Bob's Gone! He stole his car!

Bottle Rocket ended up on my netflix queue long ago and finally made it to the top recently. (As an aside, the queue is my favorite netflix feature, it's worth a good chunk of the monthly fee all by itself.)

As expected, it was all that great. It was a lot of fun. And it's clearly a Wes Anderson movie, with interesting work by the Wilson brothers. Part of the Wes Anderson fingerprint is the ridiculous amount of whimsy in this thing. From that standpoint nobody is better then Anderson, but that's not everyone's thing in watching movies. I enjoy it, to a point, and this one didn't really win me over.

That said, for a first time filmmaker making an independent movie, I can see the talent that has led to a successful career.

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