Started watching Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City last weekend because I saw it was on netflix and my wife had enjoyed Grand Budapest hotel movie.
I didn’t realise until then just how many of his films I have tried watching over the years (7 or 8) and I don’t think I have enjoyed any of them, other than perhaps Fantastic Mr Fox (and that only at the second time of watching with my daughter).
Yeah I find him a challenge. Some of it leaves me absolutely cold, as Astroid City did. But when he hits the result is absolutely delightful. But the ratio isn’t great.
I’ve just had a look, and I think a few are what I would class as worthy rather than enjoyable. I really enjoyed Fantastic Mr Fox and Isle of Dogs, but I do have a liking for stop motion animation.
Grand Budapest Hotel was OK, but I think we only went to see it because it was filmed around a few places where my mother-in-law grew up.
@Nikola have you seen Weapons? I think you were a bigger fan of Barbarian than I was so I wonder if we’re going to be on the other side of the arguments than we were for Sinners for how we felt about this highly anticipated film.
I thought it was perfectly watchable, but felt the greater meaning of it being an allegory for school shootings, the thing that makes critics view it as elevated, fell flat. It was kind of a trite statement and even hamfisted specifically in that one scene with Brolin.
I actually liked it very much, even more than Barbarian but I found that particular scene and Cregger’s, well, non-explanation pretty confusing. Maybe it wouldn’t have looked out of place had it been framed in a different manner - I don’t think his intention was to solely give his own portrayal of school shootings and grief surrounding it, I think he also wanted to allude to video games and gun control laws using that particular frame, and relationship that kids have with their parents, even politics trying to control kids… At least that was my view of it. Parental love seems like a dominant motif in both of his films.
That said, having been infatuated for too long with Lynch’s works, the only real issue I find with Cregger’s films is the full explanation of the main story we get by the time credits roll. 
I found some people say “it’s not an allegory about gun violence per se. It’s an allegory about child abuse.” Allegory…the story is one directly addresses child abuse. That is not what an allegory is 
I like The Royal Tenenbaums and Life Aquatic, and parts of all of his other movies, but he’s certainly not for everyone.
Apparently he’s huge in the symmetry community
Back in 1997 PTA was on the radio in Australia on the promotional tour for Boogie Nights…that shit heap Titanic was out at the same time and the host asked him why someone should go and see his movie over the BIGGEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!
I remember his answer like it was yesterday…
Well…you know…what would your listeners rather go and see? The big ship movie or the big dick movie?
Deadset classic.
Movie was pretty good and Burt Reynolds was great in it.
I remember when Jonathan Ross was presenting the Film programme on BBC One, he asked viewers to send in suggestions for the worst films they had seen. Titanic came up more than any other. The one review I remember was, “The ship sinks. That should save 3 hours of your life.”
My girlfriend at the time fucking LOVED it.
Bawled her eyes out…
I had no idea it was so sad… 
No idea 1500 people drowning/freezing to death would be sad??
Honestly…the shit you put up with when you’re young, stupid, and just thinking with your old fella…
My mother took a liking to Christopher Eccleston in the early 1990s. If I noticed that one of his films was on I’d let her know. Anyway, “Let Him Have It” was on Channel 4 and I let her know that he was playing Derek Bentley in it. She said that she remembered the case and I left it at that.
I spoke to her a couple of weeks later and she was beside herself. “They didn’t have to hang him…”
I’m not sure what she thought it was about.
Dancer in the dark - I think it is the saddest movie I have ever seen and if it wasn’t for someone (annoying at the time from my perspective) singing, I would have cried and cried and cried… That is a sad movie. The big ship (like the other one) movie is, well, really long.
Gee, I wonder why?
Oh you took her to see the big ship movie 
Is it a Courtney Cox documentary?
Stumbled onto a film documentary type thing last night and it kept me up longer than I wanted. The Last Breath is a true story of a saturation diver emergency that occurred in the North Sea. I ended up watching it all despite having no intention of doing so.
Crazy people but I would say that it takes a smidge of an understanding of diving to really hit home how loony that occupation is.
Watched ‘Ballad of a small player’ on netflix this evening. Not quite sure i got the last scene.
Finally got to see Carpenter’s ‘In the Mouth of Madness’ last night. Maybe I was overly tired but I was left somewhat underwhelmed by it.
Whoa there! Are you sure you were watching the right film? And @RedWhippet liking this post?! I thought you were men of culture!