THE BRUTALIST (Rave reviews from Venice comparing it to The Godfather and There Will Be Blood)

[re'up]

The discourse around A24 is striking and banal in it's binary nature. They have made maybe 100 movies. Or 250. I don't know. Maybe more. There's some really dope stuff in there. There's some weaker shyt. There's some mixed thing. Like ANY studio. It's a testament to their marketing and branding that people even know their name. No one knows Neon.

When did people start fighting over fukking movie studios? Let alone knowing their names.

 

[FlyRy]

The discourse around A24 is striking and banal in it's binary nature. They have made maybe 100 movies. Or 250. I don't know. Maybe more. There's some really dope stuff in there. There's some weaker shyt. There's some mixed thing. Like ANY studio. It's a testament to their marketing and branding that people even know their name. No one knows Neon.

When did people start fighting over fukking movie studios? Let alone knowing their names.

People should know neon. 5 straight palm does

 

[re'up]

Two things pointed me to that in the last 2 years:

A girl at a coffee shop I go too, somehow we started talking movies, and she was like maybe 25. Very very liberal. Passionate on LGBTQ/gay rights. All that shyt. And she talked about A24 movies, this was the first time outside of an industry convo, or here that I heard people drop a studio name. And she was passionate about them. I've seen a lot of A24 movies, but it's movie studio.

Another girl, 30, said A24 was 'basic,' overrated. But this was someone who maybe sees 0 movies in theaters a year, so she hadn't seen nearly any of A24's movies. And I was laughing, and was just like confused how she even knew the studio, without seeing the movies.

but what I don't have is any social media, and this is where movies are marketed. That is 100% where both those girls picked up A24. So that's why I am so out of it.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Questionable decisions in the second half but overall it was good. The movie length was jarring but the story kept me engaged. Not sure if I'd even call it slow, it's just long.

For it's ambition, Brody's acting and cinematography, I gave it a 3 ½ on Letterboxd.

it was completely unnecessary and tanked the movie IMO

 

[ThirdAct]

Not on the level of Godfather or TWBB because it couldn't stick the landing. It's good up until the rape part, that ruined the movie for me. Just a really trite on the nose metaphor for the American dream and turned the Pearce character who is really interesting up to that point into a cartoon character. Also Brody's performance is pretty overrated

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Not on the level of Godfather or TWBB because it couldn't stick the landing. It's good up until the rape part, that ruined the movie for me. Just a really trite on the nose metaphor for the American dream and turned the Pearce character who is really interesting up to that point into a cartoon character. Also Brody's performance is pretty overrated

The further I get away from the movie the more clearly unnecessary it was.

 

[Peter Popoff]

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