Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Come back home, Wes
I thought The Life Aquatic was okay. Wes Anderson walks the line between Wacky and what I guess you'd call Inspired Weirdness, and almost always defaults to the latter. Which is what makes his first 3 movies so great. They're inspired. But parts of TLA just felt Wacky for no good reason. Maybe he tried to tailor the script to a bigger budget?
Anyway, I have high hopes for The Darjeeling Limited. I watched the trailer twice. After the first time, I thought it looked decent. The second made me really want to see it. Maybe it's Owen Wilson's bandages, or the Kinks song, or Jason Schwartzman macing his brothers.
I thought The Life Aquatic was okay. Wes Anderson walks the line between Wacky and what I guess you'd call Inspired Weirdness, and almost always defaults to the latter. Which is what makes his first 3 movies so great. They're inspired. But parts of TLA just felt Wacky for no good reason. Maybe he tried to tailor the script to a bigger budget?
Anyway, I have high hopes for The Darjeeling Limited. I watched the trailer twice. After the first time, I thought it looked decent. The second made me really want to see it. Maybe it's Owen Wilson's bandages, or the Kinks song, or Jason Schwartzman macing his brothers.
