MYST Post #4 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Nothing beats a classic like this, where a well known high school kid known as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) pretends to be very ill so he could have the day off and go an adventure to the city of Chicago. Along with Ferris there are his two other companions that join him and ditch school  faking illnesses and pretending to give a fake call to the dean about a grandparent passing away. The two people are Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) who is Ferris's long time best friend and Sloan Peterson (Mia Sara) who is Ferris's girlfriend and lover. As they plan this smart way of faking everything, they have a dean who keeps tabs on Ferris just because of who he is as a student and he ditched a lot the last quarter for senior year. So the devious Dean Ed Rooney ( Jeffrey Jones) is on a mission to try and catch Ferris so he can keep the boy from screwing up what he wants the school to be like and also have him repeat another year, and to keep people from not having everyone following Ferris's style. Meanwhile, Ferris's sister Jeanie (Jennifer Grey) plays along with Ferris being sick and she pretends to yell  at her parents because she never gets a chance to stay home even if her eyes were bleeding. After the guys get away with ditching the school even though they were absent , they go to Chicago to enjoy one of the best day offs from high school anybody could ask for.  But on the bad side that causes Dean Rooney to be suspicious and is doing business off campus, which obviously is to hunt down Ferris and screw his chances of making it to college and destroy his day off.

There were a lot of great scenes in the movie especially when they are in the city and they are at the Chicago art museum. The camera shots and angles shown in this scene really do a lot of interacting between object and human. As Ferris and Sloan went to a different part of the museum to talk, Cameron stands right in front of a very famous work of art, that catches his attention, because he looks at a boy with his mom which reminds him how his dad is a jerk and does not care about anything except for the old school Ferrari, that Ferris and the crew end up taking and there is not a single mile put on that car. The camera switching from Cameron to the boy in the painting shows some sort of connection between the two and that gives you clues that could symbolize who Cameron was as a boy and it really got me thinking about the scene after it was over with and what its significance was.

A lot of the camerawork during the film did a lot of close up shots on people and there were times where Jeanie was in her house and Rooney tried to sneak to catch Ferris being fake sick. The camera went back and forth showing that two were sneaking up on each other closer and closer. Up until they both tried to scare each other, and Rooney jumped out and scared Jeanie cause she had an reaction to kick him in the face and they did a repeat on the kick to show it was a knockout. There were other times where they have the camera directly below them, like when they were in the sears tower at the top and the three stood on the railing and put their heads on the windows looking down. The camera looked at  Ferris and the other two when they were looking as far down as possible and then the camera would be on the opposite side looking down just like the three did, giving a perspective of what it looks like looking down on the sears tower.

Overall I give this movie a 10/10 just because I personally think of it as one of my favorite movies and planning to ditch the school like that would totally be a professional way of doing it. Knowing people at a school at central, I do not think there are too many people that would have the guts to do something like these guys did. If it causes the Dean to go on a secret  out of school duty then I give respect to Ferris for pulling something off like that. This link at the end is one of my favorite scenes from the movies with Cameron and Ferris arguing about one picking up the other.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ZMU6UyXdPMs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Formal Film Study Spielberg films of the 80s

The three of these films are similar and different in many ways. A similarity between all three is the color and the way the camera makes the screen look. It makes you feel that the movies were made about 25-30 years ago. Each of the films were set during different periods in history. The three films were the Color Purple, E.T., and Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark. Each film goes at a pretty fast pace, as the storytelling for each film gives you a unique understanding of what Spielberg goes for when trying to bring a message to the people. He thinks outside the box especially with these films and the special effects used in E.T. and Indiana Jones were definitely movie ideas made in the 80s. Each of these films belong in Hollywood and the reason being that some of the scenes like in E.T. with the flying bikes, will give you a clue that obviously this stuff cannot happen in real life and that Spielberg thought outside the box. He has an imagination that not many directors are capable of, meaning that not many directors could come up with similar types of movies like he did.

