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

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Was very fond of this particular Dahl as a kid, although even then I thought Mr. Fox was a bit of a smarmy cnut.

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link

trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810028004/trailer

ledge, Friday, 31 July 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link

I know it's childish and I shouldn't be irritated by such things but couldn't he have found one English actor to be one of the good guys instead of using them just for the bad guys? I say we go back to using German accents to denote evil.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 31 July 2009 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't mind being the bad guys

ledge, Friday, 31 July 2009 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link

But we're always the bad guys now*. I blame Sir Anthony Hopkins.

*completely unscientific opinion based on about 2 films.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 31 July 2009 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link

I am excited for this movie!

the stain specialist (Viceroy), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Viceroy just said to me, "I bet I'll like this more than you."

:O

a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

looks pretty great. would be cool with my daughter seeing this but she'll probably still be too young for movies by the time this comes out

girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link

will ILX even still be here by the time this is released, I wonder

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 1:19 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

countdown to extinction

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Word is Peter, Paul, and Mary are reuniting to record the title song for the sdtk?

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i have literally no idea what possessed me to post this ... it's not even a joke?

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link

trailer irritates, is it really going to be the clippy looking?

akm, Friday, 31 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Still waiting for
http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/caboodle.jpg

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link

ha what?

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link

life is weird

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Looks fun though it'd be nice to see Schwartzmann do something other than the usual intense/dorky thing

More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link

who is the last voice in the trailer?

thomp, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link

it's bugging me

also, apparently jarvis is in this playing a puppet

thomp, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link

That trailer is horrible. Not surprised, as Anderson hasn't been worthwhile as a director for nearly a decade.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 31 July 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

i'm pretty excited about dis one, i like anderson's style and it looks like it could work well for this.

omar little, Friday, 31 July 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link

disagree that anderson hasn't been worthwhile as I think Darjeeling is his best film. but this doesn't look very appealing to me, in fact it looks annoying

akm, Friday, 31 July 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link

darjeeling his best film really?? i'm ok w/ this trailer but maybe the animation looks a bit wack

just sayin, Friday, 31 July 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link

"i'm ok w/ this trailer but maybe the animation looks a bit wack"

that's exactly what I liked the most!

Marco Damiani, Friday, 14 August 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link

i knew a chap
his name was bert
he ate the buttons
off his shirt

Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 August 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/14721/_1252617455.jpg

velko, Saturday, 12 September 2009 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.quizilla.com/user_images/K/Knockturn/1054615486_adimageCJ5.JPG

velko, Saturday, 12 September 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Trailer uses the great Bobby Fuller Four song "Let Her Dance." So good job, guys.

Cunga, Saturday, 12 September 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link

"Dig The Life Fantastic" is definitely a worse tagline than "Don't Fuck With The Fox" imo.

ian, Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Roffle. Can be summed up as "Wes Anderson acts like a jerk and is surprised when told he was acting like a jerk."

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link

this movie looks rubbish and annoying

conrad, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

"Dig The Life Fantastic" is definitely a worse tagline than "Don't Fuck With The Fox" imo.

― ian, Saturday, September 12, 2009 5:56 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM X A ZILLION

passive aggressive tea wisdom (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I wonder if it was a good idea for him to come out in support of a child rapist shortly before the release of a children's film.

Nicolars was the drummer for Gay Dad (Nicole), Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link

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."

ha

tbh i don't think it's that big a deal for a director to not be on-set for a stop-motion film, because (a doy) it's not being made in real time, and there's no benefit in his responding in real time

otoh three mills does look pretty nice for london:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Three_mills_island.jpg

thomp, Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link

i think this movie looks great btw, although it seems weird to me that wes anderson is 40

thomp, Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link

btw the people who work on film crews are usually infinitely more dbaggy than the directors and actors, in my experience

omar little, Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link

not knowing about the situation, to me publicly bitching about the guy to the papers is way worse than being a little distant and controlling... as a movie director

fleetwood (max), Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, I wouldn't really call myself a big fan and I don't think I'll like this movie very much, on the other hand, he was the director of the film, not the director of photography or the cinematographer or a variety of other more hands-on important tasks, which unfortunately aren't often given the credit in culture that "director" is given. That's too bad, but with something that takes as long to make as this, I see no reason why he would have to be on site every day for three years, that's preposterous. Architects aren't onsite on construction projects every day all day either.

