I finally saw The Aviator and The Life Aquatic.

[Shell Beau]

Bill Murray has such a great sense of humor!

[Richardo]

1. "I'll fight it - but let it live. Now what about my dynamite?"

Great movie.

[Shell Beau]

4. Yeah, those little lines like that cracked me up!!

He's so damned funny.

[auntAgonist]

2. The Aviator

was awesome!

[terrya]

3. I agree. I liked "The Aviator" very much.

[Shell Beau]

5. It was good. Howard Hughes really

suffered with some major OCD! That was rough!

[mondo joe]

7. I just couldn't understand how the 14 year old could be so rich!

More seriously: I think it tried to cover too much ground and I couldn't identify any really core to Hughes' story.

[stinkeefresh]

6. Life Aquatic

Is a truly amazing film. It's a mess, granted, but it's a mess rich in poetry.

It is autobiographical, focusing on the issues and dramas that the director is feeling that year when he wrote and made the film. He set it in a mad world so he could be even more personal.

Many 40+ yr old filmmakers make memoir films about thier 10 yr old selves. (Fellini's Amacord, Malle's Aur Revoir, Les Enfants- countless others) The Life Aquatic is a memoir in reverse. Wes Anderson is making a film about his present-day self, but told as if he were 10.

[Shell Beau]

8. Bill Murray was the perfect man for that role, IMO!