The Scorpion King

Although I have never been a huge fan of actions movies, I really enjoyed this one. In fact, I enjoyed all the Mummy movies that go in sequence with The Scorpion King. I thought it was a well thoughtout story. It also had several camera angles that I was not necessarily expecting. They had several pan and zooms. They also had tons of montages (as Hollywood enjoys doing them alot). Even though there were quite a few montages it definately help certain scenes in the progression of the story. Overall, I really enjoyed this movie and reccomend it if you have not seen it.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Well, I can honestly say that I was not expecting the story invloved with the title of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This was an interesting movie for sure. I watch the show Glee and the next episode is based off The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is why I decided to watch it so I knew what to expect. It was definitely a controversial movie for not only its time (1975) but also our time. It is amazing how many topics they bring up that are very deep topics of debate. There are many words that could describe this movie. Disturbing, brilliant, talented, controversial, ridiculous, vulgar, inventive, etc.... Tim Curry did an amazing job in this role. It is defiantly not a favorite movie, but it is certainly a brilliant and talent filled movie. "Lets do the Time Warp"!!! Haha.

Montage

I am realizing now that almost every movie, in some way or another, has montage in it. I watched Cop Out, Kick-Ass, Get Him to the Greek, and Boondock Saints 2. Each of these movies has had a montage in it at some point. I never really noticed it until I started looking for it and knowing what to look for. These movies listed above are action/ adventure movies, which generally have montages anyway, according to what we discussed in class, but then I watched a non- action movie called The Princess Diaries and there was a montage in that too. It seems to me that when a director is in doubt about what to do next....they throw in a montage. Works every time!

Media and My Future

I've been giving media a lot of thought lately. I planned on being a communication major with a media concentration, but lately I've been wondering about that choice. Through observing and viewing the media I have found some of the practices to be far to unappealing to me, which is why I have decided to change my concentration to marketing. I will still take some media courses because I want to be a public relations manager at some point, but through this class I have begun to observe the world of media, not just the technical aspects of it but also the overall intentions and meanings. This post is not like my other posts, but I thought it would be an interesting topic for discussion if any one want to give me their ideas and opinions. I figured through a marketing concentration I can focus on changing the inner workings of the media industry rather than be the one behind the camera. Any thoughts?

A Walk in the Clouds

I loved this movie. It had romance, drama, war, etc... It is definitely a sappy love story, but it had some interesting camera angles in it. Throughout the movie they did a lot of pan and zooming and I just noticed how fluent it was. It didn't have any hitches. It was perfect. They also had a fair amount of close up shots, mostly on the more emotional scenes, but it captured the essence of the moment. Overall, this was a great movie, with a interesting story.

Understanding Media

This article was very interesting. I found that the statements where he is talking about how film is a collective work of art were at first very confusing to me. I felt like he was belittling the work and heart that go into music and painting and photography and all those other artistic medians, but then I thought about this statement and then I realized that he is completely right. He isn't down grading the idea of other artistic medians, but rather saying film collects them and it captures the essence of all those things. I found that to be an interesting idea.

The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Well I went to go see this new movie and I figured it was going to be some children's movie that would be fun to pick on later (and there were some lines in the movie that I still did that with) but overall it was an interesting story, funny and entertaining. The animation was extraordinary. It was in 3D, but the actual artistry behind the movie and the characters was phenomenal. I actually really enjoyed this movie. Some of the angles used in the movie were interesting too (lots of close up shots, but it worked). But overall I would give it  two thumbs up.