>Wes Anderson's highest budget film (50M)>Wes Anderson's best film by far>Wes Anderson's biggest box office bomb (-25M)What went wrong?
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>>215086716it was a pastiche of Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums
>>215086716it's simply too kino, even a lot of wes fans have trouble with it and its themes
>>215086716He’s not really a box office draw at the best of times and it’s one of his less accessible works
Love this movie as an oceanfag
>>215086748No
>>215086716I liked it. Owen Wilson sucked as always but overall it was good.
>>215086716It's not good
I wonder if it remembers me...
>>215086856Rhetorical, retard.
>>215086716>>Wes Anderson's best film by farThat's Rushmore.
I don't understand the appeal of his movies
>>215087022Bottle Rocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJHB5RV-aE
>>215086716If you make something look gay as fuck it's gonna bomb
>>215087267I really appreciate this scene after learning this movie was a huge bomb. I wonder how much it cost to animate a lizard crawling on Bill murray just for him to flick it. The attention to detail and all the money wasted was totally worth it
>>215087332Is that how you explain why mirrors explode every time you look in them?
>>215086716It's a silly premise, life cannot survive in the ocean.
>>215087483What about cranberries? How do you explain Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice if nothing can live in the ocean?
>>215088192It's a modern english corruption of the middle english phrase "ocean's prey".
Wes Anderson makes movies for pseuds.
>>215086716they bet that the general public would enjoy the works of Wes Anderson, and they did not.
>>215086716This is one of my all time favorite movies. I just connect with a man who is wanted up and trying to find meaning.
>>215088572Washed *Great music too
>>215086749Actually it's parody/pastiche of old Costeau docs. Ole jac really blew up fish with dynamite https://youtu.be/FHrlXY9Gd6c?si=v1PUntjoBrTSYbup
anyone else watch a wes anderson film and think "jesus fucking christ this is the most pointlessly exhausting thing i've ever seen"i mean for fuck's sake who likes this garbage>DUDE EVERY FRAME A PAINTING>EVERY... SINGLE.. ONE... MUST.. WIDE ANGLE.. CENTER FOCUS... BRIGHT COLORS.... PAINTING....!!!!!this douche has one trick and it's something a highschool sophomore would use to squeak an A+ out of an unmarried female teacher
>>215086716underrated kino
Life Aquatic was the first Wes Anderson film I ever saw. Picked it up from the Salvation Army in high school because I recognized the title from when The Simpsons referenced it (The Wife Aquatic, an episode I haven't actually seen). I got incredibly lucky and it was a copy of the Criterion release with all the inserts. It was unlike anything I'd seen before. "I wonder if he remembers me" was the hardest I ever cried at a film, and still is.The next one I saw was Moonrise Kingdom, which remained my favorite as I watched through the rest of his filmography. I'll admit now that it was twee even by Anderson's standards, but I still enjoyed it.Then The Grand Budapest Hotel came out and every single scene in that is so masterfully done: the choreography, mannerisms, framing, timing, plotting, and most of all the score. It still remains my current favorite of his, mostly because I haven't seen any of the ones he made after that yet, aside from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More.I enjoyed the anthology, thought the titular Story & Poison were both great adaptations (in different ways), that The Ratcatcher was fine for how the 4 shorts must've been budgeted, and that The Swan kinda sucked. That's probably the only work by Wes that I actively dislike.Looking forward to watching his newer films sometime.
Being a massive fan of Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums I was hyped for Life Aquatic, but I left the theater disappointed. It has grown on me since. I've liked every Wes Anderson movie I've seen but, for whatever reason, I've skipped everything he's done after The Grand Budapest Hotel. When I see the trailers for The French Dispatch, Asteroid City or The Phoenician Scheme, I feel like I rather watch Rushmore one more time.
>>215086716>Wes Anderson's best film by farContrarian. Rushmore and Tenenbaums are Anderson's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
>>215089686>Then The Grand Budapest Hotel came out and every single scene in that is so masterfully done: the choreography, mannerisms, framing, timing, plotting, and most of all the score.You sound like the most insufferable unlikable person I can imagine.
>>215086716>Wes Anderson's best film by farHow is it possible to be this reddit and wrong. Anderson's best films in order of bestness are Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Darjeeling, Life Aquatic, and Bottle Rocket. Everything else is pure trash.
>>215089935Life Aquatic > Grand Budapest > Fantastic Mr Fox.Moonrise kingdom was great too but mostly cause ToT
>>215088647don't forget the time their ship's screw wounded a whale, then sharks showed up to eat the whale and they got pissed at the sharks and started massacring themhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4plCxOi_CwU
I don't know if it's his 'best' but Life Aquatic is still the one I like most.
