Asteroid City (peacock)

[thatguy]

I thought I had posted this already. You can stream Asteroid City right now on Peacock - https://peacocktv.smart.link/g77mddx8h?k...urce=share

It's very Wes Anderson. I enjoyed it. Like French Dispatch, it's a movie about a play, so sometimes you are focusing the the play story and sometimes the production story, in this fluid, nesting doll fashion.  The film is saturated, the characters are so quirky and "in character". The story is a sort of twist on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

Here's the Bill Murray bit:



--tg

[King Bob]

I didn't really like this one. It seemed very self-indulgent to me, and somewhat meandering and overlong. It looked good, but I just wasn't that engaged. I read a couple of very positive reviews, and they were by people who admitted that they normally don't like his films. Maybe I didn't like it since I normally do like his films. I think the conceit of the action being a play worked better in Henry Sugar.

[Drunk Monk]

I’m siding with KB on this. It was pretentiously quirky and that just wasn’t sitting right with me. Great cast of course and I stayed with it to see how their parts played out but that whole deadpan delivery with tiny peeks into their acting skills felt like a cheat. I’m sure they had fun making it. In the end, I wanted it to be funnier. A lot of the humor fell flat for me because that deadpan delivery grew old. 

Was it worth it to see a ScarJo nude scene? Nah J-Law’s nude fight in No Hard Feelings stole ScarJo’s thunder (although I did enjoy her performance in this most of all - her and Goldblum killed it).

I’m on the fence about Anderson. He’s like Tarantino to me - clearly talented but overrated - an artiste’s artiste. 

Full confession - I nodded off a few times while watching this so maybe I missed the best scenes but I’m not bothering to go back for them. 

Seen on Amazon prime.