Monday, October 19, 2009
What Should I Write About?
Wow, I am having a hard time thinking of what I should write about for my argumentative paper. I'm really not that sure if I have something to "argue". ^^;
Monday, October 12, 2009
Transformers 2 Review
The author is trying to prove the point that even though the director of the movie, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", is a tad bit off of his rocker, he made a great production, full of amazing techniques to make an interesting movie. The author of the review gives specific examples of the movies breath taking special effects by using descriptive words to describe it and let you in on what you would see if you wathced it. I think that the review was very affective due to the fact that it made me want to go rent the movie.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Problems With Evaluation
I am evaluating a video game and I am having a hard time not just summarizing the game and I'm not sure what to do. :/
Problems w/ Evaluations
I'm having a hard time with my paper. I'm writing about a television show and I'm not quite sure to focus on. Why do we watch? or a simple evaluation in general. The only thing I feel like I'm doing is writing a summary of the tv show and saying its cool so watch it. To solve this I think I'm going to try to figure out more criteria on what makes a good show and do some research to compare it to other tv shows similar.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Dark Knight
http://www.film.com/movies/the-dark-knight/story/review-dark-knight-is-exceptional/21840239
I missed last Friday so hopefully there isn't guidelines that I missed but here goes.
I've seen the movie and I could sincerely relate to this evaluation. It seems to be very well written and exactly what I've been trying to get at in my paper but I'm still struggling. It covers the main points of the movie and even drags out the fact that the author couldn't really find anything to complain about. I would agree that the author could have gone into more detail but nonetheless I found it to be valuable.
The Departed Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/
Review is near the bottom of the page*
I agree with the writter of this article. I though the departed was a great movie, in part because of scorsase's brillant directing. I also thought the cast was absolutelty perfect in this movie. My favorite personal role being Mark Whalberg. The only part i dont agree on is his overall review of the movie. I think this movie deserves a 9.5 or 10 out of 10. One of the most exciting, and interesting movies I have seen in a long time. The review however wasnt as interesting, the author could have done a better job but overall it wasn't bad.
Review is near the bottom of the page*
I agree with the writter of this article. I though the departed was a great movie, in part because of scorsase's brillant directing. I also thought the cast was absolutelty perfect in this movie. My favorite personal role being Mark Whalberg. The only part i dont agree on is his overall review of the movie. I think this movie deserves a 9.5 or 10 out of 10. One of the most exciting, and interesting movies I have seen in a long time. The review however wasnt as interesting, the author could have done a better job but overall it wasn't bad.
Response to Evaluation- The Proposal
I read a review of the movie The Proposal by Lisa Schwarzbaum for Entertainment Weekly. I really liked how she set it up, I found it clever. The movie has to do with a wedding so she has it divided her review into categories of something old (telling how the movie is like others), something new (telling how the movie is unique), something borrowed (what kind of techniques were taken from other movies) and something old (this part discusses 87-year-old Betty Whites role). Although I disagree with the rating she gave the movies I really enjoyed reading this review and found how it was organized and written refreshing.
Twilight review
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939072.html?categoryid=3565&cs=1
This is the movie review for the much anticipated Twilight movie that debuted in theaters last November.
I agree with the review that the movie was not amazing. It was a shell of what the book was although the book was poorly written. Parts of the book were left out of the movie and it was noticeable to anyone who has read the Twilight series. The acting was good but the script left something to be desired in terms of depth. But there was more to it than a stupid love story as this review would suggest. It had a good plot overall and it was a decent movie.
Response to an Evaluation
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/la-et-transformers2jul02,0,445321.story
This is Kenneth Turan's response of the second transformers movie. I enjoyed the movie very much but like Turan I believe it was WAY to long. It was interesting how he evaluated the robots being the only interesting thing to watch in the movie. He really had a point there and, overall this evaluation made me start to think about the film in a different way.
This is Kenneth Turan's response of the second transformers movie. I enjoyed the movie very much but like Turan I believe it was WAY to long. It was interesting how he evaluated the robots being the only interesting thing to watch in the movie. He really had a point there and, overall this evaluation made me start to think about the film in a different way.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Evaluation
I am thinking about doing my evaluation paper on a movie or a book. When i think of a review or evaluation the first thing i think of is a movie review. So i think i will end up doing my review on a movie that i am familiar with.
Why do we watch tragedies
My evaluation is going to be on why people watch tragedies. I'll be interviewing people and finding out different peoples perspective on watching something tragic, whether it's on youtube, or the news, but what draws people to watch something happen over and over again.
