Elektra (2005)

Director: Rob Bowman

Witers: Mark Stephen Johnson, Frank Miller

Stars: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee

Based on the comic books written by Frank Miller, Elektra tells the semi-typical story of an assassin who grows a soft spot. As a girl who witnessed the death of her mother, Elektra (Jennifer Garner) becomes a reckless vigilante who, in the prequel Daredevil, is killed in action. Resurrected by a blind martial arts teacher, she finds work upon release as an assassin against a group of power-hungry villains called The Hand. When she's called to work on one last mission, the dreams from the night of her mother's death foreshadow the events to come.

This film kicks off with an anxious feel, Garner leaping in the shadows to attack with barely a sound. It's dark and gloomy, and at times, slow. I was sometimes left guessing at how she noticed the things that made me jump. The targets she's assigned with may be the greatest part of the movie; they seem so innocent at first, but there's a whole other story that Elektra doesn't know. Garner plays the perfect role of a femme fatale in Elektra's signature red, tight-fitting costume and offensive knives. She also did well with Elektra's OCD side, the surpressed quirks that make her lovable and deadly all at once.

Se7en (1995)

Se7en(1995)
Writer/Director: Andrew Kevin Walker, David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey
Genre: Crime

The movie is about two partner detectives, Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. They are both not pleased with working with each other especially Morgan Freeman especially since he's about to retire and his partner, Brad Pitt plays a rookie. A serial killer targets victims of seven deadly sins and kills them in the way they sin.

I really enjoyed this movie. It kept me guessing for sure. It's one of those movies you have to finish. Even though the next murders were obvious because of the sins, the end had a big twist. It was a very eerie movie and it fit nicely to the plot.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Genre: War

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer:Robert Rodat

Staring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore

Saving Private Ryan is about a military division trying to find a private in the crazy environment of Europe during World War 2. After their landing and taking of Normandy Beach, France, they are put on a mission to find the last soldier of the Ryan family. Both of his brothers died in combat and it was their mission to find and get him home alive. Fighting through many German forces, lead by Captain Miller and 6 men from his 101st division.

I like this movie. I think it's a great example of the struggle for life and the loyalty of the U.S. Army to obey any orders they are given, even if it could mean death for them and everybody they're with. It fits the components of a western in every way. There are plenty of landscape shots of the soldiers walking to their destination. The outlaws are the Nazis and the enforcers are the U.S. troops over there. The whole story is a journey, those 7 men travel all around Europe to find Private James Francis Ryan. They're chasing after him the whole movie and at the end, they have to make a stand which turns out to be fatal most of the unit, including Captain Miller.

K.Carr

Windtalkers

dircter:john woo

writter:john rice and joe bateer

acters:necoles cage and adem beach

this movie is about war and they use navjo talkers to send out there cordations to shoot places and make sulpiles to the army. Then one of the code talkers gets cought and they was told not to break an give up the codes so nicoles cage threw a gernad at one the code talker so he wouldnt break cause they were tourchering him

JarHead

Anthony Swoff, a campus kid from sacramento, enlists in the marines in the late 1980's. He malinger's during boot camp, but makes it though as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy.

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal- Anthony Swoff

Scott Macdonald- D.I Fitch

Peter Sarsgaard- Alan Troy

Jaimie Foxx- Staff Sgt. Sykes

This is a really good movie and really keeps your attention and it is actually kind of humerous at times but not to much to ruin the movie. There is a lot of action and a good story plot and i recommend for someone to see this movie.

DG

The Town

Director: Ben Affleck (*****)5/5 stars
Writer: Petter Craig (screenplay) Ben Affleck (screenplay) crime/drama/thriller
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm

Takes plase in boston. There's these robbers never leave their charlestown life on their own volition.Ben Affleck is the top boss and talk/tell what to do. Bank robberies/killing people.
Lost of friends/love relationship Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall. as Ben Affleck plans his next job, a long time thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager.

