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muscles like this! posted:For some reason that link doesn't work any more. Here's an alternate I hope the movie isn't as insufferable as this trailer. I've loved many of Wes Anderson's moves, but this looks terrible.
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Royal Tenenbaums worked for me so well because of how it was intentionally matching the style of those kinds of kid's books. Then it just became his style all the time and while I still like it it's way less fascinating now.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 16:23 |
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Royal Tenenbaums also has easily the best performance Anderson got out of anybody in Gene Hackman
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 16:35 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Royal Tenenbaums also has easily the best performance Anderson got out of anybody in Gene Hackman I parsed that as "the best performance anybody got out of Gene Hackman" and wondered what the hell you'd been smoking.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Royal Tenenbaums also has easily the best performance Anderson got out of anybody in Gene Hackman Which is extra funny, because Hackman had to be talked into the movie. Anderson apparently wrote the part with Hackman in mind, and Hackman loving hates it when people do that, so he turned it down at first. His agent had to convince him that no, really, this is a good movie for you. Jedit posted:I parsed that as "the best performance anybody got out of Gene Hackman" and wondered what the hell you'd been smoking. It's certainly not his best performance, mostly because of what a high bar that is, but he is very good in it.
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Jedit posted:I parsed that as "the best performance anybody got out of Gene Hackman" and wondered what the hell you'd been smoking. nonononono
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 16:41 |
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Wes Anderson is god and that trailer looks incredible.
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confused posted:I hope the movie isn't as insufferable as this trailer. I've loved many of Wes Anderson's moves, but this looks terrible. This is the most wes anderson poo poo that ever wes anderson'd.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 16:47 |
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Ill certainly watch both the Gardner and Asteroid City.
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thrawn527 posted:Which is extra funny, because Hackman had to be talked into the movie. Anderson apparently wrote the part with Hackman in mind, and Hackman loving hates it when people do that, so he turned it down at first. His agent had to convince him that no, really, this is a good movie for you. Interestingly I feel like people are acting less and less in his movies. They are just posed and deliver lines deadpan. Which... is a style... but I feel like most of those people could be swapped out with anybody.
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smug n stuff posted:(bravely) I like Wes Anderson and that movie looks like exactly the slop I want from him. It's the most pale blue and slightly orange beige trailer I've every seen. I'll probably see it.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 17:02 |
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People get too bogged down by Anderson's visual style. He's a great writer who writes great scripts.
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confused posted:I hope the movie isn't as insufferable as this trailer. I've loved many of Wes Anderson's moves, but this looks terrible. It looks so by the numbers Wes Anderson that I just can't hate it. Tom Hanks looks like a great fit
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live with fruit posted:People get too bogged down by Anderson's visual style. He's a great writer who writes great scripts. Correction: he wrote great scripts with Owen Wilson. Since they stopped collaborating the scripts have been merely good
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precision posted:Correction: he wrote great scripts with Owen Wilson. Since they stopped collaborating the scripts have been merely good I don't believe Owen Wilson wrote Moonrise Kingdom or Grand Budapest.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Royal Tenenbaums also has easily the best performance Anderson got out of anybody in Gene Hackman This is extremely true because when I read it I chuckled just thinking of Hackman's performance
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live with fruit posted:People get too bogged down by Anderson's visual style. He's a great writer who writes great scripts. Still won't ever reach a low like Darjeeling Limited tho. Worst film hes ever made. No need to watch that weird clunky corny white people bullshit. Bottle Rocket is better anyway.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:That last one was poo poo mostly because of the writing He's been on a cold streak but French Dispatch still had some interesting things to say about expatriate life. Isle of Dogs was not good though.
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BonoMan posted:Oh don't be so reductive. My point is that it's a story they have already told - themselves! Only this time without even a lick of finesse or subtlety which was always their wheelhouse. That's fair and a clearer point. I lold because I read it as you declaring yourself beyond the themes of a child's story and found that funny.
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live with fruit posted:He's been on a cold streak but French Dispatch still had some interesting things to say about expatriate life. Isle of Dogs was not good though. I can understand people not liking French Dispatch, even Darjeeling or Grand Budapest. But Isle of Dogs is real fuckin good.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 17:27 |
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never saw Isle of Dogs but wasn't it kind of unanimously agreed to be his worst movie and also kind of racist
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 17:30 |
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Still not as racist as Darjeeling. Twee colonialism, eat pray love for mustachioed white guys
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 17:33 |
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Aren’t the three brothers in Darjeeling supposed to be read as scumbags?
