Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ is so bad it got booed at Cannes

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/wes-anderson-phoenician-scheme-booed-cannes-20339540.php

35 comments

  1. Did you read the words? or just get fooled buy the clickbait headline? Here is a direct quote from that article; “and while Anderson received a standing ovation, boos could be heard peppered in with gushing cheers.”

    So, in reality, he got a standing ovation for his film, and a couple of people booed.

  3. 😬

    I was really looking forward to that…

    I didn’t like “Asteroid City” either.

  4. Can we get a time frame on the booing like we do with the clapping please. I need to know if it was for 10 seconds for 15 minutes

  5. Love his movies up until The Grand Budapest Hotel but something about French Dispatch and Asteroid City left me extremely cold. They almost felt clinical in what they were trying to do.

    This didn’t seem any different.

  7. There’s got to be a reasonable response in between booing a movie and giving it a standing ovation for 10 minutes, but I dunno, I’m not French.

  8. Just as a lover of movies, I really wish he’d change his style to something more palatable and less drenched in aesthetic. You can fill your movies with as much “surgical eccentricity” as you want but if it’s not entertaining, it might as well be a painting. It’s his style, he owns it, he’s done well with it, he gets tons of love for it – I’m just saying, I can’t enjoy any of his films since maybe Grand Budapest and that’s unfortunate.

  11. They weren’t saying Boo, they were saying Boo-anderson.

  12. I feel like that’s not entirely true. It has a 76% on rotten tomatoes which tends to mean it’s decent enough. I guess the people who booed it are the other 24%.

  13. Disgustingly false headline. 76% on RT with 56 reviews. It’s not going to be his best and maybe he needs to recalibrate but far from what you’re making it out to be.

  14. Sad to admit I fell asleep in the theater while watching Asteroid City

  17. Currently sitting at a 71 on metacritic, that’s pretty darn good

  18. I tried 3 times to watch Asteroid City and I love his films. It lost a lot of humanity. Grand Budapest I think is his masterpiece. I love that film.

  19. Awful, click-baity article from some no name “critic” trying to capitalize on the internet noise that has been surrounding this film as being the same old same old.

  20. I keep hoping he’ll do a “back to basics” film and give us something more similar to Bottle Rocket or Rushmore.

  21. I believe it’s going to be great. Love WA, love his aesthetic, love Benicio Del Toro. It had a 6 min + standing ovation and a few boos. Big deal.

  23. There really is a “die a fan or live long enough to see yourself become the hater” thing with Wes that is amazing to behold.

  24. Once again countering the goofy Wes hatred in this thread by saying this headline is completely editorialized and French Dispatch and Asteroid City were among his finest films!

  26. The trailer didn’t inspire me. However, I was already leaning toward the gimmick having run its course.

  27. Not surprising at all. When I saw the trailer it just looks like the exact same film he’s been making his whole career. He needs to get out of his comfort zone and branch out a little, his product is getting stale.

  28. I’m willing to bet that means a normal person is going to love it! Can’t wait! 😄

  29. Mkay but so far it’s got like 76% on RT from 54 critics, which isn’t awful.

  32. I thought Life Aquatic was so ridiculous that it was just stupid the first time I saw it.

    Now I love it and think it’s one of his best.

    So I’ll reserve my judgement.

    Though Wes Anderson has Flanderized himself significantly and I didn’t care to see Asteroid City and Isle of Dogs (just didn’t appeal to me) so I’m also open to it being bad.

    But we’ll see.

    I liked French Dispatch and Grand Budapest Hotel. This looks like it could be in a similar vein.

  33. These clowns give twenty-minute standing ovations. I’m not inclined to pay attention to their opinions either way.

  34. “Rushmore” was the absolute peak for me. It’s my Rushmore.

  35. I’m ready to get roasted in the comments because this is how I’ve felt about Wes Anderson films in general. He has one schtick that appeals to set designers, colorists and camera operators. not for nothing, the movies LOOK great, the work done by editors deserves accolades, but the script always half-baked.

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