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Title: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 12:43:53 AM: Hack total. One note director, if even that.

Also, please tell me nobody likes Sofia Coppola, either. She's not even one note. Calling her one note would be doing a disservice to the number one and the concept of notes.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 17, 2007, 12:44:56 AM: Cheebs and Ichi are gonna cry :-\
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Post by: CajoleJuice on October 17, 2007, 12:46:21 AM: I've only seen Rushmore and The Life Aquatic. The former was, at best, decent(I don't remember it much), but the latter was awful.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 17, 2007, 12:49:55 AM: I saw Darjeeling Limited over the weekend, I liked it. :-\

I also liked Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, and Tenenbaums. Life Aquatic sucked balls, though.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 12:56:44 AM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on October 17, 2007, 12:44:56 AM
Cheebs and Ichi are gonna cry :-\

Why would I cry?
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: The Sceneman on October 17, 2007, 01:17:29 AM: *high fives TVC* I am so glad you made this thread. There are few directors I loathe more than Wes Anderson. Tenenbaums is one of the most appaling fims ever devised. Its just so 'OMG look at my movie its sooooooquirky', Anyone that says they like it only like it becuase they percieved it as 'arty' and think they are supposed to enjoy it for that reason. I want to punch someone in the face.

Also: PD your new Avatar is the bomb, and did you get Touch Detective TVC?
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: brawndolicious on October 17, 2007, 01:18:16 AM: life aquatic was all right.

I don't think he tries to make quirky movies, I think he tries to make fun of that idea actually.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 01:26:16 AM: Quote from: Scenester on October 17, 2007, 01:17:29 AM
and did you get Touch Detective TVC?

Did I? I made a motherfucking movie!

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Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 01:30:17 AM: Quote from: am nintenho on October 17, 2007, 01:18:16 AM
life aquatic was all right.

I don't think he tries to make quirky movies, I think he tries to make fun of that idea actually.

I dunno, I think the whole "quirky" thing is his schtick.

FWIW, outside of Rushmore, I've enjoyed his movies, but they are totally one note...I agree with TVC 100% on that.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: drozmight on October 17, 2007, 04:50:41 AM: I enjoy their movies for the music more than I do the movie.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: etiolate on October 17, 2007, 04:59:14 AM: I like Rushmore, Life Aquatic and The Virgin Suicides.
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Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 08:18:16 AM: Solo and I both love Sofia Coppola. We both loved Marie Antoinette. :-\

Also Lost In Translation is in my TOP FIVE movies of all time. :-[ She is probably one of my favorite current working directors.

Also Bottle Rocket and Rushmore are FANTASTIC movies.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: cubicle47b on October 17, 2007, 10:27:41 AM: He's definitely a one note director but that doesn't make Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums any less entertaining.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 10:33:40 AM: wth happened to Solo anyway? He never posts anymore.
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Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 10:36:53 AM: I talked to him yesterday in a PM at gaf, he said he is sticking to gaf only. I dunno why.
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Post by: CajoleJuice on October 17, 2007, 10:39:12 AM: He's too well-adjusted for this forum.
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Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 10:41:32 AM: People fellate him more on GAF, that's why.
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Post by: bud on October 17, 2007, 10:42:21 AM: i think it's because of solo that i started watching lost :bow
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Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 10:45:50 AM: Keep on bowing and maybe he'll come back. :P
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Post by: CajoleJuice on October 17, 2007, 10:48:51 AM: I've been bowing for a long time. :bow

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Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Mondain on October 17, 2007, 10:54:47 AM: Thank God for this thread. This director sucks ass. Rushmore is one of the most overrated loads of bullshit ever. The characters are all just aggravating and devoid of charism too, save for Bill Murray's. What the fuck is this film even about?

