https://collider.com/asteroid-city-domestic-box-office-790-thousand/

So great to hear. Can't wait.

Beautiful sets.

Wonderful acting. Everyone seems absolutely committed to his or her role. Brody, Hanks, Scarlett, Schwartzman, Schreiber are all excellent.

The plot?

All the world's a stage.

Actors performing about actors performing about actors performing.

About grief and human insignificance except through story telling, which gives meaning to our lives.

The three little girls try to use magic to conjure their mother back to life. But it is the artfulness of the TV show of the play of the movie of the play (or whatever the exact relationship is) that is the real magic that calls the dead mother back from the grave to tell her story.

I think I get it, but it just didn't amount to as much as some of his better movies.

#AsteroidCity earned $3.8 million on Friday, pointing to an over/under $8.4 million weekend. Among Wes Anderson expansions, that's up there with 'Royal Tenenbaums' in 2002 & 'Grand Budapest Hotel' in 2014, both of which topped $50 million domestic. Very encouraging... #boxoffice pic.twitter.com/vrjdgh9Bis

— Scott Mendelson (@ScottMendelson) June 24, 2023

At the theater now for it

Loved it in a Wes-Anderson-movie sort of way. It was weird and quirky and unique and aesthetically interesting and overall entertaining but I didn't get it and I'm not even sure if there's anything to get. Would definitely recommend.

They are definitely quirky, to the point I get why it's not many people's cup of tea, but to me the main adjective I would use for most of his movies is "funny". I laugh often, and I'm not even sure if I'm laughing where Anderson wants me to laugh every time. I think so, but.....

Went last night with wife and 20 yr old son. We all loved it. The theater was 3/4ths full and crickets. We were stifling ourselves laughing our balls off (two of us, wife was laughing her foopa off). Not his best, but definitely worth the price of admission. Rest of the theater needed to invest in a dry sense of humor.

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WTF did I just watch?! Looks like some crazy stuff.
Look at all these stars:
Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jake Ryan, Tony Revolori, and Jeff Goldblum.
When I was a kid, you had to have a movie like "Cannonball Run" to get an ensemble cast like that together.
From the looks of this trailer, I think I may end up liking CR more.

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It looks awesome... have you never seen a Wes Anderson movie? This is par for the course for him including the cast.

He's not for everyone though, so if you like Cannonball Run then he may not be your cup of tea.

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Cannonball run. Awesome

It's the same thing as modern art. Crap all over a canvas and rub it in and call it art. Act like you are sophisticated when you see it

Loved it, probably in my top 2 WA , going to have to watch it 50 more times to know for sure.

Comments seem like this is something I'll either really love or hate.

If you know what you're in for you likely won't love it or hate it. It checks all the Wes Anderson boxes. The thing that I admire is that I honestly think his directing style and brand of writing is so influential that now when I see his movies I just feel like I'm still stuck with campy advertising and hipsters who lack personality but have tried to become Wes Anderson characters.

There were some really cool technical things and parts of the story that made it worth watching. Would have to rank this one behind RT, Rush, Bottlerocket, GPH, and Moonrise Kingdom. Probably in the minority on that.

Asteroid City scores the biggest weekend gross of all time for a Wes Anderson film, topping Grand Budapest Hotel’s 4th weekend ($8.5M). Going wide faster than any Wes before it helped (save Mr Fox), but still an amazing single weekend gross for the notoriously esoteric filmmaker. https://t.co/avdZKKVgmk

— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) June 25, 2023

Interested to hear more takes. I love everything of his from Bottle Rocket to The Grand Budapest Hotel (the latter being in my top 10 movies of all time). Isle of dogs was okay, and I still haven't gotten around to seeing the French Dispatch.

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Interested to hear more takes. I love everything of his from Bottle Rocket to The Grand Budapest Hotel (the latter being in my top 10 movies of all time). Isle of dogs was okay, and I still haven't gotten around to seeing the French Dispatch.

