Apocalypto

Author A. O. Scott (The New York Times) begins his review with a quote from the movie; “I’m going to peel off his skin and make him watch me wear it.” After briefly listing the most memorable action scenes from the movie, Scott begins talking about the director, Mel Gibson, and compares this film with others he produced. Scott claims this is another "conservative anti-imperialism" movie by Gibson. After Scott explains the setting, he starts describing key parts of the film's plot. Finaly, an overall opinion is stated about the film, just before a list of the crew and cast.

Spiderman 3

In this review Rodger Ebert, he ask if there was a made up relationship with Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Rodger Ebert's answer was no because the audience of today's date would not accept a great hero so dump and a heroine so docile. Rodger Ebert gives this movie two stars. He also asked in a question, "How does a microorganism from outer space know how to replicate details of the Spider-Man costume so Topher Grace can become Venom?" These are some good question about the movie that can't be explained in the movie. Well, Rodger Ebert does point out the good and the bad points of the movie. Either way, he does recommend this movie to people to see this movie if they loved Spider-Man and loved to watch superhero movies.

Superbad

Peter Travers, of the Rolling Stones, praises Superbad for its capability of packing "more gut-busting laughs than you can count." Especially the acting skills of Fogell, or McLovin, played by Mintz-Plasse, who makes his geeky character a icon for viewers. But that is not even the beginning. The writer's hilarious one-lines make viewers have to watch the movie over and over again just to see what they missed. Not to mention the totally gross teen situations that come along with the crazy conversations. Overall, Superbad is a knee slapper that you cannot just pass up.

Across The Universe

There was a lot of attention surrounding this film when it was first released. Many people felt that re-making the brilliant music of The Beatles, and adding a story to them would ruin the songs. Adding a love story seemed even more far fetched. But in this review, Roger Ebert gives Across The Universe strong positive feedback. Ebert calls Across The Universe "A bold, beautiful, visually enchanting musical". He states that the cinematography went particularly well with the music. He also adds the the love story is not outdated or boring. As a fan of The Beatles, Ebert believes that this movie is not only a well done, original love story, but that it also does justice to the Fab Four.

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Peter Travers, of the Rolling Stones corporations, could only rave of the brilliant mastermind, Quentin Tarantino. He mentions how Tanrantino brought together all of his b -list movie and combined all the ideas to create the Kill Bill collection. Also unlike most critics, he applauds Tarnatino for splitting the film into two parts by saying, "I'd prefer four hours of untamed Tarantino to one film edited into a multiplex-friendly two hours." Simply put, Travers believes that the only way the film could have been better is if he could see it for the first time again.

The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss is a drama and romantic comedy about a man in his 30s who's life is about to change. His girlfriend is pregnant and all of his fri4ends around him are having problems of their own as well. In this review the basic plot of the movie is told. Zach Braff plays a confused man who begins having an affair with a young lady he met at his friends wedding. The movie portrays common problems in relationships and life itself. In the following review the up and down side of the movie is told. It is mainly positive feedback, making the reading want to watch it. Garden State was also a popular movie with an amazing soundtrack and it is said that The Last Kiss is still even better. It hypes up the movie and says many positive things about it by telling us a basic plot story and even comparing it to another great movie. This review does an amazing job at persuading the reading to watch it.

A Walk to Remember

This review written by A.O. Scott gives a very male approach to A Walk to Remember in my opinion. He basically just rips on the movie throughout the entire article.He briefly summarizes the article and tells who the main characters are and what actors portray them. Personally a Walk to Remember was one of my favorite romance movies of all time. He claims that A Walk to Remember was " another soapy teenage romance movie". He even goes far enough to compare A Walk to Remember to Not Another Teen Movie which have absolutely no relation to one another. This article should be fun to argue with because the more i read of it the madder it makes me.

Hitman

Roger Ebert talks about the movie Hitman in this review. He states how it was better than what he expected. He gives the names of the actors and the characters that they play. He gives a brief summary of the movies and how it was first a video games. He gives the directer and the writer names and how they took some things away from the video game. He tells us why he likes the movie and why it was better than he thought it would be. Overall he gives the movies three stars.

VIdeo Game Film Should Be Assassinated

Hitman

There has been buzz about he movie Hitman. Many that go to see this movie are those who have played and enjoyed these games for hours, but even they are not satisfied.

"So why would anyone who enjoys gaming buy a ticket to, essentially, watch someone else play?
Although this might make a diverting video game, it makes for a lousy picture. People who enjoy playing "Hitman" are advised to skip the movie and keep right on playing their game. People who've never heard of either are heartily to be envied."

I agree i saw this movie after a friend reviewed it well, and i was totally disappointed. Even though i enjoyed the game it was a terrible movie with terrible actor choices.

Beowulf a Must-See

Published in the movie magazine, Boxoffice, Annlee Ellingson comments that the newly released Beowulf succeeds in connecting the audience to the movie. After reading Beowulf in my sophmore year of high school, I was nowhere near psyched to hear about a movie; however, Ellingson comments on its "stunning cinematography" and "unchoppy narrative" making it seem about 1000 times better then the poem. The review of the sci-fi movie does comment although on the animated quality of the characters that distracts from sympathizing with them. Ellingson describes only that one negative factor and rates the movie a must-see hit, longing for more (in a good way).

