Movie Overview Essay Examples

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A Movie Critique of Hamlet (373 words, 1 pages)

Hamlet - Movie Critique The movie of Hamlet was an excellent, as far as book-movies go. I believe it was produced with focus, reason, and logic. The characters were also portrayed with a good interpretation. There were several changes to the play compared to the book, although the movie was ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Movie “Modern Times” (1578 words, 2 pages)

Day1 BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!! BE- SMACK!!! 630 - your late. Get up, sleep in the shower, make coffee, iron clothes, put them on, grab the iPod from the charger, say bye to parents and run out the door to catch the bus for school. Day 2 BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!! BE- ... Read More

A Captivating Movie Review of The Godfather (896 words, 2 pages)

"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." -Vito Corleone. This is one of the most recognizable lines in the most fascinating movie of all time called The Godfather. Acclaimed as one of the best movies ever, The Godfather lives up to its title. It features a riveting ... Read More

An Analysis of Ghost, a 1990 Movie (408 words, 1 pages)

Ghost Throughout any media production there is a thin line between verbally communicating and any other form of conveying thoughts or feelings to one another. Body language and underlying meanings are everywhere you turn. Sometimes when you look at the things people own and what they wear, you can tell ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie, About a Boy (1151 words, 2 pages)

Will, an idle, thirtysomething bachelor living in London who invents himself a son in order to score dates with young single mothers. Through this familial subterfuge he meets Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), the oddball 12-year-old son of a depressive hippie (Toni Collette) who turns his world around and eventually leads him ... Read More

A Movie Analysis of Alien (1047 words, 2 pages)

This film gave birth to a great legacy of other films and items such as interactive games, books, music and film sequels. However, this original landmark piece of cinema, released on May 25, 1979, with a largely unknown cast and director, is now considered by many to be one of ... Read More

A Movie Analysis of Good Will Hunting (683 words, 1 pages)

"Good Will Hunting" (1997) Matt Damon plays Will Hunting, a boy genius whose living a rough life in Boston's south end. While being employed at a prestigious university in Boston, he's discovered by a Fields Medal winning Professor who eventually tries to get Will to change his life around with ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Without Limits (1115 words, 2 pages)

Without Limits - Movie Review Words - 1,111 The movie Without Limits takes place in Munich Germany during the 1972 Olympics. This movie is about hopes, dreams, and ambitions. During the late '60s and early '70s, Steve Prefontaine single-handedly revitalized the sport of track transforming it from a college activity ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Industry (2884 words, 7 pages)

Introduction The Movie Industry is one of the most exciting and informative business in the world, a business where the revenue of a single feature film can approach or exceed 1 billion. In 1994, U.S. consumers spent over 6 billion on movie tickets and another 34 billion on cable TV ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie, The Ghost and the Darkness (299 words, 1 pages)

The movie The Ghost and the Darkness is a true story set in Africa, which I would give a four-star rating.. Colonel John Patterson of Britain is sent to Tsavo, in Uganda, to build a bridge over the Tsavo river for a railroad to cross over. As soon as he ... Read More

A Review of the Movie, The Crucible (2434 words, 3 pages)

As I watched "The Crucible" taking shape as a movie over much of the past year, the sheer depth of time that it represents for me kept returning to mind. As those powerful actors blossomed on the screen, and the children and the horses, the crowds and the wagons, I ... Read More

A Movie Analysis of the Terminator (1134 words, 2 pages)

The movie The Terminator, opens with a brief glimpse of a horrific future, one in which machines have taken over the planet and driven humans almost to the point of extinction. From this future, two men have traveled back through time to 1984 - the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a cyborg ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movies by Alfred Hitcock (325 words, 1 pages)

Movies by Alfred Hitchcock are always well done, Psycho is known as one of his best. In all of his movies there are many things that look like just normal everyday items. But they really are placed there to say something. In the movie Psycho, every item is placed, and ... Read More

An Examination of the Movie, School Ties (707 words, 1 pages)

School Ties Movie Critique In the movie "School Ties" racism was shown through eyes of a Jewish teen at a catholic private school, where he was a minority among the ignorant students who had spent their whole lives at boarding schools. It also tried to portray this teenager, David, as ... Read More

A Movie Analysis of The Mission (665 words, 1 pages)

The Mission The Mission recounts the true story of two men who risked their lives while trying to fight against the colonial forces of Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery during mid-18th century in South America. The Mission is a powerful movie with a powerful message ... Read More

An Evaluation of the Movie, Hannibal (508 words, 1 pages)

