A thread for Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox"

after.

I liked it and would say it's probably his best film to date.

best anderson since rushmore, or at the very least since tenenbaums. it might help if you read the book as a kid but have dim memories of it, so you remember some of the pictures and even chapter titles (the terrible tractors!) but not most of the specifics.

I would've loved this as a kid, just for the way it looked and the sense of giddy grownup adventurousness. ppl have somewhat warped ideas about what kids are and are not into, methinks.

weird that my two favorite films of the year both involve willem defoe confronting talking foxes.

how half-assed as a "kids movie"? should it have been dumber and louder like Up?

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:16 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is exactly the kind of arrogance i'm talking about! like he cant deign to make movies kids will enjoy, he has to make something that's identical to the crap he treats his normal audience of shiftless hipster bums to so he can then reassure himself that he's doing kids a favor by not talking down to them. kids are often sophisticated enough to understand movies that aren't made for them, but making a movie for adults with the veneer of a kids movie seems like a shitty worst-of-both-worlds compromise for an unimaginative filmmaker who doesnt have the courage to try something outside his comfort zone.

*kicks back, lights cigar*

When is he finally just gonna re-make Harold & Maude? Isn't that what his whole style/career is based on?

I'm sure Ben Stiller could play Harold with a bit of CGI assistance.

*slits wrists*

*covers self in gasoline, lights match*

*rolls eyes* *kills self*

*farts*

something is amiss when i agree with cankles

you know your a racist if...

you're**!

I want so desperately to agree with cankles on a movie. One of these days.

Saw this today. Not my favorite, but I did how it was set in your standard Anderson Neverwhen period, flatscreen and cell phone notwithstanding.

did what?!?!

cankles you must know a lotta stoopid kids.

Did LIKE how

a movie for adults with the veneer of a kids movie

fyi it is about talking foxes

Not that this line of reasoning would make anyone hate Anderson less, but I bet this movie reflects what he genuinely would have enjoyed as a kid.

coulda sworn i said something like this upthread, but yeah: anderson seems to make movies that he wishes he'd grown up with himself.

what you guys need to see is "historias extraordinarias." blew my dome open like no other movie in the past long long time.

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Monday, November 30, 2009 4:15 AM (1 month ago)

i saw this! and you are OTM

When is he finally just gonna re-make Harold & Maude? Isn't that what his whole style/career is based on?

If so, he's improved on it every time (not that that's so difficult).

But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

this movie was funny!!!

i saw this! and you are OTM

― just sayin, Saturday, January 9, 2010 1:36 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:D

xpost - What's not to like about Harold & Maude (besides maybe Cat Stevens)?

Ok, I think I was using bad terminology back when I talked about "kid humor"...

What bothered me was not kid humor. I am a fairly juvenile persona and most of the comedy in the movie was great, such mini-motorcycle, that acorn game (which was great), "cussing" and the animals easting like animsls) it was that the parts that seemed to be more adultish really lacked any kind of emotional poignancy that you except from Wes-And except for maybe the very first time the kids meet and Ash cries and they play with trains.

And I thought it was disjointed, moving way too quickly between funny stuff and serious stuff. It just seemed either too manic for what was going on or to flat.

Ok.

~Just been thinking 'bout that fantastic fox.

watched again, easily one of the 5 finest movies of the decade

every scene is just a visual marvel

& it's such a slyly funny movie

this was pretty good overall and had some really poetic moments. as with every wes anderson movie except for rushmore i didn't really connect with it emotionally. but i wasn't alienated from it either.

i rewatched his entire ouevre recently and the only film i didn't like, or like much of, was royal tenenbaums, mostly because he really overdoes the pop-song music cues, to the point that the film (especially 2nd half) felt like the few minutes in-between pop songs. the "outsourced" musical score worked way better in darjeeling ltd IMO.

Yeah, def feel like, in retrospect, Darjeeling > Tenenbaums

But Mr. Fox >>>>>>>> both

nothing in TDL on a par with Stiller-Hackman.

this is my 8 year old son's 2nd favorite movie

what is the first favourite??

ugh, I can't remember! I think I was so surprised this was his 2nd favorite that I blacked out

xYeah, def feel like, in retrospect, Darjeeling > Tenenbaums

o_O

could not disagree more

nothing in TDL on a par with Stiller-Hackman.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:34 (15 hours ago)

succintly 100% OTM

left me so cold i was shivering. have decided i now hate wes anderson - i actually loved the royal tenenbaums but i'm scared to watch it again in case i see it for the rote anderson one-dimensional schtick-heavy facade that it is.

that's all that LYFE is man DO U C

would think twice about sitting through that again too

this is my 8 year old son's 2nd favorite movie

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Sunday, April 4, 2010 11:18 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what is the first favourite??

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Sunday, April 4, 2010 11:50 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

I asked and number one favorite was 9 (the postapocalyptic puppet movie, not the bob fosse/rob marshall abomination)

although he now claims the LOTR trilogy occupies spots 1 to 3

left me so cold i was shivering. have decided i now hate wes anderson - i actually loved the royal tenenbaums but i'm scared to watch it again in case i see it for the rote anderson one-dimensional schtick-heavy facade that it is.

― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Thursday, April 8, 2010 11:02 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

yeesh. sometimes i just like pretty pictures, you know?

saw this finally last weekend -- loved it! totally funny, nice to look at, good music. was a little bit scared because I did not like the way the animation looked in the preview, but it was quite lovely once I got accustomed to it.

Just saw this. Holy crap it was good! After just 5 minutes I knew it was going to be my favorite movie of 2009! When it switches to the TV displaying "LIVE" with a network news logo and the animals jumping out of a manhole covering and striking ninja poses, it's the funniest, most surreal thing I've seen in a movie in years.

this is my 8 year old son's 2nd favorite movie
glad to hear this! at first I thought Anderson had missed the mark in terms of a movie both kids and adults would like, but then i though that I would've loved it as a kid.

Yeah i can see alot of the jokes that i laughed at, a kid would laugh at, and maybe for different reasons. It's very well made!

I think I laughed the hardest at the made-up sport - stickbat or whatever it was called

yeesh. sometimes i just like pretty pictures, you know?

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:04 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

?_?

films are more than just pretty pictures, if i want that i go to an art gallery.

also it wisnae that pretty.