I liked the town movie it gave a good story. tells/shows back past times and forward time not confusing good to understand. The movie was the same as the western movie,how? well they have crime law cops drama. they show same story.How well the movie western did the same thing as the movie the Town they stoled money and crime and drama lost friends and i liked both of the movies they were really simuler. I would watch it again its that good of a movie

2 fast 2 furious

A former cop Brian O Conner (Paul Walker) lets a convict go and because of doing that he is on the run but gets caught up in miami, fl by doing the usual street racing but the cops offer him a deal to help take down one of miamis most dangerous drug dealers Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) and in doing that he brings along his highschool bestfriend Roman Peirce ( Tyrese Gibson).

I liked this movie it was really good the action in it was good and it makes you wanna start racing at least for me it did, the actors were a really good choice for this movie i feel like everybody fit there pat really well.

directed by : John Singleton

produced by: Neal H. Moritz

screenwriter: Micheal Brandit and Derek Haas
main characters: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson and Eva Mendes

Holloween (1978)

Holloween (1978)

Director: John Carpenter

Writer: John Carpenter

Main Characters: Michael Myers, Dr.Loomis, Laurie

Halloween is like a western in many ways even though it is a horror film. In Halloween that was made in 1978 there was an outlaw, a law enforcer, journey story, and also had characters chasing each other. These are all things that a movie needs to be a western. Halloween was a great movie, i especially like the 1978 version because it is the original movie and in my opinion the best one.

Michael Myers is the main character of Halloween he is also the outlaw. Michael is a psychotic man who escapes from the mental institute and tries to kill everyone in Haddenfield. Michael chases the young babysitter Laurie who lives in his old house. Michael wants to seek revenge on the people in Haddenfield. Dr.Loomis plays the doctor who evaluates Michael Myers and the only person who knows him personally and who can some what control Michael. Dr. Loomis along with the police of Haddenfield have to hunt down Michael and kill him so that he can't continue his murder spree.

Peter Pan, A Western??

Peter Pan (1953)

Genre: Adventure

Directed By: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson

Written By: J.M Barrie

Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried

Three children play pirates at their home. After they fall asleep a young boy's shadow gets away from him and wanders into the kids' room. The oldest daughter Wendy wakes up to find a mysterious boy named Peter from "Neverland" chasing his shadow around the room. The kids, in search of adventure learn to fly and fly away back to Peter's home in a fantasy land. Unfortunately a foe of Peter's, a real pirate named Captain Hook starts on the hunt for Peter and his new friends leading them on a chasing frenzy all around the new magical land.

Peter Pan is considered a western movie because it contains the outlaw: Peter, the villan: Hook, the vast landscape: Neverland, the journey: a flying adventure, and of course the chase. I really loved this movie as a child and i still love it because it reminds me of an innocent time in childhood when the world is within your grasp. The idea of this land where you can fly and explore to your hearts desire hits a spot in my inner child's heart.

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai (2003)

Genre: Adventure/Action/Drama
Directors: Edward Zwick

Writers: John Logan ( Story ), John Logan ( Screenplay )

Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, and Billy Connolly.

The film The Last Samurai is about a American soldier by the name of Nathan Algren who was hired to kill the enemy. But ended up getting captured by the enemy and was raised to see their way of life which got his emotions involved in the mix. The films major characters are Nathan Algren, Lord Katsumoto, and Sgt. Zebulon Gant.

My opinion about the movie is I like it a lot, it had a lot of meaning, dont just judge people by what they are, see how they are first then judge them. It fits the component of a war movie because they have a ongoing war with the warriors and samurais.

Tron Legacy

Tron Legacy

War, Action/Adventure,SiFi,Fantasy

Joseph Kosinski

Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz

Jeff Bridges, Garret Hedlund, Olivia Wilde.

In the movie the son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his fathers creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of the grid. When sam (Garret Hedlund) was little his father first started to create the grid. He always wanted to go in and see it but his father never let him. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) owned a game arcade, everybody knew about it everyone went there, and the most played game there was TRON LEGACY located in the back of the arcade. Years went past and he ended up shutting it down for good, one day he dropped sam off at his grandparents home and told his he will be back, he never did. More years went past and sam grew older, got his own house, his own car, everything he needed to survive. One day one of (Jeff bridges) Kevin flynn's work partners showed up to sam's house and gave him a key. Sam took it and went down to the old arcade and looked at the TRON LEGACY game. It had scrtach marks on the floor in a round motion like it had been moved. Sam push it in the motion the scratches were in. Sam soon found out it was a hiden room back behind the game. Sam didnt relize that it was a gateway to the grid until he looked at the actual written grid. He did some messing with some buttons and papers and stuff and got transported into the grid, and thats where the story begines...

