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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek
I really liked the 13th warrior, I was very surprised at some of the reactions the movie received. I'm going to have to read the book it was based on (I wasn't even aware that it was based on a novel!)
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My dad has these friends that he plays rifleman with. They're also big book and movie geeks so when they come for the holidays we have fun talking about entertainment. It's because of these folks that I even watched the movie in the first place.
The way it was marketed when it was first released led me to believe that it was some sort of El Mariachi vehicle for Bandaras so I wasn't interested. Once I was told that it was based on this book that Crichton had based on a historical document I decided to watch it - they had told me also that the book wasn't that interesting but that the movie was made of awesome. I fully and completely agree with their assessment.
If the producers had thought to market this film as what it is, an historical monster movie, they may have had better success. I was really shocked at how genuinely frightening some scenes are. It's not something I would watch in the presence of children.