Spielberg is all about the action and adventure through movies, while he also has movies with a lot of sad but true storytelling like in the Color Purple. All the technology he uses are really a lot of special effects especially in E.T. and Indiana Jones, and both movies have a lot of action/adventure, but different types of adventures. Elliot has an alien like creature he finds in his backyard and has an adventure experiencing what it is like to be with a non-human that can talk. Indiana goes to find the ark of the convenant before the Nazis get a hold of it and dominate everybody in their way of taking over the world. For the most part there isn't much in the way of culture being significant throughout these movies, like the Color Purple takes place in Georgia during the early 20th century, and this time you have a black man owning his own piece of land and takes the spot of the white man and beats up his black women, which in this time and place seems way out of line. It gives you a taste of the later part of 19th century to the start of the 20th. For the most part these films do not have much in the way of government being involved except in ET, when undercover FEDS came into the house and try to see what it is about these aliens that make them so unique, and so these people try to take Elliot away from ET when they do a procedure, but doing that caused ET to die for a few minutes during the movie, until Elliot comes back to see him in what it seems to be a freezer tank and wakes up saying phone home.

There were a lot of scenes in each of the 3 movies that really got my attention especially at the end of Indiana Jones when the Nazis are about to release the spirits of the convenant and gain power to rule the world. Indiana tells Marion Ravenwood who is played by Karen Allen, to close her eyes or the power of the ark will destroy them both. When they close their eyes you see ghosts start flying all over the place which shows a lot of visual effects that Spielberg uses in a very small amount of films. This was something you did not see much of in movies, because the ark's power was too much for the Nazis that it killed everyone who looked into the light and caused them to melt and explode and die. Also when E.T. leaves for his planet and says goodbye to Elliot by using his finger that glows and says I'll be right here and points at Elliot head, saying he will be in his thoughts. That shot was taken from a side angle and it  shows how powerful that scene was with the eye-to-eye contact and Elliot's emotions start getting to him.

Spielberg is known for making a lot of people like his movies, since he goes for topics that not many people think would be worth making for a movie, but when his films come out, they end up being box office hits and earning academy award honors. The music in his films are all memorable and everybody is somehow familiar with the music being played. You hear many of the songs used in his films, no matter where you go people know the theme songs like for Jaws, Jurassic Park, E.T., and Indiana Jones. His films are legendary and everywhere you go people know Stephen Spielberg, to me he changed the style of cinema and movies more than any other person involved in the industry. He brought a totally different style of film that made a lot of people talk about those films 20 years later today.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-10-15/entertainment/9910200025_1_movie-reviews-star-film/5

This was a critics opinion about the movie E.T. and it shows that the same stuff I talked about and he knew what Spielberg was trying to get across. Movies like these make you feel like a kid again, and bringing childhood memories of something like an alien and turning him into a kind and friendly alien, makes these films so much better .  Not only E.T. but the other two films definitely got my attention and a double thumbs up just because these films were so different from other movies during that same decade in the 80s.  Spielberg made more of an impact in the 80s for films more than anybody else.

MYST Post # 3: The Animal House

   A movie like no other in the 70s that shows just how crazy the frat life can really be, especially since the film takes place in 1962 and clearly this type of party going on was very unusual at Faber College in Pennsylvania. Universal pictures and National Lampoon were the studio and magazine that talked a lot about Animal House and other movies very similar. This movie starred actors such as the late John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The movie was directed by John Landis who also was the director of The Blues Brothers, which included John Belushi as one of the two brothers. This movie reminds of a few movies that were not exactly in the same period as this movie was, but they are under The National Lampoon title and they too, filmed about partying in the frats and lakehouses. Movies such as American Pie and Van Wilder, were released in theatres in the early 2000s. This surprised me to see that there were not too many movies during the 70's where most of the movie is about the dean and the other frat house right next door to Omega Theta Pi, which considerably is the best frat on campus and long time haters of John "Bluto" Blutarsky( Belushi) and his fraternity Delta Tau Chi. Since Dean Vernon Wermer has Bluto's frat on double secret probation for all the trouble they caused , it still does not stop the guys from having more fun getting drunk and having a toga party with Otis Day and The Knights. This film shows you just how out of control college can really get if all you do is party.

The style that John Landis goes for, is that escapist entertainment for those during the 70s to familiarize those from that era just how crazy and fun college can be, but at the same time should be taken seriously. The message he goes for, is that when your at college your free to basically almost do anything you want, as long as you keep the trouble all inside and not on the campus streets. The films itself moves at a much slower pace then I expected , since it really shows in little segments, how many different things can make these college kids look like a bunch of party animals and troublemakers. The part where the editing was very effective, was when they had the toga party, and Otis Day and The Knights, came to perform "Shout" at Delta Tau Chi, and the scene where they dance really got my attention just because it showed a little bit of what the music was like during that time and that kind of dancing they did was something you would only see at a frat like this one.

