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WWAW Wes Anderson?

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Grand Budapest Hotel is a masterpiece, nothing he has done since has been able to come close. When I watched Isle of Dogs in the theatre, it was only me and like 5 other people there and when it was over and I was walking out, I saw the person working there asleep in one of the seats.
 
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Cuphead

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Grand Budapest Hotel is a masterpiece, nothing he has done since has been able to come close. When I watched Isle of Dogs in the theatre, it was only me and like 5 other people there and when it was over and I was walking out, I saw that the person working there asleep in one of the seats.
I didn't dislike Isle of Dogs as some of his other movies, but it was really fucking boring to me. Aside from the animation it just felt rather lifeless and dull to me.
 

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I'm all in with the Wes Anderson. There's always good storytelling and well written characters to give substance to his inimitable stylish aesthetic that characterizes his movies.

As for any subversive undercurrent that implies some degenerate behaviour from it's source, I'm not convinced. He's obviously a bit eccentric and focuses his stories around flawed characters but he might just be a typical art student type.
 

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Grand Budapest Hotel is a masterpiece, nothing he has done since has been able to come close. When I watched Isle of Dogs in the theatre, it was only me and like 5 other people there and when it was over and I was walking out, I saw that the person working there asleep in one of the seats.
I don’t like it much because I don’t like farces as a genre. I can’t really criticise it outside of that though.

I didn't dislike Isle of Dogs as some of his other movies, but it was really fucking boring to me. Aside from the animation it just felt rather lifeless and dull to me.
Ah yes, perhaps setting an animated film in a garbage dump wasn’t his best decision.

I still think he's a great director but even life aquatic is bordering fart-sniffing with all the quirkiness
I’m all in with the Zissou you’re crazy.
 
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I still think he's a great director but even life aquatic is bordering fart-sniffing with all the quirkiness
I understand why his style is off putting to many, but that film is a great example of what I’m talking about.

He has all this whimsical shit like the glowing jellyfish and the claymation shark and the Portuguese cover songs… but what the movie is really about is an extremely damaged narcissist who hurt everyone around him and couldn’t accept the death of his friend. At the core of all his movies there is a character study or redemption arc for a broken person.

I also like that Wes will let harsh violence or cruelty into his films to get your attention and shatter the whimsical reality the audience may have been lulled into by all his stylistic affectations.

Anyway my point is that I realize his style can be off-putting but I think that’s just a surface level reading. if you look past that veneer he’s actually doing something interesting at the core of these movies.
 

Former Prez Gerald Ford

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All you really need is bottle rocket and Rushmore. I don’t dislike his other movies but none of them reached the heights of those two. Life aquatic and Tennenbaums are both solid but didn’t quite have that undercurrent of playful innocence that I really enjoyed in Rushmore. Anderson really is a director with a distinct style and substance that you can instantly recognize even if you haven’t seen the movie but are familiar with any of his other works. He deserves a lot of credit for that especially with all the cookie cutter paint by numbers kike cinema that gets pumped out every year
 
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All you really need is bottle rocket and Rushmore. I don’t dislike his other movies but none of them reached the heights of those two. Life aquatic and Tennenbaums are both solid but didn’t quite have that undercurrent of playful innocence that I really enjoyed in Rushmore. Anderson really is a director with a distinct style and substance that you can instantly recognize even if you haven’t seen the movie but are familiar with any of his other works. He deserves a lot of credit for that especially with all the cookie cutter paint by numbers kike cinema that gets pumped out every year
I think Owen Wilson had a much more significant influence on those two films and tenembaums than he is usually given credit for.

Owen loves/loved to write about these delusional characters with minimal or wildly incorrect self-awareness. The first three Wes Anderson movies owe a lot to his writing IMO.
 

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I think Owen Wilson had a much more significant influence on those two films and tenembaums than he is usually given credit for.

Owen loves/loved to write about these delusional characters with minimal or wildly incorrect self-awareness. The first three Wes Anderson movies owe a lot to his writing IMO.
I agree. Owen Wilson isnt your typical A-list Hollywood retard, he’s an overly sentimental high iq artist. Anderson had the vision for the films but Wilson gave it a heart
 

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Love his stuff. I think Royal Tenebaums and Rushmore are his best but there are a lot of great movies in that filmography.

I do love all the obsessive set design and perfect symmetry but I'm also glad Asteroid City looks very different than his last several movies just to see if he can still do something else.
 
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Bottle Rocket rules, especially the soundtrack (both the Mark Mothersbaugh originals and the other music). I remember linking Rushmore and don't remember anything about Tenenbaums other than it being quirky. That quirky hipster shit wore thin, so I haven't seen his other movies to be honest witcha. The copycat faggots like Zach Braff and his quirky faggot Garden State movie annoy me infinitely more. Fuck, do I hate that movie.
 

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Royal Tenenbaums is too quirky for me. I like Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.
 
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