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

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.

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He click click whistled NINE times.

Nine times?

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ppl pick weird things to hate

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

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whistle click this film still cuss

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

too grownup for some?

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

those FUCKERS

everyone really seemed to love that one, and FMF.