Bottle Rocket.

It was such a long time since I didn't take the time to watch a movie!
Man that's good! :)

I had planned to watch Dune (which I have never seen) tonight but I saw that was on TV, so I had to watch it as I've been wanting to see it for a while now.

This is Wes Anderson's first movie and I'm quite a big Wes Anderson fan, from Rushmore to Life Aquatic.

So what else to say that this is definitely a Wes Anderson movie. In a sense he always makes the same movie. Or more to the point, if the stories and environments are always different, the characters are similar. They are lost. And dysfunctionnal.
The good thing about this is that he always creates interesting characters.
They're tragic and funny.
They can behave like gits, but you still can't help to sympathise...

Here, the context is that of a capper movie. But it's obviously no Heat. They're small time and not really good at it. So you follow them from failure to failure...

It's smart, funny, subtle, off-beat, touching.

It's beautifully shot (especially taking into account that it most likely was shot on a shoestring budget) and the cast is excellent, with Luke & Owen Wilson as the leads.

As a 1st movie, it's quite amazing how already it established Anderson's style with such confidence...