Great movie

Memento was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I loved the fact that the movie went in reverse mainly. The way that the first scene is presented is one of the best first scenes I've ever seen. The wonder it instills into the viewers from the very beginning is great. It makes you want to know so many things right away, like what happened and why, that it grabs your attention from the beginning. Also the way that the scene is actually in reverse makes you wonder what is going on. The picture going from clear to blank, the picture going back into the camera, the blood running up and the gun jumping into his hand, all make the audience wonder what is going on.
From the first scene on the movie runs backwards in chronological order and from the first scene on your attention is grabbed. The movie is perfect in the order it is in. Keeping it in reverse makes the audience just want to keep watching and find out what is going to happen next. All in all one of the best movies I've seen lately I recommend everyone see it.

Kiss Me Deadly with a box of spirits

The movie Kiss Me Deadly was an OK movie to watch. The overall movie itself was only average, living up to its B movie budget. The acting might have been the best part about it, because the plot made very little sense until the end of the movie. I really liked the movie though because of all of the random fight scenes and the way Mike Hammer handled himself. I loved the fact that he would just smile after kicking some guys ass down stairs, or smashing some guys hand in a drawer. Oh and the reaction of that mortician guy was hilarious And then at the very end of the movie, the movie took a turn for the worse.
The end of the movie was so bad. Watching the box open and who ever that person was reaction to it was so funny, but horrible as an ending to the movie. Then Velda and Mide get out walk into the water and the movie is done. No warning or anything and the movie just ends. What was in the box was never explained but In my opinion it was spirits. I mean light was coming out of it and it was making weird noises. Not to mention it lit that girl on fire out of no where. If anybody has any better idea of what it was tell me but i'm almost 100% sure it was spirits. So is Allie so your going to have to convince both of us before we agree

Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby

In class we watched the movie Double Indemnity. An overall good movie by my account, the best black and white movie that we've watched in class. Not only did I think it was a good movie but I also think that it is a great example of the genre film noir. It fit almost all of the things that are normally said about film noir. The two things that I noticed most though were the low-key lighting, and how the movie got your attention.
The low-key lighting played a huge part in the movie, casting shadows in almost every scene, darkening the mood of the whole movie. One great way they did this was with venetian blinds. It made for areas of extreme light and extreme dark. The low-key lighting in a way made the movie more enjoyable because of how it made the mood more sinister than it already was. The film got my attention because of the nature of the story. About sex and murder, the experts are right, its hard to not love stories like this. Keeping my attention through the whole thing, and not making me want to kill myself because the characters were so bad was what made this movie for me.
Oh and the only bad thing was the number of times they said the word baby, and the wig her head.

Groundhog Day

First of all I have to say that the movie Groundhog Day was a very good movie. A movie that was so much better than Bringing up Baby it's not even funny. Never in this movie did you have to contemplate killing yourself (even though Phil did) or killing one of the characters becasue they annoyed you so very much. Groundhog Day is a very good movie that shows the change one person can make in his personality and outlook on life after seeing how bad things have become. The way that Phil is shown to us as viewers at the beginnning is one of a huge jackass. As the movie goes along though, and he realizes that he is stuck in this day forever he starts to make dramatic changes. He stops being to self-centered and he starts to care about others. In the end he even seems to care so much about helping others that it consumes him in a way.
Also the acting in this movie is very good. Bill Murrey shows that he has a lot of range as an actor portraying Phil perfectly to what I would have thought of him as. These characters had some depth, even the camera guy and the actors and actresses that played them did a good job to conveying that happiness while also keeping the story going.