There are over 20 people in my film studies class and very few of them have never seen the Simpsons. The Simpsons is one of those cartoons that have withstood the test of time. It has been around for about 20 years. Although the number of episodes per season have varied.
My Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's Ok
4 - Great
5 - I Would Watch This Again
I would give this movie a 4.5 out of 5. It is a very funny very entertaining movie just like the episodes.
Director
David Silverman
Main Characters
Dan Castellanet - Homer Simpson
Julie Kavner - Marge Simpson
Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson
Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson
Supporting Characters
Harry Shearer - Ned Flanders
I think he is a supporting character because he is a good character but he isn't one of the main ones, and he kind of makes the audience thing about what's going on because he is so different than Homer.
Genre - Animation and Comedy
The Story
It starts out with a look at Springfield lake. It looks at all the pollutants that are being dumped into that lake. Then Lisa is going around asking people to sign a petition to help clean up Lake Springfield. They all slam the door in her face. It isn't until the government tells them that Springfield is one of the most polluted city in America that they start being more eco friendly. Homer then finds a pig and keeps all it's waste in a silo and he has to take it to the treatment plant, which is full of people recycling their waste so the line is very long. Then he hears that they are giving away doughnuts at the local doughtnut shop. So Homer, a doughnut lover, decides that the line is to long and goes and dumps the pig waste in Lake Springfield. This makes the lake bubble and turn black, it has now become a hazardous and is turning animals into mutants with multiple eyes. So the government but's a dome over the whole town of Springfield.
The people then find out that it was Homer who caused the government to put the dome over them. They start a mob and start burning down their house. They escape because Maggie, Homers youngest daughter, found a sink hole that lead outside of the dome. To escape the search parties they move to Alaska. There Homer finds an old Inuit woman and she helps him find out what he needs to do to get the locals of Springfield to like him again. He needs to get rid of the dome.
He goes back to Springfield and saves the day by blowing up the dome.
Great Quotes
"DOH!" - Homer
" Why does everything I whip leave me?" - Homer
" We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!" - Homer
"Stay back I've go a chainsaw!" - Homer
"I've spent my whole life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!" - Comic Book Guy
As you've read this I hope you understand why I gave this movie a 4 out of 5 for my rating. I've always liked The Simpsons and how could I not watch the movie? If your favorite cartoon came out with a movie wouldn't you want to watch it?
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Graduate Review
This is a review about the movie the graduate another film studies flick. The graduate is a great movie another one of those that you should deffinitely watch.
Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's OK
4 - Great
5 - I would watch this again
I would give this movie a 4 because it is very entertaining.
The Story
The Graduate is about Benjamin Braddock, a college graduate, who comes home after college and his parents throw him a big party with all of their friends. This is where he meets a woman, Mrs. Robinson, she wants to leave the party so she asks Benjamin to escort her home. Now Benjamin Braddock is not the kind of person to say no to one of his parents friends. When they get to her house she is "afraid" to go in the house when all the lights are off. She asks if he will come in side with her and turn on the lights for he, which he does. This is where everything gets to be very strange for Benjamin. He goes inside and she follows him. They reach the parlor where Mrs. Robinson offers him a drink which she refuses to let him refuse. So they have a drink and he gets all gitty and starts thinking that she is trying to suduce him. She denies this and asks him if he would like to see a portrait of her daughter, Elaine, and again he is not the person to say no. They go upstairs to her daughts room and look as the picture. Mrs. Robinson then procedes to disrobe. Benjamin freaks out and attemps to leave but as he's coming down the stairs he hears a rustling at the door so he pretends to act natural back in the den. Right as he gets positioned Mr. Robinson walks in and gives him another drink and says that he sould ask his daughter out.
Back at his home Benjamin goes over what just happened and decides to call Mrs. Robinson. They decide to meet a Hotel and this is where the affair starts. They continue this affair for a few months until Mrs. Robinsons daughter comes home and everybody is pressuring Benjamin to ask out Elaine, which he does, and Mrs. Robinson is very upset about this. On their date Benjamin brings Elaine to a strip club to have drinks this upsets her very much and she runs out of the building in tears with Benjamin chasing her. He feels bad about what he did so he brings her to a burger joint and start talking, this is where he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson doesn't like this at all so when they are suppose to have their next date Mrs. Robinson says if he doesn't break it off with her she is going to tell her everything. He then proceeds to run up to the house and into Elaines room where he tells her everything. She is angry and goes back to college. He follows her to college and they fall in love but she is already ingaged to another man. The whole Robinson is at this church where Elaine is getting married. He sees this and yells Elaine and pounds on the window between them. He runs down and wisks her away and the movie ends with them driving away on a bus stairing strait ahead.
Director
Mike Nicholas
Main Characters
Benjamin Braddock - Dustin Hoffman
Mrs. Robinson - Anne Brancoft
Elaine Robinson - Katharine Ross
Genre - Comedy and Drama
Great Quotes
"Mrs. Robinson you're trying to suduce men." - Benjamin Braddock
"No Mrs. Robinson I think you're the most attractive of all my parents friends" - Benjamin Braddock
"ELAINE" - Benjamin Braddock
I believe that The Graduate will be one of those movies that will surpass time and be a great movie forever. Dustin Hoffman is truely a great actor no matter what role he plays whether it be The Graduate, Rain Man, or Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. This is an actor who is very versitile and can play any role that he wants.
