In this video “BIRDEMIC: Shock and Terror - Game Hero Review #2” on YouTube, the rhetor or creator of this film review video “Game Hero” uses many appeals, analogies, imageries, and certain tones of voice to prompt the viewer to believe this movie to be a terrible film. The techniques used to convey his argument work very efficiently paired with the visual content provided from the movie to really convince the audience. Furthermore, the video review is edited in a way that the audience can vividly understand the film critic's opinion of the movie. Starting the video the critic almost instantly states that this movie is “one of the worst movies of all time. This movie had to of been a joke there is no way that they actually tried … this godawful, …show more content…
He continues to show sections of the film that are sped up and sliced to save time, of the main character asking a girl character named Natalie out on a date, getting gas, and going to work. The critic then speaks in threatening fluster “do we really need to see this? Getting gas!? … wait hold on isn’t this movie supposed to be about birds? WHERE ARE THE BIRDS?” The critic, using different tones of voice really exemplifies his argument about the movie and even gives him a credibility of trust to his argument and his personal character alike. Watching further into the video the critic, “Game Hero” explains to the viewer the baseline progression of the story represented in the film, showing scenes that relate to his narration. Stating “looks like everything's going good for our characters, (the) guy made a million dollar sale, Natalie, the girl was accepted as Victoria Secrets model.” While the segment in his video is not a colossal deal pertaining to the argument when comparing …show more content…
To make the claim that the movie is inferior to others it would have been helpful for the critic to possibly include statistics about the movie and overall representation of it by other people but even then that is opinionated. There is far and few examples of factual information and one of them is that this film was produced to raise awareness about global warming. A scene thrown away with the statement “irrelevant” by the critic shows the main character buying solar panels for his house, this directly connects with the subtopic of a healthy earth that the film presents that the critic did not fully touch on but could have been interesting to hear the information and opinion about. Later on the critic shows the viewer the first clip of the movie that birds appear in it. “They look like crap” he declared, transitioning into another scene of the movie then stating “after that extremely cheesy scene” showing that he believed the visuals looked awful. Game Hero is certain that the viewer will agree with his argument, that an explanation of why the film is an okay or even good film, in his opinion, is not needed. To him the birds in the clip he showed are of such low quality that any person seeing them will say “yeah, that is pretty
basic charge of this criticism can be stated in the words of a recent critic,
In the piece “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” Jean Luc-Comolli and Jean Narboni define the critic's job as the discernment of “which films, books and magazines allow the ideology a free, unhampered passage, transmit it with crystal clarity, serve as its chosen language” and which films “attempt to make it turn back and reflect itself, intercept it, make it visible by revealing its mechanisms, by blocking them” (753). Through their examination, seven film categories are outlined. Clue falls into the “E” category, which is defined as “films which seem at first sight to belong firmly within the ideology and to be completely under its sway, but which turn out to be so only in an ambiguous manner” (75...
In his essay, “It’s Just a Movie: A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes”, Greg M. Smith argues that analyzing a film does not ruin, but enhances a movie-viewing experience; he supports his argument with supporting evidence. He addresses the careful planning required for movies. Messages are not meant to be telegrams. Audiences read into movies to understand basic plotlines. Viewers should examine works rather than society’s explanations. Each piece contributes to Smith’s argument, movies are worth scrutinizing.
The author tries to stir up the reader's pathos appeal, giving scenarios that knock up their emotion. Opening up the article, the author talks about a Canadian teen who filmed himself acting out a fight scene from a well known movie series, Star Wars. The film was posted online and shined to the public causing a “viral frenzy”(113). People from around the world even edited the video, enhancing it with “music and special effects”(113) to ensure the film was more entertaining and amusing to the premature, sinful minds of the general public. Another scenario that resulted in internet harassment formed when a South Korean student refused to pick up her dogs feces in a local subway in Seoul. Someone caught this faulty act on video and decided to post it on the internet which of course attracted multiple numbe...
