The Royal Tenenbaums still fills me with the same joy I felt seeing it the first time in the theatre. The score and soundtrack are both amazing. It probably isn't Wes Anderson's best work but it's #1 in my heart.
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It's still amazing to me that at a party during a thunderstorm in 1816 Mary Shelly came up with Frankenstein, and Lordy Byron created the basis for Dracula.
The Royal Tenenbaums still fills me with the same joy I felt seeing it the first time in the theatre. The score and soundtrack are both amazing. It probably isn't Wes Anderson's best work but it's #1 in my heart.
Interested to hear what you think his best work is. He has a lot of good films to choose from, but I think Royal Tenenbaums is his crowning achievement in terms of characters and story. Rushmore is a close second. The Grand Budapest Hotel would be 3rd.
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Interested to hear what you think his best work is. He has a lot of good films to choose from, but I think Royal Tenenbaums is his crowning achievement in terms of characters and story. Rushmore is a close second. The Grand Budapest Hotel would be 3rd.
Grand Budapest Hotel might be a better film. It made me positively giddy, especially during the skiing scene. Life Aquatic and Rushmore are up there as well.
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Astronomers (DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) discover a planet killer asteroid 6 months from ending life on earth.
They get in front of the president (Meryl Streep) and her chief of staff / son (Jonah Hill).
Things go exactly, and I mean EXACTLY like they actually would in 2025.
It's more depressing than funny. But worth watching.
8/10
Lol! Yeah, it was one of those movies thats just a little too 'on the nose.'
I remember liking it.
It reminds me of watching the movie 'Contagion' during the Pandemic..."uh guys...this was made in 2010 and it is pretty much beat for beat what is happening in 2020...'
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Not a comfortable watch by any means but one you'll be glad you saw once.
I wanted to go in blind so didnt look up the story its based on. One reveal in particular got an audible reaction out of a few people, so it kept its cards hidden well.
The Royal Tenenbaums still fills me with the same joy I felt seeing it the first time in the theatre. The score and soundtrack are both amazing. It probably isn't Wes Anderson's best work but it's #1 in my heart.
Most Wes Anderson's films make me feel good.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a top shelf.
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Went to the Springsteen movie, not as good as my favorite the Elton John one. I was hoping to hear more music. Never listened much to him so it was more his obscure stuff.
Stephen Graham from Adolescence as his dad was brilliant. If you have any sort of dad issues stay clear, cried throughout because it drummed up things. His dad was crappy but not an evil monster and had nuance unlike most of these movies tend to do.
Went to the Springsteen movie, not as good as my favorite the Elton John one. I was hoping to hear more music. Never listened much to him so it was more his obscure stuff.
Stephen Graham from Adolescence as his dad was brilliant. If you have any sort of dad issues stay clear, cried throughout because it drummed up things. His dad was crappy but not an evil monster and had nuance unlike most of these movies tend to do.
Solid 7/10. Watch the Elton John one instead.
Stephen Graham is an amazing actor. Check out "This is England" for more of his work.
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Haven't watched it in years but I adored Moonrise Kingdom when I first saw it. Ed Norton's character was brilliantly funny. The two (preteen?) characters and the young actors that played them did so with such innocence earnestness and always sincere. It never spoke down to "love" that we all experience around that age but gave it a sincerity on the screen that it deserved.
I pity anyone who can't take something positive from a Wes Andersson film. Even if you don't the movies he was one of the most instantly recognizable styles in film. His use of colour palettes, the details in the worlds he creates, distinctive music and always with a film that is perfectly framed.
You have to have a sharp artistic mind and not be a dullard.
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Oh, and while the French Dispatch wasn't my favourite, this 70-second scene is really a piece of art and science. Jeffrey Wright always knocks it out of the park and had to nail this.
Royal Tenenbaums is definitely my favourite. I cry every time I watch it.
I would put Grand Budapest and Darjeeling up near it though. And that’s a pretty arbitrary cut off, because I truly love so many of his movies for different reasons.
Royal Tenenbaums is definitely my favourite. I cry every time I watch it.
I would put Grand Budapest and Darjeeling up near it though. And that’s a pretty arbitrary cut off, because I truly love so many of his movies for different reasons.
I just need to hear this song to get a little teary-eyed.
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