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I thought it was going to be really silly when I put it on but I was very surprised with the quality. It's been over a decade since I watched it but I still remember most of the plot which says a lot
As a Norwegian it is pretty cool seeing someone go over all this. The Trolls have been part of our folklore as far back as the ancient sagas. You got all the names pretty spot on if I am honest. Jotnar though is kind of a more englishfied version, Jotun or Jotne is the local term for the big ones. Also the area they were in is called Jotunheimen, or the Jotun's home, it is a large national park of sorts covering the mountain and valleys in the area.
A friend of mine is working on learning Norwegian and moving there so I've been hearing a lot about it lately. Sounds like an awesome place. So he busted out Troll Hunter and it was a great, silly time. I'll visit at some point, once he's there and settled in.
That’s why I’m worried he won’t take my suggestion and cover Subnautica’s bacterial infection…99% of fauna has tentacles or fins, or just no feet at all. I’m pretty sure human protagonist Ryley is the only one with feet-
This makes me feel like the moment they learn/understand science the just explode. Much like wylee coyote falling only once he's realized he's past the edge 😂
I wonder if giant squids used to more frequently attack ships because they appeared to be like a dying whale, slapping the water with oars and just floating mostly, whereas modern ships have loud, horrifying engines that scare them off.
Also most giant squids that come to the surface do so out of age, or rather they're having a harder time staying deep underwater.(I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong please) And a dying whale like you said would be easy pickings for an aging giant squid. They'd be desperate for any food they could catch.
@ArlanKels i think they come up as they're dying, maybe because in the deep they're hunted my sperms whales so it reduces their odds of fighting one? 😅
@@ArlanKelsthe only colossal squids that have been found on the surface were all dead. They don’t surface unless they are basically dead and the lack of pressure on the surface is bad for them. Also giant squids and colossal squids are different species. Only the colossal squid is large enough to attack ships like the kraken is depicted to do
Could also be them taking a rest from being hunted by sperms whales, which would have been more common back in those days. Squid gets chased to the surface, may or may not be dying, sees a floating thing that isn't actively hunting it and figures it might be a good place to rest. That's my idea of what's going on.
Back in the Viking age not all Trolls were humanoid. There were Troll animals as well. For example, if you burned a Troll and a bull or pig ingested the ashes, it could be considered a Troll afterwards. Troll-bull. It almost worked kind of like an infection. Crazy.
So would they end up humanoid or simply like a sort of…hulking, feral, toothier and more aggressive version of the animal? Like is a troll pig a pig-man or more of like an enormous boar?
One of the coolest examples of finding new species unexpectedly was a few years ago. Right in NYC they found a new species of frog that'd been there the entire time and nobody realized it. So while I don't think cryptids as we think of them exist, it's 100% reasonable to expect some very freaky and some very mundane discoveries still.
i understand what you're trying to say with "cryptids as we think of them", you mean the most popular/infamous ones, but the thing is that the term 'cryptid' covers a wide range of possible creatures, from real living animals existing far outside their native range (english big cats) to real extinct animals (tasmanian tiger sightings, coelacanths) to possible undiscovered species (colossal squid) to wild nonsense fantasy shit like mermaids and mongolian death worms. Coelacanths and colossal squid are great examples of things that _used_ to be considered cryptids, and then had their existence documented by science and are now considered just mundane animals.
to be fair, i think large terrestial criptids arent neccesarly true - we know about couple of lynxes over entire area of balkans, for example - i doubt something large like bigfoot would be able to hide itself from scientific recognition etc
Humanoid creatures in America are obviously a different story from frogs though. The only way they exist in America is with government cover up’s as there’s way too many cameras everywhere now.
I didn't expect the troll bite to give him rabies. Somehow I expected it to turn him into a troll. In a surreal film where trolls exist and can smell a specific type of person, it's grounding to know they are also vulnerable to diseases.
The trolls are supposed to be animals and natural, their existence is just kept secret. Them being able to smell christian blood is part of the folklore and stems from the belief that people posessed by demons would smell like demons, non-christians would smell bad, christians would smell normal/good and especially holy people would smell amazing. So really it's humans that are strange and smell differently depending on belief, and the trolls which can live for 1000's of years likely associate the smell with being hunted by early christians. So other animals like dogs and cats, could probably also recognise the difference in smell, but they don't care. Why christians smell different could be from various reasons. It could be that faith changes hormones in the body, but then it likely would also impact muslims and people of other faiths, which it doesn't seem to do. It could be something from going to church specifically, and that the smell lingers-- but not all christians actually go to church. In Norwegian the saying is that trolls can smell "christian mens blood", which could mean christians in general or it could be only christian/religious men specifically-- which means that muslim men might actually smell the same, but Malika is a woman so she doesn't smell that way. That would also work with the early christians hunting trolls theory, since that would primarily be done by men. Am I spending way too much time contemplating this over a movie that came out 13 years ago? Yes. Do I regret it? No.
Honestly, figuring out to work within the bounds of the square cube law is such a fun puzzle. Dragons are a million times more awesome when you've had to fight to make them function under the prison of physics.
They're just dinosaurs with chemical flamethrowers in their mouths, that puzzle was solved in the 90's.. they really aren't that fun under the square cube law. The fun stuff is when you get into the lesser known creatures like penanggalan or dullahan. Try to figure out the physics of a creature that has two separate body parts/systems that function in conjunction with one another.
@@azarinevil Honestly, it's not even the size that makes dragons cool for me. It's when they're portrayed as powerful, magical beings with a far greater intellect than humans could even imagine to possess, practically eldritch gods in their own right. The square cube law can be really messed with if you take that magical prowess into consideration.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 You literally can't apply the square cube law to magic, the whole point of magic is to make up stupid reasons for why the square cube law doesn't apply.
@@azarinevil Nahhh, figuring out how to make a two-ton intelligent archosaur with six limbs and fire breath work was still pretty fun. I've still got a ways to go with overcoming challenges beyond square-cube tbh.
The way to work around the square cube law is to just make everything else smaller. For example, imagine everything is the same, but everything is 1/100 the size. Now, you can create dragons the size of buildings, but in reality, they are 2 feet tall.
As a norwegian who loves when myths are re-imagined to fit in our modern world, I love this movie. And I love that its getting some attention from you here so that more people might go watch it. Its by far my favorite found footage movie. Its a fairly small movie all things considered, but it does so much with what it had to work with. And I love that while the scientific reasonings might not be perfect, they're more or less believable.
As an Australian, I had to go out of my way to find this movie when it came out and I regret nothing. It is indeed the best found footage film made in that era.
I do feel really bad for the Jotnar at the end of the film. Not only was it a rare and grand beast, it looks like it spend the last few days of its life in pain. I hope there are at least a few more of those big boys in the Trollhunter universe!
