Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Personal Viewing

One of my favorite movies is the Horse Whisperer, partly because I love and ride horses, but also because it shows what some amazing people and horses will do to survive. It was a very sad throughout the whole movie but the end made it amazing and happy. The girl and her horse were one of the best in there area and she competed throughout the year in many horse show. But on one of there easy days the went out onto the trail and it all went wrong from there. It is always hard for me to watch the part where the horse and his owner get hit by a semi and the horse get’s most of his body torn apart and his owner who is a young girl looses one of her legs.

But watching the two of them try and find a way back to the partnership that they used to have while competing was very interesting in the way that a horse whisperer could help them work out the problems that they had. Without having a leg, she was unable to get on her horse, and see how someone can train the horse to lie down on its side for her to get on is really cool, and watching her trainer or the horse whisperers reaction to seeing them figure everything for the first time is very intriguing and makes want to keep watching till the end.

After watching this movie a million times and watching the partnership growing between her and her horse still amazes me and some days I wish I had that partnership with my horse. That is why I think I have such a strong love for this movie.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Critique the critic


As most sequels to movies are often not as interesting and sometimes cannot hold the audiences attention, the Bourne Ultimantum is not one of those movies. According to John Wirt, an advocate movie critic
“Bourne trilogy comes to a satisfying end”.


Both John Wirt and I agree that the movie is a great action movie, and that all three of the movies still keep you tuned in and sitting on the edge of your seats. The review seems I to agree with what I was thinking about the movie that it is one of the best action movies, that I have seen lately and event though it was third and last in the series it was still amazing as the first one.



"Sequels often run out of ideas and lose the freshness that made the original
films so appealing. The Bourne Ultimatum, the third film in a triptych that
began in 2002 with The Bourne Identity, bucks sequel redundancy. With the
ultra-focused Matt Damon returning as renegade CIA assassin Jason Bourne, the
film is an irresistible rush of action and suspense.”


If I had not seen the Bourne Ultimatum before reading this review, it would make me want to go and see it. But I also feel that John Wirt tells a little to much of the movie and tells you more about what happens in it then what he felt was good and what he felt what was bad about it, so after reading it I already knew what was kind of going to happened, so I would not have been watching it so closely as I was when I went to see it. Because I had not heard anything about it, I heard was that it was really good and you should see it. So while I was there watching it I thin it made me pay that much more attention because I had no idea what was supposed to be happening or what was going to happen.


John Wirt also feels that there were some moments where the movie was to quite, I never felt that there were any to quite moments, but I also think that he felt that like that because he has seen many other movies, and a lot more than I have seen. He also does this for his living and I am sure that he catches a lot more things then what a normal audience would catch.



“Despite The Bourne Ultimatum’s political backdrop, the film is first of all a
great action flick. Except for some rare moments of quiet, the action is
constant and furiously visceral.”


What I don’t like is that Wirt tells how he feels about the movie right away, and how he goes into such great detail about the movie throughout his reflection of the movie. Like going into such great detail of blackbrair.
“A whistleblower tells a reporter for The Guardian newspaper (Paddy Considine)
about Blackbriar, the blackest of the CIA’s black-ops programs. Because Bourne,
who’s still wondering about his identity, wants to know what the reporter knows,
he makes contact. A mere reporter, however, is no match for assassins who answer
only to Strathairn’s deep-cover operation.”
I think that this is to much detail about the movie for someone who has never seen it and just wanting to know what some people think of it, I would suggest to them not to read John Wirt reflection, because it just gives you way to much detail about the movie.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Hi my name is Meaghan, i am really exciting to be in this class and learn more about movies. I also love riding horses, and spending time with them. I have two their names are Ahlerich and Kosette.