Bottle Rocket - 8.0

Wes Anderson's feature debut about a couple of bumbling wannabe 'thieves' (played by Owen and Luke Wilson) is quirky (how shocking for a Wes Anderson movie to be quirky...) but not overly so, and the characters grew on me so much that I actually ended up caring about what happened to them by the end of the movie. As such, I think it is now my favorite Wes Anderson movie. I would rank them as follows: 1. Bottle Rocket 2. The Royal Tenenbaums 3. Rushmore - need to see this one again, only saw it once and that was years ago 4. The Life Aquatic I'm not the biggest Wes Anderson fan but I have liked 3 of the 4 movies of his I've seen now (I thought Life Aquatic was terrible) so he's definitely growing on me. I'll probably wait for The Darjeeling Limited to come out on dvd though, so I guess I'm still not that big a fan.