Citizen Kane is not an amazing movie by any means.
The acting is believable and good which is the best part of the movie, how good the actors play their roles but the story is not captivating and is something to be desired.
Orson Welles does a good and believable job playing as Mr. Kane, I also thought that Susan Alexander and Mr. Bernstein as they were the characters that stood out the most to me as being a realistic person was played realisticly as well. I thought though that they could have involved Kane's parents into the story more, but they didn't after watching the movie it's something I wish they would have done, just to make the story of the movie more intriguing.
I don't really think that Citizen Kane is a bad movie, just not as good as I expected it to be. Hearing that this movie is the greatest movie of all time, I had really high expectations, and it just did not live up to the hype to me. The character dialouge was great from all characters, but I felt the movie was trying to shock me with Kane cheating on his wife and how we watched his life slowly spiral out of control, but it failed to shock me or even entertain me.
The movie was more speaking then action not to say that that's bad, but to me the movie was 95% talking and 5% action, the dialouge was good but the action being Kane spazzing at the end.
What I'm trying to get at here is that the dialouge is good but the whole movie (not literally) being dialouge was interesting but it took a tole on me and got boring very quick, the movie picked up towards the end with just actual entertainment, mostly with just how Kane was behaving, from trying to be happy and failing, to sad to inraged, its very fun to watch!
At the end of the day I personally watch a film to be entertained and this movie failed to do that, for the most part. I found the dialouge intriguing, but hearing a lot of it get's boring real quick.
From an honest opinion though, I really don't watch films that often and don't know much about films and cinema, I have no thought of to how much work that they had really put into this film back in the day, I am just looking at it from an honset modern-day view. If it was the 1940's my opinion would be different, what I think is in an amazing film is not here, a film should have a healthy balance of diolouge and action and this film is very dialouge heavy. Too dialouge heavy for me unfortunetly.
It's a good movie, but not an amazing one.
6.5/10
- Lee Skitch
Monday, April 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Blog # 2 Music Video Analysis
1. blink-182 - First Date
2. It is presented somewhat realisticly with showing people in there 20's goofing around and having a good time, and somewhat not realistic with some of the stuff people do in the video, such as slapping somebody's butt before they go down a waterslide or squirting ketchup on people while they are on a waterslide but it shows how people just want to have fun.
3. Some stereotypes portrayed are people in there 20's goofing around, being destructive and having fun doing it, everyone from the 70's smoked pot and that girls tease guys often.
4. Some creeds and values show in the video is, people take life to serious and need to just have fun, girls are happier with guys, life is a party with no consequences, young people are crazy and that people from the 1970's are out of there mind.
5. This video would appeal to teenagers because there close to the age of people portrayed in the video, (besides the little kids) so the things they do teenagers find funny, how people are just not caring about work or school or anything like that, cause teenagers just want to do whatever they want and that's what's going on in the video, people doing what they want, when they want.
6. It is a great video, cause people can relate to is as people just want to have fun, and besides the song being good, the video is equally entertaining to watch because of all the funny stuff that goes on in it such as blink making the girl fall off her bike, or peeing on a go-kart track or being made fun of by girls, it's just funny to watch which to me makes it very entertaining.
Music Video (I tried to embed, it would'nt work):
http://www.blink182.com/player/default.aspx?meid=2131
2. It is presented somewhat realisticly with showing people in there 20's goofing around and having a good time, and somewhat not realistic with some of the stuff people do in the video, such as slapping somebody's butt before they go down a waterslide or squirting ketchup on people while they are on a waterslide but it shows how people just want to have fun.
3. Some stereotypes portrayed are people in there 20's goofing around, being destructive and having fun doing it, everyone from the 70's smoked pot and that girls tease guys often.
4. Some creeds and values show in the video is, people take life to serious and need to just have fun, girls are happier with guys, life is a party with no consequences, young people are crazy and that people from the 1970's are out of there mind.
5. This video would appeal to teenagers because there close to the age of people portrayed in the video, (besides the little kids) so the things they do teenagers find funny, how people are just not caring about work or school or anything like that, cause teenagers just want to do whatever they want and that's what's going on in the video, people doing what they want, when they want.
6. It is a great video, cause people can relate to is as people just want to have fun, and besides the song being good, the video is equally entertaining to watch because of all the funny stuff that goes on in it such as blink making the girl fall off her bike, or peeing on a go-kart track or being made fun of by girls, it's just funny to watch which to me makes it very entertaining.
Music Video (I tried to embed, it would'nt work):
http://www.blink182.com/player/default.aspx?meid=2131
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Wednesday, February 9th 2011 questions
1. I believe that media is important in my life. I read magazines, watch videos often and listen to a lot of music. I believe that they all have a different role in my life, and how I carry myself and behave, they all influence me, in different ways.
2. Three types of media that I am passionate about would be Television, Music and Magazines. To me they are pretty much something that people really enjoy a lot at least at one point in their life and as of today they are all something I still enjoy.
3. Modern popular culture to me is alright, it's different from when I was a kid, it's still good just not as good as it was back in the 1990's, it seems to me that entertainment is slowly becoming worse over the years. I do think that the technology good is as well but I think that there is a definite over saturation of people who overuse their cellphones, I think if nobody has cellphones as of right now, they would go nuts, I think people rely on technology right now then ever before. I do to but not as heavily, the only things I use that I would consider to use a lot of electricity and technology is my XBox, TV, Laptop and Internet. I usually use Media for entertainment unless I have to do a serious project in school or something along the lines of that, its mostly just for entertainment.
4. 3 Favorite TV Shows: Goosebumps, Recess, The Weekenders
3 Favorite Video Games: Team Fortress 2 (XBox 360), Super Smash Bros. (N64), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo)
3 Favorite Movies: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), Dawn of the Dead (1979), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
2. Three types of media that I am passionate about would be Television, Music and Magazines. To me they are pretty much something that people really enjoy a lot at least at one point in their life and as of today they are all something I still enjoy.
3. Modern popular culture to me is alright, it's different from when I was a kid, it's still good just not as good as it was back in the 1990's, it seems to me that entertainment is slowly becoming worse over the years. I do think that the technology good is as well but I think that there is a definite over saturation of people who overuse their cellphones, I think if nobody has cellphones as of right now, they would go nuts, I think people rely on technology right now then ever before. I do to but not as heavily, the only things I use that I would consider to use a lot of electricity and technology is my XBox, TV, Laptop and Internet. I usually use Media for entertainment unless I have to do a serious project in school or something along the lines of that, its mostly just for entertainment.
4. 3 Favorite TV Shows: Goosebumps, Recess, The Weekenders
3 Favorite Video Games: Team Fortress 2 (XBox 360), Super Smash Bros. (N64), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo)
3 Favorite Movies: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), Dawn of the Dead (1979), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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