Movie is 100% my chill movie . I’ve seen it a lot as well at least a couple times a year and is my go to none horror movie film . It hits a lot of different points and it’s also a fun movie to show people
Slight correction on the European Tetanus guidelines: it's true that we don't booster everybody after a 10-year period, but if you get an injury that requires medical attention (like stitches) and it has been >10 years since your last tetanus-shot, you will get a booster there and then. Every GP-practice or ER carries them.
if a sickness is already within you a booster will do literally nothing to help it's not a 'cure' it's a sample of dead viral or bacterial matter to allow your body to build antibodies with, if you're already infected with something then your body will already be building antibodies for it rabies vaccines are an exception because without the shot your body will not actually know to fight it off before it's already too late but this is primarily due to the location of infection and rabies basically being sneaky
Can confirm the U.S. is kinda similar. While we should get a tetanus shot once every ten years, in my 30 years of living, it's not really ever been... mentioned by doctors. The only times I've gotten my boosters are when I suddenly, accidentally get a nail or rusty object through the foot and the doctor is like "Oh, shit. You need your tetanus shot. No better time than now. You're getting it now. Stay in that seat." In other news, I would greatly prefer a nail through the foot to a bite. Nails through foot (not hitting bone) only hurt for a couple minutes and barely bleed. Bites just fucking suck, man. They stay itchy for like a month.
Troll Hunter has such a special place in my heart, i watched it when I was younger with my family with zero context as to what it would be, only that it had subtitles, and enjoyed every second of it
When you talked about armor and the effects of taking a hit it made me think of the energy transfer that a body would experience when wearing body armor and taking a hit. I don’t know if you’re aware of the Demolition Ranch channel, but today he tested an armor plate that can stop an AP 50 BMG and the effects on the body after taking that shot. It’s almost not worth even wearing lol, but I would recommend watching that episode
I can imagine why you say it was almost not worth wearing that armor. Just to stop that caliber of round the armor would be very heavy. Either from sheer thickness or from all the layers designed to stop such a projectile. Next...well, most people wouldn't consider the fact armor does not magically stop the kinetic energy of the blow. Even if the projectile does get stopped before penetrating you it also is still gonna transfer that energy to you. Even regular handgun ammo can feel like getting punch hard when wearing bullet proof vests. So I can not imagine the sheer devastation the round in question would still do...must be like getting hit by a truck. So your organs are not gonna in good shape after that. Bruised and broken bones, internal hemorages from tears to any of your soft bits exposed to that energy, and the sheer shock from the blow. Pretty sure you could easily still die.
@@jacobfreeman5444 I appreciate that you took the time to write that out. I’d recommend watching that video dude. Believe it or not the armor isn’t really that heavy and it actually stopped the black tip. However the ballistic dummy labs target it was on suffered a ruptured liver, 6 broken ribs, a fractured sternum and the whiplash of taking that energy ripped open the neck. I already didn’t think it was a survivable condition but it was cool to find out what would happen. I’m not sure who would want to actually wear that armor because the thickness looked to be at least 4 inches, and the only real impressive thing it did was stop a 300 Win Mag black tip, although you might die from spawling
@@wetmemedaddy5065it’s not steel armor that is used to stop 50bmg so no spall. Also the spall of just a 5.56 round is easily lethal hence why steel armor sucks and should only be used as a last resort
As a Norwegian, two things; first, thanks for reviewing and analyzing this film! It's one of my favourites with one of my all-time favourite, mostly realistic depictions/rationializations of trolls, and André Øvredal is a great director in my opinion. Second, your pronunciatons of Norwegian/Scandic words were somewhat mixed but mostly pretty good for a non-native speaker who got back from a 13 hour drive.
I do recall a story about the fellow who had the clostridium infection, unless I am misremembering, they ended up treating him with virophages, which cleaned up the infection pretty well.
19:23 when you talk about getting jacked up by serious force a lot of times it does depend on the person, as a veteran who’s been in 2 IED attacks I’ve seen concussions, broken vertebrae, nearly lost manhood, bleeding from the ears and even ruptured/detached retina in the same truck. Team Human can take a lot of damage and many of us can keep going after some minor medical care. GO TEAM HUMAN!!!
Imagine my disappointment as my childish brain thought this was about Guillermo Del Toro’s animated “Trollhunters” series, and realized it wasn’t. Jk, any day Roanoke uploads is a good day. Congrats on the 900,000 subscribers, let’s see if we can get to 1,000,000!
@@delrunplays2903 I stopped watching it after a few seasons but a live action remake would be wild. They should use practical effects, too. Just go ham with the fun but dumb fantasy vibe
I love how, for a split second, you just sound disappointed that Hans didn't die from getting sucker punched by the troll. Just deadpan'd, slightly annoyed, "something is getting broken"
Nice to see a classic covered. What amused me is that being a Troll Hunter sounds like a fairly sweet gig...but Hans is the epitome of the guy who's been in the same job for so long he just hates everything about it: the hours are awful, the pay is crap, and there's a good chance the government will make you wipe out entire clans of Trolls - including children and pregnant females - just so they can build a highway. No wonder he just walks off into the wilderness by himself at the end, he's checked out by that stage. The part where they're running from the three-headed troll in the forest at night always gave me a serious case of the willies.
I know of someone who had a infection in the chest and was hospitalized pretty much for months. Nothing worked, untill they injected Phages and treated him with antibiotics at the same time. The bacteria was unable to adapt to both at the same time and he was healed.
Fun story: In college I attended an Orphan’s Thanksgiving (students who couldn’t go home to family for the holiday, hosted as a giant pot luck). We couldn’t decide what to watch after and few of us were football fans. After a lot of arguing, one guy made the executive decision to watch this. Super random but we all loved it. Good times.
I used to watch this movie religiously back in the day, like at least once a month, then I suddenly stopped and forgot about it for the longest time. Then I stumbled upon it once more after many years and... It's not as great as I remembered it to be, it's pretty silly. But I reminded myself why I enjoyed it so much; as someone who loves mountains and forests, this movie really got my imagination going while going on hikes and scouting through trees to look for evidence of trolls wandering around. It's a weird, little movie but I still love it. Nostalgia is hell of a drug.
I'm so glad you went over this movie. This movie was so good, and a really good found footage film. I genuinely love it, and even based a DND character on it back in the day.
I randomly came across this movie a number of years ago and absolutely fell in love with it. I watch it maybe once a year and it never fails to get old. Is just such a unique subject for a movie, and personally, I think very well done. When I saw the movie "Troll" coming out in 2022, I was pretty excited, but so terribly let down. It wasn't bad, but definitely didn't live up to Troll Hunter. Thank you for doing such an amazing movie! I personally love how much you go into the synopsis of each movie because a lot of these movies I won't watch, normally because they're kind of scary and I hate horror movies. However, I'm also intrigued by your explanations of the monsters. 😂
Love this movie. For anyone looking for other folklore-inspired films, check out Thale; it is about Hulder in Scandinavia. Regarding tetanus and related bacterial infections: When I was in college, my microbiology professor showed us a segment on something called phage therapy. Basically, areas that are too poor for or for whatever reason cannot provide antibiotics to patients sometimes utilize bacteriophage viruses to treat various infections, including MRSA. It was remarkably effective and very interesting, if a bit haphazard.
