This is the question that my friends and I were asking each other for weeks after seeing Wes Andersen’s newest movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox. It’s hands down the best movie I’ve seen in a theater in the last year.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

After watching the movie in the theater, my friends and I had a long, and admittedly somewhat drunken, conversation about the lessons learned from Fantastic Mr. Fox and his existential dilemmas. Because sometimes, you’re just a wild animal at heart.

The fact that that the cast was so star-studded — Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, the list goes on — was merely icing on the cake.

I know a lot of people that went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox in the theater more than once, which is pretty rare. I can’t wait to see it again, and I never watch movies twice.

As much as I was pleased by Fantastic Mr. Fox, I was a bit disappointed when I finally went to see Precious. Maybe it’s just that it got so built up in my mind — I actually went to the store to buy a pack of tissues beforehand — that it ended up falling short. It felt a little bit like I already knew the whole story from the trailer, which seemed like a montage of all of the most emotionally climactic scenes in the movie. I can understand doing that for a mostly fluff movie like Notorious, but Precious has depth and substance. Why ruin it?

Precious