I liked Rushmore and The Grand Budapest Hotel pretty well, and laughed a fair amount at both. Isle of Dogs was good too. Can’t remember a thing about Bottle Rocket and hated Tenenbaums.
He’s not my favorite director by a long shot, and I don’t love anything he’s done, but I’ll give him a not crap. I appreciate that he has a distinctive visual style and a personal set of themes. To criticize that seems persnickety.
Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
12Ah yes..
-gifted but 'eccentric' teenage main character
-average comedic male actor from the '80s/'90s "branching out" into arthouse role
-Jon Brion magical mystery mellotron soundtrack
-drive across town to the one Landmark theater showing this shit
WA is probably on the better end of this sorta thing!
Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
13For what it’s worth, of the acclaimed high school movies from the 90s, both Dazed and Confused and Election were much, much better than Rushmore.
Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
14Grand Budapest, Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore, and Bottle Rocket are all pretty great. The first two are pretty much perfect. Rushmore is too sympathetic to the creepy Schwartzman character, though.
The rest misses, some by a little, some by a lot. There are a couple I have not seen.
I watched Royal T recently. It was not as good as I remembered.
Enough greatness for a permanent NC.
The rest misses, some by a little, some by a lot. There are a couple I have not seen.
I watched Royal T recently. It was not as good as I remembered.
Enough greatness for a permanent NC.
Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
16Nailed the criteria there.penningtron wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 11:09 amAh yes..
-gifted but 'eccentric' teenage main character
-average comedic male actor from the '80s/'90s "branching out" into arthouse role
-Jon Brion magical mystery mellotron soundtrack
-drive across town to the one Landmark theater showing this shit
WA is probably on the better end of this sorta thing!
I feel like if I had a movie rental date in 2002, it was probably Royal Tenenbaums or like, Amélie Poulin or something.
DIY and die anyway.
Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
17In a cinematic mainstream where everything is so devoid of style and vision I am glad he is out there doing his thing. It became hip to rip him off and make fun of it, but it is genuinely his style, not just a thing he puts on, the knock-offs are mostly gone and he keeps on doing his thing and refining it since the 90s, I respect that, even though it isn't always for me.
Movies are better off with people of specific vision that you can identify by a single frame instead of bland yes-men who knock out one indie darling and then go make fucking MoonKnight or whatever.
Movies are better off with people of specific vision that you can identify by a single frame instead of bland yes-men who knock out one indie darling and then go make fucking MoonKnight or whatever.
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Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
18Whoa, man. From the simple perspective of being a Marvel Comics fan since I was old enough to buy them off the rack at the drug store in early 1980*mumble*, can we celebrate the golden age we are currently living in that's giving us a Moon Knight series, Moon Knight being a B or C list hero at best? I don't really care who is making it, I'm happy enough that it exists.Owen wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 2:35 pm In a cinematic mainstream where everything is so devoid of style and vision I am glad he is out there doing his thing. It became hip to rip him off and make fun of it, but it is genuinely his style, not just a thing he puts on, the knock-offs are mostly gone and he keeps on doing his thing and refining it since the 90s, I respect that, even though it isn't always for me.
Movies are better off with people of specific vision that you can identify by a single frame instead of bland yes-men who knock out one indie darling and then go make fucking MoonKnight or whatever.
Re: Filmmaker Wes Anderson
20As someone who has boxes upon boxes of 70s-90s Marvel comics, I will state it is a miracle that a live action Moon Knight exists. I liked the less house style comic movies like Blade and the Raimi films, but there is no dying it is insane that lower tier comics are getting the A-list treatment.kicker_of_elves wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 2:44 pmWhoa, man. From the simple perspective of being a Marvel Comics fan since I was old enough to buy them off the rack at the drug store in early 1980*mumble*, can we celebrate the golden age we are currently living in that's giving us a Moon Knight series, Moon Knight being a B or C list hero at best? I don't really care who is making it, I'm happy enough that it exists.Owen wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 2:35 pm In a cinematic mainstream where everything is so devoid of style and vision I am glad he is out there doing his thing. It became hip to rip him off and make fun of it, but it is genuinely his style, not just a thing he puts on, the knock-offs are mostly gone and he keeps on doing his thing and refining it since the 90s, I respect that, even though it isn't always for me.
Movies are better off with people of specific vision that you can identify by a single frame instead of bland yes-men who knock out one indie darling and then go make fucking MoonKnight or whatever.
guitar in - weaklungband.bandcamp.com/