Teams
Forum List
Toggle sidebar

The Green Knight

cyrocksmypants

cyrocksmypants

Well-Known Member
Dec 29, 2008
91,282
89,014
113
Washington DC
I guess I don’t expect this to be a big thread, as I feel like I’ve only seen even one commercial advertising it.

Anyone watch it yet? I’m curious on thoughts. Spoilers ahead, I guess? Even though it’s a hundreds of years old story.

Thought Dev Patel was fantastic. Feel like he’s amazing in every single thing he’s in. Musical score was great as well. Only complaints I really had were the medieval style writing was really hard to read and I couldn’t fully understand what the game was in the beginning because the possessed voice was too difficult to understand.
 
This was the first movie the wife and I have seen in a theater in 18 months.

We watched the a trailer and decided to give it a shot. We didn't really know what to expect, neither of us were familiar with the original story. After the movie ended, we asked each other, "what did you think?". It took us about an hour to process what we'd seen, before we decided we liked it. I don't know if we LOVED it... My major complaint were the giant scenes, no bearing on the movie what so ever, from what I can tell.
 
  • Agree
  • Informative
  • Like
Reactions: k123, Cyrock18 and cyrocksmypants
Clonedogg said:
This was the first movie the wife and I have seen in a theater in 18 months.

We watched the a trailer and decided to give it a shot. We didn't really know what to expect, neither of us were familiar with the original story. After the movie ended, we asked each other, "what did you think?". It took us about an hour to process what we'd seen, before we decided we liked it. I don't know if we LOVED it... My major complaint were the giant scenes, no bearing on the movie what so ever, from what I can tell.
Click to expand...
Yeah, the giant scenes definitely felt out of place.
 
cyrocksmypants said:
This might be the first time I’ve ever disagreed with you about a movie.
Click to expand...

I was incredibly tired when we went but still we both were not fans. I also counted seven in our showing that left and didn’t come back. And some woman behind us when the movie ended just said ‘What in the f*** was that. What a horrible movie.’
 
Maybe I'll just read the book and imagine this didn't happen.
 
I think one thing I’ve seen from some reviews is that some people see it’s a story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, so they think it’s going to be fighting dragons and battles and stuff, and it’s just not that.

Honestly I got a kind of The Witcher vibe watching it.
 
I thought it was good, it’s better if you know the story beforehand imo and if you went in expecting an A24 movie. Not going to be recommending it to people but I liked it. Felt like I never really connected to Gawain as a character, don’t think that was due to Patel’s acting. Felt like they tried to mush more symbolism in than they needed to as well. There was something keeping it from being really good but I can’t put my thumb on what it was. Feels like a movie that will be better with a rewatch.
 
  • Informative
Reactions: k123
I plan to go to it.

I read it many years ago and always wanted to "audit" a medieval literature class at ISU to have the chance to read Beowulf, Sir Gawain, etc with a professor instead of just my Wikipedia-informed background, but timing never worked out.

Here were some summary reviews that sounded good to me:
www.nytimes.com

‘The Green Knight’ Review: Monty Python and the Seventh Seal (Published 2021)

Dev Patel plays a medieval hero on a mysterious quest in David Lowery’s adaptation of the 14th-century Arthurian romance.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
www.theatlantic.com

'The Green Knight' Is One of 2021’s Best Movies

David Lowery’s film starring Dev Patel is a dreamy piece of high fantasy that turns an age-old tale into something to be puzzled over anew.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

I like movies (and classic stories) that have a 'What it is about' (plot: the beheading game, trials) vs 'what it is about' (contradictions within the code of chivalry, trials and suffering - is that more the point than the final victory?, etc) but only to a point...as in, "What did the author think it was italic-about?", not so much the "As we can see when viewing through the lens of recent X-ism or Y-ism" type.

So maybe is is for the best that I did not audit the ISU class, and can just read the original (to English from old/middle English) translations by Tolkien and his commentaries/famous lecture on them and call it good.

Tolkien
en.wikipedia.org

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo: Tolkien, J R R: 9780261102590: Amazon.com: Books

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo [Tolkien, J R R] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
www.amazon.com

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary: Tolkien, J.R.R., Tolkien, Christopher: 9780544570306: Amazon.com: Books

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary [Tolkien, J.R.R., Tolkien, Christopher] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
www.amazon.com

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by Tolkien. J. R. R. ( 2006 ) Paperback: Amazon.com: Books

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by Tolkien. J. R. R. ( 2006 ) Paperback on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by Tolkien. J. R. R. ( 2006 ) Paperback
www.amazon.com
 
You'd think this would be in my wheelhouse but I'm actually pretty out on this. People that I trust and like for their reviews just don't like this. It's not that they hate it or are slamming it but man they are just like dahlia saying it's just boring.

I might be pretty basic but I still watch movies and shows to be entertained.
 
I saw it on Saturday and I liked it. Totally agree with the original post that the text was so hard to read and it was difficult to understand the dialogue at the beginning. It definitely one that I would like to see again at home with sub-titles on.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Help Support Us

Become a patron
Top Bottom