We have seen her without the ears. From the very same episode you mention. Don’t you remember seeing her with the plastic bag on her head? They ought to create a limited edition action figure with that look. It could be a collector’s item!
Right, we just never saw her hair. The rest of that episode she wore her hoodie to cover her head.
The Wonderful Word of Tupperware (1965)
Appeals to me personally since I can watch videos of chains being made or gear configurations or Dada machine operas by Francis Picabia for hours, but I appreciated their machine guarding workplace safety. Even some early nods to globalization and automation. But then it got to the multilevel marketing part, the precursor to LuLaRoe and Becoming a God in Central Florida.
If only we’d held Tupperware Parties in South Vietnam instead of napalm strikes.
Austin Powers, The Spy that Shagged Me
My memory from the late 1990’s and so forth is that I found the first Austin Powers very funny, the third one also very funny, but the second one absolutely laughless.
I watched the whole thing and have just one question: If the Tupperware is going to be used for kosher food, does a rabbi need to snip the little stem on the bottom?
Get a load of Mr Rifftrax here 
. But on that : besides the sprue that was trimmed, there was no leftover flash, like the big flaps of plastic on our army men.
That yardstick is going to leave you with a pretty restricted list of cultures in the ancient and medieval world with care-about potential, though. Mass slaughter and torture weren’t invented by the Vikings.
From biblical accounts of the Israelites’ genocidal extermination of Amalekites, Canaanites, etc., to ancient Assyrians flaying to death those among their captives (including children) whom they didn’t keep for enslavement, to Tamerlane’s practice (apparently also used by several Chinese rulers) of burying alive a heap of thousands of living prisoners, to the Crusaders’ burning alive or trampling to death thousands of Muslims and Jews, to tortures inflicted on native and enslaved people in North America even as late as the 19th century, and of course the Holocaust itself and all the other 20th-century genocides, there are not many societies of whom one can say that barbaric butchery of fellow human beings was really unthinkable.
I’m certainly not saying that you have to enjoy or watch depictions of barbaric butchery, or care about any fictional characters portrayed as taking part in them. I’m just saying that it’s not very unusual behavior for most groups of human beings throughout history.
I get that, but I also contend that not every single member of these violent societies took part in these atrocities, and not all who did slept well at night afterwards. Empathy, compassion, mercy and guilt were not 20th-Century inventions, and just as people from different cultures today are still just like you and me underneath, so were people in the past, for better or for worse. I can’t believe that humanity has changed so much in 1000 years so as to make people from back then as fundamentally alien as they were depicted in the movie. The past is a foreign country, and saying that everyone living in a foreign country are heartless killers is plain old racism.
In other words, show me the movie about the 9th-Centruy warrior who didn’t blithely massacre innocents. I’m sure at least one of them had to exist.
FWIW, I think your point was borne out by the narrative of the film, even if it took a while to fully develop. Maybe you (and I, and everyone else watching) shouldn’t be so eager to see this vendetta satisfied, and like maybe the sort of culture that has created these demonic actors isn’t one whose values we should hope to see affirmed.
ETA:
Ehhhh… probably? But maybe the problem isn’t the dearth of on-screen portrayals of 9th century warriors who didn’t yearn for the smell of burning flesh, but rather the abundance of portrayals of warrior ethos as not being inherently violent and anti-social. If anything, I suspect we have too many depictions of good/honorable warriors in fiction, and what we could use more of are more grounded portrayals of good/honest farmers who were doing just fine until some asshole with a battle axe showed up to steal their crops, but was kind enough to leave them to starve over winter rather than just straight up murder them.
I think you’re projecting a level of awareness and of subtlety on the movie that just wasn’t there. That’s very common - I do it myself somethings. Personally, I thought the movie managed to create an illusion of depth without actually having anything beneath its surface. It’s something certain “arty” films are very good at.
Then make the movie about the farmer, not about the asshole with an axe. The Northman cared as little about its non-Viking characters as its protagonist did. They were set dressing, nothing more.
Have you seen Eggers’ other films? The Lighthouse and The Witch?
No, and perhaps the fact that you have is what makes you make assumptions about the movie that aren’t backed by what’s actually there. I know what it’s like to watch, read or listen to a new work from an artist I really like and think “This can’t be bad - I just don’t understand all of its subtleties” when in fact, yes, they did just drop the ball this time.
Except it is actually there. You just seem to have taken it as accidental that we are apparently led to sympathize with a character who does horrible things along his path to vengeance, and then we learn some things later on that fundamentally change the nature of what he is seeking vengeance for, perhaps exposing as flawed the values underpinning his quest.
I, however, am seeing it as deliberate, and to the extent a tie-breaker may be needed (I don’t think one is, it was a pretty obvious and deliberate shift to me), I am drawing on my knowledge of the writer/director’s earlier films that establish he is indeed capable of great subtlety.
The problem is, I never sympathized with the character nor saw his quest as anything other than flawed from the start, and when the quest turned out to be even more stupid than we thought at the beginning, the only thing I thought was “Yeah, that figures. Of course his mother was in on it. She’s just as horrible a person as everyone else.”
I just don’t find inhumanity interesting. Evil is boring.
That’s fair.
Jackass Forever. God. I dont have balls, but it felt like mine had been attacked in numerous ways re the movie.
Oh, I laughed. I cringed, looked away at times, but I did indeed laugh.
Just back from seeing “Top Gun: Maverick” with the family.
The considered opinion of all of us?..excellent.
A real action movie of the old-school, no plot to unravel, no politics to negotiatiate. A perfect Saturday morning bit of escapism. “back to the future” levels of escapism and that is saying something.
The flight sequences are truly breathtaking (see it on the big screen) and the Val Kilmer cameo is perfectly judged.
It is “The Right Stuff” mixed with “Star Wars IV” mixed with…well, “Top Gun” and they’ve actually managed to choose the best of each of those.
Make no mistake, it will not surprise you or enlighten you, you know exactly where it is going but it is bloody good fun getting there.
Hang Em High with Clint Eastwood
I hsd deliberately avoided watching it for decades. I thought it was another Spaghetti Western with the Man with No Name. I’ve seen them and really disliked Good Bad and Ugly. For a Few Dollars More is pretty good. I didn’t like High Plains Drifter. It’s snother Man with No Name movie and just weird.
I was shocked at how much I enjoyed Hang Em High. It’s almost as good as Outlaw Josey Wales. Highly Recommend.