Movie+Reviews

**What is the most memorable movie you have ever seen?** Have you seen a movie lately that deals with courage and challenges? Can you remember some of the basic information about the movie?
The Secret Life of Bees ** -Olivia **
 * I am reviewing the movie called “The Secret Life of Bees”. This movie is about a girl who runs away from her dad and goes to a place that her mom stayed at when she was young. ** ** The girl, Lilly, Is trying to find out the truth about her mom because her dad only tells lies about her so she runs away to the place that her mom used to stay. August Boatwright, the oldest of the sisters that lives at the house and a beekeeper, was Lilly’s mothers’ nanny. The theme of the movie is about how a bee’s life applies to people’s lives. I think the directors’ purpose of this movie is to show what love and grace really is all about. ** ** This movie is classified as drama. The point of view of this movie is from a third party. ** ** The mood in this movie is ** more of a sadder and sometimes happy ** . This story takes place in the summer of 1964 in South Carolina. It is based on a book called the “The Secret Life of Bees” written by Sue Monk Kidd. The movie is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. ** ** The main characters are Queen Latifah, Dakota fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophia Okonedo. This movie is intended for general and mature audience. The Minneapolis star tribune says “Queen Latifah and Dakota fanning head a stellar cast in this wonderful film about family, independence and the transcendent power of love”. I think that the way the movie conveyed its main point was to have some very good actresses. The audience liked the movie but it was not the most exciting they had seen. In general I think I liked this movie because of the way the actresses played out the characters. I agree with the main theme in this movie because it is a very good way to live life. I really liked that main characters were played by some very good and well known actresses. I think that the actresses did a good job and the director did a good job at making this movie come together. **


 * Forrest Gump **
 * Forrest Gump is a very memorable movie that still doesn’t get boring after the tenth time you’ve watched it. Forrest Gump (Tom hanks) struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny (Robin Wright). His “mama” teaches him the ways of life which leaves Forrest to choose his destiny. He’s not that intelligent but he’s been present in many historical events. **


 * Forrest joins the army and does service for Vietnam and he wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. This is all irrelevant for Forrest who can only think of his childhood friend jenny who he loves but she eludes him. **

**The people who made the movie Forrest Gump possible are Robert Zemeckis, Writer’s Winston groom (novel) and Eric Roth (screenplay). Forrest Gump was released July 6, 1994 in the** **U.S.** **The genre for this movie is comedy, drama, romance, and war. Forrest Gump won 6 Oscars, another 32 wins and 38 nominations. Forrest Gump is tagged as the story of a lifetime.**


 * In my opinion Forrest Gump is a movie that you can keep watching and it still won’t get boring. This movie shows that it doesn’t matter what kind of obstacles you run into you can get through it and accomplish anything. My favorite thing about this movie is that it’s sad but it has the right amount of comedy. This movie will always have a special place in my heart. This movie is one that nobody will forget if they’ve watched it. **


 * -Cheyanne **

This movie is okay. If you like someone holding a camera broadcasting a women on the whole movie. It gets annoying once in a while. The guy also catches some things that looks disturbing while broadcasting the women. I think she tells the news about things that happen around there. The actors and director, I don't know what their names are. I haven't seen the trailer of the movie. But they did do a good job in making this movie. This movie, they try to use a camera to show the movie, except showing all the people, and the background by one of the far camera's. The man using the camera helps people see what's happening in the building, which later they get trap in a building while broadcasting their news show. The plot of the movie, I forgot what the plot means in movies. But the main character is the camera guy, he broadcasts everything, well tries to, he gets into trouble with the army once using his camera to see what's happening. Anyway the other main character is the lady who talks while the camera guy broadcasts their news. The camers guy is brave, he used his camera to beat someone, someone that was affected by a virus. He also seen some creatures with his camera. The police officer does a great job acting too, but not really what a police suppose to do and act in a situation like that. I recommend they show this movie, but it should be a family movie, the whole family should watch this together. It's boring, no nudity and no, well there's violence and swearing in this movie.
 * Quarantine.**

-Angus

**Forever Strong** I am reviewing Forever Strong. The movie is about Rugby. Rick Penning hangs out with the wrong people and is playing for his father's rugby team. One day after a lost game he decides to go out drinking with his girlfriend, got into an accident and almost killed his girlfriend. Because of that incident he has to go to juvenile jail and met a good superior officer. This superior officer recognized that he loved rugby and arranged for him to play on a team which he continues to play on after getting out of jail. One of the things that this movie tries to convey is that there are always consequences for every action. The movie centers around the game of rugby but the consequences of choices that Rick Penning makes are the theme of the movie.

