Andrew Infante
21Mar12
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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
15May12
What a smarmy, annoying weasal who plundered his 'tricks' from better filmmakers.
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Seth Farmer
14Jan11
Commendable for his meticulous, if contrived, mise-en-scene, but does that really warrant a Criterion release of every single one of his movies? (no)
ddrt
4Jan11
Salaway: Thanks, you took the words right out of my mouth. It's amusing when uninformed idiots who've clearly only seen one short and one full film try to judge a director based on those limited experiences. C-Mac: If you can't see the depth in Wes Anderson's movies then you clearly don't have a developed sense of humor.
Salaway Gennaro
14Dec10
C-MAC is dead wrong, there's countless stories to be told in metropolitan areas and he's only made one film in France and one in New York City. One in India. Two in Texas. If you want to bitch about location being pretentious its you who's the prince.
rorydean
27Oct10
I think Mr. Anderson is an eclectic filmmaker with a a handful of brilliant films and then there is the rest. Personally, Hotel Chevalier, The Darjeeling Limited, and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou appear to be much less thought out and border on clumsy, unrealized stories with mediocre scripts that rely too heavily on ad-lib and impromptu interactions with his actors. Sometimes direction is essential in making an otherwise flat, disjointed narrative work and clearly in these examples something went wrong. On the other end of the spectrum, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a real gem and The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore have been on my top films of all times list since I first screened them and then in the dozens of subsequent revisits. It's interesting to look back at Bottle Rocket and begin to watch the filmmaker getting into stride and preparing for the career just up ahead.
(Queen of the Mods)
23Jul10
i think its become chic to hate on wes anderson. get regular with relax.
Jack Lehtonen
25Jun10
Not as bad as many on this site consider him to be. Yes, his films are flawed with a sense of hip-self-awareness, but they maintain a remarkable emotional consistency. I am always surprised when people say his films are empty. Yes, there is a lot of style (too much occasionally), but there are powerful emotional undercurrents present in all of his films.
StevenCady
10Apr10
I've never seen a Wes Anderson film that I haven't completely fallen in love with. His - and I guess Owen Wilson's for the most part - sense of irony, poignancy, and attention to detail make every one of his films hilarious, saddening, and moving. Even his least well made film, The Life Aquatic, is still very enjoyable and I'll pop it in from time to time. My favorite of his films is The Darjeeling Limited. I feel that it's very underrated even though it's a beautiful, visually striking, as well as emotionally striking, film. Simply, I love his movies.
Klauss Dimeler
26Mar10
Team Zissou Member ring for sale ! For all you Life Aquatic Fans. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=43323993&ref=sr_gallery_1&&ga_search_query=team+zissou&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title
Joe Nicholas
8Mar10
I'm in the process of writing my dissertation on the importance that facial hair plays upon a characters masculinity in the films of Wes Anderson. Does anyone know of any interviews etc that may talk of beards regarding Anderson? I know L.Wilson talks in the extra features on the Royal Tenenbaums DVD, just hoping to find similar. Cheers.
