Asteroid City

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

This was a hoot on so many levels.  Not the least of which, because I spent a good portion of the 70s driving through, and exploring places just like that town. 

 

Whiskey recommend. 

 

 

Yeah,I know the story is set in the 50s.. but time moves slowly in the desert. 

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

I am going to add a little to this.  I tried to get my intrepid 13 yo interested in the film... But it was too 'arty' for her.  

Having a very brief turn as an actor in college, I appreciated the mix of 'behind the scenes' story telling, the play within the play aspect and the set design of the film portions. It is such an 'insider' piece, imo.  Like something fun for people in the industry, where they invite the rest of us to enjoy the jokes.  There is a lot of 'trust the audience' going on.  Which, in my kid's case, went right over her head. 

But if you have an appreciation for Wes Anderson films - I can't see how you wouldn't enjoy it. 

There is also a near-perfect 'nerd party' in the middle. One that also captured the mix of high intelligence adolescence and delayed development found in many extraordinarily smart adults.  The cross-generational comfort of your intellectual peers and the parents/others who just don't quite get you. 

It's a fun film 

[SunlitZelkova]

7 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

But it was too 'arty' for her.

I saw it a couple months ago but I don’t recall seeing any artillery pieces in it 

7 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Having a very brief turn as an actor in college, I appreciated the mix of 'behind the scenes' story telling, the play within the play aspect and the set design of the film portions. It is such an 'insider' piece, imo.  Like something fun for people in the industry, where they invite the rest of us to enjoy the jokes.  There is a lot of 'trust the audience' going on.  Which, in my kid's case, went right over her head.

Yeah, if The French Dispatch was a “love letter to journalists” as Anderson himself described it, this was a love letter to theater.

20 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Yeah,I know the story is set in the 50s.. but time moves slowly in the desert.

I liked the setting. The 1950s is one of my favorite time periods aesthetically, so it was great! I also loved the music faintly playing in the background in so many scenes.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

22 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:

artillery

Groan! 

[Nuke]

i didnt much care for it myself. i know it was supposed to be a comedy, but i watched it with sisu, which i thought was funnier, as a double feature. 

[kerbiloid]

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[SunlitZelkova]

7 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

A trend detected. Dolltowns.
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You forgot the fake target test town in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[Nuke]

i never was much of an indiana jones fan. and that was before the crystal skull abomination came out. i dont even think im gonna bother with the new one.

[StrandedonEarth]

Oh, the new one was a fun ride, and I say this as a fan of the original ROTLA ( not Indiana Jones and...). Crystal Skull was definitely meh

Edited September 13, 2023 by StrandedonEarth

[kerbiloid]

5 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

You forgot the fake target test town in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

IJ is just a typical adventure series of XIX century, kinda Prof. Livingstone in the Abyss of Central Africa.
As well, the True Man Show is about the individual person.

While others are a modelling of the dolltown citizens, where the dolltown itself looks nice, but totally fake and weird behind the scene.

This trend looks like a Vault-Tek PR campaign. And its raising frequency looks like a shifting the Overton Window towards the isolated artificial local habitats as a known normality.

Edited September 13, 2023 by kerbiloid