Kill Bill review

Kill Bill Volume 1 

Director- Quentin Tarantino

Review:

Man, what a film. As a fan of 70's martial arts movies, it was great to see all of the references. I also thought the use of B&W throughout was extremely effective. The cartoon sequences seemed a bit much, but did fit in with the overall feel of the film. I have seen many people posting about the sheer amount of blood and guts, but you have to remember this was Tarantino's homage to Bruce Lee-era action pictures. In those movies, the stories were very similar epics of revenge, and they never had much of a budget for good "gore" effects. It was more or less "throw some fake blood on the guy who just got killed" type of effects, which were duplicated accurately by some of the deaths in this movie. The plot also followed closely the plot of most 70's Kung Fu movies; something despicable happens to the weak hero (whole village razed, family slaughtered, etc..) and the hero goes away for years to learn the secrets of a particular style of Kung Fu. All of these movies contained the "secret move" which the master normally does not teach, except of course, in this rare instance. That move, as depicted in Kill Bill Vol. 2, is always used on the evil leader of the clan whom had brought death and chaos to the hero.

Kill Bill was a terrific modern take on those movies which were always set in ancient China. I was very impressed with Uma Thurman's swordplay, at no point did I feel that it looked scripted or fake. Even when fighting against more than 50 Crazy 8's, it replicated admirably the incredibly one-sided fights from some of the best martial arts movies made 30 years ago.

All in all, a great and original film! R.

Thriller Locations

After talking as a group about the thriller, we have come to a decision about where we will shoot the film
We thought about setting it in a wood (Poringland Wood to be precise) where a group of friends would be walking a dog and it is filmed like a video diary, hand held and rough footage.


Poringland Wood (where it will hopefully be set)



At first a light is seen by the camera man though his view finder on the camera, but it disappears before the rest of the group see it, after more chatter, few more orange lights appear (glow sticks) and one large white light (one large powerful torch) and it gets closer and closer and the group starts to run, this is when the camera man trips over and the camera falls on the ground, and a figure is seen running past the screen.....

Location- Poringland Wood

Lighting- dark or gloomy

Camera work-handheld, rough, with a torch attached on it.

Group- Me (Sam), Billie Kemp, Jessica Moy, Jack Monahan

This is only one idea we have and so far, the most popular....it may change!

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There are some spelling mistakes, but after uploading it twice it still comes up with incorrect spellings. I can spell! 

My favourite thriller films

MAIN CONTAIN SPOILERS. 

Information and films are all from IMDd website. 

I Am Legend.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller 
Description: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
Characteristics: 

• Dark/gloomy (dark rooms)
• Suspension  (when the sun is slowly moving down putting Sam (the dog) closer to the infected dogs)
• Sadness (Sam dying from being bitten) 
• location (deserted city) 

I really enjoyed watching this film. There are many twists to the film, the ending shocked me most, as it was very unexpected, at no point did you expect the main character to kill himself. The deserted city made it feel more unsafe with the lack of people. 

Trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpYq9rgg3w&feature=related

AVP: Alien vs. Predator

Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller
Description: During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
Characteristics: 

• Deserted underground tunnels (possible symbolising no escape) 
• Dark, wet locations (tunnels)
• Invisible threats (the predator and aliens)

This film, for me, was a "sitting on the edge of the sofa" film, you had no idea when the creatures would pop out and take away one of the crew. It being set in a dark temple, means often the backdrops were dark, making it feel like the characters were never safe from the aliens or predators, making it one jumpy film. 
Trailer- http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1538785561/

Final Destination 
Genre: Horror, Thriller 
Description: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Characteristics:  

• Dark situations (Death often occurred during night time)
• innocent victims (All of the characters who die are innocent)
• suspension (we never quite know when they will die) 

This film was defiantly gory a film, as well as being a very suspending film, like "AVP" you never quite know when someone is going to die.
Trailer- http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi128385305/

The Last Excorcism
Genre: Drama, Horror, thriller 
Description: A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.
Characteristics:  

• Hand held camera (Through entire film, being filmed by one of the characters)
• Dark (Nearly everything takes place during the night) 
• menaced/possessed women (the young women with the devil inside her)

This film got me scared a teeny tiny bit, when I'm watching a scary movie, I don't get scared...it's only after watching it, when my mind is left to its own devices does it start freaking me out. 

