# Wes Anderson movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wes-anderson-movies/775298 "2016-12-21T14:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wes-anderson-movies/775298/41 "2017-01-05T13:51:25Z")
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a children’s book about a trickster who triumphs over staid, grumpy, pragmatic adults through his superior mischief and intellect. I love that book. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a movie about a middle-aged bourgeois motherfucker who misses his adolescent hooliganism, who resents adult responsibilities, and whose shrew of a wife eventually comes around to seeing how he’s got a superior approach to life. Anderson chains the whimsy of the book to his deadening, egocentric neuroses. I hate that movie. Halfway through Darjeeling Limited I started rooting for the tiger. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wes-anderson-movies/775298/42 "2017-01-05T16:05:25Z")
I love Bottle Rocket. It’s his least Wes Anderson-y movie. It’s reminiscent of the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona, another favorite. I quote it a lot, which is pointless since so few people have seen it. Of his other movies, I like Rushmore the most. His style emerged fully formed and I feel that most everything since has been a repeat, with little evolution. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wes-anderson-movies/775298.md?page=2)