Comments on: ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ – Droll Dahl departure for Anderson

By: Joey Budder

Joey Budder — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:45:44 +0000

Where in any of my remarks do you see any hyperboles? You may hate me, but I am only affecting one person. You are ruining the moviegoing experience for a number of people. That is plain rude and you deserve to have insipid comments thrown at you. Are you really that full of yourself that you don’t care about other people who paid money to watch a movie.

I am standing up for everyone who likes to go the movies and have to put up with crap from people like you. You’re right, I don’t know you as a person. You could be a very nice guy. But that doesn’t excuse you for doing what you are doing.

It’s bad enough to take an 18-month-old to the movies, but when shes sick? You said she was cranky so I’m guessing she was not quiet. You really think that’s OK.

Don’t act like you are offended. You are offending everyone else.

I’m also guessing you are going to keep blowing me off. And that tells me it’s because you don’t have a good answer for what you are doing? How could you? What you are doing is plain wrong and I hope the next time you go to a movie somebody says something to you. Maybe then it will get through your head that you are extremely rude.

By: cftoto

cftoto — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:43:29 +0000

Joey — thank you for the self censorship!

Let’s call a truce! As Ringo would say, “peace and love …”

By: Ben Boychuk

Ben Boychuk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:41:37 +0000

Funny. OK, let me put in terms you might be able to understand. I don’t know what I hate more: Hyperbolic commenters who hurl insipid insults, or hyperbolic commenters who hurl insipid insults and then expect some sort of reasoned reply. You don’t know the first thing about me and you’ve wasted enough of my time.

By: Joey Budder

Joey Budder — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:25:57 +0000

Translation: I know I’m a Dipsh%t so I can’t come back with anything.

By: Ben Boychuk

Ben Boychuk — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:56:14 +0000

Today: “Please answer my question and don’t just sigh it off.”

The other day: “You should be ashamed of yourself. I don’t know what I hate more: People like you, or those who are always checking their cell phones.”

Um… yeah. I’ll pass, thanks.

By: Joey Budder

Joey Budder — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:52:43 +0000

The same noise that people make when they see adults brining 18-month olds to the movies.

Seriously, why do you think it is ok?

Please answer my question and don’t just sigh it off.

By: Ben Boychuk

Ben Boychuk — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:00:56 +0000

Sigh.

By: Joey Budder

Joey Budder — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:26 +0000

Ben, It’s people like you who are ruining the moviegoing experience. Seriously, what are you doing taking an 18-month-old to the movies, one that is sick no less. You should be ashamed of yourself. I don’t know what I hate more: People like you, or those who are always checking their cell phones.

By: K

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:01:20 +0000

Saw it tonight based on Kyle Smith’s recommendation. I can see why he liked it; the handsome, bright, articulate and “fantastic” Mr. Fox is a newspaper columnist with a family. So he can identify with the main character. Also the dialog is quite witty and as you say, the family dynamic is good.

On the down side, like most movies where sapient cartoon animals live in a human world it’s a parable about racism and left wing politics. Mr. Fox can’t help himself from stealing from the evil capitalist farmers. At no point does anyone object to this because theft is wrong, but only because it’s dangerous. All the morality is taken care of by observing “we’re wild animals”. So it’s now obvious why George Clooney agreed to sign on.

By: Ben Boychuk

Ben Boychuk — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:08:09 +0000

Took the whole family to this on Wednesday night. Three out of four of us enjoyed it greatly. (The fourth, our 18-month-old daughter, has been battling some sort of virus and was cranky throughout.) It was charming, well-paced and well-performed. I loved it, though it has flaws. My wife and son liked it. The animation was skillful — you could appreciate the craftsmanship and the artistry more precisely because you knew that it wasn’t computer animated. Or, at least I could. I mean, who doesn’t love those Aardman films?

The film was only superficially like the book, which my son and I read together about a year ago. It’s a very Andersonian take on Dahl. “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” reminded me more than anything of “The Royal Tenenbaums,” but with wild animals. Streep was fine, but Clooney’s Mr. Fox did at times sound as though he was channelling Danny Ocean, which was a bit distracting. Also, Alexander Desplat’s score was much too derivative of Mark Mothersbaugh’s work on Anderson’s earlier films.

The good news is, Anderson seems to have pulled back from the inscrutability of “Darjeeling” and “The Life Aquatic” (which I liked better the second time around, but still didn’t like very much). I’m not sure we’ll get to see it again in the theaters, but I’m looking forward to the DVD.