Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, June 16th, 2023) Movie • Page 6

I'm just not a fan of the emotionless acting in Anderson films, although I think it worked better in Grand Budapest Hotel.

Even Augie seemed to not understand wtf the story was about lol. He was questioning it and saying it made no sense for his character to burn his hand

 

I feel like this is again a parallel to how life very rarely makes sense or has an easy answer on how to proceed but we should still keep telling the story anyway and try to make what sense we can. Likewise this film isn't exactly a simple narrative but the more I think about and engage with it the more I can make of it. I think it's one of his most poetic works.

That said, I can see that not working for everyone which is fine, I was pretty cool on it when I first finished it.

 

i think this is my favorite Schwartzman performance in a Wes Anderson film by a long shot. not sure how you can call it emotionless.

 

Because everyone is monotone in it aside from the son. Everyone feels numb to everything

I get that was on purpose, it just didn't work for me

 

I just don’t see that, personally. Like Tilda
Swinton and Tom Hanks had a couple moments of complete humanity I thought - the scene in the tent with the Tilda’s character and Woodrow was as real as anything that’s been in a Wes movie since Tenenbaums. Schwartzman telling Adrien Brody he’s not sure if he’s doing it right and being told just keep on telling the story. I felt so much beyond monotone in the characters of this one.

I’ll shit on moonrise, isle of dogs, and French dispatch for how disconnected they feel from surface level emotion but this and GBH have it in spades imo.

 

There were so many characters that absolutely were not monotone or numb. Scarlet's daughter, the kid who ratted out the existence of the alien, the kid who wanted to be dared all the time, Adrian Brodie's character, the teacher by Maya Hawke.

There were some that weren't so it's skewed properly I think.

 

man i loved this. probably top 5 wes for me. his best with the most heart in a long time. all the mom stuff. yeesh.

 

phaynes gets it

 

This movie absolutely rocked - probably one of his funniest and heartfelt one in a while, and I loved Grand Budapest

 

Grand Budapest is my favorite Wes. I tried watching The French Dispatch but couldn't make it past the first 30 min.

Need to watch this.

 

Recently watched The Royal Tenenbaums and loved that

 

I really liked this and had a reaction I'm not sure I've ever had before: I wasn't really connecting with it emotionally and then a single scene (the Margot Robbie scene) completely destroyed me, while also unlocking the movie for me in a way that made the whole experience work.

Watched a lot of Anderson movies this year and I think that scene might be top 3 in his entire filmography. Something really transcendent about it and Margot Robbie's delivery is so incredible

 

Watching now

 

Finally rewatched this and it definitely skyrocketed up my ranking of Wes Anderson movies.


As someone said earlier Jeffrey Wright's performance was also something that stuck out to me

 

Just finished this, I liked it more than I thought I would especially considering I did not like The French Dispatch at all.

 

I haven't seen him in much but I don't think I've ever not liked Jeffrey Wright in anything

 

He’s always solid.

 

Well, this continued the hit or miss streak I have with Wes Anderson. Loved The French Dispatch, but I found this to be a bit of a chore.

 

wild, this is miles above the french dispatch

 

Easily his worst, IMO.

 

The French Dispatch is underrated.

 

Yeah, asteroids will tend to come from miles above France's elevation

 

anyone watch Henry Sugar yet?