In the early 1980’s, a know movie director by the name of James Cameron, and famous action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, stared a series one of the best well know action movies of that era. That movie is called “Terminator.” It is the first part in an extensive five part sequence of Terminators movies. The best sequence in this five part story is the second movie that can out called “Terminator 2 Judgment Day,” This story is about a rebellious teenage boy named “John Connor” played by Edward Furlong, his mother named “Sarah Connor” played by Linda Hamilton, and a cyborg robot that was sent from the future to protect this teenager from another cyborg robot that is made out of liquid metal. James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger really hit one out of the park with this movie “Judgment Day.” A few months ago I watched the fifth installment of the Terminator called “Genesis.” Within the forty five minutes of this movie I found myself truly dissatisfied. For some reason this movie was lacking several important things. What makes a great movie great is, the story line, acting, and not too over the edge special effects that just make this movie horrible. This movie Genesis …show more content…
The second Terminator movie was known for opening and pushing that envelope, to the point of accomplishing things that were never done before. It was extremely disappointing to watch Terminator Genesis because all of the special effect that was in this movie was already done by all of the other Terminator movies, so nothing new. Even the lead actor of all of these Terminator movies Arnold Schwarzenegger did everything with computer imagery. So when people saw him in this movie they knew that it wasn’t really Arnold. I understand that in a lot of movies in this date and age are done with computer imagery. It pains me to see that this is where big time budget films are
The 1980’s brought about a change to movies after Americas’ loss in the Vietnam War. In the light of this, America felt that their masculinity was in question. In result, Hollywood responded to these feelings by making movies that had strong male characters, known as “hard bodies” (Sklar 346). Furthermore, according to Movie Made America, the characteristics of a hard body are “heroic, aggressive, and determined” (Sklar 346). One such movie that exhibits this is the Terminator, directed by James Cameron and released in 1984. The movie is about Sarah Conner, a teenager, who is being hunted by the Terminator, a robot sent from the future to kill her. In the first and the last scene featuring the Terminator, two hard body characteristics, aggression
Saving Private Ryan starts out on June 6, 1944, which marks the beginning of the invasion of Normandy, in World War II. As learned early on four brothers from the Ryan family all go out to serve the United States, and in action three of the four are killed. This story follows a group of soldiers on their journey as they search for, the last surviving of the Ryan brothers, Private First Class James Ryan, and send him home. World War II is the deadliest and most extensive war in history that lasted six years. In World War II there were battles fought and rescue missions that took place, and the US Military showed their bravery as they went in to fight for our country.
This is the third film in the trilogy, it made a total of $572 million dollars and had a budget of around 35 million dollars. The film is 2 hours 11 minutes long
Actors involved in Clash of the Titans (1981) and in the remake of the film in 2010 had to imagine themselves fighting off giant scorpions, a reptilian Medusa, and the dreaded Kraken. Despite the incredible special effects of today’s technology, Clash of the Titans (2010) lacks the creativity and imagination that originally brought the film to life in 1981. The use of CGI causes movies to become more realistic and believable as the technology improves, but at a terrible cost--the audience’s involvement. The audience is unable to form as much of an emotional attachment to the story told in the 1981 version of the film as the 2010 version because the special effects take away the need for the audience to use their imagination. The audience is much more engaged and involved in the 1981 story because viewers must use their own imagination to play along with the actors in the film.
In 2007, history was born. In a less climatic way, Transformers, an American science fiction action film based on the toy line was debuted. The sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released in the summer of 2009. Two years later, the third installment of the live action series, Transformers Dark of the Moon was released. In present day, enthusiastic fans await the arrival of the fourth installment of the Transformers film series, Transformers Age of Extinction. Within each film is the advancement of technology used to create the film and the improvement of the computer generated imagery that was heavily used. Michal Bay’s Transformer Dark of the Moon has debuted and created one of the most complicated computer generated models ever been made. Because of him and his team, millions of enthusiasts have come to appreciate the work of art as well as the computer generated imagery that was used to create some of our favorite characters.
