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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.