Another important aspect of the movies to discuss is whether the films accurately depict true stories and events as well as historically accurate characters. To begin, of the two films Windtalkers is the one that strays the farthest from the trust. In fact, the only truly historically accurate portion of the movie is that the code talkers were real people who played an enormous role in battles like Iwo Jima and World War II. Other than this, the characters of Windtalkers, including Yahzee and…
As I have grown up through my childhood and pre-teen years, the different elements of pop-culture (books, TV, movies, music, etc.) have had an impact on me. I have never been the type to be able to consistently watch movies, because no matter how interesting, I always end up falling asleep somehow. However, one of my favorite genres is dramas with suspense. Something about mystery-based movies makes them so compelling and riveting; they always leave you guessing. Above all, horrors are my…
Trolls, the new animated movie about the little dolls with the long, neon-hued hair, is the kind of movie that invites the mind to wander.This is to say it’s not a good movie, but it’s also not a bad movie. It’s reasonably entertaining, with some good musical numbers and at least one goofily endearing performance.But it’s also just a little bit all over the place, with a story that often seems like a fairy-tale greatest hits album — with all the hits covered by trolls. It’s a story assembled by…
Could you imagine football, basketball, hockey, gymnastics, and trampolines mixed? Sounds like chaos, right? If you can and it sounds like fun, then you might like slamball. Slamball has a short history, many tough rules, and six teams that competed. Slamball started in a small warehouse in Los Angeles, California. The idea of slamball came from a video game and the creator Mason Gordon wanted to create it into a real life video game. Open tryouts were held based on athletic ability, body…
Everybody knows at least one movie that just should not have been made. Creators and directors all over the world create films as a living, but only sometimes are they actually worth it. The 2010 movie, Rubber, is absolutely one of the worst movies ever made. The lines are awful, there are really bad actors, and an even stupider plot. A character's lines always affects the movie. In the very beginning, a random car comes out of nowhere, and knocks over chairs sitting in the middle of the desert…
Formative Group Essay Literature is valuable because it entertains, educates, and inspires. To start off, literature entertains because it makes the reader imagine what’s going on in the story like in the story ‘The landlady’ by Roald Dahl . Secondly, literature helps educates because it teaches the reader important lessons through the theme an example of this is in the story The Landlady. Finally literature helps inspire people by encouraging the reader to take action by giving ideas. just…
Review of Undertale Undertale is an indie game title from 2015 created orchestrated by Toby Fox. This game is one of the most unique titles of 2015. The game was made in the program GameMaker. Originally the game was going to be released in late 2014 but the creator decided to take the time to make a good game a great game. Undertale is a story about a young non gender specific human that had fallen into a pit that led to a world underneath the mountain called Mt. Ebbot. The world is inhabited…
Video games, this is a type of media that has become very popular in society today. Just like any other media source, video games have gotten a lot of hate from parents, media, and many other places for showing violent images and graphic material that is not suitable for kids and even some adults. However, video games alone cannot be the only thing that people should blame for causing harm to kids. So many other factors play a role for causing potential harm with the media today and some parents…
Exit Trough the Gift Shop The film ‘’Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary of street art that focused on the two street artist, Banksy a secretive artist who never revealed his identity, and Thierry Guetta a French immigrant from Los Angeles whose passion is film making and became an overnight sensation. Before gaining Thierry’s fame as an inspiring artist he became Banksy’s guide in Los Angeles when he need somebody to help him find walls to do his art, a film documentarist, and an…
Introduction: When Hollywood makes a movie that becomes and instant sensation, the studio often decides to continue the story in hopes that there is more cash to be milked out of it. This results in sequels of varying quality which may sour some opinions of the original film. Fortunately, this is not the case with Pixar’s beloved Toy Story franchise. Both sequels add a new spin on the story of toys who have a life of their own when humans cannot see them. In particular, Toy Story 3 deals with…