The scene that really was the icing on the cake was at the end when Faber College had their homecoming parade in downtown. They had these parade floats used for the walk through town. This scene happens right when all of the members of Delta Tau Chi get expelled off campus because of all the trouble they caused and plus their poor grades which were the worst in Faber's history. So to get back at Dean Wermer and Omega, they set up a scheme to get Wermer screwed over and fired, and hopefully for Bluto and the boys, another chance to finish the semester and graduate. All hell breaks lose right after Stork, a member of Delta Tau, comes into the parade and takes over the directors spot for the band. Right after he takes the band down a different path, smoke fills the streets and people start going crazy and chaos happens in town, but not in a bad way like a war, but more of something that some crazy college kids would do to get redemption. They take a car and have it under a parade float and drive it into the main bleachers where The dean and mayor were sitting to watch the parade. The guys end up getting another chance, but to say the least, not many people would get away with something as crazy as this. Overall I give the movie a 7 out of 10, since the movie had a lot of scenes I enjoyed seeing since I'm young, wild, and free like these guys.

Formal Film Study Martin Scorsese

 

I watched a few films that belong to Martin Scorsese, and the movies were called Goodfellas, The Departed, and Gangs of New York. Each of the films have similarities in the style that Scorsese was going for. All of his films were of a historical setting, and the cities used for filming were Boston and New York so the history really shows throughout these films. The genre that Scorsese is really into is Gangster/Crime films, especially in these 3 films, gangsters are portrayed as the main characters in each of the movies. Each of the films have camera shots that give good observations on knowing who each character represents in relation to the gang he belongs to. These films fit into Hollywood because of some of the gory killings that involves blood and features on people's faces and bodies that shows a lot of violence throughout the film. What makes Scorsese different from other directors is what his choice in genre usually is such as gangster films. His films are also usually big time budget films. A lot of the sound effects come in to play when there are fights or battles going on between gangs especially in Gangs of New York in the beginning and at the end of the movie. The cinematography really shows the time in history of when these films take place and based on the design of some of the transportation used and the way everything looks in comparison to the present. The films did not have much in the ways of politics. It basically went for showing what a group of people in society who were loyal to each other and that you see what life is like through another person  living in a different time period and a different city too. The gangs in each film have a historical connection to the time period when and where the film was taken place.

The shots that Scorsese goes for definitely involves a lot of people shown at one time. When the standoff between the Nativists and the Dead rabbits in Gangs of New York really showed how powerful the scene was showing through the intensity between the two sides and  they organize the battles just like the Civil War, which happened 10 years after these gangs were around. There were a lot of scenes where it showed characters from a far view in the camera and it gave you a look into what the setting is when an important scene is taken place. The editing in each of the films showed how people acted in certain areas of the country. Like in The Departed, it was filmed in Boston, so the Irish Mafia had everyone with an East Coast accent and so was everyone that was a part of the Police Department. The Goodfellas went for the accents as well, since they were Italian and in the Mafia they talked like they were a part of it, and in Gangs of New York, it seemed like they were all talking in some type of old English style and it was taking place around 150 years ago.

My main discovery that I had on Scorsese was his use of violence. Throughout each film Scorsese did a nice job showing what the reputation of gangsters usually are and that violence always will be around if there are gangs. A lot of scenes taken place during the films, involved showing people being beaten for not doing their deeds that they have to do for the gangs, and it ends up being ugly in the end for those people. Martin Scorsese is an Italian director, so he would go for the style that he knows best and through movies like Goodfellas, the mafia really shows a lot of power and violence and it shows to viewers what full blood Italians were like even back in the 50s. These films show a lot on gangs and what the message is about being a gangster and this is shown through conversations between them and usually seeing one put a hit on someone was very common throughout these films.

I also felt that in two of the films the main character, is also the narrator of the story as well. It may not be a noticeable component that Scorsese uses but, it gives a perspective from a viewer believing that the narrators are used as storytellers on history that they were a part of.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/goodfellas/Film?oid=1065908

This was a post made by a critic on rotten tomatoes saying based on the narrative fluidity of Goodfellas that was  probably the best film Scorsese has ever directed. Just as I said about the component on narration in two of the films, the organization on the story of the mafia in New York really showed when a kid such as Henry Hill went from being an innocent young kid to becoming an inside man of the mafia. He tells the story himself and doing that really gave people a lot to learn on the mafia's history. Plus Scorsese used Italian actors for these roles, such as Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, and Ray Liotta, and so of course the film was a success because of the storyline and the actors relations to that story worked perfectly.

