@@borakuljic6537 Adrian Brody couldn't even nail the accent, they had to use AI, the program respeecher....even tho the writers strike and actors strike was supposed to be to guard against ai in movies. At least Meryl steep nailed her own accents, so is Brody's performance totally his own ?
Wow. If I had a nickel for every time Adrien Brody played a Holocaust survivor in a film called "The [Noun]ist," I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
@@parodyboy95 Yeeeeah, sorry, I didn't know how to word it. Pianist and Brutalist are both nouns, but piano and brutal are a noun and adjective, so...yeah, not really sure how to work around that.
Francis Ford Coppola: "I'm gonna make the greatest movie about architecture this century." Brady Corbet: "Baby, you ain't even gonna make the best movie about architecture this year."
@@KingKali-m9byea but i would have liked to explore it more in the movie and to show what the architekt things about that style and why he likes it. It also is disapointing in the end speech how she sayed that he designt the building after the prison he was in and all that stuff. Its kinda diminishing of the style and feels like a token ore something. All in all the movie is a 4-5 out of 10 at best it had potenial but the over all story is bad. Actors are grate the Charakter writing is good camera was great.
@Schinken_ that's a great point, he designed brutalist buildings back in his homeland, then she says he was inspired by the prison, and even concentration camps were not built in the brutalist style? That makes zero sense, film was too busy into victimhood to flesh out the story , the inner workings, would have liked something why he designed in the brutalist style architecture , the film didn't explore any of that you're right.
Yeah, it's hard to explain VistaVision to people, as it's not as simple as saying 70mm and I've seen a few people misunderstand it. It's 35mm film but includes more information in the frame in the way its going into the camera, essentially and is then made 70mm in order to accommodate for the extra information. Long story short, if you see it in a regular theater, you're just not going to be seeing it the way it's supposed to look. Unfortunately, 70mm prints are going to be few and far between.
@redadamearth it's fairly simple to explain when I do it. 35mm (proper) is aps-c in digital photography. VistaVision is Full Frame in digital photography. Plenty of films are shot on digital Vista Vision equivalent, we just don't see celluloid like this often at all.
I met Adrien Brody in New Zealand. He was walking alone in downtown Wellington, blending in with the crowd. I recognised him and chatted. He was both humble and somehow charismatic at the same time.
Can we get over this whole "modern audiences won't like it because it's not full of marvel action and CGI" shit already. People like good movies and people will go see a good movie especially if it has good word of mouth..Movies and audiences prove this wrong over and over again every year
What's to like in this film, only guy pierce was the standout he stole his scenes Adrian Brody's character was so unlikeable , I don't think it was his nationality but his personality. The script was bad, didn't expect it to be so anti American? My great grandmother had a worse story, and was happy to survive come thru Ellis Island, marry have family a life, this film had zero of that. It's not even a true story... Not even close
The reflection of the Cross in the building that panned to an upside down cross was typical Hollywood, this film was made obviously to justify an unpopular war going on now, and Hollywood will once again honor itself, absolutely hated this film
@@KingKali-m9b what do you mean anti-American? I sensed plenty themes of anti-snobby rich assholes, but how is it anti-America? Also just because there is a Jewish presence in the movie does not necessarily mean that its "justifying an unpopular war".
Just watched this and it was one of the most propaganda film I've seen in a while and it's pure clichéd Hollywood. The use of AI? Abhorrent but not surprising
my favourite scene is the conversation between Pearce and Brody during a party about cubes and architecture with a close-up in one moment to Adrien, and what he was doing with his face is just wow, like some live melting, i felt every muscle and every frown on his face, i almost started to cry, it was just amazing
@@Shionshowa if you wanted to leave nobody stopped you. And if you really cant wait for over 3 hours, then wait to see it at home. directors can choose whatever
But then you'll miss the fascinating decision to use a blade to cut open the plastic on the containers instead of just peeling it off like a normal person.
Tell him about the intermission - a seriously good selling point. I too groaned, but, with a break in the middle, that's doable, especially for a good movie!
@@madderthanever I like a movie that I don't want to end. I also like a movie that doesn't rush and cut a lot of things out. I'm the kind of guy who watches the deleted scenes and extras on the Blu-Ray.
@fty-ys4ni it would be nice to see intermissions make a return. Having 15 minutes to go for a walk, get a drink, use the bathroom, smoke a cig/vape/bowl... the intermission should still be a staple of the modern movie going experience.
@@theprime6439have you even seen the film yet!? Or just saying this because you're a Brody fan? Have you seen the other top performances such as Hugh Grant in Heretuc, Ralph Feinnes in Conclave!? 😊
@ clearly you don’t know how awards work then 😭 they’re not going to touch Hugh Grant and Ralph Fiennes gave a good performance but it’s too quiet to win anything, the only reason he’d win is because of an overdue narrative
Expect that Adrien Brody will be competing for an Oscar for Best Actor, opposite his former The Grand Budapest Hotel collaborator Ralph Fiennes on Fiennes's performance on Conclave, with other competitors for Best Actor such as Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan for A Complete Unknown, and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing.
I heard somewhere (might've been Stuckmann himself) that it's supposed to be coming out in February or March or something. It seems to be a while since we've heard anything about it since. That said, it's only screened at one festival so far, and part of me wonders if it's been touched up and worked on to play at others or something.
Longtime fan of yours, here :-) My cousin‘s husband is DJ Gugenheim, one of the producers on this (as well as Brady Corbet’s other great work, “Vox Lux“). Apparently, this film cost $4 million… Films don’t need to be 50-75x more expensive in order to feel complete, or grand in scale. Great writing, a graceful and substantive vision and backers that believe in it; that’s the real recipe for grandeur. That’s my take on it, anyway… thank you for your critique!
