#arctic 2018

[veone]

arctic-2018

[leoleyline]

i only post the art im satisfied with here so

[foggycatgarden]

Arctic 2018

[desperatelyseekingcannibals]

A Mads poll with a difference!

A poll of Mads Mikkelsen movies where the selection is based on range of factors, including but not limited to: genre, writer/director, country of release, date of release and 🎉vibes 🎉

Some of the movies may fit in more than one category, so vibes have mostly informed those decisions.

Round One:

Choose your fave!

Time for some rough and ready Mads!

Daddy's mad!

Nigel - Charlie Countryman (2013)

Overgård - Arctic (2018)

Duncan Vizla - Polar (2019)

Markus Hansen - Riders of Justice (2020)

Mayor David Prentiss - Chaos Walking (2021)

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is a 2013 romantic drama set in Bucharest. The story follows Charlie, a hapless US tourist who falls for a local musician, Gabi. Mads plays Nigel, Gabi's estranged husband and murderous criminal.

Arctic is a 2018 survival drama set in the arctic. Mads plays stranded pilot Overgård, who finds the will to try and escape the wilderness on foot when he finds another survivor who is gravely injured.

Polar is a 2019 neo-noir action thriller based on a graphic novel of the same name. The story follows the plight of hitman Duncan Vizla aka the Black Kaiser, as he attempts to retire. Unfortunately, retiring means his employers will need to pay him out, and it's cheaper to kill him instead. Mads plays the protagonist, Duncan.

Retfærdighedens Ryttere (Riders of Justice) is a 2020 Danish action comedy focusing on the themes of loss and coincidence. Mads plays Markus, a soldier who has to return from active duty to look after his daughter when his wife is killed in an accident. Another survivor of the accident is convinced it wasn't really an accident, which leads Markus and his bumbling crew into a street war with the biker gang Riders of Justice.

Chaos Walking is a 2021 dystopian sci-fi movie based on the book by Patrick Ness. The story is set in 2257 on a colonial planet where the male population are affected by a condition that the women aren't. Mads plays antagonist Mayor Prentis who wants to use the circumstances of the condition to his advantage to keep power.

Who's your daddy?

[hannibalextendeduniverse]

Arctic

spoilers for the ending ahead!

This is the kind of movie I would normally watch anyway, it's the stuff I'm interested in. It seems interesting and I have high hopes for it.

??? That scene was unecessarily terrifying wtf was going on, now I'm hella intrigued.

smt abt Mads eating raw noodles is endlessly funny to me.

But god, the desperation in Overgård's face, the hope, the panic, the realisation, the crushing defeat — absolutely beautiful acting.

polar bears look so fluffy. if so dangerous, why friend shaped?

Mads is so good at conveying Overgård's distress and pain. For a film with very little dialogue, there's so much he manages to say.

The landscape was absolutely gorgeous. That clean expanse of white untouched snow forces you to focus on the one speck of colour and movement. It's a simple but effective mechanism that just adds so much.

Arctic has a chilling story (pun intended) about survival. It isn't action packed or full of danger, it's just a stranded guy trying to save himself — and that just makes it more real and more emotionally touching.

I really, really enjoyed this. It's powerful narratively and god, that final scene made me tear up. I choose to believe in a happy ending because hypothermia doesn't kill that fast and Overgård was probably just unconscious... right? Either way, the sort-of ambiguous ending was absolutely perfect for this film.

Plus I like Mads and his beard.

[anthonyed]

arctic 2018 is such a difficult watch not because the protagonist was stranded but because he survived despite being stranded and managed to establish some kind of routine in his solitude and then he made the decision to leave that cocoon of comfort to get saved instead of just waiting to be saved for dk how long he had done and in that process he gets broken both in spirit and body and you wonder along with him if he should have just stayed behind eating cured trout beside the iced lake instead

[captaincolossal]

So...I go to my chiropractor every 4 weeks, right? And have been doing so for years, and I have to say something that has been festering.

Definitely in the last two years - but possibly longer and it just hadn't registered - one specific song plays every single time I'm there. I noticed it about a year ago and have low-key been keeping track, but haven't said anything because it's so dumb. The song is... "We Go Together" from the Grease soundtrack, and fun fact! my chiropractor was in show choir in high school, and performed this song a lot. This is an anecdote that he told me easily more than five years ago, when this song played and it was enough of a novelty that he commented on it.

And after I realized that I hear this song, in amongst the generic upbeat pop hits, when I'm there for 10-15 minutes every four weeks...how often does this song play??? Is it multiple times a week? Or per day??? I always go at the same day and time, and I always hear that song, in it's entirety, but there are always different songs before and after, so it's not like they're on a static playlist. Like what the fuck is happening.

I just...I've never said anything and I've never told anyone about this and it happened again today, and it makes me laugh because it's so silly and weird.

Arctic (2018)

Oh, another one where a stoic and taciturn man is in a harrowing survival situation.

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