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bwood
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"The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2020)"
Wed Feb-19-20 02:12 PM by CyrenYoung

          

All in nigga.

https://twitter.com/TheGreenKnight/status/1227951809421041665?s=09

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Subject Author Message Date ID
Grew up on the Sean Connery Green Knight
Feb 13th 2020
1
after A Ghost Story, I'm down for whatever Lowery directs
Feb 13th 2020
2
A24 gets my money on site
Feb 13th 2020
3
They typically do a good job w/weird fare.
Aug 06th 2021
10
This new trailer has me even more hyped
May 11th 2021
4
Seeing this tomorrow
Jul 30th 2021
5
yeah i think i am checking it tonight or tomorrow
Jul 30th 2021
6
Lived this shit.
Aug 01st 2021
7
      Lowery recently said he's very happy to do "one for them, one for me"
Aug 01st 2021
8
This movie fucks!
Aug 03rd 2021
9
Loved it
Aug 10th 2021
11
wasnt for me. chore to get through and felt like a wasted 2 hours.
Aug 19th 2021
12
wasn't what I was expecting
Aug 30th 2021
13
Lovely imagery. Too much circular dialogue.
Aug 30th 2021
14
i was pretty much spellbound...
Jan 16th 2022
15
I'm always up for a "nature bats last" story
Jan 16th 2022
16

JiggysMyDayJob
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1. "Grew up on the Sean Connery Green Knight"
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I'm all in for this one. Looks like they're going with the more traditional version of the Green Knight.

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BigWorm
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2. "after A Ghost Story, I'm down for whatever Lowery directs"
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That movie is pure poetry.

  

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Sofian_Hadi
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Thu Feb-13-20 06:31 PM

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3. "A24 gets my money on site"
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10. "They typically do a good job w/weird fare."
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They be bowling strikes right up my alley.

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bwood
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4. "This new trailer has me even more hyped"
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https://youtu.be/sS6ksY8xWCY

HOLY SHIT!!!

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bwood
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5. "Seeing this tomorrow "
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Super excited to see this.

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6. "yeah i think i am checking it tonight or tomorrow"
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Looks really dope.

  

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bwood
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7. "Lived this shit."
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It's an art film first, fantasy movie second.

It's weird, surreal, and deliberately paced.

This is gonna struggle in making money and finding an audience, but I fucks with this hard.

Shoutout to everyone involved. I can't believe that this got made with a budget.

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8. "Lowery recently said he's very happy to do "one for them, one for me""
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recently on The Big Picture podcast.


And then you look at his filmography and it's like...yep, each side of the coin keeps getting bigger, but it's bizarrely consistent, like a sine wave.


2013: Ain't Them Bodies Saints
2016: Pete's Dragon
2017: A Ghost Story
2018: The Old Man & the Gun
2021: The Green Knight
2022: Peter Pan & Wendy


Depending on how much you'd consider a movie based on an infamous New Yorker article starring Robert Redford that follows plenty of traditional biopic beats while also arriving to massive critical acclaim and incredibly modest box office numbers as "one for them" lol.


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Tue Aug-03-21 11:16 PM

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9. "This movie fucks!"
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I found it really hard to explain to people afterward because there hasn't really been a big, ambiguous movie like this in a while. Is it about the power women can wield over men? Is it about the fallacy of the Great Journey story convention? Is it an ad for sexual supplements? A climate change allegory? All of the above, none of them?

I kept coming back around to saying "it's gorgeous, and long portions of it don't really seem to matter at all, and when it ends you kind of just shrug and go 'that was a movie'" and getting told I was doing a terrible job selling the thing but...I really wonder what could unseat this from my 2021 Rushmore by the time things are all said and done.


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BigWorm
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11. "Loved it"
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There were some parts that left me scratching my head (i.e. the random handy and money shot) but overall it was just a beautiful film. Lowery did NOT disappoint.

  

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12. "wasnt for me. chore to get through and felt like a wasted 2 hours."
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13. "wasn't what I was expecting"
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as someone else mentioned, this is definitely an art flick, which I'm cool with.

unfortunately I felt it didn't do a strong enough job in the opening scenes to really sell the characters and show why Gawain would want to take up the challenge he did. at the conclusion, I kinda felt, "what was the point of all this?"

my biggest takeaway is that Alicia Vikander (sp?) has a very subtle but intense sexiness about her that I *really* like. (and this is just off of seeing her in 'Beckett')

  

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14. "Lovely imagery. Too much circular dialogue."
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I appreciate whenever anyone can get a movie that weird into theaters. But too many moments and/or lines of dialogue felt either obviously circular or needlessly opaque. I realize it's a movie set in medieval times, but I kept waiting for people to have a human conversation. There were too few of them, imo.

Lowery's a beast, and I'll still gladly see what he does next-- A Ghost Story was real fucking weird, but it still successfully connected emotionally for me. This one didn't. A miss in my book, but far from a condemnation.

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15. "i was pretty much spellbound..."
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im not really super into 'the knights' stuff typically.
heard some say this was a good flick though, and i like the Dev Patel's acting so we watched this today.

i was spellbound.

the movie definitely wont be for everyone, but i was pretty much under its magic. hauntingly so.

whether it is or isnt 'your kinda film', there is NO denying the craftsmanship here. It looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful, and the performances are beautiful. for me its a thumbs up.

  

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16. "I'm always up for a "nature bats last" story"
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Especially when "nature" here is in clear, smirking opposition to the construction of medieval European Christendom as a civilization. These kind of movies make me wonder how much I'm willing to overlook when I watch these. Frank mentioned, reasonably, the opacity of the dialogue. But because I already decided that I liked what this movie is trying to describe, I can fit the opacity into my existing appreciation as a kind of, uh, smugness of infinity. Our conversations are urgent, occur with purpose. But we have things to do before we die, and wildness and nature and the green doesn't, and they don't need to be understood. They're just taunting us with language. Or not. Whatever.

Luckily, this is as beautiful to look at as everybody says. So, shrug. I loved it.

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