Queue Tips: The brutal list.

I was watching "The Brutalist", and yeah, it was pretty brutal.  It's an over three hour long movie about an architect.  Not only that, but one who practiced with the least style and design.  It would be like watching paint dry, except brutalist architecture often don't even use paint.  As far as I know.  So watching paint dry would probably be more entertaining.

I liked Adrien Brody in "The Darjeeling Limited".  You should check that out if you haven't seen in.  I liked Guy Pearce in "Memento" and "L.A. Confidential".  You should check those out if you haven't seen them.  I liked Isaac de Bankole in "The Limits of Control" and "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai".  You should check those out if you haven't seen them.  Or even if you've seen them already.  Actually, I usually watch the latter every autumn, but I haven't done so this year.  I probably will view it again soon.  It was filmed in Jersey City.  But I digress.

Anyways, apparently this was a critically acclaimed film.  The director also made "The Childhood of a Leader" and "Vox Lux", two films I couldn't get into either.  What am I missing here?  Maybe I'm just not that sophisticated.  In any case, these three films all are in my brutal list.

Also, the director, Brady Corbet, was an actor in two of my favorite films, "Mysterious Skin" and "Funny Games".  That's cool.  You would think he would learn some things from Gregg Araki and Michael Haneke.  If he did, I don't see it.  

Also, apparently, he was in an episode of "King of Queens" many years ago playing the role of a little brother.  That was during his childhood, of course.  And then later on, he grew up to be a leader of a film crew.  

It's perplexing to me that this film seemed to have made funny and was a critical acclaim.  Maybe I'm just out of touch now.  Maybe I just don't have enough attention span.  Maybe it's just too deep for me that I don't get it.

In any case, it's November and I'm getting ready to be watching Thanksgiving movies soon.  One of those is "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".  To paraphrase Neal Page, when you're telling these little stories, have a point.