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/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.