• caseofthematts@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Interesting perspective. I thought it was his most obnoxious film to date. It was a movie that insisted upon itself and quite frankly bored and confused me. It was like no one said no to Anderson to reign him in at all.

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      8 months ago

      Agree 💯

      IMO His best movies (like Grand Budapest or Moonrise Kingdom) have an emotional core that counteracts the arch, one-eyebrow-raised-ness, but Asteroid City was just completely self-indulgent, overly convoluted, and emotionally inert.

      I found it insufferable and nearly didn’t finish it.

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      8 months ago

      What does “insists upon itself” mean as film criticism? I thought that was a Family Guy joke about Peter wanting to criticise The Godfather but not having the vocabulary to back it up.

      Agree that Wes Anderson is on a trajectory where each additional movie is becoming more of a distillation of his style over any actual substance. I still enjoy them for what they are though; each scene is like a miniature diorama.

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        8 months ago

        Don’t know, I’ve never watched Family Guy. It means it’s trying to pretend it has deeper meanings but just comes off as shallow and pretentious. It’s a film of “Anderson-isms” with nothing of substance to show.