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…
Category: Fall 2017
Students writing in the Fall quarter of 2017.
The Blind Side
The first time I saw The Blind Side was when a friend suggested it to me a few years ago. I had no idea what it was about, but I remembered after the movie I absolutely loved it. My family is a football family, so the movie was perfect. I liked how it was mostly…
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
One movie that affected me greatly was The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This movie affected me in a strong way because this little boys life was such a lie from what his father tells him. He thinks that his father is fighting the war for the better..not burning Jews in a concentration camp. The boy,…
E.T.
The movie E.T.was one of my childhood favorites. It excited the possibility of aliens and space for me. In the movie, an alien comes down from outer space and meets a boy named Elliot. At first Elliot is terrified of E.T., but through the course of time they bond and even become friends. However, this…
We Were Soldiers
My cinematic history is actually a huge part of who I am. As a child both my parents worked a lot, but every Friday we would all jump into the car and head to the movie theater. So for me going to the movies was not just a form of entertainment but it was an…
An Inconvenient Truth
Reading the posts of others I have concluded I am a boring person, I have not scene most of the mentioned movies and I really only watch Documentaries and late night TV. One of the reasons I am taking this course is so I can gain a better appreciation for Hollywood and other non mainstream…
Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992)
Michael Keaton, Michelle PFiffer, Danny DiVito, and Christopher Walken. Who needs more than that in 1992? I won’t be spending too much time talking about Batman. Selina Kyle, played by Michelle Pfiffer, becomes Catwoman on her own crusade to find the man that killed her and kill him (her boss, Max Shrek, played by Christopher…
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I ran into this movie by scrolling through an iPhone app called iFunny in which there were pictures containing funny captions. One picture I saw was simply a scene from the movie where a knight was missing all his limbs and the caption read “It’s only a flesh wound!” Interested, I searched the line on…
The Martian
My interest in the movie The Martian started by reading book for an English class. I thoroughly enjoyed the book so when the movie was released I was anxious to see it. The plot of the movie is about an astronaut, Mark Watney, who was left for dead following an accident during a mission to…
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sarah, Plain and Tall is a movie based from a book written by Patricia MacLachlan. It tells the story of a Kansas family living on the prairie in the 1800’s. The widowed father, Jacob Witting, sends an ad in the newspaper for a mail-order bride. Sarah Weaton who is from Maine, answers the ad…
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