The Player
This movie was awesome. I had to watch it for my cinema class but it didn't even feel like homework. The basic story is about Griffin Mills, a studio executive, played by Tim Robbins, who reviews scripts or ideas for scripts at a movie studio. He starts to receive death threats and ominous post cards from what he believes to be a writer whose script he snubbed. He then begins to stalk these suspected writers and the plot begins to get extremely interesting from there, but I don't want to ruin the rest of it by telling you the story.
This was a very well paced thriller, with good action and a ****yourpants load of cameos. Every single frame of this film must have some form of cameo in it. There's also some humour for movie buffs as well so that makes it hilarious. Like the opening shot is 8 minutes long and they are discussing Welles's "Touch of Evil." There was also a scene where Griffin shakes hands with Malcolm McDowell and then he goes on to have a drink in what looks like the Korova Milk Bar, and there was another suspenseful scene where someone says something about Alfred Hitchcock
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I'd highly recommend this one if you liked Adaptation, since this is something of a precursor to that film in that the ending is mostly self-referential. 10/10