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If you like WA movies, you'll like this one IMO

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Beavis and Butthead has more substance than Asteroid City. Wes Anderson is modern art brought to Hollywood. Make up a bunch of nonsense and call it art. The more asinine the more valuable it is

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Struggling to gauge if this is a thumbs up or thumbs down

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User name checks out?

Preach. Except I am the east TX version of all that and love Wes Anderson movies.

Scarlett Johansson gets nude so it has that going for it. Not to be outdone my second movie of the weekend Jennifer Lawrence also goes nude

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Went last night with wife and 20 yr old son. We all loved it. The theater was 3/4ths full and crickets. We were stifling ourselves laughing our balls off (two of us, wife was laughing her foopa off). Not his best, but definitely worth the price of admission. Rest of the theater needed to invest in a dry sense of humor.

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Reminds me of when Mars Attacks! Came out and I saw it in the theater. I laughed harder throughout that movie than any other I can remember, and no one else was laughing. Still love that movie. Not Wes Anderson, I know but the reaction you described reminded me of it.

Can't wait to see this one either. My wife and I love all of Wes Andersons movies.

.4 second ScarJo reveal < Margot Robbie's corset

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I feel like his movies are made exclusively for wacky hipsters who just can't stand anything that would appeal to normal, larger audiences.

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I hope you at least watched Rushmore to see what Doug & Don's barbershop on 11th street looked like before Doug threw his antiques/memorabilia collection all over it.

For reference, I absolutely love Wes Anderson, but wasn't a huge fan of his last two movies, The French Dispatch and Isle of Dogs.

As for Asteroid City, I would say it's good, not great. Probably mid-tier Wes Anderson for me, definitely a step above his last two efforts.

IMO, if anything, it's easily the best-looking Anderson movie to date. In fact, aesthetically, it might be one my favorite movies ever? The cinematography, the production design, the colors, the vibe... it all looks incredible, and is so right up my alley. I've always had a thing for the American southwest, along with, like, a mid-century Marfa, TX aesthetic, and this absolutely nails the look in that regard, with colors that pop in ways I've never seen before, and such cool, simple, inventive sets. I could live in this movie forever, and for that reason alone I'll end up buying it, just to have on in the background.

But, yeah, story-wise, it's a bit underwhelming, while also emotionally distant. Though that also kind of seems to be the point, as the emotional distance is specifically addressed, thematically, in dialogue. Still, as cliched as they are, for me, it's missing those emotional crescendos, with a classic rock song playing over either slow-motion footage or Anderson's signature, panning montages. Instead, the emotional drama is all kept at arm's length, and is very subdued, but that's also clearly by design, I just don't yet quite understand why.

I also could have done without the black-and-white framing device, yet that gave us one of the best scenes of the movie, in Margo Robbie's appearance, and I really liked Edward Norton's performance as well, so it's hard to want to do away with that aspect completely.

Basically, I need to sit with/read about it a bit more before fully deciding how I feel. But as of now, even though I didn't completely connect with it emotionally, it made an impression on me for sure.

Also, considering the Barbie/Oppenheimer discourse, it's hilarious to me that this movie is basically both in one. The sets, colors, and the Margot Robbie appearance are all very Barbie-esque, while the American southwest/desert setting, the military presence, and the atom bombs going off in the background are all obviously very Oppenheimer. Could make for a great a triple feature, with this as the final entry of the bunch.

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Scarlett Johansson gets nude so it has that going for it. Not to be outdone my second movie of the weekend Jennifer Lawrence also goes nude

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Did the same, two-day double feature this weekend and never in a million years was I expecting full frontals from both stars, especially at this point in their careers. No wonder both movies over-performed at the box office this weekend.

It was pretty okay, very alright. The acting was awesome, the style and cinematography were great.

It's not what I thought it was about, but it's exactly what I expected, basically it was a Wes Anderson movie, and I like his flicks.

It took a few minutes for me to understand the concept (I may get this a little off), a movie that is set in a documentary type tv show about people and actors making a movie, and it's all filmed to look like you're watching it in movie sets. So dang weird, but in totally Wes Anderson kinda way…

A no talent ass clown