This isn’t a Marvel movie directed by Sam Raimi, this is a Sam Raimi film featuring Marvel characters. Raimi’s fingerprints are all over it. The signature marvel levity is almost non existent, it’s more of a light horror movie. It never reaches the heights of No Way Home but is enjoyable in a different way.
The colors, the tone, the jump scares, the Raimi of it all adds up to a much different, but very interesting addition to the MCU.
What can I say, I’m a sucker for the rise and fall of the CEO of billion dollar companies story. I don’t pay too much attention to these types of news stories, in fact, I’d never heard of WeWork. This was all a first time experience for me and I think that aided in my enjoyment. Had I followed the news coverage, watched the docs, listened to the podcasts, then I probably wouldn’t have watched this at all.
Shit lord…
Having loathed both of Robert Eggers other films, The Witch and The Lighthouse, let's just say I had a jaded eye entering The Northman. Any uneasiness I had melted away during the fantastic prologue. Ethan Hawke shines, Willem Dafoe is as strange as usual and it sets up the plot.
The film was very Eggers, but didn't stray into "this is entirely too weird" territory. There was a great balance of spiritualness, what the fuck-ness and some of the goriest…
"My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet."
lmao still hysterical
