Bottle Rocket and that's it. You guys like that ad? Ugh...

Ever read the Steely Dan letter directed at Anderson?

http://www.steelydan.com/heywes.html

etch wrote:Bottle Rocket and that's it. You guys like that ad? Ugh...

Ever read the Steely Dan letter directed at Anderson?

http://www.steelydan.com/heywes.html

That was almost as boring and uninspired as their music.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:

MWilke wrote:I liked Rushmore a lot. And I enjoyed the sincerity of The Squid and the Whale (which is more of a spinoff of the genre).

Squid and Whale was Noah Bumbach, the guy who did Kicking and Screaming.

Anderson was a producer on it. And it really took on a Wes Anderson mood and pace. That's why I said it was like an Anderson spin-off.

Yeah, fuck all kinds of Steely Dan.

Yeah dude, fuck Steely Dan! The nerve of those assholes.

This is a good Crap/Not Crap.

I vote Not Crap. I thought Life Aquatic was incredible and is one of those Big Lebowski movies for me that I can watch over and over. Obviously Rushmore and Bottle Rocket are fine and fun too.

MWilke wrote:Anderson was a producer on it. And it really took on a Wes Anderson mood and pace. That's why I said it was like an Anderson spin-off.

Check.

Rushmore is good. But the Steely Dan letter is best thing to result from Wes Anderson's existence. (I feel all the Dan hatin' here is like some timewarp into the 80s when Dan appreciation was at its lowest valley.)

Generally speaking though, while Anderson has carved something kinda unique, I can't help feel he's just trying to make a film like Forrest Gump every attempt. The orthogonal and skewed still camera shots, the sparse introspective deliveries of the characters, the need for "weirdos"... I saw all of this in Forrest Gump the first time (and obviously the films that inspired it, to be fair.) That movie was alright, but I can't help that Anderson's career is just centered around 'da Gump.

Take this with a tiny grain of dust. I'm mostly film illiterate. ("Film is the lowest form of art", etc.)

Steely Dan, What a couple of stuffy huckster fuckwits!

the trailer for darjeeling limited looks.... interesting.... I THINK!? it's hard to tell, being so incredibly wes...anderson.....ish.... hmm........ the movie is coppolla'ed out as a motherfucker though.

the steely dan letter was kind of funny.