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Welcome to our 151 course blog! We will be using this blog frequently throughout the quarter (in and out of class) for assignments, journals, general communication, and recording our collective knowledge. It is my hope that we will learn more about our course content, technology, ourselves, and each other through this course element. Primarily, we will use the blog as a learning tool, but don't forget it's also an avenue for exploration and fun. Creativity is encouraged.
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My current favorite film is the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I saw the film over break and was very impressed by every aspect of the film. David Fincher again proved why he is one of the greatest directors of the past 20 years. Fincher, who is responsible for such films as Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, Alien 3, and Panic Room. Here he reunites with his close friend Brad Pitt to tell the story of man who was born with a CURIOUS condition. He is born as an old dying man and grows younger with time. The film follows his adventures in life and his romance with Kate Blanchetts character. The movie is quite long but sucks you in from the beginning and keeps you emotionally attached through out the remainder of the film.
Singing, dancing, and the dirty streets of East Village in New York City, that's what my favorite movie is about. My favorite movie is Rent. The movie is directed by Chris Columbus and is based of the hit Broadway Musical, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The cast includes Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, and Tracie Thoms. The movie is about eight friends living the life of a starving artist and trying to keep up with that rent. The story tells of the lives of each character while they have to endure poverty and the fight against AIDS. While set to amazing musical numbers, the friends fight for acceptance and "measure their lives with love." The story takes a twist later on with the death of friends and break-ups of relationships. All together make a magnificent movie for everyone to fall in love with.
One of my favorite movies is Girl Fight. Its a movie I don't think most have seen or maybe not even heard of. It is a movie about a teen girl named Diana neighborhood who always gets into fights and is a complete and total tomboy. She is a "hard ass" and finds that she is intrigued by boxing when she goes to pick up her younger, much more artistic brother. She finds herself in an all male gym proving to herself, her father, and all the guys around that she can fight just as well as the next guy. And along the way she also snags herself a guy that shares her love of the sport. Diana gets just what she wants when she is paired up with her boyfriend and wins the match. However, then it becomes a chase to keep her title and her guy. I really like the movie because I think it is just another time when girls are told they can't do something but they always have the determination to make, no matter the sacrifices.
My all time favorite movie is The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps. Eddie Murphy stars as the entire klump family in this family based comedy. The movie is based around Sherman Klump who is a DNA specialist at the college he works for. He works with his beautiful colleague Denise Gaines who is played by Janet Jackson, and together they create a formula that reverses aging. During the movie you discover that Sherman has an alter ego, Buddy, and when Sherman tries to extract the piece of DNA that Buddy exists on, he brings him to life. Throughout the movie Sherman begins to lose his intelligence due to Buddy leaving his body. This movie is a very funny film, and is a great family movie that you can watch with anyone.
One of my favorite all time films has to be Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The genius of being able to produce a cult comedy with such a low budget is an accolade in its own light. Not to mention the memorable quotes. The basic premise of the movie is a spoof of the classic medieval search for the holy grail, in where many a knight spent there life in failed pursuit. This movie takes that and adds the british comedy twist in that King Arthur and his knights are confronted with whimsical happenings and the quest turns into a debacle. The plot makes no sense, what they are doing in the moving makes no sense, everything about the movie makes no sense...which is the beauty of the film in that it generally isn't supposed to make sense. The Holy Grail is a nice non-thinking funny movie that provides comic relief in a general hectic world. Yet, there is depth to this film that can be read into if someone wishes to dedicate the mental energy to such a task. Not to mention the legacy of senseless cult classics from the Monty Python group (ie life of brian, flying circus). The Holy Grail is perfect for a casual "get together" of friends who enjoy off-color comedy.
My favorite movie is Step Brothers. In this hilarious comedy, Will Ferrell is over forty years old and still lives with his mother. Also, John Reilly is also over forty years old, but still lives with his father. Both of the parents fall in love with each other and get married, which forces Will Ferrell and Jon Reilly to move in together, but are not too happy about it. While living together, each brother tries to make the other brothers life a living hell. Step Brothers is a hilarious comedy that i think just about anybody would enjoy.
One of my favorite movies is 13 going on 30. Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo star in a hilarious yet romantic film about a typical pre teen who wants to become "flirty thirty and thriving." Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) is transformed from a pre teen geek to a thirty year old that has everything she wants. After being thirty Jenna realizes who she truely loves and has to win back her pre teen love and best friend, Matty. This movie is full of energy and is a great typical romantic comedy.
One of my favorite movies has to be Big Daddy starring Adam Sandler. The movie is about a man named Sonny Koufax who is extremely lazy and instead of taking the bar exam to get a high level job he is completely capable of handling he works as a part time toll booth employee. Tired of his useless existence his girlfriend leaves to visit her mother and think about their situation. Soon after a child named Julian is left at their apartment and is said to be the illegitimate child of Sonny's roommate, Kevin, who is in China on business. Sonny decides to take care of Julian to prove to his girlfriend that he can be responsible. Eventually Sonny becomes attached to Julian. Eventually child services catches on and comes to take Julian away. In court Sonny fights for the right to be Julian's father but loses. In the end Sonny and Julian continue to be close and Sonny ends up marrying and having a family of his own and in addition finds out that Vanessa, his girlfriend at the beginning now works at Hooters.
