Top 10 Movies

1)The Hangover 2
2)Fast Five
3)The Hangover
4)The Fast and The Furious
5)Saving Private Ryan
6)Blackhawk Down
7)Pirates of The Carribean
8)Indiana Jones
9)True Grit
10)Forest Gump

Top Movies

Best

Shawshank Redemption
V for Vendetta
The Simpsons
The Graduate
Rumor Has It
Psycho
The Great Debators
Citizen Kane
Ben Hur
Gone With The Wind

Worst

The Great Debators

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Shawshank Redemption

Andy, a man that was sent to jail for a crime he didn’t do. He went through it peacefully and didn’t cause too much drama. He made a good friend Red who is the guy who can get things. At the beginning of the movie he gets a rock hammer from Red which Red laughed and asked if he was going to break out with it. Andy just laughed and said wait till you look at it. It was a small little hammer which red thought that nobody could tunnel out with that. Sure enough Andy attempted and was able to tunnel himself through a wall with that little hammer that took him19 years.

Andy spent 19 years in prison before he broke out. He was an innocent man that was sent to life in prison for killing his wife and her lover. Along the way he met a new guy Tommy who had a cellmate that told him that the husband took the blame for the golf pro and woman (which was Andy’s wife) when he actually killed them. Andy told the Warden and he didn’t want him to get out because Andy was his financial man. The Warden took it so far that he decided to kill Tommy so Andy wouldn’t be released. That’s when Andy decided to break out of the prison through the whole he dug. He took all of the Wardens Dirty money with him and already had a new name.

Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies we watched in film studies. I thought it was really interesting seeing how an innocent man goes through prison for 19 years who used to be a successful man. And how he planned and escapes in the prison, crawled 500 yards through poop with the Wardens suit and freshly buffed shoes and how he goes to the bank and takes out all of the money. I also liked how he wrote a letter and shipped it off which said everything the Warden was doing. He then decided to take the easy way out and kill himself. He told Red where to go once he gets out of prison which contained a letter saying where he would be and some money to get him there. At the end of the movie they are reunited on a nice sand beach which made for a great ending.

Rating: 9/10

V for Vendetta

“Remember Remember The 5^th of November”

V seems to be a super human that has the strength of a wildabeast. He took in a girl that helped him and that was in trouble. He ends up taking her to his cave which she felt she was a prisoner. She found anyway to get out and told him that she would help him when all she wanted to do was get out. Once she finally got out she went to a friends house who made that same breakfast for her that V did. Coincidence I think not, it’s a smbol of her locked up later in the move which is really interesting.

Throughout the whole movie you can tell that V doesn’t want to do this for the people. Its all about him getting revenge from all the people that locked him up and torchered him. Although he does get the people to follow him. He send out a mask like his to everyone just to cause chaos in the city. They all see him as a hero although hes bassically the number 1 wanted man in the city. What I don’t get is how he got all of the money to ship out those maskes but he is a pretty sneaky guy so I figure he just stole it.

Another iteresting thing about this movie is that V doesn’t use any guns. All he uses are knives, throwing stars and things that have blades. You would think that he would stand no chance against a man with a gun which in the end he doesn’t even with a bullet  proof vest on. But at the beginning all he uses are knives and kill easily and leaves without problems. I know this is a comic and that there are a lot of holes in them but I just wished that it was a bit more realistic.

rating: 8/10

The Simpson Movie

5 Example of Irony:
1) "Why does Everything I whip leave me?" - Homer
2) When Krusty was about to cut a pig in a hamburger shop.
3) "I hereby declare a state of emergency: Code Black" - Quimby (when the worst color is red)
4) The papers that said stop dumping in the lake ended up in the lake.
5) The scene when homers holding up the poster for Alaska and he puts it down and its the same veiw that the poster had on it

5 Puns:
1) "Look at that, you can see the four states that border Springfield: Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky! - Flanders
2) "I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!" - Homer
3) "Black? That's the worst color there is." - Lenny
4) "Okay, epiphany, epiphany... oh I know! Bananas are an excellent source of potassium!" - Homer
5) "It's nowhere near where anything is or ever was. This is Tom Hanks saying, if you're gonna pick a government to trust, why not this one?" Tom Hanks

Top 5 Quotes:
1) "I like men now." - Ralph after bart skates by naked
2) "Bart, are you drinking whiskey?" Marge
    "I'm Troubled" - Bart
3) "How did the pig tracks get on the ceiling?" - Marge
4) "Homer do good?" Homer
    "Actually, you've doomed us all. Again." - Bart
5) "He's not Spider-Pig anymore, he's Harry Plopper." - Homer

6 Examples of Parody
1) "This is Tom Hanks saying if you see me in person, please, leave me alone." - Tom Hanks
2) "We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!" - Homer
3) "If you can find a greasier sandwich, you're in Mexico!" - Krusty
4)Bart puts a black bra on his head and says "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation!"
5) "Perfect. Cut. Print. Kill the pig." - Krusty
    "What... you can't kill him if he's wearing people clothes!" - Homer
6) "This book doesn't have any answers!: - Homer flipping through bible

6 Examples of Satire
1) "Hey everybody, I found one! The government actually found someone we're looking for! YEAH, BABY, YEAH!" -NSA
2) The Simpson House goes down the sink hole and the chie says "They're China's problem now."
3) "I can't believe we're paying to see something we get on TV for free! If you ask me, everybody in this theater is a giant sucker! Especially you!" - Homer
4) " S-sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power." - EPA
    "Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you! - Russ
5) " Uh, Chief, I think there was a dead body in there." - Lou
    "I thought that too, until he said yard trimmings. You gotta learn to listen, Lou." Chief
6) "Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility so it's borrowing some of mine." -Tom

Cinema Paradiso

The Library where students do there research

The rig I roll up into school every day

Athletes and Students of PHS

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The Perham High School

The Graduate

Who's getting the short end of the stick here: Mrs. Robinson or Ben Braddock?
Ben is just out of college, back at home, trying to figure out what to do with his
life. Dad just wants action. Mom doesn't seem to want much of anything. Mrs.
Robinson -- as the incantation of all things upper-middle class seduces young
Ben into spending a lot of time rolling around awkwardly under her sheets.
Their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Ben begins pursuing Mrs.
Robinson's daughter, Elaine.

