there's definitely some things to like about this movie. it's not great, but its probably his least-bad since tenenbaums
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
That's me in the first pic in the location where the movie was filmed
― baking (soda), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck, I can't remember if there was a montage in this or not!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
correspondence montage
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
its probably his least-bad since tenenbaums
f u
Nothin wrong w/ this at all, prob his 3rd-best behind Rushmore and Fox.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 September 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
didn't even notice he was sneaking daddy issues in w/ Bruce Willis til he got there.
Pre-teen got dragged out of theater by parent after the breast fondle, shrilly asking "Did it get INAPPROPRIATE?!"
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 September 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaha
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 1 October 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
parent prob just worried about Francoise Hardy exposure
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 October 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
"She's singing in French! Who knows what filth is in there!"
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 October 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
This was great, good story, good characters, good film-making. Excessively twee and stylized in some places, but it's full of Zeitgeisty signifiers that you sort of always felt like Anderson should do, and he does them well. I like the long zoom he uses in lots of places. Feels very French New Wave when it's not being Wes Anderson Wave.
Also, I loved loved that ridic play they meet at, with Noah and the psychedelic Ark.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty much all of the actors are good in this imho.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
I loved loved that ridic play they meet at, with Noah and the psychedelic Ark.
that would be a benjamin britten opera
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
The two leads gave very effective and dynamic performances. Maybe people describe the acting as monotone because usually child actors are the opposite of subtle. I thought it was a realistic portrayal of depression/angst that was deep yet not overly cynical or self-obsessed.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
the Britten sequence (as noted earlier in this thread) is heavily inspired by John Duigan's Flirting
― Number None, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
which seems to be Anderson's Urtext
― Number None, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm real glad Hank Williams is making a comeback (again) btw.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hank was a lot more palatable than the usual 60s pop
― Number None, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Hold on wait, I enjoyed this film a lot. Are you all recommending I should watch Flirting? Is it like an australian MK?
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Saturday, 6 October 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
No, but you should see it anyway.
― Alba, Saturday, 6 October 2012 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
A rare instance where a Morbs movie proclamation gets an unqualified OTM from me.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 October 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
I congratulated myself for recognizing the Chief Joseph quote the boy cries before getting lightninged, tho that's mainly due to this TV movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073138/
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 October 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Delightful, one of the two Anderson pics that has really resonated with me (the other is Life Aquatic, controversially).
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 12 October 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
get him everyone!
― Number None, Friday, 12 October 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 12 October 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Are you all recommending I should watch Flirting? Is it like an australian MK?
I watched this recently based on the references in this thread and it is great, you should see it. It bears only a tangential relation to MK, but Anderson has clearly borrowed from Flirting throughout his career.
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
good time to watch this movie.
― s.clover, Monday, 29 October 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
I was a bit underwhelmed by this movie. It mostly looked pretty good. I just wish Anderson took as much interest in characters and stories as he does in set design and art direction. There were a couple of good visual gags (the tree house) and a few good lines (the bathtub scene: "You're just trying to hurt me" "Exactly"), but a lot of this was a slog for me. Anderson doesn't seem very interested in nature, except as a place to get away from other people, so I'm not sure this premise was a good fit for him. I agree with the comment upthread that the action scenes were really stiff. This also OTM, though I thought Schwartzman wasn't given much to work with:
Schwartzman also given the most classic Anderson schtick in the whole film - that assured importance in delivering protocol despite the circumstances not warranting such a serious approach.
The whole Khaki Scouts thing was like a boyhood fantasy of military pomp and pageantry. Anderson seems like an old-school Anglophile - the fascination with elaborate social codes and decorum. In addition to touchstones already mentioned (Peanuts, Pierrot Le Fou) I also saw elements of "Swiss Family Robinson", "A Christmas Story", and "James and the Giant Peach".
― o. nate, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
couldn't finish it. I'm impressed he's committed to his dioramas of white aristocracy thing even after Steely Dan tried to stage an intervention, but when he started taking the girl's clothes off and then bob balaban showed up to talk about the chocktaw that was more than enough of the pathology for me
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
honestly surprised so many people are still into his shtick, it's practically framed photos of puppies wearing ascots afaic
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
though i guess people are really hard up for anything that even hints at french new wave
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
I suspect fans love the sensation of submitting to an all-encompassing vision -- the guy knows exactly what he wants to say. As a guy who can only endure Rushmore and his cartoon foxes by way of Roald Dahl, I'm totally creeped out.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
he reminds me of Woody Allen at his worst: in the same way that Allen thinks he's got a character because he cast Claire Bloom or Sam Waterston in the role, Anderson thinks giving Edward Norton a cigarette to pose with will by nature reward interest.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
*becomes interested*
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
*furiously interested*
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
*is rewarded*
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
"it's practically framed photos of puppies wearing ascots"i'm kind of indifferent to wes anderson but if he actually made an ascot puppy movie instead of the same movie each time, i might upgrade to fan. i feel the same way about david lynch, too, though.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
james cameron also seems to be succumbing to this. sometimes i think artistic freedom is the worst thing you can give to a director. you really have to judge something like moonrise kingdom against something like the star wars prequels, in which case it comes off pretty well, i think.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Not repeating himself is one thing, in the face of my otherwise waning enthusiasm, I'll give the other Anderson credit for--although the solemnity of There Will be Blood and The Master is ominous. The list of directors who repeat themselves is long. For a defense of that, see The American Cinema.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
where is the thread where we talk about the horrorfest of anderson mannerisms gone fratboy of Roman Coppola's "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III"?
― s.clover, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
^what a terrible cluster of posts
Nicely presented:
http://focusguilds2012.com/mrkscript/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I laughed out a loud a few times during this. One scene that stayed w/ me FSM is the bit where Ed Norton does that jump. LOL.
― contrarian, zing thyself (cajunsunday), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
a terrible cluster of posts nicely presented
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
dioramas of white aristocracy thing
gonna call total BS on this unless you come correct and explain what the hell that means.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
+ why it is "bad."
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
could it just not be someone's thing
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, i even said i was impressed with his commitment
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
most directors would have chickened out by now and tried to prove unpredictability/range but no here's another ornately decorated box with verbose children listening to an edith piaf record in it
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
well no one but aristos were listening to Francoise Hardy in New England
xp
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
if only he had T*rantino's unpredictability/range, amirite
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
i apologize if my glib word choice re: aristocracy ruffled your feathers
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link