Lastly, the reason why Scorsese was such a big success in Hollywood, was for some of the films and giving historical perspectives on people and what was big during these periods. I would call Scorsese an auteur director since the films messages are brought up through the ideas and imagination of Scorsese. For these three films, you could tell they had similarities in each of the films, and Scorsese is known for making violent films but also other genres such as Hugo an animated film, which is not similar to these 3 films. He does not go for one genre, he is capable of making many films that are very different in meaning, which makes him one of the best directors of all time.



 

1935 Movie Project

Our film The Beautiful Disaster, has the cast consisting of some very famous actors/actress who were known for being in screwball comedy, and Jean Arthur and the Three Stooges were the perfect lead and supporting roles for the film. Its starts off with Jean Arthur who is this young and very attractive supermodel who is getting all the attention and popularity that any person would want. The only problem is even though she is relatively successful, she does not like the outcomes of being a model and having people crowd up and take pictures of her all the time, which freaks her out a bit. She is a bachelorette and all she wants for her at this point is a lover who can help with her issues of having so much popularity. She lives in a penthouse in the middle of Manhattan and she has so much room but no one to share it with. That is when the Stooges come in as three brothers who are all known to be a bunch of knuckleheads that do construction work for the apartment building that Arthur lives in and they own property on the bottom floor. The part where the three meet Jean is when they are window washing near the top by the penthouse and they find out who this women is that they see all alone, and then they fight over who gets to meet her first. Throughout the whole movie the 3 stooges fall in love with her and so they do what they do best, and that is knocking each other around until one wins the love of Jean Arthur. The message I am trying to get across is that this is an escapist entertainment that is meant to entertain those that need something to get their mind off what is happening with the struggle from the depression. This film tries to get people to laugh out loud and also to bring more attention to screwball comedy.

The reason we chose screwball comedy is because of the depression that the country is going through. No genre is better to use during this time then comedy itself. Especially with the cast we used for this film, it makes sense to use these people because of their skills as comedians and bringing into the movie, these four are known best for making people laugh, so no one else seemed like better candidates. When you have three guys known for knocking each other around and you put that in a movie where they fight over a girl, then it makes the perfect screwball comedy.

Columbia was the best studio for this since it had Frank Capra involved in a lot of their films, plus we chose him for the director. Columbia says that their trademark is screwball comedy, so there is with no doubt that they work best for this type of genre. The movie itself will be one of the big time budget films even though they are a smaller studio, they have these four playing in this movie, so it should be relatively popular. Comedy is big around this time and making this a big budget movie should get the attention of a lot of people too.

The cast and crew is perfect for this film and Frank Capra our director, had a movie the year before called It Happened One Night and the genre was screwball comedy and also the first movie to win the five major Oscar awards( best director, best picture, screenplay, best leading role, supporting role). Jean Arthur and the Stooges were up and coming in comedy films. The Three Stooges who are playing the supporting roles came out with their show a year ago and became big time stars right away. Jean Arthur playing the lead role is said to be the face of women in comedy, without her screwball comedy is not the same. The focus of the film is on the editing, to make the characters lines as funny as possible and no one does it better than Gene Havlick who worked along with Capra in the screwball comedy that one the five major awards for the Oscars. So it made perfect sense to make him the editor.

The Hays code only affected a few of the scenes in the movie. The kissing scenes are only supposed to be going on for a few seconds, and not too much violence especially between the Stooges. The technology involved in this film is the black and white color and we chose this to be a sound film and not a silent, since the silent film era was at the end of its time and the sound era was starting to become very popular.

I disagreed with some of the actors that the other group members wanted to use since the story I was creating did not have a good connection with the people they brought up. If I was to work alone, I would have came up with a different title of the movie and also add a little more color to the poster.

