yes, his characters are often irritating, welcome to people.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol is that srsly yr argument
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 May 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
hay dude:
whatre the reviews like on this thing
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
that was not the post I was commenting upon!
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 May 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
ah, gotcha
so that is PART of my argument, yes.
more bored by films that do not have any people (eg T*r*ntino)
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
u dont say
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
morbs just isn't a foot guy tbh
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
wasnt feeling this. i dont get the reviews saying it was more like rushmore/tenenbaums... so little humour compared to those films
― just sayin, Monday, 28 May 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
to give a straight answer this is pretty much getting his best reviews since tenenbaums or maybe rushmore.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 28 May 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
and yet somehow i don't buy it
― Number None, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
"buy it"? who gives a crap what you think if you haven't seen the film?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 28 May 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
i just don't want to be burned again amateurist. Is that so wrong?
― Number None, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
that's between you and your conscience.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 28 May 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― caek, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
also it is not funny
and all the characters are wes anderson characters except the one bruce willis acts his way past
― caek, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
ive never had anything to do with the ILX War Against Twee
Who can forget The Night ILX burned down Daisy Ashford's wikipedia.
― Cunga, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Monday, 28 May 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
the night they drove old twee-xie down
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
imo it was better than life aquatic, but not as good as darjeeling
― caek, Monday, 28 May 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'd agree w/ that
― just sayin, Monday, 28 May 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
set a weekend record by grossing over half a mil in 4 theaters.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
i laughed a lot when the boy punched someone in the balls in a flashback
― caek, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― sktsh, Thursday, 31 May 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
― caek, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
sold
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
people who assert Bruce Willis as the best thing in anything are not people whose opinions I value
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
oh god shuuuuuut up
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah wtf Willis has been fine in a lot of movies.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
his smug oft-naked, GOP ass has never risen above tolerable imho
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
prob best to just decide that now before seeing the movie
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
if he's the best thing in this movie than it must be really, really bad, is how I interpret that assertion, is all.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
it is pretty bad
― caek, Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
in his best movies Willis has never been smug.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 June 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qEVYzpBSouE/TuUuKqr1D6I/AAAAAAAAAY4/Ye4BPNd_Tvg/s1600/Die-Hard6.jpg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 1 June 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
Fairly plausible scenario imo
― buzza, Friday, 1 June 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
this was the closest Wes Anderson (and the estate of C. Monroe Schulz) would let him get to making his live-action "Peanuts" movie.
― Cunga, Friday, 1 June 2012 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
There are many objections one could make to this film but people itt who say it doesn't have any humour are crazy.
― Get wolves (DL), Friday, 1 June 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 June 2012 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Alba, Friday, 1 June 2012 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
There was me thinking Sam was based on Gukbe.
― Alba, Friday, 1 June 2012 08:44 (eleven years ago) link
and what's that supposed to mean?
he could have been, though, because i loved the hell out of this and I don't know what caek saw but there yah go.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Sunday, 3 June 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
Just got home from seeing it. I feel like I should be processing it, but it was actually really straightforward and charming and perhaps purposely superficial and I liked it anyway.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
Going to a midnight show tonight
― Moodles, Saturday, 9 June 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
I was in a theater full of boomers instead of hipsters, which was not what I was expecting.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
my local arthouse is showing this like 20 times a day. its the arthouse avengers
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 9 June 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, xp, the crowd at the showing I went to in Berkeley was made up of almost all boomers as well. they seemed totally charmed by it
I loved it. best since Tenenbaums imo
― Chris S, Sunday, 10 June 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
jason schwartzman was funny and i wanted more jason schwartzman
― phantompenguin, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link