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

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.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qEVYzpBSouE/TuUuKqr1D6I/AAAAAAAAAY4/Ye4BPNd_Tvg/s1600/Die-Hard6.jpg

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

There was me thinking Sam was based on Gukbe.

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.

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.

Going to a midnight show tonight

I was in a theater full of boomers instead of hipsters, which was not what I was expecting.

my local arthouse is showing this like 20 times a day. its the arthouse avengers

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

jason schwartzman was funny and i wanted more jason schwartzman

"its the arthouse avengers"
we waited through the credits hoping for an extra scene with samuel l jackson that never came. there was cosplay though.

it was so great!

What else Wes Anderson didn't take from John Duigan's "Flirting" for Rushmore he put to use here. It seems to secretly be a touchstone for him. (probably a reason the lead actor in Flirting, Noah Taylor, was cast in "Life Aquatic")

W.A. finally just goes out and sets a film, literally, in the sixties; the forbidden romance between the two youngsters is similar, as well as the, er, (spoiler!) love-scene.

If you smashed "Moonrise" and "Rushmore" together you'd get that 1990 Australian movie starring Nicole Kidman, yeah.

in an interview i read with him circa rushmore he says he originally wanted to cast noah taylor in rushmore

i'm so looking forward to going to see this by myself. seeing wes anderson movies alone is the best.

So is seeing any movie alone. People ruin things.

Huh, I loved Flirting when I saw it at age 13, but I never would've made the Anderson connection.

That awkward school dance scene between Noah Taylor and Thandie Newton, taking place in 1965 and playing the Trogg's "A Girl Like You," that's couldn't be more proto-WA.

Bruce Willis as sad old man/young old bill murray

Has anyone on ILX besides me seen CQ? Serious question. Look to CQ and the idle internet musings that Roman actually directed everything for Sophia pre-Marie Antoinette.

Anyway I'm willing to accept RC as WA's new OW.

The small-time stop motion/cut-paper sfx I could do without but the spirit is there. I think the talk of MK being WA's pure FNW is kind of over stated bc as a director he's clearly taking things he's learned since FMF and brought them the live action fold in a way that Tim Burton wishes he did.

IDK i feel like in spite of TLA and DL wes anderson is still probably the best US filmmmaker working today in terms of the dual qualifications of prolificness and quality of material divided by the amount of self-parody < /marty >

What else... idk I liked it plenty but I wanted to take a girl to see it and I didn't because no one would go w/ me so here I am. If my viewing experience were different I might approach this movie differently

Also I don't recall what I meant when I said FNW so w/e

oh FRENCH NEW WAVE

Look to CQ and the idle internet musings that Roman actually directed everything for Sophia pre-Marie Antoinette.

what the hell?!? who says this?

longstanding internet rumor that RC was the brains behind everything good that SC has done. He was 1st AD on all of it.

That seems pretty baseless imo. CQ was totally different in tone than any of her films, and being a Coppola he could've gotten his own projects greenlighted without much effort.

sounds like classic internet forum misogynist bullshit.

given that she's directed more films than he has, you'd wonder why the rumor doesn't go the other way around. except that you don't have to wonder why, because so much of what ppl write and say about sofia coppola is riddled with the same kind of barely veiled sexism. armond white's review of 'somewhere' was an especially bad example, not that he's much above the level of any random anonymous internet commentator as a writer or thinker tbh.

gubke and J.D. otm

fuck a "longstanding internet rumor". as though everyone involved with SC's films would maintain this ridiculous conspiracy of silence about the fact that roman secretly directed them from the DP's chair. all while he let his own directorial career slide. horseshit. he made CQ, and no one cared.

while looking around for info on roman's charles swan iii flick, i did find what seem to be three viral sites...

a fan page about the mysterious artist "charles swan iii": http://swanworld.8m.com/index.htm
a blog entry containing art and video samples: http://www.laboca.co.uk/blog/tag/charles-swan-iii/
a notice about a show at a japanese art gallery (apparently on the tom of finland foundation site's events list!): http://tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Events/ev_2006_08_09_YosakaGallery_CharlesSwanIII.htm

there are three rather nsfwy videos on youtube, all linked one way or another in the above. oddly, the videos appear to have been posted in 2006.

oops

speaking of misogynists, CSIII to be charlie sheen's comeback role: he plays the title character

That awkward school dance scene between Noah Taylor and Thandie Newton, taking place in 1965 and playing the Trogg's "A Girl Like You," that's couldn't be more proto-WA.
― Cunga, Friday, June 15, 2012 1:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a beautiful scene in claire denis's TV film "US go home" that also has characters dancing to this song, to beautiful effect.

two more thoughts:

1) can you guys stop using so many acronyms?

2) c.q. was a few funny sketches and clever art direction in search of a movie. i'm not too fond of sofia coppola's films either, but i have a weird kind of respect for marie antoinette.

2) i saw this (moonrise kingdom). it was spectacular. more later i hope.