Daft-finder
So I've just watched Pathfinder. What a
shocking disappointment. You see that image there, the lovely poster? That is, almsot literally, about as exciting as it gets. Admittedly there are things to love about the movie, most obviously the historically inaccurate but nonetheless awesome Vikings, who are all giants covered with scary spikes and skulls and god knows what. They really do look awesome (and would make particularly good Chaos warriors if somebody wanted to make a Warhammer movie). I know it wasn't supposed to be a history lesson (in fact, much like 300 earlier in the year it seeks to mythologise events) but that poster there makes you think you're gonna get two hours of a little tiny bloke fighting huge vikings. And you do get some of that, but it's always too dark and the direction is epileptic enough to leave you with no idea at all what's going on and just waiting for the next CGI blood spurt. I remember when I first saw stills from this movie and they just looked so beaufitul, almost like they were paintings brought to life. Sadly the movie has almost none of that; it's too dark and cramped, and at times has an almost laughably made for TV look about it. Oh yeah, and speaking of laughable; if you don't laugh when the natives all jumping into the spiked pit then you don't know from funny. I know it's supposed to be heart-breakingly tragic (another mis-judgement, it is in fact laughably ridiculous), but how the Vikings didn't all die of laughter at that point I can't imagine. And it would've made the movie a lot shorter too! It's just made me want to watch the 13th Warrior now, and that's not exactly a masterwork either!
In other news I'm off work again today, although for the last time I hope. I was also actually HUNGRY at lunchtime, and successfully ate cheese on toast! Which has admittedly filled me up, but that is surely not a bad thing.
I have a splitting headache now, which I'm going to blame on the poor quality of Pathfinders script. Ouch!
posted by BadMonkey @ 3:26 PM
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