Punk goes pop vol 2 review
http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=924282
read your heart out, but this girl/guy has a really dumb oppinion.
read your heart out, but this girl/guy has a really dumb oppinion.
My [Potential] Evaluation Topic
Right now I'm working on an essay regarding how Daxter of the "Jak and Daxter" series is the better of the two main characters. It's very difficult to write, especially with the fact that my target audience is those who have played the games. I've gone quite a ways, but if I can't make it make sense, I may have to change my topic. Or I could stick with this, but I won't include it in my portfolio, which is likely to happen.
So why am I doing such a complicated topic in the first place? It's just something I believe that needs to be made clear.
So why am I doing such a complicated topic in the first place? It's just something I believe that needs to be made clear.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
My evaluation
I will be doing a personal movie review on a particularily unknown Tarantino film. 'Resivior Dogs' was his first film he made and is my favorite of his.
Evaluation I found
I wanted to do a review for a movie my girlfriend and I wanted to see, so I went on MSN Movies and looked up a review of the movie: Whiteout.
'Whiteout' Strikes Out
Mary Pols, Special to MSN Movies
In the climactic scene of "Whiteout," a thriller with the pulse of a glacier, set in and around the South Pole, three characters in bulky parkas try to navigate from one building to another, using guide ropes that they clip themselves onto. A blizzard is in full swing, and the snow is blowing so densely that letting go, for them, would be only slightly more foolish than you paying theater prices to see this movie.
Just to complicate things, someone is wielding an ice ax. Or perhaps two people; it's hard to tell because, thanks to the whiteout conditions, we, like the characters, can't see anything, not even the chief draw of the film, Kate Beckinsale. Best known for conducting her "Underworld" action scenes clad in tight black leather, here Beckinsale is featured in layers of Gore-Tex and fleece. She plays Carrie Stetko, a U.S. marshal who took a job at a research facility in Antarctica in order to recover from an on-the-job trauma a couple of years back. She's damaged, in the manner of so many movie heroines.
The Antarctica gig has been peaceful and dull. But, right before she is scheduled to get on a plane and escape to a more pleasant climate for the winter, a dead body turns up on the ice. He's a geologist and he's missing half his face. Suddenly Carrie has a murder investigation on her hands. We know it somehow relates to a bloody midair shootout and subsequent crash of a Soviet plane in 1957, because we've seen the prologue, but poor Carrie is in the dark. The clock is ticking; can she solve the case of the "popsicle," as she and the tough guys on the station endearingly refer to a frozen body, before it's time to head north?
Initially, as the lone U.S. marshal on the research station, she's the only one on the case. The facility's doctor (Tom Skerritt) serves as a source of comfort and wisdom. A good-natured pilot, Delfy (Columbus Short), flies her from one frozen crime scene to another (the bodies start to pile up). But then the United Nations, ever helpful, sends in an investigator, Robert Pryce (Gabriel Macht) to oversee the case. He's a specialist in the Russian-American relationship, but all that really matters is that he's attractive, in a slightly shifty way, and might not be trustworthy, having turned up just as Carrie survives her first run-in with an unidentifiable, ax-wielding man in a parka. He could be the murderer, or a love interest. What is a girl to do? In the Antarctic, where logical thinking seems to be impaired, you go stomping around on the ice together, looking for clues.
Beckinsale is a pleasant but not wildly expressive actress, and "Whiteout" does not represent a breakthrough. When she cries, the tears are tiny and oddly dry. But, to be fair, the whole cast delivers numb, almost affect-less performances; the cold must have got to them. Movies about filmmaking often feature a film within the film that's so insanely over the top that even the most clueless person in the audience knows it is a parody (remember in "The Player," where Bruce Willis, playing himself, carries Julia Roberts, doing the same, out of the death chamber?). The plot of "Whiteout" is not quite as ill-conceived, but it's so easy to imagine Beckinsale, thinking she'd landed a serious part in a cool location (most of this was shot in Canada, which stands in very nicely for the true frigid locale), realizing she's made a mistake. "So I fumble with the clamp on the rope?" you could see her asking. "Repeatedly, for several minutes? This is the climax? And you can't see my face? We're all just blurry people in parkas?"
In turn, we can imagine director Dominic Sena's (deliverer of such previous suspect gifts as "Swordfish" and "Gone in Sixty Seconds") talking her through it: "I know darling, it is unusual, but that's what makes it so special. But we do need something for your fans. How about we do a gratuitous shower scene, early on? You'll peel off your 11 layers to reveal some pretty undies, and then take off your top and wash away that Antarctic chill while we watch." And, by George, Beckinsale does it. She a trouper, but that won't distract anyone from the film's shortcomings.
