@MrBuckwilliam He said: The Tatars are coming! The ancestors of the Tatars were the ferocious Huns. After Attila died there empire collapsed, and what remained of the Hunnic people moved eastwards. They established themselves around the Caspian Sea in modern day (southern) Russia, (western) Kazakhstan and (western) Turkmenistan. They were known as excellent horsemen, and had the best horse archers in the world (before the Mongols ofcourse).
@MrBuckwilliam The were famous for their frequent raids. Primary targets were trading caravans, travellers, and small villages. Their style of attack is known as hit-and-run. They attacked, slaughtered everybody, took as much goods as possible, and then left as quickly as possibly avoiding the chance of being attacked.
i still think this movie deserves some recognizement, it usually gets bashed as a bad movie, and omar sharif used to talk shit about it. i think the acting was actually pretty good, and the story tol is actually intriguing and at time it gives some perspective.
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 15 or 16, now I am 26 and I still like it. When I entered youtube, I saw they were announcing that crap called Twilight, the movie about vampires, and when I watch this movie, I think, why do people go watch Twilight instead of an amazing movie that takes you to other lands, other times in history, to the exciting times of the vikings? I would like to be a viking so much!!!
This is a very decent movie, specially if you're fan of norse warriors.
I still can believe the movie cost $160 million to make though. I'm just not seeing it, so my guess is that someone must've screwed the studio big time.
This is a very decent movie, specially if you're fan of norse warriors.
I still can believe the movie cost $160 million to make though. I'm just not seeing it, so my guess is that someone must've screwed the studio big time.
Hahah true. If you want to see an actual viking movie that's reflecting the society and values of back then you should watch When the Raven Flies. It's told like a viking saga, and really a classic among scandinavian and Icelandic films. But really... it's also very much alike "Rojimbo".
Of course it sounds gibberish to you, its not your language lol. However I manage to understand most of it in the movie since Norwegian and Swedish are somewhat similar...in a way.
5.07 -"Herger, vem e den främre? (Herger, who are they?)
-Det e araber från Baghdad. (They are arabs from Baghdad)
-Han må sing en sang for oss, en sang...en. (He must sing a song for us, one song, one!)
It's probably not old norse, but hey..as long as you yanks and micks cant understand it, im happy ;)
@mihanich They were no Russians at the times, apart from a few Slavic tribes who migrated east into what would become Russia, they were also balts and Finnic tribes there and of course the Swedish Rus, witch you could see in the movie ( Vikings )
at that time (9-10 centuries) kievan rus and novgorod had already emerged, so if ibn-fadlanhave travelled from baghdad to scandinavia he must have been encountered proto-russians and moreover, he should have been passed throgh novgorod
@mihanich Ohh right, cause Ibn-fadlan even describes the Rus, as Tall, Ruddy and blonde etc. I forgot that one, to bad they dont show anything from Novgorod ( Holmgård ) hehe
SO lets see, they called off their whole trip just to leave banderas with the Vikings so they could go kill the cannibals? Then what, omar shariff and the rest of the arabs go back up the ravine and the tartars wack them on the way back?
Lol, if this is making fun of scandinavians its not working, in many of the arab countries there is civile war and that is just sad that the ppl are so dum they cant hold there countries together.
@ControltheDistance I should have removed my post, that was a silly comment! Later on I noticed they are conversing in Nordish which is close to Germanic dialect. thank you anyway
@itsmaciek How about Romenia? Is there any Latin speakers still there? I took two years of Classical Latin ( Roman Republic to the beginning of Roman empire ) and I was always wonder if there are places in europe that still unofficially conversing in of course Celestial Latin! There is a village in Syria that its habitants still conversing in Ancient Aramaic, the same language that Jesus spoke, and it will be interesting to find out that Latin still is converesed by people!
this movie is a fictional take on an anglo saxon poem called beowulf, its not supposed to be accurate, banderas's character was a real person and he left writings but beyond that this movie is more like conan than braveheart, jus enjoy a good movie but u should read the book "eaters of the dead" its incredible
@icripafo Has zero to do with Beowulf. It's based on "Eaters of the Dead" which itself is based on... the travels of ibn Fadlan, an arab traveller. Beowulf is based on Beowulf.
at Viralvideo1000, youre right this movie is not religious, its just a take on beowulf, a mixing by michael crichton who left religion as a minor subplot in his book eaters of the dead, good book and this is a great movie
Not to mention that this film was based off the proven writings of well known historian Michael Crichton, well known for bringing to light the event where that guy who narrates wildlife videos bred dinosaurs on two piss ant islands off Costa Rica!
I for one was scandalised by the amount of historical inaccuracies in this film, especially after director John McTiernan spent almost half the allocated budget hiring historians, anthropologists and researchers for his two most realistic and well known opuses Predator and Die Hard.
@Darusdei hmmm actually I made this post to mock all the other people here arguing and quibbling over historical accuracies. I thought the sarcasm of my post was plain but obviously not.
If you simply look at a map of the oceans currents you can see where man has traveled.KON-TIKI a raft went from south america to the pacific islands.Viking Runes were found up the Columbia River in the USA dating to 300AD.Man is a curious animal.
Good thing about the baddies: they don't generally speak - eerie
Interesting thing about the baddies: the headless goddess they are seen to worship is based on a real archeological artifact (the Venus of Willendorf, 3000 BC)
I love this film. It's too bad they released it when they did. I bet if they released it now and did a director's cut DVD also, they would get back that 100 million that was lost in 1999. Hands down love this film, thanks for posting!
I love this film. It's too bad they released it when they did. I bet if they released it now and did a director's cut DVD also, they would get back that 100 million that was lost in 1999. Hands down love this film, thanks for posting!
ancient Greek philosopher/ historian/ abortionist said "a man who is too white or too black is a coward". I am serious i just dont remember the buggers name...