My opinion on the movie is that it was good. like it had a great beginning middle and end to it. the story line was phonominal the acting was fantastic everything was perfect. The camparison between this movie and a war movie is that they both fight to win for something just like a real war they all wear uniforms to show who they are fighting for.

Wild Wild West

Wild Wild West (1999)

Genre: Western, Action, Comedy and Adventure

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Stars: 4.3

Writters: Jim Thomas and John Thomas

Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh

I chose this movie because it's a western that fits the means of a western film. There's landscape, outlaws, law enforcers, chasing, and escaping. In the movie the landscape would be basically where the movie took place which is Santa Fe, New Mexico; thats landscape because there was plenty of land. The outlaws would of been for example McGrath and the soldiers he had working for him, they were the bad guys. A law enforcer from this film would be Captain West because throughout the whole movie he was trying to stop the bad guys. The escaping/chasing would be when Captain West had been chasing to capture McGrath and McGrath escaped because the prostitute stopped West from breaking in which allowed him to get away.

I thought the movie was very supspenceful, had the western theme, funny and had lots of action to it. Being that it had all of those characteristics I enjoyed he movie and thought it was good. I considered the movie as a western because it defined the meaning of a western. Overall I do think the movie could've had more outlaws and enforcers in it.

Black Hawk Down

Director: Ridley Scott

Screenwriters: Ken Nolan

Main Character: Josh Hartnett, Ewan Mcgregor, Tom Sizemore

Black Hawk Down is a war movie where 121 soldiers get dropped into Somlia trying to catch two lieutants that are in the somali warlords army. Thiers two soldiers that leads their sqauds in this battle. Hoot (eric bana) and Willam Fletcher (Sanderson). This movie is also an true event that happened on october 3, 1993.

My opion about this movie is it brings the real life effect about war and how many things in this movie probably happen on the daily and i liked that it did that. its like a western because they pretty much fight all over the place and they are also chasing away the outlaws and they are also getting chased at the same time.

Men Of Honour ( 2000 )

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Writer: Scott Marshall Smith
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr. , Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron.

This movie is about a black male who trys to make a big difference in this world. He works his ass off to try and have a chance to become a United States Navy Diver. He is put through every test that the normal white men are put through but they always make him do a little extra just to try and get him to quit. Soon enough they give him a chance.

This has to do with our movie genre because it is a story of a person or group going through struggles. They all face a problem that they have to find a way to conquer and make it through it. They all run in to a time where they think that it could be over. That its just such a mess but they all move on and make as much of it as they can.

The Last Mimzy (2007)

Genre: Adventure/Family
Directed by Robert Shaye. Written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Toby Emmerich.
Starring Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Rainn Wilson.

This movie preaches the old "pay attention to your kids" lesson with a story that includes the grown-ups being wrong. It's made clear that the parents don't pay a lot of attention to their kids when they bring strange rocks and stuffed bunnies home, claiming they can hear voices. The story quickly transitions into a parent-child war in which Emma (Wryn) and her brother Noah are left with the last key to saving the human race.

The first scene of the movie includes a series of extreme-long shots at a beach by the family's cabin. Later on, Emma discovers her new-found bunny, Mimzy, can speak and make her do things. As soon as she and Noah, who has also acquired a few supernatural talents, are discovered by their parents, they're carried off to a top-secret science lab. The kids sneak out of the cells they were placed in and steal a truck, headed for the source of the problem they need to solve. They're picked up by a supportive science teacher who ends up defending them when the "magic" is at its most powerful. At the end there's a feeling of relief when their task to save artificial life is completed, guaranteeing a safe future.

