"I'd love to see Wes Anderson do something wildly different..." -- Oh! Let's have him direct the next Fast and Furious movie!

@Tadicuslegion78

2 жыл бұрын

It's old Model T/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang style cars in a turn of the century grand prix to rob a train from a man in top hat and snidely whiplash moustache

@louisduarte8763

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen a fake trailer for "What if Wes Anderson directed 'The X-Men'?", which is hopefully still on KZread. Made by the same people who made "What if Werner Herzog directed 'Ant-Man'?"

@FreyaEinde

2 жыл бұрын

You're joking...but I would fucking watch it. That would be sick. The cars would be stop motion in scenes.

@clivewilliams4859

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve almost finished the script 🖊

@everybrodymovie

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tadicuslegion78 Ooh ooh! Let's have Adrien Brody as said man in a top hat. He'd be perfect. ha.

Peter Griffin: Wes Anderson, the director who makes you feel like you just ate a bunch of pot brownies then wake up in greeting cards

@louisduarte8763

2 жыл бұрын

I still remember how that bit ended: "Thanks for watching, white people!"

@aarondavis8943

2 жыл бұрын

Peter Griffin can be uncharacteristically astute sometimes. Sounds more like something Stewie would say.

To repeat a comment I made on Twitter: Two movies came out last week, one was a profoundly silly fantasy, filled with strange, unrelatable, inhuman characters, improbable concepts and alien vistas. The other was Dune. I do love Wes Anderson btw, and I'm sure I'll thoroughly enjoy this one, being both a Francophile and a fan. But I need to be in the right headspace for one of these movies.

"Like Pulp Fiction, if it were written by Gil from Frasier." - That is brilliant! And exceedingly accurate. :)

@aarellanod2d

2 жыл бұрын

A Frasier reference is the only aspect of this review that landed with me.

The first thing I said after walking out of this movie was that it felt like Wes Anderson just made a parody of himself.

On the way home from the theater I said this felt like wes Anderson’s student film with a blank check. Some gorgeous moments but overall a chore to sit through

@Matthew-rp3jf

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better myself. Imagine if this movie had a coherent story and plot with all those beautiful shots

I just want to know when "The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders" will finally be finished.

A career built on being self consciously twee. Forget about Kubrick here, Tiny Tim would be a much better point of comparison to Anderson's treacly brand of fey whimsy.

I'm pissed that my cinema doesn't have this film playing, I love Wes Anderson films

Is it odd that I have problems with the lack of humanity of Edgar Wright movies but I have no problem finding it in Wes Anderson movies? I just LOVE Life Aquatic; Whenever I start it, I have to watch it from beginning to "That was an adventure" ending with Bill Murray walks away while Bowie's "Queen Bitch" plays. Perfection, utter perfection. The only one I don't like is Bottle Rocket. Too Texas and Owen Wilson's character should have been Luke Wilson's brother.... ha, irony... because a friend like that should have been dropped years earlier.

I am one of those people who loves Wes Anderson in even his most divisive movies. I loved THE LIFE AQUATIC long before everybody else started to. His stuff is as much its own genre as the Coen Brothers or De Palma's work is, and I for one love the Wes Anderson genre.

@StonedGremlinProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Life Aquatic is awesome :)

@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747

2 жыл бұрын

People love the Coen brothers, yet nobody liked Hail Caesar, I thought it was quintessential Coen shenanigans right there.

@Ghoulstille

2 жыл бұрын

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I liked Hail Caesar.

@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ghoulstille It was great!

@karlkarlos3545

2 жыл бұрын

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 "God doesn't have children. He's a bachelor, and very angry."

Wes Anderson movies tend to be a slow burn for me. It takes a while to get into it but once I'm there it's nothing short of gold. One of my favorite movies by him is "The Grand Budapest Hotel". It wasn't until halfway through the second act that it really started to click for me. Now it's one of my favorite movies.

"Is the director talking about himself?" Deadpan flat reply. Yes.

Absolutely agreed with your review! I don't usually feel like things that are aimed above my head usually clear it, but I could not parse the intent here.

