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

i like how he made them spit out their gum

this movie actually made edward norton likeable!

there was the perfect amount of schwartzman in this one.

now see Schwartzman I will watch in pretty much anything. love that dude.

movie maybe could have used tilda swinton a bit more? although her character was basically a gag.

i saw this and i liked it but something about it has really buried itself in my mind and i'm growing to like it more and more. the interactions between sam and suzy initially struck me as a bit off, but then really it makes perfect sense that these two slightly (or more than slightly) precocious and awkward children would build something through letters that would take a while to realise in real life. and... i dunno, even though it seems quite simple i feel like my thoughts on it are still germinating.

and ya i don't really agree with the underused thing wrt anyone, even beyond it being a big-name ensemble cast i think they're more all a supporting cast to the two kids.

this movie actually made edward norton likeable!
otm. seems like he took the owen wilson role of the film and made it his own

this was pretty good!

-loved how willis couldn't even change his accent if he tried really very hard

-this movie confirms that wes anderson is just max fischer directing the war movie at the end of rushmore. the bits of unreality, like the motorcycle all of a sudden in the tree, or the three of them hanging off the burnt church tower in a silhouette. the giant walkie talkies.
-suzy = margot from tenenbaums, wes has a thing for moody women who wear makeup that make their eyes look sunken (also loved how asymmetrical her face was & how that clashes with his framing)
-merdeyeux otm about the initial awkwardness between sam and suzy, it's how I imagine most people interact in their first meeting irl after carrying on an internet dating relationship
-maybe it's just cause FMF was the last wes I watched, but wes seems to shoot all his scenes perpindicular to the scene, facing it straight on - all his dolly work is straight horizontal, no slanted angles, feels kind of video-gamey. love the use of frequent cuts to convey action rather than elaborate panning and zooming. this is again why this film made me think of max in rushmore - feels like we're watching a stage play. also, noye's fludde etc. - plays within plays - hamlet's players - yadda yadda
-there was a lot of humor in this but the people at my theater were not laughing and that dampened my own laughter : (

movie maybe could have used tilda swinton a bit more? although her character was basically a gag.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 10:02 AM (6 hours ago)

yeah, i would have loved to see more of swinton as she's one of my favorite living actors, but the character would have had to be a good deal more developed to justify it. social services is a cartoon as written, and it's not like "ice queen" is new look for TS (the limits of control, narnia flicks).

She played the White Witch again.

yup

owen wilson was in this! wasn't he? i thought he was swinton's pilot.

Nope, this is the first Anderson with no Owen at all.

w/o bothering to check i think the other wilson bro was the pilot

i saw both darjeeling limited and moonrise at my local indie theater, both times drawing big crowds heavy on seniors, and both times the audience laughed appreciatively at, like, all the jokes. is this a thing? or is it just my own circumstantial experiences.

no, the old ones like to laugh

ime seniors love going to movies, can't understand why an adult would go see a movie about a spiderman, etc, leaving this as one of few options left. plus: racist? anyhow first time i saw rushmore we drove to atlanta when it was still limited release, crowd were all bottle rocket fans, huge huge laughs. when it opened wide in athens a few weeks later (big ad blitz also - i think it was an mtv film also?) crowd were not on that wavelength, crickets except for when max gets walloped wrestling (my friend and i were still dying laughing throughout, rushmore's a classic). w/ this crowd (old people, young people who dress like old people) were super generous, laughing at any and everything.

having checked that is not the other wilson bro as the pilot.

yeah there were tons of seniors at my showing. they didn't laugh at the right jokes.

i remember when i saw deconstructing harry there was a group of old ladies that were the only other ppl in the theater. 15 minutes in they bailed. i can remember catching a matinee of 40 year old virgin w/ a friend and there was a group of old ppl there and we thought 'i think they have the wrong idea about this film'. pakistani guy starts going on about butthole pleasures and theater clears out like someone yelled 'fire'.

My crowd on Sat morning was mostly seniors and they applauded when the end credits rolled.

