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I need to say that I saw this in theaters projected on film but forgot to log it, but it was one of the best theater experiences of my life. Also I gotta mention that I bought it on blu ray because I thought it was that good.

I’m learning that my favorite genre is 3+ hour movies that dissect and criticize what American history and the American dream actually was, and more specifically, what kinds of people benefited from it. It’s a teensy tiny group of movies, but somehow every one that’s gets made is perfect: There Will Be Blood, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Right Stuff, Killers of the Flower Moon.

By some miracle from god The Brutalist was able to get written, shot, edited, and released just to sit right up there with the some of the greatest.

Yeah this is the best translation of love shown on film and it’s not even close

I need another Kafka story like this but set it in an Ikea

I’m mad at marvel for making me actually excited to see their next movie

Saw this in the imax on I-drive. Felt like Adam Sandler in uncut gems saying “holy shit I’m gonna cum” every time I saw that aspect ratio change

The 5 minute one take of Lee going through the process of injecting heroin is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve seen.

This is gonna be in my top 4 until I rewatch Drive my Car and cry at the dinner scene again.

Best surrealist since Dali but minus the fascism

Watched this cause I don’t have HBO. Cannot wait to see the second wave of discourse around the story, especially cause I was there for the first round when the game was released and I was a massive defender of it.

Writing a video essay about Orson Welles. Watching this to confirm the fact that he's one of the best to ever do it.

Looking at my phone screen of tinder matches like its a puddle of dirty water reflecting my face. I gotta delete this shit

Lemme tell you that the best movie to watch after celebrating an Irish holiday is from a German director filming a tragedy in Kuwait

Maybe the last movie I’ll ever see in my life to make me proud to be an American

Watching this on my tiny vcr while I play cruelty squad as I pop my bronchitis pills like they’re molly

Hearing the line There were brave men on both sides come from a governors mouth about the civil war sent a chill down my spine. It’s always been the same narrative.

Crazy that my mom who never watches documentaries ate this shit up. Never seen the 60's through a better lens

Great movie to watch with the parents, pink flamingos is next

I’m glad I choose to watch this when I was overthinking about school cause now Blue Velvet is the only thing I’m gonna be thinking of for the next 72 hours

Pregaming the Super Bowl with a John Waters movie

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

If I saw this on a bad day you would catch me sobbing to Lil Petey dragging his 'free kitty' box around.

I needed to cleanse my palette after watching Wolf Man and remind myself that Leigh Whannell is an actually good director

Leigh what happened

Spending a Saturday night in Nashville watching the Bee movie and playing scrabble

I watched this while on too many melatonin gummies and I feel like that was the filmmakers intention

I really think there will never be any set design that compares to this movie. Take all the best visual parts of plays and films and paintings, blend them into one form, and build it all on a studio lot to create one of the most influential visions in film history.  No wonder this is one of Guillermo Del Toros favorite films.

I thought she’d be lonely here. But I figured I could listen to her like 100 people.

Okay I’ll just throw myself off a bridge

Just know that I watched this on a used dvd so I’m not giving Mel Gibson any of that streaming money

If you don’t love this movie I don’t love you

First I want to say that I LOVE Robert Eggers, I'll be watching every movie that man produces opening night for the next 50 years, but now I feel like hes pulling back a little bit. For a film where one of the main themes is about the central character's repressed sexual desires, They go a bit too light on the freak levels of this.

There are definitely a few queasy shots in the film that push this theme through, but for the main antagonist of this movie, one who represents the shame and guilt for all of these sexual thoughts from the time this was originally written, It never felt like a theme that hung around in the story, aside from a few scenes in the last act where it was fully shown.

But this is only a nitpick for a great movie, one that smothers anyone who watches it in its deep dark mood, especially during the castle segment in the first act.

And at the same time, I feel like the freakiest part about my rewatch was the fact that I chose to do so at 10:30 AM because I had literally nothing else to do

One of the best performances of the 2020s and it’s not even close

Looking at that final shot and thinking “Me and Who? 😩”

Tri monthly rewatch of the movie I got tattooed on my body just to make sure I still love it

Throw me on a secluded desert island with a TV and a dvd copy of throw down and that would keep me satisfied for the rest of my very short life

You could kill me now and still see my soul sobbing as it leaves my body.

A footstomping subplot that isn’t even sexual, Dexter just did it for the love of the game

Feeling all the film twitter discourse melt away as I watch my little cousin laugh at The Rock and Krampus having a slap off

Like an old man ing away, scrambling to try and find a final memory. Brain rotted from years of drug abuse forcing him to fill those gaps with raw emotion instead of credible moments. Then, in those final moments, he stumbles upon this one last memory. The time he was in Mexico along with a young man he loved long ago, and how that love utterly consumed him.

I don’t fucking know, even with all the fucking.

I recommended this movie to so many people in high school, I have no clue how I didn’t lose all my friends.

My dad hated gladiator 2 so much that he made us watch the first one just so we know how much better it was

And I gotta be honest…

he’s right

People are talking about Paul Mescal not looking authentic enough as if Denzel Washington isn’t sitting there looking like he time traveled from the set of Training Day just to treat Ancient Rome like modern LA

It took two years for me to feel like I was emotionally able to watch this movie again but I still feel like I should have waited more.

“No emotions now, I really wanna be calm”

I don't think there has, or ever will be another line in film that will make me sob as much as this one

The man who chose to cut 40 minutes out of this should have been shot dead in the street

I’ve seen films about loneliness, but rarely any that dive this deep into the fear that keeps people living like that. 

What affects me the most is how bold and experimental this film is while being based on something written over a century ago. How Bonello is able to connect the emotional dots of two people separated by decades in time is nothing less than impossible, for whatever our generation defines it to be.

Our culture of isolation is nothing new, but the way we communicate and act upon it is. Just because something is shared doesn’t mean that it is dealt with.

This just proves that the high school drama blueprint can apply to any situation

Johnnie To is the Speilberg of Hong Kong and I will die on that hill

Watched on Thursday November 7, 2024.

I could watch 10 more hours of Jennifer Jason Leigh being a hot shot reporter who needs to get to the bottom of things

If god gave me just one percent of this man’s contentment I could survive the next dozen years without a negative thought

Driving to my next interview blasting the Godzilla theme

Any movie close to the 3 hour mark

• The Brutalist
• There Will Be Blood
• The Right Stuff
• Oppenheimer
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Godfather
• Babylon

• Drive My Car
• State of Siege
• The New World
• Flowers of Shanghai
• High and Low
• World on a Wire
• Black God, White Devil
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Thief
• Kwaidan

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• You Were Never Really Here
• Stalker
• Jacob's Ladder
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• The Lost City of Z

Stuff that built my film taste

• Signs
• The Master
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Logan Lucky
• Get Out
• The Shape of Water
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco

• Inferno
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• The Other Side of the Wind
• BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
• Mad God

• Crimes of the Future
• Minions: The Rise of Gru
• The Northman
• X
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Batman
• Jackass Forever
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Nightmare Alley
• The Black Phone

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.