akm, Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link

actors and directors are often a little distant and weird but not actively awful. DPs, PAs, assistant directors, editors, mid-level producers, grips....those people are really doing Important Work and they don't want to hear about it, they're Fucking Busy Right Now.

omar little, Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link

I feel like if I was an animator working on a project by a famous auteur and he was letting us do our own thing rather than stopping in all the time to pick over everything that it would make it a less stressful situation.

Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i kind of wonder how familiar they are with him as auteur, actually. there's one guy bitching about how normally animated film you do wacky crazy camera angles and make shit exciting, and all this wes anderson guy wants to do is boring static shots

thomp, Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, wes anderson doesn't come off too badly in that article imo

a perfect urkel (gbx), Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Jarvis Cocker's contribution.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/oct/12/jarvis-cocker-fantastic-mr-fox

knick knack auf zack (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 12 October 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link

The trailer got a good reception, i.e plenty of laughs in the cinema on Saturday. Was rather sceptical of it based on what I saw previously but warmed to it quite a bit after watching it with an audience.

go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Monday, 12 October 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

I really enjoyed it. Gambon is the best thing about it, I reckon.

Michael Jones, Monday, 12 October 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I liked this a lot. Takes about 15 minutes to bed in but once Michael Gambon appears, smoking and swearing, it's all gold. Haven't enjoyed a Wes Anderson film as much since Rushmore. Absence of "crazy camera angles" not a big problem.

Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 12 October 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link

it seems weird to me that wes anderson is 40

Well, it's less weird if, based on the ending of Darjeeling Limited, he has finally forgiven Daddy.

Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 October 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Swearing? Cussing, you mean.

xp

Michael Jones, Monday, 12 October 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

wes anderson sounds like the kind of guy who'd come downstairs for breakfast having shaved his moustache off and everyone would know not to mention it, ever

Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 October 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Sounds more like animators having no idea what will make the thing unique and being irritated because they cant use conventional modern wisdom and all their fancy tricks they learnt to do, completely failing to understand why...

Should have just showed them the clangers and said LIKE THAT BUT FANCY tbf

The nation's most valiant right back (Suedey 2), Monday, 12 October 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah i mean it's totally fair to want to use ancient techniques or whatever the fuck but it sounds like W.A. is maybe not the world's greatest communicator/expectations setter

Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 October 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

whistle click this film still cuss

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conrad, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link

HOTBOX!

, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link

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?

espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

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.

omar little, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link

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

imago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link

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

imago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link

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.

omar little, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link

as did i

recently watched the grand budapest hotel and was richly entertained by that too, and that's a bit of a punching bag

imago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link

I've seen this movie more times than I can count now, thx to my kids, and I have to say it still holds my interest, it's always so nice just to look at, and it is very well paced

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link

grand Budapest really doesnt have any reason to exist but i mean its still p wonderful

isle of dogs is great

fmf and tenanbaums tied for his most complete works

moonrise kingdom great and i expected meh there tbh

topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link

Grand Budapest was not at all what i expected from the trailers, i expected a bit of a quirky hotel-based whodunit and not some weirdly alternate universe intrigue thriller comedy with an earned non-manipulative bummer ending.

omar little, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link

Grand Budapest Hotel, FMF, and Rushmore are all I need.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link

But GBH got terrific reviews -- is there a backlash I know nothing about

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link

too grownup for some?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link

yeah idgi I thought it was v well received. it's great

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link

those FUCKERS

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link

everyone really seemed to love that one, and FMF.

omar little, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link


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