Source: imbd.com
Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's OK
4 - Great
5 - I would watch this again
I would give this movie a 4 because it is very entertaining.
The Story
The Graduate is about Benjamin Braddock, a college graduate, who comes home after college and his parents throw him a big party with all of their friends. This is where he meets a woman, Mrs. Robinson, she wants to leave the party so she asks Benjamin to escort her home. Now Benjamin Braddock is not the kind of person to say no to one of his parents friends. When they get to her house she is "afraid" to go in the house when all the lights are off. She asks if he will come in side with her and turn on the lights for he, which he does. This is where everything gets to be very strange for Benjamin. He goes inside and she follows him. They reach the parlor where Mrs. Robinson offers him a drink which she refuses to let him refuse. So they have a drink and he gets all gitty and starts thinking that she is trying to suduce him. She denies this and asks him if he would like to see a portrait of her daughter, Elaine, and again he is not the person to say no. They go upstairs to her daughts room and look as the picture. Mrs. Robinson then procedes to disrobe. Benjamin freaks out and attemps to leave but as he's coming down the stairs he hears a rustling at the door so he pretends to act natural back in the den. Right as he gets positioned Mr. Robinson walks in and gives him another drink and says that he sould ask his daughter out.
Back at his home Benjamin goes over what just happened and decides to call Mrs. Robinson. They decide to meet a Hotel and this is where the affair starts. They continue this affair for a few months until Mrs. Robinsons daughter comes home and everybody is pressuring Benjamin to ask out Elaine, which he does, and Mrs. Robinson is very upset about this. On their date Benjamin brings Elaine to a strip club to have drinks this upsets her very much and she runs out of the building in tears with Benjamin chasing her. He feels bad about what he did so he brings her to a burger joint and start talking, this is where he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson doesn't like this at all so when they are suppose to have their next date Mrs. Robinson says if he doesn't break it off with her she is going to tell her everything. He then proceeds to run up to the house and into Elaines room where he tells her everything. She is angry and goes back to college. He follows her to college and they fall in love but she is already ingaged to another man. The whole Robinson is at this church where Elaine is getting married. He sees this and yells Elaine and pounds on the window between them. He runs down and wisks her away and the movie ends with them driving away on a bus stairing strait ahead.
Director
Mike Nicholas
Main Characters
Benjamin Braddock - Dustin Hoffman
Mrs. Robinson - Anne Brancoft
Elaine Robinson - Katharine Ross
Genre - Comedy and Drama
Great Quotes
"Mrs. Robinson you're trying to suduce men." - Benjamin Braddock
"No Mrs. Robinson I think you're the most attractive of all my parents friends" - Benjamin Braddock
"ELAINE" - Benjamin Braddock
I believe that The Graduate will be one of those movies that will surpass time and be a great movie forever. Dustin Hoffman is truely a great actor no matter what role he plays whether it be The Graduate, Rain Man, or Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. This is an actor who is very versitile and can play any role that he wants.
Source: imbd.com
Friday, January 16, 2009
Review: Psycho
The movie Psycho is one of the best that we have watched so far in our Film Studies class. If you have never seen it I suggest you do. It is not one of thoes scare you to death films, the thing that does make it scary is suspence and the music.
Rating Scale
1-terrible
2-tolerable
3-its ok
4-great
5-i would watch this again
I would rate this movie a 4 on my scale, just because I tought it was good and it was the origional scary movie.
Background
This movie was based on the book Psycho, which was based on a serial killer from Plainsfield, Wisconsin. This man was a grave robber who would make trophies and keepsakes out of peoples bones and skin. When he was arrested they searched his home and what they found would scar you for life. The police found bowls made from human skulls, a window shade made from human lips, lamp shades made from human skin, picked organs, and skulls on his bed posts. After his arrest he was proclaimed mentally unstable and spent the rest of his life in a mental institue. After his death his grave stone was vandalized many time, and people took chippings from it as souvenirs, and in 2000 the whole grave stone was stolen. It then turned up in 2001 in Seattle, it now is displayed in a museum in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
Summary of Psycho
It starts out with a woman, Marion Crane, and a man, Sam Loomis, in a hotel room during her lunch break. She wants to marry this man but he has debts and alamony from his first marrage. She gets angry and goes back to work where her boss is selling this billionare a house. This man flirts with her and starts waving aroud 40,000 dollars. All this time she is complaining of a headach and tells her boss that she wants to go home. He says that is alright but first she has to put this 40,000 dollars in a lockbox at the bank. Then it cuts to her in her appartment packing clothes with the money sitting on her bed. She then steals the money and leaves the town to go to her boyfriends and give him the money to pay off his debts. When it gets late she pulls over to take a nap, but she sleeps through the night. The next morning this police officer wakes her up and askes her if anything is wrong. She says no and leaves, but the police officer follows her to the next town where she trades in her car for a new one. She then leaves this town and starts her journey again. It starts to storm and she viers off the main highway and ends up at the Bates Hotel. She rents a room for the night and when the inn keeper, Norman Bates, goes back up to his house she starts to take a shower. Then Bates' mother comes down and murders her, Norman then has to get rid of the body so he packs up all her things in her car and proceeds to dump her in a swamp neer his house. Marions sister, Lila, then files a missing persons report and a private detective then starts searching for her. He falls upon at the Bates Hotel and wants to question the mother so he breaks into the house where he is murdered and dumped into the same swam as Marion. Lila and Sam then go to the Bates Hotel and start their own investigation. Lila then find out that Bates' mother is actuall dead and hidden in the cellar. As she makes this discovery Norman then rushes in dressed in a dress and a wig to look like his mother ready to kill Lila. Sam comes in just in time to wrestle the knife out of Normans hand. Bates is then question not as Norman but as his mother and he tells the police everything that has happened.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Lead Actors:
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Janet Leigh - Marion Crane
Supporting Actors:
John Gavin - Sam Loomis
Vera Miles - Lila Crane
The actors and actresses in this movie were great because they made everything interesting and some what real to the audience.