I was just at a screening + Q&A with the director who said the budget was $10M. I didn’t like the film but I’m still absolutely baffled at how they shot it for $10M and in 33 days 🤯
@@frankiemoonz Part of the reason is that they shot in Hungary, not the United States. Not to mention there's rumors that a lot of the crew voluntarily worked without pay because they believed in the film, actors taking scale (or less than scale), etc. A lot of "found" locations, like the marble pit in Italy that required no set building at all. The initial boat sequence was done by literally just finding a boat that was sitting on the Danube, etc. But more importantly, the question is less about being baffled as to how Corbet made it for $10m than about being baffled as to why most studios spend so much more for so much less. There's a LOT of grifting and theft and money laundering from big studios going on. This is why the film will NOT win Best Picture, as it shames the studios for spending so much. It's the same reason why "There Will Be Blood" didn't win Best Picture, because Anderson shot his epic for less than $25m. Academy voters HATE it when young filmmakers show the studios that they're making movies the wrong way, as a LOT of people are making way more money than they should be.
The fact that Brady Corbet shot this masterpiece on freakin VistaVision for $10m should give everyone in Hollywood an existential crisis.This and "Anora" are the best films of the year (without having seen Nosferatu), and it's not really close. I do disagree about the Epilogue. I kind of loved that it takes you out of the film and into "the real world". Particularly with the change to video.
It means undervalued within the context. If an actor is in films that receive good reviews without calling attention to their specific contributions, or without leading to further casting, then yeah, that is still being underrated.
Guy Pearce has been uniformly excellent in so many roles. Memento is one of them, but LA Confidential, The Proposition, The Rover, The King’s Speech… I thought his Scrooge was particularly impressive.
I think i began to appreciate it a lot more after some thought. There are so many heavy themes and so many important scenes being thrown at you, and it's hard to digest in one sitting. Despite its length, I feel its a good movie to watch again. Also, randomly, I LOVED the soundtrack
The soundtrack has such an eerie-ness to it, even during moments of supposed happiness. There's a palpable dissonance, like there's something not quite right that the audience isn't aware of. At least that's what I felt the whole movie, and I enjoyed that suspenseful feeling. The dance scene in the Italian marble cave was (one of) my favorite in the whole movie- especially with that amazing song
@@iambathman9916 feel good movie? Did you go to the right auditorium it was excruciating. So surprised how anti America it was but from the opening shot it pans to the statue of liberty upside down, a similar shot in an ugly water filled building was of a cross .. panning to it upside down as well. Revealing the sentiments of this movie
Excellent review as always, Chris. I haven't been this excited for a film in years. (BTW, your right: the sooner the artist learns they don't need to ask for permission to do the thing, the easier their life becomes. Tarantino was the first one to say that, and Christopher Macquarie has a legendary Twitter thread about this.)
I've watched your channel for five years now Chris. Keep being you. Your sponsors, your business. If you're comfortable, that's what matters. I'm still going to watch. Good luck with your career.
The epilogue was perfect for me. I was a dumb dumb and hadn't really pieced together some fundamental truths behind what was happening, and having it told me to me so clearly created a "Twist" that re-contextualized the last 3 and a half hours of movie. It was mind blowing for such a large movie to be so transformed by so little information. But I can totally see not needing it spelled out. Haha.
I can understand being annoyed at being told the “twist” in the epilogue, but it seems like it wasn’t a huge secret to the characters at this point, so why should it be a secret to us
Saw this in 70MM in LA last week and will see it again in 70MM in San Francisco next week. It's an extraordinary film, truly. It will stand the test of time and go down in history as one of the greatest films ever made.
Brady Corbert says the AI technology from Respeecher was used in The Brutalist for “Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed.” “This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production. The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”
Adrian is not an overused actor. He is a treasure that keeps Hollywood in check. Chris Evens and The Rock are why Hollywood is the opposite of greatness.
Hollywood is a weird industry because it is fundamentally fuelled by artists but ruled by businesses. It could not be sustained without each one of these however paradoxically the 2 are almost antithetical by nature... there is a delicate balance required in order for a critical and commercial success to be achieved which is why they are so rare to come across.
Adrien is hit and miss but whenever he does great movies, he pushed it to the further like no ever. He always takes his greatness to the next level that people don't really notice
Lawless was pretty good. A little uneven. His character was a bit too cartoonish for me. And I love Guy Pierce. I think his best performance was in The Proposition. Awesome movie, too.
@lukewilliam3601 The Proposition was another great role for Guy as well as bring a great film. The contrast on him to go from that to the likes of The King's Speech, to Lockout to Lawless makes him as versatile as Viggo or Bale or Pepper for me. Ravenous is another really underrated performance and film that pre-dates Memento.
Take your vengeance. But know that the blood you spill is noble. Blood that will never run through your veins. You are no more a count than I am a commoner!
I finally got to see the movie last night. I was honestly so blown away. One of the few movies over the last few years that I consider to be perfect. 3 1/2 hours very well spent.
I only have one bone to pick here. Adrian Brody was amazing in The Brothers Bloom, directed by Rian Johnson less than 20 years ago, and I won't have anyone claiming otherwise 😅
First part before intermission, loved it, beautiful to look at, I was hooked with Brody's journey and i felt like I could feel what it was like viewing a classic movie back in those times. After the intermission, liked it but didn't love it, felt different and I think I've come to the conclusion that it was Felicity's character that took away from the movie and my attachment to everything else that was happening. Not saying she's a bad actress, I just wish they wouldn't have added the character to actually be there.
I didn't know about this movie until I saw Adrien Brody win best actor. Read online that the film is about immigrant architect escaping war-torn Europe and a wealthy man comes into their life and changes their lives forever. The film was not what i expected. It was too dark themed.
You saying Guy Pearce was very two-faced in the movie, along with a recent story I’ve heard about how he was prevented from working with Nolan on anymore movies, makes me think of a universe where he was the one chosen to play Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Dark Knight
Very good movie; the best description is monumental. In opposition, I really liked the epilogue; it was a nice conclusion with a moral of the story. I recommend the movie.