I drifted away from Wes Anderson after The Darjeeling Limited. As much as I love the film (and probably my favourite) there was, as noted, a sameness about the characters and style that was becoming increasingly frustrating. His films are too quirky for their own good and do oftentimes become self parodies. Anderson has observed this in an interview, but he seems to be enslaved to making "Wes Anderson films" like Hitchcock knew that he was condemned to make variations of his previous films and if he deviated from that tried and tested formula the film bombed. I have deeply mixed feelings about Anderson's films: one the hand they are visually stunning, but one the other they are superficial and empty at their centres like a cinematic cream puff. In an era where style is short supply and the films are frequently ugly to look at, Wes Anderson (in a visual sense) is similar to Kubrick and knows how to light a scene, fill it with colour, and excels in composition, but without a strong story it is all in service of nothing. He needs to find a good book to adapt. Kubrick made a career from adapting novels; there is no shame in that. He has all the talent to make great films but he needs to stop making Wes Anderson films.

@sajunbecker3275

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, Greg. Yes, we're very much living in a time where movies are becoming increasingly homogenous and visually soulless, which is why it sometimes feels like Wes Anderson is squandering his clout as a heavyweight "auteur" director. I've been watching his movies for twenty years because I think he has a sharp eye and a knack for great casting, but yeah, I'm tired of the twee, vaguely 1970's Euro-fetish style he keeps recycling. His first three or four movies were anchored with a sense of sincerity that I think has been largely lost (although I did feel this with The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is probably his last "classic" movie). I'd love to see Wes Anderson do something really weird, like a hard horror or noir thriller movie. He could knock it out of the park if he'd loosen that pastel blazer a little bit.

@theconsciousobserver6829

2 жыл бұрын

Agree with both comments

I loved this movie. Thought it was great.

@chasehedges6775

2 жыл бұрын

Looks worth checking out

@X_Blake

2 жыл бұрын

@@chasehedges6775 It's pretty much worth it.

I want to see Wes do a reboot of Too Close For Comfort.

I quite enjoyed it, I liked how it was mostly black and white, just like the magazines of the time (8 colour pages per issue)

I absolutely loved the first story with Del Toro. Personally i felt like my brain just overloaded with WA style coming so fast and constant especially by the third story. I’ll have to rewatch to digest but generally agree with the points Made in this review. -Also Im a huge wes anderson phan.

I love The Grand Budapest Hotel. Great film.

Please let "Like Pulp Fiction if it was written by Gill from Frasier" be a pull-quote on the back of the Blu-ray for this movie.

This one was one of my favs next to Darjeeling limited

I wouldn't say it's on the same level as GBH, Mr. Fox, or Isle of Dogs. Maybe on the same level as Moonrise Kingdom.

@StonedGremlinProductions

2 жыл бұрын

That's the closest one I would compare it to as well.

@X_Blake

2 жыл бұрын

@@StonedGremlinProductions Glad I'm not alone on this take.

@karlkarlos3545

2 жыл бұрын

Good, because I love Moonrise Kingdom.

@X_Blake

2 жыл бұрын

@@karlkarlos3545 same

My favorite Wes Anderson films I’ve seen include: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs, And Moonrise Kingdom. I didn’t care for: The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and Rushmore, Royal Tannebaums was okay and I haven’t seen Grand Budapest Hotel yet, but I do own it and haven’t seen Bottle Rocket yet either.

@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747

2 жыл бұрын

Bottle Rocket is one of my favourites, but based on your ranking I highly doubt you'd like it. You definitely should check out The Grand Budapest Hotel.

@theconsciousobserver6829

2 жыл бұрын

Life Aquatic is his best film.

Brad summed up my own opinions on Wes Anderson movies: everyone in them are too dry and flat, and I can't connect with anyone, besides the occasional chuckle.

I haven't gotten to see this yet, so I could only listen to part of your review without turning it off for worry you'd spoil something. I love Wes Anderson's production design. I can admit I'm shallow enough to just want to look at everything.

i really enjoyed rushmore was looking foward to life aquatic w steve zissou and have been let down ever since so i gave up on him

Nice Frasier reference, spot-on

True dat, spot on review.

