Commando

Over break I watched a movie I haven't seen in a long time. Commando is one of the most overlooked movies in my opinion. I don't know if it's because Rambo is similar or because Arnold Schwarzenegger has so many other killer (pun intended) movies. This movie is great on many levels. First of all Arnold's name is John Matrix which can only be beat by Max Steele. Second is that in the final shootout scenes Arnold gets tons of guns, body pain, and the only thing he's missing is a shirt. More importantly the dialogue of Commando makes movies like Citizen Kane sound like Sesame Street. Last but not least the shootout is top 10. The clincher for me is when he kills over 90 people. One of these kills is when he shoots the holder of his daugher with a shotgun about 4 times through a window. Despite what you thought about the power of a shotgun, John Matrix wasn't taking any chances. Regardless of how easy killing over 90 people single handedly at one time sounds,you must know John Matrix says, "I eat Green Berets for Breakfast". So next time you try that, ask yourself one question,"can you eat green berets for breakfast"?

Good Movie Clip- its only a small part of the final killing scene, though.

Film Noir

Film Noir is probably the genre in film that I know the least about that we are studying. Before hearing and learning about it in class I had no idea what it was. Now I know its a solid genre that is a dark, black and white, detective type movie. I had some good expectations coming into it because I heard Chinatown was really good. Being pretty far into our first movie I think the dialect is pretty different but interesting. I think the movie is fine, but boring at times. All in all i have high hopes for Chinatown.

Western

Before the unit of Westerns I didn't really know about them. Obviously practically everyone has seen a Western, but I for one didn't really know what they were about. After watching Stagecoach I started to realize what a Western is all about. I thought that Stagecoach was interesting and clearly one of the greatest classics of all time. After that when we watched the revisionist Western Unforgiven, it finally hit me that Westerns weren't simply a cowboys shooting each other. The ingredients for a Western are indeed more complex and interesting than I previously thought. I thought Unforgiven was fabulous and summarized the greatness of Westerns. Lastly I watched The Wild Bunch a Western I watched on my own. After going through this unit I realized that it was one of the better movies made, and has one of the best shootout scenes in the history of action movies.

*********By the way it has a lot of gore*********

Kane

I thought that "Citizen Kane" was a classic film with many aspects of the language of film that would later be reproduced. One example I thought was the most prevalent was the crane. The opening and closing scenes of the Xanadu estate, and also the scene of Mr. Leland's perspective of Susan singing both displayed the crane. The estate scene's crane effect was very influential to me because it showed how cut off Xanadu is from society from all the fencing that there is. The audience feels lonely just watching it. Also, later in the movie Susan complains how lonely she is and that she wants to go back to New York. The opening and closing scenes' long shots show how immense the estate is, but the crane effect shows how "empty" it actually is. It may be huge, but it is really empty to Susan and deep down it is for Kane too. Then the second influential crane is when Susan is singing. The camera initially focused on Susan while she was singing, but then slowly craned up. It went up past the curtains and scaffolding, to the catwalk where two men made gestures that the song was horrible. All in all I think the crane effect played an important role in the movie and shouldn't be overlooked.

Lastly, I'd like to talk about Rosebud. First of all, in the final scene of the movie the reporter proclaims that no man can be characterized by one word. Clearly this is a much debated topic, and I feel that a lot of people would say that's true. On the other hand I have a counter argument. When Susan leaves Kane, he goes into a fury. He destroys everything in her room leaving nothing untouched. However, Kane does not destroy one thing, the snow globe. He sees the globe and whispers to himself "Rosebud". I think Susan's room is representative of all of Kane's possesions. He doesn't care about anything in his life, just about Rosebud (or the snowglobe that reminds him of it). Although Rosebud doesn't really describe Kane, the significance of it is really all that he cares about. The memory of his old home that the snowglobe and sled reminded him of, was all that he cared about. By destroying all of her room, he says all he cares about is his old rural home. Kane would give it all up for that.

Introductory

Recently I saw manbearpig. Also I saw Rambo III which was top 10 greatest movies ever. I enjoyed it very much because Rambo kills everyone and he cant be stopped. It's fun to bro out with my some bros and watch some Rambo. I think not only was Rambo basic, but its classic. Most of all though Rambo has no limits, and has great new age gore.

Another movie I really liked was Man On Fire. Man on Fire is awesome because he also kills everyone. Most people are not big dawgs and get scared. Denzel just kills everyone because the girl he was protecting gets obducted. Denzel takes names and dominates all of Mexico.