I know this is not relevant for most people and there is also a bit of controversy with the use of AI in this movie, but they did such a great job with the Hungarian language, it really warmed my heart hearing these big hollywood actors speak near perfect Hungarian
Guy Pearce needs to win best supporting actor. His performance was phenomenal. I definitely agree that the epilogues tone definitely takes you out of the feeling of the rest of the movie. The end credits song choice was horrendous. The score throughout the entire film felt like it was building to something spectacular and built up an expectation that the credit roll would end in a clamorous crescendo.
The epilogue is the entire point of the film. It’s the destination not the journey. You have to trek through so much bs in life just like Lazlo. Never give up.
I definitely enjoyed the cinematography of the movie and a lot of aspects of it but it did feel long and drag for me in some parts. That being said, it’s definitely a good film. Very thought provoking.
Chris making faces in his thumbnails like it's possible that he didn't like the movie 😂😂 . Like we don't already know he doesn't talk about movies he doesn't like.
The underlying film is masterful and the acting was excellent. However, there were far too many clunky and unnecessary scenes that not only did not fit but also distracted from the story and really brought down the entire film as a whole. I speculate this film had its own Van Buren/Woodrow "improving the script." If the point was to add complexity to the characters, it had a counter effect.
Adrian Brody was amazing in this film, such a range of expression. There was a scene in the latter half that was really hard to watch, and which was so upsetting, I thought, ok, here's where Laslo abandon's his project, even though he's so invested in it. And he doesn't, he doubles down. And that's when I came to an understanding of brutalist architecture. Laslo comes out of Bauhaus, having survived the Nazi take-over of Europe and wide-spread antisemitic violence. Instead of embracing the traditions of those who had wrought violence upon his people, he takes his understanding of geometric form to reimagine buildings as bold, solid structures that say, "You will see us. We are here, and we aren't going away!" It was architecture as activism.
Adrian Brody was the same at the Golden globes as he was in this bad movie, such bad contrived writing, so anti America, and biggest issue is Adrian Brody's character is so unlikeable
@@aarongarcia5037 and two shots in the film were exactly the same, and said a lot visually, the beginning scene with panning to the statue of liberty upside down, the same technique the shot of the Cross in that ugly water filled building panning to an upside down cross.. Nuff said.... So by Hollywood standards this should win best picture and actor... Cause that's the Hollywood agenda in light of wars happening in the world right now
Late comment, but great review, very good movie - I think they were faced wit ha challenge at the end of the movie, and the epilogue was their solution: they didn't want to end the movie not on Adrian Brody, since he's driving so much of it. I thought it was a cold transition from the Van Burens to the epilogue, but it ended up working well enough I thought not to hurt the movie.
I hate the release system of movies like this. I live in North Carolina and there are still no release dates for it where I live. It's not showing any December 20 release dates and we are going to have to wait a while before we get it. It sucks. I really want to see it
Your Review Hit The Nail On The Proverbial Head. I Just Saw This Amazing And Awesome Film Up Until The Epilogue On MLK Day At A Sold Out BAM Rose Cinemas Experience In Downtown Brooklyn, New York.
Just learning from the comments that there is no intermissions in US theaters and this movie is the exception. In India movies are made with intermission in mind and even Hollywood movies are paused for intermission.
8 million dollar budget. That fact is just so crazy to me. That shitty Lord of the Rings show on Amazon spends more money in like 10 minutes than this does in almost 4 hours lol
I heavily loved this movie but I feel like because of the long run time I will have rarely any desire to watch this again. Incredible movie, peak filmmaking but when this eventually comes to VOD that spark to watch this again will be incredibly rare. Phenomenal movie though.
Just got out of a film 70mm screening of this in Toronto. Holy fuck what a movie. Jesus tapdancing christ. That was ambitious as hell. The pacing gets a little tough in the last hour and the third act is nowhere near as good as the first act but still it's incredible work. I think Guy Pearce will easily win the best supporting Oscar for this. How in the hell they managed to make this movie for only 10mil is impressive. All this being said the intermission was crucial as it's very very long. The pacing was at least better than the last two also hugely long Scorcese films. Those were brutally long in the theatre. This was at least....intriguing right to the end.
Vistavision, when was the last time a film shot on it? The first Vistavision film was "White Christmas" almost 70 years ago! Speaking of films about architects, this film sounds like what Coppola should have made!
The epilogue was my favorite part of the film. Not to spoil the movie, but it provides a satisfying conclusion to the film. It explains the true nature of the van burner monument. Otherwise, the story would have felt more like a tragedy, than a commentary on wealth and architecture.
I think, IMHO, that this film looked great with some solid performances but that the narrative was disjointed and weird especially when I find out its a homage to someone who never existed. The epilogue felt super odd.
@@MF-CLIMBHe said it's the best thing since Memento, which can translate as his best work, and I don't think it's true. Anyway, it's just subjective opinion.
@ no you presumed he meant it was his only good performance which clearly wasn’t what he meant. Momento was an excellent performance the rest are good which doesn’t mean only good performance at all. You’re reaching
Having seen it last night, I agree about the "Epilogue" - it was totally unnecessary. It was heading to an almost perfect ending and then that "Epilogue", which was stylistically jarring and superfluous and overly explanatory, as if he didn't trust his audience to get it. There's a certain shot right before the "Epilogue" where it could have ended, with maybe one more shot that would follow it, which would have made it a PERFECT film - but for me the "Epilogue" mistake (IMO) makes it ALMOST a masterpiece, as everything up until the Epilogue was incredible. It's crazy to me that for getting EVERYTHING so right for over 3 hours that Corbet made that tactical error in the last 10 minutes. So, to me, it's 90% a masterpiece - and I don't say that lightly, as it's that good - that just doesn't stick the landing. Which is so frustrating, as I just don't know how he messed that up. But make no mistake, everything up until the "Epilogue" is astounding.