Anyone who has been out in the woods and encountered or even seen an 8 foot tall hairy humanoid that moves with a sense of fluidity that kind of breaks your mind to witness knows humanity has not classified even every terrestrial Creature
Its kinda sad that the big troll died, it must have been so old. Makes me wonder what its seen, it could have been around during the medieval age and inspired the stories directly
As a Born and Raised local Alaskan, we have zero troll stories in our folklore. However, I can’t help but love and obsess over this movie subtitled and all… it’s one of my favorite movies. Don’t care how cheesy anyone says it is. At the end when he says. Raaaaabeeees I was dying.😂 Yes, this movie is a legendary movie and it’s been in my top 10 since it came out I rented it the first day I saw it years and years ago
just found this channel recently, i love it! you're funny but also break down the stories better than my brain can when watching the movie on my own. awesome work man!!
Love this film. They got the tone spot on, just the right side of plausible. Its use of a found footage camera is well thought through, logical and faultless.
It’s actually a pretty cool concept since there are troll like beasts in the Bible called Nephilem which were half human half Fallen Angel and they could tell who had faith and who hadn’t
Glad you finally covered this one! I’ve asked for this movie in the past because it’s one of my “nobody I know has seen this but me” films. Now you gotta do the Genestealer cults from Warhammer 40K.! I know you’d find the infection and generational cycle fascinating
Thank you for mentioning the Milwaukee protocol. I’ve been arguing with people who just don’t believe me when I say that this actually happened and kudos on the doctor who thought this up.
The problem with the Milwaukee protocol is it has worked a single time and then never again. Even with all the revisions trying to get it to work again it is still worked once in 2004 and has never been replicated to this day.
@@kholdstare90 it’s “worked” a few times, but it seems to match the rate of natural recovery so it seems like it has no effect. That’s from the paper I read on Google.
Bloodlines does seem like the most apt advertisement for this channel. I mean just think, if there was ever a game that would let Broanoke mix and match different species into some mutant chimera freak it would be Bloodlines and it fits with all the different possible combinations of feet for Broanoke to um "classify".
I just watched the last voyage of the Demeter and it really cool. The anatomy of Dracula in this one looks cool too. I'd love to see a video on this creature it's anatomy and your thoughts on it's abilities.
I think the best part about the movie was speculating what is going on with Thomas, is he going to turn into a troll or something? The usual weird "fantastic diseases" and then it just turns out to be old mundane rabies. Despite being about such a fantastical topic such as trolls, the movie does feel like a weird nature documentary in the end. Kinda shame there aren't documentary style movies or series about fantastical beasts etc.
I remember watching footage of enormous squid attacking a small group of divers. There might have only been two of them. They were grabbing them and pulling them into the deep. One of the divers barely escaped with his life. If I hadn't seen the footage myself I probably would be skeptical, so I totally understand people reading this pressing X. There was something particularly horrifying about Cthulhuesq monsters grabbing a hold of a man and then dragging him down into the infinite black.
Dinosaurs developed hollow bones. The development of hollow bones allowed dinosaurs to “break” the square-cube law as they weighed much less than would be expected and thus could support larger sizes without collapsing under themselves.
Thing is, we knew about the Giant Squid since the 1800s. Cause, unsurprisingly, everything that lives on this planet also _dies_ and that generally leaves a body behind.
Love the content 👌, have a gripe with 22:22. It's not tensile failure, it's actually an elasticity failure from hook and loop stress as it's an internal stress in a cylinder. Sorry g, also a man of SCIENCE!
I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but the whole 'Ouroboros' thing where snakes eat their own tails is super rare, and usually when the snake undergoes neurological damage, especially from being too hot. But yeah, having worked with kingsnakes, some of them are... very much one brain cell, and that one brain cell only knows 'Open mouth and try to eat'. One California kingsnake that I worked with would repeatedly - and I mean REPEATEDLY - bite himself and refuse to let go. He would also bite the side of his enclosure, and people. So yeah, it can definitely be a thing. He was such a goober.
32:06 Also, heat dissipation. Since the square cube law means that the surface area is squared while volume is cubed, we can say that a body would produce ^3 the heat but only have ^2 the surface to dissipate it. (okay, not exactly probably, but the point stands).
I would love for you to cover, even on Roanoke tails, these creatures from stories of Lovecraft’s. The Shadow Over Insmith featuring the Deep Ones, the Whisperer in Darkness featuring the Migo, At the Mountains of Madness featuring the Star Spawn and the dreaded Showgoth. Also the Color Out of Space featuring the Color. All of these have a very robust biological description for nearly each creature. In the mountains of madnesses, as the two explorers of the Eldridge ruins read the transcription, they realize even these creatures labeled entities like Cthulhu and his young(lower even than aza and narl) as even more utterly alien in comparisons to our own differences from the old ones themselves. Basically saying well humans are not from my planet but at least humans are from my galaxy. Great writer. The bipedal fish, the deep ones, with their ability to interbreed with humans, and most likely have the gene for gigantism, and DNA regulation like lobsters to live forever, unless harmed or otherwise. the ultimate video and challenge to do on Lovecraft would be the Color Out of Space, which was a Lovecrafts intention to make a life so abstract in explanation. Elijah Woods made a good decision making that his first film out of the mythos. Its difference stands out the most among his other creations. A truly different life form, that not any creature from your covers have come close to. Except for annihilation because they ripped it off.
Dead Space from 1991 is a interesting movie about a virus or parasite (can't remember which) was created to fight and counter a epidemic going on around the galaxy but the experiment went wrong leaving a mercenary and his robot with a group of scientists to try and take it out, it's pretty old but the science behind is something you'd probably be interested in
Congrats on 900k! Will you consider covering Anaconda? Especially the blood orchid one? I recently rewatched it and when they talked about cells renewing, I thought it would be pretty cool if you could cover it.
@@RoanokeGaming True, but the shared similarities between some of the builds shows how a few of them could be related (Knifehead to Slattern for example)
Can't believe you're channel getting this big, congrats man! I got into your channel from the dead space videos and have been watching since. I always watch the new weekly video on fridays since I enjoy them a lot, I hope you continue doing and enjoying this for a long time. Cheers!
You've been on the chad grindset for the past several months busting out two videos a week, that 900K subs is hugely deserved. Livestream for the 1millie?
Never saw this movie cssue i thought it was gonna be terrible but the way you talked about everything... now im going to have to actually watch it. Thank you! And congrats on 900,000! I remeber the days of 800 subs like yesterday... how time flies!
if they smell christians, does that mean those who are unbelievers are invisible to their sinus senses? and that would mean it's good to be an unbeliever when hunting trolls? also, UV Lasers, better living through particle physics.
