Wes Anderson's new film has a trailer and it looks gorgeous! Love the color, 50's vibe and desert setting. Can't wait to see it as so far he's never disappointed.
Trailer for Asteroid City, Wes Anderson's new film is up
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I've loved everything Wes Anderson has done so I'm definitely looking forward to this film! Plus, Anderson does sci-fi...maybe? Sign me up!
Just a pity that this will be the first film without Bill Murray since Bottle Rocket. Stupid COVID.
Just a pity that this will be the first film without Bill Murray since Bottle Rocket. Stupid COVID.
I didn’t catch he wasn’t in there! Yeah, that’ll be weird. Not a fan of the big star studded cast thing though. There was a large star cast for French Dispatch and most were glorified cameos. I didn’t realize Jason Schwartzman was the art guy until I had it on home release.
As for Wes and sci-fi, Isle of Dogs is sci-fi. It’s in the future and has robot dogs.
I would love it if Wes adapted Tom Gauld’s “Mooncop” as either a stop motion short or long film. It’s a very low key story about the last cop on the Moon as the population gives up on colonization and heads back to Earth. Mooncop just patrols the abandoned and desolate moonscape, helping out here and there and eating donuts.
That's true about Isle of Dogs. I forgot about the robot dogs. Okay, so Wes Anderson and live-action sci-fi!
Murray was suppose to be in this film but he got COVID before he could film his scenes.
That "Mooncop" idea definitely sounds right up Anderson's alley!
Murray was suppose to be in this film but he got COVID before he could film his scenes.
That "Mooncop" idea definitely sounds right up Anderson's alley!
That "Mooncop" idea definitely sounds right up Anderson's alley!
It is! It’s a contemplative work with all the dry humor of an Anderson film. Gauld is, along with Swedish cartoonist Jason, probably my favorite modern cartoonist. Both excel at dry humor.
Gauld does great science, literature and book lover humor.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116830-mooncop
Just realized Moonrise Kingdom came out 11 years ago!
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Oh, yeah, I had completely forgotten about that. At the time, we didn't know the nature of the complaint, other than Murray trying to brush it aside as a bad joke that was misunderstood (ugh).
I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it turns out (shockingly), it was a lot worse, so bad that the film was ultimately canceled.
Thank you for the recommendation. I hadn't even heard of him until you mentioned him here.
You had me at "Wes Anderson."
The Junior Space Cadet Convention makes me want to see it even more.
The Junior Space Cadet Convention makes me want to see it even more.
Guessing you’ve never seen a Wes Anderson film?
Same! This one is just drop dead gorgeous! Like a 50’s postcard come to life. While I enjoyed French Dispatch, it didn’t grab me as much or as fast as previous films. This one seems to be more of “traditional” Anderson film. I feel like this one will be near the top of my ranking list. So far nothing has topped Royal Tennenbaums for me.
I've seen The Royal Tenenbaums 1.5 times, the first I didn't get it and quite half way through, and then gave it a second go a few years later and really enjoyed it. I've been wanting to check out more of his stuff. I love quirky and weird stuff, and his stuff seems to pretty much be the definition of quirky and weird.
Has potential.
Though I really want Agent Kay to show up.
Though I really want Agent Kay to show up.
Anderson is a guy who's been quietly doing his own thing for 30 years now. I know some people say he makes the same movie over and over, I don't agree. He's got a unique style that he's never compromised on, but each story is different enough for me. Something that I like about Anderson's films is that he creates, not just stories about the characters, but the world around the characters, and he goes all in on it to create sort of a micro-world or 'doll house' as it's been said. He embraces artificiality and uses miniatures that sometimes look like miniatures, to great effect and I love it. You can tell that in the Asteroid City trailer that the buildings to the side of the train tracks are miniatures, but that just adds to the effect.
The movies prior to Fantastic Mr. Fox have less of the artificiality and are a little more grounded, the micro-world a little more natural feeling. After Fantastic Mr. Fox, he started to utilize more miniatures and flat or 2 models. The Grand Budapest Hotel itself is such, and it's never seen at an angle or from the side. French Dispatch goes to 11 on all the little stylistic tricks he's learned over the years.
If you want more down to earth, but still off kilter Wes, Bottle Rocket to Darjeeling Limited. If you want some crazy awesome stop motion, Fantastic Mr Fox and Isle of Dogs. If you want ever increasing stylistic film making and production values, Moonrise Kingdom to French Dispatch. But I would definitely NOT watch French Dispatch until you've gotten some others under your belt. Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel are, imo, very accessible with great stories. Grand Budapest's 'onion' style of story telling is just (chef's kiss) fantastic and it's got a very funny and moving story to boot. The ending gets me every time.
When people say 'Hollywood's run out of idea's' I disagree. There's some cool stuff out there, but it doesn't make the kind of bank as big 'splody blockbusters do. Thankfully we got folks like Wes Anderson doing their own thing in the background to give us a respite from all that stuff.
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