WTF??

Sorry I dont know if I am aloud to say that, but WOW what a weird movie. Kiss me Deadly was one of the worst movies i've seen because of that ending. It is also comewhat comedic in that sense too. OH and the new alternate ending really saved the film...I know Mr. Klobochar compred this type of movie to an opening band. How its played before the real show and its never very good. That seems to sum up my feelings for this movie. It looks like it was made in about a day and a half and the plot originally seems to have something good, but then ends up being the worse thing ever. Like honestly if you had that setup with a guy picking up a hitchhiker then getting involved with that someones life after they crash and die. Then you found the worst possible conclusion to that setup... you would find this movie. I dont know... I guess soem may get a good laugh at the end, but overall... two thunmbs down for Kiss me Deadly.

Shudup...Baby

In class this past week or so, we have been introduced to the film genre of film noir. The movie Double indemnity is a film that portrays film noir very nicely. Overall I really liked this movie. I would give it an 8 out of ten. Although If Walter never said "baby" throughout the movie, it would get a ten. But, I did love the way he would light his matches with one finger, over and over again. He wouold also always throw is hat down soemwhere when entering a building. These things I noticed I think help the viewer to feel like they know the character a little more, in this case, Walter Neff. Anyway, the film used alot of different techniques that we learned in class. The whole movie seemed to be in low key lighting. This emphasized the importance of each character and what they were doing. The film also had many low angle camera shots. These shots were mostly on Walter Neff. This shows the audience that he is a powerful man in control. But when you think back, the shots where Neff isnt in a low angle shot are when he is recording his story, when Keys finds him in his office, and when he collapses outside Keys' office. In the last two, Keys is towering above him, showing that Keys is now in control and the one that knows everything. Once again I thought this movie was really good. It seemed to get better and better as it went and I felt attached the the characters. Two thumbs up for Double Indemnity.

Groudhog Day

This film was my favorite of the year. This romantic comdedy starts out all goofy laughs and giggles, then rolls into a film you can really think about. The story really has a strong message. That message being, if your going to care only about yourself, everyday is going to be the same, and you will miss important things in life, like friendship and love. This movie really gets this point across as Bill Murray's character makes a total 180 turn. This films uses many of the techniques we learned in class. The editing techniques really play a big role in how this movie is projected. Just in the morning scenes we can break down many aspects of different rechniques we learned in class. At first there is always an extreme closeup up the alarm clock reading 5:59, then 6:00.
Then, "iv got you babe", the musical motif by Sonny and Cher appears many, many times. Then the camera slowly pans to Bill's face. This scene always starts this way and then differenciates throughout the film. It is really cool how the editing really emphasizes different aspects of the film, and is really important to telling the story. Overall this was a GREAT film and I got two thumbs way up for it.

Bringing up Baby

Bringing up Baby is a crazy movie to say the least. This film definatly falls under the crew ball comedy genre. The main characters David and Susan seemed to be opposites of each other; they meet randomly, and random things are contsantly happening to keep them together. Susans continuous talking is hard to cope with at the begining of the movie, but as the film went on, I didnt mind it as much. The two interact in an odd way and the humor is very, "unique" lets say. Personally I didn't find this movie very funny. At the begining I really wanted to throw something at Mr. K to turn it off. But oddly, I grew to kind of like the film as it went on. I still didnt find the comedy very funny, but I found myself routing for them to find Baby and get him back to Susan's aunt. Maybe I just thought she would stop babbling then. Anyway, overall i thoguht this film was alright. If i was watching on my own I would have turned it off after 15 minutes, but since i was forced to watch it in Art of Film class, I got to like it a little more than I thought.