Altman

After seeing his films, I can't really say that I enjoyed them. Overall I just found his movies to be quite boring and the film topics aren't really attention getters. First of all The Long Goodbye, was about a private detective, based on Phillip Marlowe from the 1950's. It was suppose to be like a film noir based in the 70's. Pretty much in every scene he was smoking a cigerette and everyone else was a hippie. At the ending of the film, he foundout that Terry Lenox was still alive and that he killed his wife. So Marlowe shot him, becuase he didn't think that he was worth living.

Nashville was about country-western singing groups and asassination. I highly disliked this film, because of the genre of music and well mostly just the music. None of the characters were interesting and I really hope that I never have to see a movie like this again. At the end of the film, Barbara Jean was asassinated by the man with the violin case.

Saving Private Ryan

The first film that our group watched was Saving Private Ryan. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. It was a great movie because the story and the actors do a great job. I like the genre of historical war movies, and especially the ones about World War II, and the Normandy landing. World War II is going on in this film, and they are trying to find Private Ryan because he had three brothers who have been killed in action, and he will be sent home to keep him safe. Then it won't be so hard on the mom, so that she won't lose all of her sons.

They find another Private Ryan at first, and they tell him that his brothers have died. It is a mistake, though, and I liked this part of the story when they have to tell him that he was the wrong Private Ryan.

This film was very graphic, especially when someone was shot or blown up. When someone was injured, the medic would comeover to them and try to get the bullet out or sew them up. For example, private Adrian Caparzo, which was played by Vin Desel, was shot by a german sniper, and bleed to death in the street while Jackson (Barry Pepper) was trying to take out the sniper. A lot of people thought that this movie was too graphic, but a disagree. I think the gore, language, and violence are perfectly exceptable for a movie based on WWII.

Film Noir

It's hard to understand what exactly film noir is. It's a difficult genre, because it doesn't seem to hang together or point to one thing. Film noir usually consists of a detective and a crime their trying to solve. A big thing in this type of films is Venetian blinds. Such as in Double Indemnity, when Walter Neff goes to see Mr. Dietrichson to talk to him about his insurance, but finds his wife, Phyllis instead. In that scene you see the Venetian blinds in the background.

Double Indemnity ends with Walter shooting Phyllis and he ends up dying in Mr. Keyes' arms. The ending of this film was negative, but the others are way worse. I liked Memento alot, because it was filmed in a really strange way, but it was really interesting. Kiss Me Deadly is the most negative, because the world ends.

Romantic/Screwball Comedy

I thought this genre was pretty funny and i usually end up seeing these kind of movies if I am with a girl. This is the first time I ever saw Groundhog's Day all the way through. Before whenever I would see it in tv, I would always change the channel, but when I saw the whole thing, I thought that the movie was great. I think that Ned, which was played by Stephen Tobolowsky, was really funny, because everytime that it would replay that scene and you heard him say, "Phil?" It just made me laugh everytime.

Heavenly Date: chapter 8

This chapter is called Heavenly Date. In this chapter there is a man named, Sabitino who lives with his daughter, and they live in a seventeenth century home in Italy. The man rented out a section of his house to woman named, Emma. Emma did not know too much about Italy, so the man told her everything that she needed to know.

Sabitino and Emma would always end up talking for a long time, and one day Sabitino asked her if she would like to go on a date. Emma said yes, and asked him if he would like to go on a picnic. The man said yes. A day later they met to have luch in a park. After they ate, they stood up, and Sabitino gave her a hug. They layed back down, she closed her eyes, and when she opened them, he ws gone.

Heavenly Date: Chapter 7

In chapter 8 not too much happened, but there was a woman who is married to the mayor of a city, and she is the mayoress. His wife always decides for him what the new plans for the city are going to be, and how they are going to be done. One of the mayor's friend came into his office one day, and found him reading a girls magazine. Since there were such beautiful girls in the magazine, it was too much excitement for his oldself, that he ended up dying of a heartattack. After his death, his wife becomes the new mayor.

Heavenly Date: Chapter 6

This chapter is about fat people going on blind dates. The mans name is Edgar and the womans name is Nina. The go on a date to watch an opera. A man at the opera wispered to his wife, "hey there's fatty MacDonald" (152). After the opera they went to dinner, and talked about how they both have been to Italy, and about how much they loved it. During dinner that got into an argument about who was fatter. When leaving the restaurant Mr. MacDonald got stuck in his chair, and left the restaurant with a chair stuck to his behind. Walking through the streets, they heard music and decided to sit down and enjoy. Nina sat on edgar's lap, and the chair broke.

THE END