Challenge surrounds Caleb (Domhall Gleeson) in the fictional sci-fi movie Ex Machina. He is invited to the secluded home of Nathan (Oscar Issac), an IT god, to conduct a Turing test with a robot, Ava (Alicia Vikander). But as Caleb gets to know her better, he starts to trust Ava, potentially being lured in her unscrupulous plans. Will he listen to Ava who expresses her feelings of seclusion, loneliness and hopes of integrating with human life, or will he listen to Nathan who has the power to ‘turn off’ Ava, basically terminating her life? To find out, you must look and search deeply into the long and windy film to get an answer and it can be somewhat quite boring for an impatient watcher; but this film definitely questions our mind of thought…
Hoot, directed by Wil Shriner, is an exciting kid-friendly movie that is certainly not boring and is also funny, entertaining, and an all around great movie. Roy Eberhardt moves to Florida from Montana. He then becomes really good friends with Bea and Mullet Fingers. They discover baby owls that are living in the ground at a nearby construction site.…
“We’ve never lost an American in space and we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option!” Said by Gene Kranz on the movi Apollo 13, the ‘Failure is not an option’ phrase has been used by various action movies as a cliché which shows authority and badassery. Every character on this kind of movie says that failing on their specific job (or mission, if you really want to be that badass) is not what they are expecting. Fail this mission and you don’t exist on our lives, that’s it.…
"Wanted" is basically from a comic book that has limited series written by Mark Miller and J.G Jones, it is about an amoral protagonist (Wesley Gibson) who is discovered as the heir of super assassin. Russian director, Timur Bekmambetov, he is the cream of the crop, he turns this comic into a movie that make the viewers not sit still and make their adrenaline and cortisone levels spike with the actions. Bekmambetov used the similar style of shots and angles with his previous movie, Night watch. It's more to wide angle (long shot), so we can see the terrifying background like one of the scenes in the torture room, where Wes has been beaten up by the butcher. Not even that, there are many special effects that Bekmambetov applies in this movie, like slow-motion with sound effects that certainly provides that "ouch" reaction from audiences.…
Gone Film Critique The film Gone is directed by James Puckett. The film is about two friends, Eric and Tommy, have had a rough friendship. Jimmy ends up taking his own life and Eric has a lot of built up anger towards the other.…
La Mission is about a single-parent, ex-con and recovering alcoholic, Che, who struggles with his own personal values and beliefs when he discovers his son, Jes, is gay. He becomes violent beating his son up on the sidewalk and throwing him out of the house. Later in the movie as Jes and his boyfriend, Jordan, were walking in the Latino neighborhood a car with a few gang members pull up and begin to insult them. Jordan states that people who are homophobic are actually gay themselves. The gang members feel insulted and they shoot Jes.…
Amelia English David Kalivas History World Civilization Before 1500 Essay 1 14 October 2015 Hollywood vs History The movie 300 is about the events of the Battle of Thermopylae. Of course, it is a dramatized version of the actual events of history. Hollywood takes historical events and dresses them up with glam and over exaggerations to catch the viewers interest. This can be bad in some situations because it can leave the viewer with the impression that certain things happened when they actually might not have.…
Adolescence is a time of intense physical, cognitive, social and emotional development and growth. It is a time of testing family and societal boundaries in order to find one’s own identity and to better understand one’s self. The film Dazed and Confused is made up of a cast of teenage kids exploring the issues of friendships, juvenile delinquency and family dynamics. From the perspective of developmental psychology this film is full of examples of the way adolescents navigate the changes that occur within their relationships and lives during this period of development. The three developmental-psychological principles depicted in this film which are being analyzed in this paper are parent-adolescent conflict, peer groups and juvenile delinquency.…
I think that one of the most effective aspects of the film were the depictions of the civilian ships that were picking up soldiers from the sea. The boat driven by the dad and the son, for instance, picked up dozens of surviving soldiers from the water. I think that these scenes were very effective in demonstrating the desperation that characterized the need to evacuate the soldiers. Right after the audience saw the destruction of many ships, these civilian boat scenes followed, which helped show the urgency of the situation. Also, the scenes with the planes fighting in the air along with the boat scenes helped clarify how lucky the Allies were when they escaped.…
1. Was the movie Confirmation an accurate replication of your experience, if not what details were altered or left out? 2. After you returned to your hometown, at the end of the trial did your community treat you differently? Were you criticized or supported for standing up? 3.…
Crash is a good movie that relates to many issues in society that people struggle with from day to day. Race and gender are socially constructed into this film. There are several terms including, racism, discrimination, prejudice, and ethnocentrism that will be discussed in this paper. Individuals in this movie faced several obstacles that caused them to face reality and/or fatality.…
American Sniper is a movie about love, family, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The main character is named Chris Kyle and his wife is name Taya Kyle, they have two children together and live in Texas. This paper will include a movie review and discuss how the movie used interpersonal communication. When the movie first begins they take the audience back in time to when Chris Kyle was a little boy and he gets his first kill (a deer) in the woods.…
The rest of the story was the pilot had difficulties with the oxygen mask, blacked out, and been killed in the crash. Embarrassment reached ultimate proportions for the US. In Moscow, Khrushchev showed information from the plane crash proving that the US had a false story ( Cook, 1973). Khrushchev said, “We have parts of the plane and we also have the pilot, who is alive and kicking” ( Cook, 1973, p. 35). The Soviet leader showed several photos of parts from the crash that have been saved from the plane.…
The term alcoholism has been misused over the years as a vague, poorly understood and most often morally flavoured term. In various media outlets such as film, music and television, alcohol is often associated with success, physical attractiveness, romance, and sociability. Very often, the media sidesteps negative repercussions of substance abuse. This can influence individuals to have a stronger desire to drink as they have an attitude towards alcohol that is more favourable. As a result, alcoholism has been ranked as the most harmful drug compared to others (Nutt 2012).…
As I searched the web to watch Live From Baghdad, I prepared myself for a boring and dry documentary. I had assumed this would be about current coverage of our Iraq War. The opening scene was a standard reenactment in my eyes, akin to America’s Most Wanted. It wasn’t until the faces of Michael Keaton and Paul Guilfoyle appeared on the screen that I realized I wasn’t watching a documentary at all.…