Like Chris, he is so deep into movies and knows so much about it. But! One thing he got not right. (the movie probably as well, not yet seen) is: the producer, the funders are part of the creation. They a bit antagonistic but in the sametime together in Procedere. So the producer/founder is a artist in his part. 🤷🏻♂️
Well, I watched it. The movie is different than what you’d expect, with some beats that were missed opportunities. Most of them were at the end of part two and during the epilogue. Still, it’s a solid 8/10.
In my mind it's a Film not a Movie I like to think a Film is more grounded in real life and experiences I know it's not based on any real person but it really is about the American Experience and what comes with it good and bad we all have parents, family members,or maybe you yourself have lived some moments like Lazlo not to his extreme but feeling tolerated or alone or people don't see what you came to this Country to achieve we are not all as talented as Lazlo but the will for a better life is the same , I really enjoyed the Film and it never felt long to me every moment has a purpose even the epilogue
That shot of Adrien Brody smoking a cigarette over a fire goes so hard it's unreal
Welding machine
It looks unnatural to me. Like he isn’t working himself but just posing like a model.
It’s so good they made it the poster 😂
@@thadjarvis5610 That's actually the case in the movie (he's watching other people work on something)
@@borakuljic6537 Adrian Brody couldn't even nail the accent, they had to use AI, the program respeecher....even tho the writers strike and actors strike was supposed to be to guard against ai in movies. At least Meryl steep nailed her own accents, so is Brody's performance totally his own ?
Wow. If I had a nickel for every time Adrien Brody played a Holocaust survivor in a film called "The [Noun]ist," I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
Adrien Brody in 'The Zone of Interist'
I wonder if he’ll be in 200,000 movies, not 6,000,000
Brutal isn’t a noun
@ yes it is.
@@parodyboy95 Yeeeeah, sorry, I didn't know how to word it. Pianist and Brutalist are both nouns, but piano and brutal are a noun and adjective, so...yeah, not really sure how to work around that.
Francis Ford Coppola: "I'm gonna make the greatest movie about architecture this century."
Brady Corbet: "Baby, you ain't even gonna make the best movie about architecture this year."
Architecture isn’t the topic, it’s solely and once again about jews attacking christianity
That is the petty thought that I had while watching this movie
@@roberttaylor9259 belly of an architect was better than both , brutalism in architecture has often been considered ugly by lots of people
@@KingKali-m9byea but i would have liked to explore it more in the movie and to show what the architekt things about that style and why he likes it.
It also is disapointing in the end speech how she sayed that he designt the building after the prison he was in and all that stuff. Its kinda diminishing of the style and feels like a token ore something.
All in all the movie is a 4-5 out of 10 at best it had potenial but the over all story is bad. Actors are grate the Charakter writing is good camera was great.
@Schinken_ that's a great point, he designed brutalist buildings back in his homeland, then she says he was inspired by the prison, and even concentration camps were not built in the brutalist style? That makes zero sense, film was too busy into victimhood to flesh out the story , the inner workings, would have liked something why he designed in the brutalist style architecture , the film didn't explore any of that you're right.
2:02 the movie is actually shot on 35mm VistaVision, but screened on 70mm
Was going to say this. I will add that because it was shot on Vistavision though projecting it on 70mm is more faithful then 35mm
Yeah, it's hard to explain VistaVision to people, as it's not as simple as saying 70mm and I've seen a few people misunderstand it. It's 35mm film but includes more information in the frame in the way its going into the camera, essentially and is then made 70mm in order to accommodate for the extra information. Long story short, if you see it in a regular theater, you're just not going to be seeing it the way it's supposed to look. Unfortunately, 70mm prints are going to be few and far between.
@redadamearth it's fairly simple to explain when I do it. 35mm (proper) is aps-c in digital photography. VistaVision is Full Frame in digital photography.
Plenty of films are shot on digital Vista Vision equivalent, we just don't see celluloid like this often at all.
@@phoenixfunny4517 I believe he meant to the general non-informed movie viewers it is hard to explain.
Someone can use google 🙄🙄
I met Adrien Brody in New Zealand. He was walking alone in downtown Wellington, blending in with the crowd. I recognised him and chatted. He was both humble and somehow charismatic at the same time.
Can we get over this whole "modern audiences won't like it because it's not full of marvel action and CGI" shit already. People like good movies and people will go see a good movie especially if it has good word of mouth..Movies and audiences prove this wrong over and over again every year
What's to like in this film, only guy pierce was the standout he stole his scenes Adrian Brody's character was so unlikeable , I don't think it was his nationality but his personality. The script was bad, didn't expect it to be so anti American? My great grandmother had a worse story, and was happy to survive come thru Ellis Island, marry have family a life, this film had zero of that. It's not even a true story... Not even close
The reflection of the Cross in the building that panned to an upside down cross was typical Hollywood, this film was made obviously to justify an unpopular war going on now, and Hollywood will once again honor itself, absolutely hated this film
@@KingKali-m9b what do you mean anti-American? I sensed plenty themes of anti-snobby rich assholes, but how is it anti-America? Also just because there is a Jewish presence in the movie does not necessarily mean that its "justifying an unpopular war".
Just watched this and it was one of the most propaganda film I've seen in a while and it's pure clichéd Hollywood. The use of AI? Abhorrent but not surprising
@ I wasn't commenting on this movie specifically being good or not
my favourite scene is the conversation between Pearce and Brody during a party about cubes and architecture with a close-up in one moment to Adrien, and what he was doing with his face is just wow, like some live melting, i felt every muscle and every frown on his face, i almost started to cry, it was just amazing
Is there a better explanation of a cube than that of its own construction
I am so glad this film has an intermission. It's nice to know an over three hour movie respects its audience.
