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The Phoenician Scheme

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  • #2
    the_amazing_raisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    I do like a Wes Anderson film, but he's really starting to become a one trick pony

    Still better than 90% of the garbage coming out of Hollywood these days though

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



  • #3
    JP Liz V1
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    Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston are interesting additions and surely Bill Murray will feature

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  • #4
    Osmosis Jones
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    A little shocked this is Michael Cera's first time in a Wes Anderson, perfectly suited imo.



  • #5
    Dades
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    I've a lot of love for some of Anderson's movies, but the hit rate for me is diminishing.
    Haven't really enjoyed one since The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The stories have taken a back seat to the style.

    But I'll always watch them, unlike a lot of the shite coming out of Hollywood these days.



  • #6
    homerun_homer
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    The most Wes Anderson film that ever did Wes Anderson by the looks of it. I haven't watched his last few films as they just haven't drawn me in, and I was a very early fan of his films. The acting style has just got far too monotonous, and it used to be quirky in it's earlier use, but now is just too deadpan.

    I'd love to be told that this trailer doesn't sell it well, and find it to be like Grand Budapest Hotel, but I don't think so. At least GBH had a fun trailer, with all the usual Wes quirks.



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  • #7
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,573 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The impeccable Asteroid City is comfortably one of my favourite Anderson's, and IMO one of his most heartfelt and moving too. I think he's a filmmaker who continues to refine his craft in wonderful ways - like some of my other favourite filmmakers, its the variances and expansions of a singular style that make his work so exciting time after time. So of course I'll be there day one for this.



  • #8
    the_amazing_raisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123343387#Comment_123343387

    Yeah I think in the first 10 seconds of the trailer I could tell it was a Wes Anderson movie

    He's definitely banking on his style being as much of a selling point as the movies themselves, and it definitely seems to work for him

    I'm surprised he isn't getting as many blatant copycats as you'd expect given his success

    I would definitely say that Asteroid City was a bit of a struggle to get my head around. I tended to lose track of which story was in which during the film

    I do think his portrayal of many of his characters struggling with expressing their emotions is quite spot on. The father in Asteroid City pretty much being unable to tell his children about their mother's death simply because it would mean he has to confront his own feelings of loss was a pretty hard hitting moment

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



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