Thursday, December 04, 2008
Bottle Rocket
Triumph of Bullshit comes up with a personality test based on polarizing filmmakers:It’s not strange to disagree about movies that are wildly different, and there are surely a few random movies that are very polarizing. What I find most interesting is which movie people consider the best movie from a particular director, as it is usually very telling and polarizing in a different way, so to this point I will propose a new personality test where you reblog your favorite movie from each of these directors:
1. Joel Coen: No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller’s Crossing, Raising Arizona, etc
2. Wes Anderson: The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, etc
3. Hal Ashby: Being There, Shampoo, Harold and Maude, etc
4. Kevin Smith: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks, etc
5. Quentin Tarantino: Grindhouse, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, etc.
And Kottke adds:
6. Stanley Kubrick: 2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, etc.
7. P.T. Anderson: Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia.
8. Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, Mr. Death, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Gates of Heaven, etc.
My result:
1. Miller's Crossing
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Shampoo
4. Clerks
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Punch-Drunk Love
8. Eh?
I'd only seen one Hal Ashby film though (Shampoo).
Speaking of polarizing figures, there's an interview over at the AV Club with Wes Anderson over the Blu-Ray release of Bottle Rocket. I hated Rushmore, hadn't seen The Life Aquatic, and absolutely loove everything else. Perhaps its time to give Rushmore another shot?
Labels: movies, wes anderson