Flower moon didn’t
So it’s disrespectful if there isn’t an intermission? Sounds like you have a patience problem
@@Shionshowa if you wanted to leave nobody stopped you. And if you really cant wait for over 3 hours, then wait to see it at home. directors can choose whatever
@eliasm907
My patience can last just fine, my but can't.
@@eliasm907 The average human pees six to seven times a day. This movie is three hours and thirty five minutes.
1:59 to skip the advert....
Thanks
Hell yeah! A man of the people!
Thanks
But then you'll miss the fascinating decision to use a blade to cut open the plastic on the containers instead of just peeling it off like a normal person.
@@AWSVids Do you have a fear of touching plastic containers? Are your fingers too weak to peel them? 😂
When I told my husband the run time he audibly groaned 😂😂 but I am excited to see it!
Tell him about the intermission - a seriously good selling point.
I too groaned, but, with a break in the middle, that's doable, especially for a good movie!
your husband is weak, your crops will not flourish, and your harvest will not be plentiful
(jk)
@@madderthanever How long is it? (the intermission I mean)
@@ZachBobBob I heard 15 minutes or so.
@@madderthanever I like a movie that I don't want to end. I also like a movie that doesn't rush and cut a lot of things out. I'm the kind of guy who watches the deleted scenes and extras on the Blu-Ray.
How often do films like this have intermissions? This is what Killers of the Flower Moon needed!
Very rarely. And it bothers me a lot.
@@clintkarklus5523 It bothers you that it has one or that most others don’t?
I bet he meant intermissions are good.
@fty-ys4ni it would be nice to see intermissions make a return. Having 15 minutes to go for a walk, get a drink, use the bathroom, smoke a cig/vape/bowl... the intermission should still be a staple of the modern movie going experience.
Just go to the toilet in your seat, the cinemas will soon get the message
It was not shot on 70mm. It was shot on 35mm VistaVision.
Who cares
@@aaronroberts8601 i'd hope a film reviewer does
It actually shot a Nokia flip phone
@@guerillawhite3083 or a film maker.
@@aaronroberts8601I care. . . Even though I have no idea what the difference is 🤷
Mr, Brody is a incredible actor and he deserves more credit for his acting , I am rooting for him to get nominated and win a Oscar
He will sweep the whole season
Luved him in "The Jacket"
@@theprime6439have you even seen the film yet!? Or just saying this because you're a Brody fan?
Have you seen the other top performances such as Hugh Grant in Heretuc, Ralph Feinnes in Conclave!? 😊
@ clearly you don’t know how awards work then 😭 they’re not going to touch Hugh Grant and Ralph Fiennes gave a good performance but it’s too quiet to win anything, the only reason he’d win is because of an overdue narrative
Expect that Adrien Brody will be competing for an Oscar for Best Actor, opposite his former The Grand Budapest Hotel collaborator Ralph Fiennes on Fiennes's performance on Conclave, with other competitors for Best Actor such as Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan for A Complete Unknown, and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing.
my interpretation of the ending is how we consume art and stories about it years afterwards, and disregard or ignore the struggles of creation
I saw it yesterday, wonderful movie. The opening sequence alone, is genius. Monumental piece of filmmaking on every level.
It felt so epic when he was walking his way up to the deck and saw the Statue of Liberty.
Can we get a Shelby oaks update? I know the movie has been done for 6 months now I’m just anxiously awaiting the release date
I heard somewhere (might've been Stuckmann himself) that it's supposed to be coming out in February or March or something. It seems to be a while since we've heard anything about it since. That said, it's only screened at one festival so far, and part of me wonders if it's been touched up and worked on to play at others or something.
Everybody please get out there & support this film🙏
Nahh, I saw the synopsis, its just muh persecuted jews Oscar bait
Why? Is it good?
@@terrymcginnis01 no it's not good, it's boring, so surprised how anti America it was.
Longtime fan of yours, here :-) My cousin‘s husband is DJ Gugenheim, one of the producers on this (as well as Brady Corbet’s other great work, “Vox Lux“). Apparently, this film cost $4 million… Films don’t need to be 50-75x more expensive in order to feel complete, or grand in scale. Great writing, a graceful and substantive vision and backers that believe in it; that’s the real recipe for grandeur. That’s my take on it, anyway… thank you for your critique!
I was just at a screening + Q&A with the director who said the budget was $10M. I didn’t like the film but I’m still absolutely baffled at how they shot it for $10M and in 33 days 🤯
@ I gotcha. Just out of curiosity - was that the Alamo Drafthouse screening in San Francisco?
Is he of the Boston Gugenheims?
@@frankiemoonz Part of the reason is that they shot in Hungary, not the United States. Not to mention there's rumors that a lot of the crew voluntarily worked without pay because they believed in the film, actors taking scale (or less than scale), etc. A lot of "found" locations, like the marble pit in Italy that required no set building at all. The initial boat sequence was done by literally just finding a boat that was sitting on the Danube, etc. But more importantly, the question is less about being baffled as to how Corbet made it for $10m than about being baffled as to why most studios spend so much more for so much less. There's a LOT of grifting and theft and money laundering from big studios going on. This is why the film will NOT win Best Picture, as it shames the studios for spending so much. It's the same reason why "There Will Be Blood" didn't win Best Picture, because Anderson shot his epic for less than $25m. Academy voters HATE it when young filmmakers show the studios that they're making movies the wrong way, as a LOT of people are making way more money than they should be.
The fact that Brady Corbet shot this masterpiece on freakin VistaVision for $10m should give everyone in Hollywood an existential crisis.This and "Anora" are the best films of the year (without having seen Nosferatu), and it's not really close. I do disagree about the Epilogue. I kind of loved that it takes you out of the film and into "the real world". Particularly with the change to video.
Nosferatu I saw a few nights ago and it will be in my top ten of the year:
Inflated budgets come down to actors demanding blockbuster wages and reshoots.
