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Homegrove people I trust are loving it though (not a dig against you)

No offence taken. All these reviews are purely subjective. I’d probably revise my score up to a 6 but I went in with really high hopes for this one and found it very forgettable.

    Wasily Saw this in the Royal Box in Curzon Mayfair

    Love this!

      • Amps

        • Post #9990

        Along_the_Wire What are your strong opinions?

        All about context and contrast.

        Brutalist buildings tend not to work in European city centres because they don’t contrast well enough with the other buildings around them. If like the Brazillians you drop them into the middle of a jungle or a huge park, the straight lines contrast against natures lines of foliage and landscape, as do the colours, and it looks boss.

        Obviously scale and form come into it a bit too; Lang Stracht hotel and Cumbernauld town centre won’t ever look good anywhere, they’re just not fundamentally good enough. They’d have benefited from a bit of Futurism or Googie, but I assume they were just too cheap for that.

        Think of Brutalist buildings like a pair of massive tits, they’re great in the right place, but nobody want’s them on a munter.

            • Amps

              • Post #9991

              I’m happy that the film, The Brutalist, may completely debunk everything I have just written 😆

              That was a good read, Amps. Ha

              • Wasily

                • Post #9995
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                Along_the_Wire Don’t get me wrong- I wouldn’t decline it if I won it 😉

                But the kitchen sink alone would drive me nuts. It would be like living in an Imperial Star Destroyer.

                I see a lot of the Brutalist influence everywhere- even in Hifi. Chord make amazing sounding systems but (aside from pricing) I would never want something that looked like this in my home.

                  • Amps

                    • Post #9996

                    Wasily looks too much like a municipal building, shades of Pharell’s gaf.

                    Who knew he lived in a local college.

                      • Amps

                        • Post #9997
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                        Wasily would rather have the Goldstein place.

                        Lloyd Wright vibes and proves you can have the brutalist look and be vaguely homely.

                            Amps that is lovely amps. We need an architecture thread!

                              Mickey 17 (2025). Some funny bits, and Robert Pattinson with yet another accent. Not especially great, but good times at the movies, and I’m glad we saw it at a movie theater than at home.

                              Edit: A Letterboxd-review called this a feature length Futurama-movie and that is spot on.

                              Rewatched Dune II in IMAX today. First time since release. Not sure I can fault it for anything, besides it probably being a complete waste of time on a TV at home. Easily the best movie to come out in 2024.

                                • C_J

                                  • Post #10001

                                  Knox Goes Away (2023)

                                  This is basically a two hour version of Barry but less funny, and with Michael Keaton and Al Pacino.

                                  I really liked it.

                                  8/10

                                  • gcw

                                    • Post #10003

                                    Sicario (2015)

                                    I enjoyed this. Been done loads of times I guess but still a good view into that world. Fairly grim and shocking at times. Good performances from Blunt, Del Toro and Brolin

                                    8 out of 10

                                      gcw was that the first time you’d watched it?

                                      • gcw replied to this.

                                          Have I seen Sicario?

                                          I haven’t!

                                          • gcw

                                            • Post #10006

                                            Millsy it was yes. One of hundreds of films that always pass me by when released but I eventually get roud to watching years later