Rushmore

Rushmore is one of my favorite movies I have watched through this entire course. Wes Anderson, the director has made many movies that I really enjoyed such as this one, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited. Bill Murray, who is in about ever Wes Anderson movie has impressed me yet again with his amazing performance. This movie had a bit of dark comedy in it which made very comedic in some inappropriate places such as when Herman and Max started to hate each other and would try to pull pranks on one another. I also found it hilarious when it showed all the clubs that Max Fischer started and is somehow president for all of them. In the end of nearly all of Anderson's films, he has a way of clearing everything up such as the relationship between two characters so that they learn from their mistakes and become friends again just like in the beginning of the story.

ChungKing Express

This movie has to be one of the biggest turn around movies for me. The first day of watching this, I felt like I had no clue what was going on the motion of the camera made it seem as if the story was going twice as fast than it was supposed to be. Once the first story ended, I felt so dumb because I had no clue what the purpose of that story was. When the second story started, I was a little happier to see that the new character was not psycho. Watching this new story really made me start to appreciate the movie because I could see how others and I could relate to this character. I felt a big connection to this guy. I was surprised to see that I was the only one in the class to actually start enjoying the movie at this point. Also, I found the part with that woman sneaking into Cop 633's apartment and cleaning it up to be hilarious. Somehow once again, I was the only person in the class to find that funny. By the end of the movie my opinion completely turned around about this movie being bad and was even facinated by how well it turned out to be. I believe that the moral of this story is that time heals everything and you must learn to move on with your life.

Elepahnt

After watching this movie, my mouth just completely just dropped to the floor. I was never ever a fan of any form of school violence. Its hard to imagine what the bullies of the school really did to those poor kids. Not that I think what the shooters did was right but sadly when you mess with the bull you get the horns. Sometimes when I'm walking through the halls, I think if this could actually happen here and if it could, who would do it. I did like how the director filmed the movie. It was interesting to see a free moving camera following the characters and then switching point of views when one of the characters pass another. I also enjoyed seeing that the kids in the movie acted the same way they did in the interviews. I'm happy to see that they were not angry or aggressive kids who actually might have thought about doing something like this before. This was a very good movie and i think that all schools should have to show this movie to all their students so they know what could happen.

THE LIST OF ALL LISTS: THE BEST OF THE BEST

(not necessarily in the order from best to worst)

MY TOP 30 LIST:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Godfather Part 1
3. Godfather Part 2
4. Schindler's List
5. Raging Bull
6. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Se7en
9. Reservoir Dogs
10. Star Wars: A New Hope
11. The Usual Suspects
12. American Beauty
13. Dog Day Afternoon
14. American History X
15. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
16. Apocalypse Now
17. Taxi Driver
18. Leon: the Professional
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
20. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Vol. 2
21. The Shawshank Redemption
22. LA Confidential
23. Once Upon a Time in America
24. The Deer Hunter
25. Gladiator
26. The Departed
27. V for Vendetta
28. Full Metal Jacket
29. Clerks I and II
30. Goodfellas

Groundhog day

This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. This was one of Bill Murray's best roles. He was definitely one of the best actors to pick to play an arrogant asshole. He would act as if he was better than everyone else and more sophisticated as well. My favorite scene in the movie has to be when he memorized everything that is supposed to happen during the day so he was able to easily steal the money from the truck. On the IMDB trivia for this movie, it said that the screen write wanted him to repeat the same day for ten thousand years but they later made it only three years. Also the scene when Bill smashes the clock against the floor, it really did keep playing that song even though it was broken. Just a funny thing to know.

Goldfinger

To be honest, this is the first 007 movie i have ever seen. Whenever i tell my friends this, its always hard for them to understand how that can be true because i watch so many movies. I basicaly expected this movie to be somewhat poorly directed but I did think Shawn acted great as James Bond. The acting was kind of fake and the decapatating hat was just funny. Theres not much I can say more about this movie except that James Bond is probably the deadliest, super rich ladies man who goes on secret missions to stop terrorists.

Double Indemnity

Right now, I will sadly have to admit that this is one of the first times that my opinion prior to watching a movie was completely different than after i watched it. Usually, I have like a sixth sense when a movie will be good or not but i was one hundred percent off on this one. In my opinion, this movie is very similar to Macbeth where all the women are evil and are able to corrupt even the most humble and honest men. I loved the scene when Walter kills Phyllis's husband and Phyllis doesn't change her emotion or expression on her face at all. Its as if her face is made out of stone and nothing can make her even blink once. I also enjoyed all the mystery and suspicion that was going on throughout the entire film. I would have to rate this in my top 15 favorite movies of all time.