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After The Life Aquatic, I hoped that next time out Wes Anderson wouldn't put such an emphasis on style over substance. Looking at all the on-set pictures and now this poster and it looks like my hopes will not be fulfilled. I think Royal Tenenbaums was the perfect marriage of Anderson's unique style to a human story that we cared about and I hoped for the same with Life Aquatic and instead found it to be a masturbatory endeavor. I want Darjeeling Limited to be like the former, but it looks more and more like it will like the latter.

That's pretty complex design. One-sheet artwork has come a long way.

You have way too much time on your hands, Mutiny.

I love Wes Anderson, but totally agree with Noah on Life Aquatic, which was so solopsistic as to be almost unwatchable. It's really hard to make Bill Murray boring, but somehow Anderson pulled it off.

A little more emphasis on story instead of so much focus on little background details nobody ever sees would probably help.

But I have high hopes the last film was a learning experience and Wes lets us in a little more on this one. Fingers crossed!

A few things:

- no Mark Mothersbaugh

- no Natalie Portman

- what's the credit to Satyajit Ray & Merchant Ivory???!!

No Mark Mothersbaugh!!!!

Get a rope.

Spend a full month sitting in front of a computer doing intense digital compositing, see how active you feel once you're done. If you poked me with your finger it would leave an indentation.

Curious. Hope the movie is better than his last one.

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I was hoping the poster would feature a profile of three of the biggest noses in Hollywood, but no luck. Maybe there will be a shot in the film that provides this payoff, though Anderson seems to prefer that Japanese Cinema style of people facing the camera and talking to each other without looking at each other. Hmm.

"What this book presupposes is...maybe he didn't?"

mutiny, you're not wrong. all the sites cannibalize off one another these days. if you're looking for original or exclusive content, i can think of two sites that still unveil exclusives. the rest just read the story, throw up a link, and credit no one.

this war was fought years ago between sites and pretty much given up on. It's no longer about breaking stories, it's about keeping up with the joneses.com.

and i for one liked Life Aquatic. Not sure what people's problem with that one was.

I have called Life Aquatic self-indulgent, but I always thought that was mostly the point: it seems to me to be Anderson's 8 1/2...all about the making of his film. Its strange tempo requires more than one viewing, I think.

I mean...I have "heard Life Aquatic called self-indulgent." Yay proof reading!

"After The Life Aquatic, I hoped that next time out Wes Anderson wouldn't put such an emphasis on style over substance. Looking at all the on-set pictures and now this poster and it looks like my hopes will not be fulfilled."

I think the worry is more one of posturing over substance. The poster is growing on me, but it also has a vibe of "I spent so much time getting just the coolest moustache and hairstyle that I didn't really dig too deep with the rest of my character and I can just wing it anyway with this damn hot moustache!". Now, yeah, that only applies to one of the actors in the one-sheet, but each of them have their prop (bandages, sunglasses) that could cut either way. Hopefully, the style's a product of the writing and not the primary goal. But I'm still interested.

Yeah, I also have a lot of love for Life Aquatic. It's not as great as Royal Tenenbaums (which is one of absolute favorite movies) or Rushmore (which everyone knows is amazing) but it is funny as hell. That was my immediate defense against the charges of "style over substance" and pretension: it's first and foremost a comedy, and I laughed a lot. And it does improve upon repeated viewings -- the second time I saw it, I found the last few scenes especially moving (and I liked them very much the first time). Zissou saying "I wonder if it remembers me" is just perfect.

Also, Esteben was eaten. That scene made me laugh harder than I had in months.

Addressing Dave's trailer question ---- does anybody wait go see movies just for the "exclusive" trailers anymore? Even Cloverfield was officially online in about a week.

I like the poster; I'd like it a little better if Owen didn't have praying hands. It looks a little like mugging, unlike Jason and Adrian's minimalist poses. Probably has something to do with Owen's character.

I like Life Aquatic, really like Royal Tennenbaums, and love Rushmore. Bottle Rocket really didn't leave much of an impression. I should probably see it again.

I read the script. It was underwhelming to say the least. I love rushmore and tennenbaums (which, in fact, does get better with repeated viewings) and am a fan of anderson. but if he films what i read, then i guess his production designer will be very busy to keep us distracted from the fact that the plot is boring and there's nothing new or original in there.

Trailers up! Thought I'd put it here so as not to step on Mr. Murphy's Iklipz toes:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thedarjeelinglimited/trailerb/

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