Wes Anderson movie

[hammersavage]

Bottle Rocket

Rushmore

Royal Tenanbaums

Life Aquatic

Darjeeling Limited


What say you???

[Slumbag]

Love those Tennenbaums.

[razorboy]

I've enjoyed all of them, even the much maligned Darjeeling Limited, but Bottle Rocket is still my favorite.

[burrben]

the royal tenenbaums. but i enjoy them all.

[mikeyboy]

Bottle Rocket is one of my favorite movies.

[hammersavage]

I rate them:

Royal
Rushmore
Rocket
Darjeeling
Aquatic

Like to adore them all.

[grlNIN]

Life Aquatic
Tennenbaum's
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket (even though i didn't like it)

Never seen Darjeeling but i hate Adrien Brody and i don't care for Jason Schwartzmen on my better days.

[RoseBlood]

Tenanbaums
Bottlerocket
Rushmore
Aquatic
Darjeeling

[west milly Tom]

The helicopter scene is a top ten scene for me. So good.

[Ritalin]

Thank you, no.

[barjockey]

gene Hackman telling Angelica huston he's dieing is funny stuff

[meanmrbill]

Wow, this is a tough one but I have to go with the Tenanbaums for these reasons:

1. The way the narrator accentuates Ritchie Tenanbaum during the introduction of the characters at the beginning of the film.

2. When Ritchie visits Eli to confront him about telling Margot about his love for her:
Eli: I did find it odd when you said you were in love with her. She's married you know.
Ritchie: Yeah.
Eli: And she's your sister.
Ritchie: Adopted.

3. Anderson's use of music in this film is spot-on. For example, the use of Eliot Smith's songs during Ritchie's breakdown is brilliant.

[Yosammity]

I know I'm in the minority, but I loved Darjeeling Limited.

Rushmore is a close second.

[epo]

Wes Anderson never did anything funnier than this:

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[TheMojoPin]

I know I'm in the minority, but I loved Darjeeling Limited.

I thought it was great.

I picked Rushmore. TRT is a close second, but something about the former is just so perfect, namely the ending shot at the party using "Oh La La" and the whole sequence where Max takes Blume to meet his father. The range of emotions Murray is able to demonstrate without saying a thing is amazing.

[drjoek]

Nota

[realmenhatelife]

Royal is written the best, but Rushmore is the most likeable. Life Aquatic almost gets there. But Darjeeling is nearly insulting with how poorly written and self indulgent it is. I feel like every bit of ambiguity in it is not there to challenge and engage the audience, but because they were so lazy they thought showing up in India was going to be enough to have a meaningful end product.

They're dropping their baggage so they can catch the train, What could that possibly mean?

[foodcourtdruide]

I know it's not the hip thing to say, but I like Darjeeling the best. The blatant symbolism is awesome.

[foodcourtdruide]

Royal is written the best, but Rushmore is the most likeable. Life Aquatic almost gets there. But Darjeeling is nearly insulting with how poorly written and self indulgent it is. I feel like every bit of ambiguity in it is not there to challenge and engage the audience, but because they were so lazy they thought showing up in India was going to be enough to have a meaningful end product.

They're dropping their baggage so they can catch the train, What could that possibly mean?

I could not disagree with you more. It's incredibly written and the dialogue and acting are both awesome. The symbols ARE blatant (Owen Wilson is wearing bandages for crying out loud!), and they act as a satirical element of the film.

[realmenhatelife]

I could not disagree with you more. It's incredibly written and the dialogue and acting are both awesome. The symbols ARE blatant (Owen Wilson is wearing bandages for crying out loud!), and they act as a satirical element of the film.


I didn't take them as satire at all; I think the characters are totally absurd and those are the moments (baggage, bandages coming off, adrian brodys baptism or cleansing or whatever) where we are supposed to humanize them and feel like they're overcoming their shortcomings.

And the whole spiritual journey of the movie, where I guess at the end you are supposed to feel like 'ok, these people have made their own way and they get solace and value from it even though they dont understand it' which is a decent and challenging idea totally comes off as a bunch of douchey shallow guys co-opting what is exotic and spiritual.

Essentially, to me, this movie is a frat boy with a ganesh tattoo saying 'Shit means good luck, brah.'

[El Mudo]

I thought it was great.

I picked Rushmore. TRT is a close second, but something about the former is just so perfect, namely the ending shot at the party using "Oh La La" and the whole sequence where Max takes Blume to meet his father. The range of emotions Murray is able to demonstrate without saying a thing is amazing.



I agree...Murray is great in that movie, and I loved Darjeeling as well.

I love that scene in Rushmore where he's talking on the phone and does the Motumboesque bitch slap to the basketball shot when the little kids are playing basketball. Such a random, hysterical little moment.

Murray was also awesome in his role in Tenenbaums, although it was rather brief (I still crack up every time he looks Margot in the eye and says "You've made a cuckold of me!")

[TheMojoPin]

As much as I've enjoyed his last two films, I really wish he'd write his films with Owen Wilson again.

[Kublakhan61]

Bottle Rocket! I'm actually a bit surprised by how people feel about Life Aquatic. I knew many were down on Darjeeling (I enjoyed it a great deal) but Life Aquatic?!

If I were ranking the films Royal Tenenbaums might be the lowest on my list for it's blatant robbery of all things Salinger.

[burrben]

I could not disagree with you more. It's incredibly written and the dialogue and acting are both awesome. The symbols ARE blatant (Owen Wilson is wearing bandages for crying out loud!), and they act as a satirical element of the film.

my favorite part of darjeeling was when they get kicked off the train and are walking, they see the kids crossing the river and owen wilson says "look at these assholes"

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[TheMojoPin]

It's a bitch to find this ending online because of the song used, but man, what a great ending.

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