Series/Movies
The Green knight (2021)
so i watched the green knight awhile back like... in december 2023 and i have some opinions about it. I think its good! I think it captured a feeling that most fantasy movies dont really capture or most likely never bother to capture. Its this kind of real life malaise that feels truthful but also kinda depressing. I also like how it kinda hammers home how much Gawain dosen't matter and how much of a loser he is. He fucks up at almost every turn, gets his shit kicked in metaphorically and literally. but i think those aspects give way to like... some really really good scenes.
like when Gawain is tied up and ransacked by those bandits and left to die theres this rotating panning shot (idk what to call it) where it takes a Very very VERY long time to get do a full 360 but when it does its Gawain's skeleton covered in moss having starved to death years, decades, maybe even centuries ago and then it cuts back to the present where hes struggling n shit to move obviously motivated by this possible future and like idk i think the timing and the presentation of that scene was so soo fuckin good man.
Theres also an even better scene nearly at the end thats like this but on a much bigger scale and hoooh HOOOOOOOH him seeing his life if he were to refuse his destiny run back and become king and seeing the horror that comes with that choice its so dread inducing. I also like how the movie overall was a good deconstruction about the stereotypical hero's journey and how its mostly just a pantomime but like whatever im getting bored with writing shit its a good movie imo
Wednesday (2022)
So A friend recommended that i watch Wednesday. Its about the Adams family which im vaguely acquainted with. I just know its about a family that thinks "normal" things are weird and vice versa but i digress. So i thought "sure why not if its recommend by a friend then it has to be somewhat good… right?". I was wrong this show is a dumpsterfire, its just… so much. I'm not really overtly critical in the media i consume, lord knows everybody loves a good bad film/series, but i think Wednesday is just mediocre bad to the point that its kinda frustrating. characters acting out of character, cliches out the wazoo, I feel like if I wrote down everything i thought was bad in the show then this would go on forever so im just gonna write down whatever i can until i get exhausted
So yannow the werewolf girl thats Wednesday's roommate? her whole thing that she can't turn into a werewolf? I think her character arc is really poorly written - or at least could've used more work. So I think one aspect that i didnt really like is that I think that the show was trying to juggle more allegory's with her than they can handle. Like at first it was just a late bloomer allegory but then they slap you with "werewolf conversion therapy" and then suddenly its queer? why would werewolf's need conversion therapy for something that they naturally do? well being gay is natural but not everyone is gay but every werewolf is expected to turn into their wolf form eventually (in the show they call is wolfing out which is… ugh). I feel like there's a cut scene that makes the whole "werewolf conversion therapy" thing work like maybe somebody saying something in passing like "werewolves shouldn't change into their wolf form because they're dangerous and angry at that state how could this be allowed? we should ship them to a camp and shock them silly so they dont do that shit blah blah blah" or someshit like that i dunno it just left a bad taste in my mouth. if youre gonna put an asexual-esque werewolf into your story then stick with it because she just changes into her wolf form at the end of the season and its just wow! that was unsatisfying and now shes got one less thing going on with her character congrats i guess. Like there were so much more interesting ways that they couldve gone with the character but they went with half baking 2 sorta interesting arcs and not finishing either of them and the end product just comes off as messy as fuck.
the monster thing that kills people looks so goofy. like its obvious that its designed by tim burton bc of the eyes, the fact that theres some paintings of the creature that look significantly better and more coherent than in the show itself and it probably wouldve been ok if it wasnt for everything else being photorealistic. Like im sopposed to be scared of this thing but everytime it appears onscreen i kind of giggle becasue it looks so so dumb. the monster looks like he just hopped out of a plants vs zombies game and you're EXPECTING me to take it seriously? like cmon man i know its a series directed by tim burton but that dosent mean that they should shove THAT artstyle in every movie/series hes in.
another thing, this show uses… lingo… Like i have no clue if this was just a coincidence but they name the people in town that arent supernatural "normies". Every time they said that word This audio just reverberates at the back of my mind.
also nobody gives a fuck about the love triangle. boy 1 and boy 2 were both so shallow and the romance was just so forced. wednesday didnt even seem to be into either of them. why was it even there? to pad out time? because every series about a woman just NEEDS a romance shoved into it even when it makes the story suck even more? i dunno
also i heard that they fucked up the adams family characterization but im not a huge adams fan nerd so thats all i'll say on the topic of that.
yeah thats about it the series isnt good, i have no clue how it got so popular.