Movie marathon #2. Starting from the top left, moving down and then right:- Flushed Away - Super star studded cast coupled with Wallace and Gromit feel. The singing slugs are just like the raving rabbits in Rayman. Is a bit meh.
- Delicatessen - Pretty light for a "thriller" with some interesting quirky scenes.
- The Hours - Super emotionally intense movie but super good acting from Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman.
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Needed something light to watch after The Hours. Robert Downey Jr. should just stick with quirky characters like in here and Michelle Monaghan is purdy. Quite funny but not that funny.
- Chocolat - Very nice movie to feel existential.
- となり の トトロ (My Neighbour Totoro) - Very pleasant story, imaginative and interesting perspectives with respect to photography. And I want a giant Totoro stuffed toy.
- Japanese Story - Another emotionally intense but a third of the intensity of The Hours, mainly because in The Hours had 3 women instead of one. Pretty good.
- The Seventh Seal - Pretty slow black and white movie but nice cinematography. A lot of interesting questions about struggling with God.
- The Fox and the Child - Breathtaking scenery and fantastic nature filming. Which doesn't come as a surprise since it is the same director as the movie/documentary March of the Penguins
- La Balon Rouge (The Red Balloon) - I love this short film! Super nice children's story.
- The Machinist - I don't like this. Super slow for a thriller, always threatening to shock/twist but never get there, it feels like there is no closure and worst of all is that it tries to be something like Fight Club but it's more like Fail Club. Quite frustrated. Although I must say that the lengths that Christian Bale goes through for this movie is quite epic. Quite sick actually.
- 時をかける少女 (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) - I'm a bit confused about this one. The backgrounds for this is super nice, very reminiscent of Makoto Shinkai but the animation looks a bit dodgy and the soundtrack is pretty good but the voice acting is sometimes quite fake. Story was interesting conceptually but feels a bit loose at the end. Bring back Makoto Shinkai please.
- Cabaret - Liza is a super quirky character and have some nice numbers to it too. Seems a bit like Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Shanghai Dreams - A very slow movie that is not for the faint of heart. Or the impatient. And there's background reading to do.
- 天空の城ラピュタ (Laputa - Castle in the Sky) - Got cheated that this version was English dubbed but then realized that there were some pretty famous people who lend their voices for this animation. Typical Miyazaki storyline. Not necessarily a bad thing.
- Memento - Awesome film editing! Messes with your brain a bit but not too much. Like Chris Nolan's films, not to be watched when you are tired. Demands all of your mental energy.
- My Fair Lady - Super good musical. Another one of those musicals where I question myself after watching saying why on Earth did I not know or watch this earlier. Super deprived childhood man.
A heck load of moving stuff lately that I think my muscles have like doubled in size.
The new year has already started if you haven't already noticed. Barely into the first week and I feel like it is going to be a shaky year even though I've been hanging out with awesome friends since Christmas. Not sure why. Not liking it.
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