Posts by Jason Chavez32

Arthur Johnson50 said:Well, yeah, obviously.

But hey, I'm still the man. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Sophia Castillo35 said:[ color=red ] Type this if you want red text [ /color ]
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Once you strip out those extra spaces, it looks like this:
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Of course—feel free to play around with the colors and sizes however you like!

TenMonGaKuSha said:Any fellow fans of Japanese animation out there?

Seven Samurai,
Samurai Champloo,
The Animatrix,
and so on.

Douglas Robinson12 said:Anderson is kind of like the Pixies. Every new movie he puts out feels just a tiny bit weaker than the last one—but since his debut was so incredibly good, even his subsequent stuff still holds up quite well. To be honest, though, this latest one is getting dangerously close to being his first truly mediocre effort. There’s just too much "style" and not enough "substance," paired with that trademark Anderson approach of being "ironically detached" from the plot and characters, which really overstayed its welcome this time around. In many ways, Anderson is similar to Tarantino—about 40% of the movie is just the stellar casting, and another 50% is built out of these meticulously constructed, reconstructed, and deconstructed pop culture references. Even Zissou himself isn't exactly a "real" character (much like how the Tenenbaums or Max from Rushmore weren't really fleshed out individuals)—he's more of a prototype, a sort of Jacques Cousteau type, an old-school filmmaker obsessed with "life under the sea," blended with the brilliant idea of having Bill Murray play him while wearing a Speedo in almost every other shot. Throw in some acoustic covers of Bowie's songs in Portuguese (specifically his best tracks from Hunky Dory, Ziggy, and Aladdin), Dafoe playing a German engineer who's been around longer than a bloodhound, Wilson playing Murray's "unknown" son (who apparently flies for Air Kentucky... right?!), Jeff Goldblum as the high-tech nemesis, and a real-life model of a ship that's only on screen for thirty seconds but likely ate up 50% of the budget—a classic Andersonian set piece—and you've got yourself a "weird shit" experience, aka just another Anderson film. He’s a bit like Altman, too... he has this knack for turning his own flaws into strengths. For instance, he doesn't really know how to direct action or physical comedy, but if you layer Search and Destroy by The Stooges over some loosely edited action, you end up with at least a solid comedy. Which, in all fairness, is exactly what this movie is. I went in skeptical, but the time actually flew by once I was in my seat.

stormycyclist13 said:I haven't seen it yet, but looking at that cast on the poster, I've got a feeling it's a comedy!!! 😕 Am I on the right track?

Harold Anderson2 said:What he’s been doing for the last decade is basically throwing a punch straight to the face of American cinema.