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*high fives TVC* I am so glad you made this thread. There are few directors I loathe more than Wes Anderson. Tenenbaums is one of the most appaling fims ever devised. Its just so 'OMG look at my movie its sooooooquirky', Anyone that says they like it only like it becuase they percieved it as 'arty' and think they are supposed to enjoy it for that reason. I want to punch someone in the face.

pure, PURE truth :bow
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Robo on October 17, 2007, 11:12:35 AM: I don't have any qualms about saying I love all his movies. All of them. But it's difficult to say that his film career so far has been anything more than one-note -- that much is very true.
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 17, 2007, 11:40:34 AM: I saw about half of Life Aquatic and found it very interesting and pleasant. I also saw the end credits of Virgin Suicides and remember liking whatever post-punk/new wave/synth pop song they used.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 17, 2007, 12:23:57 PM: Wes Anderson is like Kevin Smith, except arthouse.
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Post by: bud on October 17, 2007, 12:38:40 PM: Quote from: Spencer on October 17, 2007, 12:28:49 PM
Lost in Translation is a steaming pile of shit.

what
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 01:05:44 PM: The Virgin Suicides is an adaptation so terrible that it actually harmed my appreciation of the book. And made me angry. That movie should have been the end of several careers.
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Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 01:34:18 PM: I am a big Sofia fan but Virgin Suicides was pretty shitty.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 01:41:08 PM: i really liked rushmore, and i was amused by a life aquatic despite its awkward narrative and pacing. hated royal tenenbaums and bottle rocket (erik wolpaw of old man murray was browbeating people to see that one at qt3 for like a year), though. i hated both lost in translation and marie antoinette, so wes anderson >>>>>>>>>> sofia coppola, by a vast gulf. willco is right for a change: wes anderson is the arty version of kevin smith. like kevin, wes makes only one type of movie: the tongue-bulging-in-cheek quirkathon. that said, i also like a couple of kevin's films, too. they're the wii of directors: a cute gimmick grossly overextended.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 01:42:10 PM: oh, i've never seen the virgin suicides, but i read the book. guess i'll stay away from the film adaptation!
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 17, 2007, 01:45:49 PM: i :heartbeat drinky
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 17, 2007, 01:47:53 PM: I liked Life Aquatic, but I didnt really like Rushmore, I dunno what I like about Life Aquatic actually, its just a fun film to watch.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 01:52:37 PM: life aquatic is best if you haven't been carpetbombed by wes anderson films. if it had been my first wes anderson flick, i'd probably be a lot less critical -- although i still enjoyed it quite a bit. jeff goldblum was hilarious in it, and i normally hate jeff goldblum!
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 17, 2007, 01:59:35 PM: Does this go back to your college days when you were dorm rivals with Jeff Goldlum? LEARN TO LET THINGS GO, DRINKY!
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 17, 2007, 02:00:35 PM: Yeah ive never followed wes' movies much prior to umm...that really
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 02:01:21 PM: Arty Kevin Smith is probably a pretty good description, actually.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 17, 2007, 02:02:02 PM: I finally did something right!
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Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 02:05:28 PM: I am pretty sure Willco called Clerks 2 one of the best films of 2006 though!
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 02:07:56 PM: I liked Clerks 2 a lot, too. It was probably one of the better comedies of 2006, but even still, people don't pretend that Smith movies are great in the same way they tend to pretend Anderson films great.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 02:09:04 PM: i dunno, dude, have you seen folks go on about dogma? it's kinda embarrassing.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 02:13:15 PM: I'm not counting hardcore Kevin Smith fans. They are almost as distinguished mentally-challenged as Shake.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 17, 2007, 02:31:52 PM: Clerks 2 was one of the better films in 2006, which was a pretty mediocre year up 'till the last two or so months. That said, Kevin Smith is a one-note director and doesn't have the fan acclaim that practically says, "Wes Anderson's poop smells and tastes like Game Fuel and cures cancer!"
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Post by: Candyflip on October 17, 2007, 02:32:09 PM: I hated Tenenbaums.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 02:40:56 PM: tenenbaums is what arrested development would be if ad was smarmy, pompous, over-acted, and wholly unfunny
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: bluemax on October 17, 2007, 02:57:37 PM: People kept hyping up Rushmore for me back after it came out, so I remember downloading it and watching it and having to force myself through it. Never before have I watched a movie where no one dies that I wanted the main character to die so badly. I don't understand the hype for that movie at all.

