Asteroid City

This Film needed to Hone in on certain things, there's way too damn much going on. Here's How You Immensely Improve the Film. 1. Get rid of the Play aspect, Get rid of the Super Smart Teenagers, Get rid of Scarlet Johannsons Character, Get Rid of the 10 other Kids and the Teacher. 2. Focus on The Alien, The Asteroid, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wrights General, The Presidents Directives to the General and the Weapons Technician. That's it. From there, Weave Together an actual Plot. 3. Build on what this Alien wants to do, is it hostile? Is it Friendly? Is it trying to Communicate information regarding the Asteroid? Go back and forth with the presidents directives, the General, Tilda Swintons Knowledge on the Situation, The Weapons Technicians Knowledge and Weaponry if things go sour, City alert mandates etc. Give us the audience, something Dammit. What an Absolute Waste of Time. Positives - 1. There could of been a Magnificent Plot here, the Elements for the Plot were all there. 2. The Colour Palette is Beautiful to look at.🎨 3. Tons of the Shots and Angled Shots were Gorgeous to See. 4. The Setting was so Promising. Negatives - 1. The Film has no Interesting Plot. 2. Because of this, it's Boring as Hell after a while. 3. Many of the Sequences were Inferior to the Brilliance of The French Dispatch, The Entirety of The French Dispatch was a Masterclass of Order, Sequence and Motion all Operating at the Same Time to Finally Deliver EVERY second of the Particular Scene. Asteroid City only has this Here and There. It's vastly Inferior in this Aspect, and Every Other Aspect for that Matter, Apart from Visuals. Overall, One of the worst Films of the Year So Far.

Described as a science fiction romantic comedy-drama and by trying to be a "jack of all those trades" is why it fails miserably at ALL of them, pick a lane will you Anderson! Once you get past the highly stylised presentation, it becomes a paper thin 'homage' to what exactly? ..to Anderson's own body of work!!! There's no interesting story to follow, so it rapidly becomes a sequence of disjointed and very tedious to watch sketches, where the novelty of the cartoon like colorised environment wears off quickly. Not the only one to ask..how can Anderson put together a cast THAT good and still end up with a complete dud? Spending $25 million making a movie (I'm guessing most of that went on the big name cast) so there's not going to be much left for anything else, you know, like good script writing..

When you talk about big movie stars like Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson or Bryan Cranston... people often say, "I'll watch them in anything." Well, Asteroid City puts that notion to the test. This is a movie that's weird even by Wes Anderson's standards. It actually feels more like a parody of a Wes Anderson movie. And not in a good way. I would describe it like this: It's a movie of a TV broadcast of a play about a play... and what we see is the movie version of the play within the play within the TV show (I think I have all of that right... it's all very confusing). What's missing in all of this is any real plot or characters to care about. It's one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. I like Anderson's films, but I just didn't get this one.