings would look more butch? Which sounds harsh towards Leo, but...he just doesn't quite encapsulate a Viking. Mind you, neither does Rob Pattinson and I think he might have played one back in the day.

As regards the Doctor - are you referring to the Good Queen Bess line? Or something else?

an_lagat_glas December 21 2009, 20:36:08 UTC

I have spent my semester reading about Icelandic poets in tragic love stories so I'm a bit ambivalent about big hulking manly-looking vikings atm, but I agree with you that Leo . . . just does not look like a viking. It probably does not help that he doesn't look a bit Scandinavian. And yes, RPattz was in a Viking film, which is in my Netflix queue! I'm a little too excited about that one . . .

Yup! The line where he says he got married to Good Queen Bess and her nickname (I took it as him referring to 'The Virgin Queen') doesn't fit anymore.

mythopathy December 21 2009, 23:42:01 UTC

Viking movies:

AW, you didn't like 13th Warrior? But why?

I want to see this.

an_lagat_glas December 22 2009, 02:25:45 UTC

Oh, I did like that one! Just forgot about it. And that film sounds interesting, I hadn't heard of it! The names are kind of a random mix of stuff, hmm. Kenneth, lol.