Fish out of water comedy
Romantic comedies are predictable most of the time, so it's how we get there that matters "The Proposal" seemed to be getting there with some flames & creativity. Headed by a couple of actors that are not new to the comedic genre. Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds are both well fit for clever bantor, they play off each other quite well right of the top. Although I'm not a huge fan of Sandra Bullock her chemistry with Ryan Reynolds is right on.
Margaret(Bullock) is a high powered book editor who is facing deplortation to her hometown of Canada unless she comes up with a plan. A quick thinking exec declares she get engaged to her unsuspecting assistant Andrew (Reynolds) who she has tormented for years. He agrees to help but not without a few conditions of his own. The put on couple heads to Alaska to meet his eccentric family & the big wig city girl finds herself in a fish out of water scenario.
Funny moments ensue but the director Anne Fletcher crushes any good will it forms when it takes a predictable turn towards gushy.
Neal Damiano
Film Critic
Remake of a horror icon.
Well I saw this movie in the theater on opening night expecting to be blown away. Needless to say I wasn't. I was dissappointed and kind of confused to be honest. I wandered if the people who made this movie have ever actually seen a Friday the 13th movie? Let me say I have been a die hard fan of this genre for nearly thirty years now and I am tired of feeling slapped in the face by these new filmakers who just don't get it! This movie starts with a half assed flashback of Camp Crystal lake 1980, where we watch Jason's mother get her head chopped off. Exciting right? Well, think again. You barely get to even see her head come off at all. And no blood! The whole thing is done in black and white choppy resolution, and is over with before you know it. Then it fades into color and the new story begins but, the texture of the film is the same as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake from 2003 directed by Marcus Nispel also. They didn't do what's called a silver wash on it, which means the picture has a kind of blue tint to it to make it look raw and more vintage. This movie is basically Chainsaw Massacre with Jason instead of Leatherface. And enter our first group of victims, who are looking for a marijuana stash nearby. They do the standard setting up camp, drinking beer, and sex in the tent, and of course Jason comes and kills them one by one. Some good points are the kills in this movie. Very creative and gory. I thought Jason wearing the potato sack on his head for the first few scenes were cool also. Kind of a tribute to part two. After some cool kills, and some nudity, we move on to another set of victims who are really one dimensional and boring as hell! In fact, the movie seems to go on forever before anything happens at all. Then we see Jason kill a farmer who has a ton of junk in his barn and what do ya know? Jason finds a hockey mask in there. In the second half we find that Jason has taken one of the female campers hostage and that is so out of character for him it is rediculous! He is not, I repeat NOT Leatherface so stop writing him as if he were! He also does alot of running, jumping, and other acrobatics that are sure to piss any fan off! The end plays out with a chase, and some choppy editing that ends in Jason's death involving a chain around his neck and a wood chipper. Don't see any gore with that scene either by the way, and what would a good slasher movie be without the standard final jump scare scene? So predictable! I did however, buy the uncut version on dvd this week and it is a little better I guess. There are extra scenes and the editing is better. It has a better flow to it. Still not great though. Can't wait til these people ruin A Nightmare on Elm st. the same way. C-Ya!
The Terminator franchise continues once again with this new installment to the series. The story basically follows John Connor as he works with the self protecting resistance fighters against the evil machines. As the battle continues, he meets up with refugees, Kyle Reece and Marcus wright as they help John with recovering over judgement day and defeating the machines once and for all. John connor must also learn that to win over the machines, he must sacrifice himself and the people he loves aswell.
Although Terminator salvation dosent have the ideal peformances by the cast, it shows a respectful addition to the terminator franchise and makes a damn great action film overall.
a retiring cornel sets out on his last mission, but on the way he is fighting a war between the Americans and the Indians. HE the one that could end this war, but ears that he would lose some of his men.
