Horror, as a genre is probably my most favorite of all film genres, although I am always a sucker for a good action/drama movie. I know these are two genres are very different from one another, but in some ways they are similar. Both can use violence to shock the viewers’ senses. They can both…
Category: Fall 2017
Students writing in the Fall quarter of 2017.
Pleasantville vs. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
When I watch films, I try to pick films that I feel will keep me sucked in to watching them. Every time I pick films and blog about them there is always a correlation that I do not plan at all. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON compared to PLEASANTVILLE is very different but at…
Montage
Montage by definition is the production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas. In film, montages can really help the narrative progress by telling a long part of a story in a short amount of time. We can see examples of this technique in a variety…
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Vs. Hard Boiled
After the blockbuster boom of the 70s and 80s, corporations found that there is good money to be made in the movie industry. With this realization came a different way of producing movies; with very large budgets and big stars. Then the popularity of home video brought forth a need for more product for the…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs. A Better Tomorrow
Action and horror movies almost always have scenes that make you cringe because of the violence involved. Sometimes the violence is pointless and terrifying and other times there is a reason. Well, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and A BETTER TOMORROW are two very different movies to clarify the point being made. This is the mad man…
Terminator and The House of Flying Daggers
For the past two weeks I chose to watch Terminator(1984) and The House of Flying Daggers(2004). Both films have some similarities but are very unlike from each other. The Terminator revolves around guns, violence, and the main goal is to survive. I chose this movie because it is the first out of many sequels and…
Dead Poets Society & Sex, Lies, and Videotape
My two films I watched this week are Dead Poets Society and Sex, Lies, and Videotape. These two films are quite different in their plot, but they are both unconventional and low budget. The first film, Dead Poets Society, stars Robin Williams in 1989. This film is categorized as a feel good unconventional film and…
Hollow Man vs Basic Instinct
For this week’s blog, I will be writing about the movies Hollow Man (2000) and Basic Instinct (2002). Both movies were directed by Paul Vehoeven, a Dutch born filmmaker with a number of blockbuster movies to his credit (Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers and Elle). Vehoeven is best known for films with…
THE TERMINATOR vs. SOLARIS
Suspense and action were two very popular genres of the late 80’s and early 90’s. These films were pioneers for the movies that would follow in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. THE TERMINATOR was a huge deal when it was released on October 26th, 1984. Director James Cameron was behind the film and according…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Over the past two weeks I watched and analyzed two films, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. These movies were both extremely important to their genres. They both improved and set the bar for future films to come. Texas Chainsaw Massacre raised stakes for horror movies obviously by being scarier than any before…
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