Of Wes Anderson's 10 feature films which do you believe is the best?

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I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s quirky films and dialogue. His frequent use of Alexander Desplat for his scores is also a big plus for me.

  • Bottle Rocket - 1996
  • Rushmore - 1998
  • The Royal Tenenbaums - 2001
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - 2004
  • The Darjeeling Limited - 2007
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox - 2009
  • Moonrise Kingdom - 2012
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel - 2014
  • Isle of Dogs - 2018
  • The French Dispatch - 2021

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Andersen also likes to work with the same actors for many of his films. Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzmsn are a few of the regular actors that he works with,

Anderson has two films that are expected to be released this year. Asteroid City starring Jason Schwatzman, Scarlett Johansen and Tom Hanks will be released June 23, 2023. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Anderson’s second film based upon a work by Roald Dahl, starring Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch is expected to be released later this year through Netflix.

My top 3 films of Anderson’s are:

Rushmore
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fantastic Mr, Fox

What do you think?

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Royal Tenenbaums for Gene Hackman

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The Grand Budapest Hotel followed by Moonrise Kingdom.
The French Dispatch was his worst. Just a mess.

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Rushmore

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He really was perfect. Added just enough scumminess to the role to be a great balance the Wes Anderson twee (and I generally really like the Wes Anderson twee).

Royal Tenenbaums is one of my favorite films of all time.

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You forgot his greatest movie.

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Not a fan. You might even say I hate the vast majority of his work, but Fantastic Mr. Fox was okay.

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Rushmore
Fantastic Mr. Fox

I love those two films. The rest of them I would lump together as meh.

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I thought you were linking to this.

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Moonrise Kingdom for me. I’m not a fan of Anderson’s films except for MK which still knocks me out. A gem.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is my hands-down favorite. As I may have posted in the past, it took me about 2-4 times to appreciate it. I fell asleep part-way through the first time or two, but for whatever reason I kept coming back to it. And on one viewing, it suddenly jelled, and I totally got it.

I also love Moonrise Kingdom and just about anything else he’s done (I’ve seen most but not all of his movies), but Life Aquatic is in a class by itself.

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Bottle Rocket and Rushmore are my favourites out of the list above, but I haven’t seen most of his recent films.

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Also not a fan. I found the films of his I have watched boring. YMMV, obviously.

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Royal Tenenbaums is probably his best, but Life Aquatic is my favorite.

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Or this…

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I’ve only seen two. Rushmore and the Grand Budapest Hotel. Both were good. Most of the others I haven’t even heard of.

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I like most of them. Rushmore is probably the best, though.

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Bottle Rocket is my favorite movie ever, so while I haven’t seen all of them, it got my vote,

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I’ve only seen Grand Budapest Hotel. It was pretty good, I guess.

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I’m a fan of Wes Anderson movies but I’m most partial to Life Aquatic and Moonrise Kingdom. Most have great soundtracks, but Life Aquatic gets the nod for the excellent Bowie renditions by Seu Jorge, played in the movie. Moonrise Kingdom gets a mention because my wife and I saw it on one of our anniversaries in the magical small theatre in the town of Friday Harbor, WA.