The 13th Warrior
Jan. 16th, 2006 03:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lpetersson199 days to go...
Wow.
The 13th Warrior is a really good movie.
I tried to watch it some time last year and thought: 'What a load of toss...'
But now that I concentrated mostly on the movie I thought it was really good.
I guess it helps that I can go fishing in WoW at the same time :)
It's basically about a fancy arab who fancies the wrong woman and gets sent to the frozen north to be an ambassador for the Arabs.
WTF?
I don't remember hearinging about ambassadors to Scandinavia back in the viking age... Never mind, I'll let that one pass...
The rest of the movie is about how he gets up north, learns to dislike our customs and then learns to respect them while figthing an evil and mysterious foe.
One thing that really impressed was the fact that all the norsemen actually spoke Danish/Swedish/Norwegian... Very impressive and very unexpected.
Not one to watch if you want a deep plot, but if you want an easily accessible movie that doesn't resuire any afterthought, this is it...
And Viking training today was great. More Dane-Axe training. Yay.
And while I'm waiting for my own Dane-Axe to be crafted, the guy who will be getting it for me said he will bring his in for me to use in the meanwhile. Score... :D
And afterwards it was off to The Dev for a drink or two with some great company...
Wow.
The 13th Warrior is a really good movie.
I tried to watch it some time last year and thought: 'What a load of toss...'
But now that I concentrated mostly on the movie I thought it was really good.
I guess it helps that I can go fishing in WoW at the same time :)
It's basically about a fancy arab who fancies the wrong woman and gets sent to the frozen north to be an ambassador for the Arabs.
WTF?
I don't remember hearinging about ambassadors to Scandinavia back in the viking age... Never mind, I'll let that one pass...
The rest of the movie is about how he gets up north, learns to dislike our customs and then learns to respect them while figthing an evil and mysterious foe.
One thing that really impressed was the fact that all the norsemen actually spoke Danish/Swedish/Norwegian... Very impressive and very unexpected.
Not one to watch if you want a deep plot, but if you want an easily accessible movie that doesn't resuire any afterthought, this is it...
And Viking training today was great. More Dane-Axe training. Yay.
And while I'm waiting for my own Dane-Axe to be crafted, the guy who will be getting it for me said he will bring his in for me to use in the meanwhile. Score... :D
And afterwards it was off to The Dev for a drink or two with some great company...
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Date: 2006-01-16 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 03:56 am (UTC)Nice seeing you tonight, next week I'll try to be a bit earlier! Are you coming out to SC on Friday?
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Date: 2006-01-16 11:53 am (UTC)I'm certainly suffering for it today.
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Date: 2006-01-16 07:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 10:30 am (UTC)it could be fun :)
see you next weekend for a few beers :)
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Date: 2006-01-16 11:52 am (UTC)There are a few of you lot who have voiced some interest and you're certainly welcome to come along.
It's every Sunday at 16:00, so if you want to come along some Sunday, just text/call me and we can meet at Archway tube station at 15:30 and proceed from there.
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Date: 2006-01-16 01:25 pm (UTC)being that i'm rather poor, but still curious
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Date: 2006-01-16 01:28 pm (UTC)After a while you will need to get some weapons, but it's only about £20 or so for an axe and when I have some more weapons you'd be able to borrow mine when I don't use them any way...
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Date: 2006-01-16 09:58 pm (UTC)