Life Aquatic was okay, but I think either it was confused in what kind of movie it wanted to be or it was just marketed really badly.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 03:06:35 PM: Wow, this thread is really pompous, I wonder who made it?

Quelle surprise!!

The only Wes Anderson flick I have not thoroughly enjoyed was The Royal Tennenbaums.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 04:14:28 PM: Royal Tenenbaums is the worst of them, I think. Life Aquatic I didn't find particularly terrible and I was mostly able to take it at face value. Bottle Rocket was zzzzzzzz. It both had the things that Wes did well and the things that he does terribly. Rushmore was a pretty good movie, though.

Honestly, Corny, I am more even-handed with Anderson than you'd give me credit. I like Rushmore, and I think his other movies are mediocre and overrated at best, and exercises in abject pomposity at worst. I find it kind of entertaining that by your logic, not liking undeniably pompous things makes the complainer pompous. That really makes sense.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 04:19:24 PM: corny, did you like lost in translation?

tvc, i still think you should script "the ginger suicides". maybe coppola will film that, too!
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 04:21:49 PM: I like Lost in Translation
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:24:30 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 04:14:28 PM
Royal Tenenbaums is the worst of them, I think. Life Aquatic I didn't find particularly terrible and I was mostly able to take it at face value. Bottle Rocket was zzzzzzzz. It both had the things that Wes did well and the things that he does terribly. Rushmore was a pretty good movie, though.

Okay so out of the five films Wes has made, you like two of them. So that means he's not worth a handful of shit?

Do we still have to go over why I think this thread is a bit on the pompous side, or does that about cover it do you think?

Quote from: Professor Prole on October 17, 2007, 04:19:24 PM
corny, did you like lost in translation?

It was okay. Not life changing like so many GAffers exclaimed, but it was a nice little flick. I loved that you never found out what Scarlett's character whispered to Bill's character, that was cute. And any movie that opens with a shot of Scarlett in see-through panties can't be THAT bad.

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tvc, i still think you should script "the ginger suicides". maybe coppola will film that, too!

What does TVC know about being ginger? If anything, I should be writing that script. But I gotta finish what I'm working on currently.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:25:49 PM: Quote from: Billy Rygar on October 17, 2007, 04:24:39 PM
Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson are both hipster visual fetishists with a penchant for cleverly masked sentimentality that rivals anything "mainstream."

You're trying too hard, like TVC. Sometimes a simple "I don't like them because they suck" will suffice.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 04:28:00 PM: Quote from: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:24:30 PM

Do we still have to go over why I think this thread is a bit on the pompous side, or does that about cover it do you think?

Illustrate what's pompous of this:

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Hack total. One note director, if even that.

Also, please tell me nobody likes Sofia Coppola, either. She's not even one note. Calling her one note would be doing a disservice to the number one and the concept of notes.

You said yourself:

Quote from: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:25:49 PM
You're trying too hard, like TVC. Sometimes a simple "I don't like them because they suck" will suffice.

Which is what I did, Corny.
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Post by: Mandark on October 17, 2007, 04:30:58 PM: I liked Lost In Translation. It's barely even a movie, but I identified way too much with the Scarlett Johansson character.

I say Wes Anderson is the hipster James Ivory.
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Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:35:05 PM: TVC, if you haven't noticed by now, I'm just a little bit on the reactionary side. Truth be told, I just read the title of this thread and leapt in, guns a'blazin.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 04:35:53 PM: I hated Marie Antoinette. What a horrible, flaccid movie.

flaccid like pd's dick on a friday night.
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Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:37:30 PM: Kristen Dunst is supposed to play Debbie Harry in an upcoming Blondie bioflick, so that will probably cause some conniptions 'round these parts.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 04:37:54 PM: Quote from: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:35:05 PM
TVC, if you haven't noticed by now, I'm just a little bit on the reactionary side. Truth be told, I just read the title of this thread and leapt in, guns a'blazin.

I won't hold it against you :-*

I am, uh, considering buying a second copy of the Jodorowsky box set because the dude that borrowed mine has gone on tour and he won't be back for over a month. I am guessing those flicks won't be on HD soon :(
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 04:38:22 PM: I wish that orangutan would just die already. I hate her.
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Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 04:40:07 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 04:38:22 PM
I wish that orangutan would just die already. I hate her.

