Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Order of Films

1. The Dark Knight
2. V for Vendetta
3. Gone with the Wind
4. The Simpsons
5. Psycho
6. The Graduate
7. Unforgiven
8. Never Back Down
9. Billy Madison
10. Citizen Kane
11. Rumor Has It
12. Ben Hur
13. Cinema Paradisco
....110. Forest for the Trees (Note-we didn't watch 110 movies in this class, this movie was just that bad)
Billy Madison

1. When Billy calls a guy he made fun of in high school, the guy acts cool and calm, forgiving him rather easily. Then he crosses Billy's name off a list of people to kill. This struck me as funny, although hitlists are absolutely opposite of funny. Obviously I have no relative experience to this scene.
2.At the end when the wierd guy shows up and shoots Eric, the bad guy, and then just waves casually and runs out.
3. After all this chaos happens, his two loser friends are still just sitting in the auditorium giving him thumbs-up for kissing his girlfriend. Like nothing even ever happened. haha
4. When the teacher is in the pool telling him there are people who just crawl through life, and then his loser friend says, "what the heck is she talking about?" It was a classic moment in film history.
5. When the old lady says, "if peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis." It's funny because we don't even know who Miles Davis is, but she obviously thinks he's awesome.

Forest for the Trees

Forest for the Trees is an independant German Film. It follows a new teacher to a new school, where she has no friends. She meets a woman named Tina, who also happens to be her neighbor. At school her students pester her endlessly, always being disruptive and obnoxious. She is having a rough time, but one her colleaugues helps her through. Tina turns out to be very mean, and finally the young teacher realizes she's not afraid of anything.