The Green Knight (2020)

I feel like I watched a painting.

That was a bit odd. Some parts were pretty interesting but a bit confusing. I liked the part with the giants even if that was also pointless. When the hand reached out I caught myself trying to back up my head. If you choose not to watch this movie, you are not missing anything. If you choose to watch it, it has some parts worth the watch but it is overly long.

I feel asleep half way in, woke up for the end, and was intrigued enough to at least rewind and see what I missed. So sort of a snoozer, but interesting to watch.

Laughably pretentious with no payoff of any sort.

Re-read the English poem to prep for this and holy hell did this miss the mark. The plot did a pretty solid effort in emasculating Gawain and his motivations. Book Gawain is gun-ho for glory and to shower himself in virtue, he refused the creepy swinger wife like some sorta quasi-MGTOW legend, and returns to Camelot to fall on his sword and tell everyone about the sash. This movie blew ass and painted a different picture. It was about as good as that pointless upside down portrait.

It's not good. Pretty, but not good. Could have done without the random handjob by the "Lady" character, while the old woman who is never explained just kind of hangs out. Just a lot of shit that doesn't make sense even within the context of the narrative. And then the entire "ending" sequence is just dumb.

My friends and I were watching it going "Is half this movie just him tripping balls from eating mushrooms?" because while beautiful, no character's motivations seemed correct.

Watch if you want to get some artsy shit going on while also enjoying some good cinematography. Don't watch for a stable and coherent retelling of Gawain, because it's not, and the story the put in its place is also not good.

This is just The Fountain 2.0

Rezz said:

while the old woman who is never explained just kind of hangs out.

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I believe it is supposed to be Gawain's mother, who is Morgen Le Fey, though never named. Arthur just refers to her as his sister.

And she is just keeping tabs on him in an illusion.

5/5 visuals, lighting, score, costumes, sets, etc.

1/5 story...

Accurate review:

saw this over 2 nights, fell asleep multiple times. boring as fuck. its a great allegory for modern England though, a story about a premature ejaculating incompetent effeminate homosexual brown man who has no clue what he is doing and fails at everything, and is given all the power, money, and women by all the white people in England.

Don't fall for the "its beautiful!" trap either, its just ok. Mostly shots of pretty average forests. Ain't got shit on Costa Rica, Black Forest, the Shire, or Redwoods.