As someone who has taken mushrooms in nature in the middle of nowhere, I completely understand how ancient people thought trolls, ents, fairy's, etc. existed.
@Roanoke hi, I live in Switzerland and had my Tetanus booster 3 or 4 years ago. The doctor told me that now the booster lasts 20 years. I was born in Italy and booster for tetanus vaccine is mandatory every 10 years. So we indeed do the boosters. Cheers!
Watched this movie a lot when I was a teen, as a follower of Christ the idea of Trolls being attracted to my blood was always a bit chilling. Made them seem closer to Demons than anything from our world. Still, cool subject for you to cover.
I remember hearing about a kid whose parents were anti-vaxx, so the kid caught tetanus and was taken to the hospital by his parents. After a very expensive hospital stay and he recovered, his parents refused to vaccinate him after the fact...
Love the video as always Roanoke! Commenting for algorithm. I've been catching almost all of your weekend uploads for almost a year now. Keeping doing what you're doing! You're slowly unlocking a new hidden interest in biology that I never thought I had. I was always a physics/chemistry person myself and never understood why I found (basic) biology so barebones boring but your videos never fail to keep me interested.
dude ten years from now Im gonna absentmindedly remember some biology tidbit and realize I learned it from here. fuckin moment in youtube history you are chad
16:56 That makes sense, unhuntable + non hunting = no need for intelligence, but then it makes me think about elephants. Elephants are massive creatures, and (ignoring poachers) they don’t really have many predators. Sure lions may go after one in its younger/smaller stages but as a whole Elephants (especially in herds) are pretty untouchable. Add that to the fact that they are herbivorous, and you get a near perfect formula for troll brain, but Elephants are incredibly smart! I mean theoretically speaking the trolls could be very intelligent, especially if they came from a humanoid evolutionary line (which is likely seeing as they are mammals and strictly bipedal). I know the whole brain mass to body mass thing is a factor, but I’m talking like in the progress of evolving to their current state, why would they have evolved such little brains? Again I get that they have no predators and food is abundant and easy, but like….elephants…
I remember when our teacher wanted us to watch the Trolls movie on TH-cam in elementary school but instead she put this on and we watched Troll hunter 😂
Funny fact, one tiny bridge is near the village a friend of mine lives, we moved over there, sadly the troll was gone, but I'm sure the troll was above us in the mountain 😊
Thanks for the constant content, Roanoke. I love listening to your scientific breakdowns while I work. Question, not about the square cube law, but about reaction times in a creature that massive: Could light-based nerves serve to convey information faster than the normal setup? Basically fiber-optics instead of standard wiring? I am a massive fan of Kaiju movies and am constantly trying to come up with ways to explain them scientifically. (as much as one can) My latest bugbear is figuring out why there isn't a noticeable delay between them being hit in an extremity and their reactions. With normal nerves it seems like there would be a bit of lag when the "stubbed my toe" signal has to travel 400ft to reach the brain. Also would dovetail with how 90% of modern Kaiju are bioluminescent. Keep up the awesome work!
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The square cube law. Ruiner of fun in so many stories.
It really do be that way lol
Why did then dinosaurs exist if square cube law exists?
@@daugirdassvitrigaila5644I guess they pushed the limits?
@@daugirdassvitrigaila5644 Higher Oxygen content probably?
@@daugirdassvitrigaila5644Squares didn’t exist yet, dude
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar... It was tense.
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Aha I get it
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I must be an undiscovered nerd because I laughed harder at this over the past year more than any joke I’ve heard….
One thing I loved about this movie was that they tried SO HARD to make the plot believable. Mad respect. 8/10 movie no cap.
More like 9/10
Just putting it out there but I wish they would have done more with the him catching rabies thing . Also the blonde chick was low key cute
They put thought into it and took it series. Nothing was too ridiculous and a lot of questions were answered in a good way. Definitely respectable.
I thought it was going to be really silly when I put it on but I was very surprised with the quality. It's been over a decade since I watched it but I still remember most of the plot which says a lot
As a Norwegian it is pretty cool seeing someone go over all this. The Trolls have been part of our folklore as far back as the ancient sagas. You got all the names pretty spot on if I am honest. Jotnar though is kind of a more englishfied version, Jotun or Jotne is the local term for the big ones. Also the area they were in is called Jotunheimen, or the Jotun's home, it is a large national park of sorts covering the mountain and valleys in the area.
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The park looks amazing and peaceful
@@LowPing156 It is very pretty year round, it is also very popular to hike around the entier mountain range there.
A friend of mine is working on learning Norwegian and moving there so I've been hearing a lot about it lately. Sounds like an awesome place. So he busted out Troll Hunter and it was a great, silly time. I'll visit at some point, once he's there and settled in.
I love this so darn much
3 laws of Roanoke Gaming
1. Let’s talk about rabies
2. What is the Square cubed law you might ask
3. Starting with the feet
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In fairness Roanake is right about how fascinating and horrifying Rabies is
Just gon' move law three to law one, as indeed we must "Start with the feet" xD
That’s why I’m worried he won’t take my suggestion and cover Subnautica’s bacterial infection…99% of fauna has tentacles or fins, or just no feet at all.
I’m pretty sure human protagonist Ryley is the only one with feet-
And fear polar bears.
square cube law doesn’t apply to trolls because no one taught them science
This makes me feel like the moment they learn/understand science the just explode. Much like wylee coyote falling only once he's realized he's past the edge 😂
I CANNOT FOLLOW THE LAW IF I CANNOT READ THE LAW!
purple makes you invisible
Orcs, Trolls, they share a similar mindset
Elementary learning hunting trolls down like Judge Dredd.
"I am the law!"
I wonder if giant squids used to more frequently attack ships because they appeared to be like a dying whale, slapping the water with oars and just floating mostly, whereas modern ships have loud, horrifying engines that scare them off.
Also most giant squids that come to the surface do so out of age, or rather they're having a harder time staying deep underwater.(I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong please)
And a dying whale like you said would be easy pickings for an aging giant squid. They'd be desperate for any food they could catch.
@ArlanKels i think they come up as they're dying, maybe because in the deep they're hunted my sperms whales so it reduces their odds of fighting one? 😅
@@ArlanKelsthe only colossal squids that have been found on the surface were all dead. They don’t surface unless they are basically dead and the lack of pressure on the surface is bad for them. Also giant squids and colossal squids are different species. Only the colossal squid is large enough to attack ships like the kraken is depicted to do
@@clownworld4655giant squid aren't that much smaller than colossal squid. And boats back then weren't that big, so its a pretty believable theory.
Could also be them taking a rest from being hunted by sperms whales, which would have been more common back in those days. Squid gets chased to the surface, may or may not be dying, sees a floating thing that isn't actively hunting it and figures it might be a good place to rest.
That's my idea of what's going on.
