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Nymr83
Jul 02 2012 03:41 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 05 2012 12:46 PM

Please let this thread stand as a warning. I've included no poll, no long review, just these words that you'll wish you had heeded: Don't waste your time.


Edit- I added the poll requested and changed the title to reflect the actual name of this disaster. Let the record show that the thread was originally misnamed and Edgy corrected me.

themetfairy
Jul 02 2012 04:56 PM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

Thank you Nymr - I had been on the fence about seeing this one.

Edgy MD
Jul 02 2012 08:04 PM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

Is this the same as Moonrise Kingdom?

Nymr83
Jul 02 2012 08:19 PM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

Edgy DC wrote:
Is this the same as Moonrise Kingdom?


It was so bad I even forgot the title. I wish we'd seen "Ted" instead, I'm sure the live teddy bear was at least good for some laughs.

sharpie
Jul 05 2012 08:48 AM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

I liked it. I'm pretty sure I would hate "Ted." So, if you like one you probably would dislike the other.

Edgy MD
Jul 05 2012 08:51 AM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

Got an 8.3 out of 10 on IMDB, and 94% fresh from Rotten Tomatoes.

I'm afraid we're gonna need a poll after all.

TransMonk
Jul 05 2012 09:28 AM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

Wes Anderson is one of those directors who makes movies that all seem the same to me. I've seen all of his features and would rate them as getting worse with each new film. From best to worst: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited. Fantastic Mr. Fox did buck this trend, but mostly because I found the animation fascinating and I didn't have to look at Owen Wilson's nose.

The wife is a big fan (of both Anderson and Bill Murray), so we will end up seeing this one eventually.

sharpie
Jul 05 2012 09:40 AM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

I don't have a dispute with TransMonk's rankings of the other Wes Anderson films, although you left out Bottle Rocket which should go after Rushmore and before The Royal Tenenbaums. I'd put the new one in that same just past Rushmore slot before Bottle Rocket.

Frayed Knot
Jul 05 2012 12:02 PM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

I often find certain things to like in the movies of his that I've seen [Rushmore, Tannenbaums] but end up being under-whelmed by the product as a whole.

themetfairy
Jul 05 2012 12:51 PM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

Frayed Knot wrote:
I often find certain things to like in the movies of his that I've seen [Rushmore, Tannenbaums] but end up being under-whelmed by the product as a whole.


Same here.

Vic Sage
Jul 05 2012 01:06 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

i have a love/hate thing with Anderson's films. I loved RUSHMORE and LIFE AQUATIC, but hated TANNENBAUMS and DARJEELING. I didn't see MR. FOX or BOTTLE ROCKET.
The trailer for this one makes it seem appealingly off-beat, which is what Anderson is at his best.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jul 05 2012 05:02 PM
Re: Moonlight Kingdom

sharpie wrote:
I don't have a dispute with TransMonk's rankings of the other Wes Anderson films, although you left out Bottle Rocket which should go after Rushmore and before The Royal Tenenbaums. I'd put the new one in that same just past Rushmore slot before Bottle Rocket.


Haven't seen Moonrise as yet, but elsewise I concur with Sharp's rankings right down to the puncksheeasian.

Rushmore is a personal favorite, getting me right in that Maurice Sendak/Harold and Maude-y shaped place in my solar plexus.

TransMonk
Jul 05 2012 06:21 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

My wife is seeing this right NOW while I'm watching the Mets game. She went with a friend to one of those fancy theaters we have that serve wine. I'll update the thread on what she has to say.

This all but guarantees that I will not see this film until some time next year.

Frayed Knot
Jul 05 2012 07:26 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Vic Sage wrote:
i have a love/hate thing with Anderson's films. I loved RUSHMORE and LIFE AQUATIC, but hated TANNENBAUMS and DARJEELING. I didn't see MR. FOX or BOTTLE ROCKET.


I suspect that yours is a minority viewpoint. Seems like the type of filmmaker that fans either love or hate, but rarely both.