Hannibal, A Box Office Hit The new Anthony Hopkins movie Hannibal is said to be one of the most anticipated films of the year. Many fans of Silence of the Lambs have been waiting patiently for almost ten years to finally find Hannibal the Cannibal once again. Now that the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Finding Forester (585 words, 1 pages)

Finding An Ending Finding Forester concerns Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a young writer, who lives in the inner city Bronx hood. The film opens almost like as if it is a horror film, where four friends dare one another to go and visit the neighborhood creepy-old-mans house. Jamal, curious as ... Read More

A Description of the Movie Battleship as One of the Best Montage Sequence Movies Ever Made (1490 words, 3 pages)

The movie Battleship Potemkin is said to be one of the best montage sequence movies ever made and when the movie was finished (1925) it got a lot of government attention and was banned by the bored of censorship. But when it was shown to the public in 1954 it ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Gladiator (1025 words, 3 pages)

The movie Gladiator is an epic tale of a Roman general who is betrayed by the Roman government who kills his family under the leadership by a corrupt Roman prince who is turned king, the roman general comes back as a gladiator to seek revenge on the prince turned king. ... Read More

An Analysis of the History of the Movies (541 words, 1 pages)

Ever since the beginning of the motion picture industry, America has been world-renowned for its movies. In the beginning there was nothing but silent films, in which the actors had no lines and any dialogue in the story was expressed through text. Later, the integration of sound and moving pictures ... Read More

An Analysis of Symbolism in Casablanca the Movie (417 words, 1 pages)

Kevin Zavada English 103 Brad Rogers Movie Review Final December 20, 2000 THE IGNORANCE IN CASABLANCA In the movie Casablanca the main character Rick as well as his bar Ricks Place represent what it was to be an American in the 1940s. The country was undergoing a drastic change at ... Read More

An Analysis of Burnt by the Sun, a Movie (450 words, 1 pages)

Burnt By The Sun Critique Burnt By The Sun takes place in Stalin-era Russia, beginning with a very peculiar scene where a young man, apparently an employee of the state, visits with this father before he goes on an assignment. The scene is then suddenly changed to the Russian countryside, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Rudy (759 words, 1 pages)

The movie Rudy is about a person named Rudy who wants to play football for the Notre-Dame Irish. Rudy has been told his entire life that he wasn't good enough, he was too small and that his goals will never come true. He dreams of playing on the team but ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Amistad (654 words, 1 pages)

The movie Amistad is a 4 star film because I believe it is historically accurate, very effective in showing the way slaves were treated, and the way slavery and the American judicial system worked during the Antebellum period. The movie was also a good watch, and was entertaining and educational ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Volcano (302 words, 1 pages)

VOLCANO The movie Volcano takes place in Las Angeles. It was a normal day, then out of no were there was a big earthquake. Then a volcano erupted next to all these buildings. Police and firemen tried stopping it but couldnt. Then they thought of an idea were they knocked ... Read More

A Review of the Movie and the Play The Crucible (570 words, 1 pages)

Trials of Witchery Hey! You are accused of witchery! Just kidding, but during the Salem Witch Trials, in 1692, many people were accused of being witches or warlocks! The Crucible, a playwright written by Arthur Miller and a movie adapted from his play, focused on the trials, but were dramatically ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie the Fight Club (1209 words, 2 pages)

Sleep and Sleep Deprivation October 1999, the movie Fight Club was released. The story was about a man that suffered from intense insomnia 4 months of consecutive wakefulness. Sleep Sleep is the biological process that a person spends almost a third of their life doing. After decades of research, we ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Pianist (409 words, 1 pages)

The Pianist is a movie about a Polish Jew pianist who lived through the period of unfair treatment of Jews in Europe, otherwise known as the Holocaust. Throughout the movie, strong examples are given to show the horrible treatment and rules that the Germans forced upon the Jewish people. For ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Paths of Glory (399 words, 1 pages)

The recent film that we viewed was "Paths of Glory" Directed by Stanley Kubrick and Produced by James B. Harris and Stanley Kubrick and was released in 1957. This movie stars and was also produced by famous actor Kurt Douglas. The music was by Gerald Fred and cinematography is credited ... Read More

A Issue of Fascism in the Movie Metropolis (1305 words, 2 pages)

The film, Metropolis, depicts the epitome of fascism in that a dictator, Jon Fredersen (ruler) lives in wealth and luxury while ruling and dominating over the slave driven working class. Freder, the son of Jon, discovers the inhumane treatment of the underground workers and becomes the "mediator" of the people ... Read More