When it comes down to having favourite films I suppose you could have one main favourite, but in my case I have several favourites but I think it’ll be easier to explain if I put them into categories.
Animation Films
When it comes down to animation film, I just love em. I think over the years to present of watching anime and reading manga I’ve just grown to love animation films a lot and most films with amazing special effects.
I have many favourite animation films such as Paprika, Millennium Actress, Tekkonkinkreet and Origin: Spirits of the past, pretty much like anything by Satoshi Kon. But it’s not just anime films I like I like dreamworks & Pixar films which have developed into full 3D films over the years.
But one animation which inspires me the most and (to me) brings out the best animations is Japanese Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli have brought out wonderful films such as Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa: Valley of the wind & Spirited Away, these animation films are brought to life with some of the most gifted and talented animators and directors and with music by Joe Hisaishi they all bring out one of the most beautiful films you’d ever see.
Asian Films
I’m very much in my Asian culture and watching Asian films is part of my favourite interests that I enjoy. Like the animation films I can’t pin-point on just one Asian film because I love so many Asian films which are emotion, full of humour and just plain experimental. One of my favourite genres is Asian horror, Asian horror is just genius. When you’re watching an Asian horror they start by building tension and making the film go at a slow pace, then they would have sudden points of which the person or people would strike and then everything would build up for a sudden or twist at the end.
Since there is so many Asian films which have been considered as classic a lot of Asian films now have been remade by American film makers. There been remakes of films such as “The Ring, Dark Waters and The Grudge”, to me the remakes aren’t as good as the originals but there are few films which have good remakes and sequels.
With a lot of samurai films they all seem to have one great feature about them, ACTION there is nothing better than a bit of good samurai action with swords and ninja everywhere. One great samurai film I enjoy is Azumi. Azumi is a great samurai film which pretty much goes round cutting people up, true may sound horrible but the stunts and story that’s behind the film is pretty well done.
Normal / Genre / Classic
With alot of the other films which ain’t Asian or animation i suppose you could call them “classics”. With classic films, there the films which you could watch over and over again and bring back memories from when you were younger. I prefer older films such as “Back to the future” or “Indiana jones” because there ain’ t that many special effects and the actors would have to do alot more stunts rather then what you get now adays.
Though there are films I which aren’t really classic, but are good in general, “Lost in Translation, 500 Days of summer and Pirates of the caribbean. These films are decent in there own way because in some ways the stories are kinder original but they have parts which people have seen before but have a suprised attached to it.
