You ever see Fantastic Mr Fox? Very similar supermarket dance scene for end credits, only it was to Let Her Dance by the Bobby Fuller Four.
Watched the first five minutes or so and found it so irritating I turned it off.
You ever see Fantastic Mr Fox? Very similar supermarket dance scene for end credits, only it was to Let Her Dance by the Bobby Fuller Four.
Yeah its full-on wes anderson from the offset, so if you don't like that style I'd imagine you wouldn't last long into the film. One of my favorite animated films though.Watched the first five minutes or so and found it so irritating I turned it off.
Was the first Anderson film I could tolerate. I've mellowed a little now though as far as he goes. Just not worth the effort of getting wound up by him.Watched the first five minutes or so and found it so irritating I turned it off.
I felt this way with The French Dispatch. Almost like Anderson was overconfident in his own style and kinda overextended the film in that direction. Grand Budapest and Fantastic Mr Fox get close to that limit for me.I like that there's someone with that distinct a style operating with the kind of exposure he has, but I find the style itself grating.
I think Mark Kermode described French Dispatch as being like a huge wedding cake or doll's house.
I don't know Kermode but that seems pretty on point for me. Again, really a cool film in its own right, but I did feel it passed a certain threshold for me in terms of how much quirk a single film could contain. I'm largely in the school of thought where really novel handlings of form can be pulled off, if there is some justifying statement, even if that statement is about form itself. That said, I don't think French Dispatch succeeded there, but maybe I need to rewatch it.I think Mark Kermode described French Dispatch as being like a huge wedding cake or doll's house.
Same. I'd say there are lots of film directors I don't like, but none who really wound me up like him... seemed to peel back my skin and scrape down my nerves... a sickening smugness, self-satisfied cleverness that just isn't that clever.I like that there's someone with that distinct a style operating with the kind of exposure he has, but I find the style itself grating.
Totally, and honestly I think its his best film in that regard. I'd be surprised if he tops that. Kinda felt like he was trying to with French DispatchGrand Budapest feels like some sort of Rube Goldberg machine or elaborate cuckoo clock.