The Secret Window

Secret Window starts out with Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) walking into a motel room, where his wife Amy (Maria Bello) is cheating on him with Ted Milner. He undoubtedly angry, screaming at the top of his lungs. These first scenes of the movie were my favorite, as the editing and envirement was unforgettable. We now see Mort is living an author's "dream" in a remote cabin near a beautiful lake and forest-background. But instead of writing, he often takes cat-naps, only waking for the phone. One day a stranger named John Shooter (John Turturro) shows up and claims Mort stole his story. He promises terrible things for Mort, but Mort unrelentlessly denies it. The man appears creepier every time he appears, and Mort's dog Chico is found with a screwdriver in his head. He goes to the old sheriff in town and tells him the details. The Sheriff promises results but Mort is unsure of him, so he goes to his literary agent. Meanwhile, Mort wakes up one morning to his ex-wife calling him. She tells him their house has been burned down. Mort becomes suspicious of Ted, and confronts him near the cabin. Ted ends up accidently punching his car and Mort leaves happy. The next day Mort finds Tom Greenleaf and his literary agent brutally murdered in a car. Shooter tells him he made it look like Mort committed it, so Mort disposes of the car and bodies. Mort then realizes he is Shooter, who I think is his other personality. Amy then visits, and Mort violently tries to kill her. Ted is worried, and followed Amy. Mort kills them both, and buries her in the garden. The end of the movie shows the sheriff confronting Mort, who is calm and content. It ends with Mort changing the story to Shooter's. Definately a must see movie.

Unforgiven

Unforgiven turned out to be an awesome movie. It was made in the early 90's and stars Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Morgan Freeman. The story starts out in Wyoming in the 1880's at a brothel, with two men cutting and beating a prostitute. They get a weak punishment, and the upset prostitutes put money for the killing of them. One assassin, English Bob, shows up and his brutally beat up and sent out of town by the Sheriff Little Bill (Hackman). Back in Texas a young assassin shows up at Bill Munny's (Clint Eastwood) door. He asks him to join him to kill the two. Munny is hesitant to leave his kids alone and says his deceased wife "cured" him of evil. But he agrees and takes his buddy Ned (Freeman). They end up chasing the cowboys, and kill one with a rifle. Ned realizes he can't kill anymore and decides to head back. Along the way Little Bill captures him, and tortures him to death. Munny and the kid kill the other cowboy, and the kid can't take anymore. He decides to leave, and Bill goes and kills Little Bill and his companions in his old fashion. The story ends telling us Munny fled Texas with his kids and went to San Francisco. It is an awesome movie, and an even greater western.

Never Back Down

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Cinema Paradiso

Top 10 scenes

1. When Alfredo shows little Toto the Theatre room.

2. When Toto stands outside a girl's window for many months, waiting for her to love him.

3. When everyone is enjoying/disliking a particular movie.

4. When Toto causes a fire and tells his mother their father isn't coming home.

5. Alfredo saying goodbye and telling Toto to never return.

6. When a fire starts due to the film, Alfredo is blinded.

7. When Toto goes to talk to the girl in the confessional and Alfredo distracts the Priest.

8. When Toto shows a blinded Alfredo a video of the girl.

9. When Toto waits for the girl on the bus but she never shows up.

10. The very end when the old Theatre is destroyed and all the people from the past are there.

The Dark Knight vs V for Vendetta

There are many similarities between the Dark Knight and V for Vendetta. They both have masked men who wage war, an attribute of most DC comic films. There are anarchists in the two movies, however one is considered by us to be bad (the Joker) and the other good (V). Other theatrical elements, such as blowing up a building and holding hostages are also in both movies. The plots are similar but the perspective is from different views. The Joker is using anarchy to disrupt Gotham City and make the people destroy themselves. But we see it from Batman's perspective, trying to fight this madman and save the city. In V for Vendetta, V uses anarchy to upset the Government (sound familiar?), but in this case he is also the hero, in our eyes anyway. This brings an important question to light, how do we decide when anarchy can be used for good. Well, obviously under certain circumstances, such as the evil fascist government in V for Vendetta. The Joker is trying to destroy a stable government, one which is mostly solid and just. They are both awesome movies to watch and enjoy.