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Genre: War
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Written by Gustav Hasford (novel/screenplay), Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr
Starring Matthew Modine, R. Lee Emery, and Vincent D'Onofrio

Full Metal Jacket starts out with Marine Corps boot camp and we start following two Private's lives. Private Joker, Matthew Modine, narrates his life with the marines where he first met a struggling simpleton named Private Pyle, Vincent D'Onofrio, when he became squad leader. Private Pyle couldn't do anything right and Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, R. Lee Emery, refused to ease up on the boy, sending the Private Joker over to give him some individualized training, where they soon learned that he had a natural gift for shooting on target and taking care of his equipment. On the last night before basic training graduation Private Pyle finally cracked under all of the pressure everyone's been giving him clouded with misinterpreted phrases and commands given to him by his drill sergeant and he shot Hartman before putting his M14 up to his own face and pulling the trigger. Private Joker continued on with graduation and was sent to the journalism department where he would record the experiences and events of the Vietnam War through the eyes of the American soldiers. While reuniting with one of his old boot camp friends, Private Joker finds himself in the middle of a risky situation with a lone Vietnamese sniper tactfully placed and his friend's crewmen going in one at a time to their inevitable death.

What made this movie so amazing was how realistic it was, for instance the boot camp section was emotionally intense and helped give the viewer an idea as to what it was like to enlist in the military during the war. I also like how they showed that some people can't handle the pressure and eventually lose control like Private Pyle. One thing I didn't like however was that the platoon, more specifically the squad, ended up prevailing in the end but I suppose we can win some battles even though in the end we lost the war. This movie uses ideas such as tracking shots during the scenes where squads move position or if they're infiltrating a base, like a Western chase scene when an outlaw is trying to fight the law. At one point the camera angle did switch to a worm's eye view to represent the authority the drill sergeant had over Private Joker after Joker made a sass remark about the Sergeant's mother. The only other aspects in this movie that are similar to a Western are the wide landscapes and the overwhelming pressure to demonstrate patriotism and have the law always win. Very good movie and I think it falls under one of the best war movies out there only because I take a true appreciation in the psychological aspect where as the story itself is lacking in some ways from a completely linear start to end.

Western/War Blog Post

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Genre: War

Directed by Francis Ford Coppolla

Written by John Milius & Francis Ford Coppolla

Starring: Martin Sheen & Marlon Brando

Instructions: Write a 2-paragraph blog post about a movie you've seen that fits either the Western or War genre. If you can't think of one, consider the five components of a Western (which also apply to most war movies) - wide open landscape, outlaws, law enforcers, a journey story, and characters escaping/chasing each other. Include the necessary film info (see above example for Apocalypse Now) along with a photo, what the film's about (without giving away too much!), who the film's major characters are, and a detailed description of both your opinion of the film and how it fits the components of a Western. Consider the vocab of the class and re-read your sentences before you publish! To get an idea of an A-grade blog post, read my example for Apocalypse Now below.

Captain Willard (played by Charlie Sheen's father, Martin) already seems highly affected by the terrors of the Vietnam War before he's sent out on a mission to kill the rogue traitor Colonel Kurtz, creepily portrayed by Marlon Brandon, who is most famous for being the Don Corleone in The Godfather. Along the way we see some very surreal and strange images of the East-Asian landscape, including a very memorable appearance by Robert Duvall as a maniac lieutenant who loves surfing and "the smell of napalm in the morning." Though some parts of the film are funny, the platoon suffers many attacks and psychological traumas throughout, and we get to see the true horrors of forcing men on a crusade of death.

As Willard and his crew travel down the Nung River, we the viewer get to see areas of Vietnam and Cambodia as both breathtakingly beautiful and downright savage. The landscape of the film is arguably its most vivid aspect, with everything from the wet outset of the jungle to the ominous haze of fog captured through expert cinematography and camera work. This is just one example of how the film helps us understand the dual nature of war, and war movies in general - that even though it seems like an atrocious experience to go through, to the point of potentially committing atrocious acts yourself, we always hope the law enforcer (or the U.S. soldier) will win over the foreign enemy.

k.c

The movie salt is about a CIA agent goes on the run after her people thinks she's a russian spy. they kiddnap her husband and hold him till she turns her self in to the law.

the set is like all over washington goes into the russian montains.

dirctor:philp noyce.

screen writter:kurt wimmer.

actors:angolina jolie,and liev schreiber.

year:2010

titanic

Jack and Rose meet on the titanic. Rose is a wealthy british girl, Jack is a poor boy from wisconsin. They quickly fall in love but their love is forbidden by her parents. They sneak around to be together. Until the ship sinks and Jack dies of hypothermia.