So apparently accoding to one film critic, the movie sucks. For now I guess I'll take her word for it and not waste a date on this movie, however i still wanna see it so im going to wait for it to come out on DVD.
'Whiteout' Strikes Out
Mary Pols, Special to MSN Movies
In the climactic scene of "Whiteout," a thriller with the pulse of a glacier, set in and around the South Pole, three characters in bulky parkas try to navigate from one building to another, using guide ropes that they clip themselves onto. A blizzard is in full swing, and the snow is blowing so densely that letting go, for them, would be only slightly more foolish than you paying theater prices to see this movie.
Just to complicate things, someone is wielding an ice ax. Or perhaps two people; it's hard to tell because, thanks to the whiteout conditions, we, like the characters, can't see anything, not even the chief draw of the film, Kate Beckinsale. Best known for conducting her "Underworld" action scenes clad in tight black leather, here Beckinsale is featured in layers of Gore-Tex and fleece. She plays Carrie Stetko, a U.S. marshal who took a job at a research facility in Antarctica in order to recover from an on-the-job trauma a couple of years back. She's damaged, in the manner of so many movie heroines.
The Antarctica gig has been peaceful and dull. But, right before she is scheduled to get on a plane and escape to a more pleasant climate for the winter, a dead body turns up on the ice. He's a geologist and he's missing half his face. Suddenly Carrie has a murder investigation on her hands. We know it somehow relates to a bloody midair shootout and subsequent crash of a Soviet plane in 1957, because we've seen the prologue, but poor Carrie is in the dark. The clock is ticking; can she solve the case of the "popsicle," as she and the tough guys on the station endearingly refer to a frozen body, before it's time to head north?
Initially, as the lone U.S. marshal on the research station, she's the only one on the case. The facility's doctor (Tom Skerritt) serves as a source of comfort and wisdom. A good-natured pilot, Delfy (Columbus Short), flies her from one frozen crime scene to another (the bodies start to pile up). But then the United Nations, ever helpful, sends in an investigator, Robert Pryce (Gabriel Macht) to oversee the case. He's a specialist in the Russian-American relationship, but all that really matters is that he's attractive, in a slightly shifty way, and might not be trustworthy, having turned up just as Carrie survives her first run-in with an unidentifiable, ax-wielding man in a parka. He could be the murderer, or a love interest. What is a girl to do? In the Antarctic, where logical thinking seems to be impaired, you go stomping around on the ice together, looking for clues.
Beckinsale is a pleasant but not wildly expressive actress, and "Whiteout" does not represent a breakthrough. When she cries, the tears are tiny and oddly dry. But, to be fair, the whole cast delivers numb, almost affect-less performances; the cold must have got to them. Movies about filmmaking often feature a film within the film that's so insanely over the top that even the most clueless person in the audience knows it is a parody (remember in "The Player," where Bruce Willis, playing himself, carries Julia Roberts, doing the same, out of the death chamber?). The plot of "Whiteout" is not quite as ill-conceived, but it's so easy to imagine Beckinsale, thinking she'd landed a serious part in a cool location (most of this was shot in Canada, which stands in very nicely for the true frigid locale), realizing she's made a mistake. "So I fumble with the clamp on the rope?" you could see her asking. "Repeatedly, for several minutes? This is the climax? And you can't see my face? We're all just blurry people in parkas?"
In turn, we can imagine director Dominic Sena's (deliverer of such previous suspect gifts as "Swordfish" and "Gone in Sixty Seconds") talking her through it: "I know darling, it is unusual, but that's what makes it so special. But we do need something for your fans. How about we do a gratuitous shower scene, early on? You'll peel off your 11 layers to reveal some pretty undies, and then take off your top and wash away that Antarctic chill while we watch." And, by George, Beckinsale does it. She a trouper, but that won't distract anyone from the film's shortcomings.
So apparently accoding to one film critic, the movie sucks. For now I guess I'll take her word for it and not waste a date on this movie, however i still wanna see it so im going to wait for it to come out on DVD.
Finding an Evalution
I found this evaluation on a taylor swift concert!
click here : http://countrymusic.about.com/od/concertreviewsm1/a/TaylorSConc0507.htm
click here : http://countrymusic.about.com/od/concertreviewsm1/a/TaylorSConc0507.htm
Evaluation
I'm finding it hard to find something to evaluate my topic against. I am writing my evaluation on Twilight, both the book and the movie, and so far i've just evaluated it against other books that have been made into movies. Any suggestions on how to better evaluate the two?
Nick
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