Edward D. Wood Jr...Says it all.

First of all, let me say that this movie was good in what it was trying to do. But it was almost painful to watch Ed Wood constantly fail at everything he tried to do. Not only did he not know a thing about what he was doing but he also had no luck whatsoever. In the movie I really liked when he met Orson Welles, I thought it was cool that the director of the best film ever, and the worst director ever were sitting across from each other, it was a bit ironic that the worst director of all time had this entire film about him, and Welles only had a few seconds. But after watching this movie, I only have one question. Did Wood have an innate fear of second takes, or just have an IQ of 10? Because even if he was thinking it would cost more money to do another take, his films might have been decently put together if he did it a few more times and made him more money in the long run. Its just frustrating. Also, womens clothing? Creepy.

Film makers are crazy

So Heart of Darkness, the making of Apocalypse Now. I never realized before watching this some directors are way to obsessed with what they do. I mean, traveling so far away for just under a year. Enduring all this crazy stuff. Personally if I had even one suicidal thought while making a movie, I'd probably either leave then, or never make another hollywood flick afterwards. I almost felt bad for the director, but he scared me. I'm surprised his wife stood by him through all of that. Oh and by the way, when I heard Brando showed up completely oblivious to what he was doing I wanted to smack him, It almost made me feel bad for enjoying the Godfather, because what he did made me lose all respect for him.

M is for many many days late?

Okay this is a bit late, but I had to watch M over the break because I was away. Then completely forgot about the blogs. So anyways, M was a pretty good movie for its time in my opionion. it did a pretty good job of setting the right mood and showing the emotion of everyone in the town. I liked how everything slipped out of control and the townspeople slowly got more and more crazy throughout the film. I'm glad we watched it in class because otherwise I wouldn't have seen this movie, or any other black and white film actually. Oh and one final thing about the movie, I am really glad that Hans got what was coming to him, even though he was insane what he did was horrible. I felt really bad when I saw the ladies who had lost their children.

Do my post, then gets my moneys

I really enjoyed watching Do The Right Thing. I liked the characters and how each had their own unique personality. At first I thought the movie was just a racial comedy but as I watched I noticed how much detail spike lee went into to get his message across. Although it wasn't ultra realistic like the Battle Of Algiers it had its own way of showing tension and I think that as the movie went on it was almost hard to watch because you could feel the tension and pressure building. When everything finally went down, it was just chaotic but wrapped up the movie well. Now that I have seen the movie I can definitely say I'll recommend it to others.

Where is Algiers again?

Okay, this is coming a bit late because I've been in Canada and I get no internet from my igloo.
Anyways, the battle Algiers wasn't my favorite movie of all time, but I can see the reason this movie was picked for social commentary. It was extremely realistic and because of the film style it almost looked like a documentary. The reason that I didn't fall asleep during this movie was because of all the confrontations and tension between the people in the movie. I was shocked at all the things that happened during the movie and thought it did a good job explaining what happened during the Battle of Algiers.

You see I have this condition...

I really enjoyed the movie Momento, and although I'm sure I missed a lot of subliminal messages during the movie, hopefully I'll pick up on them the next time around. I really liked how this movie strays from your typical movie by going backwards, but doesn't do it just for the sake of doing the film backwards. I liked how the character development in the movie worked. Where we started off beleiving every word people said (with the exception of teddy). Then ended up not trusting them at all as we were shown exactly what they had done to Lenny throughout the movie (once again, with the exception of teddy). It was a great movie and I hope to catch the little things I missed the first time through when I watch it again.

Spirits?

Kiss Me Deadly. This movie was so confusing. A Sci-Fi film Noir? That doesn't make much sense. But on top of that you have a guy slapping old people in the name of justice, and an intro scene that makes it seem like this "b" movie is going to start playing some funky music and get real inappropriate. I had a look on my face like, well you probably know the look. Its just an empty stare, because I had no idea what was going on pretty much this entire movie. But in the end the movie was completely redeemed by the spirits inside the box at the end. It was pretty amazing, the spirits blew the house up and set a girl on fire. I just loved that ending.