You don't have to constantly be getting in trouble to live a life filled with happiness. You can enjoy things in life and not get into trouble doing them.

This is a sport-drama movie.

There are many tones in this movie. In the beginning of the movie Rick Penning is arrogant and thinks he is more important than other people. He is angry when he is blamed for loosing a game and also when he gets sent to jail. When he gets out of jail he is forgiving to his parents and other people and is not an arrogant idiot anymore.

The point of view of this story is the fact that all we do has consequences and how we then have to deal with those consequences.

I think that the overall mood of this movie is frustrated until the very end. This movie was filmed in 2006. It was based on the true story of a Highland Rugby School and the character of Rick Penning is based on an actual member of that school. The filming takes place in Salt Lake City in three schools.

The man that wrote this script is Evan Goldberg. Ryan Little is the director. Ryan Little also directed: House of Fears, Outlaw Trail, Everything You Want, Saints and Soldiers, Freedom on the Water, and Out of Step. He has also produced: House of Fears, Outlaw Trail, Saints and Soldiers, The Wrong Brother, and The Last Good War.

The following are the main characters: Sean Feris as Rick Penn Badley as Lars Arielle Kebbel as Emily Everyone, he is trying to show people that you don't need to be getting in trouble and hanging out with the wrong people just because they think it's cool, you just need to be out there doing what you love and in this movie Rick Penning loved rugby, though he was always getting into trouble with his friends and almost ended up taking his girlfriends life because he was drinking and driving. I did agree with the theme and purpose of this movie. It shows you that you need to be careful and considerate of who you hang out with and how they influence you. If you follow their lead there is a good chance you will eventually get into trouble. It also shows you that you should be out there doing what you love and your friends should support you all the way. In this movie Rick Penning went out and played rugby with the team that he had been playing with for a year when he was jail. I liked the fact that it teaches you a valuable lesson about doing what you love and giving up the wrong stuff that you were doing just to be able to keep doing what you love. I disliked the fact that there is so many teenagers out there that are drinking and driving, doing drugs, and breaking the law every chance they get. I think the director, author, and actors did an amazing job with this movie. It shows the importance in life. Do what you love and have fun with it and forgive those who do wrong to you. I can't think of any way that they should change the movie. The movie is already really awesome and I'd hate to see them change it in any way.

-Cherisse

**Invictus**
Francois the Captain ( Matt Damon) of the South African Rugby team is standing in a 6’ x 6’ jail cell where Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) spent 27 years of his life, only to be released to become the president of South Africa. He can’t believe that someone would come out of there only to expect greatness and to not feel revengeful and angry but to be heroic. The movie **__Invictus__** by Warner Brother’s studio made in 2009 and released in 2010, is about the life of Nelson Mandela played by Morgan Freeman and about a rugby team lead by the Captain Francois who is played by Matt Damon and is directed by Clint Eastwood. Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon are both excellent in this movie. They both had to learn how to speak with a South African accent and Damon had to learn how to play rugby. Clint Eastwood brings Mandela to life! Nelson Mandela is portrayed as an inspiring humanitarian who is the father of 42 million people no matter what race or religion they are. He was in prison for 27 years during the apartheid which was that the white government at the time had the legal right to racial segregation and the black population was not allowed the right to vote among other things. He sacrificed his freedom for his beliefs. The movie begins in 1990 when Nelson Mandela is released from prison. The black population wins the right to vote and Nelson Mandela is elected President of South Africa. While President Mandela inspires the nation to support a prodomently white rugby team (with one black member), he challenges and encourages the Captain of the team Francois (Matt Damon) to go for the world cup and to be the best they can be. Mandela Talks with Francois about being a good role model and inspiring the nation. The Victorian poem **__Invictus__** is what motivates Mandela and what he uses to inspire the captain. I really liked **__Invictus;__** I would recommend it to anyone who loves a great encouraging true story and to any sports enthusiast. I would also recommend too look up some back ground information about Nelson Mandela before you watch it because he is an amazing, forgiving man who helped to lessen the tension between races. One team One country. -Caley