I finally watched this a couple of nights ago. Didn’t people really like this movie? It was meh, okay, but not the comedy I was expecting spinal tap level humor but it kind of feel short. It had its moments though.

Am I alone in this observation?

Tony.

Have you seen and liked other Wes Anderson movies?

I couldn’t say. Don’t know his other works.

**edit: just looked up his other movies, and no, I haven’t.

I think Wes Anderson films are a little more off-beat and droll type of humor. Spinal Tap is more full-force farcical. Spinal Tap plays a little more broader. If you "get" Wes Anderson's style of weird whimsical dryness, it's pretty hysterical. Personally, I love his stuff, but Life Aquatic is not my favorite.

I was dragged to the theater to watch The Royal Tenenbaums by some friends and wanted to kill myself by the halfway mark. It's the only Wes Anderson movie I've seen.

Do the interns get Glocks?

Saw it once, hated it. Some hipster friends of mine at the time seemed to think it was absolutely hilarious. Not my kind of humor, evidently, as I love to laugh and didn't once throughout the film.

No, they share one.

But the movie is an acquired taste. I didnt really start liking it until the second time I saw it and I really like it now. I dont think its meant to be tremendously funny.

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
Do the interns get Glocks?

I wonder if it's a movie like Napoleon Dynamite where it gets really funny the more you watch it. I still found it moderately amusing and it wasn't terrible. I was just expecting more.

Tony.

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Originally posted by benny6:
I wonder if it's a movie like Napoleon Dynamite where it gets really funny the more you watch it.

Not really.

I like the aesthetics of some of Wes Anderson's films, especially The Grand Budapest Hotel. But I don't find any of them to be "funny".

i don't really think of it as a 'comedy'

it's more of a humorous drama:

middle age
marriage
loss
relationships
fading career prospects
etc

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To me, it gets funnier the more I watch it but I understand it not being everybody's thing.

I love Grand Budapest and strongly recommend it to anyone regardless of it you like his other stuff. It's got a bit more of a universal adapter on it. I wouldn't go into it thinking of it as a comedy but maybe more as a fairy tale or a fable. Theres plenty of humor but also tragedy and everything in between.

I've tried Royal Tannenbaums but never quite make it through if that gives you an idea of were I'm at. I'd put them in ranking of what i've seen as

Grand Budapest
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Life Aquatic
Isle of Dogs
Royal Tannenbaums (can I comment on it? I've actually never finished it)

My wife and I watched it years ago. I'm not inclined to do so again.

Dafoe and Murray were hilarious. Wilson not so much. I liked the film however.

Dude! Life Aquatic, Napoleon Dynamite, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, etc. Those comedies are genius. I liken it to a Monty Python (sort of). Definitely a different kind of humor.