I can see why this film would be a big hit with the seniors. look at these young people being so young! the old people proably went and danced a slow jig afterwards.

new demographic for wes anderson?

dudes, old people invented hazy nostalgia

also, it's set in 1965. that's their time!

if you were 18 then, you'd be 65 now

there's probably a site that screen captures all of andreson's tableaux's and interior decorator arrangements and exhaustively lists what each element in it is. right? some weirdo repugnant-to-whiney saddoe has already done it off a boot of moonrise kingdom, yeah?

norton was relaly good in this btw, pulled of the overgrown man-child vibe perfectly

Saw this today, enjoyed it pretty much start-to-finish, laughed a few times, admired Willis and Norton, thought all the kids were good and the two leads especially. Otoh, I didn't really ever feel like anything much was at stake, for the characters or for Anderson -- it felt like safe territory all the way around, storm and lightning strikes notwithstanding. But that's OK. I like the careful design of his fantasy worlds, the devotion and meticulousness are rewarding in themselves. (In a way he reminds me of Mark Hogancamp, each movie its own Marwencol.) Past a point it's not worth getting frustrated with him for not breaking out of his own head, because that's where he lives.

Also, yeah, Jason Schwartzman as a Boy Scout Milo Minderbinder was pretty sweet.

Saw this today, enjoyed it pretty much start-to-finish, laughed a few times, admired Willis and Norton, thought all the kids were good and the two leads especially. Otoh, I didn't really ever feel like anything much was at stake, for the characters or for Anderson -- it felt like safe territory all the way around, storm and lightning strikes notwithstanding. But that's OK. I like the careful design of his fantasy worlds, the devotion and meticulousness are rewarding in themselves. (In a way he reminds me of Mark Hogancamp, each movie its own Marwencol.) Past a point it's not worth getting frustrated with him for not breaking out of his own head, because that's where he lives.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, July 4, 2012 5:11 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

marwencol's an interesting comparison! i was taking to my friend about this and we decided rigidity/stuffiness is what turns us off about WA - i dont think its revealingly stuffy a la ozu, its just like comfort-zone stuffy and he doesn't want to go outside of that. i think it would be less vexing if his first couple of films didnt feel a little more grounded or whatever

there's probably a site that screen captures all of andreson's tableaux's and interior decorator arrangements and exhaustively lists what each element in it is. right? some weirdo repugnant-to-whiney saddoe has already done it off a boot of moonrise kingdom, yeah?

― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Wednesday, July 4, 2012 1:14 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would bookmark such a site.

and yeah norton was pitch-perfect in this.

ETSY SEARCH OF THE DAY ---> http://www.etsy.com/search/vintage?q=moonrise%20kingdom

wow

omg the cat coin purse

gets much worse (better?) when you switch from "vintage" to "handmade" http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=moonrise%20kingdom

I enjoyed this but I feel like I'm still digesting it and there seemed to be a lack of urgency compared to the large cast and busy subplots.

There should be Wes Anderson Lego kits.

i really liked this. felt like it crystallized a lot of the stuff he's been playing with for his last several films, that sense of people who don't fit in to the structures to which they belong trying to create their own worlds often with a suffocating sense of order. and its a little easier to deal with the kiddie sense of love and life when its... actual kids. willis and ed norton really kill it, everyone else doesnt have much to work with it i guess, schwartzman steals his scenes

'actual kids' otm, this was like the missing piece of the puzzle for me with WA

There should be Wes Anderson Lego kits.

Or playmobil...

more like moonlighting kingdom

^ my official opinion

more like the the lost boy scout

hahaha

this was pretty good, although upon initial viewing I didn't like it as much as the last either Mr. Fox or Darjeeling. Willis didn't bother me at all, enjoyed pretty much all the cast really, but it seems odd to praise anyone's acting in this film when basically every actor delivers their lines in the same identically stilted monotone - they're more like dolls than actors.

that being said, Schwartzmann was predictably my favorite

My complaint about most Anderson movies, which is why the puppet foxes were awesome.

this was pretty good, although upon initial viewing I didn't like it as much as the last either Mr. Fox or Darjeeling. Willis didn't bother me at all, enjoyed pretty much all the cast really, but it seems odd to praise anyone's acting in this film when basically every actor delivers their lines in the same identically stilted monotone - they're more like dolls than actors.

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:31 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that being said, Schwartzmann was predictably my favorite

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:32 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree with both of these.

i should get around to expressing my thoughts about this movie, but despite liking some of the "stuff" fuck did it leave me cold