I've only seen Fantastic Mr. Fox when I was a child. But I just finished watching the trailer for Asteroid City and it felt like 5 hours have gone by and I found myself sighing in irritation frequently
I have enjoyed Wes Anderson's twee bullshit for the better part of my adult life.
Wes wants to churn out another adolescent American hagiography and that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage
Grand Budapest Hotel is one of my favorite movies of all time but I understand why some people might not like his very specific style
This is the Budapest enjoyer post.
But yeah, he's good if you like his diorama aesthetic. If you don't like the aesthetic, that's fine.
his restaurant serves a very specific dry type of meal that some (including I) like very much
other restaurants all refuse to serve it
Yeah he has a lot of pretty good stuff, I like Moonrise Kingdom a lot. His style isn't for everyone though.
I really like Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Life Aquatic, but he is mostly just pure aesthetic. Any time he tries to make any larger point, it just doesn't work because he not that aware, smart or deep. He's too wrapped up in whatever weird art aesthetic he's into to truely try to think about how complex reality and morality is.
he is mostly just pure aesthetic
If I found out that most of his films began as sets & set pieces he wanted, and the plots were backwards engineered to connect those, I would :10000-com: % believe it. Like an action movie but not.
Wes Anderson is like dumb David Lynch, but his movies are very pretty and the basic story is enough to make them enjoyable (if you vibe with the slideshow/quick cut aesthetic).
David Lynch isn't even that much of a genius, but at least he's able to bake some sort of deeper message/morality into his nonsense scripts.
(I say this as someone who very much enjoys Lynch and Anderson films lol)
Yes, but it's very frustrating that he doesn't challenge himself, instead churning out the same flick every time.
I honestly think when it all shakes out The Fantastic Fox might turn out to be his best flick, but I like Moonrise Kingdom, Royal Tenenbaums, and Grand Budapest Hotel.
He almost always makes movies about rich white people, with rich white actors accompanied by music by rich white musicians. I don't care about whatever twee means, but I do care that he's just another rich kid telling workers stories about rich people in the exact same way every time.
he's got his style and he ain't straying from it much. i like all his movies, some i love more than others, mostly Life Aquatic. Maybe it's because I was younger and more impressionable.
ya gotta be ready for a lotta whimsy to enjoy his stuff
i'd say he's pretty talented but kind of insular. his times stepping out of twee americana i've quite despised---Darjeeling Ltd., Isle of Dogs, French Dispatch :haram:
Asteroid City looks like his wheelhouse again, it might be pretty good, and i like films about tourist traps in the middle of deserts :edgeworth-shrug: YMMV
I've enjoyed most of the films he's directed, but if my first exposure were today I probably wouldn't.
Rushmore is too similar to my own experience in early education so that might contribute a lot... My favorite is The Life Aquatic though.
I recommend Bottle Rocket. I believe it was his first movie in 1996, I didn't see it until much later, much later still I found out he directed it. It is pretty neat.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/
That being said, "Go Team Zissou!"
I think so but all of his movies have the same style and tone. It's an acquired taste that doesn't really exist anywhere else. If you aren't bothered by seeing similar joke structures reused fairly regularly and you're into the tone then I'd say give the others a try. The Life Aquatic might be my favorite one of his so I'd recommend that one.
In my opinion, Rushmore is nearly a perfect movie. At least that's what younger me thought.
Darjeeling ltd is so short but when I saw it felt long, emotionally.
Life aquatic is fine - but I haven't see it in years.
He's ok.
