I really do love Wes Anderson, but doesn't it look like he is turning out to be a one trick pony?
Things The Darjeeling Limited has in common with every other Wes Anderson film...which can be determined from the trailer
-Dysfunctional family
-Absent father
-One family member trying to mend a broken home
-Dry dialogue
-Long dolly shots
-Symmetrical frame
-Hyperbolic production design
-Indeterminate time period, but a period piece none the less
-That one shot with everyone in the frame, organized so that everyone is looking towards the camera.
-Slow motion on that one shot with an obscure 60's British rock song
Christ even the posters are starting to look the same.
Come on, Wes. You were the future of American cinema. Don't let us down on #5.
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Yeah my first response at seeing the Darjeeling trailer was that I've already seen, and didn't like, this film. His world-view is too limited and hermetically sealed from the realities of the outside world. He can't escape this tweedy, overly-precious security blanket he's wrapped around himself and allow his characters to experience emotions and sensations that are genuinely human. Death, suicide, sex, anger, remorse... they're all viewed through this academic, detached "well isn't that weird" prism and it's really starting to rub people the wrong way. It doesn't help matters that he was anointed the next Scorsese (by Marty himself!) after two films. Textbook example of too much too soon.
Finally, people who actually get that the biggest problem with the new film is the rather blatant clinicalness. Well done, chaps.
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