yeah the green Knight is what made me tweet this
I hate it tbh, I just download 4K SDR downmixes of everything
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it looks nice for like, transfers of technicolor stuff I guess
Iâm not a fan of motion smoothing and all that, but these differing gamma curve standards will legitimately ruin a movie rather than just make it look kind of weird. I had no idea this was a thing, and am surprised it isnât a hotter issue.
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I think the way most people consume films is perhaps unknowable to me
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I just got a big pants OLED for the first time and am learning to navigate the waters of 4K Contentâ˘. donât even know where to start honestly.
maybe this way. how big are these files usually? Kubrick in 4K here I come
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20-40GB
and to be clear I donât hate all HDR, but anything made in recent years with a conspicuous amount of low light photography imo looks terrible on anything other than an OLED without aggressive tone mapping
This is even worse in post-2016/PS4 Pro 3D games. I played some Destiny on my TV yesterday and it just straight-up looks wrong on LCDs, even bright IPS panels.
It was wild when I realized that opening scene is in a brothel and there was a bunch of ladies in various states of undress in the background. I thought he was just waking up in a really dark house.
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even without lighting issues, iâm really struggling to make it through the green knight⌠visually, structurally and thematically empty. only the colour grading makes it stand out from any episode of game of thrones.
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I guess in theory it would be reasonable to call this a display calibration/configuration issue, but ⌠displays clearly arenât being calibrated for it when advertising HDR compatibility, even high-end displays, theyâre just like âok, hereâs your colour range, chief.â
I think the vast majority of normal people, judging purely from the times Iâve left people alone with my equipment, just go âidkâ and crank the brightness on the whole thing.
mandalorian actually looked pretty good on my projector if I went to the trouble of fully darkening the room but I honestly canât be bothered a lot of the time and the projector is perfectly bright and impressive with an 80% dark room and SDR content
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this is pretty far off the mark, what makes you think itâs thematically empty?
Love the way it structures a coming of age story around this quest/game where gawainâs mother is pushing for him to leave the nest but is still so overprotective that she watches over him wherever he goes, leading to him betraying the ideals he aspires to over and overâonly when he gives up what she wants for him does he flourish as a human and as a knight, even as he became certain that knighthood isnât what he thought it would be.
Also the costumes are much better than anything in game of thrones, thereâs no fur trim on anything
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it really felt similar to what i was saying about annihilation earlier in this thread. it has all these signifiers that are reaching for bigger ideas, but ends up being less than the source material itâs pulling from.
the whole film is so focussed on itself and itâs style and trying to stand out from the genre, it ends up having no curiosity about anything. all thatâs left is some screenshots for @oneperfectshot
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No, I did not cum on my magic sash mom, I made a moral choice.
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I dunno, I think that long shot of him riding his horse away from the castle, chased by kids that he ignores justifies the whole movie for me.
not sure what you mean by curiosity here, but it just feels very in tune with the source material to me
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The ending felt like one of those things where they didnât think it would fly as written (as I remember it at least) so they over engineered it and from reading reactions online it sounds like it didnât land properly for a lot of folks. Maybe thatâs my mistake of going to another non-SB website again, but nerds I spotted were trying to interpret that vision, the final line, and the post credits scene as being multiple timelines like itâs Star Trek or something.
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Wait thereâs a post-credits scene? Thatâs like ten demerits right there. The only good post-credits scene is right here:
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itâs a five second scene of a little girl picking up and putting on the crown
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Neat, though Iâm not sure why that couldnât have been sewn into the fabric of the rest of the film 
. I more or less enjoyed the movie though I wish it were shorter and actors connected in their scenes together. The coolest thing I heard about it was that the Green Knightâs costume was made out of tree bark and everything else is from plant-based materials.
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thatâs ridiculous, holy shit
The final vision gawain has is one of three prophetic visions he has during the course of the film, and those visions of his own moral failures finally push him to do whatâs honorable, even though it could cost him his life. It reaches the same thematic point as the ending of the poem but in a way that feels more dramatically charged for a modern audience. His choice to give up the sash willingly after the vision breaks from the source material where Gawain wore the sash and was called out on it after surviving the blow to his neck.
In both cases, the narrative highlights the hypocrisy/impossibility of christian chivalric ideals but in the filmâs case, gawain is changed by the ordeals he goes through
Of course, if I were to read into the blank spaces left in the movie, I think it is implied that merlin is gawainâs father in this version; given that merlin and morgana were lovers in⌠many versions of the matter of britain, and they changed gawainâs mother to be morgana herself, combined with gawainâs prophetic powers, it only follows that this is a game played between morgana and merlin to determine what kind of man gawain would become.
But thatâs just interpreting from some narrative clues. Nothing essential to the core of the film of âpampered failson struggles to not be failsonâ
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None of the big name Arthurian characters get directly named right? I wasnât sure what to make of that. Felt like that weird genre convention of like Walking Dead avoiding the term zombie. Like you can make it clear that Merlin is Merlin but if you name drop him then it makes everything feel cheesy? Maybe that was actually a smart move? Iâm still not sure what I thought of this movie.
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