HW:
Movie review is due at the beginning of class Mon. Make sure your review has an intriguing title, and that you have proofread it multiple times.
(Optional rewrite of Westfield Reviews also due Mon -- turn in along with the previous graded copy)
Continue to use sentence revision ideas from class to make your sentences crisper, clearer, and more "review-like."
*Bring your sources to class Monday. We will quickly do Works Cited entries for them in class on Monday.
Class:
1. Read over examples of good sentences. What can we generalize about what makes these sentences "good"? What, if any, qualities do these sentences share?
(Is it possible to list particular words that are important / good to use in a review? How would you go about imitating a reviewer's voice?)
2. Practice writing "good" review sentences.
3. Locate "problem" sentences. Go over strategies for revising.
Strategies:
Make the sentence as short as possible.
Make the sentence as long as possible.
Reverse the order of content within the sentence.
Combine the sentence with the one before or after it (be careful not to make a run-on).
4. Time to practice revising "problem sentences."
Example:
There are friendships lost and created, along with men who know too much about each other and a father-son relationship that could fall apart due to a young babysitter.
Short: Friendships are lost and created.
Long: Over the course of the movie, relationships begin and end because of the various stresses placed upon them, such as when characters come to learn too much about each other, or, even, in one notable instance, over a misunderstanding between Cal and the young babysitter his family employs.
Reversed: Characters who learn more than they would like to know about each other are forced into situations where friendships are lost, altered, or, in some cases, newly created.
Good Sentences (written by students and professionals)
Bridesmaids goes where no typical chick flick does:the gutter.
Although touching images of that day are used throughout the film it is not exhaustive and overwhelming to the viewer.
Throughout the movie there are raunchy and hilarious scenes that will keep the audience laughing and wonder what unthinkable scene may be next, from the disgusting incident at the wedding dress store, to the outrageous plane fiasco, and everything in-between.
It's Downey's movie. With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity.
During his excursions he meets a mult-everything multitude, men and women who greet him with smiles, tears, hugs, and prayers,treating Oskar, who claims to have a difficult time talking to people, as a combination father confessor and veritable holy child.
Watson gets aggravated but he goes along with Holmes impulsive plans as usual.
Freddie Fox’s foppish, strawberry blond teenage monarch, Louis, conveys some sense of the ridiculous as he and Buckingham compare fashion notes.
As Eddie's writer's block breaks, letters float down from the ceiling of his apartment, recalling the cascading numbers of "A Beautiful Mind."
NZT48 has just transformed Eddie into a perfect version of himself.
There’s more, including Chris’s wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), a hairdresser whose bleach job and visible roots probably mean to suggest that this is one tough chick, even if she’s played by the brittle, patrician Ms. Beckinsale. She looks great, she's consistently likable, her comic timing is exquisite, and she makes even a weak line ("like she the drunken explanation that she's just studying Nursing his self-pity at a sleek local bar, Cal meets Jacob, who tries to do for him something like what Will Smith did for Kevin James in 'Hitch.'"
Steve Carell plays a forty year old divorce named Cal, who looks like a lost puppy in his baggy clothes and old tennis shoes.
Wahlberg displays his character's essence in one scene during which his brother in-law asks him if smuggling makes him happy, and Mark turns, smiles and says "I love it".
Kate Beckinsale is back and dealing out death, rocking a black leather sui
Young people should not get sick and die. Most of us do eventually, but how sad it is to learn in your 20s that you have a dangerous cancer and your chances of survival are 50/50?
Having this statement in mind, both Reiser and Rogen made their friendship go from real life to the big screen.
Mikael's attempt to find the murderer almost reminded me of the game Clue because of how each suspect is looked at and accessed by Mikael to see if they fit the bill.
It's certainly worth seeing if you missed the original.
Sometimes a movie arrives out of the blue that announces the arrival of considerable new talents.
Not only is it refreshing to see new faces on the big screen, but the actors also did a good job with Max Landis’ script.
Ned is an organic farmer in upstate New York who sells twenty dollars worth of weed to a uniformed officer because the cop told him he'd had a tough week.
The main point of the movie was if you love how Ned loves and are honest you will be a lot happier.
Although it seems like this movie is just for a humorous laugh, I think this movie is about loyalty, staying true to who you are and finding happiness.
Wiig not only expresses her sense of humor in this film but shows a sensitive side.
But it's an impossible role in an impossible movie that has no reason for being other than as another pop-culture palliative for a trauma it can't bear to face.
You will surely feel for this family and root for Oskar as he ventures across the city trying to unlock a mystery he believes his father has given him.
It heals some wounds, restores some hurt feelings, confesses some secrets, and in general, ends happily.
The full female cast delivers comedy in this intriguing new featured film.
With that being said, this movie is much more than just some typical twelve rounds of boxing with a surprise knockout at the end.
The Fighter tries a number of risky maneuvers and manages to make them pay off in the end.
Mr. Saldanha capitalizes on Carnival celebrations for color, offering a feast of tropical pastels, and winding favela streets for vertiginous chase scenes.
Their story lines follow the same concept of getting lost in unfamiliar territory and the journey back home.
This movie is the most progressive force in Hollywood.
This movie is all about attempting the impossible.
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