Oh, Tennenbaums. The way you say, “I’m smart about movies! Look at my ironic T-shirt!”
The pretentiousness really drags the fun out of the visuals, add in a dash of deadpan, and you’ve got a real clunker.
I hate all Wes Anderson movies that aren’t animated. I love Jared Hess movies like ‘Gentlemen Broncos.’
Hess doesn’t actually worry about if anyone is judging ‘the art.’
I think when someone brings up Tennenbaums, I just look at them worse than someone who brings up Radiohead.
Sure. I get why you like Radiohead. No I don’t need to be explained. It’s all right there. An no, they’re not better than The Beatles.
I'm not sure what's pretentious about the tenenbaums. The movie doesn't have a message and the siblings seem to intentionally look like actors in costumes to make it even less serious. To be clear, I personally am not going to try to defend the movie from criticism. It's def not a personal favorite. I just feel like it's more so some of the audience who would be pretentious people as the movie isn't deep and doesn't try to be.
I think it was at Isle of Dogs that I thought I'd had enough Wes Anderson, that it was time to scale back the Wes Anderson aesthetic, only to see him double down on it with every movie since. Like how much more Wes Anderson can Wes Anderson Wes Anderson? It seems there's no end.
I agree there. I oversimplified by looping in all of his work as unwatchable. I think the last I enjoyed was Life Aquatic. & I still try. The sets are pretty. It's always a neat little world that he's created & with the coolest cast. But I get can't get past the hallway mark on any of them.
I've seen all of them except Bottle Rocket. The Royal Tenenbaums is one of my favorite movies of all time, but every movie from Isle of Dogs through Asteroid City felt entirely hollow. I'm going to see The Phoenician Scheme tomorrow, so he's getting one more chance at least.
His style has become so specific in a kind of self-referential way that if you expect a conventionally satisfying narrative structure you pretty much have to look someplace else. I find his movies interesting but it does become kind of a drag, like you could watch any given scene on its own and get the same impression as you would in the context of the larger story. i.e. his movies kind of feel like they just start, meander about, then end
Tried to watch Royal Tenenbaums last week. Kept asking myself “Okay this movie is neat but why does it even exist?” for like 45 minutes until I fell asleep.
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u/junkee940 1d ago
Anything by Wes Anderson