Love it or hate it!
Added 2021-10-04 18:00:04 +0000 UTCRecently I watched The Green Knight and as you can see from the Rotten Tomatoes score, it's pretty divided!
I thought the film was beautiful and very strange. If you go into it knowing that it's a medieval tale trying to teach something, I think that helps understand what's going on.
"The Green Knight honors and deconstructs its source material in equal measure, producing an absorbing adventure that casts a fantastical spell"
"For better and for worse, the beautifully filmed Green Knight is a different take on a classic story that takes its time in the telling and leaves a lot open to interpretation."
If you're interested in watching a range of different types of movies, I would definitely recommend it! Get the popcorn ready!
Comments
Cool! Hope you enjoy the film!
Adventures and Naps
2021-10-05 10:33:29 +0000 UTCI didn't know anything about the original story - which helped in some ways, but also made it a lot more confusing lol
Adventures and Naps
2021-10-05 10:33:21 +0000 UTC"incomprehensible gorgeousness" is a perfect way to put it lol
Adventures and Naps
2021-10-05 10:32:56 +0000 UTCYeah I read it's based on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance poem" Didn't know the story, though - hadn't heard of it before the film!
Adventures and Naps
2021-10-05 10:32:42 +0000 UTCI haven't seen A Ghost Story yet! Should add it to the list
Adventures and Naps
2021-10-05 10:30:53 +0000 UTCI agree! Always nice to watch something a bit different
Adventures and Naps
2021-10-05 10:30:40 +0000 UTCRead the story/epic back in high school. Don’t remember much but I liked it. I’m very much looking forward to watching this.
The Raven
2021-10-05 10:28:12 +0000 UTCBeen meaning to watch this - I just noted on a reply that I recently read Simon Armitage's rendition of the original so it'll be interesting to see how much they actually followed the poem and how much gets... well, weird as well but in its own way.
Iain Brown
2021-10-04 22:35:17 +0000 UTCActually an anonymous poet from around the same time as Chaucer (though probably the other end of the country). I've not read Tolkien's rendition but I recently got hold of Simon Armitage's, which is rendered in very clean, modern English and unostentatious but really very beautiful.
Iain Brown
2021-10-04 22:34:23 +0000 UTCBit of a weird one - it was beautiful, but I didn’t have a clue what was going on. The scene with the giants kind of summed up the whole incomprehensible gorgeousness.
Bruce Bush
2021-10-04 20:57:11 +0000 UTCI was going to read the book first as it was written by J RR Tolkien, but looks like viewing first now.
Graham Lavers
2021-10-04 20:11:44 +0000 UTCI very much enjoyed it. You know its gonna be weird coming from David Lowery, the same guy who did A Ghost Story.
Brett Carruthers
2021-10-04 18:25:42 +0000 UTCI really liked this film a lot. It’s weird yes, however it was a nice change of pace from all the Hollywood blockbusters. Definitely recommend. Also Dev Patel is always great in everything.
Andrew P.C.
2021-10-04 18:01:30 +0000 UTC