@Sraganeor Nah Norwegian vikings were the greatest sailors and explorers, The Swedish Vikings were great traders and settlers, but Danish Vikings Ruled England and Normandy!
@12345678909269 belive what you want my son :D . ive been traveloing the world since i was about 8 evry place ive been norwegian vikings had been to, evry story and lore about vikings ive heard had norwegian vikings and fear of them in em :)
@Sraganeor Im sure the people outsisde Scandianvia back then would shit their pants if they saw Longships approuching, No mather if they were Norwegians,Swedes or Danes. They all worshiped the same gods and looked forward to death in battle, Thats what made them fierce. They were excellent warriors and explorers and dominated Western and Eastern Europe. You never knew when they would come.. Excellent and deadly raiders.
@12345678909269 There were no such thing as "Greatest" among the Viking people before, They were all Great Sailors,Explorers,Traders,Settlers and raiders. You could find them anywhere in Scandinavia back then.
@7mt7 What are you talking about? And other Scandinavians travelled Far East or West to the Mediterrean e.t.c. There are Runestones in Gotland that shows alot of interesting things about the Viking ship and its crew, Apparently they had ropes they used to steer the sail and the Viking craftmanship was way ahead of its time, The Viking ships were way better than any other ships you found around in Europe back then.
@joonte1010 i´m talking about that the vikings found a lot of stuff (new lands) by luck ;) No doubt they were brave and fierce...... but their (our) navigational skills are questionable....(that´s what you learn at school in iceland) :))
@7mt7 The archaeological findings in Scandinavia proves that they were excellent sailors, It is questionable thou as you said how they navigated,Some say they used somekind of a stone other say that they used the stars no one knows for sure but they sure used something to navigate.They were explorers offcourse they found new lands or territories they never been to by luck. When they discovered Iceland it was because the wind throw them way away from their main coarse and they ended up in Iceland
Michael Crichton wrote this in college. Great story, great acting by all, especially Antonio Bandaras and love Omar Shariff in this, he still had it! Never given credit it should have received.
This is one of my favourite films - I find its bad reviews to be somewhat perplexing - but then I find not all the films I enjoy are universally liked. For me this film falls into the category of being underestimated and unappreciated.
I love the characters in the film, some of the dialogue is excellent, with the flowery refined ways of Ahmad ibn Fadlan contrasting well with some of the more clipped and to the point methods of the northmen. Great film, a great more historical nod to the genre.
@caylebarsby Oh yeah... Just like the communist revolution in Cuba and the war between North and South Korea which had the same religions in almost equal proportions. Get an education.
@caylebarsby I do, otherwise I wouldn't be able to make those historical references. I'm not sensitive or upset I'm just strongly against ignorance so much so that I almost disapprove of ignorant people having human rights.
@caylebarsby I understand you were having fun with sensitive people. Whether I am religious or not has nothing to do with it, it's just that your statement was very incorrect so I felt the need to correct it. I am religious for various reasons.
@PETROforeverCRO u r talkin insane, arabs were the 1st to develop hospitals, most of the todays law like free education, free mecial care, charitable aids comes from them.
Coming back on so many racist views and ideologies, let religion keep its religion this is a movie whichshows different groups and cultures working together. Arabs gave a lot so did the Scandinavians. As for @jethro you defo need to brush up on your history. The reason why your writing this on a computer is because of the Arabs numbers came from them does "algorithm" ring a bell thats what the 0's and 1's in computer language which creates our world today. Search for what Carly Fiorina said.
Excluding the "Wendel" (=Grendel) there is much in the historical record that is relevant to this (for a movie!). This person did exist and left an account of his experiences with the Norse as well as one of the last accounts of an old ship-burial.
ITs ironic to see so many racist and hateful comments for this movie yet the movie actually portrays two polar cultures learning from each other and joining forces to fight a common enemy.
@Rarogne1926 ...chinese engineers are proficient at designing pez dispensers only, muslim engineers are nonexistant as most of them have failed at simple IED manufacture ...we owe islamic culture only a few deportation orders and a few nuclear equiped cruise missles....europe and north america have always been the intellectual, financial and technological powerhouse of the world ...we don't need to find merit in backward, superstition ridden cultures
@jethro035181 North America has "ALWAYS" been the powerhouse of the world, really ???I dont remember being taught about the Ancient empire of North America at school, were they contempories of the Romans or Greeks or the Persians i would love to know. . . . .
@dixon97a ...the greeks and romans were only local powers, not world empires, they were culturally significant ....the persians weren't even that...in the past 500 years world power has been centred on northern europe and north america...financial power has been centred on london and new york for centuries...scientific developement, and practical applications came from europe and north america...i admit that an arab once discovered what a lens was, but islam preferred the science of the koran
@jethro035181 until sXII muslyms were quite a properous civilization, but then radical religious banished science and branded it as devil's wok, following the example of medieval christians.
they made great advancement in medicine, astronomy, mathematics (algebra and algorism are arabic words if you didn't noticed)
it sucks that religion turned them into what they are now. In occident we are lucky because we left behind religious dogmas and started to think by oursleves.
@Viralvideo1000 I agree with you completely, but a film this good, and this obscure, engenders dialogue, dialogue that is a testament to the power of film and the power of storytelling. just avoid the negativity and hatred and enjoy the film, while remembering that assholes are assholes and that conversation is always interesting:) and die hard rocks too, remember that. and predator. and die hard with a vengeance. and last action hero;)
@Viralvideo1000 The sad thing about this discussions is: none of the people involved is a believer or believes in anything ... which makes their discussions completely pointless.
I really get tired of idiots asking the "do you know of any muslims who have contributed to science in the last (whatever) years. I take you have never heard of proffesor A.R. Kidawai. As for muslims conforming to western civilization... why should they? The spanish empire, The british empire, the invovlment of the US and france in foriegn nations... why should they "conform" rather than you?