Not as good a script as Moonrise Kingdom but not as unfocused or shot as fantastical as the Jacques Cousteau Steve Ziszou knock off one...the French Dispatch just happens at times to our characters and does not give the audience enough time to digest its zeitgeist. The second and third story I agree needed a rewrite and less dependence on cinematic juxtaposition against the first piece by the director to attempt to compensate for his plot digressions and foot notes...It is possible if he had ended with the first story he could have explored earlier the pathos and estrangement he was attempting to explore during the transformative period in France during the fifties and sixties more fully which clearly the director had a great love affair with privately. Also ending with Murray or Horowitz’s death and having more commentary by the characters on his death would have said something deeper about true journalism and what it is about as an enterprise and way of life...outside of Jeff Wright’s Oscar award winning supporting role as far as I am concerned as the gastronomic crime story journalist touching upon that tapestry ever so delicately at points...I felt this was a love letter to writers, artists and their suffering as well as their autonomy being celebrated as the true catalyst for change in society and that who is celebrated instead is still often iconic but not really the sole culprit for instigating revolution or changing culture. That there is this confluence of nonsense and journalists are attempting to catch willow o wisp in a dark bottle despite its many cracks. In that sense it may in time may be considered an especially relevant time capsule for this time in history at the advent of the digital age and this being a forlorn love letter to the art of journalism in a magazine as well. Despite all of this etching through to me, I agree with Brad Jones and feel it is time for Wes if he going to explore such relevant an timely concepts that he think about exploring another genre of film. Imagine a science fiction film done by him, the romance and charm he might impart...then again he seems a man born out of his age so whatever is next, let’s hope he commits to it deeply. This felt too painful a subject at times for even an artist to completely render perfectly.

The first thing you said was literally my review 2 days ago 😂

Id give it an A. Loved it.

I don't mean to be that guy. But Léa Seydoux... she's a goddess!

I agree

I could connect with Rushmore, Life Aquatic Tannenbaums....but the is way over the pretension line

I would rank it if it was playing anywhere near me!

I know those chuckles.

I went into this movie blind, and I walked out with a lot of the issues you did. I will say that those “mild chuckles” were loud guffaws for the senior crowd in my theater, so maybe that was the movie’s intended audience.

Pass...I've tried but Wes Anderson always seems like the most empty kitsch to me, everything visually is so clean and nice and colourful and the humour rarely lands despite some great performances in his films ...Give me weird not quirky..

@dancegregorydance6933

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t disagree. He’s leaned into his style so much that it’s become clinché and boring. Occasionally he strikes gold like he did with Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr. Fox. I’d like to see if Anderson can change it up, while not entirely losing his style.

Wes Anderson: the Frank Gehry of movie directors

Maybe Wes Anderson should take a que from SNL, and make a horror movie.

I will eagerly watch anything Wes does, love his style. Its comfortably odd.

Wes Anderson movies for me are so hit or miss. I will usually give one of his movies a shot just in case. This is his first movie I just don’t feel compelled at all to go see. I just want a sequel to Rushmore. I have to know how Max is doing!

I love Rushmore and Tenembaums but after that I just got Wes Andersoned out. It didn’t help that I really disliked Life Aquatic.

Wes tried to make this movie to look like inside of reader's mind while he/she is going through each of three articles in the French Dispatch Magazine. So he cranked the two-dimentiality and all the prop-making and switched from B&W to Color in series of desperate attempts to make movie look like reading. But he failed. Nice try though. My hat is off to him for attempting the trick.

I liked his first 4 movies, but he lost me after Darjeeling Limited.

I don't think I've ever seen a Wes Anderson movie.

Love WA but this is a cut below🙁

In my opinion, its definitely his best film yet. As not only his style fits with these interweaving stories. But because they pay tribute to both Silent films, and French New Waves (Jean Luc Goddard and Francis Truffot)

@karlkarlos3545

2 жыл бұрын

In other words, It's Jacques Tati.