Fly-er than that one beaner chick you're so ga-ga over
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 04:41:16 PM: saint c, the wii is crap

...

just checkin'
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Post by: cubicle47b on October 17, 2007, 04:42:31 PM: I don't get the Royal Tenenbaums hate. How can you not like Gene Hackman in that movie?
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Post by: cubicle47b on October 17, 2007, 04:45:46 PM: I didn't see anyone in Royal Tenenbaums besides Henry that wasn't broken in some way and didn't think anyone qualified as cool.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 04:48:40 PM: one performance alone doesn't excuse ben stiller's, gwen paltrow's, and owen wilson's stultifyingly arch performances. i felt like a dark god of quirky had risen in my screen and sneered at me for two hours. after arrested development, i can't imagine stomaching it again, period.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 04:52:57 PM: i loved loved loved arrested development. it's the royal tenenbaums, though, only clever, funny, sweet, and insane rather than cloying, smarmy, arch, and self-aggrandizing. what i meant is that with arrested development around, the royal tenenbaums might as well not even exist.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 04:53:48 PM: prole hit the nail on the head.

arrested development is everything royal crap wanted to be.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 04:56:08 PM: how many off-center shots of kohl-eyed moppetfolk moping can one movie contain? royal tenenbaums answers: all of them.
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Post by: Mondain on October 17, 2007, 04:57:24 PM: Lost in Translation blew ass, it's just some set of random quirky events that occur in Tokyo and tease you, and then at the end... nothing happens

Coppola just wanted to plug Tokyo's atmosphere since she had a love affair there (I think)

Quote from: bluemax on October 17, 2007, 02:57:37 PM
People kept hyping up Rushmore for me back after it came out, so I remember downloading it and watching it and having to force myself through it. Never before have I watched a movie where no one dies that I wanted the main character to die so badly. I don't understand the hype for that movie at all.

Hell yeah, what a fucking awful hero. Loathable, minable, worthless dork who talks all the time about the random weird stuff that goes in his mind and jinxes everything he's ever associated with, I felt like breaking his neck so bad. What a piece of jewish trash.
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Post by: cubicle47b on October 17, 2007, 04:57:58 PM: I hated Owen Wilson's performance but didn't mind Ben Stiller or Gweneth Paltrow. Gene Hackman gave that movie a soul and kept me entertained which is a lot more than I can say for The Life Aquatic which seems to be viewed more favorably here. I wanted to walk out of the theater during that one.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 04:59:59 PM: Quote from: Mondain on October 17, 2007, 04:57:24 PM
Lost in Translation blew ass, it's just some set of random quirky events that occur in Tokyo and tease you, and then at the end... nothing happens

Coppola just wanted to plug Tokyo's atmosphere since she had a love affair there (I think)
...random quirky events? it's not actually that quirky of a movie I'd say
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Post by: Saint Cornelius on October 17, 2007, 05:01:17 PM: I guess I like my movie reviewers to have some kind of perspective on life, and sadly, that's one of things Mondain really, really lacks.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 05:02:22 PM: i liked life aquatic because it was just straight-up wacky-silly and dialed the smarm meter way down. admittedly, it got a bit heavy on the lingering wes anderson patent mood shots and droll facial reactions in the middle, but the end was crazy zany camp. it was a lot of fun if you didn't go in expecting, well, the royal tenenbaums. also: jeff goldblum in an awesome self-parody!
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 05:04:30 PM: I like Rushmore quite a bit, but I do think the movie's reputation today overshadows its actual quality. If I watched it for the first time today, after hearing the years and years of hype, I'd probably be left a little clueless. Having seen it when it came out, I can appreciate it more easily.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:05:15 PM: jeff goldblum is a living fucking legend.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 05:06:42 PM: Quote from: Mondain on October 17, 2007, 04:57:24 PM

Hell yeah, what a fucking awful hero. Loathable, minable, worthless dork who talks all the time about the random weird stuff that goes in his mind and jinxes everything he's ever associated with, I felt like breaking his neck so bad. What a piece of jewish trash.

it's "loathesome," and "able to be mined" -- wtf?!
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 05:07:40 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:05:15 PM
jeff goldblum is a living fucking legend.

