Your Top 5 Wes Anderson Flicks
Listening to BM Prestige about Rushmore today and wanted to start a poll.
[Shout out to Houston-native Wes Anderson which A.Ron mentioned. I’d pass St. John’s all the time when living in Montrose. My childhood best friend’s Dad went there and in my 20s I went to his Dad’s funeral there.]
[Shout out to Houston-native Wes Anderson which A.Ron mentioned. I’d pass St. John’s all the time when living in Montrose. My childhood best friend’s Dad went there and in my 20s I went to his Dad’s funeral there.]
Top 5!
For me:
#1 The Royal Tenenbaums
I really hope A.Ron revisits this and gives us an update!
#2 The Life Aquatic
#3 The Darjeeling Limited
(sense an Anjelica Huston theme?)
#4 Isle of Dogs
#5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
*Still haven’t seen all of Grand Budapest continuously.
For me:
#1 The Royal Tenenbaums
I really hope A.Ron revisits this and gives us an update!
#2 The Life Aquatic
#3 The Darjeeling Limited
(sense an Anjelica Huston theme?)
#4 Isle of Dogs
#5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
*Still haven’t seen all of Grand Budapest continuously.
What’s yours?



Comments
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Fantastic Mr Fox
4. Bottle Rocket
5. The Life Aquatic
Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums
Moonrise Kingdom
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Caveat: I haven't seen Fantastic Mr. Fox or Isle of Dogs.
1) Grand Budapest Hotel
2) Moonrise Kingdom
3)The life Aquatic
4)Royal Tenenbaums
5) Isle of Dogs
I put Wes Anderson up with, Nolan, PTA and Villenuve as anything they put out i'm seeing it day one in the cinema
1. Tenenbaums (top 5 all-time for me, top 3 maybe)
2. Rushmore
3. Darjeeling
4. Life Aquatic
5. Grand Budapest
I still haven't seen either of the animated ones. Need to remedy that one of these days.
Also, I'm sure this has made the rounds by now, but goddamn SNL nailed this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDIAZCwHQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcPk2p0Zaw4
I have to recommend the Direct podcast series on Wes Anderson by Bald Move partners Eric and Levi. Fantastic podcast.
https://baldmove.com/direct/wes-anderson-prologue/
The Darjeeling Limited w/ Hotel Chevalier prologue - that Peter Sarstedt song is so good + Natalie Portman
The Life Aquatic
Bottle Rocket
Moonrise Kingdom
Last two are kind of a toss, it's a lower tier after Life Aquatic. Rushmore should probably be in there, it's a better film I guess but Jason Schwartzman kind of annoys me.
as to the rest
Royal Tenenbaums (Definition of Wes Anderson)
The Life Aquatic
Rushmore (A Quick One by The Who!!)
Moonrise Kingdom
1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Rushmore
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
GBH
Moonrise
Life Aquatic
Isle of Dogs
#2 - Life Aquatic
#3 - Bottle Rocket
#4 - Moonrise Kingdom
#5 - Rushmore
I didn't really care for Darjeeling Limited and am curious what some of you found in it that made some of you enjoy it so much.
Royal Tenenbaums really destroys the competition with "These Days" (introduced me to Nico), "Police & Thieves", "Me & Julio", "She Smiled Sweetly", "Needle in the Hay", and "Everyone" to name a few. Darjeeling has less "classic" songs overall, but all the Kinks (especially "Strangers") are done so well, and "Play with Fire" is literally fire. Life Aquatic is kind of an asterisk on this cause, while Seu Jorge is phenomenal the Bowie songs play more like score, yet we still get "The Way I Feel Inside" and holy shit "Staralfur."
The others movies have their moments but this is what cements my top 3. What are your favorite Wes Anderson soundtracks?