I really loved this movie. I think it's a classic and it's a perfect love story. They only knew each other for a short time but Jack showed he would die for her. It's the sweetest love/tragedy story i've ever seen.

Taken- Taylor P.

The movie Taken is about a man whos daughter is going to Europe with some friends. Her father is an ex cop or goverment agent or something along those lines and is smart and gives her a different phone from her own for when she is overseas to keep in touch with him. Once she gets there she is picked up at the airport by a man, everything seems well until he brings her back to where she will be staying. She calls her dad and tells him that she has landed at that she has made it to where she will be staying. He asks her for details and when she tells her he find it suspecious, while they are still on the phone two or three masked men come in and grab someone she is with, her dad instructs her to stay calm, not to make noise and get into the bathroom. She hears the man approaching and leaves the bathroom under her dad's instruction and crawls under a bed. A few moments later she is taken.

Title: Taken

Director:Pierre Morel

Genre: action and suspence, adventure

Actors:Luc Besson

Title: Wanted (2008)

Genre: Action, Crime ,Thriller

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Writer: Micheal Brandt , Derek Haas , Chris Morgan , Mark Millar , J.G. Jones

Stars: Angelina Jolie , James McAvoy , Morgan Freeman

This movie is about an office worker that learns that he is the son of a professional assassin . He has the same abilities as his father does with killing. This movie has good twists and turns to it. I really enjoyed watching it . I can watch it more than 2 times .

big mommas house

This movie was about a man named Martin Lawrence and he disguises'd himself as an older women to do some detective work about a man who committed a murder , and was now on the run , and he was trying to protect a beautiful suspect and her son.

Yes this movie was interestng it was a comedy movie with martin lawrence so of course it would be funny... but then again at times the movie got serious because the girl and her son's life was in danger so all he was trying to do was protect. An yes we could id the detectives because he was the main character but no one else knew about him but his partner , cause he hid himself under a fat suit with a lady known as BIG MOMMA !!!!!.. great movie

Eagle Eye !

Eagle eye

writer/director: D.J Caruso , John Glenn.

Starring : Shia LaBeouf , Rachel Holloman

This movie is about how Jerry Shaw's twin brother died in a accident . He finds guns and weapons and then gets a phone call from a strange woman telling him the cops will be there soon . So him and the woman that gets involved in this with him are stuck racing down the city doing what this woman on the phone says .

I really liked that this movie just had them shooting people when they never ever were involved in stuff like that before . And how you didnt know who the person on the phone was but yet she new everything about their surroundings and what was going to happen next . I also liked how the end just flowed together and everything ended up fitting in place.

JawBreaker

Title: Jawbreaker

Released Date: Feb. 19.1999

Genre:Comdey/Crime

Director:Darren Stein

Writer:Darren Stein

Stars:Rose McGowan , Rebecca Gayheart , Julie Benz

In this movie it's just like your typical high school you end up having the popular girl's. But it's always someone there jealous of in there group. so have Courtney something like the boss of the cre then you have your other three side kicks (liz,Julie and Marice.)Isn't In horrible when you wake up on your 17th birthday and the ones you thought was your friend wake you up by stuffing a jawbreaker down your throath.Isn't that a terrbile way to die.

I really like this movie cause it just give a view on what people call popluar.It more shows you that you can't trust your friends or the people you thought you know. Man it's a good movie to laugh at wonder who's just killing people.

NLL

Takers (2010)

Director: John Luessenhop

Writers: Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, and Avery Duff

Stars: Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, and Matt Dillion

Genre: Action, Crime and Thriller

Takers is a movie starring four men who are like brothers. They are all business men who do big jobs. Their job is to take as much money as they can as fast as they can without getting caught. In the movie one of their friend sets them up to get caught by the Russians who they stole money from but no one really knows who did what until the end of the movie. These two cops are trying to figure out who these four men are and how are they doing these big steals with perfect timing, the right equipment, and the perfect plan. The men aren't caught only two survive in the end and they keep on moving.

