pick your favorite wes anderson film!

rushmore, tenenbaums, and fantastic mr fox are his best. i know nothing about hotel chevalier, but i think life aquatic and darjeeling were low points for him -- just cutesy, mannered genre exercises. voted tenenbaums even though it's way too long.

Still really like Tenenbaums, but it's gotta be Rushmore. Really didn't feel the love for Fox.

still like bottle rocket the best.

have yet 2 see fox, id order them

tenenbaums
bottle rocket
hotel chevalier
rushmore
darjeeling ltd
life aquatic

i haven't seen a lot of these actually (only seen fox, darjeeling & royals) & fox & darjeeling are in my 20 fav films of the decade -- i don't really get the fuss over royals tho tbh

probaby Fantastic Mr. Fox. Everyone loves to hate on Life Aquatic since he's basically repeating himself but it's still pretty amusing all the way through, teeming with aquatic life and whatnot. love all the ocean-themed ideas he squeezed into it (pirates, jacqes couseau, jellies, man-eating sharks); more colorful even than FMF. Anjelica Huston is better here than in RT, and Bill Murray is upstaged by Willem Dafoe.

Sic transit gloria.

i really like this corny fuck. Though I despised Darjeeling.

bottle rockets (Feature) - never seen the short

I will punch anyone who votes for Hotel Chevalier.

Loved Fox, but there really is no way in hell I'm not voting Rushmore.

I will punch anyone who votes for Hotel Chevalier.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, April 4, 2010 9:57 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

i actually really like that little film, and natalie portman's ass has nothing (well, little) to do with it.

Sorry, for me it's like every criticism leveled against Wes Anderson distilled into a few insufferable minutes. Plus I'm obviously unmoved by sensitive, understated ass.

Rushmore, Tenenbaums, Darjeeling - in that order

Rushmore! I haven't seen Hotel Chevalier, Fantastic Mr. Fox, or I Think Wes Anderson's Films Are Insufferable.

tenenbaums. it might actually be fox if i'd seen it more than once, but i've loved tenenbaums for a long time. do people like bottle rocket? i've always kind of wanted to see it.

i like all of em OK, but only LOVE Rushmore and Fantastic Mr. Fox (in that order)

just watched rushmore again. wow that movie is great.

rushmore in a beat

would be v surprised if rushmore doesnt win this

wanna see the criterion disc of 'bottle rocket' cos i think i've only seen it taped of tv, but it'll still be 'rushmore'

i have soft spot for bottle rocket and will go to bat for for darjeeling ltd, but rushmore by a long, long way. probably couldn't sit through tenenbaums any more, but liked it at the time. life aquatic is just awful.

Rushmore was the only movie where I ever rolled beer cans down the aisles in protest. A friend and I had been lured in by print and television ads promising "Best comedy of 1998!" We felt that there weren't very many jokes that lived up to the "these are O.R. scrubs" exchange in the trailer. Those who had called it the best comedy of the year must have missed The Waterboy.

i liked rushmore but don't care for the others. haven't seen bottle rocket. tenenbaums i couldn't stand enough to watch more than 10 min. so i vote rushmore.

xp lolol

We felt that there weren't very many jokes that lived up to the "these are O.R. scrubs" exchange in the trailer.

well, that's true. (that line is v. funny btw: "these are o.r. scrubs." "o.r. they?") for one thing, comedy doesn't equal jokes. i think it's a really funny movie.

Bottle Rocket>Rushmore>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Darjeeling>>>>>>>>>>>The RTs
(Didn't see the others)

tenenbaums. it might actually be fox if i'd seen it more than once, but i've loved tenenbaums for a long time. do people like bottle rocket? i've always kind of wanted to see it.

― phantompenguin, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:14 (9 hours ago) Bookmark

this, and see bottle rocket immediately.

i tihnk with anderson the order you see them in is key, because his steez doesn't change much. so i was only so-so on rushmore even though it's as good as anything he's done (saw it recently) but love tenenbaums, bottle rocket (saw them a few years back, have viewed repeatedly)

darjeeling ltd isn't very good (in context of the list), haven't seen the life aquatic

don't see the life aquatic

Going out on a limb here I love both Life aquatic and Darjeeling Ltd. Although I think I love the fantasy india in the Darjeeling Ltd., the plot and its resolution are almost incidental, if not a block on my enjoyment. Voted for Zisou.

rushmore
bottle rocket
darjeeling
royal tenenbaums
fantastic mr. fox
life aquatic
shorts aren't real movies

I like all this dude's stuff

I would have voted for "I think wes anderson's films are insufferable except for Fantastic Mr Fox."