In conclusion, by using the production elements of both allusion and symbolism; director Tim Burton has created the film in such a manner by making deliberate choices in order to invite a certain response. The film is constructed and given greater depth through the allusion to elements from other genres and ridicules the suburbia’s materialism and lack of imagination, which in turn enhances the invited response.
Meta Critic felt the movie a bit more real to the touch, as appose to a mere mess says one critic Mick LaSalle (2015), “It’s a movie about a geeky teenager living in the Los Angeles hood, and something about it, or rather everything about it, feels real.” (“Meta Critic” Critic Reviews Section, para.1.). Although receiving much criticism from both, viewers at home, and of course the press, the movies stands a great success. We can all agree that the movie was a blast, critic or
Maasik, Sonia, and J. Fisher Solomon. "The Offensive Movie Cliche That Won't die." Signs of life in the U.S.A.: readings on popular culture for writers. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994. 407-411. Print.
With the help of superb editing, sound, mise en scene, and cinematography, this film cannot be topped. The fist scene of the movie creates an atmosphere that helps the viewer know that he/she will enjoy this wonderful classic. Throughout the movie there are surprises and fun that makes this a movie that people will want to watch again and again. Gene Kelly said it best when he said, "Dignity, always dignity. " That is what this movie has from beginning to end, dignity.
Movie Review – Birdman The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance The movie Birdman, by Alejandro Iñárritu is a dramatic-tragedy-comedy. It evolves around the actor and instructor Riggan Thompson, played by Michael Keaton. He is instructing a play; by the famous Raymond Carver called “What we talk about, when we talk about love”, while he plays the main character in the play as well. We get an intimate look at Riggan Thompson’s most inner battles, as his alter ego “Birdman”, challenges his conscious and makes him struggle to take the right choices, while we also experience what an actor/instructor has to endeavor, when he finds himself on Broadway.
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a fantastic film that combines seemingly disparate ideas into a coherent theme and narrative. The theme that seems so prevalent in the film is the struggle to move on and find love and admiration. The movie tries to understand this struggle by asking the question of what defines art and whether Hollywood-like spectacle approach to art is a good thing. The film also faces the viewer with the internal conflict that these characters face when having two types of personalities on and off the stage. The movie conveys this theme through its use of cinematography, acting and production design.
For this assignment, I decided to do my film review on To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, R., & Pakula, A. Director of the Department of Health and Human Services. d. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. To Kill a Mockingbird [Motion picture on VHS]. United States of America. I have a personal connection to this film because it is one of my most beloved novels by Harper Lee. I have never watched the film so it was a nice experience to see the characters I have loved for years come to life just before my eyes.
The entire movie is bursting with counter narratives, when the audience believes they hold an accurate grasp on what is truly happening, there is a misguiding event, as the storyline is continually challenged. The viewer’s beginning formations about what is going on are learned to be always questionable because what is repeatedly steered to trust and is revealed not be the truth in the conclusion of the film. This neo-noir film had multiple scenarios that make the previous actions untrustworthy to the actual message. This proves that all the observations and thoughts the viewer possesses are only relevant to what they are exposed to and shown and not to what is, in fact, happening.
...n (Director) mistakenly seems to believe can carry the whole film. On the strength "based on a true story", he has rejected attention-grabbing characters, an imaginative plot, and unforgettable villains.
“Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine, some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything’s not okay.” - David Fincher. David Fincher is the director that I am choosing to homage for a number of reasons. I personally find his movies to be some of the deepest, most well made, and beautiful films in recent memory. However it is Fincher’s take on story telling and filmmaking in general that causes me to admire his films so much. This quote exemplifies that, and is something that I whole-heartedly agree with. I am and have always been extremely opinionated and open about my views on the world and I believe that artists have a responsibility to do what they can with their art to help improve the culture that they are helping to create. In this paper I will try to outline exactly how Fincher creates the masterpieces that he does and what I can take from that and apply to my films.
Another major issue I had with the movie was its temperature inconsistencies. In the movie, scientists warned people about going outside. They say that if one was to go outside that they would freeze to death. The movie also showed a wooly mammoth which froze to death immediately at the time of the first ice age. These examples were placed in the movie to highlight the ext...