Back in the Viking age not all Trolls were humanoid. There were Troll animals as well. For example, if you burned a Troll and a bull or pig ingested the ashes, it could be considered a Troll afterwards. Troll-bull. It almost worked kind of like an infection. Crazy.
So would they end up humanoid or simply like a sort of…hulking, feral, toothier and more aggressive version of the animal?
Like is a troll pig a pig-man or more of like an enormous boar?
@@dr.altoclef9255I was thinking the same exact thing 🤔
Its probably is because troll means magic, ie supernatural
Kind of like the different monsters you get from vampire blood.
One of the coolest examples of finding new species unexpectedly was a few years ago. Right in NYC they found a new species of frog that'd been there the entire time and nobody realized it. So while I don't think cryptids as we think of them exist, it's 100% reasonable to expect some very freaky and some very mundane discoveries still.
i understand what you're trying to say with "cryptids as we think of them", you mean the most popular/infamous ones, but the thing is that the term 'cryptid' covers a wide range of possible creatures, from real living animals existing far outside their native range (english big cats) to real extinct animals (tasmanian tiger sightings, coelacanths) to possible undiscovered species (colossal squid) to wild nonsense fantasy shit like mermaids and mongolian death worms. Coelacanths and colossal squid are great examples of things that _used_ to be considered cryptids, and then had their existence documented by science and are now considered just mundane animals.
to be fair, i think large terrestial criptids arent neccesarly true - we know about couple of lynxes over entire area of balkans, for example - i doubt something large like bigfoot would be able to hide itself from scientific recognition etc
Humanoid creatures in America are obviously a different story from frogs though. The only way they exist in America is with government cover up’s as there’s way too many cameras everywhere now.
I didn't expect the troll bite to give him rabies. Somehow I expected it to turn him into a troll. In a surreal film where trolls exist and can smell a specific type of person, it's grounding to know they are also vulnerable to diseases.
The trolls are supposed to be animals and natural, their existence is just kept secret. Them being able to smell christian blood is part of the folklore and stems from the belief that people posessed by demons would smell like demons, non-christians would smell bad, christians would smell normal/good and especially holy people would smell amazing. So really it's humans that are strange and smell differently depending on belief, and the trolls which can live for 1000's of years likely associate the smell with being hunted by early christians. So other animals like dogs and cats, could probably also recognise the difference in smell, but they don't care.
Why christians smell different could be from various reasons. It could be that faith changes hormones in the body, but then it likely would also impact muslims and people of other faiths, which it doesn't seem to do. It could be something from going to church specifically, and that the smell lingers-- but not all christians actually go to church. In Norwegian the saying is that trolls can smell "christian mens blood", which could mean christians in general or it could be only christian/religious men specifically-- which means that muslim men might actually smell the same, but Malika is a woman so she doesn't smell that way. That would also work with the early christians hunting trolls theory, since that would primarily be done by men.
Am I spending way too much time contemplating this over a movie that came out 13 years ago? Yes. Do I regret it? No.
Honestly, figuring out to work within the bounds of the square cube law is such a fun puzzle. Dragons are a million times more awesome when you've had to fight to make them function under the prison of physics.
They're just dinosaurs with chemical flamethrowers in their mouths, that puzzle was solved in the 90's.. they really aren't that fun under the square cube law. The fun stuff is when you get into the lesser known creatures like penanggalan or dullahan. Try to figure out the physics of a creature that has two separate body parts/systems that function in conjunction with one another.
@@azarinevil Honestly, it's not even the size that makes dragons cool for me. It's when they're portrayed as powerful, magical beings with a far greater intellect than humans could even imagine to possess, practically eldritch gods in their own right. The square cube law can be really messed with if you take that magical prowess into consideration.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 You literally can't apply the square cube law to magic, the whole point of magic is to make up stupid reasons for why the square cube law doesn't apply.
@@azarinevil Nahhh, figuring out how to make a two-ton intelligent archosaur with six limbs and fire breath work was still pretty fun. I've still got a ways to go with overcoming challenges beyond square-cube tbh.
The way to work around the square cube law is to just make everything else smaller. For example, imagine everything is the same, but everything is 1/100 the size. Now, you can create dragons the size of buildings, but in reality, they are 2 feet tall.
As a norwegian who loves when myths are re-imagined to fit in our modern world, I love this movie. And I love that its getting some attention from you here so that more people might go watch it. Its by far my favorite found footage movie. Its a fairly small movie all things considered, but it does so much with what it had to work with. And I love that while the scientific reasonings might not be perfect, they're more or less believable.
As an Australian, I had to go out of my way to find this movie when it came out and I regret nothing. It is indeed the best found footage film made in that era.
I do feel really bad for the Jotnar at the end of the film. Not only was it a rare and grand beast, it looks like it spend the last few days of its life in pain. I hope there are at least a few more of those big boys in the Trollhunter universe!
"I say let it die."
(The lorax movie.)
@@ktg3811let it die! Let it die! Let is shrivel up and, c'mon, who's with me?
The poor bugger was probably infected with rabies.
I speak 3 languages and in NONE of them can I find the adequate words to explain how much I LOVE this movie...I have watched it no less than 30 times.
Just say jeg elsker filmen
Movie is 100% my chill movie . I’ve seen it a lot as well at least a couple times a year and is my go to none horror movie film . It hits a lot of different points and it’s also a fun movie to show people
Slight correction on the European Tetanus guidelines: it's true that we don't booster everybody after a 10-year period, but if you get an injury that requires medical attention (like stitches) and it has been >10 years since your last tetanus-shot, you will get a booster there and then. Every GP-practice or ER carries them.
if a sickness is already within you a booster will do literally nothing to help
it's not a 'cure' it's a sample of dead viral or bacterial matter to allow your body to build antibodies with, if you're already infected with something then your body will already be building antibodies for it
rabies vaccines are an exception because without the shot your body will not actually know to fight it off before it's already too late but this is primarily due to the location of infection and rabies basically being sneaky
Can confirm the U.S. is kinda similar. While we should get a tetanus shot once every ten years, in my 30 years of living, it's not really ever been... mentioned by doctors. The only times I've gotten my boosters are when I suddenly, accidentally get a nail or rusty object through the foot and the doctor is like "Oh, shit. You need your tetanus shot. No better time than now. You're getting it now. Stay in that seat."
In other news, I would greatly prefer a nail through the foot to a bite. Nails through foot (not hitting bone) only hurt for a couple minutes and barely bleed. Bites just fucking suck, man. They stay itchy for like a month.
And we can buy the vaccine in pharmacies as well.
I don't remember ever getting my tetanus shot and this made me wanna schedule an appointment and ask about it lol
Here in Germany it's standard to get a refresher every 10 years. Not mandatory, but your doc will remind you.
