Intense car chases, extraordinary fight scenes, and a great storyline are all components of a good movie. Warner Brothers executes these elements with pizzazz in the movie \"The Matrix: Reloaded\" by director Josh Oreck. The Matrix is a science fiction movie and thus appeals to a very critical audi...

Thomas Kim The film, "Charlie's Angels" was a visually motivated movie. This film fit under the genre of action/comedy. The action and camera work moved the story forward while keeping the audience attentive. The primary characters were Dylan, a rebellious tomboy, Natalie, a ditzy encyclop...

"South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" is probably the most offending animated movie ever made; it contains more swearing and other offending activities that I have ever seen in a movie before. This is however, what South Park fans love about ...

"An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and mind, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the oth...

Most people believe that movies are created to purely to entertain the audience, which is true in some aspects to make money, but most movies have a moral or important message that it portrays. Glory is a movie that has a huge historical meaning about the first black regiment in the Civil War. T...

Name of Movie: Blue Streak Stars: Martin Laurence Directed: Les Mayfield Master jewel theif Miles Logan (Martain Laurence) has a problem! A $20 million problem! Recently realeased from prison after a 2-year bust, he's anxious to retrieve the huge diamond that he hid in a construction site ...

Perception of Reality Essay What is real? Our perception of reality is often in the hands of the community we live in. We formulate ideas of reality using experience of our own as well as those of others around us. Our lives are constantly being influenced by our surroundings. The idea that ...

Tracy S. DouglasEnglish 101 1 November 2001Movie ManiaIt's six o'clock Friday evening, and you have no solid plans since you and your significant other just had a big fight. You are frustrated and feel that you just need to get out before you explode. Your solution: the movies--the only place you ...

Although its generic title suggests otherwise, Wes Craven's Scream (1996) is a horror film that in many ways transcends the banality of its genre. Indeed, Scream distinguishes itself from other horror movies by an understanding, made explicit within the diegesis of the film, of the horror genre...

Comedy. Action packed. Great story line. These are some qualities that the best movies of the summer have. Some examples of the best movies of the summer are freaky Friday, Terminator 3,and Freddy vs. Jason. One reason why Freddy vs. Jason is one of the best movies of the summer...

TITLE OF MOVIE: ScarfaceStudio: Universal StudiosProducer: Martin BregmanDirector: Brian De PalmaStars: Al Picino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert LoggiaYear of the Movie's Release: 1983A basic summary of the Plot: Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as ...

Oliver Stone directed and wrote a lot of movies. Three of those movies are Any Given Sunday, Platoon, and Natural Born Killers. There are similar things in all three movies but there are many differences between them as well. Oliver Stone was born in New York City. He served in Vietnam and w...

Every summer moviegoers flock to the theaters to see what Hollywood has punched out as their big summer hits. Some do well and become successful blockbuster, while the others fail to stand up to their potential hype. Yet in the past few years it\'s seem as though movies themselves have become less e...

THE COMPARING AND CONTRASTING OF FRAILTY AND KIERKEGAARD. According to Kierkegaard in the Philosophy book, despair is sickness until death And is the central problem in philosophy. Kierkegaard poses the question, "Is there anything in this world or outside it to which the individual can ...

Pay It Forward is a movie based on a novel written by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It is a movie about a social studies teacher giving his class an assignment, encouraging them to change the world into a better place to live in, and to fill the world with love. Trevor McKinney proposes the idea of 'pa...

Comparison between the two movies of The Most Dangerous Game The author of the written version of "The most dangerous game" was Richard Connell and that story is interested and very exacting. This story occur one of series of details which give a little of suspense but in fact that is not enough....

Movie Review: White Heat The film White Heat (1949) is a story about a gangster named Cody Jarrett who goes to prison after confessing for a hotel robbery to avoid the death penalty for leading a train robbery stealing $300,000. Cody is played by the actor James Cagney and is portrayed as a rut...

So much has been said and written about the achievements of Steven Spielberg and his brand of cinema, that the moment we hear about a new Spielberg film being made, we know what to expect. A high quality action movie falling in the genre of science fiction- but when Sch...

Air, food, water, shelter, and fire are important elements of life for human beings. Without those elements, we could not possibly survive. Those are the obvious ones, but have you ever thought of something else that you couldn\'t live without? Did television or books come to mind? If they didn\...

Diversity! According to Encarta's online dictionary, the definition identifies diversity as a variety of something such as opinion, color, or style. Perhaps this explanation best suited this high powered drama as diversity observed, explained, and adversely affected the lives of people along...

When audience members look at films they want to put reality on the shelf and enjoy a well written movie. Martin Scorsese has always captivated and fascinated his audience members for many years. His types of movies tend to have a male leads while the female characters are sometimes not as develop...

The movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is a crazy horror movie. It's about the teenaged children of Elm Street and how they all start to die, one-by-one, apparently being killed off by something when they sleep. Something in their dreams was murdering the children. A girl named Nancy T...

Cinematography began in the early 1800s with a simple Phenakistoscope and has evolved into its present day state of computerized generation (DeAngelis, 11). Since the 1500s, people have been trying to transform light into fixed images (8). In the early 1800s, there was a problem that innovators h...

Mr. King opens the discussion with quite a provocative statement. He declares that in his opinion, we are all no less as mentally ill and reasons it by mentioning people who talk to themselves in public, picking nose or make weird grimaces when they think nobody\'s seeing them, or have irrational, h...

I have elected to take a closer look at movies that deal with the "ghetto" social institution. There have been several movies that attempt to depict the harshness of growing up in predominantly black urban neighborhoods. The three films that I have selected are what I believe to be the top three f...