Technology, Messages, and Entertainment

Movies have both changed both dramatically and very little in the time since 1965. This is because it is part of human nature to not only want to tell and see not only meaningful stories, but also to see things that will make them jump from their seats and stare in wonder, questioning their very…

Transformers/Slumdog Millionaire

The two movies that I have chosen this week, Transformers and Slumdog Millionaire could not be any different from one another in their approach to showing their messages, and just how they get them across. However they both have important places in film, and each show how movies can become succesful. Transformers has done this…

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off/Ghostbusters

The 1980’s were a great time for comedy movies. With the advancements in CGI, directors were able to produce things that were never even thought possible before and were able to stun and amaze their audiences. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Ghostbuster’s were both comedies made during the 1980’s and although they might share the…

Jaws

  Jaw’s was one of the first massive summer blockbusters. Sadly while it became incredibly popular, becoming the world’s top grossing movie in just 78 days, it pushed wrong and quite often harmful facts about sharks. It created suspense and realism in a way that people flooded to the theatre to watch, and broke anybody’s…

The film I would like to put into historical context is the Ingmar Bergman film The seventh seal. The Seventh Seal was a film that was introduced during the period of New wave films. The seventh seal was a rather unconventional film, with a soldier returning from the crusades to find that his home has…

Bringing Down the House

Bringing down the House is a movie about an uptight tax lawyer accidentally connecting and meeting with a convicted felon. At the start of the movie, the lawyer believes he’s going to have a nice night with a lady he has been chatting with online over the last couple of weeks, but when she arrives…