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Post by jakesully on Jul 30, 2021 23:52:20 GMT
This was so damn incredible. I was totally immersed from the get go. Major props to David Lowery's direction here. Filled with jaw dropping visuals, beautiful scenery thru out and one of the best film scores I've heard in quite awhile. The score was so perfectly synced with what was going on in the film. Just brilliantly done.
Dev Petal was aces as Gawain. Outstanding casting imo and after seeing this film I can't see any other actor in the lead role. Definitely Dev's best performance yet. The rest of the cast is terrific too (Alicia Vikander , Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris,Barry Keoghan, the cute little cgi fox etc etc). All knocked it out of the park.
Last but not least, imo the last 20 or so minutes is so damn brilliantly edited and directed. No joke, it left me in total awe.
I highly recommend seeing this in theaters.
9/10
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 31, 2021 2:13:52 GMT
Really lovely visuals and outstanding sound. A bit slow with some uneven pacing. Liked it overall But didn’t love it.
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Post by stephen on Jul 31, 2021 2:20:33 GMT
True to form for Lowery, I feel like his stately pace is both his signature and his greatest weakness. I loved how leisurely the film could be paced at times, but it got mighty trying at others. Still, it was a beautiful film to behold and actually evoked a poetic feel.
Also, Barry Keoghan deserved an entire film on his own.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 31, 2021 3:07:00 GMT
This was one of my most anticipated of the year and I came out feeling mixed on it. It really suffers from the arm’s length emotional distance that it feels like undermines every A24 and A24-esque indie these days. It’s such a well-conceived movie and Dev Patel is extraordinary, but I’ve found it a much better movie thought about than watched. Make of that what you will.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 31, 2021 3:08:53 GMT
Also, Barry Keoghan deserved an entire film on his own. Barry Keoghan’s pronunciation of “knoight” is one of the few moments where this really came alive.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 31, 2021 3:18:31 GMT
Being in lockdown doesn't even matter, still doesn't have a release date here. The A24 norm tbh.
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Post by finniussnrub on Jul 31, 2021 13:51:09 GMT
Needed more Barry Keoghan.
Slower then it needs to be, I think we in particular get one too many overhead shots of Patel sleeping then waking up, however the heights of the film, the visuals and the ending in particular, nearly make up for those pacing issues.
Side note: Odd, due to the nature of the Oscar race, that it is in no way guaranteed Oscar nominations in production design and costumes, though should be a shoe-in for those for the Amaras.
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Post by stephen on Jul 31, 2021 13:54:40 GMT
Needed more Barry Keoghan. This is an evergreen statement for any movie, even for ones that he isn't even in.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 20:15:14 GMT
The visual and aural qualities were absolutely dazzling, and I don't think Patel has ever been better, but I still feel fairly lukewarm on it overall. A re-watch will definitely be in order.
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Post by Film Socialism on Aug 3, 2021 5:05:32 GMT
some nice peasantcore inspo
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Post by JangoB on Aug 20, 2021 20:55:17 GMT
Quite well shot (although not as amazingly as I wanted), pretty atmospheric and VERY A24. Some stretches were very strong with the long final montage standing out in particular, and others were somewhat disappointing - especially the Edgerton section of the movie which I couldn't wait to be over (it's there that I remembered the feeling I had during some dude's long rant in "A Ghost Story"). It is first and foremost a movie of images and those were done fairly nicely but at times I found its self-seriousness a wee bit comical. A fine experience but gimme the exuberance and excitement of "Excalibur" any day over this.
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Post by Pavan on Aug 28, 2021 10:09:28 GMT
I know very little about Arthurian legends and so i guess a lot of this film may have gone over my head but it totally works as a mood piece and can i take it as a demythologization of the hero's journey? Splendid visuals but some of the shots are almost pitch black and very hard to see. Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander are pretty good in their roles.
It's very A24-esque, a lot to admire but falls short of my expectations as usual. I wish it was more David Lowery where every film of his i liked very much.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 7, 2021 19:58:04 GMT
back in theaters December 10th
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Post by mhynson27 on Dec 8, 2021 3:34:55 GMT
Didn't even come out here in cinemas the first time around.
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Post by Viced on Mar 12, 2022 17:48:43 GMT
Quite well shot (although not as amazingly as I wanted), pretty atmospheric and VERY A24. Some stretches were very strong with the long final montage standing out in particular, and others were somewhat disappointing - especially the Edgerton section of the movie which I couldn't wait to be over (it's there that I remembered the feeling I had during some dude's long rant in "A Ghost Story"). It is first and foremost a movie of images and those were done fairly nicely but at times I found its self-seriousness a wee bit comical. A fine experience but gimme the exuberance and excitement of "Excalibur" any day over this. Pretty much my thoughts as well. The first hour I actually kind of loved and was thinking it could be a perfect companion piece to Boorman's Excalibur (one of the most psychedelically entrancing films ever made)... but this stunningly loses pretty much all of its atmosphere once the Joel Edgerton character shows up and only redeems itself with the final stretch and wildly perfect ending. The top IMDb review does a great job of explaining the film's subversion of the original story, but slams it for its unnecessary opaqueness. If this didn't lean so hard into the A24 mugging, it could've been a classic. and Boorman's film jams pretty much the entire Arthurian legend into 140 minutes and somehow pulls it off (nowadays it's be stretched out into a 5 season television series) while Lowery's film stretches a 90 minute plot into 130 minutes for no reason. If it were trimmed to even 100 minutes... that beguiling atmosphere would've been better maintained.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 1, 2022 0:06:20 GMT
I'm finding that every time I come here to write on a movie, Viced has already said everything that I would and done it better anyway. The trailer gave me Dark Souls (my favorite video game) vibes, and that is most definitely accurate (it even has Barry Keoghan auditioning for Trusty Patches). More than perhaps any movie I've seen, this feels like stepping into a majestic, wild, different world. Each segment is a spectacularly paced mood piece. But that Joel Edgerton segment sucks all of the life out of the movie. A rest in Anor Londo the Lord's home could have been a compelling chapter in Gawain's journey, but the confusing, opaque nature of what the hell Lowery was doing there made it feel like he was stopping the forward movement of the narrative for no reason. The ending certainly roars back to life, but that damn stopover is nearly fatal for what could have been a near perfect film. If it had been cut (or heavily rewritten) and some small tightening had been made to little pieces of the movie here and there, it would be my dream movie. As it is, the film is still really damn good. But 100 minutes would have been much stronger than 130.
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