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Is there a worse recent example of a vanity project than Jon Favreau's Chef (2014)?
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Nah Chef is fine.
Go watch a James Franco directed/starred film and get back to me. He's got like a dozen or so dumpster fires of movies that nobody has even heard of.
Go watch a James Franco directed/starred film and get back to me. He's got like a dozen or so dumpster fires of movies that nobody has even heard of.
Also, not to defend The Honeymooners trope of big guy + attractive wife but its not like Faveau is an ugly dude. They have like a 12-13 year old kid in the movie so it makes sense that dude could have developed a dad bod over the course of their marriage due to having a stressful job where you're constantly eating.
Chef should start like Yesterday except instead of The Beatles everybody forgets how to squish a sandwich.
As an Exectutive Chef for Hyatt Hotels for the past 10 years, I enjoyed the movie... and a lot of us do have sleeves :) Thought its a terrible idea to open your own restaurant its a money pit. Work for a corporation you'll always make more money unless your a celebrity Chef
You know something is wrong when a person writes, directs, and stars in a screen adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. And not just stars in, but plays a lynchpin character who spells out to the audience what the book is actually about.
Chef was a fun little movie that didn't really seem to get ahead of itself. It felt like a lot of movies that I'd seen in single screen theaters in the late 2000s when "indie movies" were extremely hip. The social media name checking was truly bizarre though.
Every Quintin Tarantino movie is an extreme vanity project, but I think the movies are better off for it.
Same with any Hideo Kojima game.
my biggest gripe with the movie tbh, should've just stuck with the food truck
Chef is a damn good movie. This, however:
Is one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen
Is one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen
Another tangential example is The Orville; the higly produced Seth Mcfarlane Star Trek fan fiction where he is the captain and gets to hang out with ex-Star Trek cast members.
Thats not to say it's bad tv, but it feels like a big ego project
Oh honey, you don't know the half of it:
The fact he thinks he can adapt Faulkner or McCarthy tells us all we need to know about him.
Yeah, that is true....in the kitchen.
Im a different person inside and outside the kitchen most of the times.
Agreed. I get how this is an annoying trope in straight media and bear culture is a thing in gay culture that straights only semi-recently tried to co-opt with the oddly defined "dad bod" movement, but I think Faveau is still pretty cute. Is it really that hard to believe that a woman more conventionally attractive would find him attractive? I only saw this film when it was initially released, but weren't there a one or two jokes that center on this?
It was more or less a biopic of Roy Choi and jus career.
Count me on #TeamHate.
The big thing that gets me is how it just doesn't go anywhere. I dig the premise: star chef is bored, wants to go back to his edgy bad-boy roots, sure. But this guy who was so played up as being full of wild originality in the opening's big play is... a food truck making traditional Cuban sandwiches. Like... how is making the same Cuban every day different from making the same caviar egg every day?
I've enjoyed stuff like Food Wars and Yakitate Japan because there's always an element of creation, but it felt like that was just missing in Chef.
The big thing that gets me is how it just doesn't go anywhere. I dig the premise: star chef is bored, wants to go back to his edgy bad-boy roots, sure. But this guy who was so played up as being full of wild originality in the opening's big play is... a food truck making traditional Cuban sandwiches. Like... how is making the same Cuban every day different from making the same caviar egg every day?
I've enjoyed stuff like Food Wars and Yakitate Japan because there's always an element of creation, but it felt like that was just missing in Chef.
This is honestly a really fantastic movie and is actually what got me to finally try and eat a Cubano (which are great!).
I find it so funny and interesting when other people break down movies like this because while I may having passing thoughts like what the OP outlined while watching a movie, they never stick with me, and ultimately I arrive very easily at whether I enjoyed it or not. And then I find myself reading threads like this months and years later wondering why I never realized these things when I watched the movie, when the reality is I probably did but didn't give a shit because the movie was generally very entertaining.
Chef is great and so is anything to do with food. That grilled cheese sandwich scene is better than most shit you see nowadays. Fuck it.
It's because the spaghetti didn't look disgusting and most people like the OP have no god damn idea.
Chef is great and so is anything to do with food. That grilled cheese sandwich scene is better than most shit you see nowadays. Fuck it.
It's because the spaghetti didn't look disgusting and most people like the OP have no god damn idea.
Damn, I need to know where he buys his body oilAlso, not to defend The Honeymooners trope of big guy + attractive wife but its not like Faveau is an ugly dude. They have like a 12-13 year old kid in the movie so it makes sense that dude could have developed a dad bod over the course of their marriage due to having a stressful job where you're constantly eating.
I loved the movie and am really enjoying the show on Netflix. It just feels wholesome and chill.
It's not a vanity project, Grindhouse (death proof and planet terror) was closer to a vanity project (I love death proof, it's better than Django)
Chef is just a cute lil movie with good vibes, it's the equivalent of the Cohen's making Burn After Reading, they go and collect their Oscars for something serious and have the freedom and budget to make something silly. I am not saying Chef is anything close in quality to burn after reading.
Chef is just a cute lil movie with good vibes, it's the equivalent of the Cohen's making Burn After Reading, they go and collect their Oscars for something serious and have the freedom and budget to make something silly. I am not saying Chef is anything close in quality to burn after reading.
You didn't even fucking finish watching it and you posted here.
Jesus fuck op.
Except when the best character leaves because the actress was dating the creator/star/show runner/head writer. Who is literally old enough to be her father. No power imbalance there.
Sorry OP I read the first few sentences of your post and didn't like it so I stopped but still wanted to share my opinion of it with you.
Yeah, it was self-indulgent but Favreau just seems to be way into cooking, judging by the Netflix spin-off. That, and he appears to be well-liked among Hollywood celebrities - judging by the cameos he pulls in.
There are far more egregious vanity projects out there. Like, yo, von Trier and Aronofsky still exist.
here's a recipe if you'd like (although it's a simple dish and you probably don't need it)
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i have seen several, actually. barbra is fabulous. i just don't think any of her notable movies count as "recent."
