Chinatown

I thought that this movie was pretty decent yet twisted. I liked how this film noir was different from the other film noirs, it was in color. I thought the plot line was pretty boring but I liked the characters and their acting. I didn't like how the plot was about the water supply or whatever, I didn't really understand what the problem with it was. I liked the role Jack Nicholson played; how he worked just for the money and then got really into his job and went out of his way on the Mulray case. Also, I liked the role Faye Denaway played, she did a good job at first acting as very shady and a non-typical film noir woman. She was very strong and straight forward, but towards the end she broke down into the typical film noir woman and got all emotional. The part where Evelyn and her dad had a daughter, who is also her sister, is really weird but gives it a nice twist. The ending of the film was pretty sad because Evelyns daughter now has to live with Noah and he'll probably rape her too.

Kiss Me Deadly

I thought that this movie was really bizarre from the beginning. First Kristina was panting vigorously which sounded like she was doing something very sexual and the credits were backwords. Right from the start I knew this was going to be a very weird film. The ending was the weirdest of all. The sounds the box made was really creepy yet very odd. Apparently it turns out the box is a nuclear bomb and blows up the whole house and the people inside it. I thought the second (the non-theatrical) ending was more fitting for this movie because if Mike Hammer doesn't blow up it kind of leads you on and makes you think there will be a sequal or something. And lord knows noone would ever want to watch a sequal of this movie. Overall I thought this was a terrible ending and we never even really found out why Kristina escaped from the looney bin except for the fact that she was looney? I could be wrong, but I don't really even care that much because either way I hated this movie.

OUT OF THE PAST!

This was the first film noir I've ever seen unless you include Sin City as a film noir. I thought it was actually pretty decent. Kathie, the villain, kept the story exciting and suspenseful and Jeff was the hot, innocent, retired detective who kept the story going. I thought the end of the film was the best. Throughout the movie it made me really mad that Jeff would keep kissing Kathie when he had a nice girlfriend. In the end of the film i thought for sure that Jeff was going to run off with Kathie. But Jeff was tricking her into getting caught by the police, when Kathie saw the police she shot Jeff. How could Kathie think after all the things she did to Jeff that he would run off with her? I thought this was a nice twist to the ending. I was really disappointed when Jeff died, I think for sure he should have lived. It also made me mad when Ann asked the boy if Jeff was running off with Kathie and he said yes. Now she has to live not knowing that Jeff really did love her. Overall I really did like the movie, but there are minor things I would change.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

This movie is by far the best movie that we've watched in class. I really liked it because it wasn't in black and white, it's a more recent film we've watched. Eternal Sunshine is alot different that normal romantic comedies i've seen like His Girl Friday. The dialect was slower and I liked how they fell in love at the beginning not at the very end. The movie was a big circle from the end of their relationship to the beginnging and then the end again. It was alot different than other romantic comedies that way. The lighting style helped that it had a more serious tone along with Joels calm voice when he's telling about his life with Clementine. I think it could be considered any kind of genre because it deals with life lessons of forgiving and forgetting not just their romance.