By been a pro-chef myself, with 40+ years experience worldwide, in my opinion, "Chef" is the only one that really captures the intensity of any chef life. All the drama, personal choices, and compromise are there. The attention on the details is stunning...they even give the actor burnt marks on the forearms, which is a "trademark" for anyone that cooks for a living ad has to deal with hot ovens every day. All the others are nice, but too "Hollywood" for me.
Chef is a good movie, but I think your description fits more to the movie "Burnt" instead. Burnt is amazing, and it captures a lot of what you mentioned in the movie.
@@encoderr5066 "Burnt" is not bad, but too over-emphasized for my taste...and at times it's borderline fake; like when they pretend to be able to spot Michelin-star inspectors by the way they place an order, or drop a fork on the floor..c'mon..for real? Sure, there are drugs and dramas queens in our world, but not like that. "Chef" on the other hand, capture perfectly how a chef has to compromise between his "vision" of good food and the "sale" aspect of the restaurant business. We (chefs) all had to come to a term with that because at least once during our career we heard the Dustin Hoffmann line: -"It's your kitchen, but it's MY restaurant". But hey brother, to each his own taste. TK.
Fun story about this is, the real life chef that inspired Jon Favreau to produce this movie, Roy Choi, catered for the Avengers cast while they were filming, even before the movie Chef was planned. That's how the whole idea came together, taking a little from Roy's story. He also trained Jon in cooking and was a consultant for the recipes and methods used, that's why this movie is so spot-on, there's an actual chef supervising it.
What a shame that only American movies were included, there are many many better movies out there! Some mentioned in the comments are Soul Kitchen, Eat drink man woman, some others: Kamome Diner, Tampopo, Io sono l'amore, The Lunchbox... Cinema doesn't stop at Hollywood ;)
yeah, the movies you mentioned are awesome. Asia has some amazing movies about food. The opening sequences of Eat Drink Man Woman is mouthwatering... I'd like to add Estomago to your list, a delightful movie about food and...other things. from Brazil.
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@@ahmedramadan9062 that’s because we are in the US😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 Sure there are others around the world that are amazing films, but they won’t be recognize.
@@franciscolara438 Yeah.I understand you well..I'm not some fun of Chinese movie or something but I was impressed with the last scene when Chinese and Japense chef coocked chiken in the same way but the CHinese chiken won because of his sauce was better.And teh Japanese Chef just taste the sauce and left the competition...I guess one of them was Chinese and the other one aJapanese Chef in the movie....But I agree with you..American movies are best..The American industry spend a lot of money to make the best movie....And that's why American movies ar ehe best in the world....
„Chef“ & „The hundred foot journey“ - must watch for everyone who loves food or/and cooking!!! „Chef“ is actually one of my favourit movies of all time 😍
It's even better than they make it out to be in that trailer! Also, the line after that last scene in the preview is probably one of the funniest I have heard...
Here is my List - A Touch of Spice(2003), Eat Drink Man Woman(1994), Eat Pray Love(2010), Forks over Knife(2011), Le Chef(2012), No Reservations(2007), Off the Menu(2018), Tampopo(1985), The Lunchbox(2013), The Trip to Italy(2014), Todays Special(2009), Waitress(2007), Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory(1971), Cook Up a Storm(2017), Haute Cuisine(2012), Jadoo King of Curry(2013), Little Forest(2018). My Favorite are Eat Drink Man Woman(1994), Le Chef(2012), No Reservations(2007), The Lunchbox(2013), Today's Special(2009), Cook Up a Storm(2017) and Little Forest(2018).
@HAPPY VIBES ONLY Little forest is must watch, it is the only movie in my list which one can see showing the complete procedure and recipe being cooked and then try it them self.
1. "Politiki kouzina" by Tasos Boulmetis, international title "A Touch of Spice". 2. "Babette's feast" by Gabriel Axel. 3. "Les Saveurs du Palais" by Christian Vincent. 4."Soul Kitchen" by Fatih Akin. For real foodies.
Little Forest: Winter and Spring (JP) Little Forest: Summer and Autumn (JP) Little Forest (KR) Kamome Diner (JP) The Chef of South Polar (JP) Eat Drink Man Woman Babette’s Feast Midnight Diner Midnight Diner 2
'No Reservations' is based off the German film 'Mostly Martha'! They are both good, but in my personal opinion the original German film is better and should be there instead!
It's been a while but "The Woman on Top" with Penelope Cruz playing a Brazilian chef always makes me want to dance and cook and drink caipirinhas at the same time. :-)
Beautiful video. One of the best compilations I've seen in a long time. I watched the whole video without batting an eye, even with my goldfish attention span
No Reservations is just the remake of a german film, "Bella Martha". All the american film did was change the actors, that's it. I could've forgiven it if they at least put some creative new spin on it, but even the trailer is copied. Tbh I liked the german version a lot better, even if it is older.
I can't watch any of these now, It will make me want to eat every single dish, and I will either make it, order it for take out or delivery but I know some how I will definitely eat all of them. So no, thanks but no thanks. 🤣
I agree with this list though Hundred Foot Journey I never heard of. Look up Diner Rush, my personal favorite. Italian mobsters with a trendy New York restsuraunt run by his son who doesn't see eye to eye with his Godfather daddy. I'd also suggest Eat Drink Man Woman. A Chinese flick, in Mandarin, about one of the country's best chef and his 3 daughters, and their love life stories shared over the family meal. Hilarious with some great b roll footage of some classic techniques and dishes with not a lot of culture shock, it feels very familiar.
I'm sorry, I have nothing against Chef, I think it's a fantastic movie, a great movie, but for me Ratatouille was, is, and most likely will forever be number one .