Troll Hunter has such a special place in my heart, i watched it when I was younger with my family with zero context as to what it would be, only that it had subtitles, and enjoyed every second of it
When you talked about armor and the effects of taking a hit it made me think of the energy transfer that a body would experience when wearing body armor and taking a hit. I don’t know if you’re aware of the Demolition Ranch channel, but today he tested an armor plate that can stop an AP 50 BMG and the effects on the body after taking that shot. It’s almost not worth even wearing lol, but I would recommend watching that episode
I can imagine why you say it was almost not worth wearing that armor. Just to stop that caliber of round the armor would be very heavy. Either from sheer thickness or from all the layers designed to stop such a projectile. Next...well, most people wouldn't consider the fact armor does not magically stop the kinetic energy of the blow. Even if the projectile does get stopped before penetrating you it also is still gonna transfer that energy to you. Even regular handgun ammo can feel like getting punch hard when wearing bullet proof vests. So I can not imagine the sheer devastation the round in question would still do...must be like getting hit by a truck. So your organs are not gonna in good shape after that. Bruised and broken bones, internal hemorages from tears to any of your soft bits exposed to that energy, and the sheer shock from the blow. Pretty sure you could easily still die.
@@jacobfreeman5444 I appreciate that you took the time to write that out. I’d recommend watching that video dude. Believe it or not the armor isn’t really that heavy and it actually stopped the black tip. However the ballistic dummy labs target it was on suffered a ruptured liver, 6 broken ribs, a fractured sternum and the whiplash of taking that energy ripped open the neck. I already didn’t think it was a survivable condition but it was cool to find out what would happen. I’m not sure who would want to actually wear that armor because the thickness looked to be at least 4 inches, and the only real impressive thing it did was stop a 300 Win Mag black tip, although you might die from spawling
@@Graver81-69I’d imagine the spall of the .50 would kill you too if all the other things didn’t already lol gotta go watch that one
Yea that’s also why a 12ga slug to the chest is usually lethal despite even the weakest body armor stopping it
@@wetmemedaddy5065it’s not steel armor that is used to stop 50bmg so no spall. Also the spall of just a 5.56 round is easily lethal hence why steel armor sucks and should only be used as a last resort
As a Norwegian, two things; first, thanks for reviewing and analyzing this film! It's one of my favourites with one of my all-time favourite, mostly realistic depictions/rationializations of trolls, and André Øvredal is a great director in my opinion. Second, your pronunciatons of Norwegian/Scandic words were somewhat mixed but mostly pretty good for a non-native speaker who got back from a 13 hour drive.
I love your content! It's one of the reasons why I got so interested about biology
Excellent! we could use more people in the STEM field!
I do recall a story about the fellow who had the clostridium infection, unless I am misremembering, they ended up treating him with virophages, which cleaned up the infection pretty well.
19:23 when you talk about getting jacked up by serious force a lot of times it does depend on the person, as a veteran who’s been in 2 IED attacks I’ve seen concussions, broken vertebrae, nearly lost manhood, bleeding from the ears and even ruptured/detached retina in the same truck. Team Human can take a lot of damage and many of us can keep going after some minor medical care. GO TEAM HUMAN!!!
I respect you saying that too many "nerds" just bitch bout how weak we are all the time.
@@abdulansari3666 Both of you, preach
Imagine my disappointment as my childish brain thought this was about Guillermo Del Toro’s animated “Trollhunters” series, and realized it wasn’t.
Jk, any day Roanoke uploads is a good day. Congrats on the 900,000 subscribers, let’s see if we can get to 1,000,000!
I thought the same 😭 I was wondering why the thumbnail was so detailed
@@Atri0 Yeah, I was like, they made a live action remake already?
@@delrunplays2903 I stopped watching it after a few seasons but a live action remake would be wild. They should use practical effects, too. Just go ham with the fun but dumb fantasy vibe
I saw this when it came out and thought Guillermo turned it into a series
To this day I think this is one of the best found footage films ever made. It is SO tense and you actually get to SEE the monsters.
I love this channel. I have no idea why you haven't hit 1 million yet, you clearly deserve it.
film companies hit the channel with copyright strikes.. so TH-cam has stifled the channel growth for years.
Im glad he doesnt. Every time a yter hits 1 mil the video quality will massively dropped.
I love how, for a split second, you just sound disappointed that Hans didn't die from getting sucker punched by the troll. Just deadpan'd, slightly annoyed, "something is getting broken"
Let's Game It Out, The Spiffing Brit, and now Roanoke Gaming? Dang it's a great Friday. Love the content my man!
Yo Spiffing brit uploaded? havent seen broham in a while, Ill have to go re-check him out
Nice to see a classic covered.
What amused me is that being a Troll Hunter sounds like a fairly sweet gig...but Hans is the epitome of the guy who's been in the same job for so long he just hates everything about it: the hours are awful, the pay is crap, and there's a good chance the government will make you wipe out entire clans of Trolls - including children and pregnant females - just so they can build a highway. No wonder he just walks off into the wilderness by himself at the end, he's checked out by that stage.
The part where they're running from the three-headed troll in the forest at night always gave me a serious case of the willies.
I know of someone who had a infection in the chest and was hospitalized pretty much for months. Nothing worked, untill they injected Phages and treated him with antibiotics at the same time. The bacteria was unable to adapt to both at the same time and he was healed.
Fun story: In college I attended an Orphan’s Thanksgiving (students who couldn’t go home to family for the holiday, hosted as a giant pot luck). We couldn’t decide what to watch after and few of us were football fans. After a lot of arguing, one guy made the executive decision to watch this. Super random but we all loved it. Good times.
I used to watch this movie religiously back in the day, like at least once a month, then I suddenly stopped and forgot about it for the longest time. Then I stumbled upon it once more after many years and... It's not as great as I remembered it to be, it's pretty silly. But I reminded myself why I enjoyed it so much; as someone who loves mountains and forests, this movie really got my imagination going while going on hikes and scouting through trees to look for evidence of trolls wandering around. It's a weird, little movie but I still love it. Nostalgia is hell of a drug.
I'm so glad you went over this movie. This movie was so good, and a really good found footage film. I genuinely love it, and even based a DND character on it back in the day.
Afraid of Trolls? Just worship the Norse Gods. The trolls can't smell you, and you get a +2 Lightningbolt sword to fight them with.
I randomly came across this movie a number of years ago and absolutely fell in love with it. I watch it maybe once a year and it never fails to get old. Is just such a unique subject for a movie, and personally, I think very well done.
When I saw the movie "Troll" coming out in 2022, I was pretty excited, but so terribly let down. It wasn't bad, but definitely didn't live up to Troll Hunter.
Thank you for doing such an amazing movie! I personally love how much you go into the synopsis of each movie because a lot of these movies I won't watch, normally because they're kind of scary and I hate horror movies. However, I'm also intrigued by your explanations of the monsters. 😂
Love this movie. For anyone looking for other folklore-inspired films, check out Thale; it is about Hulder in Scandinavia.
