Directed by: Kern Saxton
Written by: Destin Pfaff & Kern Saxton
Upon his release from prison, Fish is brought to an abandoned restaurant by his old associate, Duke, to celebrate his newfound freedom. However, there's unfinished business that Duke is determined to solve.
(Was it any good? is a new section I'm trying out. I'm returning to films I liked years ago, and I wonder if they were as bad or as good as I though. I'm giving bad movies a second chance and good movies a second glance.)
When you see a movie you like and return to it years later, do you think it'll be as good as you remember, or worse?
I remembered Sushi Girl being really good, but I talked to a friend about it and she just said it seems bad. I had to rewatch it after that comment. I was going to anyway, but that was it, I had to know if it was bad, and I didn't know as much about movies then as I do now. That's always the thing, you watch movies you liked but years later you just find them weird and corny. And with Sushi Girl I thought... Is it just a Tarantino copy I liked because I was just getting into Tarantino?
But the thing is, 6 minutes into the movie, I'm already really feeling it. And that was honestly an amazing feeling. I was right years ago!
The cinematography is great, and the story is intense with very little. I think the writing alongside with the performance given by the actors are the strongest parts of the movie. The dialogue has that Tarantino problem, where the characters talk about whatever, and usually it gets annoying when writers do it when they obviously can't. But here it works. There isn't much of it, the biggest part is in the flashback and it suits the mood and the scene... The characters are memorable with very little. The actors look all different, and the characters have distinct personalities so it's easy to keep them apart, but it's also easy to... keep tabs on them. Like when one character looks a certain way, you can sense what's going to happen. And the actors all are great!
The character I remembered the most from the movie was Crow played by Mark Hamill. It was such a weird and disturbing character - like most of them - but Hamill was so amazing in it I remember being shocked realising it was Mark Hamill. I still haven't seen Star Wars, but I just thought, Luke Skywalker... No way.
There were few moments where I thought why are they telling and not showing? But the intensity still kept up - like you know that moment in Silence of the Lambs where Starling talks about the lambs to Lecter? The actors are giving such a performance you don't have to see it. And like eventually when the movie ends you do realize why it was that way.
So... Basically I haven't changed my opinion of the movie at all. Sure it's kind of a Tarantino copy but it's such a good one. I hope I'll remember to come back to this movie more and more.
(Was it any good? is a new section I'm trying out. I'm returning to films I liked years ago, and I wonder if they were as bad or as good as I though. I'm giving bad movies a second chance and good movies a second glance.)
When you see a movie you like and return to it years later, do you think it'll be as good as you remember, or worse?
I remembered Sushi Girl being really good, but I talked to a friend about it and she just said it seems bad. I had to rewatch it after that comment. I was going to anyway, but that was it, I had to know if it was bad, and I didn't know as much about movies then as I do now. That's always the thing, you watch movies you liked but years later you just find them weird and corny. And with Sushi Girl I thought... Is it just a Tarantino copy I liked because I was just getting into Tarantino?
But the thing is, 6 minutes into the movie, I'm already really feeling it. And that was honestly an amazing feeling. I was right years ago!
The cinematography is great, and the story is intense with very little. I think the writing alongside with the performance given by the actors are the strongest parts of the movie. The dialogue has that Tarantino problem, where the characters talk about whatever, and usually it gets annoying when writers do it when they obviously can't. But here it works. There isn't much of it, the biggest part is in the flashback and it suits the mood and the scene... The characters are memorable with very little. The actors look all different, and the characters have distinct personalities so it's easy to keep them apart, but it's also easy to... keep tabs on them. Like when one character looks a certain way, you can sense what's going to happen. And the actors all are great!
The character I remembered the most from the movie was Crow played by Mark Hamill. It was such a weird and disturbing character - like most of them - but Hamill was so amazing in it I remember being shocked realising it was Mark Hamill. I still haven't seen Star Wars, but I just thought, Luke Skywalker... No way.
There were few moments where I thought why are they telling and not showing? But the intensity still kept up - like you know that moment in Silence of the Lambs where Starling talks about the lambs to Lecter? The actors are giving such a performance you don't have to see it. And like eventually when the movie ends you do realize why it was that way.
So... Basically I haven't changed my opinion of the movie at all. Sure it's kind of a Tarantino copy but it's such a good one. I hope I'll remember to come back to this movie more and more.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
10 / 10