Yeah but the movie is not making that much money
@@WiiluvNaruto Its sold out a ton of 70mm showings in NY and LA already, and is in the Oscar conversations. I wouldn't be so sure....
10m? I've read it was only 6m.
This movie’s runtime made me want to not like it, but I just saw it and cannot deny the absolute triumph that it is
Guy Pearce was great in "The King's Speech" as well. Really underrated actor.
Why does everyone have to be "underrated"??? He always gets great reviews. He's not underrated by any means.
It means undervalued within the context. If an actor is in films that receive good reviews without calling attention to their specific contributions, or without leading to further casting, then yeah, that is still being underrated.
This movie cost between 6-10 million dollars
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Tommy Wiseau's The Room cost that
A little less than $10m. Basically $9.5m. And a lot of that reason is because they used Hungary for America.
10 MILLION DOLLARS??? there's no fucking way, it felt EXPANSIVE! I am honestly shocked
Guy Pearce has been uniformly excellent in so many roles. Memento is one of them, but LA Confidential, The Proposition, The Rover, The King’s Speech… I thought his Scrooge was particularly impressive.
And ravenous
He's an excellent villain in TCoMC and Lawless
Animal Kingdom
He picks really solid projects
@ he does indeed
I think i began to appreciate it a lot more after some thought. There are so many heavy themes and so many important scenes being thrown at you, and it's hard to digest in one sitting. Despite its length, I feel its a good movie to watch again.
Also, randomly, I LOVED the soundtrack
the soundtrack was amazing
The soundtrack has such an eerie-ness to it, even during moments of supposed happiness. There's a palpable dissonance, like there's something not quite right that the audience isn't aware of. At least that's what I felt the whole movie, and I enjoyed that suspenseful feeling. The dance scene in the Italian marble cave was (one of) my favorite in the whole movie- especially with that amazing song
@@iambathman9916 feel good movie? Did you go to the right auditorium it was excruciating. So surprised how anti America it was but from the opening shot it pans to the statue of liberty upside down, a similar shot in an ugly water filled building was of a cross .. panning to it upside down as well. Revealing the sentiments of this movie
@@iambathman9916 the soundtrack reminded me of the exact music in the "knee surgery"videos on tiktok, that eerie sax music...
@KingKali-m9b I said I feel it was a good movie, not a feel good movie. It was a real movie, and had a real ending, but not a feel good movie at all
Love your nails during the commercial. Really fantastic and artful. Didn't realize this obsession. Great work, thank you.🌸
It’s his wife’s hands, was that not obvious.
@@Claudiurogojan1234 On another channel this would be a joke, as the narrator reminds us "Those aren't my hands, my nails are better than my wife's.
Are my jokes so bad? I'll leave the internet now.
p.s. Your reply was two weeks ago, why did I get a notification today? Fair well.
Excellent review as always, Chris. I haven't been this excited for a film in years. (BTW, your right: the sooner the artist learns they don't need to ask for permission to do the thing, the easier their life becomes. Tarantino was the first one to say that, and Christopher Macquarie has a legendary Twitter thread about this.)
Guy Pierce was great in LA Confidential too. Great film too!
Adrien Brody's best work in the past 2 decades? Predators? Hello, Predators? C'mon!
I've watched your channel for five years now Chris. Keep being you. Your sponsors, your business. If you're comfortable, that's what matters. I'm still going to watch. Good luck with your career.
You gave money to someone you never met on the internet ..says a lot about you. Sucker
The epilogue was perfect for me. I was a dumb dumb and hadn't really pieced together some fundamental truths behind what was happening, and having it told me to me so clearly created a "Twist" that re-contextualized the last 3 and a half hours of movie. It was mind blowing for such a large movie to be so transformed by so little information.
But I can totally see not needing it spelled out. Haha.
I can understand being annoyed at being told the “twist” in the epilogue, but it seems like it wasn’t a huge secret to the characters at this point, so why should it be a secret to us
I must have missed something; what information did they reveal that re-contextualized it for you?
Saw this in 70MM in LA last week and will see it again in 70MM in San Francisco next week. It's an extraordinary film, truly. It will stand the test of time and go down in history as one of the greatest films ever made.
Brady Corbert says the AI technology from Respeecher was used in The Brutalist for “Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed.”
“This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production. The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”
Keep being you. Your humble insights are what we need more of.
Adrian is not an overused actor. He is a treasure that keeps Hollywood in check. Chris Evens and The Rock are why Hollywood is the opposite of greatness.
Hollywood is a weird industry because it is fundamentally fuelled by artists but ruled by businesses. It could not be sustained without each one of these however paradoxically the 2 are almost antithetical by nature... there is a delicate balance required in order for a critical and commercial success to be achieved which is why they are so rare to come across.
Adrien is hit and miss but whenever he does great movies, he pushed it to the further like no ever. He always takes his greatness to the next level that people don't really notice
What did Chris Evans do to you?
"Best thing Guy Pearce has done since Memento" - 'Lawless' has just entered the chat.
Lawless was pretty good. A little uneven. His character was a bit too cartoonish for me. And I love Guy Pierce. I think his best performance was in The Proposition. Awesome movie, too.
@lukewilliam3601 The Proposition was another great role for Guy as well as bring a great film. The contrast on him to go from that to the likes of The King's Speech, to Lockout to Lawless makes him as versatile as Viggo or Bale or Pepper for me. Ravenous is another really underrated performance and film that pre-dates Memento.
The Proposition for sure.
@@lukewilliam3601both written by Nick Cave
Take your vengeance. But know that the blood you spill is noble. Blood that will never run through your veins. You are no more a count than I am a commoner!
Adrian Brody's duology are : The Pianist and then, The Brutalist
Playing a Pole and a Hungarian respectively. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
@@SinCity2100 oy vey
Felicity Jones has seriously been consistently top tier. Glad you gave her props. I am stoked to see this.
