Asteroid City by JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Asteroid City

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Sunday, January 7, 2024 16:26
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Friday, June 30, 2023 12:16 PM

I enjoyed seeing this.

Based upon the trailers, and having watch numerous Wes Anderson films, it looked interesting. I expected it to be quircky.
It was more quirky than I expected.

It is apparently a fake pseudo- quasi-documentary about a play about a fictional event from the 1950s.

The cast really makes it work.

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Friday, June 30, 2023 3:00 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I only realized after this came out that I've never seen a Wes Anderson flick before.

I found that hard to believe since I know the name and I'm familiar with the titles of some of his work like The Royal Tenenbaums. I did catch part of Rushmore back when it first aired on cable in the early 2000's, but not enough to know what it was about.

What Wes Anderson flick would you recommend watching first? I have a feeling that I'd probably be among those who like his films.

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Saturday, July 1, 2023 4:37 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I only realized after this came out that I've never seen a Wes Anderson flick before.

I found that hard to believe since I know the name and I'm familiar with the titles of some of his work like The Royal Tenenbaums. I did catch part of Rushmore back when it first aired on cable in the early 2000's, but not enough to know what it was about.

What Wes Anderson flick would you recommend watching first? I have a feeling that I'd probably be among those who like his films.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

I have not seen all of his films, and I don't know your tastes.

IIRC, my favorite of his is Moonrise Kingdom. Much of the cast were minors, and I felt he did a good job with them.

You have seen Rushmore, which was innovative when it came out.

I feel Asteroid City accompanies these.

Life Aquatic was entertaining.

Hotel Chevalier and Darjeeling Limited I saw because of Natalie Portman, and my recall of them is largely blank.

All of his films that I have seen were quirky. Not a complain, just that if you are looking for James Bond, Ah-nold, or Star Wars, these are not in that vein.

When I watched JoJo Rabbit, I half felt it was a Wes Anderson film, but it was not.
Wes does use a lot of the same actors, and most of AC have been in his prior films.

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Monday, July 3, 2023 6:12 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I enjoyed seeing this.

Based upon the trailers, and having watch numerous Wes Anderson films, it looked interesting. I expected it to be quircky.
It was more quirky than I expected.

It is apparently a fake pseudo- quasi-documentary about a play about a fictional event from the 1950s.

The cast really makes it work.

I knew I forgot something.
The end credits for cast go extremely fast - you would need to record them in order to find the details. And they jump from one side of the screen to the other, really in the corners of the screen.
Although not a coda, the end credits do have a distracting graphic bit of a roadrunner hopping around to the beat of the music.

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Tuesday, July 4, 2023 10:51 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I only realized after this came out that I've never seen a Wes Anderson flick before.

I found that hard to believe since I know the name and I'm familiar with the titles of some of his work like The Royal Tenenbaums. I did catch part of Rushmore back when it first aired on cable in the early 2000's, but not enough to know what it was about.

What Wes Anderson flick would you recommend watching first? I have a feeling that I'd probably be among those who like his films.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.
I have not seen all of his films, and I don't know your tastes.

IIRC, my favorite of his is Moonrise Kingdom. Much of the cast were minors, and I felt he did a good job with them.

You have seen Rushmore, which was innovative when it came out.

I feel Asteroid City accompanies these.

Life Aquatic was entertaining.

Hotel Chevalier and Darjeeling Limited I saw because of Natalie Portman, and my recall of them is largely blank.

All of his films that I have seen were quirky. Not a complain, just that if you are looking for James Bond, Ah-nold, or Star Wars, these are not in that vein.

When I watched JoJo Rabbit, I half felt it was a Wes Anderson film, but it was not.
Wes does use a lot of the same actors, and most of AC have been in his prior films.

I didn't actually SEE Rushmore. I had only caught about 20 minutes in the middle of it while channel surfing, probably after work one night back in my early 20s. I don't think I lost interest in it... I probably didn't want to ruin any more of it and see the ending when I didn't see the beginning and never got around to watching the rest of it. If I knew it was a Wes Anderson film at the time, I didn't retain that knowledge since I saw it on a list of Wes Anderson films after you made the OP and it was news to me.

My tastes are a bit non-mainstream... whatever that means. I really liked Jayneztown's suggestions of Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children. My favorite movie of all time is Ink. My favorite TV show is Arrested Development (minus the Netflix seasons, only the original run). I am still on a Firefly fan site 22 years after the show came out. I really like the anime from Studio Gibli that I've seen, including Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. I'd watch any one of these again before watching most of the mainstream stuff that comes out in current decade.

Jojo Rabbit is also on my to-watch list.

I'll let you know what I think when I get around to seeing some Wes flicks. Thanks for the info.

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023 7:44 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I only realized after this came out that I've never seen a Wes Anderson flick before.

What Wes Anderson flick would you recommend watching first? I have a feeling that I'd probably be among those who like his films.
I have not seen all of his films, and I don't know your tastes.

I really liked Jayneztown's suggestions of Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children.

You mean, MY suggestion of The City of Lost Children? I do not recall anybody else on this board recommending The City of Lost Children, other than perhaps you, after you followed my suggestion. I have posted it on many lists, many times, on this board. The most I've heard here from others was mostly "yeah, that one too" sort of agreement.
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My favorite movie of all time is Ink. My favorite TV show is Arrested Development (minus the Netflix seasons, only the original run).

I am still on a Firefly fan site 22 years after the show came out.
Yes, now that it is Sept 2024, we can all celebrate the 22 years since September 2002.

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Jojo Rabbit is also on my to-watch list.

