i think life aquatic is his only truly loathesome, worthless movie - darjeeling was actually better than i expected, but still nothing i think back on fondly
totally.
the other highlight is of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKTkcq_xh4
― caek, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not a big Anderson fan, Life Aquatic is the only one I really like! I want to be part of Steve Zissou's crew and swim with luminous stop motion fishes.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I swore off this guy forever since seeing Darjeeling Unlimited...for some reason the idea that one character would lose a shoe and spent the rest of the movie with just one shoe on is just the ultimate Wes Anderson in-a-nutshell moment in a movie full of insufferable moments
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
have you ever been shoe shopping in India
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I think a part of the aesthetic of Life Aquatic (and lots of Wes stuff) is loathsomeness - hence Bill Murray's being the bastard father. Another part of the movie is shit luck. All the sadness is half of what makes that movie really good imo. Hence the initial opera hall scene where Murray basically receives no applause and his commitment to something as personal as revenge is also met with deft ears. It's all this stuff that makes the movie great. No one cares that he is finally using his heart - he keeps on truckin' and wearing his heart in the face of shit luck, and eventually he might get a little bit of recognition for it but recognition doesn't even matter at all by the end of the movie.
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ug, I didn't edit that for spelling/clarity.
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean it's just a stupid thing to write into a movie; like I swear this is all leading up to the ultimate Wes Anderson movie where the main character wears a bear hat and carries around chopsticks and starts every conversation with a line from a chorus of a song from whichever Hollies album cover art matches the shirt of the person hes talking to, with the climatic final scene being him trying to hail a cab in slow motion while The Jam plays "English Rose"; the taxi driver is Bill Murray with a lion hat, who just looks at him and shakes his head while passing him by; then he is approached by a little Mexican kid selling Chiclets and handcrafted wooden turtles; the chopsticks fall slowly to the ground...end of movie
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but you need a main character to die for some climatic effect
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds great! pitch it to the Weinsteins
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Mark Mothersbaugh's chamber orchestra bits in these films are the real star.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Trailer for Moonrise Kingdom is out
Of all the Wes Anderson movies in the world, this one might be the most Wes Andersonish.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't start a separate thread for this as I'm kinda "enh" on this.
There must be some mistake. There are no Kinks or David Bowie songs in the trailer. Obviously, this is the work of an imposter.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
random wes anderson movie generator
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Looks good to me!
― schwantz, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
In a statement, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced that "Wes Anderson is one of the rising powers of American cinema, to which he brings a highly personal touch, particularly in 'Moonrise Kingdom,' which once again is a testimony to the creative freedom in which he continues to evolve. Sensitive and independent, this admirer of Fellini and Renoir is also in his own right a brilliant and inventive filmmaker."
― buzza, Monday, 12 March 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
he is tbh
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 12 March 2012 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
uber-fan Richard Brody weighs in on Wes' recent commercials
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 12 March 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
i wish he would do a spy movie or a heist movie or hard sci fi or something
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 12 March 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol hard sci fi
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 12 March 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
i can see a wes anderson spy movie tbh
― Lamp, Monday, 12 March 2012 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
Rushmore is still underrated by some. Beautiful, touching, inspired comedic filmmaking.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's his only film that I really love.
― kate78, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
I can't see that he'll ever top it, the writing partnership with Owen Wilson was never better - I still really like all of his films to various degrees, but there's something completely indelible about Rushmore. Truest characters in his career helps.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
touched to find this thread wasn't trolled to death tbh
― thomp, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it isn't too late.
― turtwig greenturty (Matt P), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
i rewatched 'the royal tennenbaums' at a midnight screening this summer and it was so so so so *barfs*
― turtwig greenturty (Matt P), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
wd not have guessed there was a ref to Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller in Rushmore. (per dvd commentary)
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
only thing I remember from that commentary was them pointing out the Barry Lyndon reference which I never would have got.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Murray even points out the Lyndon thing in his Charlie Rose interview on the disc.
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe that's where I remember that from.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
what Barry Lyndon ref
― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I didnt hear that, just 10 mins of commentary.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Only two I'd rank:
Fantastic Mr FoxRushmore
the rest reek in some way
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
no, the rest are good in some way, still havent seen MK goddammit
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
The shot of Olivia Williams walking up to Bill Murray during the vietnam play intermission is lifted straight from BL xposts
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Another lift (and all I remember from checking out the commentary once nearly 9 years ago): The scene were Max is on the payphone and the school cop hangs up for him was taken from Wiseman's High School.
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 August 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Murray, Angela Lansbury join next cast
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/bill-murray-and-angela-lansbury-join-cast-of-the-grand-budapest-hotel/9683
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X/
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OnsXlxYiH6c
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
errrr make that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnsXlxYiH6c
tenenbaums ftw. i also love the life aquatic. for the longest time i would say that anderson was my favorite filmmaker and something about his Romanticism -- the fact that most of his films concern, in one way or another, the conflict between the individual's idiosyncratic vision of reality and reality itself, the sort of classic quixotic conflict that is a source of both tragedy and comedy -- still speaks to me a great deal.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Good Godfather II joke in that clip above.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
if i housesat for wes anderson i would barf somewhere secret
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
tenenbaums is really the only one i'm inclined to want to see again nowadays. i haven't seen the recent ones (fox, moonrise, etc.). rushmore didn't hold up, imo. life aquatic did nothing for me. darjeeling has some wonderful parts but doesn't ultimately deliver, though it seems like a more modest film than some of the others so i appreciate it more.
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
see fox
― Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
possibly his best imho
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
love love love 'fantastic mr fox' and still really like 'rushmore.' liked 'tenenbaums' at the time but in retrospect it feels like the point where anderson started making films that were basically collages of his favorite things (salinger, 'eloise,' etc etc).
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
FMF sucks cause fox is slick instead of smart. it is beautifully made, though. i liked the wolf.
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
FMF is slipping into the 'now overrated' category for me
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link