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Transformers may be one of the greatest movies made since “The Rock” or “Armageddon”. The article starts out with what the movie is about and how people can relate to it. A lot of people can relate to Transformers because they played with them when they were little or they watched the animation on television. So when Transformers came out as a movie, the number of people that went to see it was off the charts. There have been shares of movies that show flesh and blood, now it’s time for metal and plastic according to Anthony Lane.

There are two different kinds of Transformers. Autobots and the Deceptions.  Autobots are the fine, uprising citizens who do good to the world and then the Deceptions who are evil and want to take over the world. And of course, they duke it out throughout the whole movie. That is when people can relate to this movie, by them thinking back about making their Transformers toys fight. They also think about when they would make that blow up noises and now they actually get to hear them and know exactly what they sound like. Lane then compares the director, Michael Bay, to another director that made an impact to people as well. That director is Werner Herzog, a man who took everything literally. That’s when both of these directors have something in common. They aren’t afraid to go big and are willing to take that risk to see what happens. I think that Bay and Herzog do have a similar story when it comes to what movies they have produced. I don’t think either of them will make a movie that won’t disappoint anyone.

Anthony Lane does make it clear that both directors made great movies that impact people and make them think as well. Lane gets the point across that there are movies out there that will impact people. Transformers show what it was like for people in their childhoods.

I thought I knew what I was going to do my critical essay on. I at first chose to do it on the movie Transformers. As I got to thinking and wondering what I was going to write about, I couldn’t quite get the right words or ideas together. My essay was going to consist of an introduction, what the movie was about, and what I liked and didn’t like about the movie. That would have been a good essay but how was that going to be 1000 words. I didn’t think I would be able to do that. So I started to research and I couldn’t find anything that could relate to something in real life. So that’s when I decided to change my critical essay subject to the movie Cinderella. I absolutely love this movie and it is one of my all time favorites. I think that this movie shows a lot about what it is like to be an outcast and to be a step-child as well. I chose Cinderella because I know that I could relate other movies to it. There are a lot of movies that have step-children in it. Having a new family is hard. You don’t know anything about them and it’s just weird living with complete strangers. I like how the character Cinderella gets past her evil step-mother and sisters. I just think that this movie is an all around good family movie. The movie shows you that no matter what; never give up on something or your dreams.

Moore’s documentary Sicko is about Americans around the United States who don’t or can’t afford health care. The goal of this documentary is to show how our health care system works and to compare it to other countries, and how awful our insurance companies are as well. Moore goes on to interview all different people who have had problems and how they try and fix them, or just leave the problem be. Moore shows what it is like day to day to live without health care. The documentary starts out with a man that has to stitch his own cut that he got. That right there is just a small example of what Americans go through. Moore decides to make this problem known, so he posts a blog on the internet wanting people to respond and tell him their stories. As soon as Moore posted the blog, he immediately got thousands of responses. This is one of the main points of this movie. Moore goes on and interviews people. One interviewer is a mom that has a son that is 6’5” and 130 lbs, but yet when they tried to get health care for him, they got denied. The document shows that her son was too tall and skinny. Another interviewer was a young girl that was 5’3” and is overweight. If insurance companies don’t give money to young adults then why would they give it to 90 year old people that are on their death bed? Moore tries to find out the answers to these questions and helps people out with their current issue with health care.

The movie that I chose was for the film “Whip it”. I have not seen the movie yet. The trailer starts out at a pagent contest. One of the contestants answers a question, then the screen shows Ellen Page playing a girl named Bliss, bending over a sink shampooing her hair. Bliss’s hair is blue and the other girl says the dye is only temporary. The screen then goes back to the contest and Bliss walks up with blue hair. The movie is about Bliss and how she is going nowhere in her life and her mom makes sure Bliss knows this. Then Bliss goes on to tell the audience that she has the worst life ever and her life couldn’t get any worse. Bliss works at a diner and people make fun of her. Then one day while Bliss is at a store, 3 girls with colored hair come skating in on rollerblades and slap down flyers for a rollerderby. Bliss doesn’t know about this at first but then she decides to join. Bliss then becomes this girl that opens up and has fun. Drew Berrymore also stars in this movie as well.

I really liked this trailer because I think that the actress’ in the movie are a good fit. The movie looks put together. I liked that there is a movie out there saying that any girl can do anything. Bliss is not a very talkative girl and very shy, so for her to open up and get in the rough crowd is really good for her because I think that she wont be so shy and not so sheltered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cA2ngjW0YQ

There was a commercial during the Super Bowl this past year that used sex appeal to sell. There are two men that are sitting on the couch eating greasy chips and drinking beer. They are yelling at the tv watching football. The camera shows three hot women cheering on another couch right next to the two men and the three women are cheering and yelling at the tv as well. The camera then shows the two greasy men flinging chips all over the girls and as this is happening the girls are getting mad and irrated. All of a sudden the two men ask the girls to go on a beer run. The girls look at the guys like they are crazy and say they aren’t going and continue to watch the game and cheer on the team. The men then push the women out the door with their greasy hands and beer bellies hanging out. As the girls are gone getting the beer, the screen goes to words that say “ditch the grease” and then shows the men sitting on the couch still eating greasy food and being slobs. The women then come back a lot happier and with them they have two hot men that have their shirts off. With the two men having their shirts off, the commercial is now showing the sex appeal part. The women then say that they got their six packs and point to the hot men’s stomachs. As the girls are saying this, they are laughing and holding bags of chips that aren’t greasy. The chips are called chips and they are showing that the chips are not greasy. So the girls then ditch the greasy men and take the non greasy hot men. At the end of the commercial the camera shoots back to the couch and the greasy men are crammed in between the non greasy hot men. I liked this commercial because it shows not to just demand women to get things. This commercial is also funny as well. The lighting and the setting are are perfect for this commercial. This commercial first aired when the Superbowl was showing. The commercial was made to make people laugh during the Superbowl and that’s what the main focus of this commercial was focusing on. The audience would most likely be people watching the Superbowl and then people who want or like to laugh as well. I think that if this commercial can make people laugh and get the audiences attention, then people will go out and buy those non greasy chips. If the commercial can get the audiences attention, whether or not the audience goes out and buys thet chips, as long as the audience is happy and in a better mood after the commercial, then the commercial did its job and was effective. With this commercial being aired during the superbowl, then the commercial has a high standard to make sure people laugh and that they get the right message to people as well.

There was a commercial during the Super Bowl this past year that used sex to sell. There are two men that are sitting on the couch eating greasy chips and drinking beer. They are yelling at the tv watching football. Then the camera shows three hot women cheering on another couch right next to the two men. The camera then shows the two greasy men flinging chips all over the girls. All of a sudden the two men ask the girls to go on a beer run. The girls look at the guys like they are crazy and say they aren’t going. The men then push the women out the door. As the girls are gone the screen goes to words that say “ditch the grease”. The women then come back and with them they have two hot men that have their shirts off. The women then say that they got their six packs and point to the hot men’s stomachs. As the girls are saying this, they are holding bags of chips that aren’t greasy. The chips are the Pop chips and they are showing that the chips are not greasy. So the girls then ditch the greasy men and take the non greasy hot men. Then at the end of the commercial the camera shoots back to the couch and the greasy men are crammed in between the non greasy hot men. I liked this commercial because it shows not to just demand women to get things. This commercial is also funny as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7VUTFp2UE4