I should know better by now; I have no one to blame but myself. It’s just
that I really liked The Grand Budapest Hotel so when I heard about this one
I was intrigued enough to pay money to see it. Big mistake. It had
everything I dislike in Wes Anderson productions I dislike: all the stilted
dialogue and all the self-aware acting and all the overperfect sets in the
service of a story with no point to make. The best part of the movie was
when I fell asleep for about 20 minutes. You have been warned.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 7:30:16 PM UTC-4, Bill Anderson wrote:
> I should know better by now; I have no one to blame but myself. It’s just
> that I really liked The Grand Budapest Hotel so when I heard about this one
> I was intrigued enough to pay money to see it. Big mistake. It had
> everything I dislike in Wes Anderson productions I dislike: all the stilted
> dialogue and all the self-aware acting and all the overperfect sets in the
> service of a story with no point to make. The best part of the movie was
> when I fell asleep for about 20 minutes. You have been warned.
>
I've been waiting for that to show up. My god, I can't stand Wes Anderson.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:30:02 +0000
Bill Anderson <billanderson@my-deja.com> wrote:
> I should know better by now; I have no one to blame but myself. It’s just
> that I really liked The Grand Budapest Hotel so when I heard about this one
> I was intrigued enough to pay money to see it. Big mistake. It had
> everything I dislike in Wes Anderson productions I dislike: all the stilted
> dialogue and all the self-aware acting and all the overperfect sets in the
> service of a story with no point to make.

I didn't like the movie. I thought the acting was cold and kind of robotic ,
probably director's instructions. I liked the fairy tale like sets but that's
the only thing I liked about the movie ; well , somewhat the country music
too although that's not my thing in general. The black and white parts
weren't even visually appealing. As for story , was there really a story ? A
very basic one at most. I don't know what the director was trying to achieve
with the whole set up where you have the playwright appearing as a character
and the director of the playwright's play also being a character. If Anderson
was trying to make a point with all that , it was lost on me.

Oh , and Scarlett Johansson only appears nude for a fraction of a second so
you don't even get that minor consolation.

> The best part of the movie was
> when I fell asleep for about 20 minutes. You have been warned.

I thought about leaving early myself but in the end I stayed for the whole
duration.

--
vlaho.ninja/prog

On 2023-07-01 09:39:46 +0000, Spiros Bousbouras said:

> On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:30:02 +0000
> Bill Anderson <billanderson@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> I should know better by now; I have no one to blame but myself. It’s just
>> that I really liked The Grand Budapest Hotel so when I heard about this one
>> I was intrigued enough to pay money to see it. Big mistake. It had
>> everything I dislike in Wes Anderson productions I dislike: all the stilted
>> dialogue and all the self-aware acting and all the overperfect sets in the
>> service of a story with no point to make.
>
> I didn't like the movie. I thought the acting was cold and kind of robotic ,
> probably director's instructions. I liked the fairy tale like sets but that's
> the only thing I liked about the movie ; well , somewhat the country music
> too although that's not my thing in general. The black and white parts
> weren't even visually appealing. As for story , was there really a story ? A
> very basic one at most. I don't know what the director was trying to achieve
> with the whole set up where you have the playwright appearing as a character
> and the director of the playwright's play also being a character. If Anderson
> was trying to make a point with all that , it was lost on me.
>
> Oh , and Scarlett Johansson only appears nude for a fraction of a second so
> you don't even get that minor consolation.

All this time I thought she was a true blonde, lol.

> All this time I thought she was a true blonde, lol.

Hair coloring for the scalp and for the pussy are on different genes.

On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 8:31:04 AM UTC-5, kelown wrote:
> > All this time I thought she was a true blonde, lol.
> Hair coloring for the scalp and for the pussy are on different genes.

I could ask my Genetics students to verify this, but I might get in trouble.. I found a number of claims consistent with that theory, but I need to see some more evidence. Note that Scarlett's eyebrow hair matches her head hair here, but not her eyelid hair. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/skincare/a44036819/scarlett-johansson-skin-interview/

Back when I was in college, there was a lovely redhead who had the nickname "The Burning Bush", but I don't know if that was verified.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:30:02 +0000
Bill Anderson <billanderson@my-deja.com> wrote:
> The best part of the movie was when I fell asleep for about 20 minutes. You
>have been warned.

It just occurred to me that falling asleep is in fact very much in the spirit
of the movie which repeats several times the motto "You can't wake up unless
you fall asleep". So you actually managed to get really deep into it.

> Spiros Bousbouras
>
> As for story, was there really a story? A very basic one at most.

Yeah, the movie was quirky solely for the sake of being quirky but that's
alright, every movie doesn't have to have a deep story, sometimes a flick
can just be about the "art".

I enjoyed it, it's worth the watch.

On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 08:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
Ed Stasiak <edstasiak1067@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Spiros Bousbouras
> >
> > As for story, was there really a story? A very basic one at most.
>
> Yeah, the movie was quirky solely for the sake of being quirky but that's
> alright, every movie doesn't have to have a deep story, sometimes a flick
> can just be about the "art".

A movie just about the art is fine with me. For example I love "Prospero's
books" by Peter Greenaway. But for me there wasn't enough art in "Asteroid
city". The colour parts were nice enough but when a black and white segment
started , my heart sank.