Love 'Em or Hate "Em

I thoroughly enjoyed all of the Coen Brothers' films. They all have this sense of humor that is not laugh out loud funny but they definitely keep you very interested in the movie. They just have this way of portraying a dark subject that is cold and impersonal but put this humor, that can be perceived as dark, that really adds to their films as a whole. They truly do a great job with film making and in my opinion have mastered their craft but there is that something that I can't truly describe it. That I hate the Coen Bros. Is it because they are too good or is it something else? I honestly can't describe it. I love their films; they are amazing but there is that something that makes me want to hate them but I just can't put my finger on it.

I feel like when I'm watching their movies that they are truly one step ahead of everyone else in this industry but still aren't using all of their potential maybe? They could be better some how. In ways, that we can't understand until someone does it and the Coen Bros. will be the first to do it. So I called it in..............End of story.

Robert Altman

Robert Altman's style of film really caught my attention better than any other director we've studied this semester. Hitchcock's mystery stories never reeled me all the way in and Kurosawa just didn't quite do it for me either. The long goodbye was one of the most entertaining movie I've ever seen. It was unique. It was very serious yet sarcasticly hilarious. While it comments on very serious things such as marraige, death, revenge, the mob and crime, it still pulls of a witty humor with all of Elliot Gould's side comments and comebacks to other characters. I tend to enjoy Altman's film that has a main protaganost because no matter how masterful you are of putting in a lot of different characters and different stories it still can get confusing. Plus, I felt more connected to the story of Elliot Gould and Tim Robbins.

Hitchcock

I love Hitchcock he is sort of a genius of his trade. However I did not enjoy The 39 Steps. I was not a fan at all. That could just be because I don't typically enjoy that type of movie. The mystery type thing. I don't like when the whole point of a movie is to solve a mystery and nothing else. However, Rear Window was my favorite of the one's we watched. This also is sort of a crime solving film but in this one we aren't really sure if there is even a crime to solve. This also focuses a lot on the the neighbors and the community around the peeping tom. In the very beginning of the film, I was sort of creeped ou by this guy who spends all his time looking out a window but it becomes less and less creepy because soon enough it's basically the only view you have to see from. Is it less creep because you're the one doing it? Definitely not but everyone sort of feels less weird about it as time goes on.

In general, I am a big fan of Hitchcock andn could see myself watching more of his movies for simple pleasure my own social life negects from. waaaaahahahaahaaaaaahahaaa. I'm a loser. Wait what?

The Godfaaaaahaaather (yawn?)

The next epic tale told by Francis Ford Coppola that my group and I watched was The Godfather. I'm surprised that I only fell asleep twice while watching this movie. I constantly had to keep my wits about to stay awake because this plot takes so long to climax and the rising action didn't really keep my interest either. Perhaps that's why I couldn't type this blog in time.

Any farts, this movie talks a great deal about family and the mafia and Micheal, the Godfather's, son has to choose between his wants and his family's wants. There is some killing where one guy kills this the dad and then the son of that dad kills the guy that killed his dad and is pressured into the mafia by his family. In other words, it's all very confusing and long and unnecessary. Coppola does kind of a crappy job in making movies so far. He makes them way too long in his perfectionist ways and his ways are anywhere but perfect in fact they are anything but perfect... maybe even imperfect one might say. I would say that Coppola's ideas for movies are very good but how he goes about making them and writing them are far from great. His ideas for movies are fantastic but the execution of his ideas are awful. just to reiterate my point. So again, Great ideas but horrible execution of ideas. Thank you.

Worth The Time? Probs Not

Our groups director of choice is Francis Ford Coppola. The first movie we watched was Apocalypse Now. It was an interesting movie that really captivated my attention at first but as the movie went on i realized how long it was and I just wanted to get up and leave. If it weren't for the artisticly amazing shots, if that made any sense, I would have gotten my regretful butt up off the couch and go watch something short and attention keeping like Dumb and Dumber. The movie was pretty decent overall however but having to sit and watch something I otherwise wouldn't have and having to stay till the very end because I was "supposed" to was a difficult task.

I haven't seen any other Coppola films. However, I started to watch The Godfather and fell asleep before anything really happened. This worries me because I hope to God that his other films aren't as long as this last one. On the otherhand I love what Coppola has done with film in general, or at least as fas as I can tell from the interview we watched in class last semester, he's making it more of an art form instead of Hollywood blockbuster and not following the norm and just doing whatever it takes to make a great film. So what I'm trying to say is you should see it but don't expect to see something that will be on your own personal favorites. It's a great film not necessarily fun to watch.

Today is Tomorrow

Bill Murrey stars in the romantic comedy Groundhog Day. I thought this movie was pretty hysterical. My favorite scene is when that insurance salesman yells Ted for the third or fourth time and Bill Murphy flat out punches him in the face. The frustration that guy causes is thoroughly expressed in that one shot. This movie was an unnecessary romantic comedy. I think that the movie would have been good maybe better without him getting together with Rita. However it does give some closure to the story due to the fact that he tried so hard for so long to hook up with her. She wasn't even that good looking. I think it may have been a better movie if they didn't end up together because that was his goal for so long. But the true lesson learned was that he had to be better to people. Treat them as he would like to be treated. The golden rule thought to us by Jesus or in the movies case the groundhog? Relation to the article maybe? Otherwise the movie was hilarious. Repeating the same date over and over again kinda creep but otherwise funny. I enjoyed my experience with this movie. One more time emphasizing through a different arrangement of words... I highly enjoyed this film.

Screwball Comedy

I think I've actually seen this movie before this class but no recent enough where I knew the plot. In the beginning of this movie, the humor is that worse of a cartoon and I had a hard time getting into it but after a while I seemed to get used to it and even understand how ppeople could coceive this as funny. It really hit me when George the dog came into play. His nonstop barking and chasing of people really lightened the mood I thought. Iit was so annoying it became funny. Much like that of the humor found in family guy. If you do a repeated action or noise it's funny, do it long enough it's funnier than before. However Bringing Up Baby might have done it TOO long I still found it to be enjoyable. Now the love part of it didn't really add anything. However, i lkied the fact that David realized that his wife had no point being with him she was a emotionless, heartless woman that sound be living with cats because she can't sustain a relationship. The fact that Susan and David got together at the end was pointless. It was onlythere to provide closure to the end of the movie. You had no feeling of happily ever after like a romantic comedy and that was the only thing that bothered me but overall I quite enjoyed the movie.