saw Darjeeling Limited yesterday
 

I liked it a lot. Thought Adrien Brody was great.

Angelica Houston has a small role and Bill Murray has a cameo.

There is a pretty cool surreal scene where they make it look like everyone has a room on the train, even the killer tiger in the jungle.

It's playing at the theater across town from me, so that's my excuse. I'd like to see it in the theater. If it were playing right near me, I probably would have already seen it.

Yeah, heard about those cameos. What would you give it on a rotten tomatoes-type scale of 1 to 100?

I would love to see it, but apparently it's not coming to my city.

79%

I just got home from the theater
Saw the film by myself (i like to go to the theater alone at least once every 2 weeks)
No one else was there, which was grand
I hate watching films while the audience laughs/shuffles around/eats popcorn/opens wrappers/coughs/sneezes/whispers/text msgs

I liked it better than Rushmore, but not as much as Life Aquatic/Royal Tenenbaums/Bottle Rocket

Hmm, not exactly a great rating but still better than average and worth seeing I suppose.

I think I like The Royal Tenenbaums the least.

for me, Royal Tenenbaums is andersons 2nd best.

Life Aquatic being #1

For me Rushmore is the best.

I'd rate it higher than 79 honestly.

The style is a bit different than Wes's other movies, in some ways for the better.

People think it has less substance. It is true that character motivation is vague- there are subtle visual and verbal clues. Much more subtle than his other movies (although they have subtle developments as well)

royal tennenbaums is one of my favoite films of all time... darjeeling was better than life aquatic, but not as good as RT or rushmore. bought the sdtk today too, pretty bad ass. i had to drive an hour to dallas to watch it. $10 for a fucking movie.

I saw it about a month ago. My mom and I drove out to LA to see it, it was a lot of fun. I saw it again on Saturday because it finally was released somewhere near me.

I really enjoyed it. But I'm not sure how I'd rate it, or place it in comparison to the rest of the movies. I haven't seen Rushmore for quite a long time. I think I liked it just as much as The Life Aquatic? Maybe a little less. But not as good as Tenenbaums for me.

I wanna see it!

It is definitely harder to place among the other movies. There are some stylistic changes. A lot of the music in the movie is music that Jason Schwartzmen's character decides to play on his little docked ipod. Which is kind of weird to see in a movie.

I want anderson to write with wilson again.

I like all his movies, bottlerocket and Rushmore were filmed around Houston, my hometown.

Royal tennebaums gets better every time I watch it and I loved it the first time.

Life Aquatic is an odd masterpiece in my eyes. That movie does things to my drug-addled brain.

I like them all. cannot rank them.

Did they play Hotel Chevalier for you guys? They did when I saw it on Friday, but not when I saw it in LA.

they weren't showing it during the first screenings, but now that it's had it's wide release their showing it. i had to go download it. natalie portman looks kinda weird naked... i thought it was funny har hair was still short from V.

naked? not just naked

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Gyllenhaal

Atari,
There are 3 Kinks songs from Lola in the film: Strangers, This Time Tomorrow, and Powerman.

It's his best movie since Rushmore.

I think you may be right Noumenal.

ROYAL TENNENBAUMS!!!

i like tennenbaums above all he's done; followed by rushmore, zissou, and bottle rocket.

tennenbaums is more ambitious, and it succeeds at it. rushmore is truly great, but its scope is more restricted. zissou i loved and it's quirky but it remains there somehow, or maybe by that time i had gotten used to anderson's oddities. regardless. bottle rocket is nice, but more predictable, and he didn't have the chops (or the budget?) yet.

I'm more of a Rushmore person, although I agree it lacks the scope of Royal Tenenbaums.

Although Darjeeling is about 3 Brothers, in a way it has the biggest scope because you see their actions affecting the world around them. In Anderson's other movies all the main characters are sort of in a little bubble.

i saw it yesterday and it did include hotel chevalier. i fucking loved it. really loved it.

and natalie portman needs a fucking sandwich.

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portman is HOT..

FUCK YEAH!

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wrong!!!

i saw it a few days ago, it's not a bad film but i thought it's his weakest by far (although i haven't seen bottle rocket)

I think this film looks lame, and I don't like the 3 stars in it at all, but who knows.

I sure hope it beats bottle rockets.

It beats Bottle Rocket in my book. Some people say Bottle Rocket is his best film, but I think that is just their indie pretentions getting in the way. It is by far his weakest, although it is a charming film.

^^^^^
oh yeah. Still, it's a matter of tastes too, and they could be sincere rather than looking for "indie cred" ;).

Is Owen Wilson in the face cast in the film because his nose has, in actuality, collapsed due to hard drug abuse in his real life?

The whole premise is that these three brothers go to India on a spiritual quest. That's all well and good. Anderson no doubt (I haven't seen the film) employs the location nicely with a usually fairly fine sense of cinematography (although I don't know who he regularly uses for cinematography).
And, it's my understanding that Anderson smartly places the characters on a train during much of the movie, allowing for a journey into the neurotic inner spaces of said characters' psyches and an observation of their own dynamics mined for black comedy.

But back to this whole India and spiritual quest thing. Yeah, The Beatles went there in '68 as everyone knows (or should know). Hinduism is, in many ways, a bastard offshoot of Buddhism mixed with Islam. And the Indian people themselves, let's look at them. They are not an indigenous race, not really. They are basically the offspring of British colonists mixed with the indigenous darker peoples of the region for the most part. And then there's the whole thing with the cows. Hey, I'm all for free range cattle, but to treat cows like gods is a little nutball in my opinion. They've even gotten to placing identification on every cow in India to make sure they are getting along in the god-like way that they should. At this point you may be asking to yourself what business I have to denigrate the Hindu religion. I'm not dissuaded. Not one whit. The Hindu "religion" is so highly politicized that they believe in a fucking caste system. A class system...a pre-assigned pecking order from fucking birth! And it's obviously a way for the rich to stay rich and control the women by only offering a change in caste through marraige.

Now true, there is some freedom of religion within India. Although nine out of ten Indians are Hindus, some are Buddhists, some are Siks, some are Jains; and even less are Muslim or Christian.

In essence, India doesn't seem like all that spiritual of a place to me, its history notwithstanding. Seems many interests wanted a piece of India as a point of trade between Europe and the Middle East with the Far East. Seems more like a place that the Muslims and then the British (mainly) have plundered where a highly disproportionate percentage of the population live in abject poverty. Yet it's still regarded as this "highly spiritual place." I suppose mostly because Guatama was born there and Ghandi did his nonviolence hunger strike thing there during the last century. I suppose India desperately needs the tourism though.

I know, I know I should just relax, It's only a movie, after all. But still...it's telling that I wonder how much of the above, if any, is even remotely alluded to in the film which is set in India. I suppose maybe the sacred cows thing and perhaps the Maharishi Mahesh/Beatles thing may get passing mentions.
At any rate, I hope I've amused you.

There is this one great rock carving though, The Descent from the Ganges.
Wonder if it's the film. If it's not, that's a damn shame. And, of course, Hindus still believe in washing themselves in the Ganges river even though it's, by all accounts, highly polluted and contaminated.










As you may know, you've probably spoken with an Indian at some point recently if you've called a customer service number. Guess it's cheaper to reroute long distance calls to foreign countries all the way on the other side of the planet and have you speak with an underpaid indentured servant than it is to pay an American a decent living wage to do the same job.