I think it's fine to anticipate Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

but he's good. made me realize it had been forever since i'd sen harv in anything.

he's been underused for the last 12 years. the 90s were so kind to harvey, what happened!

The film's biggest disappointment is not using Keitel, McDormand, Balaban, etc as nothing more than visual cues.

*as anything

i dunno, i thought balaban was perfect. and mcdormand was great in that bathtub scene.

supposedly there's a photo of Owen Wilson (as Miss Cross' dead husband) in Rushmore somewhere. Never spotted it though

The film's biggest disappointment is not using Keitel, McDormand, Balaban, etc as nothing more than visual cues. - this is a problem w/ wes anderson and actors in general, he knows how to use them as dolls but as human beings (post rushmore at least and maybe even then) forget it. when actors have actually made characters more than cartoon figures - bruce willis in this, mcdormand for the bathtub scene, and the big one gene hackman in tenenbaums - it's felt like an accident or, as we know in hackman's case, an actor deliberately ignoring what his director wants. i basically enjoyed this and think wes anderson should maybe focus on making actual kids flicks, children tend to come off as full of shit cartoon characters anyway. will add that watching this a few hours after finally reading that 'can a 9 year old be a psychopatch?' times piece was something, i kept thinking 'these kids are gonna get swept out to sea and we're supposed to think it's sad or tragic but all i'm going to think is 'thank god'.' still enjoyed it though - find myself way way way more willing to tolerate wes anderson (or woody allen) frothy mediocrities if they come out at a time of year where my other option is something like ted.

there is something family guy-esque about moonrise kingdom...

also: young kids do what you tell them to do. I don't know what the hell attracted Keitel to this script ("You'll wear a Sam Elliott mustache!").

wtf at Shakey bashing Willis upthread. Willis has always been particularly good acting with kids.

Keitel got paid and got a Wes Anderson movie on his resume--that's all you need to know.

how is that a plus

free scarves for life

Rachel McAdams abasing herself for Woody Allen I understand

supporting actresses in Woody films get Oscars or Oscar noms -- she had nothing to lose.

Wes Anderson>straight to dvd/tv movies/commercials Keitel usually does these days.

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speaking of which, i see woody has reeled in ellen paige for his next one

also: young kids do what you tell them to do.
lol what

i wouldn't have wanted to see any more or any less of Keitel in this

I've already seen ALL of Keitel several times (Bruce Willis too, unfortunately)

i would've liked to have seen less of the stupid rescue scene

shakey i know you did not just trash color of the night

i like wes anderson's thing for casting men who are atypically good-looking and often kind of beaten-up or busted-nosed or sagging-faced. save for luke wilson, of course...

Bruce Willis gets naked in like 3/4s of the movies he appears in!

also I am allowed to hate him! he makes movies worse!

sheesh

no he doesn't!

you like die hard, though, right, shakey?

lol what

lol I knew this would raise eyebrows. I'm just saying that even Truffaut would agree that the worst six-year-old tantrum is less onerous than a sixty-year-old star's.

I have never seen the entirety of Die Hard and have no plans to. don't even bother.

ha I love you Shakey

Willis has been at least terrific or better in Mortal Thoughts, Pulp Fiction, Nobody's Fool, and The Sixth Sense.

pretty good on miami vice also. best performance in moonrise kingdom also w/ possible exception of the girl (though who can tell w/ kids).

shakey have you seen die hard 3: die hard w/ a vengeance. pretty pretty good, esp if you like puzzles. graham greene is in it. not THAT graham greene though.

Willis will either win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar or one for a shitty film in which he befriends a young punk-ass who wants to fight German terrorists in skyscrapers while in his bare feet.

I have seen Die Hard 3. I saw it in the theater with a friend who was trying to convince me that Willis was "the American Chow Yun Fat"

some highlights of Bruce's finest moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aTqBL62Yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXkd2NyCCE

I could make fun of you singing in the shower too

maybe but you couldn't make fun of me for attending the '92 GOP convention

wow shakey you hate robert mitchum or telly savalas also?

are you seriously dismissing an actor for being an ass in his personal life?

Mitchum is great in at least several great films, spanning several decades and styles (Night of the Hunter, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, and Dead Man, off the top of my head). Telly I have no real opinion on. he reminded people to love him, or something, iirc...?

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i kept thinking 'these kids are gonna get swept out to sea and we're supposed to think it's sad or tragic but all i'm going to think is 'thank god'.'

doop doop doo taking this out of context later

is that a Steely Dan lyric

Willis' personal life is just the shitty icing on a shitty cake imho.

Pulp Fiction is Tarantino's worst movie, can't stand Willis in it apart from a couple minutes (his scenes with his wife are unbearable). 12 Monkeys is okay, he's the worst thing in it, mystified as to what Gilliam saw in him. 5th Element I have some issues with but again Willis is the most irritating thing in it, (mostly because he is not a setpiece designed by Moebius lol). I can't think of any other movies I even like that he is in for any appreciable amount of time.

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find it hard to believe any grown man could not have an opinion on telly savalas

I remember enjoying Moonlighting at the time. otoh I was like 11 and haven't seen it since.

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lol willis most irritating thing in it? did you turn it off before chris tucker popped up or before gary oldman spoke or before tricky 'acted' or before love Love LOVE was the fifth element?

strongly suspect allyce beasley is best thing in moonlighting (maybe booger?). plus pretty hard to hate bruce willis when hate magnet cybill shepard is right. there.

Savalas has been dead for almost 20 years, I imagine there are a fair amount of grown men who have no idea who he even is. I think the only thing I may have seen him in is the Dirty Dozen...? which I probably slept most of the way through.

re: 5th Element - some of those things are bad, but at least they are bad in a way that is very much in the spirit of the source material (ie Metal Hurlant). I don't really like that movie much tbh. I enjoy it more when it's just on in the background and I don't have to make any effort to follow it or listen to it

I gasped when I saw Keitel. I had no idea he was in this until that moment. More Keitel would have been welcome obv but the person I was left really wanting more of was Schwartzman.

I do remember that my favorite episode of the Moonlighting was the one where Beazley and Booger take on a case by themselves (I don't think Willis/Shepard even appear?)

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