Eggers is funny, he's a good director but it's very clear that he's a terminally online millennial. He wrote a big long article about how he understands Nosferatu far better than Mornau because it's been part of his life for longer than it was a part of his.
In the same way that Tarantino says that he learned how to make movies from watching movies, it's clear that Eggers learned how to make movies by reading Reddit. I feel like a lot of his directing decisions are pre-emptive responses to bad faith internet trolls.
It would be like if an HFBoards poster became an NHL GM and immediately traded every roster player over 30 for picks. Like, yeah of course you're going to do that because the environment that you grew up in rubbed off on you.
The Witch was awesome. Did not like The Northman, very cool aesthetically but I thought the writing was really bad. The Lighthouse was good but not for me, I understand it conceptually but I felt it was quite pretentious and very film-snobby. Haven't seen Nosferatu yet.