Just watch the fucking film and fuck off with that huge chip on your shoulder.It's common decency to conform when in another country.I can't even call a christmas tree a christmas tree anymore for fear of offending Asians/Muslims-in my own country,wtf!!!!
@wotmot223 Because they're not in their own country you dumb fuck. A better question would be, why should the native europeans conform to the invading muslims' traditions?
written by michael crighten on a bet he wrote a fictional story in cooedge put it out as a real reasrch paper . it is still taken as fact by some historians . quoted in books and taught at colledges as being real. makes you wonder about the quality of our eduaction system.
America represents the free world for any Arab accusing us as the only participants in the deaths of innocent Arabs.... By blaming us, you are blaming not only yourselves, but all other nations as well as inherent negative human behavior..... Please recognize the true nature of your distaste for us...
A nuisance is one thing, but a murderer is quite another.
The amoral american fascist government and the atrocity committing leaders of israel have heaped death, torture and evil upon the people of the muslim countries for generations.
ibn fadlan must have been the only muslim in history that was of any use to the world ...this movie is very unrealistic because ibn fadlan hasn't yet complained of cultural insensitivity or the inability to follow his religion
@kig132 ...hey, i was just noting certain muslim characteristics ...in real life ibn fadlan would have been trying to put hijabs and burquas on all the girls and trying to lecture the vikings on modesty ...when he failed, he'd try to put a fatwa on buliwyf
@jethro035181 For your idiotic info in real life he didn't do that but nonetheless, many of the tarters he vistied converted to Islam. Matter of fact his coming to taterstan is celebrated as a national holiday there.
@Rbigray1 ...no one knows what ibn fadlan actually did, but if he was like any modern muslim, he was a nuisance...the conversion of some tatars in an obscure russian asiatic oblast wasn't the work of ibn fadlan, and it probably didn't occur for another 2 centuries...the rus' khaganate was pagan at the time and very mixed in ethnicity
@jethro035181 Its well documented that was one of the things that he did. And lets ask the people in tarterstan whether that date is so obscure. Also the tarters are not rus people but are rather semi-nomadic turks. Also you seem to know nothing about muslims and would rather only make snide remarks grow up and act your age.
@Rbigray1 ..a skateboarding arab doesn't correct normal people (me) ..the entire world holds muslims in contempt .. see jeff dunham and sasha baron cohen...muslims have been skating along on tolerance and political correctness for too long ..today several americans were killed in afghanistan because someone burned the koran in florida ..are these the actions of normal, civilized people?...you've earned any snide comments
@jethro035181 The fact that you assume I'm arab shows the depth of your ignorance but for your info 26% of muslims are Arab the rest aren't including me.
@Rbigray1 nope, "the entire world" does NOT hold muslims in contempt, your ignorance is staggering. I am an american, not muslim and have lived all over the world, drag yourself out of the US for a few months (or your head out of your ass).
@wotmot223 Where did I state that the entire world holds muslims in contempt? I was defending muslims since I am one it was Jethro that made that comment.
@wotmot223 ....are you aware of any muslims that have recently contributed to the store of world knowledge (not someone from a thousand years ago)...the netherlands published more books in the previous year, than the entire muslim world in the past 10 years...do you know of any muslims trying to accomodate themselves to western cultural values or do you hear continual protests that the burqa and hijab are not respected
@jethro035181 complain about this :) jethro, an ancient name, meaning: that fat man, with no teeth that hangs around the grade school. in antiquity, jethro was also a name for he who drinks downstream from the outhouse.
no disrespect there jethrooo, you're probably a real stand up guy, it's just that even when you stand up, your knuckles are still on the ground :)
PS: the nose, it's for breathing jethrooo, close your darn mouth boy, you're attracting flies.
@angusmcbagpipes ...no sir...cultural insensitivity can only be displayed by normal people (me) towards all manner of coloured persons who expect unwarranted concessions and privileges ...this phrase works best in civil service and female dominated environments where they're dying to display their political correctness ...you sir are some sort of hispanic (beaner) and are incapable of culture or sensitivity
@jethro035181 The only one? Then how come most of the people including you speak Arabic words? What you don´t know is that words as: chemistry, algebra, zero, apricot, benzene, candy, checkmate, coffee, elixir, sofa, magazine and guitar are all acquired from Arabic.
And the first scientist to use mathematics to explain the principles of light and the phenomenon of vision is Ibn Al- Haitham (Iraq). He is often described as having created the science of Optics.
@lovepeacetrain ....fine, nice, ...some arabs were slightly civilized when europe was in the dark ages ...but what have arabs accomplished in the last thousand years besides regress into their own dark ages ....the entire sum of human knowledge doubles every 20 years nowadays, but arabs are diligently discovering the secrets of the koran and similar useful things ....most non english speaking arabs know what coca cola and bikini means so linguistic overlap has little meaning
slechte kwaliteit beeld, doe er wat aan sukkels!!!!
Gr0tebr0er 1 week ago
best movie makes me want to play skyrim
UnIuckyChucky 1 week ago
@UnIuckyChucky Hahaha I was thinking the same thing!
mknippy1 1 day ago
Lo, det gör jag ser min far.
Lo, det gör jag ser min mamma, min systrar och mina bröder.
Lo, det gör jag ser raden av mitt folk tillbaka till början.
Lo, de ringa till mig.
De bjuder mig ta min plats bland dem i halls of Valhalla,
Där modige, de live forever
cellofingers 1 week ago
Watching this movie.
Makes me think......
Glory beyond death.
Honor in life.
Hail all warriors !
mumi911 2 weeks ago
Why is "Puss in Boots" narrating this?
