S3E19.5: The Northman [PREVIEW]

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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After watching Beowulf, we decided to take a look at another recent film about the Vikings. A film lauded as an extremely accurate depiction of a 80-IQ ripped guy eating shit constantly in service of righting a wrong that was already righted while he wasn't paying attention. Is it fascist? Maybe. Maybe it's good though, ever thought of that? ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. Give money to people crowdfunding for passage out of Rafah first and foremost. While the crossing might be closed, the situation is changing by the day and being able to afford passage out when the crossing reopens is an immense comfort. then purchase ESIMs, then donate to this link if you feel you need a big name attached to the fund to trust it.Please don't only donate money. You have to do other things now. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate ----- A New place to listen! Our entire backlog has been ported over to youtube, and can be found here! ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon!https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com

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0:00.0	Mad, let me tell you a story listener of three brave podcasters.
0:28.6	Surely Justin Vavelle.
0:32.6	No.
0:36.9	Oh my God, that's so, I'm so glad I cleared that lump in my throat.
0:41.6	Hi, listeners, how's it going?
0:44.0	I should never have let you take a hit of my vape.
0:47.1	It does this to everyone, you know, it's fine.
0:49.5	I'm fucking dumb.
0:51.3	It's Kill James Bond.
0:52.9	It's a bonus episode.
0:57.1	It's Devin's Pick, and Devin picked the Northman.
1:05.7	We are on some Norse shit, a little like season within a season of Veking. We're doing some like Scandinavian content.
1:15.7	Indeed. Yeah. As you all will have heard, I had such a good time doing Bay of Wolf, but I decided to examine a sort of counterpart to it in The Northman.
1:16.5	Yeah.
1:20.1	A better film in most, if not always.
1:21.3	Yeah, absolutely.
1:23.2	A more interesting film to talk about, I think. Yes, definitely.
1:24.0	This is a Robert Eggers film, and I want to say up front, something that Robert Eggers did say, which is at the premiere of this.
1:30.1	He's like, I hate the way in which Norse culture has been appropriated by the far right.
1:36.0	And I'm like repulsed by that.
1:37.2	And I want to make a movie that kind of doesn't do that.
1:40.0	And I think ultimately one of the things that we're going to be talking about in the course
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