The Departed

The departed was the best movie that we have seen and i think that it will beat The Godfather also. I really liked this movie which is surprising to me because i dont like gang and crime and action movies like this one. I am glad that i got to see it because it seems like everyone else has and i have no idea what they are talking about. The end of the movie was really weird. I have never seen a movie where basically all of the guys die in the end. It was really random when the elevator opened and the guy was there to shoot him and then it was random again when he walked into his apartment and he got shot right then and there also. The scene that i thought was unexpected was when the guy was thrown out of the building and landed right in front of the other guy. (sorry i don't know the names) If i would have seen that i would have freaked out more than he did and i thought he was pretty calm and sirene about it. I didnt follow the movie because i am never good at that but with this one i could kind of get what was going on. I had to ask Sam a lot of questions but i did get it in the end. This movie was really good and more then what i expected it to be.

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke was a really good movie. It was definitely the best movie we have watched all quarter. I liked that the movie was in color and it really brought out more of the movie and it kept me and it seemed like the whole class more focused. The film also had a really great story line and it was kind of hard to follow but I think that was only because we had all half days so we had to break it up. At first I didn’t really understand what was going on except for the violation part. Then as the movie progressed it became clearer. The second time I didn’t get how they found Luke but then I realized about the magazine. The end was really disappointing. I did not expect Luke to get shot, but they warned him about a third time. For Luke, it must have been really hard for him to cope with everything about his mother and putting him in the box really made me wonder why they would do that. Obviously it didn’t teach him a lesson. Then when the guards kept beating him and making him work extra hard I felt really bad but if he didn’t screw everything up and try and run away then he wouldn’t have to deal with those consequences. When the bet about the eggs was on I thought that was disgusting and didn’t want to watch I definitely thought he was going to throw up. Fifty eggs are so gross to even think about it I don’t know how he did it. In the end it was all worth it for him I guess but not in the end of the movie.

I thought that psycho was a really good movie for the most part. It was not as scary as movies are today but that’s expected. I would have never known all the details in the back ground like the pictures and the pointed edges next to Norman, even if I watched the movie many times. The scariest part to me was when the detective went down into the basement and turned the chair around and say Norman’s mother's corpse. That was really weird and creepy especially for someone who sees the movie for the first time. I like the ending a lot too. It definitely isn’t an ending that someone can guess. The only clue that there is that he is the mother is toward the end of the movie when the detective is attacked by the "mother" and the wig falls off and every one sees that it is Norman and his mother isn’t even alive. Another thing that I thought was cool about the movie is how they used chocolate syrup for the blood in the shower because the movie is in black and white anyway and no one can tell if it was red or not. Everyone just assumes that it was red. The birds part of the movie was really creepy, but in a way a good way to kind of tie the movie together. It was neat how Marian's last name was Crane though, i'm sure they did that on purpose. The birds in his office were really creepy and when he kept saying phrases that had to do with birds it was just weird but ironic at the same time. In all, this movie was good and definitely better than Casablanca!

sound vs. no sound

When it comes to watching scary movies, sound is so much better to have than not to have. When we watched the shower scene with no sound i had no emotion toward the movie. At the beginging when Marian was just getting in, if i could hear the sound of the music i would start to get scared but i couldnt so it looked like she was happy and just washing up. Having no sound being played didnt help with guessing what was going to be next. When music and noise are in the background the audience can usually tell that a acary part is coming like when Norman came in to kill her with the knife. When the sound was on everyone was on like the edge of there seat but with none, no one even knew that he would be walking in and killing her. If it was the first time i watched the movie and it was with no sound i would have that it was him just walking in the shower to say hi or something. Not to kill her. Sound really makes the movie.

Casablanca was definitely not even in my top one hundred movies. I thought that this morning was so boring and I didn’t really understand it until it was explained. I don’t like how the movies are in black and white and no action in them. The movie didn’t make much sense to me because I think it had so many people that were in it and I never really new who was who. I never actually new who the main characters were until that was explained also. As far as I knew everyone played equal parts. I would not recommend this movie to anyone but older people like my grandparents who probably think that this movie is the best. I thought that when the movie was playing I wasn’t into it and I couldn’t concentrate on the movie at all. I like when I am really interested in the movie and don’t like when I feel like I can just fall asleep right then and there.

Newer King Kong

I thought that the newer King Kong was a lot better than the old one. The action shots and the animatioin were awesome. I didn’t like the length of it, and I thought that a lot of scenes were dragged on longer than they should have been. An example of a dragged on scene to me would be when King Kong got loose at the showing of him, and he was wrecking the cars and buildings and killing all the people. Then when Ann showed up and Kong saw her I am sure everyone expected that to happen and new it would be highlighted like she was when she was walking towards him. I also thought there were so many shots of her showing her emotions, and the camera seemed to be on her facial expressions a lot. Compared to the old King Kong her expressions actually changed and did not look like just one at different angles. Kong deffinetley looked realistic, well more so than the 1933 movie. Its funny how the men that were left and Ann only had the two small boats but managed to get Kong back to where they live. But I guess that is how a lot of movies are. I thought that this King Kong had a lot more of a story line to it than the older one. The natives were a lot more graphic and scarier in this King Kong, I didn’t expect it at all.

King Kong

I thought that King Kong was interesting but I would not watch it on my own time. The reason that I actual watched it was because I have never seen a movie from way back and it was neat to see how things are put together and created for one film. There must have been so much time and effort put into the movie to get all the scenes to look realistic. I thought that Kong did not look real at all. I could deffinetly tell he was filmed in clips and it didn’t run through fluently. Not having the movie be totally realistic made it funny to watch. The dinosaurs were really random to me, I am not sure where they came into play but they did. When watching the way Kong grabbed Anne was amazing how they made it look practically real. While in Kong’s hand it definitely didn’t look like clay of any sort. Watching how different parts of the film are shot from angles can be interesting, and there is such a big difference that I see when I watch new movies and compare them. Newer movies have a lot more action to them and that comes a lot with movement of the camera. On King Kong I felt like the camera guy just stood in one play and moved up and down that was it. I thought that the close up of the bar opening for the gate was pretty cool. Anne, to me, didn’t seem very realistic at all when she was acting; she had the same reaction with a lot of her emotions. She seemed to use her eyes a lot to signal how she felt whether she was scared, surprised or in love. King Kong had good sound effects and music to go along with all of the scenes. I could definitely tell when something bad was going to happen or when something good was happening. As the music got louder when Jack left Anne, I new that something was going to happen, then the natives showed up and took her. One part that I thought was funny was when the natives saw everyone from the boat standing there and then didn’t know what to do. Then one of the guys was like don’t go anywhere they already saw us and it was too late. That was a great scene. In all, this movie was okay, definitely not my favorite.