Wes Anderson Films

[Sarah]

Isn't he always exactly the same in everything?

Yes: hilarious!

And irascible.

[MattJohnson]

I watched Kicking & Screaming and Metropolitan back-to-back, or at least very close together, and as a result I have a very hard time differentiating my memories of one and the other. I know Metropolitan was the one about the debutantes, but I can't remember if the climax I'm remembering was from that movie or Kicking & Screaming. I realize this is a problem easily solved, but until now there's never been a point where it was important to me to know the difference. Also, the protagonist in Metropolitan talking about how he only reads literary criticism was delightful.

[buffcoat]

I watched Kicking & Screaming and Metropolitan back-to-back, or at least very close together, and as a result I have a very hard time differentiating my memories of one and the other. I know Metropolitan was the one about the debutantes, but I can't remember if the climax I'm remembering was from that movie or Kicking & Screaming. I realize this is a problem easily solved, but until now there's never been a point where it was important to me to know the difference. Also, the protagonist in Metropolitan talking about how he only reads literary criticism was delightful.

The Surrealists were all a bunch of social climbers.

[Big Plastic Head]

Kicking and Screaming is a great movie. So funny.

This movie is a favorite of mine. The writing is top notch and the characters are so perfectly flawed but likable.

[icepants]

Is Kicking and Screaming actually funny? Like, actually funny or Wes Anderson dry-funny?

I think its what you would call a "DRAMAEDY" Like the life of Britney Spears or an Edward Burns movie.  Funny but Serious. 

[crumbum]

I watched Kicking & Screaming and Metropolitan back-to-back, or at least very close together, and as a result I have a very hard time differentiating my memories of one and the other. I know Metropolitan was the one about the debutantes, but I can't remember if the climax I'm remembering was from that movie or Kicking & Screaming. I realize this is a problem easily solved, but until now there's never been a point where it was important to me to know the difference. Also, the protagonist in Metropolitan talking about how he only reads literary criticism was delightful.

One great bit I remember involved the asshole friend describing seeing 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' and being incensed when he realized the title was supposed to be ironic.

[Spoony]

I just saw The Brothers Bloom, and as much as I loved Rian Johnson's Brick, I didn't have high hopes for this movie. It just looked forgettable. It was far from perfect, but I really liked it. It had some great laughs and didn't take too many short cuts that "Con Man" films always make. (That having been said, like Brick you love this or you hate it like an enemy. My friend walked out.)

I did notice that Johnson was laying on the Wes Anderson whimsy pretty thick. It worked in the films favor, and maybe it was present in Brick, but it wasn't so transparent. Of all of the Wes Imitators, this was probably the better of them.

Juno is the basement, Brothers Bloom is the ceiling.