Movie Plan

Title: "Snatch"
Plot:
A young women dressed in a formal suit walks down the high end area of a suburban area expecting nothing other than a few rain drops on this especially humid morning though she ran into much more than that. As she waits to cross an intersection a young man waits in the shadow of a bench just behind her. He pounces on her and grabs her purse which is particularly heavy. He dashes off leaving the girl to gather her self up and call for help. A runner on his daily route notices the girl in distress. He dashes over to her and asks why she is in a such a panic. She responds between gasps of air that her purse had been stolen and that it...but decides to not say any more about the contents of her purse. Filled with courage the runner quickly asks the women to point out which direction the man had run. As he looks in that direction he sees the man just about to round a corner. The man strides after the assailant with such speed that he is able to make it there just seconds after the man had turned the corner. As soon as he rounds the corner he sees the man now joined by another running in the same direction, shoving the people in their path. He follows and soon catches up to them. But one man sees him and pushes a group of soccer players. As one of the boys falls he drops his ball right in front of the runner. The runner does a rainbow to half volley and knocks the man onto his face. As the man falls he wails in pain and his partner whirls around to see what had happened. The man on the ground throws the purse to the other man right before getting kicked by the runner as he chases after the now solo thief. (the runner notices a symbol on the back of the fallen man's neck) The two men run through and over various obstacles and finally end up in a wide open area. The runner thinks that he has the man. But out of no where emerges 3 other men, 2 of which carry wooden swords. A fight soon ensues with all men taken care of by the runner. The runner also notices the symbol on the back of their necks as well. The runner retrieves the purse and brings it back to the young women who is waiting on the same park bench as before. The women looks up with a tear streaked face and her facial composure changes from grief to elation. The young women graciously thanks the runner but rather hastily grabs the purse to check the contents within the purse. She soon realizes that the "contents" in her purse are missing. She looks up and responds to the runner "they're gone!". (this is part one of the whole movie in its entirety)

Amygdala

Amygdala

Journal # 1

I chose to read the review of "3:10 to Yuma" by Armond White. He is a critic of the New York Press. His review was a very narrow view into the overall movie of 3:10 to Yuma. He made me feel like that movie was just a cliché of all the western movies I've ever seen before mashed into a poorly plotted movie. This was an excerpt from his review "After ending with numerous bangs, it offers the slump of “Oh yeah, I’ve seen that before". This in turn made me not want to see the movie. He chose to instead talk about War and say how great that movie was and how it was under appreciated and a much better movie over all. He summed up his thoughts about War and 3:10 to Yuma in this excerpt "Anyone interested in new masculine archetypes (and their moral quandary) should seek out Jet Li and Jason Statham in Philip G. Atwell’s War". His argument is very interesting in that he focuses on the fact that this movie is merely "another" western movie. Personally I believe this movie was very well done. I thought that the director used many crucial angles and amazing plot development to make this movie truly amazing. Also adding new special affects and well known actors allows this movie to not only take a step out of the old western genre but also into a new level of western movies all together. White's line " But we’ve rarely seen a western this unprovocative" is clearly incorrect. I believe White is just pissed because his "War" movie didn't get the acclimate and awards that 3:10 to Yuma had acquired. This quote sums up his over all feelings for this movie "It’s some kind of bad joke that a lame genre movie like the new western 3:10 to Yuma gets prestige treatment while War, an ideal example of genre filmmaking, gets ignored"clearly this reviewer has just got his nickers in a twist over what seems like his obsession "War". But the reviewer does not rip the director (James Mangold" completely apart, he does give him props for some of his previous movies and his ability to build and refine characters through out a movie such as walk the line. But this almost seems as if it is a smoke screen for the upcoming onslaught he has in store for Mangold. The reviewer clearly states that the movie lacks anything even remotely interesting. "...but builds up to a poorly plotted, shoddily executed gun battle". Overall I believe this review did a very poor job in addressing the overall theme, setting or plot. This reviewer is not doing his job and should, I believe, be fired. But the mere fact that he addresses other movies, which weren't always directed by the same director, in this review makes his points clouded and pompous. Moreover the very fact that he has convinced himself that War is a far superior movie than 3:10 to Yuma clearly shows an unhealthy bias and the review reeks of bigotry. I stick by my statement before that he should be fired. I will not be reading any of his reviews anytime soon.

About me...

I am a fan of most movies though the horror movies can be more scary then enjoyable. My favorite film is Rush Hour I. But i feel that the third one did little justice to its predecessors. I enjoy most films though i would like to see more foreign films because they always seem to have a different cultural spin on things which allow old topics to become fresh and reinvented. Movies are an enjoyable pass time of mine and i hope to see many more blockbuster hits that aren't all advertisement.