I don't know what sort of weirdo decided to watch a Road House remake, and expected high cinema. The casting is solid where it needs to be, and the fights are entertaining; this is all Road House needs to be. Gyllenhaal is a solid Dalton, conveying an easy-going nature cloaked over efficient lethality. And watching Conor McGregor stalk around like a bowlegged ostrich, sneering like a coked-up, gurning lunatic? What a joy. If you enjoy watching smug pricks get their teeth knocked out and their skulls punched in, give this a watch. If you watched this and didn't have a good time, you hate fun. This movie knows what it is, and it is embracing its stupid and violent purpose. 7/10.
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The Green Knight
(2021)
Shadows and Crowns
24 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This is not a sword & sorcery movie. This isn't Tolkien or Game of Thrones. You are experiencing Gawain's quest thru the perceptions of Gawain. You are experiencing the poem itself, caught in the tangle of magic & the dangerous mischief of the Fair Folk. Some advice: watch for doubles. Gawain's lover and the Lady of the Castle. His mother, the witch sister of Arthur, & the blindfolded woman. Gawain & the fox. Bergilac & the Green Knight. Repetition, given so Gawain may repent when he fails to "be a Knight." It is a game, Gawain fails. He must be charitable, honorable, prizing love over lust. Visionary. Strange. At times, psychedelic. Incredibly beautiful landscapes, touched by war, loss, ghosts, and fell creatures possessing strange, hallucinatory powers. Remember, it is a game. This is a journey alongside Gawain, for his soul. Some, no doubt, dislike the ambiguity of the ending, but i loved it. The ending is not the point, in a sense. The journey was the destination. If he keeps his word to the Knight, then he has fulfilled his knightly promises. A year hence, stand before the dread judgment, to have repaid what you once gave. What man do but dare?
"Now, off with your head."
"Now, off with your head."
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