Music. Culture. I watched the first half of “The Brutalist.” I wasn’t that impressed. Great acting. But a drifting narrative. Now come at me!!!
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The kind of movie you think should like, but really don't. These days a little escapism is more my speed.
jun 24, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
I was unimpressed as well. It was disappointing.
jun 23, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It's too long. (Did you get to the intermission?) But I'm glad I watched the whole thing.
jun 23, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I also did not care much for The Brutalist. I had a hard time becoming engaged with the story. The movie obviously was very well done otherwise. My wife felt the same way. I think I was more into Emilia Perez!
jun 24, 2025, 12:43 am • 0 0 • view
Agree 💯
jun 23, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Concordo com você! Boas atuações mas o filme é só desgraça... E me parece estranho que ele fosse tão famoso na Europa e desconhecido na América tendo suas obras publicadas em revistas...
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re such a square, man
jun 24, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
Damn. I was just about to start “The Brutalist.”
jun 23, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Appreciate the review. Will take a pass. Any more tips?
jun 23, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
We watched the whole thing and wondered why we did.
jun 23, 2025, 8:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Tom Nicholas hates Nashville, you dislike The Brutalist. Somebody hide Citizen Kane, Throne of Blood, and The Seventh Seal.
jun 23, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I dislike gangster movies, esp the despicable Godfather series. A vast waste of enormous talents to glorify a completely vile topic.
jun 23, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I disliked the first 2/3 of the Brutalist. I thought it was a "great" movie, but I didn't like it. But the last third was remarkable, and made it all worthwhile. Try to give the rest a go.
jun 23, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
First half teases a promising classical cinematic epic. Second half devolves into bombastic allegory and (ironically, given the heavy hand) unclear ideological grandstanding rife with sensationalist cliches (including totally unnecessary queer rape). You stopped just in time.
jun 23, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I read there’s an architectural montage sequence that’s pretty cool, but I make it a rule to avoid movies that run beyond 200 minutes.
jun 23, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
The narrative works and is coherent IF and only IF you actually watch the whole thing. If you only can look at the bottom half of, say, "La Gioconda" (and, yes, I'm desperately trying to be pedantic) you can hardly judge the beauty of the painting, nor Da Vinci's talent.
jun 23, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Greatly anticipated it —‘finally a kind of movie I want to see’, etc. Wowed by cinematog, design, acting, story …so why did I stop 40 mins in, yet to return? Drift nonissue 4 me; suspect I saw what psych/emotional dive-ride it was taking me on, and didn’t have the bandwidth for 😫. Pure Cope’25
jun 23, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. I'm not a fan of the Brutalist.
jun 23, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
It sucked.
jun 23, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Movie gets vastly more compelling in 2nd half
jun 23, 2025, 8:36 pm • 3 0 • view
After an hour I paused it and never went back.
jun 23, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view