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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9691551" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I'm one Phoenician Scheme away from having seen all of them, and should have that dealt with before the month is done.Royal Tenenbaums is pretty clearly the best in my mind. Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel are similarly masterpieces. Rushmore was a standout early work and the one I probably relate to the most (I was also a kid involved in way to many clubs and activities). The Life Aquatic is also a personal favorite (it might be the funniest, and all the acoustic, Portuguese David Bowie covers give it the best soundtrack). Fantastic Mr. Fox combined Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl, and that's just chocolate and peanut butter in my book. So that would be my A and S tier, with rankings shifting based on mood.The essential go to critique of Wes Anderson is that his movies are all style and no substance, and while I reject this, I will say sometimes whatever substance there is gets a bit too buried in the mix, and this has seemed more pronounced in his later works. I liked Isle of Dogs but as animated outings go it's no Fantastic Mr. Fox in my book. French Dispatch was very well made, but the anthology nature kept me from getting to invested in any of the stories. The whole framing narrative of Asteroid City actually being a radio show or something just felt like bloated, self-indulgent excess and while that might be OP's bag it's not mine and was the first time the "style" really started to get in the way for me. Setting aside later works, I also did not particularly care for Darjeeling Limited, which seemed like it was planned hoping some deeper meaning would be found futzing around India and it never materialized.Bottle Rocket is juvenilia only interesting to Wes Anderson completionists, though perhaps people extremely put off my his style and quirks would like it the best for feeling the least like a Wes Anderson movie.I'm also a fan of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN_Uwo4qQTM" target="_blank">Star War audition tape</a>.</blockquote>

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