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:never saw Isle of Dogs but wasn't it kind of unanimously agreed to be his worst movie and also kind of racist Just gonna copy and paste from Wikipedia. But it seems it's the opposite re: worst - since it's highly rated by everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dogs_(film)#Reception quote:Portrayal of Japanese culture
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 17:41 |
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I will never grow tired of Wes Anderson movies, and will continue to watch them long after you're all dead.
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MacheteZombie posted:I lold because I read it as you declaring yourself beyond the themes of a child's story and found that funny. I will declare myself beyond the themes of a child's story, if BonoMan is too much of a coward to do so. And no, I do not see how this would in any way be contradicted my interest in the new Kamen Rider movie.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 18:08 |
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thrawn527 posted:He gets such stacked casts because actors love doing his movies, I think mostly because they're different. Not different from each other, sure, but different from most other movies out there. I can admit I'm wrong because apparently whatever he's doing is still attracting talent (and on a repeated basis), but as other people have stated before and after this post, he seems to just flatten all of his characters in a way that I feel like would be boring for actors.
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Jewmanji posted:I can admit I'm wrong because apparently whatever he's doing is still attracting talent (and on a repeated basis), but as other people have stated before and after this post, he seems to just flatten all of his characters in a way that I feel like would be boring for actors. Seems like being in an Anderson movie is like taking an acting workshop where you have to do a specific exercise.
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live with fruit posted:Seems like being in an Anderson movie is like taking an acting workshop where you have to do a specific exercise. "Emote, but deadpan. No, more deadpan. I SAID MORE DEADPAN"
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Not one person mentioned his best movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 19:18 |
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Life Aquatic was a poo poo.
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kiimo posted:Not one person mentioned his best movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox Feels like you can draw a line between Anderson's career at Fantastic Mr. Fox. Everything after has felt a lot whackier and frankly better.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 20:03 |
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I thought French Dispatch was interesting especially because it felt unusually politically pointed from Anderson. Not, like, a super political story but I liked the part where ultimately the magazine had no greater purpose than being something to keep the rich failson busy, and as soon as he died the whole thing disappeared. And then each of the sub-stories being about the difference between the story told and what actually happened was also a nice theme to keep everything tied together. I remember unfavourably comparing it to a couple of other movies at the time (Buster Scruggs maybe?) but it's still good enough on its own.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 21:01 |
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Yeah I felt like French Dispatch was a return to form. A dense New Yorker like collection of short stories that usually packed in one keynote emotional scene or situation. Great acting, actors, and background/action. Isle of Dogs was so bad I felt physically grossed out.
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kiimo posted:Not one person mentioned his best movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox A great film about finding yourself into a hole and then continuing to dig.
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Shageletic posted:Yeah I felt like French Dispatch was a return to form. A dense New Yorker like collection of short stories that usually packed in one keynote emotional scene or situation. Great acting, actors, and background/action. I've been meaning to try it. I checked out of Wes Anderson after Grand Budapest. It's not that it was his worst (looking at you, Darjeeling), and I could clearly recognize the craft in making it. It was just the last in a series of "not for me" movies from him, where if I kept watching them and not liking them, it became my fault, not his. But I've heard almost nothing but good things about French Dispatch. I basically like Rushmore and Moonrise Kingdom, and loving love Royal Tenenbaums like it's my job, and dislike to strongly dislike the rest. (Never saw Mr. Fox.) thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Mar 29, 2023 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 21:41 |
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Of all his movies French Dispatch is most similar to Grand Budapest but less coherent, so ymmv.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 21:46 |
Shageletic posted:Of all his movies French Dispatch is most similar to Grand Budapest but less coherent, so ymmv. Hmmm. Thanks for the warning. But I'll probably still try it. I'm still chasing that Tenenbaums high. (I know it won't be that movie, don't worry.)
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Let us know how it goes!
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I thought isle of dogs was aggressively mediocre but French Dispatch is the first movie of his since life aquatic that I watched a second time just like a week after the first time
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