RideMyF150 4 weeks ago
@RideMyF150 ???
cuzgandalfgothigh99 3 weeks ago
@RideMyF150 *slaps you so hard your ancestors feel it*
screwthenet 3 weeks ago
I always thought that those bear skins were a part of Berserkers
3uche 4 weeks ago
@3uche That is a theory. This film is not accurate really.
There is one dude wearing a gladiator helmet.
joker52mlb 2 weeks ago
the enemies depicted in this movie (Wendoi) are actually Slavs. Germanic peoples called Slavs by the name of Wends.
mikomecha 1 month ago
the ta'tas are coming O_O
MrBuckwilliam 1 month ago
@MrBuckwilliam He said: The Tatars are coming! The ancestors of the Tatars were the ferocious Huns. After Attila died there empire collapsed, and what remained of the Hunnic people moved eastwards. They established themselves around the Caspian Sea in modern day (southern) Russia, (western) Kazakhstan and (western) Turkmenistan. They were known as excellent horsemen, and had the best horse archers in the world (before the Mongols ofcourse).
PattonZIPPO 1 month ago
@MrBuckwilliam The were famous for their frequent raids. Primary targets were trading caravans, travellers, and small villages. Their style of attack is known as hit-and-run. They attacked, slaughtered everybody, took as much goods as possible, and then left as quickly as possibly avoiding the chance of being attacked.
PattonZIPPO 1 month ago
Cheers for the upload :)
PaganGlade 1 month ago
great film, thanks for posting.
Athiestnova 1 month ago
terrible map. They got baghdad all the way up by Armenia or Georgia. wtf?
Varangian1915 1 month ago
Thanks for the upload
MerveYoungki 2 months ago
i still think this movie deserves some recognizement, it usually gets bashed as a bad movie, and omar sharif used to talk shit about it. i think the acting was actually pretty good, and the story tol is actually intriguing and at time it gives some perspective.
lucadepu 2 months ago
True the lands of the Hazars and the Bulgars.. yaa babe :)
patzoSF 2 months ago
@patzoSF
More like the lands of the Tatars and the Slavs.
Vovk3 2 months ago
@Vovk3
*Kyivan Rus, not general Slavs.
Vovk3 2 months ago
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 15 or 16, now I am 26 and I still like it. When I entered youtube, I saw they were announcing that crap called Twilight, the movie about vampires, and when I watch this movie, I think, why do people go watch Twilight instead of an amazing movie that takes you to other lands, other times in history, to the exciting times of the vikings? I would like to be a viking so much!!!
itzaramaja 2 months ago
My dyeing Teacher worked on this show :D
Mariea5000 2 months ago
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This is a very decent movie, specially if you're fan of norse warriors.
I still can believe the movie cost $160 million to make though. I'm just not seeing it, so my guess is that someone must've screwed the studio big time.
DigitalBasic 2 months ago
This is a very decent movie, specially if you're fan of norse warriors.
I still can believe the movie cost $160 million to make though. I'm just not seeing it, so my guess is that someone must've screwed the studio big time.
DigitalBasic 2 months ago
Is this the prequel to Puss n' Boots? It's all I can think about when Antonio Band-AR-res speaks.
CFNIBSAIA 2 months ago
@CFNIBSAIA how old are you.
Chansulus 2 months ago
This story looks like a copy of "the seven samurai" or "magnificent seven". They just added a few more guys.
tltan88nyc 2 months ago
@tltan88nyc its a copy of your mom.
Chansulus 2 months ago
@tltan88nyc
Hahah true. If you want to see an actual viking movie that's reflecting the society and values of back then you should watch When the Raven Flies. It's told like a viking saga, and really a classic among scandinavian and Icelandic films. But really... it's also very much alike "Rojimbo".
Flyingtart 2 months ago
What a waste of a perfectly hott chick on that boat.
matthewelync 2 months ago 16
@matthewelync
lol so true
goodfellow1984 2 months ago
tatars are mongols!!!
asahakvho 2 months ago
Of course it sounds gibberish to you, its not your language lol. However I manage to understand most of it in the movie since Norwegian and Swedish are somewhat similar...in a way.
5.07 -"Herger, vem e den främre? (Herger, who are they?)
-Det e araber från Baghdad. (They are arabs from Baghdad)
-Han må sing en sang for oss, en sang...en. (He must sing a song for us, one song, one!)
It's probably not old norse, but hey..as long as you yanks and micks cant understand it, im happy ;)
IvanBeSerious 3 months ago
Tatars? there are some Turk in there again :) i love my ancestors:))) i like this film too
diegokiller1989 3 months ago
this movie was filmed ten minutes from house
Xx50calxX 3 months ago
@Xx50calxX Where on Vancouver Island was it filmed? :)
bikeman78 3 months ago
@bikeman78 near campbell river
Xx50calxX 3 months ago
how the hell did he get from baghdad to scandinavia skipping the russians?
mihanich 3 months ago
@mihanich They were no Russians at the times, apart from a few Slavic tribes who migrated east into what would become Russia, they were also balts and Finnic tribes there and of course the Swedish Rus, witch you could see in the movie ( Vikings )
12345678909269 1 week ago
@12345678909269
at that time (9-10 centuries) kievan rus and novgorod had already emerged, so if ibn-fadlanhave travelled from baghdad to scandinavia he must have been encountered proto-russians and moreover, he should have been passed throgh novgorod
mihanich 1 week ago
@mihanich Ohh right, cause Ibn-fadlan even describes the Rus, as Tall, Ruddy and blonde etc. I forgot that one, to bad they dont show anything from Novgorod ( Holmgård ) hehe
12345678909269 1 week ago
i have to watch this for my lanauge arts class for homework. well more like extra credit im not the greateast at la
TheAwesome604 3 months ago
@TheAwesome604
Well, the Norse is far from real. Not even modern Norwegian resemble much. A few words perhaps, but it sounds gibberish....
bohemianwriter1 3 months ago
@bohemianwriter1 Icelandic and Faroese are still very much like Old Norse.