@MichaelMichael-us6wq

2 жыл бұрын

@@karlkarlos3545 Never seen a Tati before, but I preparing on seeing Playtime

Wes Anderson is a lot like Guy Maddin, in that they both create cinematic worlds that either pull you in, or don’t. But those worlds themselves are the movie, the characters are intentionally reduced to set dressing, and even the sudden intrusion of violence or tragedy is in the same vein. I felt genuinely sad at the one tragic moment in this film, somehow, which is actually quite an achievement when the characters feel like puppets and their dialogue sounds (intentionally) unnatural. And I have to give Anderson props for his writing, in this film the stories are supposedly written by great journalists, and I could absolutely believe that I was listening to stories from a highbrow magazine with a “house style” like Anderson’s. It never felt like a mediocre writer trying to imitate much better ones.

Yeah I'll pass. "Beautifully shot" doesn't pass as a movie

Same thoughts tbh

I would watch the shit out of a Wes Anderson kung-fu or wuxia flick. Bring back his normal cast, too. Show me Adrian Brody and Bill Murray doing front kicks.

I really adore everything Wes Anderson and I really respect this movie but I don‘t love it (yet). Every shot is so gorgeous and the dialog is so meticulous well written. Yet I couldn’t quite connect to it but I respect it for what it is: a pure and untempered vision of a great director.

Yeah, your opinion was more or less my feelings on the flick. Adrien Brody definitely stole the show through and through.

I really enjoyed this movie, but I think it was that I knew it was a Wes Anderson film and I was ready for it. It was my girlfriend's first one and she enjoyed it alot so that was good. Honestly the worst thing I think about his films are the fans, or at least the ones who think they're smarter than you cause they watch them.

I completely agree. I couldn’t even pay attention to the third story.

3:53 Wes Anderons could never direct The Shining or Eyes Wide Shout, but so Kubrick could never have made Fantastic Mr Fox or The Grand Budapest Hotel. And why would them? No one can makes a Kubrick like Stanley Kubrick just like no one can makes a Wes Anderson film like Wes Anderson himself. Let filmmakers play with their strenght that are so evident people keep copying them. That was a pretty bad argument to be honest, especially since Dr Strnagleove still has a lot of Kubrick's trademark cynicism present throughtout, something Wes Anderson would never do, and therefore, could never made a film like it. Kubrick and Anderson are like apple and oranges, not a single evident point of comparasion outside some framing techniques and camera movements.

@domingosjunior6805

2 жыл бұрын

he saying that Wes Anderson is just one note And Wes Craven is better

@JohnnyBurnes

2 жыл бұрын

Neither are no Vincent Dawn.

Never liked a film he made because of his style, but if you like it then you'll probably like all of his stuff.

Anderson is pretty much hit and miss with me. I really liked "The Grand Budapest Hotel," but I found this movie to be unwatchable. Started out great, but it ground down into unbearable absurdity. I bailed midway into the story about the incarcerated artist.

Can't wait for your opinion on buffed Kumail Nanjiani dancing

I want to see Wes Anderson's Marvel movie.

@chasehedges6775

2 жыл бұрын

I’d like that, tbh.

Completely agree. This movie was gorgeous but there was serious lack of plot..I felt like I was hungover trying to pay attention in church on Sunday morning. Grand budapest and fantastic Mr fox still the best

Wes Anderson's *Jimmy Olson* Coming soon to theaters.

When are you going to review "God's Not Dead: We the People?

Potentially meta abstract art project featuring Lea Seduex from a distinct director?....Death Stranding?

Not a fan of his work. It looks too boring for me.

Did not like the Tim Chalamet story, and even though it's his trademark, I don't like the childrens storybook style here. That style was best in Moonlight Kingdom and superb in The Life Aquatic, which is still his best work imo. This was...no. No. It's like Wes is afraid. Dialogue is trash, hurried, transparent in a pretentious way like "I'm so smart I can voice my inner thoughts." The minutia having too much screen time. The litany of lists of things, "He had one stapler, a pocket watch, a laser pointer, a little desk mouse named King Stephen Moore the Fourth." Just arbitrary bs.