"MYST Post #1: Training Day"

The film I chose to watch over the three day weekend was "Training Day" which was filmed back in 2001, also directed by Antoine Fuqua and easily my favorite crime drama film ever. The two main stars in this movie are Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Washington stars as this veteran LAPD narcotics officer named Alonzo Harris who was specialized in cracking down on drugs and gang violence. Ethan Hawke stars as this Los Angeles Police officer named Jake Hoyt, who ends up getting a chance at becoming an LAPD detective, and the only way to do so is under the 24 hour training and evaluating of Detective Harris (Washington). Throughout the movie Washington is portrayed as a hardcore gangster cop who tries get Hoyt to understand that what Alonzo does everyday, can be life threatening and you can trust no one but yourself , especially when you try to fight against crime and gang warfare. Other actors/actresses involved are Eva Mendes, Snoop Dogg, Dr.Dre, and Scott Glen. This movie really reminded of another film too such as American Gangster (2007), that made me feel that Denzel Washington was portrayed as a dangerous crime figure. In that movie, he played the role of a gangster named Frank Lucas that took control of the heroin distribution in Harlem and also was the most dangerous gangster in New York in the 1960's. Another movie, even though it didn't have any of the actors in this film, reminded me of how a detective is set up by another man in the same police force that he trusted throughout the film. The movie that made the best connection was Street Kings (2008) that starred Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker.

The style this film used definitely had a lot of suspense involved. The suspense really showed in some of the scenes that involved close encounters with death for officer Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) and the music would really get loud and would signal that something bad was going to happen. The camera technique had a lot of mid range shots and as well as many face to face shots. A lot of scenes involved conversations between Alonzo and Jake, and showing how the mentor trains the rookie cop on  what he knows about the streets all in one day. Washington definitely brings up good points throughout the movie that he teaches to Hawke that he should not mess around on the job, and that you can slip up and something could happen at any time. The film really shows how serious being an undercover police detective can actually be, especially working without no backup. So overall the movie really covers a lot through the camerawork and the technique of showing what makes a good suspenseful crime film.

The scene that really got my attention was right at the end of the movie. When Officer Jake Hoyt comes in to stop Alonzo right before he made his way to meet up with the Russian Mafia, after a little accident in Las Vegas, that killed one of the Russians and putting Alonzo in a position of him being killed if he does not give them what they need. Before this all had happened, Jake figures out that he was being set up by Alonzo after almost being killed by some Mexican gangsters that were assigned  to kill Jake. Jake got himself out of the scuffle and came back to the apartment complex that was the location of Alonzo's stomping grounds. Jake had a one on one brawl with Alonzo and after the fight had been done, Jake had beaten up Alonzo pretty good and takes his gun and the money for the Russians away from Alonzo. This scene got my attention when Jake pointed the gun at Alonzo and told him that he learned a lesson and that he was not one who was inspired by the kind of person Alonzo was. He proved that Alonzo was basically finished and should be taken care of for trying to set up Jake to die. Jake took Alonzo's police badge, showing that Alonzo no longer had power or control of the people that were involved with him and it was his turn to pay the price and that he was no longer the law.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KrNpxODiDA

I would give this film a 9/10. The reason being that this was a film that I could not take my eyes off of. When Denzel Washington is playing a character of a gangster cop, it usually gets my attention right away because he is the best in my opinion, when it comes to playing a gangster. This film had a lot of action involving ongoing investigations, that involves a lot of suspense and people getting set up and killed. Denzel is the one playing the bad guy and sets up his second in command to die and to me, was a surprise when you find out he was a bad guy. So I would recommend this film to anyone that is a fan of Denzel and also loves crime action movies.

"Review of the Reviews"

Positive review
The review made by James Plath was made a few days before the baseball season started and which led him to watch the movie The Sandlot. He wrote his review in multiple little paragraphs and summarized everything that happened in the order the way movie did it. His tone that he had writing this review would be rather laid-back and he was not raving about the film necessarily, but he was just simple about what made the movie a classic. When he brought up his little introduction on the Sandlot, he used the words a coming-of-age family comedy and also light and magical and an endorsement of the game. I feel he was using these words to describe that this film was going to be known as one of those classic films that would be remembered as a big hit during the 90's, and the word magical may give a signal that this movie could be something special for everyone to see. When he used the word endorsement towards the game of baseball, it basically means that this movie probably inspired those young and wanting to play sports, to look at baseball to play since it is America's past time, and a lot of kids get involved in it in real life and its popularity should increase.