Droohie 3 months ago
Would people just shut up and watch the movie? It's just a movie for entertainment purposes. It's not for fucking political and racial debates.
TheUnsnobbed 3 months ago
SO lets see, they called off their whole trip just to leave banderas with the Vikings so they could go kill the cannibals? Then what, omar shariff and the rest of the arabs go back up the ravine and the tartars wack them on the way back?
Varangian1915 3 months ago
love this movie. thanks for the upload good friend.
filth69ify1 3 months ago
Lol, if this is making fun of scandinavians its not working, in many of the arab countries there is civile war and that is just sad that the ppl are so dum they cant hold there countries together.
TheRache1995 3 months ago
What happened at 5:50!
Was his ale spilt?
Lippz111 3 months ago
Has anyone else noticed that this movie was produced by Ogie Oglethorpe?
ThatsMrMoronToYou 3 months ago
Nords and Latin?! Something wrong here...
siliyemoodislam 4 months ago
@siliyemoodislam Vikings were in contact with romans all the time. What's wrong with that? It would be one language that the two groups shared.
ControltheDistance 3 months ago
@ControltheDistance I should have removed my post, that was a silly comment! Later on I noticed they are conversing in Nordish which is close to Germanic dialect. thank you anyway
siliyemoodislam 3 months ago
@siliyemoodislam latin and polish was official in my country and we were mixng with vikings so maybe they lernt from us
itsmaciek 3 months ago
@itsmaciek How about Romenia? Is there any Latin speakers still there? I took two years of Classical Latin ( Roman Republic to the beginning of Roman empire ) and I was always wonder if there are places in europe that still unofficially conversing in of course Celestial Latin! There is a village in Syria that its habitants still conversing in Ancient Aramaic, the same language that Jesus spoke, and it will be interesting to find out that Latin still is converesed by people!
siliyemoodislam 3 months ago
@siliyemoodislam Varangians in Byzantium spoke Greek-Roman dialects ... they were mercenaries for Romans during several ages
Borat911 3 months ago
this movie is a fictional take on an anglo saxon poem called beowulf, its not supposed to be accurate, banderas's character was a real person and he left writings but beyond that this movie is more like conan than braveheart, jus enjoy a good movie but u should read the book "eaters of the dead" its incredible
icripafo 4 months ago 13
@icripafo
It's also based on an Arab explorer.
Vovk3 2 months ago
@icripafo Has zero to do with Beowulf. It's based on "Eaters of the Dead" which itself is based on... the travels of ibn Fadlan, an arab traveller. Beowulf is based on Beowulf.
681Ural 2 months ago
at Viralvideo1000, youre right this movie is not religious, its just a take on beowulf, a mixing by michael crichton who left religion as a minor subplot in his book eaters of the dead, good book and this is a great movie
icripafo 4 months ago
eh'bin
BiGD47000 4 months ago
it's like the third age
the arabs are the haradrim
and the northmen...are northmen
ilghazi 4 months ago
Not to mention that this film was based off the proven writings of well known historian Michael Crichton, well known for bringing to light the event where that guy who narrates wildlife videos bred dinosaurs on two piss ant islands off Costa Rica!
MerryGoFuckYourself 4 months ago
I for one was scandalised by the amount of historical inaccuracies in this film, especially after director John McTiernan spent almost half the allocated budget hiring historians, anthropologists and researchers for his two most realistic and well known opuses Predator and Die Hard.
MerryGoFuckYourself 4 months ago
@MerryGoFuckYourself Money doesn't grow on trees, there's a budget for those. Apparentally he didn't have that big of one.
theawesomehuntsman 4 months ago
@MerryGoFuckYourself get a life...
Darusdei 4 months ago
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MerryGoFuckYourself 4 months ago
@Darusdei hmmm actually I made this post to mock all the other people here arguing and quibbling over historical accuracies. I thought the sarcasm of my post was plain but obviously not.
MerryGoFuckYourself 4 months ago
This movie is above religion its about being real men where honor regins not theology
cellofingers 4 months ago
If you simply look at a map of the oceans currents you can see where man has traveled.KON-TIKI a raft went from south america to the pacific islands.Viking Runes were found up the Columbia River in the USA dating to 300AD.Man is a curious animal.
billy1212ist 4 months ago
1:57 "Jacques! Start the plane Jacques! START THE PLANE!"
DANEo2o2 5 months ago
I'm the 14th Warrior.
BasicallytoBasics 5 months ago
Good thing about the baddies: they don't generally speak - eerie
Interesting thing about the baddies: the headless goddess they are seen to worship is based on a real archeological artifact (the Venus of Willendorf, 3000 BC)
crapatev 5 months ago
oh man ich liebe diesen film schade das er nicht au deutsch da ist .......... thx for upping
weedlawdaG 5 months ago
lol the woman is like shit!!! there burning all ma stuff!!!
VladVonCarstin 5 months ago
she will travel with him it's the old way. were the brave may live forever. pure awsome.
davyjones21122 6 months ago
Swedish Vikings, we sail to Bagdad. Hail Vikings
Dethstarz 6 months ago
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I love this film. It's too bad they released it when they did. I bet if they released it now and did a director's cut DVD also, they would get back that 100 million that was lost in 1999. Hands down love this film, thanks for posting!
glowstikk 6 months ago
I love this film. It's too bad they released it when they did. I bet if they released it now and did a director's cut DVD also, they would get back that 100 million that was lost in 1999. Hands down love this film, thanks for posting!
glowstikk 6 months ago
ancient Greek philosopher/ historian/ abortionist said "a man who is too white or too black is a coward". I am serious i just dont remember the buggers name...
liamskiner 6 months ago
The dot that shows Baghdad on the map is actually located in Armenia, hundreds of miles north from where it actually is.
