point break May 19, 2010

Turning Point 1: Young Johnny Utah begins a new police mission, to find the bank robbers.

Turning Point 2: In order to accomplish his mission, he learns to surf and meets Bohdi and Tyler.

Turning Point 3: The relationship between Bohdi and Johnny becomes much stronger.

Turning Point 4: Tyler is now held hostage by Bohdi and his friends.

Turning Point 5: Johnny meets Bohdi once again, but doesn’t take him, but lets him go surf the storm he’s been waiting all his life for.

Conventions of the Genre: I’ve watched a lot of action films and this one had all the qualities you want when watching these sort of films. It had fights, guns, the girl and the sort of happy ending.

Did it contradict the conventions: I think this movie stuck with the conventions and didn’t go over board with them. They had the necassary action, a bit of love, a friendship with the criminal and I think it played out really well.

Review: This film really caught my attention, they had really good actors -Keaanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Anthony Kiedis- that I think really did their roles well. I enjoyed seeing Anthony Kiedis acting, because usually someone always sees him singing on stage, but this time he got to do something different, which was nice to see. I don’t really like surfing, so at first I was like; this movie won’t be interesting at all. But I regretted thinking that because despite the criminals stealing money from banks, they had morals and dreams and they weren’t that bad really. It was sad to see them all die, because they weren’t really trying to hurt anybody and they were just trying to find the next big adrenaline adventure. I think I would recommend this film, but then again someone might watch it and then tell me it’s exactly like ‘Fast and Furious’ but people need to keep in mind that Point Break was made in the 90′s and so they should give it a chance because it really is a good film and has a strong moral within it

the program May 5, 2010

Turning Point 1: Joe Kane the football player is nominated for Heizman Trophy.

Turning Point 2: A girl named Camille enters his life.

Turning Point 3: They loose a football game.

Turning Point 4: He goes to Rehab for drinking and driving.

Turning Point 5: They win the football game.

Conventions: I have watched some football films and they’ve always had the same little problems within it. Just like this one had. I think that they made it relatable as well because a lot of people take steroids in sports or have drinking problems or have suffered an injury so bad that your no longer able to play a sport.

Did it contradict the conventions: I assumed a lot for this film, but what I didn’t expect was that not everyone was going to have a happy ending. It did have some of the predictable things, but the ending wasn’t as predictable. It was more realistic which is good.

Review: This film was good but it wasn’t great. If I was at Wal-Mart and I saw this film on a rack, I’d maybe stop and look at it and but then continue walking because the film to me isn’t worth it to buy and I don’t think I’d watch this a few times over. It wasn’t a movie that made me say wow that’s inspirational or that’s really something. If I had to recommend a football movie, I don’t even think I would recommend this one, I would probably say go watch ‘The Longest Yard’ featuring Adam Sandler because that’s maybe the only football movie that I enjoyed and I think was worth watching. Despite the movie having it’s down sides, it did have it’s ups. Usually these sort of films are very cliché but the ending to this one wasn’t at all, but it was very realistic which I appreciated a lot. Not everyone gets a happy ending, because everyone faces different problems each day and have to pay the price for it.