Beasts of the Southern Wild x Myles Snider

As our class watched the movie "Beasts of the Southern Wild",  I couldn't help but notice how wonderful Quvenzhane Wallis was in this picture. The movie is about a little girl with a wild imagination, who's reality gets changed after a storm occurs. She is desperate to help save her father, and sinking home, so she has to survive different epic conditions.

The message that this movie gives me is to keep on persevering. This tiny hero in the movie kept persevering and stopped at nothing. She had such a beautiful mind, and heart and wanted to help her father get through his sickness. So many people can be inspired from such a movie too, people go through things everyday and need the strength to move on and persevere, so this movie definitely sends an inspiring message to it's audience.

Winter's Bone by Myles Snider

While watching the movie Winter's Bone, I was very moved. The movie is about a girl named Ree that is set out to find her father after their family is in danger of being repossessed. This movie has theme of perseverance. I noticed this theme because she never gave up looking for her father, and along the way, she meets many obstacles, and since her father broke the code, the neighborhood did nothing but make matters worse.

Another theme I found in this movie is gender roles. Gender roles plays a big part because the gender roles in the community were traditional, where the men were more dominant and the females were more responsible of everything. Ree challenges this by being more dominant and going out to look for her father, with all the obstacles, she doesn't give up and the community doesn't really like the fact that she's doing that, so they try to see if she has any men that can do it.

Overall, I like the fact that this movie shows that it's not impossible for a woman to do a man's job. Back then, it wasn't allowed for a woman to do a man's job. So I really like how this movie takes that idea and shows that a woman can do whatever a man can.

Chicago _ Rob #turcioonfilm

I never really been the type to enjoy musical movies, but director Rob Marshall's Academy Award-winning Chicago really caught my attention. I didn't just like it because the movie had pretty women in cute dresses, dancing around... that might be part of the main reason, butt [sic] I liked how the director used dance scenes and music to start off the scene and show an idea of what's gonna happen next in the story-line. 

My favorite character is the lawyer, Billy Flynn as portrayed by actor Richard Gere (of American Gigolo and Pretty Woman fame) because he is so slick and basically lies about almost everything to try and set his clients free. He charges $5,000, and he makes the claim that he wins every time. 

If you're like me, and don't really like musical movies take my word on this and watch this movie. Chicago AKA "the windy city" blows Hairspray away (pun intended), and it's not annoying to watch 

Man on wire _rob

This is an Academy Award-winning documentary on how this man, French national Philippe Petit, started rope walking and had an idea to walk from one tower in NYC to the other tower connected by a tight rope  (the Twin Towers AKA WTC),  so he and his crew sneak up to one tower once it was finally built and try to plan and map out how there going to pull this stunt. 

Well they find a way and make a plan, even after completing such a great accomplishment some one had beat him in dubhai [explain please]. My honest thoughts about this documentary is even though I didn't like this documentary a whole lot [why not?], a ton of life lessons can be learned like even though what he was doing was extremely dangerous and a record he followed his dream and fought for what he believed for, if everyone had that mental thinking of I'm going to get what I want done and fight so hard for it then more people would probably do more with there life and accomplish their dream .

Sharkk! :o_RT

I've always been a fan of director Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster Jaws and the theme song that comes with the shark, "dun dun' dun dun ..." as the beat becomes faster, the shark emerges, coming closer and closer to the boat the Orca. This is quite a thrill and builds a ton of suspense as to what will happen next in the scene. 

The main idea of the movie is to catch this massive great white shark and earn a substantial amount of money for doing so, so this fisherman and his crew set off to catch this deadly sea monster in hopes to earn the reward, but as the movie carries on they find out that maybe it won't be that easy to catch this beast after all.

This is a great family movie to watch [do you want to qualify this; although it received a PG rating, would it be appropriate to watch with my five year old? Before a beach vacation?); in my opinion it will always be a classic favorite for many. Whoever hasn't watched this is truly missing out on a great movie.

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

This film really caught my attention. It had me on the edge of my seat and paying attention to the entire story line. My favorite character from the film was the little asian boy that followed Indiana Jones around. He was hilarious to watch due the crazy actions he did and whatever came out his mouth. I loved how he came at the perfect time and when Indiana and the girl fell out the building and caught them in the car. I though it was crazy seeing a 8 year old driving a car. This movie had a perfect blend of romance, action and humor. This has to be one of my favorite films we watched this year. 

Crooklyn

Crooklyn, in the beginning, I did not enjoy the movie. I wasn't connected to the actors and the plot. However, that was due to the fact that I missed the intro of the film. After restarting the film, I was able to understand the story line and know where the main characters came from. As the film progressed I was more connected to the film and ended up enjoying it. However, one part I did not understand was did the family just send the girl to the brother's house in the south? None of the brothers stayed there which made me question why she was the only one to stay