The focus that Plath had on the film were the plot, characters, and conflict. He was summarizing the story on how a fifth grade kid names Scotty Smalls, was new to the neighborhood and was having a hard time making new friends, up until he went to an open lot made of sand where a group of kids his age were playing baseball. The kids Plath brought up in his review were the Star player of the group, Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez and the catcher Hamilton "Ham" Porter, who Plath considers as the big mouth and the master at put downs. Plath said that the film reminded him of another film that has a similar type of narration,  called "Stand by Me." The Sandlot was considered more of a "kid friendly" version of "Stand by Me."

http://moviemet.com/review/sandlot-20th-anniversary-edition-blu-ray#.Uufn6v7nZbQ

Negative review
Emma Cochrane wrote her review in 4 short paragraphs and most of the time talking about how the movie was a disgrace and it is one of those "Field of Dreams" wannabes. She puts in that this film has the same usual type of characters that you would see any other sport movie involving kids. She said there is the overreacting bespectacled dorky kid(Squints), the guzzling fat kid(Hamilton), the useless-at- baseball wimpy kid (Smalls), and the super-cool gang- leader kid(Benny). The tone she uses definitely shows a lot of disgust and disappointment towards the film. She used the word incomprehensible to describe the kind of movie the Sandlot was, and to her, she seemed to have not understand what the movie was about and what the message was that the movie was trying to portray. The focus she had was on the plot that develops when the signed Babe Ruth baseball was hit over the fence into a neighboring  backyard of Mr.Murtle, and the nine kids' journey to get that ball back because of  the "Beast", which is a monster that eats every kid that attempts to retrieve the baseball they hit over the fence, but in the end they never return nor the ball. She made a reference only to the Field of Dreams saying the Sandlot was a copycat/wannabe of the Field of Dreams.

http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=14506

2.Plath: "A scene with the ghost of Babe Ruth and the ending are a little cheesy, and some of the attempts to fetch the ball seem to go on a little long. But the situation the boys find themselves in and the snappy dialogue make it easy to spend time with this group."
I do not necessarily agree with the first sentence but the second one I definitely agree with. The situation with the ball being over the fence and helping finding ways to get the ball back make me want to be a part of this group. These guys are all funny and it seems I would fit in because they are sport-minded and they all screw around with each other having fun being kids.
Cochrane:" The adult characters barely get a look in with Dennis Leary and  Karen Allen underused as the Small's parents, and James Earl Jones only popping up at the end for one of those trademark cameos that have become his specialty."
I can agree that these actors should have been in a few more scenes just because of the talent of acting they have, and involving them more could have given the movie a boost in the ratings.

3.I would be convinced by Plath because he has pretty simple taste about the movie and knows that this was a classic. He describes all of the characters in the review better than Cochrane. Plus he had more to say about the film so I felt his arguments would be better to follow through with. I feel if the critic writes a lot about key parts in the movie and why they are so important to understand, then the movie ratings by the critics would get my attention.

4. I would write a review starting off with the score out of 5 that I would give it, then partially summarize what the movie is about, not giving any key parts that wrap up what it is all about, but write something that would get the attention for those who want to see the movie. I would  include some of the key characters and what their roles are. I would connect the movie to another film that is similar in genre and plot. I would leave out what happens at the end and also involve some vocab terms to describe some of the characters and the movie as well. I would also include who are the star actors in the movie and describe how their performances were.

Film Intro Survey

1.What is the first movie that really made a strong impression on you?
The Dark Knight. All the suspense in the movie was something I never really had experienced before since it was a Marvel superhero movie. Usually if I am watching a movie that is action-packed, I just chill on the couch and watch the movie. For the Dark Knight, it made me lean on the edge of my seat everytime the Joker (Heath Ledger) was in action.
2. What are 3-4 of your favorite genres?
Gangster/Crime, Action/Adventure, Comedy, and War.
3. What are 3-4 of your least favorite genres
Silent, Indie/Arthouse, Sci-fi, and Foreign films
4.What are your favorite films?
Training Day, American Gangster, The Godfather, The Dark Knight, and Project X
5.List three characteristics of what you consider to be a good movie?
 Good Acting, Building suspense, and the plot is easy to understand
6.What are some of your least favorite movies?
The Sandlot 2, Sinister, Hangover 2
7.List three characteristics of what you considered to be a bad movie?
 Bad scripts, horrible acting, cracking jokes that are not funny
8.Do I have any favorite directors ?
Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and Quentin Tarantino
9.Do I have any favorite actors/actresses?
 Denzel Washington, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Jim Carrey, and Will Ferrell
10.List 3 films that you consider important films for people to see?
 Forrest Gump, The Godfather, and The Shawshank Redemption
11.What's your oldest favorite film?
 The Godfather
12.What''s the best movie you've ever seen that's been released in the past 2 years?
The Dark Knight Rises
13.What are the next five films on your "queue"?
Captain Phillips, Ride Along, American Hustle, Anchorman 2: the legend continues, and 12 Years a Slave