The Graduate

I thought that this movie was so weird. I didn't really like the main character, Ben. I thought that he was a kid that he was given everything that he wanted. He was an ivy league gradaute, but with all of this he still wanted more. Being confused from the life that he was given he needed more. I think Ben was so messed up that he didn't know what to do and he was lost. The film had so many apects to it that I thought were very well done for the time that it was produced. The different types of shots that are used and the specail effects are all the begining of the whole new world of film. I think that Dustin Hoffman did a very good job of playing a character that did not know his true self.

Singing in the Rain

I have always enjoyed going to musicals or watching them on video. Before film class I had not heard of the movie. Iwas not sure what to expect but I really enjoyed the movie. I liked how they told the history of the movie industry but they did it through song. This made it more enjoyable to watch. There was comic releif through the movie. The characters in the film started at the beinging of the movie as very flat and not much to them but by the end the charcter were round. The viewers are able to see the conflicts between the characters and then see them grow. I thought that the music and setting were very appropriate for the movie.

The Bourne Ultimatium

When I first saw this movies in the theatre I really enjoyed it. I like how the movie is fast paced and you are always wondering what is going to happen next. The movie allowws for you to guess what Jayson Bourne's next move is going to be. Throughout the movie the director uses great forms of editing to make the story line more in depth and somewhat confusing. The editing trick that he uses is flashback. This technique brings the viewer back and orth through time with Bourne and shows the charcters life changing through out. I thought that it was effective when they used hand held cameras in some foot chasing scenes to show the viewer the stress that Bourne was going through.

Appocolypse Now

I have always enjoyed watching war movies, but i had never seen this movie until we watched it as a class. I was very disappointed in the movie. I thought that there was going to be more war scenes and less about the characters. People have told that it was amazing but I found it to be very long and dragged out. On the other had there was some parts in the movie that i enjoyed. I really liked how the director allowed for the actors to take there characters to the extreme and let them act like they really did experience the war. The shots and angles that they used made you feel like you could see what was going on in their minds because of the facail expressions and the body language that was caught on tape.

Hearts of Darkeness

I thought that this was one of the better documentries that I have seen. I had never seen the movie Appocolypse Now and this documentry gave me some insight in what I was going to be watching. I liked that the movie was done through the eyes of Francis Coppola's wife. You are able to see what she thought of the events that took place during filming and she was so close to her husband that you got the feeling that you really knew what was going on in the mind of the film maker. I thought that the interview with the character in the movie was the most interesting. This is becuase you got to see how each actor got into character. For example some of the actors were taking the same drugs that the soldiers in Veitnam were taking just so that they could have that edge on their characters. I am now excited to see the full film but keep in mind what was discussed in the documentry.

The Shinning

This is a movie that I have heard so many people talk about but I never took the time to see it. I was so glad that we were able to watch this film in class. I found it very confusing. I am not really sure what was going on. I thought I knew what was going to occur and then at the ending of the movie they show the picture with a date on it that was so much older then Jack was at the time. I am not sure what the movie is actually about but I think that none of it was true and that Jack was just thinking all of the movie in his head. I found that the director did a great job using different camera angles. He was able to make the viewers feel scared, or happy all through the way that he took the angle of the shot. I enjoyed this movie and I am going to watch it again to try and figure out all the aspects of the movie.

Metropolis

I found this movie to be one of the hardest movies that I have ever had to watch. I found it to be this way because the way it was filmed and the setting. I understand that the film was filmed in 1927 and people were just starting to experiment with film and try to do new things. I found the filming shaking and the lens made it appear like it was blurry. The music that was played throughout the film did not help with me enjoying to movie more. I felt like the song was stuck on repeat. The director of this film had German expressionism in mind when he was filming it. The shapes that he used were very sharp angles, there was a large contrast between black and white, and the make-up used was very bold so that the viewers would be able to understand the emotion of the characters in the film. All in all I did not like this film, but I feel that is was part of the evolution of film.