This movie is about a cornel who is being retired in five days and is tiring to stop a war between the Indians and the Americans. He goes on his last patrol with his men. Then they get a letter that gives him his last mission. He gets his troops ready and the head out. As they go they take there war women with them. They encounter a couple of men that were selling guns to Indians. They were being burned alive. They did not try to help them. They just turned around and left. Then they finally reached there destination, mission failure. One of the older soldiers died. Then he takes his troops to the Indian camps and starts blazing there guns and the Indians start shooting arrows back. The American soldiers took no casualties. ‘She wore a yellow ribbon’ was a movie I saw, and I have to honest to my readers. It was horrible. I like western movies, but unfortunately, this one was bad. I like the westerns that have gunfire and horseback fighting. It was not very often in this move. It made no since. It jumped into the story way to soon. It was like watching an episode of a cartoon when it is in season two. So I am watching it like where it the first season? It did not have that many gunfire fights. There was a miniscule of entertainment. There was no action at all. The actors did there job. The sets and lighting were good but I do not think that the actors knew that they were going to make a movie this bad. The costumes were good, too. This movie was clearly not for me. If you like, westerns then watch this movie. I did not like the move but it was a good experience. It is the first western movie I have ever seen from start to finish. I have never understood why my grand father had liked westerns so much. They are interesting and cool. My grand fathers favorite western movie was ’the good, the bad, and the ugly’. He also liked some television show called ‘MASH’. Until I saw ‘she wore a yellow ribbon’, I thought that western movies were lame. Except this movie was not one of those cool westerns. I do not know what the movie was trying to say or show. I think it tried to show soldiers fighting the Indians. I have to say this is not the western movie that you should see. The plot seemed to fall out of place; the whole meaning of it just did not connect. It is as I said it is missing something. I felt that this movie was the sequel. Maybe the first movie is ‘she bought a yellow ribbon’. In my opinion the director, d did not know what he was doing. Although, it was the first time I watched a western movie before. I am probably not use to that gene because it is new to me.
people riding horses in the wild west
What is this seriously is it supposes to be a movie or what. I feel sorry for the director having to waist his time and his money on this horrible thing. It’s as if this movie goes has no ending it goes on and on. Even though this is about one hour and forty minutes it’s as if it goes on forever and ever and ever. I wonder what the director was thinking when he wrote and filmed this movie. He probably was criticized by lots of people for making this movie. I even think that when the movie was done and the director first saw it he probably hated it too. This movie has no point to it; it does not even have a main idea to it. Throughout the whole movie I was confused and bored. I did not know what was happening in the movie and I did not know why things were happening. I also did not know who was who and what the position of each of the characters was. I did not know what each character had to do or why they were where they were. It is movies like this one that makes hate old western movies. All the old western movies that I have seen I have hated it and this movie is no different from any of the others. One thing that always comes to my mind is why do directors keep making these kinds of movies when most people hate western movies. I feel sorry for the directors that make these kinds of movies because it is a waist of their money and their precise time. The people who suffer more from watching old western movies like this one are people who are force to watch it against their will. This movie is just a waist of time for people who watch it and anything they can do instead is one hundred times better than watching this movie. This film can be use as a way of torture by making people sit through the whole thing. The only thing that this movie is about is about people just riding on their horses and talking. That’s all the movie is pretty much about. Every once and awhile the people on the horse get in fights with Indians for no reasons. The only part that was alright was the fight that there was at the bar. Oh and this movie has the worst ending ever. All it shows is the people on their horses riding away into the horizon. Wow now that’s a bad ending. If you are bored and you want some excitement I do not recommend this movie to you, but if you want to be bore then watch this movie. The movie is called “she wore a yellow ribbon” and the movie has nothing to do with any lady wearing a yellow ribbon. Seriously why is a movie named like this if the movie is about something else? I would give this movie a 0,but 1 is the lowest.
Once his bicycle is stolen, his whole life comes crashing down.
I did not enjoy watching this movie because for one I hate sad endings and two I hate when bad people get away with things, especially towards innocent people. Anyways, this movie's main characters are Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) the man whose bicycle gets stolen, Bruno Ricci (Enzo Staiola) Antonio's son,
Maria Ricci (Lianella Carell) Antonio's wife and Vittorio Antonucci is the bicycle thief.
