Monday, January 28, 2013

Exploration 4


Alec Martin




Exploration 4


            My favorite movies to watch are documentaries anything from animals to how things work. I love to learn new things from movies because Im a visual learner and I can remember a lot of what I just watched.  The other movies I enjoy watching are movies about superhero’s (manly Marvel).  After watching all of Marvels new superhero movies they begin to connect in some way and build on each other. Minus all of the cool actions how they connect is what really draws me to these types of movies.

            If I were to recommend a movie to someone It would really depends on whether they liked actions movies or documentaries. For just a cool movie with a lot of things happing I would say the “Avengers”. Now for documentary I would tell people to watch “GasLand”. I saw this on HBO about a month ago and I’m still thinking about it everyday. To be honest it was a little hard to get into at first but half way through you couldn’t stop watching. Josh Fox who made the film travels around the country exposing the truths of hydraulic fracking and how its harming Americans everywhere. This is a link to the website of the movie it has a ton of information http://www.gaslandthemovie.com .

            In the golden age of Hollywood the person I knew the most about was John Wayne. I had seen a bunch of his movies and when I looked on
Hollywoodsgoldenage.com I didn’t realize how many movies he was in. During his career John was in 180 film earning him the 13 Greatest male stars of all time. He was many know for his western and in his movie “The Searchers” was one named the greatest western of all time. In my opinion John Wayne was the best actor for his time, he made his movie seem so real as if it was a true story.





6 comments:

  1. Now that you mention, I've noticed that I, too, am into movies that tie a bigger picture together. I love puzzles, so this may have something to do with it. Although, with the documentaries, my interests seem to be limited with the animal kingdom.

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  2. I definitely agree with documentaries being a great genre. It's always fun to learn something new and learn different view points. They also help a lot in understanding things in greater depth.

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  3. I too enjoy many of the current superhero movies that have recently come out. Also, I enjoy some documentaries mainly dealing with machinery. As for John Wayne, I have seen only a couple of his westerns but I found them to be pretty entertaining

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  4. In terms of Marvel giving out a movie to each super hero, I'd really like to see one for Deadpool.

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  5. I agree, The Avengers is a GREAT movie! In fact, all of the Marvel superhero movies are great. The movies not only engage you with their action scenes, but they also portray meaningful lessons through some of their quotes. Both of these make the movies interesting for not only action movie lovers but for everyone.

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  6. I enjoy watching documentaries, I feel like it would be a lot of fun to make one. Animal Documentaries are awesome, my favorites are probably the planet earth ones.

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