Now this is how you do a teaser trailer.

For a movie that a number of critics are comparing to The Godfather, There Will Be Blood, and Oppenheimer in terms best-of-the-century American epics.

With Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce apparently locks for Oscar nominations.

Currently at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, The Brutalist hits theaters on December 20th and I cannot wait...

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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsebet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, Laszlo settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost...

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The Brutalist
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8999762/
December 20, 2024
Theatrical Exclusive

I'm being deadly serious when I say we need to find a way to award trailer editors because I had almost no interest in seeing this film before and now it's maybe my most anticipated movie of the year. https://t.co/zOVTN58VQE

— ayan. (@artan_ayan) October 22, 2024

Sometimes you begin to lose faith that we’ll ever get a certain kind of film again, and then something like “Oppenheimer” or “The Brutalist” comes along, and it fills you with enough relief to still hope for the next. https://t.co/0pY4GaLo4o

— Robert Daniels (@812filmreviews) October 22, 2024

I’m probably going to force myself to watch The Brutalist trailer a million more times just to hear Daniel Blumberg’s masterful score again. https://t.co/3VbFkHRHP2

— Giovanni Lago (@TheGiovanniLago) October 22, 2024

i know it sounds hyperbolic but this is the film of the year maybe the decade. brady corbet delivers another american masterpiece but this time on an epic level 🩷

he explores the poison of the “american dream” within a haunting tale of an artist’s curse. https://t.co/3eqP187Ltf

— kenzie xcx 🐦‍⬛ (@kenzvanunu) October 22, 2024

At the risk of sounding dramatic, I’d forgotten that trailers could be like this. https://t.co/8PK5SytquI

— Joe Reid (@joereid) October 22, 2024

While watching all 3 1/2 hours of this, I was like “marketing this is going to be impossible” and, well, they nailed it https://t.co/eknliuPgNo

— Justin LaLiberty (@jlalibs) October 22, 2024

the academy needs to add a graphic design category pic.twitter.com/9s8I3ipAK5

— patrick. (@imPatrickT) October 22, 2024

- The cinematography
- The awesome graphic design and the way it's superimposed over the imagery
- The way the imagery + the graphic design all slowly scrolls from right to left
- The sound design
- The incredible score

... the second and third bullet points being things I've literally never seen in a trailer before. If you don't recognize the uniqueness of those elements, and how this looks/feels different than just about every teaser trailer ever, I don't know what else to you.

This?

You think these two trailers are similar?

My point was that graphics superimposed over the trailer is hardly unique. A bunch of the Alien trailers did it pretty famously before.

It's a cool enough trailer.

Not combined with the scrolling element, which is the key aspect that sets it apart. Along with just about everything else that's a massive step up in quality. But whatever.

Dr. Not Yet Dr. Ag said:

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I agree with TCCTS. This trailer is a breath of fresh air, and beautifully crafted and certainly not something I've seen before.

As for the movie subject, I hope they cover when he decides to design A&M's campus.

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Outstanding….

Hadn't really even heard of this, and now I can't wait for it to get here!

Or… they can also be genuine expressions of excitement for/love of great movies, which some here simply may not share/relate to, and that's totally fine. Yes, a number of reactions feel over-the-top at times, but chalking them all up to hyperbole and one-up-manship is just as reductive. Personally, I watch that teaser and get more excited than I am for most blockbusters. I've watched it at least a dozen times in the past 24 hours, due to something it sparks inside me. I then choose to express that excitement on a message board, while those guys choose to express their excitement on Twitter. It's not all performative and attention-grabbing. Some of us really are genuinely moved by this stuff.

And that's completely understandable. I share not to shame, just to make people aware of its existence and the buzz it's receiving from a certain sect of film-goers.

Finally, a full trailer, and good gosh this looks incredible...

Just secured one of four early IMAX tickets left for next Wednesday night. That said, it looks like it's expanding to additional IMAX theaters in the weeks to come, where/when it can be squeezed in around Mufasa. All in addition to what sounds like a platform release in standard theaters (i.e. a gradual, limited to wide release) beginning next Thursday/Friday...

Be the first to experience Brady Corbet's new American masterpiece THE BRUTALIST. Early access screenings start December 18 at NY & LA @IMAX locations.  Nationwide release to follow. https://t.co/8h1kvtyXH9 pic.twitter.com/99tghVMHBq

— A24 (@A24) December 11, 2024

It's not just "Film Twitter," though. After 77 reviews, it's currently at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sure, there will be detractors, but movies with scores this high are rarely just hype.

This looks great - can't wait to see it.

How many of the Twitter reviewers, "were left shaking", after watching the movie?

In the past 15 years I've read the "shaking" thing once, maybe twice ever. I swear, this board's opinions of critic reactions have become more exaggerated than the claims of the reactions themselves.

Was it in the Civil War review tweets? Because that is what I was referring to as the most recent example and I don't really pay attention to this stuff.

Possibly? That sounds right. I don't completely remember, though.

When I first heard about this movie I thought it sounded super boring and I get the annoying over-the-top critic gushing tropes that some have mentioned. A friend wouldn't shut up about how great it was going to be despite having never seen anything, and just going off of twitter and critics rumblings...

But after finally watching the trailers today, I think it looks incredible. Really does look like a true epic that we haven't seen since There Will Be Blood.

And I'm with TC that the teaser trailer was fantastic.

Looking in DFW, am I correct in seeing that the Lion King CGI movie is getting all the IMAX screens instead of The Brutalist on opening weekend? Does that make it unlikely that this will get many, if any, IMAX showings?

Why did they name the character after a guy famous for vandalizing Michelangelo's Pieta?

This coming Wednesday will be the first and last IMAX showings of the year, playing only in NY and LA. It's just a one-night, two-city thing. Then, starting the next day with Mufasa, yeah, it looks like Disney will have their traditional holiday monopoly on all IMAX screens for probably the next couple weeks or so after that. (Seriously, Disney doesn't allow any other movies to show in IMAX during certain runs, to the point where theaters won't receive the movie from Disney at all if they don't comply.) After that, however, according to the Variety announcement, The Brutalist "will then expand to IMAX screens across the U.S. throughout January." I image Mufasa will still take up a decent amount of IMAX screens at that point, but it sounds like The Brutalist will increasingly push its way onto as many IMAX screen as it can get, week by week, likely starting the first or second weekend of January.

GoAgs92 said:

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Looks Boring AF.

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Beat me to it. Guaranteed "Best Picture" winner.