game plan

Game plan was a wonderful children’s movie for both boys and girls. The movie has to do with a father who doesn’t know he’s a father until one day his daughter shows up on his door steps. The movie shows the sacrifices made by this man in order to win his newly found daughters heart and how she (his daughter) gets him to do it. It has a twist through out the whole movie that keeps you drawn in and laughing the whole time. It is a very funny and heart filled movie, with an ending only made in the movies. Both the lighting and sound were average, nothing special.

memories of a geisha

This movie was an amazing story of a young girl ripped from her home and placed into a world of legalized high priced prostitution. This true story makes you want to hate it but, you are glued to the very things that you hate. The story starts off with two sisters separated from their family and then separated from one another forever. The bulk of the story is all about this little girl who eventually becomes the greatest Geisha ever known, and what had to happen in order to get their. Mixed in is a love story that at the end (with out giving it away) concludes but is not a happy ending; no fairytales here.
The lighting for this movie I believe to be amazing, and very well though out. You saw what you need to see and then some. It really caused for drama and excitement when needed. The sound on the other hand I didn’t really care for. Not only did you need to speak both Chinese and English to understand all that was said, but at times the music and background chatter or noise seemed to take over the words that needed to be focused on. I found my self many times asking the person next to me what did they just say, and they had no idea either.
But over all the entire movie was wonderful, but long. If you have 3-4 hrs to watch an amazing laid out movie this is the one for you! 

Rush Hour

Rush Hour was a very funny movie. It made all kinds of people (old, young, different races…) smile and laugh out loud at its stupid humor. Although some scenes could have been shot better, and lighting could have been a lot better the movie still worked for me.
One of my favorite scenes is when The Chinese food vendor man and one of the main characters get's into a word off with one another. They go on to saying thinks like “I am not no punk ass…”. Seeing an older Chinese man saying this just brought me in to hysterics. My favorite character in to movie was the little girl. She was so in your face and real that it really made the movie.
I enjoyed to movie and plan on watching the rest of the rush hours as well.

Knocked up

I had originally gone into this movie thinking it was going to be extremely stupid, but it was a recommendation from some friends, so I said ok I’ll watch it. It turned out to be a really good movie, defiantly a chick flick but all in all good, not what I expected.
The scene with the children playing with bubbles I though was the most beautiful scene in the whole movie, the lighting, sound, clarity, every thing was perfect.
One of the main characters (Ben- the soon to be daddy) was a typical college mess up, only not in college. I found it very hard to believe his character and all the wonderful things he did, although I don’t believe that was what the writers were looking for. I think they were just looking for the usual fairy tail. The annoying sister was just that annoying, and I though dragged the movie down at times.
Some of the scenes I found to be hysterical or unneeded were the sex and earthquake scenes. One of the sex scenes (after they find out she’s pregnant) was absolutely funny because he keeps freaking out he’s going to poke the baby in the head. It wasn’t played up, and I thought was the perfect amount of funny. The earth quake scene was very strange and I don’t think needed to be in the movie (but I do understand as to why it was put in). The only real complaint I have with this scene was you had no idea were you were, at first. The funny line in this scene was “O My God the Russians are coming”.
The ending really tied everything together, and although expected, it was done really beautifully.

Hudson Hawk

The movie Hudson Hawk is an extremely hysterical movie. This is one of the movies that you need to watch everything or you just might miss something. Bruce Willis is humorous in the faces he makes the songs he sings and everything in between. The story for Hudson Hawk was very well written with twists and turns that no one expects right up to the last scene. The play on language is amusing in the since that they are talking Italian and English in the same sentence. I am sure this was to help the audience but all in all back in the day, Italians weren’t speaking parts of English with their Italian (although they might now). Some of the small characters were what helped make the movie, like Kit Kat (he never so much as says a word). Some of the lines (like “I must talk to the dolphins now EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEE”) brought hours of laughter even after the movie. I could go on and on but over all the movie was, in my eyes a success it never lost my interest, and although not the best effects they worked well with what they had.

Blazing Saddles

This movie was a very interesting way of mocking every one, and every thing. I didn't care for it all that much, but I did find parts to be funny. In order to watch this movie you have to remember to leave all hard feelings at the door. The movie is an older one so one can't expect it to have wonderful scenes. For example the very begining was a desert with a small town, but one could easily see that it was infact just a minature scene that could be set on a table. The rest of the movie was shot in a way that didn't make you think too much about how they made the movie, untill the very end. In the end of the movie a fight brakes out and the fight goes off screen and is combined other scenes of other moives. This was to show that this movie is just a joke of everything, and everyone, including itself (but the sad part is how every thing that was said is true). If it weren't for some of the characters, the movie would have been a flop. I can see this movie becoming a somewhat musical you could go and see at the theater. I over all enjoyed the movie, and all the characters.

10 questions for the Dali Lama

The documentary 10 questions for the Dali Lama was a quick examination of the 14th Dali Lama's life. I only wish that there was more of the story of how he came to be, if you would like to see more of that story rent the movie Kundun. The begining of the documentary started off with a very high pitched voice and was very unfamiliar, but you later find out it's the voice of the 14th Dali Lama. Because the 14th Dali Lama has such a strong accent it is very unclear what he says. One thing that I appreciated was the fact that there were captions at the bottom of the screen as to what he said. All though this was great, the questions seemed to go round and round. The close up shots of the 14th Dali Lama and of other every day people were a good way to bring the story closer to the view, but need to be placed diffrently. One other thing I did not particulary care for was how the director did not introduce him self untill the middle of the moive, it was a shock when he just appeared in one of the senens. Over all it was a good choice of topic and very informative, but the little things are what make the movies, and the little things needed to be looked at a bit more in order to call this documentary great.