Love the shirt Mr.Stuckmann
I finally got to see the movie last night. I was honestly so blown away. One of the few movies over the last few years that I consider to be perfect. 3 1/2 hours very well spent.
4:50 hits different after seeing the movie
I only have one bone to pick here. Adrian Brody was amazing in The Brothers Bloom, directed by Rian Johnson less than 20 years ago, and I won't have anyone claiming otherwise 😅
And he was great in the show 'Chapelwaite'
Way to go getting one of the first YT reviews out on this. I'm very excited for this unanimously critically praised film.
Love your t-shirt, Chris!
First part before intermission, loved it, beautiful to look at, I was hooked with Brody's journey and i felt like I could feel what it was like viewing a classic movie back in those times.
After the intermission, liked it but didn't love it, felt different and I think I've come to the conclusion that it was Felicity's character that took away from the movie and my attachment to everything else that was happening. Not saying she's a bad actress, I just wish they wouldn't have added the character to actually be there.
The Brutalist is so way better than Megalopolis. Also I think The Brutalist is what Megalopolis was trying to be.
Two completly different tones
I think Coppola made the exact same movie he wanted to make. For better or worse.
Can’t wait to see in Australia not until late January
Absolutely loved it, but couldn’t agree more with the epilogue; I was pretty disappointed that they didn’t end it after that final conflict.
Yes, Adrien Brody was magnificent in his portrait of the artist/architect seeking to realize his vision as an answer to human suffering.
Creators and those that create the environment for creators to exist are two different sides of the same coin. Each requires a different skillset.
I didn't know about this movie until I saw Adrien Brody win best actor. Read online that the film is about immigrant architect escaping war-torn Europe and a wealthy man comes into their life and changes their lives forever. The film was not what i expected. It was too dark themed.
You saying Guy Pearce was very two-faced in the movie, along with a recent story I’ve heard about how he was prevented from working with Nolan on anymore movies, makes me think of a universe where he was the one chosen to play Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Dark Knight
Very good movie; the best description is monumental. In opposition, I really liked the epilogue; it was a nice conclusion with a moral of the story. I recommend the movie.
I saw The Brutalist at this year’s New York Film Festival and I really loved it. It was a fantastic experience.
I know this is not relevant for most people and there is also a bit of controversy with the use of AI in this movie, but they did such a great job with the Hungarian language, it really warmed my heart hearing these big hollywood actors speak near perfect Hungarian
Guy Pearce needs to win best supporting actor. His performance was phenomenal.
I definitely agree that the epilogues tone definitely takes you out of the feeling of the rest of the movie. The end credits song choice was horrendous.
The score throughout the entire film felt like it was building to something spectacular and built up an expectation that the credit roll would end in a clamorous crescendo.
A film about creative process getting praised by critics right before oscar season. Shocking.
It's definitely Oscar bait
Have already booked to watch this in 70mm next month and will likely watch it in IMAX with Laser GT also. 😎
The epilogue is the entire point of the film. It’s the destination not the journey. You have to trek through so much bs in life just like Lazlo. Never give up.
That final shot of Washington momentum confused me to
I definitely enjoyed the cinematography of the movie and a lot of aspects of it but it did feel long and drag for me in some parts. That being said, it’s definitely a good film. Very thought provoking.
Agreed on the epilogue. It felt like a weird departure to explain everything and dumbed it down
Guy Pearce has been in a lot of amazing films since Memento
Chris making faces in his thumbnails like it's possible that he didn't like the movie 😂😂 .
Like we don't already know he doesn't talk about movies he doesn't like.
The underlying film is masterful and the acting was excellent. However, there were far too many clunky and unnecessary scenes that not only did not fit but also distracted from the story and really brought down the entire film as a whole. I speculate this film had its own Van Buren/Woodrow "improving the script." If the point was to add complexity to the characters, it had a counter effect.
This is a summary, not a review.
Adrian Brody was amazing in this film, such a range of expression.
There was a scene in the latter half that was really hard to watch, and which was so upsetting, I thought, ok, here's where Laslo abandon's his project, even though he's so invested in it. And he doesn't, he doubles down. And that's when I came to an understanding of brutalist architecture. Laslo comes out of Bauhaus, having survived the Nazi take-over of Europe and wide-spread antisemitic violence. Instead of embracing the traditions of those who had wrought violence upon his people, he takes his understanding of geometric form to reimagine buildings as bold, solid structures that say, "You will see us. We are here, and we aren't going away!" It was architecture as activism.
Adrian Brody was the same at the Golden globes as he was in this bad movie, such bad contrived writing, so anti America, and biggest issue is Adrian Brody's character is so unlikeable
The architecture was ugly, and this isn't even based on any real story, hated it
@@KingKali-m9b nice bait
@@aarongarcia5037 only my opinion, not bait, I actually sat thru the entire boring film
@@aarongarcia5037 and two shots in the film were exactly the same, and said a lot visually, the beginning scene with panning to the statue of liberty upside down, the same technique the shot of the Cross in that ugly water filled building panning to an upside down cross..
Nuff said.... So by Hollywood standards this should win best picture and actor... Cause that's the Hollywood agenda in light of wars happening in the world right now
Great review Chris, love your videos and definitely want to check this one out now
6:06 - I also did not care for the Epilogue nor did I care for Alwyn's acting
Chris, you should watch an animated film called FLOW.
You’ll thank me later.
A film critic who doesn’t criticize
He’s a reviewer more than a critic
Hes just a vessel for advertisements now.
For real.
No, he’s a guy who loves movies and loves talking about them
You’re confusing the words with the meanings.
If your film is longer than Avatar the way of water, then there's a problem.
You should be more brutal with your reviews 😂
Late comment, but great review, very good movie - I think they were faced wit ha challenge at the end of the movie, and the epilogue was their solution: they didn't want to end the movie not on Adrian Brody, since he's driving so much of it. I thought it was a cold transition from the Van Burens to the epilogue, but it ended up working well enough I thought not to hurt the movie.