Varangian1915 6 months ago
Think of religion as an exercise in futility and then move on to reality where we exist!
notfarfromhome 6 months ago
This was not a bad movie at all. I'm kind of surprised it lost 100 million.
Varangian1915 6 months ago
@Varangian1915 it was released in a time where this genre was not popular (way before the lord of the rings came out)
if it was made today probably would have bettter sucess
patataton 6 months ago
DUde nice quality...thanks for uploading this.
TheMonsterSkull 6 months ago
NONE as brutal as us!!! the Norwegian vikings :D
Sraganeor 6 months ago
@Sraganeor Nah Norwegian vikings were the greatest sailors and explorers, The Swedish Vikings were great traders and settlers, but Danish Vikings Ruled England and Normandy!
12345678909269 6 months ago
@12345678909269 belive what you want my son :D . ive been traveloing the world since i was about 8 evry place ive been norwegian vikings had been to, evry story and lore about vikings ive heard had norwegian vikings and fear of them in em :)
Sraganeor 6 months ago
@Sraganeor Im sure the people outsisde Scandianvia back then would shit their pants if they saw Longships approuching, No mather if they were Norwegians,Swedes or Danes. They all worshiped the same gods and looked forward to death in battle, Thats what made them fierce. They were excellent warriors and explorers and dominated Western and Eastern Europe. You never knew when they would come.. Excellent and deadly raiders.
joonte1010 5 months ago
@12345678909269 There were no such thing as "Greatest" among the Viking people before, They were all Great Sailors,Explorers,Traders,Settlers and raiders. You could find them anywhere in Scandinavia back then.
joonte1010 5 months ago
@joonte1010 not sure if we were such good sailors.....once we sailed to iceland and found america (vínland) instead :) hehe
7mt7 5 months ago
@7mt7 What are you talking about? And other Scandinavians travelled Far East or West to the Mediterrean e.t.c. There are Runestones in Gotland that shows alot of interesting things about the Viking ship and its crew, Apparently they had ropes they used to steer the sail and the Viking craftmanship was way ahead of its time, The Viking ships were way better than any other ships you found around in Europe back then.
joonte1010 5 months ago
@joonte1010 i´m talking about that the vikings found a lot of stuff (new lands) by luck ;) No doubt they were brave and fierce...... but their (our) navigational skills are questionable....(that´s what you learn at school in iceland) :))
7mt7 5 months ago
@7mt7 The archaeological findings in Scandinavia proves that they were excellent sailors, It is questionable thou as you said how they navigated,Some say they used somekind of a stone other say that they used the stars no one knows for sure but they sure used something to navigate.They were explorers offcourse they found new lands or territories they never been to by luck. When they discovered Iceland it was because the wind throw them way away from their main coarse and they ended up in Iceland
joonte1010 5 months ago
PS- The Jerry Goldsmith(rip) Compositions in this soundtrack ARE AMAZING.
AGCcachanilla 6 months ago
loved this when it came out, STILL love it now, i know every word from this movie XD
AGCcachanilla 6 months ago
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Best movie EVER!
erviinzzzzzzg 6 months ago
Michael Crichton wrote this in college. Great story, great acting by all, especially Antonio Bandaras and love Omar Shariff in this, he still had it! Never given credit it should have received.
cljoyner39 7 months ago
This is one of my favourite films - I find its bad reviews to be somewhat perplexing - but then I find not all the films I enjoy are universally liked. For me this film falls into the category of being underestimated and unappreciated.
I love the characters in the film, some of the dialogue is excellent, with the flowery refined ways of Ahmad ibn Fadlan contrasting well with some of the more clipped and to the point methods of the northmen. Great film, a great more historical nod to the genre.
Tallyallyloolah 7 months ago
So epic and underestimated movie. Today vendols are immigrants.
Strzyzen 7 months ago
@Strzyzen no today wendols are Arab rulers and their security forces (Bashar al Assad would make an excellent Wendol war leader
ahmad3652 6 months ago
It's strange that on the map they placed Baghdad in Georgia.... guess they could not find anyone with the basic knowledge of geography.
alexanderwotl 7 months ago
@alexanderwotl It doesn't matter. The majority of the viewers of this film ( aka americans) don't have basic knowledge of geography either.
rencrow 7 months ago 2
@rencrow Well, that's quite true...
alexanderwotl 7 months ago 2
Religion is the cause of all war and despair ..
caylebarsby 7 months ago
@caylebarsby athiest like stalin killed 20 million people, mao killed 50 million.
chof0319 7 months ago
@chof0319 bullshit
CarstenOepping 7 months ago
@CarstenOepping its a fact from history, do ur research
chof0319 7 months ago
@CarstenOepping Not bullshit.
SiCGaming123 7 months ago
@chof0319 Hitler killed 20 million Stalin killed 40 million
SiCGaming123 7 months ago
@caylebarsby Oh yeah... Just like the communist revolution in Cuba and the war between North and South Korea which had the same religions in almost equal proportions. Get an education.
tasneefm 7 months ago
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caylebarsby 7 months ago
@tasneefm Lol! I have one thanks how about you??
caylebarsby 7 months ago
@caylebarsby I do, otherwise I wouldn't be able to make those historical references. I'm not sensitive or upset I'm just strongly against ignorance so much so that I almost disapprove of ignorant people having human rights.
tasneefm 7 months ago
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caylebarsby 7 months ago
@tasneefm good for you
caylebarsby 7 months ago
@caylebarsby I understand you were having fun with sensitive people. Whether I am religious or not has nothing to do with it, it's just that your statement was very incorrect so I felt the need to correct it. I am religious for various reasons.
tasneefm 7 months ago
@PETROforeverCRO u r talkin insane, arabs were the 1st to develop hospitals, most of the todays law like free education, free mecial care, charitable aids comes from them.
chof0319 7 months ago
Coming back on so many racist views and ideologies, let religion keep its religion this is a movie whichshows different groups and cultures working together. Arabs gave a lot so did the Scandinavians. As for @jethro you defo need to brush up on your history. The reason why your writing this on a computer is because of the Arabs numbers came from them does "algorithm" ring a bell thats what the 0's and 1's in computer language which creates our world today. Search for what Carly Fiorina said.
rukunman 7 months ago
drink everytime you see the horns of power
meyers748 7 months ago
I'm only watching this because i wasn't paying attention to it in class for English and we have to right an essay on it!:(
theCADYgirlz 8 months ago 3
@theCADYgirlz right=Write.