30 Days of Night

In this review Rodger Ebert points out flaws of the film. He points out things that completely undermine the plot of the film for example; why cant the planes come in at night, and why do the vampires make the 300 mile trip when there are much closer places. He gives the film two and a half stars because its well made and well photographed. Ebert is also bias towards the film because there are so many vampire films that he seen that they don't surprise him anymore. However he said it will be worthwhile to go see the film to the people who haven't seen a lot of vampire films. Rodger ends the review with a quote from a horror blogger, who was very pleased with the film.

Snakes on Da Plane

This site I found basically bashes "Snakes on a Plane" like no other. "It has '70s-style plot holes you could drive a Dodge Rambler through, plus can o' corn music, a march of stereotypes..." This review is full of critical comments on how this movie is horrible, so horrible its funny. I'm not sure if the makers of this movie wanted it to be scary or funny. If they wanted this movie to be scary then I'm sure they won't be making any more movies in their life time. (And this review explains why this movie is so bad).

Across the Universe: More than just Drugs, Sex, and Rock-and-Roll

In this review, Roger Ebert explains the character and basic plot line of the Beatles and 1960s-inspired film, but he also delves deeper into cultural and more importantly, political aspects of the movie. The "Drugs, Sex, and Rock-and-Roll" era is exemplified through scenes that catch your eyes and ears through remade Beatles songs and wonderfully choreographed dancing under the direction of Julie Taymor.

War of the Worlds (2005)

Roger Ebert wrote "War of the Worlds is a big, clunky movie containing some sensation sights but lacking the zest and joyous energy we expect from Steven Spielberg". He feels that this film is not one of his best works. He tells the reader that the film is a remake of a 1950 version. Ebert compares the film to other works that Spielberg has created and others of its genre. It is compared to Minority Report and The Day After Tomorrow. He questions the invasion of the robot aliens. He does not understand their purpose. Later in the review the film is compared to the novel version of the story by H.G. Wells. Overall Ebert's only problem with the film was the robot aliens. He enjoyed the cast and the roles they played. He just did not like those robot aliens.

Love Actually

Film Critic Roger Ebert Reviews the 2003 film "Love Actually". This romantic comedy is comprised of a dozen or so relationships whose stories "go round and round." Although Ebert does not attempt to summarize all of the relationships webbed through out the film, he provides a sufficient plot line to convince the reader this film is worth viewing. He credits director Richard Curtis and leading actor Hugh Grant, mentioning "Grant has flowered into an absolutely splendid romantic comedian." This specific article provides enough claims in order to make a successful persuasive essay.

Presenting tips

This site states that you should know the needs of your audience in order to give a good presentation. You should try and memorize what you are talking about. A little humor can go along way as well. If you are using visual aids with equipment like computers make sure they are working well before you deliever your speech. Make sure you have confidence in what your talking about otherwise your audience won't believe in what message you are trying to get across.

August Rush

This is a review by Rodger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert gives August Rush both negitive and a postive feedback about the film. He says, "Here is a movie drenched in sentimentality, but it's supposed to be". Then says positivly, "I'm telling you, the ghost of Dickens would be applauding. The movie, directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Nick Castle, James V. Hart and Paul Castro, pulls out all the stops, invents new ones and pulls them out too." Ebert gave August Rush only three stars, but he liked that the film "it seems to sincerely love music as much as August does."

Training Day

Mark G. E. Kelly wrote about the movie Training Day. This movie stars Denzel Washington as a crooked cop, training Ethan hawke on how police work is really done in the streets. in this passage Kelly relates the movie to the war in Iraq. "This story is a metaphor for America’s involvement with Iraq over the last thirty years. Hoyt is America, of course; Alonzo is Saddam Hussein. Alonzo dwells in a neighbourhood where he has the “golden pass. ” He is apparently a king, but in fact he is hated, secretly."

Transformers

Roger Ebert wrote a review on Transformers on July 2, 2007. He gave the movie 3 stars. Ebert found both positive and negative things about the movie. He said, “It’s goofy fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only to realize how preposterous it is, but to make that into an asset.” He says how the high school situation between Sam and Mikaela could have been its own teenage comedy without the transformers. He would have given the movie 4 stars, but the battle scene got him bored. He liked how the cars looked, but it didn’t seem possible for that to ever happen. He thought it was too long and that they didn’t need to go on and on. He believes, “you could bring it in at two hours by cutting CGI shots, and have a better movie.”

Beloved Book, Lousy Movie: "Love in the Time of Cholera"

The link I have provided above will take you to a review of the film entitled Love in the Time of Cholera, directed by Mike Newell, and based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The reviewer of this film is Kyle Smith of The New York Post. Smith opens the review by saying,

"If you've seen "Gone With the Wind," you've seen what "Love in the Time
of Cholera" isn't. "

By the looks of it, many others who have viewed the film share the same feelings as Smith, in that the film does the novel no justice and is not worth seeing. The end result of which was the film was found to be 'horrible' by most viewers.