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

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

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

also it wisnae that pretty.

oh, i know that films are more than that. but it was really pretty IMO.

it was charming, rather than pretty- it was also hilarious- some of the visual gags were inspired- fox eating for the first time, badger's eyes.

Love the scene in the second farm where the owner is in the foreground and we're watching the heist progress in steps across 5 TV sets. Very creative use of framing throughout this movie.

i've decided i unreservedly love this movie.

this was very enjoyable

Not everyone could muster a magnanimous word for Anderson's M.O. -- especially his on-set absence. "I think he's a little sociopathic," cinematographer Oliver said. "I think he's a little O.C.D. Contact with people disturbs him. This way, he can spend an entire day locked inside an empty room with a computer. He's a bit like the Wizard of Oz. Behind the curtain."

Informed of Oliver's discontent, Anderson said: "I would say that kind of crosses the line for what's appropriate for the director of photography to say behind the director's back while he's working on the movie. So I don't even want to respond to it."

this reads like dialogue from a wanderson film

just saw this and I loved it. who cares if it wasn't really a kids movie.

loved the photography in this - how everything was a straight on, flattened videogame 2D platformer perspective.

now I want wanderson to make a full length movie about the vietnam war play from rushmore.

Wasn't really a kids movie? My kid liked it.

I liked basic instinct when I was a kid

actually that movie has imbued me with lifelong pathologies about leaving screwdrivers near the bed

Yes, but that beaver wasn't a cartoon.

I dunno I guess I just got annoyed at the handwringing upthread about "was this really a KIDS movie???"

who cares

RIP cankles

I did have a long talk with him about stealing chickens afterward, though.

did you tell him to kill them in one bite?

My 3-year-old's into this now and after repeat exposure it feels like a classic.

also why were all the animals american

― doomed... to fart (cankles), Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:44 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

yeah this is why i haven't seen it

One friend of mine said that this was the first movie that made his two sons (5 and 8, or so) shut up and pay attention all the way through.
It has created within me a desire to locate the Bobby Fuller Four song "Let her Dance" in a vinyl format.

is that actually why you haven't seen it? xp

pretty much
tho
hmm
maybe not -- think wes andy has sucked since 'tenenbaums'

I'm not a wes anderson fan at all and I guess tbh don't generally care for movies in general but I liked this one a whole lot fwiw. And I watched it after seemingly everyone I know recommended it, so had p. high expectations. Not dying to see it again anytime soon but I bet if I did I'd enjoy it again just the same

so so so good

re-watched last night. so good.

yeah really loved this

Goddamn anyone who doesn't like this movie.

Seriously. I need to get the dvd.

yeah, best movie. plus CRAZY beloved of the little kids in my circle. encouraging indicator.

best movie ever

I only saw it like a month ago but I'm excited about watching it on a cold rainy/snowy day soon

i just saw this for the first time last night, it was great, quirky maybe but in all the right ways and just terrifically pretty

maybe my favorite wes after bottle rocket

I can see myself getting this for my 5 year old nephew for christmas. I would ask if that's too young but he loves the Transformers movies so I guess it's cool.

get it for everyone for christmas imo

I don't like the way Wes Anderson shot this. Everything's centered and flat and brown. I didn't think this looked that good at all. I mean, the models and backgrounds were very well done, but it was unimaginatively staged. And the voice acting was some of the worst I've ever heard, no exaggeration.

still love the shit out of this movie

yeah it's the best.

how did you bastards watch this already

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confused this for the Moonrise Kingdom thread.

Moonrise is has been out for a few weeks now, and Focus has ramped up the engagements cause $$$

This is the only Wes A. movie I could say I'd want to watch any day.

my daughter's most-watched movie

Watched it for the first time since theatres on Cartoon Network yesterday. Holds up. And is awesome.

This is the only Wes A. movie I could say I'd want to watch any day.

― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Monday, June 18, 2012 2:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, for sure. it's one of the only movies, period, i could say that about. it's totally life-affirming.

i'd see rushmore every other week i guess.

both of you otm

this was on tv tonight and

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.

otm

I watched this again yesterday. so good, charming and fun.
It was also great to watch the bonus on the dvd because you could see the actors recording the voices and they actually played the roles, not just in the studio but outdoors (except for M. Streep apparently), etc.
the scene with B. murray and G. clooney cussing with each other is brilliant.
they should release the film of that "live" version !

so it's taken me a hundred years to finally see this

could have waited another hundred. I wasn't thrilled at all really. I liked the animation but once my enjoyment of that wore off I just became resentful of even having to watch the rest of the movie.

I don't know what I was expecting, but I didn't expect the actual Dahl story to only occupy 5 minutes in the second act. I should have known going in that the book itself would have just been an excuse for Wes Anderson to Wes Anderson It Up: NOW WITH ANIMATION.

I'm not even a Wes Anderson hater! But this made me get what everyone hated about his other movies. It was like some kind of animated Tenenbaums shit and I was not happy about it at all.

harrumph