Regarding tetanus and related bacterial infections: When I was in college, my microbiology professor showed us a segment on something called phage therapy. Basically, areas that are too poor for or for whatever reason cannot provide antibiotics to patients sometimes utilize bacteriophage viruses to treat various infections, including MRSA. It was remarkably effective and very interesting, if a bit haphazard.
Anyone who has been out in the woods and encountered or even seen an 8 foot tall hairy humanoid that moves with a sense of fluidity that kind of breaks your mind to witness knows humanity has not classified even every terrestrial
Creature
Its kinda sad that the big troll died, it must have been so old. Makes me wonder what its seen, it could have been around during the medieval age and inspired the stories directly
Honestly felt the same.
Not only old, also visibly suffering from the 2 doses he got from Hans before the killing blow. No wonder Hans quit after this.
Justice for Troll Hunter!!!! An underrated gem
As a Born and Raised local Alaskan, we have zero troll stories in our folklore. However, I can’t help but love and obsess over this movie subtitled and all… it’s one of my favorite movies. Don’t care how cheesy anyone says it is. At the end when he says. Raaaaabeeees I was dying.😂
Yes, this movie is a legendary movie and it’s been in my top 10 since it came out I rented it the first day I saw it years and years ago
Uh, what? Then what is "A ka gua gan kak" about if not a giant? And it is not the only tale about trolls/giants
Surprised there was no "They're gonna eat me! Oh my Gawwwwwwwwddddddd~!" Clip.
You're a strong mans, friend.
just found this channel recently, i love it! you're funny but also break down the stories better than my brain can when watching the movie on my own. awesome work man!!
Love this film. They got the tone spot on, just the right side of plausible. Its use of a found footage camera is well thought through, logical and faultless.
Found footage movies get an instant nope from me. Low budget, poor quality, bouncy, and very MTV-ish like their staged "reality" shows.
It’s actually a pretty cool concept since there are troll like beasts in the Bible called Nephilem which were half human half Fallen Angel and they could tell who had faith and who hadn’t
Glad you finally covered this one! I’ve asked for this movie in the past because it’s one of my “nobody I know has seen this but me” films.
Now you gotta do the Genestealer cults from Warhammer 40K.! I know you’d find the infection and generational cycle fascinating
Thank you for mentioning the Milwaukee protocol. I’ve been arguing with people who just don’t believe me when I say that this actually happened and kudos on the doctor who thought this up.
The problem with the Milwaukee protocol is it has worked a single time and then never again. Even with all the revisions trying to get it to work again it is still worked once in 2004 and has never been replicated to this day.
@@kholdstare90 it’s “worked” a few times, but it seems to match the rate of natural recovery so it seems like it has no effect. That’s from the paper I read on Google.
Haven't watched the Vid yet, just want to give you a boost in the algorithm. It's great to see you getting sponsorship.
Can't get through an episode without talking about cordyceps or rabies lol I love it!
Bloodlines does seem like the most apt advertisement for this channel. I mean just think, if there was ever a game that would let Broanoke mix and match different species into some mutant chimera freak it would be Bloodlines and it fits with all the different possible combinations of feet for Broanoke to um "classify".
I just watched the last voyage of the Demeter and it really cool. The anatomy of Dracula in this one looks cool too. I'd love to see a video on this creature it's anatomy and your thoughts on it's abilities.
Been here since 50k subs, so glad your so close to a mil!
I think the best part about the movie was speculating what is going on with Thomas, is he going to turn into a troll or something? The usual weird "fantastic diseases" and then it just turns out to be old mundane rabies. Despite being about such a fantastical topic such as trolls, the movie does feel like a weird nature documentary in the end.
Kinda shame there aren't documentary style movies or series about fantastical beasts etc.
I love the implication that these trolls are able to exclusively eat rocks but they can't chew through what looks like three inch thick metal armor.
I remember watching footage of enormous squid attacking a small group of divers. There might have only been two of them. They were grabbing them and pulling them into the deep. One of the divers barely escaped with his life.
If I hadn't seen the footage myself I probably would be skeptical, so I totally understand people reading this pressing X.
There was something particularly horrifying about Cthulhuesq monsters grabbing a hold of a man and then dragging him down into the infinite black.
Dinosaurs developed hollow bones. The development of hollow bones allowed dinosaurs to “break” the square-cube law as they weighed much less than would be expected and thus could support larger sizes without collapsing under themselves.
ah yes, roanoke has 60% more genes than normal humans. Checks out
Thing is, we knew about the Giant Squid since the 1800s.
Cause, unsurprisingly, everything that lives on this planet also _dies_ and that generally leaves a body behind.
I'd love to see a video of yours on the serpent from the 2013 movie "The Riddle Ragnarok", as it's in the line of Nordic mythology as well!
Bizarre fact about the guy that built the armor bear suit you showed at 19:50 he died when his car hit a semi truck hauling gas and exploded.
5:45 Brother, get the flamer. The *HEAVY* Flamer.
Love the content 👌, have a gripe with 22:22. It's not tensile failure, it's actually an elasticity failure from hook and loop stress as it's an internal stress in a cylinder. Sorry g, also a man of SCIENCE!
Goddamn man, youve been killing it recently. Keep it up brother 👊
Ayyyy thanks my man! its a labor of love haha
I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but the whole 'Ouroboros' thing where snakes eat their own tails is super rare, and usually when the snake undergoes neurological damage, especially from being too hot. But yeah, having worked with kingsnakes, some of them are... very much one brain cell, and that one brain cell only knows 'Open mouth and try to eat'. One California kingsnake that I worked with would repeatedly - and I mean REPEATEDLY - bite himself and refuse to let go. He would also bite the side of his enclosure, and people. So yeah, it can definitely be a thing. He was such a goober.
LETS GO! NEW ROANOKE! Love your videos and humor. Always look forward to your content!
Hope you enjoy brother!
@RoanokeGaming I've loved your content for a while, you became my favorite when you mocked the predators (yautja) for being cowards and nerds.
32:06 Also, heat dissipation. Since the square cube law means that the surface area is squared while volume is cubed, we can say that a body would produce ^3 the heat but only have ^2 the surface to dissipate it. (okay, not exactly probably, but the point stands).
I would love for you to cover, even on Roanoke tails, these creatures from stories of Lovecraft’s. The Shadow Over Insmith featuring the Deep Ones, the Whisperer in Darkness featuring the Migo, At the Mountains of Madness featuring the Star Spawn and the dreaded Showgoth. Also the Color Out of Space featuring the Color. All of these have a very robust biological description for nearly each creature.
In the mountains of madnesses, as the two explorers of the Eldridge ruins read the transcription, they realize even these creatures labeled entities like Cthulhu and his young(lower even than aza and narl) as even more utterly alien in comparisons to our own differences from the old ones themselves.
Basically saying well humans are not from my planet but at least humans are from my galaxy. Great writer.
