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Asteroid City (2023) (lemmy.world)
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlNlzBTY_E

Anyone looking forward to this? I'm liking the retro-futurism aesthetic. I've had mixed impressions of pass Wes Anderson movies, but its possible I just don't "get it". Maybe the aesthetic is the point.

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[–] boo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I loved it!

Spoilers Ahead:

spoilerThe fact that the sets were supposed to be fictitious/play-sets gave him an excuse to push his style into an almost cartoonish extreme. I enjoyed the nested levels of storytelling. There was a lot of humor, some of which was more outright than in his previous films. There was still plenty of more subtle and dry humor too. The eye candy was taken to new extremes with hyper-saturated colors. The framing/compositions, transitions, etc were delightful as always. I think the story was quite strong with a good and clever ending.

Some fun things I noticed: When the cowboy dude walks there are spur noises, even though he had no spurs. In many of the black and white shots, the characters eyes have a subtle red tint, I suppose to draw your eyes into their faces.

Did anyone else think the space alien looked like Salad Fingers (a reference for the OG Newgrounds crowd). https://imgur.com/a/mJNPDCR