As the movie starts, everyone is trying to get a job. Antonio recieves a job posting flyers. This job includes a bicycle so he can go from place to place quickly. But the thing is that he doesn't have a bicycle, so his wife Maria decides to I guess sell her wedding sheets to get money for Antonio to be able to keep the job. So the first day he has the bicycle and is off to work, the bicycle is stolen. Antonio runs after the thieves but unfortunatly doesn't catch up to them. So him and his son, Bruno, are off to find the bicycle. They report to the police and they get help but no luck. Later on in the movie, Antonio sees an old man he thinks saw the bicycle thief and where he went. The old man denys it and tells Antonio to leave him alone but Antonio doesn't give up and follows him to church. During church Antonio is still trying to convince the old man but the old man runs away as he goes to get soup. Then Antonio gets really mad and goes looking for him. Poor Bruno is trying to help but he gets his father more annoyed. Then at a point Antonio slaps Bruno on his face and Bruno gets very upset. Then there was a situation where a boy was drowning and Antonio thought it was Bruno, but later found out it wasn't. He realizes how worried he was and how he could have lost Bruno for good and he feels bad for him and takes him to get pizza. After that, they go to a little town where he actually finds the bicycle theif! But sadly, he had no proof that was the bicycle theif because Vittorio had already sold the bicycle. Only he knew it was him. The whole town started to defend Vittorio and kicked Antonio out of the town and told him never to come back. The police himself said theres no luck. As Antonio leaves, he is very very upset. And his desperation of having a bicycle gets to him and he decides to go steal a bicycle himself. It happened to him so he doesn't think much. But as he stole the bicycle, he doesn't get away with it. He gets caught and is humiliated in front of everyone including Bruno. The movie ends there with no happy ending.
I rated this movie a 5 because like I said I hate movies with horrible, depressing endings. It felt like everything just kept getting worse instead of atleast one thing going right. This movie I disliked the most and my teacher knows that. But one thing I did like about this movie was that it had a good beginning, middle and end. There were really good scenes that I got into, where the actors played well.
Who would have ever thought such things would happen over a proposal turn down?!
This movie, I enjoyed very much. The main characters were Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy). I would say Stan is a lost man, who needs Ollie more than Ollie needs him. Ollie is a very stubborn man who is quite grumpy most of the time. The rest of the cast are Georgette (Jean Parker) as the woman who turns down Ollie, François (Reginald Gardiner) as Georgette's husband, Charles B. Middleton as the Legion Commandant, Jean Del Val as a Sergeant, Clem Wilenchick as a Corporal, and Michael Visaroff as the Innkeeper.
To start the movie off, it takes place in Paris. Ollie is madly in love with the innkeeper's daughter, which is Georgette, and sends her flowers and chocolate. All of her friends and Geogette are all giggly about him. Then Ollie decides to propose to her not knowing she had a husband. He took Stan with him as well. Unfortunatly, she says no and thats when Ollie becomes a mess. He goes upstairs to his apartment with Stan and he tries to relax and get everything off his mind and Stan "tries" to help. But instead of helping, he makes everything worse and leads Ollie in deciding to jump the river. But Ollie couldn't do it alone and makes Stan go with him. As they get to the river, Ollie convinces Stan to jump with him by telling him that if he dies alone, Stan will be nothing without him. So as they were discussing reincarnation with each other, François over hears them and instead recruits them into the French Foreign Legion. When they get there, they are eventually put to work. Their job was laudry work. They did a very lousy job and were kept on being asked to go back to work. Then when a wet underwear was thrown at an officer's face, the officer went and told Middleton, the Legion Commandant, he went to go speak to them. But when he got there, they were gone and a mountain of clothes were set on fire. They thought it was purposly done but it was all an accident. So as they were putting down the fire, Ollie and Stan were at the Commandant's office writing him an offensive letter. They knew they weren't army material. When the Commandant got to his office and read the letter he wants them dead. So when they catch them, they are imprisoned and sentenced to execution. But before sunrise, where they were planned to get shot, they manage to find a secret tunnel to escape the jail. But when the tunnel trip went wrong they are being chased for another couple of hours with the most hilarious scenes. At the end they escape in a biplane and are ready for take off! So as they spent all this time in the plane trying to control it, they end up crashing. Sadly, Ollie doesn't make it and his angel is seen floating out of the plane to heaven, waving bye to Stan. At the end of the movie, Stan is walking alone back home and stops when he sees a moustachioed horse wearing a bowler hat. It turned out to be Ollie re-incarnated, just how they talked about when they were gonna jump into the river. Stan hugs the horse and takes him along.
