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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5467739, member: 966"] [B]The Phoenician Scheme[/B] The latest Wes Anderson film. Benicio del Toro stars, with Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Cera, and Kate Winslet's daughter Mia Threapleton. And Bill Murray as God. I unabashedly love Wes Anderson, so it's difficult to be either fair or critical of his projects. After i saw The Royal Tenenbaums, each film thereafter has initially disappointed me, because it's not The Royal Tenenbaums, and then i need to go back and rewatch in order to be able to accept it for what it is. I think Zissou was the first film after Tenenbaums and i initially hated it. Of course, now it's one of my favorite things. So, this. This comes after Asteroid City, which i initially disliked and then subsequently still disliked. This, though, i immediately did like. So much so that i immediately wanted to watch it again. it's not perfect and it's not Tenenbaums-good for me, but it's breathtaking filmmaking. it has all of the Wes Anderson signature flourishes and character, somehow without going beyond and into the kind of substanceless affectation of Asteroid City. It's not warm like Tenenbaums, and it's got a primary story thread (the business aspect) the details of which that i didn't completely grok the first time and didn't really care about the second time, and still it's fun. Really, really beautiful. And i recognized something about the aesthetics in these worlds that i love so much—this film, Zissou probably, The Crown—there are no plastics. The world pre-plastics was so much more elegant and beautiful. Anyway, that's just another one of my personal oddities. So, anyway—see it. Let me/us know what you think. [/QUOTE]

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