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.