No fucking way. Go look at his filmography. Bitch is second only to like Nicholas Cage when it comes to coasting off a few big successes.
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Post by: cubicle47b on October 17, 2007, 05:08:01 PM: Goldblum isn't in that much of the movie. I found the hostage situation to the beach rescue entertaining. Everything else was just bad.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 05:08:21 PM: THIS IS OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY
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Post by: Mandark on October 17, 2007, 05:09:13 PM: I'll cop to enjoying RT when I saw it.

The meticulously-planned quirk was pretty obvious even then, but it was only my second Wes Anderson film after Rushmore. Even if he does something better now, I don't think I could enjoy it, because it would still be coming from the same bag of tricks.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:09:31 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 05:07:40 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:05:15 PM
jeff goldblum is a living fucking legend.

No fucking way. Go look at his filmography. Bitch is second only to like Nicholas Cage when it comes to coasting off a few big successes.
Take your sarcasm meter in to be serviced please.

That guy is the definition of a one-note actor.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 05:11:57 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:09:31 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 05:07:40 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:05:15 PM
jeff goldblum is a living fucking legend.

No fucking way. Go look at his filmography. Bitch is second only to like Nicholas Cage when it comes to coasting off a few big successes.
Take your sarcasm meter in to be serviced please.

That guy is the definition of a one-note actor.

How bout we service it by letting me caligula you with it :-*

Caligula is waaaaaaaaaay more entertaining than anything Wes Anderson has done. Like, no joke, legitimately.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 17, 2007, 05:16:14 PM: Quote from: Billy Rygar on October 17, 2007, 05:10:28 PM
That's Mondain dropping some French prole.

ah; makes sense, then. actually, i'd prefer he inserted correct french modifiers instead of such painful neologisms as "rivalize" and "sarcastical"
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:16:54 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 05:11:57 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:09:31 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 05:07:40 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:05:15 PM
jeff goldblum is a living fucking legend.

No fucking way. Go look at his filmography. Bitch is second only to like Nicholas Cage when it comes to coasting off a few big successes.
Take your sarcasm meter in to be serviced please.

That guy is the definition of a one-note actor.

How bout we service it by letting me caligula you with it :-*

Caligula is waaaaaaaaaay more entertaining than anything Wes Anderson has done. Like, no joke, legitimately.
hell yeah baby ;)

We can watch Zoo together too, k?
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Mondain on October 17, 2007, 05:17:55 PM: urgh, I only browse and post on these boards when I'm dead tired, so gimme a break, I have not made such a silly mistake in a while
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 05:18:47 PM: Zoo was pretty awesome.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 05:24:08 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 05:18:47 PM
Zoo was pretty awesome.
for real real.

I made my brother watch it after I did. Hilary Swank is great in the movie too.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Barry Egan on October 17, 2007, 05:41:42 PM: Yeah I'd say the first post is spot on.

Anderson does some incredible things with his sets, and I'll keep watching his films for that reason. He is certainly one note though, and he's not a storyteller. His stories are just ornaments for his aesthetic.

Lost in Translation really did nothing for me.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Bloodwake on October 17, 2007, 08:24:11 PM: Wes Anderson is awesome, and I love his movies. All of them, for the record. I think you guys just hate him because his films are over hyped around you. Honestly, when I got into watching Wes Anderson films, a max of one, maybe two people had seen them before. I guess that's the benefit of living in Kentucky - less hype about quirky movies because people around here are just used to eating mainstream shit like Kickin It Old School (which played on two screens in my hometown and probably made all of it's money in KY).

But yeah, Sofia Coppola sucks. Outside of Lost in Translation, I can't fucking stand her movies, especially Virgin Suicides. Fuck Sofia Coppola. She should stop making movies immediately.
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Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 09:49:58 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on October 17, 2007, 05:04:30 PM
I like Rushmore quite a bit, but I do think the movie's reputation today overshadows its actual quality. If I watched it for the first time today, after hearing the years and years of hype, I'd probably be left a little clueless. Having seen it when it came out, I can appreciate it more easily.