Now sit your ass down and study.
OHADI22 8 months ago in playlist Movie: The 13th Warrior COOL!
Excluding the "Wendel" (=Grendel) there is much in the historical record that is relevant to this (for a movie!). This person did exist and left an account of his experiences with the Norse as well as one of the last accounts of an old ship-burial.
KDavis418 8 months ago in playlist Movie: The 13th Warrior COOL! 2
ITs ironic to see so many racist and hateful comments for this movie yet the movie actually portrays two polar cultures learning from each other and joining forces to fight a common enemy.
AsianAmerican2007 8 months ago 4
they not speaking greek))))
WorldMeanNothing 8 months ago
i understand their language cuz im from sweden.
berto13579 8 months ago
@Rarogne1926 ...chinese engineers are proficient at designing pez dispensers only, muslim engineers are nonexistant as most of them have failed at simple IED manufacture ...we owe islamic culture only a few deportation orders and a few nuclear equiped cruise missles....europe and north america have always been the intellectual, financial and technological powerhouse of the world ...we don't need to find merit in backward, superstition ridden cultures
jethro035181 8 months ago
@jethro035181 North America has "ALWAYS" been the powerhouse of the world, really ???I dont remember being taught about the Ancient empire of North America at school, were they contempories of the Romans or Greeks or the Persians i would love to know. . . . .
dixon97a 7 months ago
@dixon97a ...the greeks and romans were only local powers, not world empires, they were culturally significant ....the persians weren't even that...in the past 500 years world power has been centred on northern europe and north america...financial power has been centred on london and new york for centuries...scientific developement, and practical applications came from europe and north america...i admit that an arab once discovered what a lens was, but islam preferred the science of the koran
jethro035181 7 months ago
@jethro035181 until sXII muslyms were quite a properous civilization, but then radical religious banished science and branded it as devil's wok, following the example of medieval christians.
they made great advancement in medicine, astronomy, mathematics (algebra and algorism are arabic words if you didn't noticed)
it sucks that religion turned them into what they are now. In occident we are lucky because we left behind religious dogmas and started to think by oursleves.
patataton 6 months ago
2:40 Will explain why you should never mess with a Viking :)
TheAvatar15 8 months ago
I was really enjoying this. Until i scrolled down the comments section and found everyone talking about religion.
Muslim, Christian, Jew. Who cares? What has this got to do with this movie?
Pathetic.
Viralvideo1000 8 months ago 99
@Viralvideo1000 Wish I could Vote Up your comments a thousand more times.
notonedrum 8 months ago in playlist Movie: The 13th Warrior COOL!
@Viralvideo1000 i totaly agree..
mybobandme 8 months ago in playlist Movie: The 13th Warrior COOL!
@Viralvideo1000 I agree with you completely, but a film this good, and this obscure, engenders dialogue, dialogue that is a testament to the power of film and the power of storytelling. just avoid the negativity and hatred and enjoy the film, while remembering that assholes are assholes and that conversation is always interesting:) and die hard rocks too, remember that. and predator. and die hard with a vengeance. and last action hero;)
whatubeaccount1 7 months ago 2
@Viralvideo1000 Religion is a serious matter. People do not care does not depend on anything else too, they are real pathetic stupid pussy.
Strzyzen 7 months ago
@Viralvideo1000 Too bad for you that religion is relevant to your interests :3
ichaukan 6 months ago
@Viralvideo1000 The sad thing about this discussions is: none of the people involved is a believer or believes in anything ... which makes their discussions completely pointless.
Jiyukan 5 months ago
@Viralvideo1000 hey i dont care (i am muslim)
campwisher 5 months ago
@Viralvideo1000 -THANK YOU! Lets talk about a good movie and not religion!
MrAndyg36 4 months ago
@Viralvideo1000 fucking idiots from america...
Darusdei 4 months ago
I really get tired of idiots asking the "do you know of any muslims who have contributed to science in the last (whatever) years. I take you have never heard of proffesor A.R. Kidawai. As for muslims conforming to western civilization... why should they? The spanish empire, The british empire, the invovlment of the US and france in foriegn nations... why should they "conform" rather than you?
wotmot223 9 months ago 4
@wotmot223
Just watch the fucking film and fuck off with that huge chip on your shoulder.It's common decency to conform when in another country.I can't even call a christmas tree a christmas tree anymore for fear of offending Asians/Muslims-in my own country,wtf!!!!
taffwales 9 months ago
@wotmot223 Because they're not in their own country you dumb fuck. A better question would be, why should the native europeans conform to the invading muslims' traditions?
bishop102 8 months ago
this film is asome
se my videos they are funny
SASASDCable 9 months ago
this film is asome
SASASDCable 9 months ago 2
written by michael crighten on a bet he wrote a fictional story in cooedge put it out as a real reasrch paper . it is still taken as fact by some historians . quoted in books and taught at colledges as being real. makes you wonder about the quality of our eduaction system.
mjlaudz 9 months ago
Found one where the embedding wasn't disabled...thanks for nothing cheesedick
pelagicnavigator 9 months ago
Good old Omar Sharif. It's so great to see him one more time.
