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Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Finally got to see this one. Don't watch this hungry. The atmosphere in this one is brilliant. Classical music plays during the duration of the movie and it really just compliments each scene of Jiro and his apprentices making sushi. It was a great movie about family and the history of an 85 year old man who refuses to quit the job he loves to do. Highly recommended.

Lynch/10

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Hart's War

It was okay. The actor who played the Nazi colonel was fantastic but I wasn't too impressed with the story. I was also appalled by the privileges the POWs were given. I don't know if that was actually the case but it seemed a little weird.

6/10

I've been wanting to check out that sushi movie. Looked like a great premise for a movie. I always enjoyed the art behind making great sushi so i'm gonna check this out.

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

I honestly have no idea what this movie was trying to tell me. This is usually a bad thing but I found it interesting enough to want to finish it. I also found the atmosphere very dreamlike and relaxing. The camera work was still and basic like a Haneke film but the images and scenery were fantastic. The scenes with the "beasts" were very creepy as you can tell from the poster image but didn't convey fear which I thought was interesting. Overall it was an interesting film that I just couldn't understand but I guess that makes it a film that did its job in being memorable.

I have no idea how to rate this.

I kind of wanted to see that. Thanks for the reminder. :)

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The Warriors (1979)

I had never actually seen the movie in its entirety, only watching it from the last subway ride onwards, but I did play the 2005 video game so I already knew what was going on, I just needed to fill this gap in my viewing history. Overall I liked it, the director did a really good job of portraying New York as this dystopian hellhole. The action was a little tamer than I was expecting, but it was all well choreographed and spread out.

Beneath The Dark

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Absolutely fantastic film. The story is basically revolved around the belief of the moral compass, how if you have done bad things in your past, the future will change for the worst, unless you come clean / fix the problems of your past.

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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 :laughing:.

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

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Cul-De-Sac

Great black comedy and early film from Roman Polanski. Donald Pleasance was fantastic and the supporting characters were memorable as well. Really enjoyable in a weird black and white black comedy sort of way.

8/10

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Slacker

Basically the same set up and narrative style of Waking Life without the interesting philosophical conversations. I mean I liked it but it wasn't a Before Sunrise or Waking Life. There were some funny moments though.

7/10

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Silmido

Korean film based on a true event of a unit of ex convicts trained to kill Kim Il Seung of North Korea. The whole film basically takes place in the boot camp and has a pretty good story to go along with a lot of tense moments. I feel the climax and ending was kind of a cop out but it was based off a true story so I can't really complain. Not bad.

7/10

You have just described exactly how I feel about the relationship between those two movies. I have no idea why Waking Life always seems to be the one that gets forgotten.

I love Waking Life. It's a movie that can be watched multiple times and each viewing experience is different. Like actually different. The people in Slacker kind of seemed forced and a bit pretentious but I really didn't get a lot of that in Waking Life. It just seemed more real to me; people having intellectual conversations in passing that seemed legitimate. It also helps that the music and animation is fantastic. I get this weird sense of belonging and understanding that I watch it that I don't get often. It's like listening to a band that you used to listen too back when iphones and wifi wasn't part of life and you're instantly transported back to that time. For me it was the 90s and Waking Life takes me back there every time. I love it.