Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Forest For the Trees
Order of films: Best to Worst
- V for Vendetta
- The Dark Knight
- The Graduate
- Gone With the Wind
- Psycho
- Ben Hur
- Citizen Kane
- Unforgiven
- The Secret Window
- Cinema Paradiso
- Billy Madison
- Simpsons Movie
- Rumor has it
- Never Back Down
- Forest for the Trees aka the Worst Movie Ever Created
Billy Madison
- When Billy starts to say that peeing ur pants is cool, I relate this to just making fun of yourself to make a little kid feel better about themselves after they've done something bad.
- When Billy lies about how High school is awesome and that one fat kid says he can't wait and Billy starts shaking him telling him to enjoy elementary school, I would say that Billy's advice is true and thus funny.
- When Billy's girlfriend is beating billy up in the pool and his two friends are like totally smashed and the friends think billy and his girlfriend are playing Marco Polo. I just think it's funny how they act and how useless that scene was
- When the O'Doyle family drives off the cliff, funny but totally useless scene
- When Billy chases the penguin, just plain funny.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Secret Window
UNFORGIVEN
Before the money was offered, Will Munney was the father of two young children who only cared to give them better lives and trying to escape his past which was filled with killing and drinking. So one day, a kid comes riding up to the Munney homestead. He's there to offer Munney a job to get some money but to get it he would have to find his spirit to kill again. The kid says he is the Scofield Kid, whose used to killing folks. Munney turns down the job at first, the offer of money to renew his life for himself and his kids finally turns him west to go to Big Whiskey, Wyoming. He brings along his old partner Ned Logan, who is played by Morgan Freeman and any movie with him in it is always good, Munney persuade Logan to come along.
The Movie from that point on is awesome, with Lil' Bill (Gene Hackman) beating the crap out of people and he's just a B.A. in this movie. The plot is twisted between the good and evil that people possess. It is just a plain ol' good movie, I'd give it 9/10.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
V For Vendetta and Dark Knight C&C
The differences are always very apparent. V uses his ability to kill and cause chaos to bring down the totalitarian government that is oppressing his country. Batman doesn't kill anyone, his style is coerce information by martial art tactics. V is fighting the government. Batman is helping the city government catch the joker, who is more like V in the fac that V uses the people's anger and wants the chaos to create anarchy and a revolution. V uses big knives, while Batman uses technology advanced weaponry. V shows blood more, while the Dark Knight doesn't. V gets the people to rise up against their government. Batman wants the people to put their trust in the Gotham Government.
Overall both movies are awesome and I would give both a 9.5/10 rating.
Cinema Paradiso
- When Toto, in his teens, kissing his girlfriend in the rain
- Alfredo showing the movie across the street on the building
- The little boys in the front "doing their business" while watching a half-naked girl
- Alfredo getting burned in the fire and Toto saving him
- Alfredo telling Toto to leave his town forever and never return
- When Alfredo has to take the elementary exam and asks Toto for help
- When the priest is censoring the movies before the town can see them and ringing his bell every time he deems something "inappropriate"
- The couple having sex in the back of the theatre
- The kids putting the bug in a sleeping man's mouth
- When Toto returns to his town after being in the army and the town is totally changed
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Simpsons
The movie starts out with the family watching an Itchy and Scratchy movie, which involves Scratchy get left on the moon while Itchy returns as a hero. Itchy becomes president and has to face a JFK-like Crisis with Scratchy returns from the dead. Icthy firs a bunch of nukes at the moon and blows up Scratchy, and while that sequence is going on Homer yells out "Boring" and gets yelled at and then turns towards us, the real audience, and says were suckers for paying movie to watch something we get for free on the TV. The first of many good lines and satire. I laughed though the beginning part of the movie, because it was hilarious.
As I said before the movie plot is how The Simpsons, Homer and his new love a pig, destroy Springfield's environment, and EPA has to come in and clean up his mess. They do that by putting a dome over the town. The residents soon find out that Homer is the culprit and try to kill him and the family, but they escape though a sinkhole. Homer knows that he has screwed up and knows of a way to get them out of it, by going to Alaska, where they can create a new life. His plan goes array when Marge and the kids find out that Springfield will be blow up to create a new Grand Canyon. Homer soon find himself alone while his family tries to go save their real home. Homer, heart-broken, doesn't know what to do and go off to kill himself, but an old inuit women saves him and shows him the light. Homer, with a new found purpose, goes to save Springfield.
The movie is full of laughs and satire of American politics and current events. the movie is just plain funny, I'd give it an 8 out 10.
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Graduate
Friday, January 16, 2009
PSYCHO REVIEW
Ben-Hur Review
http://www.box.net/shared/ie1rc51lg0
Friday, January 9, 2009
My Top Ten Movies
10. Schindler's List
9. Sin City
8. No Country for Old Men
7. V for Vendetta
6. The Big Lebowski
5. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Forrest Gump
3. The Dark Knight
2. Saving Private Ryan
1. Shawshank Redemption
I have many more but at this time in my life I feel that these are my favorite movies.