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

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

Veg, can you be my reverse barometer for all cinema?

yeah how often do you get Ursa, Non, and Zod to agree on a movie?

they have corrupted even the children of Andersonville

Morbs, I know you think just because you watched Showgirls I'm going to watch The King of Comedy, but it ain't gonna happen.

haha, I watched Showgirls about 2 years ago, I just had to chime in when I saw that fucking book title.

What if I leave you a copy of tKoC in my will, boo?

Morbs: anything for you, if it means we get to regularly disagree :D

i'll be happy to greet you with the MASH whistle

this was by far the most enjoyable of the last few WA movies for me because it was at least on a visual level a change of pace but i totally get where Veg is coming from. i can't think of any respected director who's as relentlessly straight-jacketed into his own aesthetic.

Woody Allen.

This is my best friend's favorite movie and she made me watch it last year when I visited but I didn't have the heart to tell her I hated it and so pretended it was great until I fell asleep and I think she caught on.

The only laugh I got from a recent WA film was Bill Murry as the lawyer.

haha enbb

lol that's awesome e

a recent WA film

... wait, which WA?

I'm still having a T-shirt made that says "I hate all your favorite movies."

Woody's output over the last decade has been far worse but it at least there's some unpredictability there, some hopping around into different genres, different approaches to storytelling, casting, etc. Wes is just headlong down this echo chamber where even the 'quirks' and details of each movie feel increasingly plucked from this readymade kit of stock Wes Anderson characters, actors, storylines, camera angles, music cues, etc.

Pretty easy to hate some WA stuff but this is one that seems really weird to get riled up about.

click click whistle
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He click click whistled NINE times.

Nine times?

NINE times.

ppl pick weird things to hate

vegemitegrrrrrrl if it makes you so angry then Don't Watch the Movie.

Don't Read the Post

whistle click this film still cuss

― conrad, Monday, 7 December 2009 22:11 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HOTBOX!

Don't Read the Post

― The Greta Gerwig In The Sky (some dude), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean all 85 of them?

watched the Criterion blu-ray of this the other night, it was an Xmas gift for our 7-yr old. He loved it, I thought it was better than it was the first time I saw it. completely entertaining throughout and there were more details i picked up on this screening. and the visuals are the best of any Anderson film I've seen, it's just a very beautiful looking fall colors kind of movie. love the wolf bit near the end too. I think WA's aesthetic really works for this film, and unlike some of his more recent films (most of which i actually do enjoy a lot despite saying this!) it makes his aesthetic seem fresh.

He's a maker of (consistently) excellent rather than all-time great films. FMF maybe comes closer than most. My controp is that he's never made a less than good film

Isle Of Dogs is a more than worthy follow-up though

your controp is i think correct. i guess The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited are considered his least worthy films, but i thought they were both good.