cobane posted:
It basically feels like a low-rent made-for-TV version of Kingdom of Heaven. It takes place during the same time, but instead of a French blacksmith going to the Holy Land it's a Swedish monk. They encounter many of the same characters... the most hilarious of which is Guy de Lusignan, who in Arn looks like a poor man's Martin Czokas (who played Guy in Kingdom of Heaven), who is himself a poor man's Rufus Sewell. The guy they got to play Saladin looks like a gay fashion model, not a leader of men. Its story covers a lot of ground, but most of it is riddled with boring cliche and flat-out bad acting.
There are so many story elements that are similar that it wouldn't surprise me if Ridley Scott totally ripped off the book Arn's based on, but he definitely did it better than these Scandinavian knuckleheads. IMDB says Arn is Sweden's most expensive movie production ever, which, if true, is very disappointing. You fuckers need to pour a longboat full of cash into a definitive viking movie. This could've been good if they had cut out the crusader bits and kept it entirely in Sweden. Most of that stuff feels better developed... it's only when the guy heads off to Jerusalem that it starts feeling like a KoH knockoff.
We should scrap the local movie industry they never produce ANYTHING original or good.. They did a passable job with the Steig Larsson books, other then that ZERO f'kin skill.
I mean the Norwegians has Troll Hunter and Död snö which were both cool, Finland has now produced Iron Sky which is basically going to be the most awesome movie ever.. Problem with Sweden is that the ghost of that geriatric cunt Bergman still resides everyone is trying to be so god damn serious and melancholic to the point where the only thing that is really produced is shitty f'kin straight to tv cop movies starring the asshole who will play the main Orc in The Hobbit. Oh they also produce awkward romantic comedies that has the same amount of originality as the Scary Movie series, and about half as funny.
So yes f'k the Swedish movie industry, sell it for scrap and invest the money into something worth while like a huge f'kin middle finger that we station at the shore in the south so that the Danes wakes up every morning to Sweden giving them the bird.
Thing is Swedes are generally really shitty at artsy stuff, we're really good at designing products that has a practical use like cars, furniture, clothes etc but tell a Swede that he should spend his life painting or creating movies or something abstract, he will look at you strangely and ask where the hell the money and productivity is in that, we're a nation of practicality.
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