Letterboxd — Your life in film

I imagine this to be how my 60 year old neighbor pictures him and his buddies when they head down to Bike Week in Daytona every year.

This show could’ve done with one less episode and the weekly episodic release schedule REALLY taxed my engagement.

But at the end of the day, this was a satisfying mystery that offers a fascinating and damning portrait of middle aged white male loneliness and mediocrity — and what happens when that collides head-on with dramatic and unpredictable forces. 

Worth making it to the finale.

At this point in his career, Wes Anderson has amaassed a company of regulars so large they cannot be contained in a strict narrative an can only be contained by an anthology film; some only glimpsed onscreen for mere minutes. This functions as a live action cartoon--featuring some gorgeous actual animation by Gwenn Germain--as shot by Stanley Kubrick; every square inch of frame is meticulously detailed, easily manipulated, and could explode at any given moment. By its very nature, this is more fragmented than Anderson's more focused films, but his signature energy and charm are cranked up.

Boston was *wild* in the 1300s.

"How doth ye like yon apples?!"

I cannot stop thinking about a quote I read from the director that he’s been “trying to get Sienna from page to screen for more than a decade.” She is his favorite character he has ever written. What? Has this dude ever met a woman?

I hope not and I hope he never does.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

If the prophecies of early 90s cinema came true, the human race would have gone extinct at the hands of desktop computers before the blueprint for the first iPod existed. An anti-technology manifesto about a woman who only knows four people whose names all start with M, it's alternately bland and insane. Would benefit from less sweeping shots of wires and appliances and more hand dryers becoming flamethrowers.