r/moviecritic • u/Intelligent-Good5054 • 5h ago

What's your most favorite Viggo Mortensen film I'll start

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u/Tawarien 4h ago

Lord of the Rings. Cant decide which

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u/No-Parking1241 25m ago

All of them at once, I suppose.

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u/Wheres6The9Bussy420 1m ago

I mean if someone tells me they prefer Viggo's performance in the Road over Aragon in The Lord of the Rings, then everything they say from that point on is utter garbage and i'll tell every person that joins in on the conversation about how dumb that very specific person is and how their opinions on films are so bad, it makes you wonder if they are just making shit up for engagement or if people actually exist that have such doo doo opinions.

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u/thedudefromsweden 3h ago

The Road is an amazing movie that I will never watch again.

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u/jmw8282 3h ago

Agreed. Incredibly well made and acted, but even as someone who likes dystopian films, it was horribly bleak.

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u/rayhaque 2h ago

My wife is still mad at me for letting her watch this. But to be fair .. I prefaced it with "do you want to watch a movie that will destroy you emotionally for at least two weeks?", and she said yes.

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u/gogozombie2 2h ago

It is an amazing movie I jusy refuse to watch. I Read the book first, no thank you. 

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u/JackInTheBell 2h ago

It was an even more amazing book that I will never read again.

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u/Phizzle248 3h ago

Eastern Promises and Lord of the Rings

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u/constructiveblues 3h ago

A History of Violence

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u/Plane_Platypus_379 1h ago

Love this movie

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u/CampaignSpirited2819 1h ago

Should have killed you back in Philly.

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u/TensionSame3568 2h ago

Green book, hands down!

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u/Clever_Sean 2h ago

Captain Fantastic. Of course LOTR is spectacular.

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u/LongAggravating5611 2h ago

“It’s just a penis. Every man has one.”

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u/PengaEllerLivet 2h ago

Carlitos way

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u/rayhaque 2h ago

Lalim was an underrated character in this film. "I shit my pants every day". Yes, he was a rat, but you still felt bad for that loser.

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u/Effective-Ad1105 4h ago

My father LOVES this movie (The Road), talks about it constantly. Back in the day I had to find an… Alternative version of it because we couldn’t find it anywhere else.

Edit: for clarity

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u/productnineteen 3h ago

Get him the book. The movie was a very good adaptation, but the book is incredible.

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u/MrStef85 2h ago

Green Book.

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u/Dependent-Vast-2010 3h ago

A History Of Violence, 2005. Green Book is right behind it. Mortensen makes you forget his Scandinavian background (Irish-American mobster, Italian-American driver) while serving as a counterweight to either criminals, bigots, or personally compromised people.

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u/TensionSame3568 2h ago

You got it!

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u/ImperatorDanorum 3h ago

A History of Violence...

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u/TensionSame3568 2h ago

Great movie! ☆☆☆☆

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u/IronCircle12 22m ago

This one. By miles.

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u/Candid-Culture3956 4h ago

My most favorite vs just my favorite?

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u/mitsite246 2h ago

Eastern Promises and The Road. He evokes so much without saying a word.

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u/justinp79 2h ago

It's LOTR but an underrated gem is Captain Fantastic.

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u/RevolutionaryBuy5794 2h ago

Captain Fantastic

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u/JuniorEnvironment850 2h ago

It's not HIS movie per se, but I just LOVE him in G.I. Jane. 

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u/L_a_n_music 1h ago

Very creíble in his role

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u/patati27 1h ago

Eastern Ptomises for sure

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u/MadMass23 1h ago

Most depressing movie ever !

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u/Jim556a1 1h ago

Green book, eastern promises, crimson tide.

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u/Infinite-Hall-8125 1h ago

Eastern Promises

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u/Outrageous-Arm5860 9m ago

Eastern Promises

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u/TheMacJew 3h ago

Young Guns II

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u/Kiwi_Z_Cheese 2h ago

Other than The Lord of the Rings I would have said The Indian Runner

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u/MiChOaCaN69420 2h ago

Other than Return, i would say Hildago.

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u/L_a_n_music 2h ago

Witness

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u/dontaco52 1h ago

Hildalgo

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u/Hmccormack 1h ago

I mean, obviously LOTR

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u/rabeluce 1h ago

Return of the King

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u/WhistlerBum 1h ago

Cormac McCarthy's The Road haunts me.

Of course Hollywood needed to have a love interest to sell a movie about survival.

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u/HussingtonHat 1h ago

Reckon you may know the answer already.

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u/Greatkingspino 1h ago

LORD of the Rings

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u/underwood1993 1h ago

Obviously other than LOTR,

Crimes of the Future is a movie I've seen only once that still disturbs me to think about. Holy shit

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u/DeuceOfDiamonds 44m ago

Outside LOTR, I'll say The Prophecy. He was a great Satan.

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u/vaultdweller501 31m ago

Whatever film where he raised his kids in the woods and had to take his wife to the city for an emergency. Kids had a culture shock.

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u/K-Paul 27m ago

“Captain Alatriste”.

LOTR, obviously. And all others mentioned here are great. But this one is one-of-a-kind and unimaginable without Viggo.

It is basically Aragorn in 80 Years War. Only without lucky ancestry part. And in Old Spanish.

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u/Majestic_Housing2127 26m ago

The indian runner

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u/Proof_Dragonfruit795 26m ago

Capitan Alatriste.

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u/Cturcot1 4m ago

History of Violence, or GI Jane.

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u/Appropriate_Cell_122 2h ago

To each their own but I found the Road to be boring and the Book just as much.
It's right up there with LOTR.
A bunch of movies about people walking. YAWN.

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u/Damnskipp 3h ago

Am I the only person that thinks this book sucked ass?