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Owen Wilson as a principle writer.
He's more than a pretty-ish face and a fucked up nose. He is apparently the key to making WA movies more than a sum of its quirks. I think he brings an ease, a sense of humor, and the heart that mitigate the jarring nature of WA quirky film-making. Movies like Rushmore and Tenenbaums and Shanghai Noon are great because Owen Wilson has contributed to the script.
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Unearned gravitas? What kind of bullshit first day of NYC film school garbage is this? Is music no longer an acceptable part of a film? Was a tear inducing score in The Bicycle Thief a cheap trick to cultivate unearned gravitas. Or is it only cheap when you use Nico? I'm confused about the logistics here... The guy makes nostalgia laced comedies. Gasp! Is there a problem with this? I know he surely has kool aid drinking fans that know nothing about great films from decades past, but it's not his fault. So he's a stylist and not a heavy filmmaker. You know what... I have room for that once every few years. If nothing else it's a change of pace from the typical four releases we get every week.
Granted, I'll watch fucking Nic Cage crap just as happily as I'll watch Haneke or PT Anderson or whoever we're deciding is good now. At least until we decide they are crap a couple years from now and disregard any love we had of their previous work.
Or was this just an opportunity to say hoodie? Funny how it has a different meaning on deadspin.
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See also Ralph Nader and M. Night Shymalan.
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i haven't visited this site much since Gawker took over. i should have stuck to that program
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Maybe it's just me, and I'm that horrible old person who hates everything about the next generation. I accept that might be part of it, and I'm as annoyed as anyone by that hypocrisy. But picking on Wes Anderson -- and not the stuff he may have deserved it for -- makes my black little heart hurt. (Dude earns a lifetime pass for Rushmore, Bottle Rocket and Tenenbaums.)
That and I miss the WN/FN/SNFF, I miss Ian, I miss Emily, I miss the Commies, I miss the camaraderie of us commenters.
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i guess i should have said "since they fired all the cool people and replaced them with sucky ones".
all i know is ever since the website says defamer.gawker it has sucked my balls
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Please tell me how the following was constructive, or even vaguely sophisticated:
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Here's "Making Time" from the Creation, from "Rushmore"..
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This typo appearing in the same sentence as "unearned sense of gravitas" made an ugly little part of me smile.
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And the error is not a typo. To come up with "repatoire," one actually has to think the word is spelled that way. Actual typos are trivial by comparison.
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And I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly, but some instinct of mine formed by long months of Gawker scanning wants to trust you on the topic of nastiness....
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I lost it on a recent Gus Van Sant post, if that's what you're referring to. Lost it entirely. I still have flashbacks.
Interestingly enough, the Van Sant post was not written by Richard Rushfield, but ANOTHER writer. Gawker has a deep, deep distaste for fancy-pants directors, apparently.
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I'm not much of a Wes Anderson fan myself, but the tone of this post is almost Limbaugh-esque. You really WANT him to fail.
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See? We don't want each other to fail!
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It's pretty mind blowing the level of hostility towards these directors. makes me wonder why Richard Rushfeld is so bitter.
i would hardly call Anderson's last two films "flops". yet more pointless hyperbole and another piece of shit journalism
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