Lucky for you, you can actually vote for Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Rushmore. heaven't seen Fox and I need to watch Tenenbaums again. but yeah. Rushmore all day long.

Rushmore, Tenenbaums, Darjeeling - in that order

Then FMF.

Tenenbaums, saddest of all of them....

bottle rocket, fox, or rushmore

I will punch anyone who votes for Hotel Chevalier.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, April 5, 2010 2:57 AM (14 hours ago)

So much this. Utter dogshit of the worst kind. Ruined La Portman for me too.

And fuck a Sarstedt too.

hotel chevalier was shown with 'darjeeling ltd' in the uk and it's p hard to see it as a separate entity. don't see how it's worse than the main feature, and given that is has natalie portman's arse in it, i'm minded to say it's better.

fuck this guy

Rushmore's a better movie but I voted for Bottle Rocket, Owen Wilson as Dignan is classic, he never topped that character. I liked Tenenbaums at the time but seeing it more recently I'm pretty indifferent, hated or haven't seen everything since then, seems like this guy peaked and then burned out so quickly.

thread brings out the haters.

Rushmore is still his best. Life Aquatic is a real mess but for some reason I respond to it.

voted Fox but on second thought its probably a tie between that Tenenbaums, and Darjeeling.

never understood the love for Bottle Rocket

it's funnie

well, that's true. (that line is v. funny btw: "these are o.r. scrubs." "o.r. they?") for one thing, comedy doesn't equal jokes. i think it's a really funny movie.

― by another name (amateurist), Monday, April 5, 2010 9:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's like you didn't understand my post at all.

Voted Fox, but I really liked Tenenbaums when it came out. Rest of his stuff is basically dreck.

I'm pretty stoked actually. I picked up Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel for my kid the other day and it had a coupon in it for $2 off of the fox movie.

all his films are good and this one will be too

(i will larf non-stop and so will dr vick, not that i've actually watched a movie with her for years now)

mark s otm

quite obviously this looks amazing

Grand Budapest managed to show in Tupelo for a week, maybe 2; this looks like something the local cinema managers will run like hell from, and I'll have to go see it in Memphis/Bham/ATL.

looks good

first time he's used Lois Smith and Henry Winkler?

Spoiler: At the end of The French Dispatch they get bought by a couple of Trump guys from Queens who lay off everyone without severance, bring in their “own people” and nuke the online archives.

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) February 12, 2020

pretty

I thought Rushmore would have its own thread (it does, sort of). I've been posting a series of Zoomcasts on music in movies: we did one on Rushmore a couple of weeks ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcFSIvRe-Bk

I've been revisiting some of his films this past week. I still like The Life Aquatic more than most folks on here, but was struck by how heavy handed the foreshadowing is. It can kind of be read as a comedic move, but then the film shifts into full on tragic mode.

Rushmore soundtrack is so good. CD was in constant rotation in my car for a long time. I think I heard it before I had seen the movie and didn't know what I was listening to, which made it all the sweeter. I love the Mothersbaugh pieces as much as the songs selected.

👌

Watched The French Dispatch, it convinced me Wes Anderson has crossed over decisively from what was previously possible to condone as "apolitical world of winking whiteness & poignant quirkiness" into a fascoid trivializing of struggle and active investment in the carceral state.

— Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia) April 30, 2022

Interesting. I felt it and GRAND BUDAPEST actually seem to be directly critiquing fascism and the police state, particularly given both films view those institutions as inherently violent from the perspective of POC characters who feel powerless and yet must continue to live.

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) May 1, 2022

We've moved a long way from "Twee or Not".

I dunno about "fascoid" but yes on trivializing of struggle and active investment in TFD.

We made a #StarWars trailer in the style of #wesanderson hope you guys enjoy it! pic.twitter.com/DP5rBxmTOI

— Curious Refuge (@CuriousRefuge) April 29, 2023

Don't know if this has been posted in another Wes Anderson thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TqDvAJXVRI

I suppose he'd view that as a a compliment, but it could also be seen as something that might give you pause.

why late at night does ilx get all wessed out

lol at the idea of any ILX poll getting 133 votes anymore.

