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heh, my post was a beartrap to TOMBOT. not defending her as a director (though I think she's interesting) so much as as a fucked-up person. seriously, directors be crazy.

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess they are benign but they also make for motion pictures I do not enjoy as much as, say, Shanghai Knights

― TOMBOT, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

lately all my txt msgs revolve around cheeseburgers ;_;

i think i'm sublimating food.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

wes' bullshit hipster revivalism is more rooted in the late '60s and early '70s tho

― ghost rider, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

"hong kong garden" is a pretty tight song though, you gotta admit

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think addition of owen wilson really would've improved marie antoinette.

beartrap but both of those songs were used in the life aquatic or at least in the trailer for it, i can't even keep that straight anymore because i hated that movie so fucking much and regretted spending my money on seeing it and also making tom and rich go with me.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

tightness of songs not the point! i didn't even dislike marie antoinette really. i was just more flabbergasted by her insistence on using such played out musical accompaniments. then again i'm not sure why i was so shocked after the whole just like honey thing in lost in translation.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't even seen Marie Antoinette. what have I been doing with myself, seriously.

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

watching less boring films

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never seen so little done with molly shannon

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

somebody should use World In Motion in a movie

Questions:

A) what would that movie be about?
B) who would star?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

life aquatic was mostly mid-'70s stuff with the exception of like the one Devo song

(nb i didn't have a big problem with that movie, but have no urge to see it again ever. it's been diminishing returns for wes since rushmore, which is still one of my favorite movies)

― ghost rider, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

still, it was hard to dislike, mainly again because of adam and the ants.

beartrap fuck you for that suggestion, tom millar.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

rewatching dreamgirls 45 times. so yeah, I guess. I dig Kirsten Dunst a lot, though; I meant to see it.

beartrap molly shannon is in marie antoinette?

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i really like "age of consent" though

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally adore Virgin Suicides and Marie Antionette (the former more than the latter, I think just because of the cohesive sountrack) but I appreciate them more as visual mood pieces more than as movies.

― I DIED, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Molly Shanon in Marie Antionette was totally like "hey did you walk onto the wrong set? it's kind of cool you're here but wtf?"

― I DIED, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Marie Antoinette but yeah the whole OMG MODERN SONGS thing was overblown.

xpost I DIED OTM

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

oh hey do people want to see the depressing-looking mike white movie with molly shannon? mike white is some kind of genius but one who makes me v uncomfortable 100% of the time

― ghost rider, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

like 89% of the music in life aquatic was bowie, i'm def thinking of the trailer which featured these two songs. i remember this much at least v clearly cos i remember rich making a comment about ceremony being played in the trailer to that and we were like o rly now ok.

i strongly disliked that movie though.

beartrap yeah molly shannon totally seemed like, ok why are you here you are not serious actress oh wait this isn't really not serious film lol

BEARTRAP AGAIN YES I'LL GO TO ANY MOVIE BASICALLY

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i just want to reiterate that my complaints vis a vis these songs aren't actually complaints about the songs themselves or the artists who made them but rather about their usage and more aptly overusage.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember any New Order or Siouxsie in A Shitty Life Aquatic.

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

part of what hurt the music in Marie Antionette is that Coppola couldn't decide whether she wanted the post punk to critique the lifestyles or revel in it - starting out with "Natural's Not In It" sets it up one way but by the time of the coronation "Plainsong" is playing and it's a baroque extravaganza.

I think either approach works, but maybe not both.

― I DIED, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

god i was so stoned during life aquatic that i really don't remember much at all, except disappointment

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

but yeah, i heart both bottle rocket and rushmore, and some parts of royal tenenbaums

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought hong kong garden was put to really good use in the masked ball sequence though. much of the rest felt a bit more shoehorned in comparison.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man bottle rocket is great

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe I paid $10 to see it based on this trailer.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/the_life_aquatic/large.html

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

ok that is New Order about a minute in

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I DIED, I think after watching the movie I don't agree with you about that being a problem, because I don't think critique is anywhere on the menu. I basically agree with ebert's review of MA except for the 4-star bit.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I have heard such wildly differing reports/opinions on Marie Antoinette that I kind of can't imagine what it's like.

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember watching bottle rocket with my dad, and loving it, but feeling uncomfortable because most of the time dad was UH.

the jumpsuits!

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the whole OMG MODERN SONGS thing was overblown

No, it was blown just enough.

Ally dead 8080 re: Life Aquatic. A turd.

Ally (and Scorsese) OTM re: Bottle Rocket.

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

horseshoe 8080. everything i've heard has been totally all over the place

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

don't call me scorsese

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

bottle rocket is maybe his best? that or rushmore, certainly.

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"isn't it weird, how you used to be in the nut house, and, uh, now i'm in jail?"

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I did think the sequence with firework watching and drinking champagne at dawn and "Age of Consent" (I think?) totally nailed the basic time of friends thing.

― I DIED, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

also bottle rocket made me buy Forever Changes

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

no not age of consent! ceremony!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

whatevs all same

― I DIED, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Marie Antoinette is very pretty and fun to watch, possibly brain dead and about seven hours long, but it is totally awesome compared to Lost In Translation. Now that was a turd.

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

age of consent was in the preview!

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"that's...wait, what do you mean, who is that man?! that's applejack! c'mon, kumar."

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

lol we're debating which songs were in the trailers and which were in the movie of sofia coppola and wes anderson films, we should all be ashamed

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

he is so good in that

beartrap :-/

― river wolf, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

MORE RUSHMORE LOVE I AM EMO CAT
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f160/ksmeier/bill_murray_rushmore_001.jpg

― ghost rider, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

also FUTURE MAN

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I was also really happy that the movie ended with them riding away from Versailles instead of any of the aftermath - "hey that was a fun time too bad it's over ;_;"

― I DIED, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

favorite scene in any of his movies: CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN's super brief snippet playing the piano and singing "welcome bob, got a beautiful house!" after he puts future man in a karate hold

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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