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[PrairieRoot]

DiCaprio as a Viking....hahahahahahahaha!!! I’m sure this “Viking” movie will rank right up there with “The Saga of the Viking Women.”

[GeronL]

back when the world was much warmer

[VRWCmember]

If it’s a viking movie, what role does DiCaprio play? The galley boy that all the vikings use as their b**ch?

[Antoninus]

Not sure how to feel about this. Somehow, I think Mel will have a lot easier time getting this movie distributed now that he’s fallen from grace.

[ClearBlueSky]

Here we go!
Gibson is a great director( Braveheart), but an immoral hypocrite in his personal life. So will his work suffer? Should it, if it’s exemplary?
And DiCaprio( aka- the Pillsbury Doughboy) as a VIKING?
Uhhhh- lost me right there. Might be a great film, but lets have Viking looking Vikings please!
Hell-Rosie O’Donnell would be a more credible Viking!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Leo as a viking? Righttttt....

Next you’ll tell me that they’ll cast Brad Pitt as Achilles.

Oh wait...

[windcliff]

ping

[Pharmboy]

I think I know what the plot line may be...this bunch of Viking traders get screwed out of some gold and other loot by some Jews and then spend the rest of the movie searching for them at Bar Mitzvahs up and down the Scottish, Irish and Normandy coasts. Am I close?

[SMARTY]

I think that might be good. One of my favorite movies is ‘The Long Ships’-Richard Widmark.....

Does anyone remember that? What a great adventure story!!

Anyway, it is time for the NEA graduated idiots to see a real account of Western civilization (which I am pretty sure is Mel's object) in selecting this topic.

Lots of brash and boisterous tough guy stuff, but basically correct on the part played by Europeans in the development of their OWN culture. I am willing to bet Europeans will NOT be represented as mindless, knuckle-scraping Neanderthals arbitrarily brutalizing all and sundry. There was a great deal of significance to the 'Viking' piece of the Western Culture equation. It's TIME for this!!!Can't wait!!...(much as I dislike DiCaprio)

[brownsfan]

Let’s see, I think I know the formula:

There’s this viking guy, living off the land, just wanting to lead a simple life.

Someone dear to him is killed in a conflict with the English. This sets the viking off and he kills every Englishman in sight. The viking becomes a hero, and saves his country. He then returns to a simple peaceful life.

Braveheart/Patriot set in Norway?

[allmendream]

I could see DeCrappio as the sniveling Viking prince, a warmer of benches, not to be found when men trade blows, one who is shy of the sword and flinches from the shot.

But as a Viking hero...... not really.

[allmendream]

In OTHER Viking news. They cast the guy who played Kirk's father as Marvel Comic's "Thor". He seems more convincing as the Viking hero.

[al_c]

DiCaprio? As a viking??!!! LOL!!!!!!!!

[agere_contra]

I disagree with you guys. I used to loathe DiCaprio, but he’s grown a ‘tough-as-nails’ screen persona post-Titanic.

For instance: he was terrific in ‘Blood Diamond’.

But for you die-hard DiCaprio-deniers, I guarantee that he will get beaten up on screen by the bad guys in ‘Viking’. Worth the price of a ticket perhaps :0)

[StolarStorm]

He might not be playing a viking, but rather a slave of them. There is a good Stephan Lawhead book about a saint (monk) who is captured by Viking and converts them. Could be the story line..

[70th Division]

WOW! Talk about macho. What was Tom Cruse busy?

[discostu]

Could be a very unintentionally funny movie.

[My Favorite Headache]

What is DiCaprio going to do without Scorsese holding his hand?!?!? OH MY!!!!!

Overrated.

[Verginius Rufus]

DiCaprio as a Viking? Probably won’t be acting the role of Brett Favre.