{"id":473,"date":"2023-06-24T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2023-06-24T19:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T23:13:48","slug":"asteroid-city-by-wes-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"“Asteroid City,” by Wes Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The one sheet (poster) for this movie explains just about everything . Tons of stars that all want to work in a Wes Anderson movie, and motionless people. Even the character who is in a jet pack of some type is being held down — not allowed to fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some day, I suppose, I’ll come across an article about Wes Anderson and his movies and this brilliant critic will finally explain to me what his movies mean, and I will understand why it is I can’t see his brilliance or genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But until that critic arrives and finishes my education, his movies feel like a kid that’s playing the game Minecraft. Or in the real world, building something from Legos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For me it’s simply pointless. I do not understand them. The last one I saw (The French Dispatch) was impossibly boring and I finally decided I had had enough of his wasting my time. I’m no fan of Pauline Kael, but when she agreed to a private screening of his first movie Rushmore (1998) she said to him, “Well I don’t know what you have here,” or something to that effect. I looked for the quote online but couldn’t find it. So I guess it’s not a quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did like The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel. But I think I will probably be extremely high if I ever see another of his films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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