I rate this movie a 9 because it is my favorite movie I have seen so far in my english class. It was very funny and it made me wanna watch it again just in case I missed a scene. The only reason I didn't give it a 10/10 is because at times they over did the jokes. By that I mean that when something funny happened, they did it over and over again and it stopped being funny after a while. Like the time where Stan just kept hitting his head on the wall about, lets say a hundred times. But other than that, it was a wonderful movie. Its worth watching!
Who would have ever thought such things would happen over a proposal turn down?!
This movie, I enjoyed very much. The main characters were Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy). I would say Stan is a lost man, who needs Ollie more than Ollie needs him. Ollie is a very stubborn man who is quite grumpy most of the time. The rest of the cast are Georgette (Jean Parker) as the woman who turns down Ollie, François (Reginald Gardiner) as Georgette's husband, Charles B. Middleton as the Legion Commandant, Jean Del Val as a Sergeant, Clem Wilenchick as a Corporal, and Michael Visaroff as the Innkeeper.
To start the movie off, it takes place in Paris. Ollie is madly in love with the innkeeper's daughter, which is Georgette, and sends her flowers and chocolate. All of her friends and Geogette are all giggly about him. Then Ollie decides to propose to her not knowing she had a husband. He took Stan with him as well. Unfortunatly, she says no and thats when Ollie becomes a mess. He goes upstairs to his apartment with Stan and he tries to relax and get everything off his mind and Stan "tries" to help. But instead of helping, he makes everything worse and leads Ollie in deciding to jump the river. But Ollie couldn't do it alone and makes Stan go with him. As they get to the river, Ollie convinces Stan to jump with him by telling him that if he dies alone, Stan will be nothing without him. So as they were discussing reincarnation with each other, François over hears them and instead recruits them into the French Foreign Legion. When they get there, they are eventually put to work. Their job was laudry work. They did a very lousy job and were kept on being asked to go back to work. Then when a wet underwear was thrown at an officer's face, the officer went and told Middleton, the Legion Commandant, he went to go speak to them. But when he got there, they were gone and a mountain of clothes were set on fire. They thought it was purposly done but it was all an accident. So as they were putting down the fire, Ollie and Stan were at the Commandant's office writing him an offensive letter. They knew they weren't army material. When the Commandant got to his office and read the letter he wants them dead. So when they catch them, they are imprisoned and sentenced to execution. But before sunrise, where they were planned to get shot, they manage to find a secret tunnel to escape the jail. But when the tunnel trip went wrong they are being chased for another couple of hours with the most hilarious scenes. At the end they escape in a biplane and are ready for take off! So as they spent all this time in the plane trying to control it, they end up crashing. Sadly, Ollie doesn't make it and his angel is seen floating out of the plane to heaven, waving bye to Stan. At the end of the movie, Stan is walking alone back home and stops when he sees a moustachioed horse wearing a bowler hat. It turned out to be Ollie re-incarnated, just how they talked about when they were gonna jump into the river. Stan hugs the horse and takes him along.
I rate this movie a 9 because it is my favorite movie I have seen so far in my english class. It was very funny and it made me wanna watch it again just in case I missed a scene. The only reason I didn't give it a 10/10 is because at times they over did the jokes. By that I mean that when something funny happened, they did it over and over again and it stopped being funny after a while. Like the time where Stan just kept hitting his head on the wall about, lets say a hundred times. But other than that, it was a wonderful movie. Its worth watching!
He lost his life when they stole his bike!