My favorite movie of all time is Mean Girls. Lindsay Lohan stars as a junior in high school,Cady,who moves to America after living in Africa with her parents who I think were missionaries. On her first day of school she meets two friends Janice and Damian,who encourage Cady to get back at the infamous Regnia George for kissing Cady's crush right in front of her. Regina is the leader of a popular group called the "Plastics" and in order to get back at Regina, Cady joins the group to sabotage Regina as her friend. Throughout the movie Cady starts turning into an actualy plastic and forgets about her real friends Janice and Damian. Eventually Regnia figures out that Cady is only friends with her to bring her down. A burn book,a book that the plastics write mean things about classmates in, was used against Cady and the rest of the plastics by Regina to make them look bad. The whole entire school figures out what had been written about them and they are all forced to make amends in the end. Overall the movie is just plain funny and it came out when I was in high school so I can definitely relate to it. The message it sent to high school girls was that you don't have to act like the plastics and everyone can get along. Any girl can relate to this halairious movie.
One of my favorite movies is Sex And the City. Sarah Jessica Parker stars in the movie as Carrie Bradshaw who writes a weekly column in the paper, basically about love. In the beginning of the movie she is dating this guy, who she has be dating on and off for awhile, named Big. They start looking at houses together and realize that it would be easier if they got married. At first they plan a wedding with just a few friends since Big has already been married a couple of times and doesn't want to have to go through it all again. Carrie gets a little carried away and plans this huge wedding and invites over 300 people. Well on the wedding day Big gets cold feet and doesn't show up. Carrie is torn part by this and doesn't know what to do. Her three best friends Samantha, Charlottle, and Miranda try to cheer her up and come up with the solution that they should all take Carrie's honeymoon together. Throughout the movie all four friends are struggling with love. This helps them realize that friendships are the most important thing and without them they would be lost. This classic chick-flick movie shows lessions about how to deal with different kinds of relationships including love and friedships.
One of the most enjoyable movies I have ever experienced is 'Little Miss Sunshine.' It is the story of a 7 year old girl, Olive Hoover, who wins a beauty contest after another girl was disqualified. Because of her unbelievable dedication, her family decides to pack up their things and take a road trip to California. It is a touching story shown with many hilarious scenes that cause to to sympathize with the family and ultimately become attached. Throughout the movie you may be frustrated with some of the antics but after seeing the love and dedication they have for each other, one understands why they act the way they do. It is a heart-warming story presented in a very humorous way that can only get better after every viewing.
My favorite movie is Sweet Home Alabama, I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it. Reese Witherspoon leaves her home in Alabama to start a new life in New York, and ends up falling in love Patrick Dempsey. They end up getting engaged, and she realizes that her divorce hadn't gone through yet. So she ends up flying back home to Alabama to slove her problems and make her dream wedding come true, when what happens back at home stirs up old feelings and brings back childhood memories. Her fiance becomes worried and ventures down to Alabama to find her and help make her dreams come true, only to find that she was still in love with the first boy she'd ever kissed. Patrick Dempsey ends up returing home to New York and in the end Reese Witherspoon's dream does end up coming true. This movie is definitely a chick flick, but it's such a good love story. It's a tear jerker too, but leaves you with the happy feeling in the end. Great movie!
My favorite book, at the time being, is Magical Thinking by Augusten Borroughs. This book is a series of stories from Burroughs' life. From being intimate with an undertaker, to figuring out how to kill a mouse in his New York appartment, the stories in this book are the type that we normally keep locked up in our mind, or are too scared to tell another. I enjoy the fact that Burroughs would share these true stories with the world. They are amazingly hilarious and compeling.
Mean girls is about a girl that moves from Africa to a new town. After being home schooled she has to go to a public school where a group of mean girls decides to ask her to sit with them for lunch. The people who befriended her first, tell her to act like she is friends with them and tell them all the stupid things the mean girls do. After being friends with them for awhile, she unfortunately becomes a mean girl and loses her true friends.
My favorite movie is Big Fish. It is a father and son story about a man who fails to understand his father, Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) and his ridiculous stories about his life. Not only that, but the son, William Bloom (Albert Finney), is bringing his own child into this world and desperately needs to know the truth about his father's life since his health is failing fast. The movie presents fantastical stories of love and strife with some of the most odd characters and settings. By far, this is the most imaginative movie I have ever seen and probably will see for a long time.
One of my favorite movies is Gone in 60 Seconds which is a movie about a former car thief, Memphis Raines (Nicholas Cage), who left his home in Long Beach, California after giving up stealing cars. One day, an old friend informs him that his brother, Kip, has accepted a car stealing job, but cannot complete it. Now the man who hired him wants him killed. To save his brother Memphis must assemble a team of car thieves for a one-night "boost" of 50 exotic cars.
My favorite movie of all time is Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe, screenwriter and director of the infamous Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. The film stars Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, and also Nicolas Cage in his debut on the big screen. Fast Times was released in 1982 and was the first High School film to depict the "real" aspects of High School; sex, drugs, music, and of course the curriculum. From the split of a long-term relationship to the always difficult decision of abortion, this movie portrays and covers all aspects of High School; in a more real and better context than Superbad. One can relate to this movie in some way or another. Oh the good ol' days of High School...hey bud, lets party!
Directed by Frank A. Darabent "The Mist" is a screenplay taken from one of Stephen King's novels. This Film is for the time being at least my favorite. A small town is enveloped in a thick mist that masks incredible and horrific beasts. Many townspeople are left stranded helplessly in a grocery store and must rely solely on one another for survival. But when faced with such fear and devastation civilized people begin to crack and let go of reason. The viewer is left to decide what the true horror is the carnage in the mist or people inside the store.
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