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In reply to TCTTS • 8:22a, 3/30/23
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amercer said:
Surprised to learn people didn't like The French Dispatch. I thought it was brilliant and on par with his other work.

In any case Asteroid City looks incredible. But is there really no Bill Murray? He's the alien right?

Just watched the trailer again, and man this really does look phenomenal. I love Wes Anderson, I love sci-fi, I love desert-set movies, I love a good mid-century aesthetic, and I love this cast.

Somehow, this summer keeps getting better and better.

Judging by who's in the cast but not in the trailer, any of Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, and Jeff Goldblum could be aliens. Regardless, it'll be fun to see who they all end up playing.
Gotta be Goldblum, right?
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In reply to amercer • 9:32a, 3/30/23
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amercer said:
Surprised to learn people didn't like The French Dispatch. I thought it was brilliant and on par with his other work.

In any case Asteroid City looks incredible. But is there really no Bill Murray? He's the alien right?
I didn't dislike it, but it wasn't top tier like my favorites. I probably need to watch that one again.

My top 5:
1) The Grand Budapest Hotel
2) The Royal Tenenbaums
3) Rushmore
4) Fantastic Mr. Fox
5) Bottle Rocket

The Royal Tenenbaums was my favorite for a long time but every time I watch The Grand Budapest Hotel it just gets better for me. I haven't watched Moonrise Kingdom or The Darjeeling Limited in a while, I need to watch those again.

It would shock me if Bill Murray doesn't make an appearance, maybe he shows up but is uncredited?
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In reply to MASAXET • 10:02a, 3/30/23
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MASAXET said:
TCTTS said:
Just watched the trailer again, and man this really does look phenomenal. I love Wes Anderson, I love sci-fi, I love desert-set movies, I love a good mid-century aesthetic, and I love this cast.

Somehow, this summer keeps getting better and better.

Judging by who's in the cast but not in the trailer, any of Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, and Jeff Goldblum could be aliens. Regardless, it'll be fun to see who they all end up playing.
Gotta be Goldblum, right?

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10:02a, 3/30/23
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Post 'em if you got 'em.
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10:08a, 3/30/23
Rushmore
Moonrise Kingdom
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Royal Tenenbaums
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bottle Rocket
Isle of Dogs
The Life Aquatic
The French Dispatch
The Darjeeling Limited
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In reply to PDWT_12 • 10:14a, 3/30/23
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Regardless of how you feel about his movies (I personally really like them), WA is pretty well liked and well respected by the actors that he typically works with. Which is why so many of them come back and take roles for a lot less money than they may typically go for.

And (again) regardless of how you feel about his movies, they are different and probably a good change of pace and breath of fresh air for actors to work in.
I don't think the audience cares how much the actors in a movie enjoyed working on it...
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10:37a, 3/30/23
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In reply to PDWT_12 • 11:56a, 3/30/23
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Funny, you 8 and 9 are the only ones I have seen all the way through. I have seen some of Royal Tenenbaums though.

I liked Bottle Rocket a lot. Darjeeling Limited was good but I don't remember much.
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12:17p, 3/30/23
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Darjeeling Limited was a great movie. It's one of my favorites.
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In reply to The Milkman • 1:05p, 3/30/23
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The Milkman said:
PDWT_12 said:
Regardless of how you feel about his movies (I personally really like them), WA is pretty well liked and well respected by the actors that he typically works with. Which is why so many of them come back and take roles for a lot less money than they may typically go for.

And (again) regardless of how you feel about his movies, they are different and probably a good change of pace and breath of fresh air for actors to work in.
I don't think the audience cares how much the actors in a movie enjoyed working on it...
Well, that was really more of a point of how WA continues to pull in ensemble casts. Folks enjoy being in his movies, so they keep coming back, plus additional big names are drawn to it.

But I also think very often in movies you can tell when folks are having fun and when they are not, and sometimes it plays a huge difference in the quality of the movies.
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In reply to Chipotlemonger • 1:07p, 3/30/23
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To be fair, I have Darjeeling and Bottle Rocket rated as like 85/100s. Very high floor for Wes Anderson for me. Tenenbaums is hands down my favorite though.
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In reply to AggieArchitect04 • 1:08p, 3/30/23
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"I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in face!
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5:05p, 3/30/23
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01. Rushmore
02. The Royal Tenenbaums
03. Moonrise Kingdom
04. The Darjeeling Limited
05. The Grand Budapest Hotel
06. The Life Aquatic
07. Bottle Rocket
08. Fantastic Mr. Fox
09. Isle of Dogs
10. The French Dispatch
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In reply to TCTTS • 5:06p, 3/30/23
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Maybe I was just in a weird mood or something, but I found The French Dispatch to be incredibly boring, and not at all funny, charming, or compelling. Honestly, I couldn't wait for it to end. I probably need to give it another shot, though.
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5:23p, 3/30/23
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Rushmore and Moonrise Kingdom are my two favorites.
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6:14p, 3/30/23
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8:07p, 3/30/23
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Take me down to the Asteroid City
Where the look is clean
And the words are plenty!
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In reply to TCTTS • 9:40p, 3/30/23
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I don't want to encourage someone to rewatch something they didn't like but I do think the whole thing plays better when you expect the structure he's working.
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10:32p, 3/30/23
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"Cannonball Run" is fun, but for those of us a bit older, the standard is "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" with its all star cast.
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In reply to Dimebag Darrell • 11:16p, 3/30/23
Brittmoore Car Club said:
I feel like his movies are made exclusively for wacky hipsters who just can't stand anything that would appeal to normal, larger audiences.


