#AQUA BOY TRAILER MOVIE#
I was ready and willing to give up and hate this, but then the second half of the movie happened and a lot was forgiven. It would have ended up saving the pacing which, as I mentioned, for the first hour, was absolutely terrible. You can tell your story in that time, there's some scenes here that don't really add anything and could have used some shortening. I'd say that this should have gone 95 minutes without credits. Let's be real here, there's no reason this movie should have been close to two hours long. That's neither here nor there, I believe it was there simply to make the movie longer. How is it relevant to the overall narrative of the film? It's ok, I'll wait, I got time. This subplot, realistically speaking, accomplishes nothing. This father/son bonding is unnecessarily distracted by subplots of Ned and Steve falling for the same woman and Steve feeling betrayed once Ned actually sleeps with Jane, the woman in question who also happens to be a reporter writing an article on Steve and his crew. It's further complicated once Steve's wife reveals that Steve shoots blanks. The arc of Steve Zissou connecting with his son, or at least he believes Ned was his son, was actually very good once you get to the conclusion. It's still unnecessarily weird, for sure, but the movie actually and its characters actually grew on me. But after the pirates take one of their own (well a bond company stooge) hostage, the film just sort of flips the switch. The pacing for this first hour was, quite frankly, terrible. It was trying to be weird just for the sake of it, it felt artificial, which is one of the criticisms on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is impeccably cast, as usual, and the movie has a great soundtrack comprised mostly of David Bowie songs and others, but the film just didn't really do much for me. I realize that Wes Anderson's comedic style is very deadpan, but the first hour of the movie was more misses than hits to me. This movie, with credits, is 1 hour and 58 minutes and, to me, it only really got underway at the 1 hour mark. This is, almost to a point, the halfway point of the film. And perhaps that's understating the point, because the movie really did nothing for me until the Belafonte is boarded by pirates. I will be honest, you might think that because of the rating that this movie is all fun and games, this movie was a little rough to start. Just so you know, I haven't seen Rushmore. First it's The Royal Tenenbaums followed by The Grand Budapest Hotel. From what I've gathered, a lot of people seem to think that this is Anderson's best film. In spite of my reservations regarding Anderson's style, I was actually really looking forward to watching this again, since it would have been like watching it for the first time again. I'm 29 now and, realistically speaking, I have very little to no recollection of this. I remember catching parts of it here and there on TV, but I never really paid attention to it, it was more background noise while I was doing something else. I remember watching it once in its entirety, back when I was 17. This brings us to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, a film that is a bit of an outlier, at least when it comes to my reviews of Anderson's films. It's, technically speaking, a very good movie, but one that I had no joy in watching due to Anderson's indulgences. This self-indulgent style was at its worst, and most insufferable, in Moonrise Kingdom, a movie I gave 3.5 stars to. If he concentrated on just making the best movies he could, everyone of his movies would have received 4+ reviews from me. What I mean by that is that he's concerned with inserting all of his little quirks, whether through visuals, dialogue or song choices, that, sometimes, the movie suffers for it. The problem I have with Wes Anderson, and this will always be my problem, is the fact that, in some of his movies, he seems to be actively working against himself. That's not reflective on Wes himself, it's more reflective of the quality of works the other four have put out.
Though of the five mentioned, Wes Anderson is at the bottom of that list. Quentin Tarantino, Hayao Miyazaki, Park Chan Wook and Bong Joon-ho and, of course, Wes Anderson all come to mind at the moment. There's a few of them, for sure, but not many.
I don't think there's many filmmakers that have every one of their movies positively reviewed, at least compiling from my own reviews. Far from it, if you look at all of my reviews of his films, not one of them has received a rating lower than 3 stars. Don't get me wrong, I've never once argued, and likely will never argue, that Mr. I don't think it's any secret, and this is something I tweeted about last night prior to watch this, that I've never been the biggest fan of Wes Anderson and his particular stylistic choices.
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