Axgoodofdunemaul 9 months ago
America represents the free world for any Arab accusing us as the only participants in the deaths of innocent Arabs.... By blaming us, you are blaming not only yourselves, but all other nations as well as inherent negative human behavior..... Please recognize the true nature of your distaste for us...
kptmah 9 months ago
@kptmah we love you and only wish to live in peace to the end of time.
Chansulus 9 months ago
A nuisance is one thing, but a murderer is quite another.
The amoral american fascist government and the atrocity committing leaders of israel have heaped death, torture and evil upon the people of the muslim countries for generations.
Shameful and inhuman.
jimmyamanita 10 months ago
ibn fadlan must have been the only muslim in history that was of any use to the world ...this movie is very unrealistic because ibn fadlan hasn't yet complained of cultural insensitivity or the inability to follow his religion
jethro035181 10 months ago 4
@jethro035181 LMAO...I know exactly what you mean.
MMA 10 months ago 2
@jethro035181
get out pagan
kig132 10 months ago
@kig132 ...hey, i was just noting certain muslim characteristics ...in real life ibn fadlan would have been trying to put hijabs and burquas on all the girls and trying to lecture the vikings on modesty ...when he failed, he'd try to put a fatwa on buliwyf
jethro035181 10 months ago
@jethro035181 For your idiotic info in real life he didn't do that but nonetheless, many of the tarters he vistied converted to Islam. Matter of fact his coming to taterstan is celebrated as a national holiday there.
Rbigray1 10 months ago
@Rbigray1 ...no one knows what ibn fadlan actually did, but if he was like any modern muslim, he was a nuisance...the conversion of some tatars in an obscure russian asiatic oblast wasn't the work of ibn fadlan, and it probably didn't occur for another 2 centuries...the rus' khaganate was pagan at the time and very mixed in ethnicity
jethro035181 10 months ago
@jethro035181 Its well documented that was one of the things that he did. And lets ask the people in tarterstan whether that date is so obscure. Also the tarters are not rus people but are rather semi-nomadic turks. Also you seem to know nothing about muslims and would rather only make snide remarks grow up and act your age.
Rbigray1 10 months ago
@Rbigray1 ..a skateboarding arab doesn't correct normal people (me) ..the entire world holds muslims in contempt .. see jeff dunham and sasha baron cohen...muslims have been skating along on tolerance and political correctness for too long ..today several americans were killed in afghanistan because someone burned the koran in florida ..are these the actions of normal, civilized people?...you've earned any snide comments
jethro035181 10 months ago
@jethro035181 The fact that you assume I'm arab shows the depth of your ignorance but for your info 26% of muslims are Arab the rest aren't including me.
Rbigray1 10 months ago
@Rbigray1 nope, "the entire world" does NOT hold muslims in contempt, your ignorance is staggering. I am an american, not muslim and have lived all over the world, drag yourself out of the US for a few months (or your head out of your ass).
wotmot223 9 months ago 2
@wotmot223 Where did I state that the entire world holds muslims in contempt? I was defending muslims since I am one it was Jethro that made that comment.
Rbigray1 9 months ago
@jethro035181 good GOD that is an ignorant statement.
wotmot223 9 months ago
@wotmot223 ....are you aware of any muslims that have recently contributed to the store of world knowledge (not someone from a thousand years ago)...the netherlands published more books in the previous year, than the entire muslim world in the past 10 years...do you know of any muslims trying to accomodate themselves to western cultural values or do you hear continual protests that the burqa and hijab are not respected
jethro035181 9 months ago 2
@jethro035181
Pfft, as Billy Connolly said "never trust people who've only got one f****n book!"
bidefordrfc 9 months ago
@jethro035181 complain about this :) jethro, an ancient name, meaning: that fat man, with no teeth that hangs around the grade school. in antiquity, jethro was also a name for he who drinks downstream from the outhouse.
no disrespect there jethrooo, you're probably a real stand up guy, it's just that even when you stand up, your knuckles are still on the ground :)
PS: the nose, it's for breathing jethrooo, close your darn mouth boy, you're attracting flies.
angusmcbagpipes 8 months ago
@angusmcbagpipes ....jethro was the father in law of moses and i doubt he hung around school yards
jethro035181 8 months ago
@jethro035181 gasp! you mean i was culturally insensitive and you are complaining about it?! :)
You're funny :)
angusmcbagpipes 8 months ago
@angusmcbagpipes ...no sir...cultural insensitivity can only be displayed by normal people (me) towards all manner of coloured persons who expect unwarranted concessions and privileges ...this phrase works best in civil service and female dominated environments where they're dying to display their political correctness ...you sir are some sort of hispanic (beaner) and are incapable of culture or sensitivity
jethro035181 8 months ago
@jethro035181 you're awesome, so easily offended :)
And coming back with your "serious" response. Man, don't you know when you're being laughed at? ;)
angusmcbagpipes 8 months ago 21
@angusmcbagpipes stick head use to be like that..small brain who put such comment as viralvideo1000, the he think so narrow beneeath the earth
aemonsharky 5 months ago
@jethro035181 The only one? Then how come most of the people including you speak Arabic words? What you don´t know is that words as: chemistry, algebra, zero, apricot, benzene, candy, checkmate, coffee, elixir, sofa, magazine and guitar are all acquired from Arabic.
And the first scientist to use mathematics to explain the principles of light and the phenomenon of vision is Ibn Al- Haitham (Iraq). He is often described as having created the science of Optics.
lovepeacetrain 8 months ago
@lovepeacetrain ....fine, nice, ...some arabs were slightly civilized when europe was in the dark ages ...but what have arabs accomplished in the last thousand years besides regress into their own dark ages ....the entire sum of human knowledge doubles every 20 years nowadays, but arabs are diligently discovering the secrets of the koran and similar useful things ....most non english speaking arabs know what coca cola and bikini means so linguistic overlap has little meaning
jethro035181 8 months ago