The use of hand held camera work really put you in the story, made you feel like you were there. The style is in a documentary way making it even more scary, putting you as the first person, not third, so when the camera man dies...you die.

Trailer- http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4275897881/ (gessh, just watching the trailer again makes me shiver)

The Fourth Kind 

Genre: Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller 

Description: A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. 

Characteristics: 

• Based on a true story (look it up!)
• Dark (a lot happens during the night)
• Innocent victims (the victims who have the recurring dream) 
• Isolated village 

I, myself, didn't find the film that scary, but a good plot, you don't ever see the aliens, so this keeps you watching, hoping for a glimpse of the aliens. But my friend was completely freaked out by this film...and still can't get over it. Overall though it was a good film, good background to the aliens, and kept me wanting more and more from it. 

Trailer- http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi120390169/

The Hills Have Eyes 

Genre: Horror, Thriller 
Description: A suburban American family is being stalked by a group of psychotic people who live in the desert, far away from civilization.
Characteristics: 

• Isolated place (in the middle of a desert) 
• psycho-fiends (humans effected by the radiation) 
• freaky abnormal humans 

This film was very good. There started off with six characters, the characters you least thought would die, died. The man who was arrogant, big headed ended up the only man alive, with a 13 year old kid, a baby and a daughter who's parents died. It was defiantly a film with many twists and plots to keep you on your toes. 
Trailer- http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2750611737/


Taken
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Description: A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade.
Characteristics: 

• Innocent victims (the kidnapped girl)
• criminals
• dark, illegal going ons 

A film with an excellent plot, a film with no double agents or twisted people. Just a hardcore, shoot, kill, action film. Great film
Trailer- http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3488219417/

Winters Bone (2010)

Ree Dolly a young woman who has had to grow up fast. She has two younger siblings to care for. Her father is missing, and her mother is an invalid. Ree is keeping the family together in their home in a remote corner of the Missouri Ozarks. She must find him before they lose their house to the state, she hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Rating- 7.3/10 

Director: Debra Granik 

Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes and Garret Dillahunt

Been given an 18 certificate due to drug use, violence and offensive language  

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama 

NEGATIVE REVIEW

Are you serious?

"I watched this because people were saying how GREAT it was. They kept mentioning how beautiful the story is, how amazing all the characters are. OH MY GOD it couldn't be further from the truth. This movie is atrocious. I wasted 100 minutes of my life watching this horrible excuse of a movie, time which I will never get back. I absolutely HATE this incredibly shallow boring predictable movie. The characters are all very one dimensional. The kind of people nobody cares about, I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters in any way, I hated them all. How can anyone make a 100 minute movie of a plot so shallow? I am so enraged by this movie I can't write very well. I feel a deep sense of loss for the time I will never have back"

POSITIVE REVIEW

So Real, So Good

"The overall theme of blood ties and hierarchy were so powerful and surreal that it's hard to believe there is actually a sub culture that inspired this movie. The women are subordinate to the men, but everyone is held accountable by someone. The women have a strict hierarchy but ultimately stick together and support each other. It's a complicated weave of loyalty and balance, that could easily be misrepresented in a movie as satire. In Winter's Bone it's handled expertly and instead becomes an incredible backdrop for an otherwise simple premise.

Also, I was shocked to see that these characters were actually professional actors and not just backwoods folk they gathered to play some of the parts. This is a testimony to not only the incredible acting, but the incredible make-up and wardrobe as well. I was thoroughly convinced that the actors were all meth addicts living in the Missouri hills.

The best movie I've seen this year by far."

Don't know why the text has gone all weird. All the text is same size and colour when I'm writing it out.