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I’m surprised none of Wes Anderson’s films are on this list. In my experience his work is incredibly polarizing. People either absolutely love it or can’t stand it. I’m in the love it category but I dig quirky films.

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Agree. I am in the can't stand camp. The colors, dialogue, stories, just don't appeal. But have many friends who love these movies, and I am the odd one. Maybe someday I will get it.

The thing that makes me enjoy them is the attention to detail. He builds entire worlds and controls everything in them (at least once he got past his first few films). I’m the kind of person who enjoys watching a movie more than once and discovering new things each time, and his films are great for that.

I call these kinds of films “black licorice movies”. Nobody is really impartial: they have strong feelings one way or another.

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