What the corpus says about The Northman (2022)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Northman (2022) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Northman (2022) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:46:54 · unknown (0.35)] The Northman ↔ Nosferatu · people · Robert Eggers, director of The Northman, is back with Nosferatu. · "Eggers is back in the news."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:55:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Northman ↔ Big Little Lies · people · Skarsgard connects the two works. · "Also, Alexander Scarsgard."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:30:20 · unknown (0.50)] Robert Eggers ↔ The Northman · craft · Eggers insists his Vikings are sincere with Viking goals (Valhalla), not made for the audience. · "Agris's whole deal with all his movies where he's like, this is sincere."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:46:36 · unknown (0.35)] The Northman ↔ Alexander Skarsgard · people · A sequence with Alexander Skarsgard is the highlight of her few minutes in The Northman. · "But she has a sequence with Alexander Scarsgard."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:46:23 · unknown (0.35)] The Northman ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · Amazing for eight minutes but yellow only. · "I don't know if this is going in, but she's amazing."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:49:46 · unknown (0.35)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Big Little Lies · programming · No TV in the Hall of Fame except one exception. · "I don't ultimately think we should include any TV in here, but there would be one exception."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85)] Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene. · "reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:23:07 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Season of the Witch · theme · The speaker wants a McTiernan-elevated version of what Season of the Witch does: real knights facing something maybe supernatural. · "I want the elevated McTiernan movie of what I think that movie accomplishes."
[speaker] David Lowery · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · Loves myth-making, peeling back legend, scenes about language and communication, and quiet deaths between peers. Prefers the analog 90s look and despises ADR. A sucker for Vikings, Beowulf and a mortal passing into legend. · stances: The language-learning scene is the one great scene; A capped-budget Green Knight style version is the one he would want; Signature style can be a crutch; problem-solving is better
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Northman (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Northman (2022) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.