I enjoyed the movie because through out the whole thing like you had to keep guessing who did what and what's going to happen next basically it was a movie that has you on the edge of your seat. Everything about the movie felt so real especially like during the part when they were doing money steals. I think that the director of the movie picked excellent actors to play the roles in this movie. Like everyone's personality went with their character, they looked as if they were comfortable with their parts.

Unknown

made 2011/ director:juame collet-serra
writen:olivar butcher
cherector : lian neeson

This movie name unknown/movie is about a two cuples and they go to a trip down to london.


ita about this guy and he goes into a coma and he wakes up but he remembers everything but the thing is that someone took his identity and that his girl witch he dont know about is just someone that played him. The guy main charecter he dont rememeber everything just about him and his wife. He looks for cluse and things to find out whats going on. He finds out that hes a terist from the memorise in the end ofthe movie. He remmebers but his wife had a bomb in the hotel and he trys to save everyone/he doese save everyone but his wife that played him and acted like she didnt know him but she did just brought him there so he can get killed but everything just is fucked up.





Well i think this movie was so confusing becouse it went to twist and turn. Just brought everything to understand what was going on in the end of the movie. The movie was good lots of action and i would give the movie a 5 star. Becouse good acting and just the movie was great. but what i didnt like was wen the guys wife was just faking him for 10 years and brought him to london so he can die but just stupid.

Carrie

Director: Brian de Palma
Writers: Stephen King,Lawrence D. cohen
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
Genere:Drama/Horror

The movie carrie is about is about a girl sheltered by a seriously religeos and crazy mother. she gets bullied by all the children in her school until she finds out she has telekinetic powers and she uses them for revenge.I liked this movie because its a classic horror film. they did a good job at selling the story and scaring the audience.

this movie did an excellent job of making you believe the femme fatale in this movie was a compleately normal and innocent girl by showing her everyday struggles then at the end bad things happen that is so unexpected.

From paris with love - Olyvia Garcia

Title: From Paris with love
Director: Pierre Morel
Year: 2010
Genre: Action film
Writer: Luc Besson
Characters: John Travolta & Jonathan Meyers

The movie From paris with love is about a guy that works for the US ambassador and has a french girlfriend that is behind a sceme. He gets assigned a job in paris with a patner named wax. They try and figure out who is behind the whole drug ring. They go threw many different people because it has something to do with the neice of the Secretary of Defense. Reese soon finds out that there is an agent terrorist that is assigned to live with him that happens to be his girlfriend and she has been watching him.
I thaught this was a great movie and very intresting to watch with a lot of action.

Fight Club (1999)

Writer/Director: Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher

Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter

Genre: Mystery

An office employee suffers from insomnia. Which is were most people have trouble sleeping, they just can't sleep. So he is just an average person who lives by himself in a apartment and just pretty much has a boring life. He decides to get away for awhile and he meets a soap salesman while on the plane. Once he gets home his apartment is on fire so he has nowhere to go. The only number he has is this girls number that he had met through out his boring life, but doesn't go forward with the call. Later on he meets the soap salesmen at the bar. They get the talking and they decide to bulid a global organization to vent male aggression (fight club).

I thought this was a real good movie but it took me awhile to understand it, like i had to end up watching it again or just certain parts. I thought that they did a good job and making the viewer very confused but than sort of obvious towards the end. This movie did have me guessing what was gonna happen next and also questioning it like "oh i don't get that" but it all worked out in the end. And i would watch this movie again.

No Country For Old Men

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash oh heroin and more than 2 million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

How it starts is Llewelyn Moss is getting chased down in desert and running from so people in a truck and tries to get away.