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I'm more than a little upset with myself that I allowed myself to go so long without watching this film. I've known about for what feels like forever, but for one reason or another I just never got around to watching it. Well, I can proudly say that's no longer an issue, time was made and Re-Animator was watched. Watching Re-Animator for the first time, reminded me of the first time I watched Return of the Living Dead. Both films have this vibrant atmosphere that I have a hard time putting into words. Both films share a lot in common, flawless use of humor, memorable scenes and some of the best practical effects shots that I can think of. But if I had to choose a favorite between the two, Return of the Living Dead would win out, mostly due
Armageddon begins by showing the destruction of the Earth by an asteroid 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs inhabited the earth. According to the narration, the asteroid is said to have been six miles wide, with the power of 10,000 nuclear weapons. The after effects were trillions of tons of dirt and rock thrown into the atmosphere, creating a blanket of dust that the sun was unable to penetrate for 1,000 years. The narrator explained that it happened once, and that it would happen again, it was only a matter of when.
Nicole Hendricks USP 107 Final IDs Professor James Ingram. “Empire Strikes Back” Mayors Source: Lecture 18 Meaning: An “Empire Strikes Back” mayor refers to the white republican mayor that often times comes into office following a minority mayor. In cases such as the “Empire Strikes Back” mayor, the minority mayor has failed to hold forth to the issues that he intended to solve upon being elected. The minority mayor was elected in order to improve racial tensions. Yet, the minority mayor must somewhat “dilute” his stance in order to appeal to multiple ethnicities, rather than just his.
The film “Furious 7” by James Wan is a successful movie that gives off thrill, tears, and entertainment all at once. The film immediately starts off with lots of action and car stunts that look awesome, on top of that, the entertainment of the film is incredible that keeps you awake throughout the whole movie. Even though the movie is action-filled, the movie sets off a memorable goodbye tribute to Paul Walker who died on a car accident while half way through the movie.
The major task of the designer of any movie poster is to make the poster visually interesting, so that it captures the attention of its viewers. When people first glance at a movie poster, what catches their eye? What draws them in and makes them want to immediately purchase a ticket? Is it the usage of bright colors (or lack thereof), certain actors or directors they like, or is it the overall design of the poster? While certain posters leave a lot to the imagination in terms of what the movie is about, the movie poster for The Expendables 2 efficiently introduces the audience to what they can expect from the film.
The film, Of Two Minds, is based on real life accounts of individuals living with bipolar disorder. Before watching this film, I had an idea of what bipolar disorder is , but after viewing this film I was completely mistaken. Previously, I thought being bipolar was going from a “normal” mood to an angry or sad mood in a matter of seconds and could be simply fixed by taking medicine. But my previous thoughts were completely wrong and bipolar disorder is very serious and complicated. I didn’t know the severity of this disease and I think a lot of the general public is uneducated about bipolar disorder as well as mental illness. Terri Cheney describes having bipolar disorder as, “Take the best day you ever had and multiply it by a million, it 's like a flu but one hundred times worse. It 's having flu in your mind."
The science fiction genre has changed drastically over the past hundred years. From simple beginnings with painted backgrounds, the genre has adapted to special effects by the updating technology. Even films that share the similarity of genre can differ vastly from each other. An example of this would be the science fiction films Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931) and Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982). While these two films share the same genre they do not share much else. The time period between the two films creates a gap between the overall look and storyline. The plot in Blade Runner would not have been popular or well received in the era that Frankenstein was released. Instead, Frankenstein brought something new to the science fiction genre.
For my movie analysis I selected the 1996 film, A Time to Kill. For the next four pages I will answer the following questions, What feelings did the movie evoke?, What surprised you?, What made you mad?, How much were you aware of the problem presented in this movie before you watched this movie?, How does this movie relate to your life?,
The prodigious journey to America has been a constant dream over the last few centuries. Whether in the hopes of finding better employment or to escape from various hardships, America has always presented the opportunity as being ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’. However, in resent years this dream has been marred by mounting fear and apprehension of the unknown. The constant prevalence of ever growing terrorism, which in itself feeds on fear and ignorance has figuratively lead suspicion to amputate this countries once open arms.