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

Just hit me I won't be watching this until it hits Redbox because I have a newborn.

(I misread that post as signed Twee4Ass.)

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Blank card; you have to go here to play. (Not meant as a knock on Anderson--you could do the same with Scorsese, Bergman, and most any great filmmaker ever.)

Critics sometimes use "twee" as shorthand to describe you work -- or they dismiss it as just another "Wes Anderson movie." How does that make you feel?

Well, it's not annoying. It's just, you know, my real honest response is just ... nothing. It's just white noise to me. It's lost all its sting over the years.

whatre the reviews like on this thing, do people like it who didnt like his last few, the trailer makes it look like kinda the worst but im getting the feeling via internet headlines that this is maybe being considered a return to form

it's worse than the trailer and he must be stopped

ha ok cool will ignore

The reviews on the freq misleading RT are 4 "rotten" out of 80

yes, his characters are often irritating, welcome to people.

lol is that srsly yr argument

hay dude:

whatre the reviews like on this thing

that was not the post I was commenting upon!

ah, gotcha

so that is PART of my argument, yes.

more bored by films that do not have any people (eg T*r*ntino)

u dont say

morbs just isn't a foot guy tbh

wasnt feeling this. i dont get the reviews saying it was more like rushmore/tenenbaums... so little humour compared to those films

to give a straight answer this is pretty much getting his best reviews since tenenbaums or maybe rushmore.

and yet somehow i don't buy it

"buy it"? who gives a crap what you think if you haven't seen the film?

i just don't want to be burned again amateurist. Is that so wrong?

that's between you and your conscience.

the action sequences are terrible, totally incoherent. for a guy with such mannered direction, it's amazing the extent to which he can make you lose your bearings.

also it is not funny

and all the characters are wes anderson characters except the one bruce willis acts his way past

ive never had anything to do with the ILX War Against Twee

Who can forget The Night ILX burned down Daisy Ashford's wikipedia.

among the 22 reviews from sources rottentomatoes designates as "top critics", it's 100% positive. includes dargis at NYT, sharkey at the LA Times, travers at the rolling stone, edelstein at NY mag, stevens at slate, buckwalter at NPR, etc.

I'm undecided about this. It certainly didn't annoy me like his last two have, and I was charmed at times, but it certainly does feel dramatically inert. It's not for lack of a plot. It made me think about how often children's plays have featured in his films. I think he has settled into making something like … puppet shows. In Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, the comedy (and pathos) was allowed to come out more from the characters. I only got flashes of that here. Frances McDormand and Bill Murray felt wasted; Bruce Willis made something of his role at least.

I dunno. I'd definitely see it again; but my taste has definitely diverged from his.

the night they drove old twee-xie down

imo it was better than life aquatic, but not as good as darjeeling

yeah i'd agree w/ that

set a weekend record by grossing over half a mil in 4 theaters.

i laughed a lot when the boy punched someone in the balls in a flashback

set a weekend record by grossing over half a mil in 4 theaters.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:34 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the final 4-day tally was almost $700,000. damn.

Just saw this tonight. I thought it was quite sweet, and occasionally v funny. There were a couple of cartoonish moments that felt a bit jarring in context (not sure if I should mention for fear of spoilers...) - I know Anderson's films are never 'realistic' in the sense that they're incredibly mannered and un-naturalistic (and full of Futura) but a couple of throwaway bits in this one felt like they violated some kind of internal logic.

I probably haven't explained that v well.

i laughed a lot when the boy punched someone in the balls in a flashback

― caek, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

sold

people who assert Bruce Willis as the best thing in anything are not people whose opinions I value

oh god shuuuuuut up

yeah wtf Willis has been fine in a lot of movies.

his smug oft-naked, GOP ass has never risen above tolerable imho

prob best to just decide that now before seeing the movie

if he's the best thing in this movie than it must be really, really bad, is how I interpret that assertion, is all.

it is pretty bad

in his best movies Willis has never been smug.

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his smug oft-naked, GOP ass has never risen above tolerable imho

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

love the idea of bruce willis' bare ass waltzing itself into a voting booth with a shit eating grin on its face and pulling the lever for mitt romney

Fairly plausible scenario imo

this was the closest Wes Anderson (and the estate of C. Monroe Schulz) would let him get to making his live-action "Peanuts" movie.

There are many objections one could make to this film but people itt who say it doesn't have any humour are crazy.

this was the closest Wes Anderson (and the estate of C. Monroe Schulz) would let him get to making his live-action "Peanuts" movie.

YES! the whole children w/ adult problems thing, the fact that it's set in 1965 (round abt the absolute peak of Peanuts), a dog called Snoopy (duh), the misery of camp and childhood cruelties, the lead character being an alienated charlie brown-type whose father we never see and who is infatuated with a red-haired girl etc etc, all brought to mind Schulz while I was watching this

More on this:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/28/moonrise_kingdom_and_peanuts_wes_anderson_s_latest_is_filled_with_allusions_to_bill_melendez_and_charles_schulz_s_specials_.html