The main characters are Tommy Lee Jones as: Ed Tom Bell

Javier Bardem as: Anton Chigurh

Josh Brolin as: Llewelyn Moss

Takers

Takers (2010)

John Luessenhop- Director

Peter Allen- Writer

Crime, Drama, Action

This movie is about a group of guys that get together and steal stuff. They all are very casual about how they do it and plan it very good. To start the movie they are just getting back together after they got done with a huge heist. During the heist a guy named Ghost ends up getting caught and sent to jail for a while. When he gets out is at about the same time they are meeting up to talk about the money. They talk and they find out about another big heist that he found out about in jail. They dont know if they can trust him so they say yes. They are only cool with it if they can give him his part of the money at the end of the next heist.

They do this big heist and feel really good about it. But there guy Jesse gets chased by the cops and ends up killing one of them. By him doing that, that leads the cop to know that he was with the group of guys that did it. In the end they are all celebrating and having fun until Ghost disappers and the russians show up and shoot the place up. They kill A.J. and the rest of them get away. While that was happening someone was getting away with everything........

American Gangster

American Gangster is a true story about a big time druglord Frank Lucas (denzel Washington) a dective was working to get him the movie takes start in Brooklyn. My opion of this movie is that they did a good job of first getting alll the info and making the movie as close as they can to the true story. Denzel actually does a good job of acting like frank lucas and the director did a good job of giving us an idea of what the drug lords go threw and how they became a Big boss in the game.

They also did a good job at setting the tone of the movie and making it dark and also even though the movie was long they kept you into it and wanting to watch the movie till the end of it. The plot also kept me guessing on if he was ever going to get caught and if he did was he going to go in for life or would he get out years later.

Director- Ridley Scott

Screenwriters-Steven Zallian, Mark Jacobson

Stars -Denzel Washington , Russel Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Genre-Crime, Drama (2007)

SALT (2010)

Evelyn salt (Angelina Jolie) works for the cia and while interagatting a russian defector named orlov(Daniel Olbrychski) she is accused of being a russian spy who is supposed to be killing the russia president who will be in new york for a funeral for the american vice president and ends up going on the run to clear her name but theres a big twist you will never guess.

I like this movie it was different and very suspensful you have no clue whats going to happen its the kinda movie you gotta watch twice to understand.
directed by Phillip Noyce

produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

written by Kurt Wimmer

cast Angelina Jolie,Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor,August Diehl, Daniel Olbrychski
thriller film

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Film Noir/Femme Fatale Blog Post

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Writer/Director: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart & Mary Astor

Genre: Film Noir

Your assignment: Write a 2-paragraph blog post about a movie you've seen outside of class that you would consider similar to Film Noir (detective/cop film or murder mystery) and/or that includes a femme fatale (dangerous/manipulative female) character. Explain what it's about (without spoiling!) and your opinion of it. Did it do a good job of presenting a dark and dreary setting or tone? Explain how/how not. Did the plot keep you guessing until the end? Explain how/how not. If there was a femme fatale, did the actress do a good job of presenting her as appealing and seductive and then later as evil and horrifying? Explain how/how not.

Paragraph 1 should describe the plot of the film, including the characters, up until the inciting incident (no spoilers!). For instance: The Maltese Falcon follows private investigator Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) on a number of mysterious adventures, starting with a suspicious new client named Ms. Wonderly who hires Spade and his partner, Miles Archer, to find out about the man her sister has gotten involved with. When Archer begins the investigation and turns up dead, the grumpy yet charismatic Spade attempts to seek out the truth. But when a series of other shadowy figures interrupt him at every turn and may or may not be involved in his partner's death, trying to get his help in obtaining a prized lost treasure called The Maltese Falcon, Spade has to be careful how far he treads.

Paragraph 2 should include your opinion of the film and answers to the questions above. For instance: Classic film noir lighting helps set the tone of The Maltese Falcon, which is largely set indoors, so when shadows fill up a character's face or a room, it helps to add to the suspense of the mystery at hand. This, in addition to the constant twists and turns of the story, which can't be revealed here for sake of spoiling, make for a moody and witty dialogue-driven film where every conversation keeps you guessing until the end about who's being truthful and who's being deceitful. The character that is the most unassuming at first, however, also turns out to be the film's greatest villain at the end. The femme fatale is a common element of the male-centric crime film, but is also something that started with this, the original film noir that took expectations of the sweet and innocent and flipped them on their heads, making for an exciting and unpredictable tale.