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

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

?

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

and if I have to hear that Clooney click-click-whistle thing ever again in my life, acts of murder WILL happen

Sorry, a recent third viewing confirmed it as Anderson's masterpiece for me.

in fairness the book's plot would prob only fill like half an hour's worth of movie -- i reread it right after seeing the film and was shocked by how much shorter it seemed than i remembered.

That whistling thing is from M*A*S*H, innit?

I liked it when Sutherland did it

NO ONE ELSE EVER

plus the weird kid with the cape and Mrs Fox slaps Mr Fox across the face in a domestic argument...all it needed was one of the kids getting caught jerking off and we could have been watching the Squid and the Whale with Chase Scenes

idk

the whole thing annoyed me a lot

and if I have to hear that Clooney click-click-whistle thing ever again in my life, acts of murder WILL happen

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, March 17, 2014 7:48 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

that thing was the worst

glad someone on here finally got my back on this 1

Madness

I still nurse a crush on the cousin.

xxpost i got you boo