Mega64 Movie Club: Asteroid City
Added 2023-08-30 10:03:01 +0000 UTCWe finally watched Wes Anderson's new movie and have no clue what to say about it.
Next week's Movie Club is OLDBOY.
Comments
I love these so much
Kevin Nash x Scott Hall BDSM Fanfiction
2023-09-09 22:12:03 +0000 UTCPersonally I loved it and it stuck with me more than his other movies. On a surface level, I enjoyed it for what it was, but I thought more about how it was about the pursuit of something (whether it's the creation of art or a scientific breakthrough or otherwise) can be chaotic and defy explanation. The more I thought about _why_ the play was an explicit framing device the more I liked it after watching it. In particular what struck me was the lead actor played by Jason Schwartzman leaving the play at its climax to ask the director what really is going on, really trying to find a message in the writer and his lover's parting words. The scientists of the play search for meaning in alien life and technology and the actors portraying the characters in the play search for meaning in an artist's final work and I think it's woven together in a really fun way. It's very art-imitates-life-imitates-art wrapped in whimsy. I found it both charming and thought-provoking without being as pretentious as The French Dispatch which I found enjoyable but truly an inaccessible greatest hits compilation of Wes Anderson filmmaking tropes and techniques.
brahbrah
2023-09-01 07:40:42 +0000 UTCI completely agree with Shawn on the framing device of the stage play/behind the scenes narrative not working for me. I've had discussions with friends who have argued for it thematically, and I can see what it's going for, but it just completely takes me out of the fun I was having with all the scenes in Asteroid City. I loved that environment and those versions of the characters so much that every time it cut back to Bryan Cranston in black and white I was just thinking "oh here we go again" that said, the puppet roadrunner is one of the most delightful things i've ever seen in his filmography
Blake R.
2023-08-30 13:48:56 +0000 UTCI think the first I saw was Fantastic Mr Fox too, I worked in a cinema when it came out and one morning we could see a middle aged couple on CCTV in a screening of it banging over the seats.. So Wes Anderson is forever linked to that for me now.
Spenerico
2023-08-30 10:27:19 +0000 UTC
