When a young and talented director gets worshipped too early on, they slowly feel pressured to replicate their own style to the point where their works become self parody and force people to question if they were ever any good.
It happened to Alfred Hitchcock, it happened to Stephen Spielberg, and now on a much smaller scale it's happened to Wes Anderson.
Phoenician Scheme felt like an exercise in ticking off checkboxes to feel like a Wes Anderson movie. I genuinely felt zero creativity or passion bleed from conception to finished product.

I get what you mean, but it's still very entertaining. He should have died in the end tho!

>>211666347 (OP)
spielberg never fell into self parody

It's weird because his recent work hasn't felt like this. The Dahl short films are fantastic, French dispatch was lovely, even astroid city was very entertaining. He hasn't topped Grand Budapest (I was hoping this would), but I don't think he's close to finished. He should take a 10 year hiatus desu, but his movies are the only thing I like to watch in theaters anymore

>>211669222
He did. He recreates the Jurassic park velociraptor scene over and over. His emotional music swell moments are also formulaic. You can argue though that trademark and parody is a thin line.

>>211666347 (OP)
the movie didn't really have the heart of something like TGBH but it was honestly pretty funny, best Cera role I've seen in a long time

>>211666347 (OP)
i don't think i've ever watched a wes anderson movie because to me they all look exactly like this. it's like vintage larper cringe - look at all those washed up fucking actors dressed like retards in this gauche cartoon world as sad and funny and whimsical shit happens or whatever. fuck you fag. i don't know, these movies just look like something played on repeat at a flannel-only dresscode barcade

>>211666347 (OP)
Some guy wrote a whole ass essay recently on the true-film subreddit about how Wes Anderson had "Alfred Hitchcock syndrome". Where he can't make anything but what he knows and it shows with this movie.
It was interesting but, like most over reddit, a bit overwrought.

>>211666347 (OP)
I just saw it, it was great actually
I was particularly impressed by michael cera and benedict cumberbatch, who I don't otherwise particularly enjoy
hanks and cranston were also great
I think this was actually one of his better films, thoroughly enjoyed it, very well paced with no wasted time.
The heaven scenes were also impressive and refreshingly unique in the traditional depiction

>>211666347 (OP)
The movie was obviously occult and a wink at all the Satanists and pedophiles in Hollywood.

>>211669770
>with no wasted time.
I still fail to see the purpose of Scarlet's character or scene.
>>211669124
THEN it would have been self parody.

Help yourself to a hand grenade.

>>211669847
>I still fail to see the purpose of Scarlet's character or scene.
oh yeah that's true, that might have been the weakest point
I feel like that one scene was really just filler, and a set up for the ring I guess

>>211669534
You need to get some mustache styling cream and accept you don’t have enough testosterone (which is a good thing) to satisfy your ultra feminist girlfriend so just let her fuck black guys. The average city living millennial relationship.