The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, October 22, 2021) Movie • Page 11

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Rushmore
3. Bottle Rocket
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Moonrise Kingdom
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. Isle of Dogs
9. The French Dispatch
10. The Life Aquatic

The middle of the list is interchangeable but the top five and bottom two are solid.

 

Owen Wilson's writing is what really balanced Anderson.

 

I'd put Rushmore, Grand Budapest, Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom all above Bottle Rocket (in that order). It's not top five for me.

 

1. Royal Tenenbaums
2. Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Bottle Rocket
4. Rushmore
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. Life Aquatic
7. French Dispatch
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. Darjeeling Limited
10. Isle of Dogs

 

1. Rushmore
2. Royal Ts

I don’t really care about the rest

 

Of all the actors he uses, I wonder if something happened between him and Luke Wilson. It is weird for someone so instrumental to his work to just disappear like that.

 

I think Luke just kinda disappeared because he didn't really want to be famous

 

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. Bottle Rocket
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. The Life Aquatic
6. Rushmore
8. Moonrise Kingdom
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel

I didn't connect with Rushmore as much as everyone else seems. MK and GBH the style had become too sweet for me. I like looking at Bill Murray in his hat, Didnt love Darjeeling Limited at first but I just keep watching it.

haven't seen Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch yet

 

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Isle of Dogs
4. The French Dispatch
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Rushmore

They're all super close for me other than first and last.

 

1. Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Royal Tenenbaums
3. Rushmore
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Bottle Rocket
6. Moonrise Kingdom
7. Life Aquatic
8. Isle of Dogs
9. Darjeeling Limited

Didn't care for Darjeeling, and Isle of Dogs was meh, but I quite like all the rest. Haven't seen French Dispatch.

 

I'm due for a rewatch of everything but Rushmore and Grand Budapest are ahead of any others for me. I underrate RT I guess but I haven't watched it since college, at the time I would have said it's the most Anderson to a fault film of his but that's probably not true. (I mean, it's objectively absurd that I thought that while simultaneously holding Life Aquatic as a masterpiece haha.)

 

I've only seen any of them once and still haven't seen a few of them, but going off memory I'd put Moonrise and Grand Budapest on top

 

Wow.

 

On blu-ray 12/28!

 

Oh sweet I can rent this now.

 

This was fine. It wasn’t hard to follow at all, if anything I was somewhat bored with the last 2 stories.

 

I know plenty will disagree, but the black and white choice was a huge downside for me. Wes Anderson is the king of using color and the lack of it really made the visuals much worse. This became painfully obvious is the few moments where it would cut to color briefly and you could see what could have been. Any scene in color was more beautiful and engaging than any scene in b&w.

 

agreed 100%

 

the contrast made the scenes in color that much more powerful imo. strongest thing about the movie

 

see, this feels like a terrible argument for me haha. "we need the bad stuff for the other stuff to be good!!!" Yeah you are right, the color stuff was way more powerful... but it didn't need an hour of black and white content to prove that.

 

the black and white shots are not bad at all ffs

 

I still haven't seen this but switching from black and white to color reminds me of Pleasantville

 

I agree that we didn’t need the black and white.