I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou last night and I did not like it. I just simply did not find it funny and it didn't appear to be trying to do anything else but be funny. And it wasn't funny to me.
I didn't like it, either. You should have talked to me before you checking it out.
Here's how Maitland McDonough of TV Guide described it: "A pure product of the "isn't it ironic" generation, filmmaker Wes Anderson's sensibilities are steeped in received experience, absorbed through a pop-culture filter of movies, TV and comic books — though THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS suggests he at least read The New Yorker as well. The resulting inclination towards archness, homage and precious observational humor produces too-clever-by-half films full of glittering details sprinkled over a fundamental hollowness. . . . Zissou's quest for the jaguar shark is mostly an excuse for self-consciously quirky character bits, occasionally interrupted by trumped-up complications. . . .Stranded awkwardly between the heartfelt and the put-on, as though Anderson couldn't bear to finger the heartstrings without appending a juvenile gotcha! to every emotional moment, the film isn't even so cool it hurts. It's so cool all the life has drained away, leaving nothing behind but a faint whiff of attitude."
I did notice Noah Taylor in both movies. Noah Taylor should've made my favorite male celebs in 2005. He probably won't make it in 2006, because he won't ever top his Max performance. Too bad. I loved him.
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I didn't like it, either. You should have talked to me before you checking it out.
Here's how Maitland McDonough of TV Guide described it: "A pure product of the "isn't it ironic" generation, filmmaker Wes Anderson's sensibilities are steeped in received experience, absorbed through a pop-culture filter of movies, TV and comic books — though THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS suggests he at least read The New Yorker as well. The resulting inclination towards archness, homage and precious observational humor produces too-clever-by-half films full of glittering details sprinkled over a fundamental hollowness. . . . Zissou's quest for the jaguar shark is mostly an excuse for self-consciously quirky character bits, occasionally interrupted by trumped-up complications. . . .Stranded awkwardly between the heartfelt and the put-on, as though Anderson couldn't bear to finger the heartstrings without appending a juvenile gotcha! to every emotional moment, the film isn't even so cool it hurts. It's so cool all the life has drained away, leaving nothing behind but a faint whiff of attitude."
Did you notice that Noah Taylor (Hitler from Max) appears in The Life Aquatic and in The New World?
I did notice Noah Taylor in both movies. Noah Taylor should've made my favorite male celebs in 2005. He probably won't make it in 2006, because he won't ever top his Max performance. Too bad. I loved him.
I liked this movie. I thought Willem DaFoe was very funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but absurd funny. Kinda like I Heart Huckabees.
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