I'll let you know what I think when I get around to seeing some Wes flicks. Thanks for the info.

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023 9:32 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Glad to have you back, you ole' cocksucker.

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Thursday, July 6, 2023 7:40 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

I would be tempted to watch 'Asteroid City' just to see how the cast play off each other.

I am not totally ignorant of Wes Andreso seen 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' I sat through it, the movie was weird and Bill Murray steals the show with this dead pan humor playing 'Zissou' its sometimes like a stand up routine of Bill Murray playing this French guy explorer while a movie just happens to play out in the back ground, all the support cast are very good. I think when Wes Andreson started getting big and the Superhero genre exploded this is when I got very picky with film and just stopped watching stuff, binge watched tv documentary or series and instead just re-watched oldies. I have not been able to sit through other movies. His movies are 'odd' there is some other style and influence similar to his work 'Amelie' or 'Captain Fantastic' or 'Little Miss Sunshine' or François Truffaut and the French new wave, I see some of Bertrand Blier 'Merci La Vie' is a weird one its about two girls one younger and another an older sexually liberated erotically charged woman that run around 'free' stealing cars then come across this Mad Doctor who has 'invented' AIDS, the film plays out like a mix between a dream and a nervous breakdown with random stuff constantly happening, Gérard Depardieu pops out of nowhere, Nazis from the 40s appear suddenly invade in the late 1980s or early 90s, the 'Father' stock trope archetype character, shows up suddenly telling the girls to 'behave' it has Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blancall. The films made by Wes Andreson often have these weird elements of French type story telling in the film, constant moments of 'surreal plot' and meaningless weird and irony and simply what would happen if a 'French' jazz guy became a film director. I think Wes Anderson often emits the same type of ironic dysfunctional weirdness.

I will probably avoid this one or maybe not maybe I will watch it, like I wrote the only other film of his I sat through of his was 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' I keep wanting to watch his movies but I'm not really into weird quirky stuff anymore maybe it is my own bias. I know he has property in Paris and is highly influenced by French film but he is not really to me taste. If there is a message I don't really 'get it' I see something in his films but my personal taste I don't really like 'Wes Anderson' his style of film making it just weirds me out, there is something about his film making that often just rubs me the wrong way however there is something 'Art' in it. Many years ago I seen 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' it was about an explorer that would have been all over Nature Documentaries and National Geographic before the magazine went weird, 'Jacques Cousteau' one of those James Cameron Titan OceanGate submersible who started doing all that exploration stuff in the 1950s long before modern technology and none of these old submarines had video game console and none of them imploded. I think its the visual framing that puts me off, a lot of the shots in a Wes Anderson movie look like one of those old cheapass tacky postcards that nobody wants to collect... it is not empty, he is funny with moments of tongue-in-cheek, every family is dysfunctional, stuff looks like the backdrop to a musical or theater, everything is weird, ironic and 'Eccentric'. There is a lot of French 'surrealist film' influence in his work

In a ways he kinda reminds me of Ed Wood with 'campy aesthetics' and cult following but far more modern and with Dysfunction Drama, he is probably the new face of Post-Modern and the new USA 'Eccentric'. If I were to criticize what I find off putting or 'wrong' in his film is they are too much visual style, you know its him straight away like you know a Sergio Leone film or a Tarantino style or George Lucas style, for me he is too ' symmetrical' like room interior magazine or North African Arab carpet or some silly stage Musical, I get that he's trying to deliver something with the set and frame and campy visual but I find the visuals off putting, the films don't really have any true long lasting message other than humor, dysfunction and the 'absurd'.

I think he's all French visual style, there is humor, but no lasting message other than absurd dysfunction.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

What Wes Anderson flick would you recommend watching first? I have a feeling that I'd probably be among those who like his films.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

Life Aquatic was entertaining.

I would go with Life Aquatic since its the only film of his that I seen ;) and you had a weird tragedy of submarines in the news recently

Bill Murray is in many of his films ...maybe he is in all his movies... and he deserves respect as a up to date 'Comedian' for staying not French but Current and Fresh all the way from 1970s until today, Murray is not a perfect man and once almost got in trouble and his producer Laura Ziskin recalled having a disagreement with Murray that led him to toss her into a lake, he also tossed a dumped a 9 yr old Seth Green into a garbage can after Seth kicked him in the testicles. I'm not sure he would get away with such stuff today, he was accused of 'MeToo' but there doesn't seem to be anything much there other than attention seeker gossip and maybe I respect him because of his work and staying power and it is rare to see Artists cross so many generations.

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Thursday, July 6, 2023 9:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

What about this one?

Seriously though... This AI thing is getting pretty scary.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023 2:42 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

That didn't take long. Asteroid City is now available as a free BitTorrent or watch online:

https://yts.mx/movies/asteroid-city-2023

It is easily Anderson’s weirdest film since The Life Aquatic, and one of the most impressive of his career.
July 10, 2023

If you’re a Wes Anderson fan, you’ll love it. If you’re not – or you don’t know who he is – this will prove even more confusing.
July 10, 2023 | Rating: 3/4

The pieces fit like a jigsaw, and Anderson’s toggling between the widescreen color vistas of Asteroid City and the boxy screen ratio of the black-and-white TV segments ensure that the foreground story and the background commentary never get confused.
July 10, 2023 | Rating: 3.5/4

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/asteroid_city

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023 6:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

OK Pirate.

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Sunday, January 7, 2024 4:26 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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Seriously though... This AI thing is getting pretty scary.

not really 'Art' but ...very impressive AI

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