{"id":5004,"date":"2014-05-18T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2014-05-18T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:30:53","slug":"bottle-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/bottle-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;One morning, over at Elizabeth&#8217;s beach house, she asked me if I&#8217;d rather go water skiing or lay out. And I realized that not only did I not want to answer that question, but I never wanted to answer another water-sports question, or see any of these people again for the rest of my life. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Anthony leaves the hospital he entered for &#8220;exhaustion&#8221; he teams up with his friends Bob and Dignan in a robbery. Dignan has a 75-year plan which has something to do with getting together with his old landscaping boss Mr. Henry. But Mr. Henry fired Dignan so this might be a flaw in the plan. They go on the run and stay in a hotel. Dignan thinks they should change their appearance, but Anthony has something more important to do &#8212; he wants to get to know Inez, the housekeeper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottle Rocket<\/strong> was released in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s filled with low-key humour.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it a lot &#8212; it&#8217;s not quite as brilliant as some of Wes Anderson&#8217;s other movies but it&#8217;s worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>The fun music is by Mark Mothersbaugh (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-lego-movie\/\"><strong>The Lego Movie<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Luke Wilson (<strong>Idiocracy<\/strong>) plays Anthony and Owen Wilson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/night-at-the-museum-smithsonian\/\"><strong>Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian<\/strong><\/a>) plays Dignan. They have each been in several Wes Anderson movies, and both of them were in\u00a0<strong>The Royal Tenenbaums<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Wes Anderson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/moonrise-kingdom\/\"><strong>Moonrise Kingdom<\/strong><\/a>). It was his first movie. I&#8217;ve seen all of his movies except his latest, and they&#8217;re all fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;One morning, over at Elizabeth&#8217;s beach house, she asked me if I&#8217;d rather go water skiing or lay out. And I realized that not only did I not want to answer that question, but I never wanted to answer another water-sports question, or see any of these people again for the rest of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}