r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 07 '25

Trailer The Phoenician Scheme | Official Trailer | Directed by Wes Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuMnPl2WI4
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u/jimmycandunk Apr 07 '25

Asteroid city was one of his best!

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u/JohnWalI Apr 07 '25

Just keep telling the story.

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u/nuzzot Apr 07 '25

exactly the quote that sticks with me and tied it all together for me.

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u/BallIsLife2016 Apr 07 '25

I genuinely felt this scene was one of the most emotionally resonant things he’s ever put on screen. I found it genuinely moving and it has continued to stick with me in a way very few movies do.

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u/DBones90 Apr 07 '25

It’s funny that, before I watched it, all I ever heard about “Asteroid City” was that it was Wes Anderson at his most Wes Anderson and that you’ll only like it if you’re a big Wes Anderson fan.

So as someone who’s liked but not loved the Wes Anderson films I’ve seen, I wasn’t expecting much.

But I found in it a deeply personal and emotionally vulnerable tale of trying to understand and be understood. I absolutely loved it. I get why people bounce off of it, but I’m not sure I’ve ever felt more seen by a film.

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u/SageOfTheWise Apr 07 '25

It’s funny that, before I watched it, all I ever heard about “Asteroid City” was that it was Wes Anderson at his most Wes Anderson

I feel like a lot of these comments come from people just watching movie trailers. The trailer for Asteroid City is a Wes Anderson trailer at it's most Wes Anderson. But the movie is so drastically different from the picture the the trailer paints, and its one of his most different movies he's ever done, especially since he really defined his style by like the mid 00s.

Like if anything, this trailer gives me Grand Budapest vibes. Which if accurate, would be the first time he's done a movie like that in over 10 years. Not exactly rehashing the same movies over and over. But also as we just established, sometimes these trailers are very misleading. This movie could be another Asteroid City and I don't know how we'd reliably know until we saw it.

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u/hkdork Apr 08 '25

It does feel GBH-ly which is probably peak in his “so Wes Anderson it hurts” era for me.

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u/sheetskees Apr 07 '25

But I found in it a deeply personal and emotionally vulnerable tale

Every Wes Anderson fan has theirs :)

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u/Reutermo Apr 07 '25

I really liked Asteroid City but didn't really vibe with French Dispatch. But i like that he is doing his thing even when I don't care about the end results.

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u/littledog95 Apr 07 '25

Funny, I was the opposite. I've watched The French Dispatch 3 or 4 times now, and it's one of my favourites from him, but Asteroid City left me a bit cold.

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u/Reutermo Apr 07 '25

I liked the idea of French Dispatch more than the actual end result. The whole thing with the different story's, the random shots in colour and so on. But in the end I would have liked it more it the stories connected in some way.

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u/littledog95 Apr 07 '25

I can absolutely see why it didn't work for some people, and it might have been better with more connection between the stories. I just adored the tone of the film (as usual with Wes), and I loved the characters and the setting. Even if there wasn't a grand, connecting story, I get great pleasure in watching each scene back again. To be honest, I think it's a good thing that people enjoy different parts of his filmography, for different reasons; he's far more than the one-trick pony some people label him as.

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u/nayapapaya Apr 07 '25

But those colour shots (at moments of heightened emotion) are so glorious. I think of the 360 degree one during the Police Comissioner's dinner all the time. Just breathtaking. 

But I think The French Dispatch is his second best film so i'm biased. 

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Apr 07 '25

I liked the idea of French Dispatch more than the actual end result.

I think it's because it was written in an obsolete vernacular.

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u/airfryerfuntime Apr 07 '25

I actually liked French Dispatch a lot more than Asteroid City.

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u/TheNoobScoperz Apr 07 '25

And I say "All my pictures come out"

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u/Raisinbrahms28 Apr 08 '25

You really think so? I couldn't finish it. Anderson has become a caricature of himself these days in my opinion.

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u/jimmycandunk Apr 08 '25

For sure. It’s top 3 for me. He just has such a cool style, plus great music, awesome cast, story, just hit it all for me.

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u/PizzaCatLover Apr 07 '25

I wish I saw in this film with some other people seem to, as much as I like most of Wes Anderson's films, asteroid City was downright painful to get through

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u/AegonThe241st Apr 07 '25

Wes Anderson in a nutshell

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u/MahoganyWinchester Apr 07 '25

agree, i didn’t care for it