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Post by Odingaard on Feb 6, 2011 18:17:06 GMT
The Long Ships (1964)
Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
Erik the Viking (1989)
The Viking Sagas (1995)
and The Vikings (1958) are among my favorites. These won't sit well with most people, because to be honest, some of them are just bad - but they hold entertainment value for me (IE, the Walk scene in the Viking Sagas).
However, when considering Scandinavian films in general, I consider The Seventh Seal (1957) and the Arn the Templar films (2007, 2008) to be my favorites of all time.
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Post by JohnE on Feb 7, 2011 0:21:14 GMT
Just finished watching VR, and I gotta say. It was pretty awful. There was one good moment for me: when one of the crusaders made a move on One Eye with a dagger, but before he even knew he was in range, One Eye dove at him and hamstrung him with his axe.
I also just added Arn the Templar to my Netflix queue.
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Post by Student of Sword on Feb 7, 2011 0:39:08 GMT
Arm the Templar, the original version is supposed to be 4 hours long. The US version on Netflix is only 2 hours. What happened to the rest of the movie?
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Post by Luka on Feb 7, 2011 1:17:41 GMT
The short version is badly massacered. Watch the long version.
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Feb 7, 2011 1:56:07 GMT
Thanks, Odingaard.
I've seen a few of those, but not The Seventh Seal. In fact, I don't think I've seen any Bergmann movie! But I did get the reference when Bill and Ted played Twister with Death.
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Post by Odingaard on Feb 7, 2011 6:57:03 GMT
I completely agree, if you can find it stateside. I had the benefit of seeing the originals. The first one is Arn the Templar. The Second is Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End. Each movie is well over 2 hours long in their original format. I have seen the shortened US/Export version, and it is cut to crap. That's what happens when they delete 3 hours of film. However, I the exported version is not a totally bad film - there is still lots of Albion eye candy.
In the short form, one of my favorite scenes in the whole movie is cut out. Where a young monk Arn comes upon bandits attacking a woman and the unwilling boy is forced to fight. This is the turning point where it is decided that Arn's destiny is that of warrior by the Father at the monastary. However, you get none of this in the cut version. It's just a great scene...
As for the rest of it, the biggest thing that happens in the short form is that the whole of Arn's life after the Crusades is deleted - as well as some of his earlier interpersonal relationships. His childhood relationship with Cecilla (which he knew from the time he was a toddler in the same village), his brawling blonde-locked Scandanavian Crusader buddy, the royal families, et. al. The second film details Arn's life as a lower noble in his homeland for 10 years after the crusades - and all of this is cut out. He's pretty much caught in the middle of politics between rival factions. To me, alot of this is more interesting than the Crusades portion - which mirrors KoH a little too closely for my liking (IE, the evil Guy-like character with the waxed moustache and the friendship between Arn and the Muslims).
A great epic, seen in it's entirety. However, only a glimmer of that greatness when see in short form.
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Post by SanMarc on Feb 7, 2011 7:47:22 GMT
Arn was the precursor to KOH, Bet ya didn't know that, it sets you up for KOH, some times a movie comes out after the one that should have second....SanMarc.
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