I grew up in the middle of a cotton field in Wall, TX and am as red ass as it gets and I freaking love Wes Anderson.

I also enjoy Cannon Ball Run.

I also like IPAs, cheap whiskey, brisket, .99 cheeseburgers from McDs, charcuterie, wine, broadway musicals, and vote Republican. People can be complicated.
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1:37a, 3/31/23
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All star cast movies are some of the worst I have ever seen. Anybody here see Babylon? What a POS that was. How about New Years Eve? The worst! These were walk out of the theater in the first15 minutes bad. Bullet Train was another stinker. Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt just must not give a damn anymore.

I can't believe anybody liked The Royal Tannebalms. But I must say I did like The Life Aquatic with Steve Izzuzu.

My prediction for Asteroid City? Pain.

If you want to see a great all star cast movie, rewatch Pulp Fiction and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
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In reply to Another Doug • 6:32p, 3/31/23
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For ET board members scoring at home: 86%

Or even if they're alone.
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10:35p, 6/12/23
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It's nuts the lengths Anderson went to in order to bring this whole thing to life, and I cannot wait. Reminder that it's out this weekend...

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In reply to TCTTS • 11:12p, 6/12/23
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It's nuts the lengths Anderson went to in order to bring this whole thing to life
Is the UAP whistleblower just viral marketing for this film?
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In reply to c-jags • 12:33a, 6/13/23
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c-jags said:
Brittmoore Car Club said:
I feel like his movies are made exclusively for wacky hipsters who just can't stand anything that would appeal to normal, larger audiences.


I grew up in the middle of a cotton field in Wall, TX and am as red ass as it gets and I freaking love Wes Anderson.

I also enjoy Cannon Ball Run.

I also like IPAs, cheap whiskey, brisket, .99 cheeseburgers from McDs, charcuterie, wine, broadway musicals, and vote Republican. People can be complicated.


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In reply to pfo • 1:24p, 6/19/23
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pfo said:
All star cast movies are some of the worst I have ever seen. Anybody here see Babylon? What a POS that was. How about New Years Eve? The worst! These were walk out of the theater in the first15 minutes bad. Bullet Train was another stinker. Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt just must not give a damn anymore.

I can't believe anybody liked The Royal Tannebalms.


The Royal Tenenbaums was Anderson's best. The cast was amazing and it had by far the best plot of any movie he's written. His movies are usually fun and cutesy but don't make me feel much, but RT takes me through the full range of emotions.
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In reply to c-jags • 1:30p, 6/19/23
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c-jags said:
Brittmoore Car Club said:
I feel like his movies are made exclusively for wacky hipsters who just can't stand anything that would appeal to normal, larger audiences.


I grew up in the middle of a cotton field in Wall, TX and am as red ass as it gets and I freaking love Wes Anderson.

I also enjoy Cannon Ball Run.

I also like IPAs, cheap whiskey, brisket, .99 cheeseburgers from McDs, charcuterie, wine, broadway musicals, and vote Republican. People can be complicated.
I have two younger cousins in undergrad at A&M right now and I can say confidently that if you throw in a borrowed/unpaid for (HBO) Max subscription and around $150 in random ass crypto earnings, you've just described the current Gen Z Aggie.
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2:49p, 6/19/23
Love the campy irony of his movies. It really is his own genre.
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In reply to oragator • 3:02p, 6/19/23
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Love the campy irony of his movies. It really is his own genre.


100% he has his own style. No one that I have ever seen makes anything like a wes Anderson movie. I love them.
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3:45p, 6/19/23
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I've never seen a Wes Anderson movie, but seeing this Thursday
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3:45p, 6/19/23
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Had a ticket to see this yesterday on the west side, got to the theater 30 minutes early, and the parking garage was so insane that I missed my showing. Ended up instead buying a last-minute ticket to Past Lives (which is incredible).

Asteroid City is in limited release right now (just a few theaters in LA and NY), but goes wide on Thursday, including our Alamo Drafthouse, which is downtown, a much cooler location, and closer to my place. So I just looked at getting tickets there for later this week and nearly every showing through Sunday is *already* sold out. As in eight showings a day, for four straight days, only a handful of crappy seats left.

This is crazy.

But also great to see it already performing so well, at least locally.
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3:54p, 6/19/23
got my ticket for Thursday night
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In reply to Bunk Moreland • 4:01p, 6/19/23
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Nice.

I just found one decent seat. Sunday afternoon.
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