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.