The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Bekkah:
This movie had everything! White dudes! Mustaches! White dudes with mustaches! Fascism! Dismemberment! This movie was really honestly a great movie, even though it is mostly just an a e s t h e t i c revolving door of white dudes with different mustaches with excellent set design. Jeff, for once, played an honorable character (with a 10/10 Goldbeard), for which he was dismembered and killed (sorry, Danya!). He wasn’t in many scenes, but each shot he was in was perfect (minus the fingers on the ice, again, sorry, Danya!). Wes Anderson builds beautiful and sad worlds full of very cool white dudes. OK, I am not being fair, one of the two main characters is played by an actor of Guatemalan descent who… grows up to be white? I don’t get it, but I will still watch this movie again.
Danya:
THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD. Maybe it’s just compared to all the other Jeff movies we watched recently, but it was just gorgeous flash of color after color PLUS LOVABLE CHARACTERS. Mustaches for days, hearts of gold, and a sex-positive concierge, what else could you want? I guess the fact that in the end, fascism wins (spoiler, #sorrynotsorry), that’s kinda a bummer, but the magic goodness of the whole thing makes it an afterthought. I dig the positive sexuality, you get yours old ladies. A truly sweet depiction of masculinity, there’s not enough rolemodels of men truly loving other men. Extra points for a fluffy cat. Jeff didn’t even make any bad decisions! Neither did we as we finally chose to watch a good movie.
9/10 Goldbooms
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Stefan Zweig (inspired by the writings of), Wes Anderson (screenplay) |
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
