MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES! ACK!

[peacocks]

I'm one of the only friends who is kinda meh about seeing it. most other people I talk to are super far up w.anderson's butt. I'm up his butt for royal tenenbaums and rushmore and bottle rocket and even life aquatic but began to slide out for the fantastic mr. fox, even though it was a nice movie.

[jebreject]

Yeah, I love Rushmore and Royal Tennenbaums particularly; I didn't really like The Life Aquatic all that much, at least as a whole (there are some great bits here and there that I do like a lot). I liked Fantastic Mr. Fox, but I feel like the very reasons it worked for me were the reasons that Moonrise Kingdom didn't. I liked Darjeeling Limited quite a bit at the time, but haven't thought about it much since.

[peacocks]

oh yeah, I forgot about darjeeling lmtd....................ha

[dumbfish]

Most of us do, that's the problem.

[elpollodiablo]

I'm pretty good with leaving it forgotten.

[davy]

I sorta wrote him off after The Life Aquatic, which just really rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. So I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Darjeeling Limited a few years later, and then wasn't surprised at all by how much I enjoyed Fantastic Mr. Fox, since I was now back on the bandwagon and had loved Roald Dahl's book as a kid.

My rankings:

1) Fantastic Mr. Fox
2) Rushmore
3) Bottle Rocket
4) Royal Tenenbaums
5) Darjeeling Limited
X) Life Aquatic
?) Moonrise Kingdom

[jm]

I haven't seen Darjeeling Ltd., but I can't imagine how Bottle Rocket is above anything on any list.

[elpollodiablo]

Oh man word

[Greg Nog]

Wow, so MacGruber was surprisingly good!  Vulgar as heck, and never really developed any depth beyond the basic premise laid out in the sketch precursors, but also kept clipping along quickly enough that it never overstayed its welcome.  In fact, the whole thing kind of felt like a pretty entertaining three-minute-long sketch, which is quite an interesting feat for a ninety-minute movie.

[jess]

Am I the only one here who really liked the Life Aquatic? I also liked Moonrise Kingdom and definitely enjoyed the aesthetics and the acting in particular—didn't love it, but would recommend it. Definitely not on the level of Fantastic Mr. Fox, but that's a high bar.

[Good Intentions]

Am I the only one here who really liked the Life Aquatic?

Nope, I did too.

[Dick]

I liked the life aquatic and find all of that guy's other films completely incomprehensible.  I don't even think they're bad they're just completely alien to my own understanding and interpretation of the world.

Not even trying to play the crotchety old man card either.  I can have an opinion about for example the quality of Jezebel's writing or whatever we decided to care about this decade, just this particular thing seems to elude me completely.

[elpollodiablo]

Except for that one thing that's a pretty ready example of all the others.

[Thermofusion]

I also don't get Wes Anderson. Not in a dismissive way, more of the "completely alien" thing you're describing, Dick. I guess I'm not smart enough or something.

[Thermofusion]

Also his movies don't strike me as very genuine, I guess. Everything's a contrivance. Director's hand constantly showing, calling attention to itself. His flicks feel like fancy automatons constructed by a really self-absorbed dude.

[Thermofusion]

Who's the lady who makes the movies about dudes alone in their apartment washing dishes for three hours or whatever? You guys talk about her sometimes. I'd watch that shit. That shit's real.

[edison]

Am I the only one here who really liked the Life Aquatic?

Nope, I did too.

Yeah, me too.

[edison]

Also I don't know if it'll even come out in the US but last night I saw Leos Carax's Holy Motors and thought it was just about the best thing ever. I left the theatre with a huge stupid grin on my face.

(It's actually a bit uneven and hard to describe as a masterpiece in the conventional sense, but there is a more than a dozen of ideas/bits/scenes in there that are so brilliant that it feels sort of obscene to even bring up the few less inspired bits)

[ellaguru]

The video store that's like a 45 second walk from my house and has a really good selection is now offering a Netflix-style $30/month for all you can watch movies, plus I get to rent them from the place on the corner rather than from the anonymous internet. I'm thinking I might give that a try.

[elpollodiablo]

The other day when we wanted to watch True Romance, I queued the torrent up on Demonoid while D found it for rent on the baked-in Amazon Instant Video on our TV. We decided to just cough up the three bucks and watch it in HD, cuz, why not. The legit video loaded halfway, then froze. We rebooted the TV, tried again; it froze again. The third time, there was no evidence that we'd paid for the movie. By that point the torrent had finished.

[dumbfish]

A Town Called Panic: Stop-motion animation, protagonist is a horse named Cheval. His friends are Cowboy and Indian. Madcap fun all the way, really hit my happy spots. On Netflix Instant.

[Trousers and Pat]

Also I don't know if it'll even come out in the US but last night I saw Leos Carax's Holy Motors and thought it was just about the best thing ever. I left the theatre with a huge stupid grin on my face.

(It's actually a bit uneven and hard to describe as a masterpiece in the conventional sense, but there is a more than a dozen of ideas/bits/scenes in there that are so brilliant that it feels sort of obscene to even bring up the few less inspired bits)

I want to see it!

[edison]

Also I don't know if it'll even come out in the US but last night I saw Leos Carax's Holy Motors and thought it was just about the best thing ever. I left the theatre with a huge stupid grin on my face.

(It's actually a bit uneven and hard to describe as a masterpiece in the conventional sense, but there is a more than a dozen of ideas/bits/scenes in there that are so brilliant that it feels sort of obscene to even bring up the few less inspired bits)

I want to see it!

I want to see it again!

[davy]

I liked the life aquatic and find all of that guy's other films completely incomprehensible.  I don't even think they're bad they're just completely alien to my own understanding and interpretation of the world.

but but but Life Aquatic is the incomprehensible one!

[Greg Nog]

The other day when we wanted to watch True Romance, I queued the torrent up on Demonoid while D found it for rent on the baked-in Amazon Instant Video on our TV. We decided to just cough up the three bucks and watch it in HD, cuz, why not. The legit video loaded halfway, then froze. We rebooted the TV, tried again; it froze again. The third time, there was no evidence that we'd paid for the movie. By that point the torrent had finished.

Similarly, whenever I try to watch stuff on hulu, it has a tendency to stutter and stop and make my laptop fan kick into super high gear, which is why I pretty much switched to torrenting NBC shows rather than just streaming them.