Blog Post#1 What Makes a Movie Compelling

To me what I feel makes a movies compelling would be, how the directors are able to grasp the attention of their audiences. Through not only their previews on the commercials but also on how their movies start and grasp the full on attention of the viewers that makes them not want to leave their chair. The movie needs to have an interesting story behind it to make it seem as though it were something that is really happening. To have the movie be noteworthy it would have to have well written scripts and story lines. The movie to me would need to be filled with mystery and have the audience try and figure out what will happen next. Suspense is what the movie needs for sure. In the case of the movie being deserving of an award it would to me have to contain well played actors. Actors who are somewhat more famous, but are actors who do the job well. It would need to be well directed and well made. The actors who can portray the script well are too ones who deserve an award. The last reason why I believe that a movie deserves an award is when after watching the movie; you want to watch it over and over and over again. That for me is a well written movie and a movie that in my view deserves and award.

 In watching Le Voyage dans la lune(A Trip to the Moon), and The Great Train Robbery, the movie that most caught my attention and kept me wanting to keep watching more for what will happen was The Great Train Robbery. In regards to both movies how they measure up to my criteria, they both actually did a well job on making the movies with interesting story lines. Both these movies have a story behind it. To be honest the silent films so to say without the music, actually kept my attention in trying to figure out what they were saying. Each time they made a movement and moved on to the next scene I then figured out what they said. I never found silent films to be interesting but after watching both the movies I now look at them in a different way. The Great Train Robbery was my favorite of the two as the way it starts off I'm already so interested in what they are going to do next with the man they are tieing up.

 My criteria in movies isn’t much of a big list to look up to but by watching both movies, they clearly met up to almost most if not all my opinions on what makes a movie to great. Two of my favorite films would have to be Mean Girls, and End of Watch. These are two of many great films that I like to see. Now the reason I choose to use these two was because they both are of different genres. One is drama and comedy, as for the other is drama, thriller, and somewhat of real life incidents that occur. In speaking about Mean Girls, directed by Mark Walters, this movie meets by criteria by first of all its a comedy that caught me there, two it was and is a movie that when I first saw it on the commercials it was a for sure movie I wanted to watch. In watching the film it kept me so into watching it to see what was going to happen next with the so called "mean girls". It was a movie that made me not want to leave my seat and was a movie that in some ways was real life because things like that do happen in high school. Why it meets my criteria well the explanation is there. This was a film that had two famous actors, Lindsey Lohan and Rachel McAdams. It had a story to tell and it was told well. In speaking about the film End of Watch, directed by David Ayer, this film meets all of my criteria that I look for in a movie. This movie had me literally at the edge of my seat. I did not want to move nor blinlk, as I did not want to miss one second of this film. This film not only had action, great story, great acting, but as well had some comedy entied to it and the scenes shown in the movie showed exactly what a cop may be witnessing on their day to day lives in pertaining their jobs. This movie met my criteria by keeping my attention the whole time the movie was playing, after watching the movie I went back and saw it 3 times in the theaters and now I am going to buy the dvd. This movie kept me wanting more. Even at the end of the movie I was so intersted in finding out what is going to happen to the cop that survived. It kept me wanting more.

I have placed photos of both movies the first two are the cover photos of the movies
The next two photos are just simply from the film
The films placed are the trailers for both movies
The last two photos are quotes from the movies