The Matrix (1999)

What struck me about this movie was how the special effects were used to make the bullets go into slow motion. I believe it was called "bullet time" where they take many cameras and take pictures while the bullet is shot. This really proved to be a very cool feature in the movie which was used more than once during the movie. Ever since I have seen any Matrix movies, I am always reminded of Neo's move where he bends backwards to dodge the bullets shot by one of the Agents. I would see people trying to do that move but are unsuccessful because of the law of gravity. This scene proved to be the best example of bullet time throughout the movie.

Brazil (1985)

What struck me?

This movie was somewhat confusing because the story jumped around a lot. The main character, Sam, seemed to have everything bad happen to him. When Tuttle was at his apartment to fix Sam's air conditioner, Central Services came by after Sam had called them to fix the A/C themselves. Sam said it "fixed itself" and told the two men to go about their business. The two men got angry and decided to come back later. In a later scene, the two men are tearing all of the wires/pipes out of the walls in Sam's apartment. Sam comes and sees them doing so, and asks why they were doing that. They said they wanted to fix it still. They also found the thing that Tuttle put in the wall, so they knew he was there. As the two men were leaving, Sam asked them to put it back together and the two men said it could 'fix itself'.

Artificial Intelligence (2001)

What struck me about A.I. is how at the end of the movie, David realized that there were many different replica models of 'David' and he was just the original. The end did not really satisfy me because all he did was ask to have his mommy back but the only problem was that she could only come back for one day. At the end of the day, she went to sleep and David slept for the first time in his 'mecha' life, which was his last sleep...

Blade Runner (1982)

The movie Blade Runner, which by some websites, is considered the greatest sci-fi movie of all-time. I believe that is said because of the way technology is created in that society which was very advanced for the time the movie being developed. In my personal opinion, the movie was okay but it did not seem like the best sci-fi movie ever. Harrison Ford played a really interesting character in Deckard because I usually don't see Ford in many other movies other than Star Wars.

What really struck me was how Deckard became afraid of Roy at the end of the movie because his job was being a 'Blade Runner' and had no problem retiring the other replicants until he met Roy. I do admit, Roy became very scary when he started howling and taking his shirt off.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

In Planet of the Apes (1968), George Taylor tries to survive through an ape-inhabited planet only to realize that it was his planet all along which was destroyed and become inhabited with the apes. The apes were making each human they found into slaves and most were lobotomized (part of your brain is cut). Dr. Zaius has known about how people inhabited the Earth before they did, which is what scientists Zira and Cornelius are trying to prove throughout the movie when they meet George. Zaius was trying to hide that information in order to protect his people from the truth...

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave and Frank are faced with the problem of the HAL 9000 system and the fact that it is malfunctioning even though HAL is denying that. Hal actually kills Frank by making Frank's space pod accelerate towards Frank as he is fixing something outside the ship, thus cutting off Frank's oxygen line and sets him 'adrift'. Dave tries to go get him in his space pod, but is unable to save him. Dave then comes back inside through the emergency hatch, and he then proceeds to go 'kill' HAL. The ending after Hal 'dies' is probably the most confusing part I have ever seen in any movie because it has very little dialogue and does not have anything to do with the rest of the movie.

Soylent Green (1973)

In the movie, Soylent Green, Detective Thorn is a run-down cop living with his friend Sol. The year is 2022 and the city of New York has an overwhelming population of 40,000,000 people and the city is very limited on resources and food like fruit, vegetables, and meat are very rare luxuries.

When the director of the ration food company, Soylent, is assassinated, Thorn is investigating the case and is looking for clues to why he was murdered. Thorn goes to other's houses of people who knew the murdered director. He finds two books about the Soylent company and asks Sol to look through for any helpful information. Sol learns that the latest Soylent ration, "Soylent Green," is made of people, he kills himself. Thorn goes to the company to learn for himself this awful truth and is then chased down by the murdered director's bodyguard but in the end, Thorn kills the bodyguard with a knife but is wounded during the fight. He is then carried off by a medical staff shouting, "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!"

This movie depicts what could happen if the world became limited on resources and each city becoming overpopulated. The main idea that is directed to people is that we need to take care of the earth or else this could happen.

Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

This is my first experience with watching this movie as I have not seen the remake and this movie represented very good quality production for its time. The actor that represented Klaatu was very good and made very convincing conversations with other characters in the film including Robby and Mrs. Benson. Klaatu wanted to express to the people of D.C. that he wanted to explain his reasoning for coming to Earth; which happened at the end of the film.

I believe the main theme for the "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is the idea of fear over reason. The people in D.C. were afraid of maybe the Russians possibly sending them a nuclear missile in the form of the spaceship so they were too afraid to actually find out what it was. Klaatu wanted to warn the people about what the World was doing but the people were too worried about what possible danger the aliens could become. That is why Klaatu made all electricity in the world to stop working in order to make them stop and listen.

Frankenstein (1931)

What strikes you about this film?

Frankenstein was a very interesting film for its time. It uses very low key technology compared to our time but I'm sure for their time, it was one of the more advanced films during that era. The way Mr. Boris Karloff portrayed the monster from the movie was very revolutionary for the general audience to experience.

The one scene that really stood out to me was when Dr. Frankenstein saw the monster first begin to walk and then his assistant, Igor, decided to introduce fire to the monster in an aggressive manner by basically scaring the monster and making him angry. Eventually, the monster killed Igor while Dr. F went to the door.