Nymr83
Jul 05 2012 08:49 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Frayed Knot wrote:
Vic Sage wrote:
i have a love/hate thing with Anderson's films. I loved RUSHMORE and LIFE AQUATIC, but hated TANNENBAUMS and DARJEELING. I didn't see MR. FOX or BOTTLE ROCKET.


I suspect that yours is a minority viewpoint. Seems like the type of filmmaker that fans either love or hate, but rarely both.


Rushmore was decent to me, Tannenbaums was barely adequate (i'd have been upset to waste movie $$ on it but it was ok for TV) and i havent seen any of these others

TransMonk
Jul 06 2012 08:16 AM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Wifey enjoyed the flick. She rates the Anderson movies much the same as I do and proclaimed that this one was the best since (but not as good as) Tannenbaums.

Vic Sage
Jul 06 2012 08:26 AM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Frayed Knot wrote:
Vic Sage wrote:
i have a love/hate thing with Anderson's films. I loved RUSHMORE and LIFE AQUATIC, but hated TANNENBAUMS and DARJEELING. I didn't see MR. FOX or BOTTLE ROCKET.


I suspect that yours is a minority viewpoint. Seems like the type of filmmaker that fans either love or hate, but rarely both.


i don't know; i suspect that Anderson is such a unique artist that i don't think there is a "majority" viewpoint about his work. I think audience reaction varies widely from film to film, despite a consistency of tone in his work.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jul 06 2012 08:32 AM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Vic Sage wrote:
Vic Sage wrote:
i have a love/hate thing with Anderson's films. I loved RUSHMORE and LIFE AQUATIC, but hated TANNENBAUMS and DARJEELING. I didn't see MR. FOX or BOTTLE ROCKET.


I suspect that yours is a minority viewpoint. Seems like the type of filmmaker that fans either love or hate, but rarely both.


i don't know; i suspect that Anderson is such a unique artist that i don't think there is a "majority" viewpoint about his work. I think audience reaction varies widely from film to film, despite a consistency of tone in his work.


Agree-- virtually all of my friends/family who care to form an opinion on his stuff tend to be of mixed-opinion about his oeuvre.

Edgy MD
Jul 20 2012 08:13 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Dug it mostly. 3.5.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Nov 06 2012 09:20 AM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

Sorry, this was stupid and impossibly overrated. How was this not just a big creepy show of boys in vintage scouting uniforms and a girl in a short skirt and knee socks?

When the camera comes around on Murray for the first time, I swear they leave it there a second to allow the audience to appropriately hoot. I could practically hear a Howard Cunningham voice-over saying "Happy Days was filmed before a live studio audience." Thanks goodness Bill Murray was there to give this picture the ironic detatchment and wink it so desperately needed.

I liked the Scoutmaster and I suppose it did alright while reminding us of the sweetness of first love, but jeez what an over the top pretentious way of doing so. What did everyone so like about this?

Edgy MD
Nov 06 2012 10:08 AM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

That's what Wes Anderson makes, man. Bittersweet, tragic and retro-stylized.

I like that this was actually set in an actual year --- 1965, I think --- instead of so many of his films which are set in more or less contemporary times but seem to be psychologically caught in Anderson's 1970s childhood.

themetfairy
Dec 30 2012 06:43 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

We watched this on On Demand this evening, with zero expectations. Seeing it at home at a minimal cost helped, I think. It was bizarre, but an enjoyable little fable. Decently paced, and way more enjoyable than The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (my g-d, I hated that one....). Nothing great, but entertaining enough.

RealityChuck
Dec 31 2012 02:50 PM
Re: Moonrise Kingdom

I like the movie a lot. You have to understand where it's coming from -- it's all in a stylized dreamlike setting (note how often Anderson used the same shot of a character in the precise center of the screen looking right at you). The characters were quirky and I loved how it had it's own internal logic.

It wasn't a comedy, in the sense that there was much there to make you laugh out loud. But it did make me smile a lot and the more I think about it, the more I like it.

Extra half point for the use of Benjamin Britten's music (which was an interesting choice, given Britten's history*).


*Britten was in love with my father and dedicated a song to him. Britten had a strong attraction to preteen boys, though he was strictly "imagine but don't touch."