tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691416.post112239602094028067..comments2023-08-21T09:54:44.260-05:00Comments on wrestling entropy: "You Live on a Spaceship, Dear."allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306695897219837503noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691416.post-1123607695491007582005-08-09T12:14:00.000-05:002005-08-09T12:14:00.000-05:00My thoughts about The Life Aquatic are like a cut-...My thoughts about <I>The Life Aquatic</I> are like a cut-rate frozen pizza prepared in a studio-apartment stove: crusty and burnt around the edges, but still uncooked and mushy in the middle. While I feel obliged to represent for my boy Wes, the fact that movie didn't <I>expand</I> for me the second time I saw it doesn't bode well in my mind. With his previous features, the more times I saw them, the deeper everything got—the set-ups to the jokes were as funny as the punchlines, the relationships between the characters seemed more heartbreaking, more intricate, and more true, the plot twists (such as they are) seemed more organic, more inevitable. I didn't get any of that with the second viewing of <I>LA</I>. I laughed at the same jokes, felt confused by the same contrivances (the pirate attack—WTF?), and, for the first time, caught a glimpse of the cloying tweeness naysayers must have taken issue with in <I>Rushmore</I> and <I>Tenenbaums</I>. All that being said, however, I'm not sure I believe any of it. I need to see it a couple more times before I pass something more like final judgment. I mean, give me even the most subpar Wes Anderson film over <I>War of the Worlds</I> any day of the week.allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11306695897219837503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691416.post-1123601910878659722005-08-09T10:38:00.000-05:002005-08-09T10:38:00.000-05:00Couldn't agree more about Barry Lyndon--the humor ...Couldn't agree more about Barry Lyndon--the humor is so dry, and rather than being antithetical to the rich visuals, its enhanced by it: what's funny is the contrast of the enfeebling, crippling facades we see ripple across the screen with the resonating and baroque voiceover. Hearing the narrator speak of love and seeing Ryan O'Neal stutter like an adolescent=tension=funny.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I adore 'the life aquatic' and think that it will be re-reviewed years hence as Anderson's smartest movie. Not his best (rushmore) but his most brilliant and self-effacing. Thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691416.post-1122585212651955082005-07-28T16:13:00.000-05:002005-07-28T16:13:00.000-05:00HA! I was just going to send you that thing on Owe...HA! I was just going to send you that thing on Owen Wilson... I thought of you immediately (and also thought that letter that is referenced is pretty hilarious)!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com