I watched Asteroid City about a week ago and have been thinking about the similarity btw WA and David Lynch, in the ways they both investigate how people react to and survive stress and trauma. Augie's inability to tell his kids their mother has died...Richie pining for Margot and attempting suicide...emotional shutdown and blank affect all over the WA filmography. Versus Lynch's characters creating whole worlds to inhabit where they don't have to face what's been done to them or what they've done.

My wife has playfully/seriously accused me for decades of hating whimsy, so my love of WA's movies and surface stylizations never made sense to her. But seeing his and Lynch's work as two facets on the same gem helped me explain it to her in a way that got her off my back at least temporarily seemed to make sense. I have more thinking to do about this. I assume All the Major Film Critics have already made this point but I was out that day.

Going to a matinee of this today. Did ILX never talk about this movie?

There's a whole thread on it--you still have time to pick another movie.

Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023)

Look the picks are between this, sound of freedom, Oppenheimer (again), Barbie, strays, about my father, and gran turismo. Not exactly spoiled for choice for the Monday matinee

Barbie is definitely better than this, but this is a fine Wes Anderson film

Barbie is more unique than this, I wouldn't say better.

My gosh -- I remember reading this and think it will be my favorite: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/movies/wes-anderson-roald-dahl-wonderful-story-henry-sugar.html

I just learned that Mason Gamble, who played Dirk in "Rushmore" (and "Dennis the Menace"), used to live a few blocks from me. I guess he gave up acting a while ago and started work on an environmental science PhD at UCLA. Good for him.

i like that his eureka moment was to have narration for a fairy tale. he must have been watching lemony snicket on netflix at the time.

unwatchable because of the narration. like listening to someone else's audiobook at 1.75x.

i finished it because it's only 30 minutes but i don't think i could have lasted an hour.

I haven't seen any of them since Fantastic Mr. Fox and I hated Life Aquatic, which of the recent ones is worth trying?

Grand Budapest Hotel is my fav but if you hate Life Aquatic it might not bode well

Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest are my favorites.

Moonrise, Grand Budapest, and Asteroid City are all great. Skip French Dispatch.

Astreroid City is so good
I love Grand Budapest Hotel too

I like all the post-Fox live-actions but Moonrise is the one to go with

Grand Budapest Hotel is my fav but if you hate Life Aquatic it might not bode well

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, February 10, 2024 8:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I dislike Life Aquatic, love Grand Budapest Hotel.

Another GBH vote here

Trailer for the new one is out. Once again I thought, "this is the most Wes Anderson thing ever." But then I remembered how much I liked "Asteroid City" (even if I can't remember why) and conceded, yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuMnPl2WI4

Asteroid City was fun

tbh i haven't been interested since Life Aquatic, so i haven't seen anything he's done in 20 years. but for some reason this appeals to me

I couldn't get into Asteroid City, but this looks silly enough to be enjoyable

Oh sure i’ll see it

I've become an enthusiast ever since Grand Budapest Hotel became part of my film class -- despite his annoyances.

Between this and the new PTA--Are we just not doing new threads for these new films? (I mean, I could start them, but I've been--and am--busy)

Yes, please, start one.

I've been rewatching his films and Rushmore and Tennenbaums both suffer from an excess of music cues imo. Of course he never stopped w/ the needledrops but he grew more skilled at integrating them into the feel of the film, making them enhance scenes instead of distracting from them.

I'll admit "oh yeah what's THAT song again" is not a reaction everyone will have and so this failing won't register for many but...I am on ILX, guessing everyone here does do that.

New Thread: The Phoenician Scheme: Wes Anderson's Smoking New Joint w/del Toro & A Cast of Thousands!

There It Is: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208-the-wes-anderson-archive-ten-films-twenty-five-years

20 Discs/$500 MSRP

Which actually does price out to the equivalent of 10 Criterion 4K releases.

for $250 during one of the 50% off sales, that's a good buy. I've got all his stuff on DVD and never got a blu-ray because I couldn't decide where to start. sad it lacks Asteroid City though, would rather have that than Isle of Dogs...