Love this movie. I liked Wes Anderson before it was cool. I didn't even know who he was at the time. My family didn't understand why a ten year old wanted to watch this crap instead of Nickelodeon. They thought it was stupid and inappropriate for my age. Nickelodeon rarely aired reruns of The Adventures of Pete & Pete and there was nothing else like that on tv at the time. This movie though. It was so far ahead of it's time. It got me into Napoleon Dynamite which I introduced to my then friends but none of them even appreciated it until "Vote For Pedro" went mainstream and they all bought the shirt like normies. Both movies started off as short films. Comedy Central started airing Bottle Rocket when I was in high school, so I had a friend who watched it with me and that got him into Wes Anderson. He ended up majoring in film and now owns the Wes Anderson Criterion Collection. The film was a commercial flop but Scorsese said it was in his top ten favorite films of the 90s. This film perfectly encapsulates my remaining adolescence after high school when I romanticized being a professional thief but didn't understand how dangerous and difficult that life could be. Good thing I was never charged with anything or murdered. I used to rob petty drug dealers I had went to school with and did it with such panache that no one would believe them. They didn't even believe it themselves some of the time which led to some pretty comical moments such as holding a guy up in his room just as his dad gets home from work and having to both walk out together acting like you're best of friends so he didn't beat both your asses.

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