When "The Graduate" is a hilarious movie but it’s a different type of
comedy that I’ve ever saw. It was funny how Ben acted rather than them trying
to be funny like the “comedys” we see now days. Seeing how uncomfortable he was
around women and how he responded to the was why it was funny.

I thought that “The Graduate was a great movie. I thought it was funny how
nervous he seemed around any women. He was very uncomfortable around Mrs.
Robinson and didn’t seem to be as uncomfortable around Elaine. I think that is
because he tried to ignore her since Mrs. Robinson told him not to go out with
Elaine. Except when he was driving with her he hit the curb and was racing
everywhere. I also like how he took her out to a “stripper bar” and she just
wanted to go on a nice date with him.

Hopefully,
the irony wasn't lost on him.

Psycho

Psycho is a good movie but it definitely does not beat the standards there are for today’s horror films. The murder scenes were ridiculously stupid because it was just someone’s arm acting like its stabbing something. It did not look real at all but I guess that’s all they could do for the time of the movie.   I couldn’t believe that they almost stopped this movie from airing just because they showed a toilet in one scene. That’s a lot stricter than what we watch nowadays. I thought it would have been the fact that the girl was taking a shower which I would be able to understand a bit more I just don’t know what a toilet couldn’t be in the movie.

Up until the end of the movie I was able to predict what was going to happen. They played scary music when someone was about to die so you knew every time there was going to be a murder scene. Movies today do that but they also try to trick you by playing scary music even if someone isn’t going to die. The ending was crazy because I thought that he put the body in the car and disposed of it but he had it all along. I also thought that he had a mother that lived with him who faked her own death. But it turns out that his mother was dead after and he kept the body upstairs and used it as a mother figure and had multi personality disorder were he talked to himself in his mother’s voice and than in his own voice. The only parts I don’t get is the figure in the window that Mrs. Cranes boyfriend saw and how there was to people in their end when he tried to stop himself from stabbing Mrs. Cranes sister.

Over all I thought it was a good movie for the time that it was made in. I was actually able to follow along and understand what was going on unlike other movies from that age or older that I’ve watched. And being the first type of horror film I think Alfred Hitchcock did a good job on the storyline and directing of the movie. I do prefer the newer scary movies but I would watch this one again if I had nothing else to watch.

Ben Hur

Judah Ben Hur is the main character in this movie who goes through a rough life. There was a lot of powerful scenes  in the film as well. Judah is a rich Jewish prince at the beginning of the movie until a tile falls off of the roof of his house and hurts the governor. Messala sends Judah to be a slave and his mother and daughter to prison even though he knew they weren’t guilty. Judah swore that he would get revenge.

Ben Hur is a good movie during the time of Jesus was Ben Hur was once rich and had to become a slave since he accidently hurt the governor.  Jesus was seen in the movie giving Ben Hur water after they wouldn’t give it to him for days. The counselor said not to give him any water but Jesus showed up to save him. He was also sent on a ship to row a boat and was unchained by the counselor for an unknown reason. Its scenes like this that make you think about the movie.

I would rate Ben Hur a 7.5/10 since it had a good storyline and there was good action scenes for the time it was made in. Some parts look real but some looked fake. It’s also interesting to know that the stunt double that was racing in the chariot actually almost fell out but climbed back into the chariot. It was a predictable movie though because I could tell the Ben Hur was going to go against Messala from the beginning I just didn’t know how. Than when they started to race I knew Ben Hur was going to win since that’s pretty much what the movies about. Over all it was a good movie and I would watch it again.

Gone With the Wind

Gone with the Wind is one of the top block office movies which I think it may have deserved it in 1939 I don’t think it should still be up there in 2011. Even though it was a classic it wasn’t the movie for me but I think the only reason it became the top movie is through inflation over the years. Although I don’t like the movie I think it’s more of something for older folks to watch since its long and boring and they always seems to be the type of movies that they like. I just regret that I couldn’t pay attention during the whole movie so it seemed harder for me to follow the movie. It seemed to move really slowly at the beginning and then it sped up really fast during the end almost like they were in a rush to finish the movie.

At the beginning of the movie we see Scarlet who doesn’t work and has had money all her life. She’s used to having servants like Manny that do everything for their owners and is like a mother to Scarlet that spoils her. Maybe that’s the reason that she became a snotty brat that can’t do anything by herself and she tries to be better than everyone else. Near the middle of the movie was when she lost her family and money. It was also when I noticed that she just mooches off of other people for their wealth.

Scarlet used Rhett Butler and married him because of all his money so she could live the life that she was used too. Throughout the time Scarlet was married with Butler I never saw a time where it looked like either one of them loved each other. Rhett and Scarlet were always fighting and Rhett would storm off into a different room and avoid Scarlet. The only reason I think Rhett stayed with Scarlet was because of the kid that they had.

The death scenes in this movie were horrible. Especially the ones that involved horses, I couldn’t help myself but to laugh at it just because it was so ridiculous. The people just fell off the horses and you could easily tell that that wouldn’t kill a person but I guess they didn’t have the technology for better death scenes in 1939. They could have thought of better ways or even tried harder in the death scenes but I don’t know what kind of technology they had back in the day.