>>215089935royal tenenbaums is fucking shit
>>215089891And you sound like you're projecting.Desplat's "Canto at Gabelmeister's Peak" has so much of the foleywork from the scene add to the sonic landscape, little things like the squeaking of the cablecar as it stops halfway up the line, the chanting coming in diegetically when they enter the monastery, "Confess" "I'M INNOCENT!" "Mm? Nono", and how this leads into Gustave finally coming face to face with Serge X again after their last encounter at the reading of the De Goff und Taxis Will.Then the reprisal introduces all these new instruments into the mix to underscore the hectic nature of the slalom chase, passing through different sections of the woods before running down a bobsled tunnel and suddenly cuts off again when it seems like Gustave & Zero have gone careening off the cliff.Then we discover Gustave clinging onto the packed snow as Jopling starts smashing it to send him hurtling to his demise, and the Canto comes back AGAIN for his recitation of Wounded Piper Boy, at a much softer volume for what seems to be his last words, only for Zero to rush in and push him off at the last second.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4IKI1DP5C4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoRLFbfOUmohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxHXOLvUdEThat is merely one aspect to how well put together this sequence is, the incredible integration of elements to the point that listening to the version of Canto from the soundtrack has all these empty stretches to account for the purposeful decisions Wes made.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_nyrTa49uEI stand by what I said, especially because I never noticed THIS level of attention to detail in the other films of his that I've seen. It's a step above everything else, and genuinely an incredible feat to have pulled off - because this granular level of examination I've just done applies (and I restate myself here) to EVERY SINGLE SCENE in the picture. I don't say that to be hyperbolic, I say it because it's fucking true.
>>215089891You sound like that jealous coworker in Fountainhead who shows up in court at the end and literally nobody not even the people who called him in care about what he has to say.
>>215086716idk why it bombed, it's probably his most visually interesting movie with the sea setting and you'd think murray would be a draw. maybe people thought it was gonna be silly when they saw that submarine poster
>>215088192the name is a lie, they grow berries in a fresh water bog, not the ocean
>>215087043They are films where you have to pay attention to the set, acting, and dialogue closely because everything is painstakingly precise. You often notice new things with each viewing. They are knowingly pretentious and play-like, with dramatic rather than modern/method acting style. They do not seek suspension of disbelief, but invite you into an alternate world. In short, to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Wes Anderson’s films
>>215090604this but unironically
>>215089935Flip Rushmore and TRT, put Moonrise ahead of Bottle Rocket and I agree. Darjeeling is madly underappreciated. I can see why people put aquatic first though. You show him anon.>>215090318If anyone has GBH in their top 3, they are a turbo pleb. That one is truly pastiche. Some interesting cinematography and a couple of funny scenes but it's such an empty movie.
>>215091116>it's such an empty movieI will acknowledge that the emotional moments don't hit as hard as his other works. I think the double-framing device of a girl in a cemetary reading the book of an author who heard the story from Zero late in his life justifies that, but it still doesn't excuse it, if that makes sense.
>>215086716I love this movie. Actually come to think of it, it's the only wes anderson movies I rewatch every year. I have no idea why people didn't like it
>>215089686Damn I lost my copy of that..had a nice poster
>>215087022>>215087261You both meant The Darjeeling Limited.
>>2150867161. Was Life Aquatic a bomb? I didn't know that. That's kind of weird and funny.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpU0DZXTGA02. I mean, just looking at the trailer though, I can see why people would not want to see it. This doesn't look all that interesting.Also the name probably doesn't help with warry normie audiences. I don't even want to type it all out. And what the fuck is a Steve Zissou and why would I want to know?Also also, I wonder if people felt burned by Royal Tenenbaums hype and Rushmore. I'll never understand Rushmore's popularity but while I definitely liked Tenenbaums I wonder if normal audiences were just bullied into praising it by the indie movie crowd, and quietly thought it was merely okayish. Shunning more of the same with Life Aquatic might be karmic vengeance and stress relief.3. God I fucking can't take a normal Wes Anderson trailer with a straight face now. Not after all the parodies. Like it's actually a great movie in execution, but it looks like such a self parody at glance.
>>215086973It's says you were at the best of times, but it sucked overall.
I enjoy the films of Wes Anderson.
Listen guys I liked the Tenenbaums and darjeeling and all that, but Zissou is peak. It's pure unfiltered kino start to finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HEkxxhUlxshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqPY-OR0UKkInstead of watching these scenes just go watch the movie
>>215089686Keep enjoying and appreciating films. The Phoenician Scheme was very good.
