TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Helstrom. It was interesting.

[Sheilbh]

The Green Knight looks fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6ksY8xWCY

[The Larch]

An Arthurian movie that doesn't try to turn the story into a Hollywood action blockbuster? Sign me in!

[celedhring]

Ah yes, one of those films I was dying to see but were delayed by Covid. We're essentially going to get 1 year's worth of delayed releases in the coming months, isn't it? 

Love the old school Excalibur-esque look.

[Sheilbh]

An Arthurian movie that doesn't try to turn the story into a Hollywood action blockbuster? Sign me in!

Yeah - like celed says it's a little Excalibury. It looks like it's an adventure film rather than just another slash-em-up take on Arthur

Also I really like how much of it just looks slightly weird.

[celedhring]

The Sean Connery version is one of those awful films that I loved when I was a kid. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJMV8qj9g8&ab_channel=ThatShelf

[The Larch]

An Arthurian movie that doesn't try to turn the story into a Hollywood action blockbuster? Sign me in!

Yeah - like celed says it's a little Excalibury. It looks like it's an adventure film rather than just another slash-em-up take on Arthur

Also I really like how much of it just looks slightly weird.

The fact that it is Excalibur-y (and slightly trippy looking) is, indeed, a good thing.

[Syt]

An Arthurian movie that doesn't try to turn the story into a Hollywood action blockbuster? Sign me in!

Yeah - like celed says it's a little Excalibury. It looks like it's an adventure film rather than just another slash-em-up take on Arthur

Also I really like how much of it just looks slightly weird.

The tone and look reminds me a bit of the Dark Souls games.

[Berkut]

The Green Knight looks fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6ksY8xWCY

That looks awesome.

[The Larch]

I wonder if this being a somehow artsy kind of movie (at least it seems so) and not super-comercial helps having Dev Patel playing an Arthurian knight with no backlash from the usual online suspects. 

[Sheilbh]

I wonder if this being a somehow artsy kind of movie (at least it seems so) and not super-comercial helps having Dev Patel playing an Arthurian knight with no backlash from the usual online suspects. 

Something similar when he played David Copperfield?

If it was a BBC series adaptation I've no doubt there'd be outrage in the Mail etc. Because it was a colour-blind adaptation by Armando Ianucci I don't think anyone had any objection.

Or it may be that Dev Patel is very charming?

[Duque de Bragança]

The Sean Connery version is one of those awful films that I loved when I was a kid. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJMV8qj9g8&ab_channel=ThatShelf

Cannon!

Miles O'Keefe... 

[The Larch]

I wonder if this being a somehow artsy kind of movie (at least it seems so) and not super-comercial helps having Dev Patel playing an Arthurian knight with no backlash from the usual online suspects. 

Something similar when he played David Copperfield?

If it was a BBC series adaptation I've no doubt there'd be outrage in the Mail etc. Because it was a colour-blind adaptation by Armando Ianucci I don't think anyone had any objection.

Or it may be that Dev Patel is very charming?

I'd say that racist trolls are more into Arthurian and medieval stuff than Dickens novels, though. 

[celedhring]

I wonder if this being a somehow artsy kind of movie (at least it seems so) and not super-comercial helps having Dev Patel playing an Arthurian knight with no backlash from the usual online suspects. 

It's so common to see colorblind casting in Brit films/shows as of late, that I don't think there's much of a reaction? At least every time I see a PoC playing some anachronistic role I file it under "ok, that's a thing brits do", and move on.

But the brits of the board will know best.

[The Larch]

I wonder if this being a somehow artsy kind of movie (at least it seems so) and not super-comercial helps having Dev Patel playing an Arthurian knight with no backlash from the usual online suspects. 

It's so common to see colorblind casting in Brit films/shows as of late, that I don't think there's much of a reaction? At least every time I see a PoC playing some anachronistic role I file it under "ok, that's a thing brits do", and move on.

But the brits of the board will know best.

The wonders of the online age we live in is that knee jerk online criticism can come from anywhere, you know.