It might not have done much at the box office, but Mr. Anderson's stop motion opus has done splendidly in the critical hosannas and awards departments.
Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" outfoxed the competition at the 50th Annecy International Animation Film Festival with the film taking top prizes the Cristal for best feature and the Audience Award as the festival ended its six-day run on Saturday night.
The French, God love them, always march to their own drummer.
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No surprise. When did Annecy ever have any REAL taste? Oh...never.
Mr. Fox flopped on all accounts, and with good reason: it was terrible, and wes anderson cannot tell a story.
I remember last January when Slate.com posted that "What if (Wes Anderson) directed the Super Bowl?" parody on the web:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHgJ0KLceLg
And I'd had the feeling that I'd already seen it done as a much nastier satire--
It was called "What if Wes Anderson directed a kids' film?" and it WASN'T a parody.
When did Annecy ever have any REAL taste? Oh...never.
When did tinseltown?
-Yeah, same answer. So shut your hole.
Annecy reminds me of those too-rich-for-their-own-good idiots who try to influence art trends by buying "art" pieces consisting of upside-down urinals or basketballs stuck in an aquarium full of Lucite. They will support the most obviously noxious tripe as long as that tripe isn't to the taste of your average normal person. What a pack of posers.
^spoken by a typical comic book geek working in the animation industry who has ZERO knowledge of art history.
You must be tons of fun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pretending like you are in your element but not having a clue about the work you are viewing.
Wow. Could you prove your idiocy more with one post? A new record.
Whatever. Mr. Fox is a TERRIBLE kids cartoon.
Did that guy seriously try to bolster his argument by ridiculing Marcel Duchamp?
Good lord, there are some pinheads in this industry.
To the bozos who took umbrage at my criticism of Duchamp: I made the Dean's List twice at my art college in part because of my essays on Art History. And while what is described as modern art wasn't always my favorite subject, it was often a load of laughs. Those of you "in this industry" who are outraged by jokes about art scammers like Duchamp not only lack taste but a sense of humor. That would certainly explain some of the unfunny poorly-drawn cartoons out there. Most of them DESERVE to be drawn on the outside of a urinal. Or get produced by Wes Anderson.
I loved "Fantastic Mr. Fox," but I have to say, regarding the chap who ridiculed the commercial ascendancy of Duchamp: I think Duchamp would agree with you!
"To the bozos who took umbrage at my criticism of Duchamp: I made the Dean's List twice at my art college"...
Ah, what an accomplishment in the art world. Surely your name will be remembered alongside Duchamp's for generations, for your singular and unique contribution to the arts. Bra-VO!
I'd pay to see this argument in a coffee house...you guys/gals could wear bags over your heads if you wanted to remain anonymous:) Take it on the road, I say! It's entertaining AND educational! Bravo indeed! Bob
Yeah, it's amazing how grownups who'd never used the Internet until a couple of years ago think it's Really Neato to have schoolyard trolly-fights on their own lil' work-board...Some of us have been around since the days of Usenet, and the novelty wore off some time around the mid-90's.
SO--Just to crystallize: I'd never seen a sour-hipster Anderson film before Fox, and it STILL felt like a nasty parody of his work.
(And the fact that it gets French awards for being, ooh, stop-motion, largely comes from his originally trying to hire Henry Selick, and the real Selick's "Coraline" can still whip Wes's slacker hinder twice on Sundays.)
People slagging Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox?" What is this, some horrible alternate dimension?
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