Rate The Last Movie you Watched
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.
I’m happy that the film, The Brutalist, may completely debunk everything I have just written 
That was a good read, Amps. Ha
Amps This went on sale recently in LA for a rather large sum and it’s one of the most horrific things I’ve seen.
Wasily Looks fantastic that. It’s a funny old world isn’t it?
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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.
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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.
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
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
Have I seen Sicario?
I haven’t!