The Genre of this movie is Thriller.
Great Quotes:
"Only carry as much cash as you can afford to lose." -Tom Cassidy
"Mothe isn't quite herself today" - Norman Bates
"A hobby should pass the time, not fill it." - Norman Bates
Again I say if you have not yet seen this movie you should. It is an origional that most thrillers today have based some of scenes off of. Although it is in black and white it is still a great movie.
Source: Wikipedia and imbd
Rating Scale
1-terrible
2-tolerable
3-its ok
4-great
5-i would watch this again
I would rate this movie a 4 on my scale, just because I tought it was good and it was the origional scary movie.
Background
This movie was based on the book Psycho, which was based on a serial killer from Plainsfield, Wisconsin. This man was a grave robber who would make trophies and keepsakes out of peoples bones and skin. When he was arrested they searched his home and what they found would scar you for life. The police found bowls made from human skulls, a window shade made from human lips, lamp shades made from human skin, picked organs, and skulls on his bed posts. After his arrest he was proclaimed mentally unstable and spent the rest of his life in a mental institue. After his death his grave stone was vandalized many time, and people took chippings from it as souvenirs, and in 2000 the whole grave stone was stolen. It then turned up in 2001 in Seattle, it now is displayed in a museum in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
Summary of Psycho
It starts out with a woman, Marion Crane, and a man, Sam Loomis, in a hotel room during her lunch break. She wants to marry this man but he has debts and alamony from his first marrage. She gets angry and goes back to work where her boss is selling this billionare a house. This man flirts with her and starts waving aroud 40,000 dollars. All this time she is complaining of a headach and tells her boss that she wants to go home. He says that is alright but first she has to put this 40,000 dollars in a lockbox at the bank. Then it cuts to her in her appartment packing clothes with the money sitting on her bed. She then steals the money and leaves the town to go to her boyfriends and give him the money to pay off his debts. When it gets late she pulls over to take a nap, but she sleeps through the night. The next morning this police officer wakes her up and askes her if anything is wrong. She says no and leaves, but the police officer follows her to the next town where she trades in her car for a new one. She then leaves this town and starts her journey again. It starts to storm and she viers off the main highway and ends up at the Bates Hotel. She rents a room for the night and when the inn keeper, Norman Bates, goes back up to his house she starts to take a shower. Then Bates' mother comes down and murders her, Norman then has to get rid of the body so he packs up all her things in her car and proceeds to dump her in a swamp neer his house. Marions sister, Lila, then files a missing persons report and a private detective then starts searching for her. He falls upon at the Bates Hotel and wants to question the mother so he breaks into the house where he is murdered and dumped into the same swam as Marion. Lila and Sam then go to the Bates Hotel and start their own investigation. Lila then find out that Bates' mother is actuall dead and hidden in the cellar. As she makes this discovery Norman then rushes in dressed in a dress and a wig to look like his mother ready to kill Lila. Sam comes in just in time to wrestle the knife out of Normans hand. Bates is then question not as Norman but as his mother and he tells the police everything that has happened.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Lead Actors:
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Janet Leigh - Marion Crane
Supporting Actors:
John Gavin - Sam Loomis
Vera Miles - Lila Crane
The actors and actresses in this movie were great because they made everything interesting and some what real to the audience.
The Genre of this movie is Thriller.
Great Quotes:
"Only carry as much cash as you can afford to lose." -Tom Cassidy
"Mothe isn't quite herself today" - Norman Bates
"A hobby should pass the time, not fill it." - Norman Bates
Again I say if you have not yet seen this movie you should. It is an origional that most thrillers today have based some of scenes off of. Although it is in black and white it is still a great movie.
Source: Wikipedia and imbd
Friday, January 9, 2009
My Top 10 Movies
10. The Big Labowski
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8. The Dark Knight
7. Twilight
6. The Gladiator
5. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Yes Man
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. Shawshank Redemption
1. Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8. The Dark Knight
7. Twilight
6. The Gladiator
5. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Yes Man
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. Shawshank Redemption
1. Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
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