Antonio (Played by Lamberto Maggiorani) is a poor man who is overjoyed when he is at last offered a job, delivering and putting up movie posters. But he needs a bicycle, and is required to supply his own, so when he tells his wife Maria (Played by Lianella Carelli) she pawns the family's entire collection of bed linen to get the bicycle he had already pawned. On his first day at work, the unlocked bike is stolen (now isn’t that a good enough reason to put a chain around your bike) and Antonio drops the glue and brush to go on a desperate chaise through the streets after the thief and is then miss leaded by a man and goes after the wrong person on a bike. Then he goes home and tells his wife and goes on a manhunt for the person who has his bike. He looks through the streets of Rome with his little boy Bruno (Played by Enzo Staiola) to get his bike back, demanding, accusing, and uncovering scenes of poverty similar to theirs wherever they go this is due for the end of the depression. They create pandemonium in classic crowd moments: in the streets, in a market, in a church and many more places. Faces always gather eagerly around the pair, all commenting, complaining and generally magnifying the father and son's distress and embarrassment. This is a story that magnificently withholds the comic or dramatic palliatives. The son is the one who had be a witness of the father's humiliation, his failure as a provider. The scenes at the beginning of the film, when Antonio casually leaves his bicycle unlocked and it remains for the moment miraculously un-stolen, have to be watched through your fingers because you don’t know if they would steal his bike then and the movie starts from there or further in the film. Antonio seems unable or unwilling to embrace the obvious redemptive moral - that his son is the important possession, not the wretched bicycle, perhaps because it is too obvious, or because this moral is a luxury that only well-off people can afford. The father is obsessed with finding a stolen needle in the urban haystack, obsessed with getting his job back. Again and again, he ignores his little boy while scanning the horizon for his bicycle. At one part, he hears an uproar from the riverbank about a "drowning boy". With a guilty start, he looks around. Are the people meaning Bruno is drowning? No: there he is, safe and sound waiting were his father left him. But the lesson is not yet learned. He doesn't even hold Bruno's hand! And, in a later scene, we see the poor boy almost run over by a car because his father isn't looking out for him as they cross the street. Bruno's simple physical survival is the movie's secret miracle, and he is finally to be his father's savior, but in such a way as to turn into Antonio's humiliation complete, when he saves him from being arrested for stealing a bicycle witch is probably where the film gets its name because first it was called Bicycle Thieves and was later changed to “The Bicycle Thief” because of the surprising twist at the end. This is poverty's authentic sting: dull and horrible loss of dignity. The Bicycle Thief is a brilliant, tactlessly real work of art but it’s not really the type of movie I would enjoy watching a lot just because it doesn’t have a happy ending but overall I this film deserves at least a 8 out of 10 in my perspective.
They steal a bike from a guy and then he tries to steal one
The Bicycle Thief is an alright of a movie. It was boring throughout the entire movie. But I say that it was alright because of the little kid that played as the role of the son of the main actor. I really liked how he played the role or how the role made him act. The movie was about a man who has a wife and a little boy. He doesn’t have a job. When he finds a job, they tell him that he has to have a bicycle. He tells the person that gave him a job that his bicycle is ruined and that he could walk until he got a bike. They tell him that he has to have a bicycle or he can’t have the job. He tells him that he would get a bike. So he goes to the store and buys a bike. He takes the bike home and his son is all excited. He cleans the bike very good and that same day the dad goes to leave him at school riding the bike. The guy goes to work and his job is putting up posters. He carries around a ladder so he could reach higher places. He stops to put a poster up and he is on the ladder. A guy comes and steals his bike and the he is yelling to let people know that the guy was a robber. He doesn’t catch up with the thief so the thief gets away with the bike. He goes to a friend and asks for help. His friend helps him look for it. The whole next day they go to different stores looking for the bike in pieces because they thought that the guy would have taken it apart by now. That whole day, they didn’t find it. So the next day he and his son go looking for the bike. They found a guy that looked like the thief. They run after him but he gets away. They go to the person that the thief was talking to. The guy goes to a church and they followed him there. They ask him questions and at the end they get the answer to where the guy lives. They told him that he would take them there but the guy gets away. The dad tells his son to wait for him by the lake. The dad goes to look for the guy and he hears people screaming saying that a boy was drowning. He runs to see who it was and while he was running, he was yelling his son’s name. But it wasn’t his son, it was someone else. He sees his son take off his jacket, put it on his arm and sit on a stair. I really like that part because the looks very innocent and it looks nice when a little kid knows how to act. They don’t find either of the guys and the dad is getting very frustrated. He tells his son to go home and the dad steals a bike but he gets caught. The son didn’t catch the bus to go home and he sees his dad get caught. He starts crying and they let him go because of his son. The little kid acted very well in this movie.
