Blog Post #1 Film Criteria

My criteria for an award winning movie would be a movie that keeps me watching and wondering what's going to happen next.  The components to that would be the acting, the setting, and just the way the story and plot progresses.  When it comes to the actors it's important when they become the character and you can't tell that they're acting.  In the setting I like to see that the scenery and costumes go with the main idea of the movie.  For example if it's a mob movie I expect to see the typical settings like the characters wearing fancy suits, the scenery to have the classic cars and so on.
The movies that I viewed in week one met some of my criteria.  What I liked best from the film A Trip to the Moon, was the acting.  Even though there was no sound you could tell what was going on in the film by watching the actor’s body language.  In the beginning of the film the actors pointed toward the sky so you knew they were planning a trip to the moon, another instance is when they landed on the moon you knew they were going to sleep because they stretched out their arms showing they were tired.  In the film The Great Train Robbery, I also liked the acting.  There was a lot of action in the film I enjoyed watching the fighting scenes.  The shootout scene at the end was great, I like how you could see the smoke coming out from the guns.
The two films that meet my criteria would be James Cameron's Avatar and Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.  What I love about both those movies is that they're unique.  In the movie Avatar I loved how the actors got into their characters, even speaking the Na'vi language.  The visual effects in the movie were awesome, everything about the film settings were incredible.  I liked the creativeness of the movie the different animals, all the details of the forest, and the war vessels.  I loved the story and the plot of the movie.  The movie Apocalypto had all those same elements that I loved in Avatar.  It was also a great movie I loved the costumes the Mayan characters had.  I also loved the story and plot in this film.  Those are two movies that meet my movie watching criteria.

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