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Wes Anderson

  • 23-10-2006 5:40pm
    #1
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭


    A better director than Paul Thomas Anderson?

    I guess so.

    A true auteur.

    What's your favourite Wes Anderson movie? 18 votes

    Bottle Rocket
    0%
    Rushmore
    5%
    Earthhorse 1 vote
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    44%
    satchmomonkeyfudgeKingp35Basqpbsuxok1znja4rjohnny_ultimateHo-Humlodgepole 8 votes
    The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
    50%
    D-GeneratekonekoDapperGentCrucifixnlgbbbblthMickerooEARMUFFSSean7sonic juice 9 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Are you going to create a new thread for every single director you can think of?


  • #3
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,201 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    The Royal Tenenbaums
    'Rushmore' for the wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

    .. with 'Bottle Rocket' a close second.

    Everything else he made after that was pretentious shoite!


  • #4
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
    Karl Hungus wrote:
    Are you going to create a new thread for every single director you can think of?

    No

    Just three

    Steven Soderbergh
    Richard Linklater
    Wes Anderson

    maybe I'll do another one in a couple of months or so.

    It's just to see what people think - it is a discussion forum after all.

    If the search facility was anyway good I could check to see if previous threads had been done on this.


  • #5
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,019 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The Royal Tenenbaums
    Max Fischer = God. He did write and direct his own play after all.
    But all the others are superb too, not a big Bottle Rocket fan though. Not visually eye catching enough for my liking ;)


  • #6
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    The Royal Tenenbaums
    I love Rushmore... and I like Bottle Rocket a lot too... but I've found his other films to be very disappointing.

    Always a great soundtrack though.


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  • #7
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    nlgbbbblth wrote:
    A better director than Paul Thomas Anderson?
    No. So no it's not even funny.
    I guess so.
    I guess not


  • #8
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,201 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    The Royal Tenenbaums
    monkeyfudge wrote:
    Always a great soundtrack though.
    Now you're talking..! Have a couple of CD's just a mixtape of various songs from his films.

    Even though i was extremely disappointed with 'The Royal Tenanbaums', the scene with
    Richie's attempted suicide
    got me back into Elliott Smith, who has since became one of my favourite artists.

    PS - Rushmore has a top notch soundtrack too!


  • #9
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
    The four Wes Anderson soundtracks are well worth a purchase.
    The second version of The Royal Tenanbaums has 23 tracks instead of the original 20. One of the scores is dropped.

    Also cool is Seu Jorge's The Life Aquatic - The Studio Sessions. More Bowie stuff that didn't make the film.


  • #10
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Rushmore
    Whoa! I'm the only one to vote for Bottle Rocket. That makes me hip because it was his first film and before he sold out and became famous.

    Rushmore had some great ideas and moments in it but it just didn't feel like the characters went anywhere. There was this feeling that nothing had really changed by the end of the film.

    I thought the Life Aquatic was great too, but Bottle Rocket pips it because I think as a film it holds together best.

    Royal Tenanbaums was a big dissapointment, especially given the critical acclaim it received. The characters were just too cynical and unsympathetic for it to work.


  • #11
    sonic juice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭sonic juice


    The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
    nlgbbbblth wrote:
    A better director than Paul Thomas Anderson?

    I guess so.

    A true auteur.

    I love Wes Anderson and think he is the most auspicious filmmaker of this generation,evey film he makes brings much delight and revelation to me,I think Paul Thomas Anderson deserves equal respect and they are not the same breed of directors, they make different films.This isn't a sport there is no better team!


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  • #12
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,530 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
    Earthhorse wrote:
    Rushmore had some great ideas and moments in it but it just didn't feel like the characters went anywhere. There was this feeling that nothing had really changed by the end of the film.


    have you even seen rushmore? the characters have totally developed by the end.

    and theres no way bottle rocket(as good as it is) holds it together better as a film than any of the others...it barely even has a plot and is very obvious that it was a short film beefed up into a feature.


  • #13
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Rushmore
    No, I've never seen Rushmore. I just made up an opinion on it so I could post in this thread with the popular kids.

    At the end of Rushmore I was left with an unsettling sense that the kid was still obsessed with his teacher.

    Bottle Rocket is just a film about a bunch of friends. I think it holds together best because it doesn't promise that it's going to go anywhere, whereas his other films do but don't deliver enough.


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