I hate the release system of movies like this. I live in North Carolina and there are still no release dates for it where I live. It's not showing any December 20 release dates and we are going to have to wait a while before we get it. It sucks. I really want to see it
When is Shelby oaks getting released?
Your Review Hit The Nail On The Proverbial Head. I Just Saw This Amazing And Awesome Film Up Until The Epilogue On MLK Day At A Sold Out BAM Rose Cinemas Experience In Downtown Brooklyn, New York.
I'm really excited to see this. 3.5hrs is an intriguing runtime.
Chris, stop sponsoring Factor. My entire family died of food poisoning after using Factor!!!
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So did mine! My entire family!
😂
I have a fridge full of Factor meals. I guess I'll just donate them to an orphanage.
Are you having any sort of estate sale?
Have you seen Better Man? Looking forward to your review on that…
Just learning from the comments that there is no intermissions in US theaters and this movie is the exception. In India movies are made with intermission in mind and even Hollywood movies are paused for intermission.
I imagine this is what most Star Wars movies suffer from. Stakeholders no longer trust a director’s creative vision alone.
Really want to see this.
“Best thing Guy Pearce has done since memento.” What’re we just going to ignore the fantastic film The Rover?!?
8 million dollar budget. That fact is just so crazy to me. That shitty Lord of the Rings show on Amazon spends more money in like 10 minutes than this does in almost 4 hours lol
Doesn't seem like a modern film today ✅
This cast ✅
Unique ✅
Long film ✅
Yup im deff seeing it 😂
plenty of films like this..
I heavily loved this movie but I feel like because of the long run time I will have rarely any desire to watch this again. Incredible movie, peak filmmaking but when this eventually comes to VOD that spark to watch this again will be incredibly rare. Phenomenal movie though.
It wasn't shot on 70mm it was shot on VistaVision
Just got out of a film 70mm screening of this in Toronto. Holy fuck what a movie. Jesus tapdancing christ. That was ambitious as hell. The pacing gets a little tough in the last hour and the third act is nowhere near as good as the first act but still it's incredible work. I think Guy Pearce will easily win the best supporting Oscar for this. How in the hell they managed to make this movie for only 10mil is impressive. All this being said the intermission was crucial as it's very very long. The pacing was at least better than the last two also hugely long Scorcese films. Those were brutally long in the theatre. This was at least....intriguing right to the end.
Vistavision, when was the last time a film shot on it? The first Vistavision film was "White Christmas" almost 70 years ago! Speaking of films about architects, this film sounds like what Coppola should have made!
Jurassic world dominion shot with vistavision tho most of the movies
The epilogue was my favorite part of the film. Not to spoil the movie, but it provides a satisfying conclusion to the film. It explains the true nature of the van burner monument. Otherwise, the story would have felt more like a tragedy, than a commentary on wealth and architecture.
apparently "Corbet" is pronounced "Cor-BAY". i've been pronouncing it "COR-bet" for years, so that was a shock.
He also incorrectly states the movies used 70mm film - it was in fact on 35mm.
I think, IMHO, that this film looked great with some solid performances but that the narrative was disjointed and weird especially when I find out its a homage to someone who never existed. The epilogue felt super odd.
any Shelby Oaks update?
Come on man, Memento wasn't Pearce's only good performance. He was great in every movie he appeared in as far as i can remember.
This isn’t what he said at all
@@MF-CLIMBHe said it's the best thing since Memento, which can translate as his best work, and I don't think it's true. Anyway, it's just subjective opinion.
@ no you presumed he meant it was his only good performance which clearly wasn’t what he meant. Momento was an excellent performance the rest are good which doesn’t mean only good performance at all. You’re reaching
@@MF-CLIMB Well, if he meant it your way then great, and if he meant it my way then that too is fine, but I differ. How does that sound?
@ I just cannot see how on earth you came to your original conclusion. Odd.
Having seen it last night, I agree about the "Epilogue" - it was totally unnecessary. It was heading to an almost perfect ending and then that "Epilogue", which was stylistically jarring and superfluous and overly explanatory, as if he didn't trust his audience to get it. There's a certain shot right before the "Epilogue" where it could have ended, with maybe one more shot that would follow it, which would have made it a PERFECT film - but for me the "Epilogue" mistake (IMO) makes it ALMOST a masterpiece, as everything up until the Epilogue was incredible. It's crazy to me that for getting EVERYTHING so right for over 3 hours that Corbet made that tactical error in the last 10 minutes. So, to me, it's 90% a masterpiece - and I don't say that lightly, as it's that good - that just doesn't stick the landing. Which is so frustrating, as I just don't know how he messed that up. But make no mistake, everything up until the "Epilogue" is astounding.
What about the sec scene
Like Chris, he is so deep into movies and knows so much about it.
But! One thing he got not right. (the movie probably as well, not yet seen) is: the producer, the funders are part of the creation. They a bit antagonistic but in the sametime together in Procedere. So the producer/founder is a artist in his part.
🤷🏻♂️
Well, I watched it. The movie is different than what you’d expect, with some beats that were missed opportunities. Most of them were at the end of part two and during the epilogue. Still, it’s a solid 8/10.
Agree with your take on the epilogue
“Where’s the explosions?” Perfect way to describe modern audiences 😂
I really hope I can see it on a proper screen like Dolby Vision or Imax.
In my mind it's a Film not a Movie I like to think a Film is more grounded in real life and experiences I know it's not based on any real person but it really is about the American Experience and what comes with it good and bad we all have parents, family members,or maybe you yourself have lived some moments like Lazlo not to his extreme but feeling tolerated or alone or people don't see what you came to this Country to achieve we are not all as talented as Lazlo but the will for a better life is the same , I really enjoyed the Film and it never felt long to me every moment has a purpose even the epilogue