Red Mosquito

bune wrote:I need to hear some opinions about The Grand Budapest Hotel. Because the movie started to be a complete mish-mash of "spot the cameo!" which is what Wes Anderson movies are mostly anyway but then the story started to rise above that and it was all the better for it. In the end I think I liked it, but I don't think I could watch it again because of the weird start.

Excellent performance by Ralph Fiennes though. Heads and shoulders above the rest.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

bune wrote:I need to hear some opinions about The Grand Budapest Hotel. Because the movie started to be a complete mish-mash of "spot the cameo!" which is what Wes Anderson movies are mostly anyway but then the story started to rise above that and it was all the better for it. In the end I think I liked it, but I don't think I could watch it again because of the weird start.

Excellent performance by Ralph Fiennes though. Heads and shoulders above the rest.

I love it. Probably my all time favorite Wes Anderson film. Maybe #2 but certainly no lower than that. Great film. Great images. Great storytelling. Great performances. Great directing. I just goddamn love everything about it.

Team Bune. My 2nd-least favorite Anderson pic, after Bottle Rocket, for the reason bune listed, plus the superfluous "story within a story" setup.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I loved it when I first saw it but it's lost its luster for me. He's made much better.

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I loved it when I first saw it but it's lost its luster for me. He's made much better.

I will concede that I have only watched it twice. It's very possible that the long term replay value isn't there.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I loved it when I first saw it but it's lost its luster for me. He's made much better.

I will concede that I have only watched it twice. It's very possible that the long term replay value isn't there.

well i've only watched it once so

VinylGuy wrote:I saw it once and it was enough to make me sick.

Whats the problem with Wes´s tripod in that movie? It was broken or something? There is no movement at all, no storytelling at all... just a few pans ..and the tiresome art direction? the colors, the vintage objects, even the ¨serious¨ acting.... its just Wes Anderson´s greatest hits.

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:I saw it once and it was enough to make me sick.

Whats the problem with Wes´s tripod in that movie? It was broken or something? There is no movement at all, no storytelling at all... just a few pans ..and the tiresome art direction? the colors, the vintage objects, even the ¨serious¨ acting.... its just Wes Anderson´s greatest hits.

I'm not sure what you mean by "serious acting." I thought it was one of the more playful, whimsical, and funny movies he's made. But I'm fucking weird.

theplatypus wrote:I'm not a huge Wes Anderson fan, but I think Moonrise Kingdom is one of my favorite movies of his. I feel like his affectations befit the tone and story.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Life Aquatic and Rushmore for me.

dimejinky99 wrote:I don't feel at home on this planet anymore

What a weird film. I'm not sure I was meant to be laughing by the end or not.
It's all over the place.

Won't say don't bother with it but don't prioritise it.

Spoiler: show

Elijah Wood is pretty much dead right? A lot of people are saying he is alive at the end

VinylGuy wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:I don't feel at home on this planet anymore

What a weird film. I'm not sure I was meant to be laughing by the end or not.
It's all over the place.

Won't say don't bother with it but don't prioritise it.

I really liked it. Its different because of that i guess...there is such a sadness at the end.. Kinda like Search Party.

Spoiler: show

Elijah Wood is pretty much dead right? A lot of people are saying he is alive at the end

Spoiler: show

He is alive at the end. It's kind of a joke. She goes to church alone and stuff (he's probably in hospital then) then the shiny arc of light behind his head...but it's just a light and he's in the backyard with a cane arguing with the friend about how to grill burgers properly. He's alive, and I'm glad of it.

VinylGuy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Life Aquatic and Rushmore for me.

oh yeah, for me these two. He said and did everything he could with these two. After that, its just for the fans and hipsters.