Rushmore is the Wes Anderson movie I most dislike.

My sister's a big fan of Anderson...I watch the movies with her, usually (I don't own any of them on DVD). I thought Royal Tenenbaums was a lot of fun, in a bizarre sort of way.

As I said, I agree with TVC's assessment on Anderson's talents - so far he's a one note director. That said, he plays that note pretty well.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 17, 2007, 09:56:58 PM: If your sister is a big fan, so am I.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 10:33:00 PM: I think it helps I saw Rushmore in theaters before hype built up. I was a big fan of Bottle Rocket
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Post by: BobbyRobby on October 17, 2007, 11:04:34 PM: I like how one person blasts a director, and everyone has to rush in and validate their personal taste.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Ichirou on October 17, 2007, 11:05:58 PM: Quote from: BobbyRobby on October 17, 2007, 11:04:34 PM
I like how one person blasts a director, and everyone has to rush in and validate their personal taste.

Yes.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 11:14:07 PM: Wes Anderson is 38 years old, single, and was born in Houston Texas.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: BobbyRobby on October 17, 2007, 11:15:15 PM: I know, but it kind of seems insecure. He's using hyperbole to get a rise, why respond civilly, or respond at all?
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Gay Boy on October 17, 2007, 11:15:56 PM: Fact: Martin Scorsese is a big fan of his movies, even choosing him as "The Next Martin Scorsese" in an Esquire magazine article.
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Post by: BobbyRobby on October 17, 2007, 11:23:00 PM: Sure it's the internet, which is why I don't get why people are concerned with differentiating themselves as casual Wes anderson fans as opposed to hardcore fans. Does it really matter? Judging by what I've read, TVC seems to have good taste, but he's not infallible.
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Post by: Mandark on October 17, 2007, 11:41:15 PM: "This having opinions on the internet thing is usually fine and dandy, but sometimes I'm in the minority, and the other people are just being so *strident* about it!"
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 11:49:05 PM: Not infallible? What the fuck? I am basically the pope of evilbore.
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Post by: BobbyRobby on October 17, 2007, 11:53:38 PM: I have no problem with differing opinions. It just seems like the forum cares too much what TVC, and the collective opinion of the board thinks. Even when he maliciously makes fun of something people like, they will still attempt to meet him in the middle and try to agree with him.

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Not infallible? What the fuck? I am basically the pope of evilbore

:lol exactly
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2007, 11:56:33 PM: I see no problem in trying to justify liking things you know are terrible. It is a sign of healthy guilt. Even I display this tendency when discussing things like Uwe Boll or my habit of drunkenly spending hundreds of dollars on Duran Duran songs.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Mandark on October 18, 2007, 12:01:12 AM: Quote from: BobbyRobby on October 17, 2007, 11:53:38 PM
I have no problem with differing opinions.

Course ya do. Nobody gripes about how the opinions of the group are just the result of some bogus social dynamic unless they don't like the opinions. But that's boring and meta and I don't want to contribute further to the derailment.

What do people think of the Anderson-alikes? I thought Napoleon Dynamite was boring, Little Miss Sunshine was awesome, and haven't seen Rocket Science.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: TVC15 on October 18, 2007, 12:03:14 AM: Little Miss Sunshine was pretty great. Napoleon Dynamite was good stuff the first time, but not of a quality that justifies how much the thing took off. I don't even know what Rocket Science is.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of shit
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 18, 2007, 12:03:45 AM: VOTE FOR PEDRO
Title: Rocket Science
Post by: Mandark on October 18, 2007, 12:20:12 AM: [youtube=425,350]8u7aUbRyMX0[/youtube]

It's the debate-club take.
Title: Re: Please tell me that nobody here thinks Wes Anderson is worth a handful of sh
Post by: Bloodwake on October 18, 2007, 12:22:58 AM: Napoleon Dynamite FAILS.