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

i like that anderson's doing something different

Also lots of pics at the official site

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/3765277378_bd610d2229.jpg

the farmers are called boggis, bunce and bean
one is short, one is fat and one is lean

Farmers look great.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/3765283310_1b1f8dd4ea.jpg

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keener about this than about alice in wonderland i reckon.

http://www.themovieinsider.com/images/p/600/10409.jpg

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

trailer

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

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.

I don't mind being the bad guys

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

*completely unscientific opinion based on about 2 films.

I am excited for this movie!

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

:O

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

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

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?

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

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

ha what?

From this thread:
What do you look like now that ILX is back up? (December 2004 edition)

life is weird

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

who is the last voice in the trailer?

it's bugging me

also, apparently jarvis is in this playing a puppet

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

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

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

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

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

that's exactly what I liked the most!

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

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

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

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

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

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

this movie looks rubbish and annoying

"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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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HOTBOX!

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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.