Put me down as someone who didn’t remember the difference between Williams and Thicke. Thought it was illegal for pop stars to look, dress, and be named the same. Canada might as well be England, pretty sure they still have the queen on their loonies.
For those who have watched the brutalist, I’d really recommend the big picture episode on it. At least the portion with fennessey and Nayman
agreed. Very rare to have such an enjoyable back and forth between people with differing opinions. Nayman often feels like a purposeful contrarian but I enjoyed his takes.
Brady Corbet gives me Maestro campaign Bradley Cooper energy. You can feel the thirst through the screen
Spoiler: Brutalist Agree that the rape scene was too on the nose. Kind of took me out of the movie for a minute. But fuck, man, what a beautifully shot and acted film. Make more stuff like this, Hollywood.
Only 10m dollars to make is the most impressive part of it. No reason why there shouldn't be 20 of these instead of 1 shit 200m movie
i think skeptic is a better label for what he does writing books about pta, the coens, and david fincher isnt really contrarian behavior
Brutalist takes lets go Spoiler Thought it was incredibly creative, well shot, great score, some great dialogue and obviously great acting from almost everyone in here. I am certainly glad I saw it, especially in theaters. From there, not sure it stands under the weight of its own setup. The stand in of a drug addicted immigrant, who is only addicted to drugs to treat pain suffered from the camps, who has to fight through xenophobia / antisemitism and the rich patron to get his genius work made for Corbet, a director who grew up acting in tv shows and movies just didn't land for me. Just felt heavy handed with Corbet throwing theme after theme at his audience...drug addiction, racism, Zionism, identity, marriage, art, on and on I also didnt really need the random news radio overlays to explain to the audience things that were literally happening on screen. Reports on opiates, steel industry impact to Pittsburgh to explain Van Buren's wealth, etc.
Spoiler I don’t really wanna derail this thread for pages but I saw the Zionism/anti Zionism discourse on twitter and I was expecting it to be some huge plot point but it never really came so I feel like that discourse is very stupid
Spoiler i don’t have twitter and didn’t know there was a discourse on it, but agree with you it was very small plot point. It just felt randomly tossed in to serve no real purpose aside from Corbet wanting it in there for the Discourse
If this becomes a talking point about the movie, I will be so annoyed given that it is based in the 1950s and a work of historical fiction.
Spoiler In that ringer interview with Adam Nayman they make it sound like the script was written 7 years ago and hardly changed. I don't think I believe that because I also thought it felt very bolted on even though that was the historical context for Jews in the 50s. It just never paid off in any way. The mute niece who looks like Daniel Radcliffe moved away, the end.
filming wrapped in may of 2023, so trying to insert the latest zionist goings on into any of the films intentions seems totally unnecessary
ya, it was just annoying twitter shit so I was thankful after seeing the movie that I didn't have any takeaway about it
I still wonder sometimes how Lynch somehow directed The Straight Story when in comparison to everything else he did. Also his short turn as a network man on Louie was fantastic.
I really bumped up against Michele Williams on first viewing. But the movie is just so good. I kinda love late stage Spielberg. Some misses but better than many think.
Making an autobiographical movie about how thinking your mom is hot and watching her cuck your dad with Seth Rogen drove you to become one of the greatest directors of all time...