The bipedal fish, the deep ones, with their ability to interbreed with humans, and most likely have the gene for gigantism, and DNA regulation like lobsters to live forever, unless harmed or otherwise.
the ultimate video and challenge to do on Lovecraft would be the Color Out of Space, which was a Lovecrafts intention to make a life so abstract in explanation. Elijah Woods made a good decision making that his first film out of the mythos. Its difference stands out the most among his other creations. A truly different life form, that not any creature from your covers have come close to. Except for annihilation because they ripped it off.
Love the channel been here since 30k ! wild were close to 1 million subscribers you deserve it good job!
thanks my man! and I appreciate you sticking around :)
Dead Space from 1991 is a interesting movie about a virus or parasite (can't remember which) was created to fight and counter a epidemic going on around the galaxy but the experiment went wrong leaving a mercenary and his robot with a group of scientists to try and take it out, it's pretty old but the science behind is something you'd probably be interested in
Congrats on 900k! Will you consider covering Anaconda? Especially the blood orchid one? I recently rewatched it and when they talked about cells renewing, I thought it would be pretty cool if you could cover it.
If breaking the Square Cube Law is an issue, check out some Kaiju movies next. Show us convergent evolution in Pacific Rim
I might be able to do that, but the kaiju are so different from one another it make sit difficult to go through them
@@RoanokeGamingRemember, the Kaiju are just bioweapons. They're produced by the blue alien folk that ate a nuke.
@@RoanokeGaming True, but the shared similarities between some of the builds shows how a few of them could be related (Knifehead to Slattern for example)
@@RoanokeGamingthey are biological weapons made to expire shortly after reaching earth, there is no evolution
Can't believe you're channel getting this big, congrats man! I got into your channel from the dead space videos and have been watching since. I always watch the new weekly video on fridays since I enjoy them a lot, I hope you continue doing and enjoying this for a long time. Cheers!
Wonderful movie, and I'm totally with you regarding the christian blood thing. Why wouldn't they start to wonder why christians specifically?
You've been on the chad grindset for the past several months busting out two videos a week, that 900K subs is hugely deserved. Livestream for the 1millie?
I can’t tell u how much I adore this movie and wish there where more like it.
Never saw this movie cssue i thought it was gonna be terrible but the way you talked about everything... now im going to have to actually watch it. Thank you! And congrats on 900,000! I remeber the days of 800 subs like yesterday... how time flies!
if they smell christians, does that mean those who are unbelievers are invisible to their sinus senses? and that would mean it's good to be an unbeliever when hunting trolls? also, UV Lasers, better living through particle physics.
I Like how the students randomly disappear, but their Tapes emerge unscathed
As someone who has taken mushrooms in nature in the middle of nowhere, I completely understand how ancient people thought trolls, ents, fairy's, etc. existed.
I am so glad you covered this movie and the critters in it. I've watched this movie so many times and it's great. Spoilers:
It's rabies.
It always is. ;)
I just want to say, i really appriceate how you make the science intertwined with the story now i think its way better this way
@Roanoke hi, I live in Switzerland and had my Tetanus booster 3 or 4 years ago. The doctor told me that now the booster lasts 20 years. I was born in Italy and booster for tetanus vaccine is mandatory every 10 years. So we indeed do the boosters. Cheers!
Watched this movie a lot when I was a teen, as a follower of Christ the idea of Trolls being attracted to my blood was always a bit chilling. Made them seem closer to Demons than anything from our world.
Still, cool subject for you to cover.
This movie was such a fever dream. Why would you run up to a giant troll and poke it in it's butt with nothing but a suit of armor on?
I remember hearing about a kid whose parents were anti-vaxx, so the kid caught tetanus and was taken to the hospital by his parents. After a very expensive hospital stay and he recovered, his parents refused to vaccinate him after the fact...
Literally found this channel today (via Shin Godzilla), and I'm loving it! I love digging into logical monster creation!
*Amen to that! DEUS VULT!* 10:22
I never realize how badly I needed Roanoke to do a recap/science of a movie till it shows up in my notifications.
Love the video as always Roanoke! Commenting for algorithm.
I've been catching almost all of your weekend uploads for almost a year now. Keeping doing what you're doing! You're slowly unlocking a new hidden interest in biology that I never thought I had. I was always a physics/chemistry person myself and never understood why I found (basic) biology so barebones boring but your videos never fail to keep me interested.
dude ten years from now Im gonna absentmindedly remember some biology tidbit and realize I learned it from here. fuckin moment in youtube history you are chad
I love this whole series. Please keep making these rad videos well into the future, and I hope you find a ton of success!
16:56 That makes sense, unhuntable + non hunting = no need for intelligence, but then it makes me think about elephants. Elephants are massive creatures, and (ignoring poachers) they don’t really have many predators. Sure lions may go after one in its younger/smaller stages but as a whole Elephants (especially in herds) are pretty untouchable. Add that to the fact that they are herbivorous, and you get a near perfect formula for troll brain, but Elephants are incredibly smart! I mean theoretically speaking the trolls could be very intelligent, especially if they came from a humanoid evolutionary line (which is likely seeing as they are mammals and strictly bipedal). I know the whole brain mass to body mass thing is a factor, but I’m talking like in the progress of evolving to their current state, why would they have evolved such little brains? Again I get that they have no predators and food is abundant and easy, but like….elephants…
I remember when our teacher wanted us to watch the Trolls movie on TH-cam in elementary school but instead she put this on and we watched Troll hunter 😂
Hey Roanoke, your content is the reason I’m asking trying AP-biology. I just going to thank you because a lot of what you talk about helps.
Funny fact, one tiny bridge is near the village a friend of mine lives, we moved over there, sadly the troll was gone, but I'm sure the troll was above us in the mountain 😊
Thanks for the constant content, Roanoke. I love listening to your scientific breakdowns while I work.
Question, not about the square cube law, but about reaction times in a creature that massive:
Could light-based nerves serve to convey information faster than the normal setup? Basically fiber-optics instead of standard wiring?
I am a massive fan of Kaiju movies and am constantly trying to come up with ways to explain them scientifically. (as much as one can) My latest bugbear is figuring out why there isn't a noticeable delay between them being hit in an extremity and their reactions. With normal nerves it seems like there would be a bit of lag when the "stubbed my toe" signal has to travel 400ft to reach the brain.
Also would dovetail with how 90% of modern Kaiju are bioluminescent.
Keep up the awesome work!
I adore that the bridge scene is a subtle Three Billy Goats Gruff (sp?) reference
One of my favorite movies of all time, so glad you covered this
This movie is fantastic, I am so stoked you covered this Roanoke!!
Nice man glad u otw to a million subs been a fan of the breakdown video for a couple years now I like the gaming and old school Roanoke tails the writin stories u narrated they were kewl 2 keep up the good work man and best of luck to u goin forward in whatever u pursue
20:00 Mike Hurtibee! He's from my city up here in Ontario Canada, you should see the subsequent versions of the bear fighting power armor!
This is one of my favorite hidden gem Sci fi movies. Glad you covered it!