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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.
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.
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.
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.