Kingsmen: The Secret Service

A great mixture of comedy and action, that is what Kingsmen: Secret Service is for the 129 minute length of the film. With unknown to pop culture actor Taron Egerton leading the way as Gary "Eggsy" Unwin as a rebel with a knack for getting in trouble but skills that only a trained eye could really see. He soon meets up with Harry Hart (Colin Firth), who is a special agent in England's own special agency called Kingsmen. With the most skilled agents in the world and the most high tech gear, the Kingsmen are out to rid the world of any type of evil. Speaking of evil, the antagonist is portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson who plays a character called Valentine who has a secret plan to have every human on planet earth kill each other by using his universal sim card to launch a chemical reaction in the brain to make people violent. His urge is to rid the world of people so climate change may actually slow down. After a rigorous training program, and after our main character doesn't even make the cut, an unfortunate set of events begin to take place for him to be the hero of the day.

Picture of Colin Firth and Taron Egerton. Original

Even with a conventional theme for a movie, Kingsmen certainly separates itself from other spy/action movies just based on the sheer wit that is put into it. It shows the training of the agents and allows you to see the growth of our main character throughout the film. Colin Firth does a good job of acting as a leader in the film even though it can be seen as a silly movie. The fight scenes were shot incredibly well and keep you locked in the whole time. Samuel L. Jackson adds enough style to the movie to make you almost want to cheer for the antagonist throughout the film. It has enough of a punch for your typical "Transformer" fan to like, while having enough experienced and honest actors to make any film fan appreciate. I give Kingsmen a 8/10/

Source of Inspiration #5

For my 5th and final source of inspiration I wanted to have a picture of one of my favorite actors that had the same exact colors of my blog as well. As you can obviously see the colors of this posters are pretty much like the colors you are looking at right now, and I know i mentioned in an earlier post how my blue and white x-box controller influenced the color as well. After i noticed this poster on my wall, I figured why not just include this guy too. Joe Pesci is one of my favorite actors, the poster is blue and white, how perfect, right? I didn't have much inspiration before but this definitely helped out. Keeping the simple blue and white themed with a little bit of a background that was inspired by my hometown Roxy movie theater seemed to hit the nail on the head after I was lying and bed and looked up at the great Joe Pesci.

I love Joe Pesci because his characters are pretty much the most pissed off characters I have ever witnessed in movie history. Since Goodfellas is one of my favorite movies, i had this poster hanging in my room and it added even more of a reason to make it blue and white. I even had a little Joe Pesci voice in my head say, "Do it, ya schmuck." It still adds enough when it comes to the contrast between the text and background on a more serious note. It is not too flashy, doesn't distract you from the movie reviews, and I think it is more of an easy color to look at.  

Source of Inspiration #4

When it comes to the font of my page I realized that I shouldn't make it to stylish because the main reason for me to write reviews is to have you actual pay attention to the review. I didn't think it was really necessary for me to have a fancy type of font that made you take a double take of certain words or have any type of font that would make you squint your eyes for you to see what the words actually were. I stuck with the fairly generic font and the size of the font for the blog. When I found out we needed sources of inspiration I actually just saw North Hall and that it was remotely close for what my font size and style needed to be. The North Hall font, and pretty much the whole building is the generic of the generic.

I really didn't think the font needed to serve much of a purpose on my page, I wanted to get the certain readers' attention grabbed by having them actually paying attention of what I have to say by the use of the pictures and some of the youtube videos that I uploaded to give them a short preview of what the movie I reviewed may be like. It is not special but it is there serving its purpose, the other font options didn't seem to appealing to me and I didn't even learn how to change the font in html until a classmate showed us in class for the instruction project. But nonetheless this is the font I chose, and this is the picture that inspired me to keep it original.

Source of Inspiration #3

Even though it may be tough to see from the picture below, the Roxy movie theater in my hometown in Lock Haven is still the most unique movie theater that I have been in even to this day, that is why I tried to dedicate my background to this specific carpet that is in this building. It is almost the exact same pattern, and the reason I chose the pattern background is because of this theater. It is an old theater that is easily apart of my childhood since 95% of the movies I have seen are from this room right here. It is an old theater, it is not your typical commercial theater that has 12 movie screens and sells popcorn for 12 dollars. It is cheaper and only has three screens. The picture below is the main room which is unlike any other theater room that I have been in.

Originally from http://www.heartofpa.com/play/roxy-theater/

 

It is the only theater that I have been in that has a balcony and the unique architecture adds to art of the room. On both sides of the theater the walls are painted with old Italian art that involves anything from angels to a naked women eating an apple. It remains the most open theater room ive been in, it doubles in size of most and has really high ceilings. It is the theater that made me fall in love with movies, it has character and has an old homie type of feel to it. This is why I chose the patterns in my background for my blog, it all comes from the Roxy in Lock Haven, PA.

Spectre

Daniel Craig as James Bond. Original

With Daniel Craig appearing in his 4th Bond film, and Spectre being the 24th installment of the James Bond cinema franchise. One thing that is not going for this movie is that it is living in the shadow of the Bond film before, Skyfall. I believed Skyfall was definitely a top 5 Bond film if not top 3. So, the new rendition of the Bond films had some big shoes to fill. It came close, but not completely. Overall, this is a solid Bond film. It contains all the elementary elements of a Bond film when it comes to chase sequences and fight scenes. When it comes to being a good Bond film was it good? Yes. Was it the best Bond Daniel Craig has been in? I think you have to say no. What I think makes the difference is how good the villain is.

The main villain of this movie is played by Christoph Waltz, who was so perfectly evil in Inglorious Bastards plays the character Blofeld, a mastermind of crime who runs an illuminati type of business in the world. Bond starts to unravel the pieces of the puzzle and trying to get to the seed of what is going on. While Bond's employer MI6 is still threating to end the spying 007 program. Bond comes into save the day by eventually solving the crime. with a few twists and turns along the way. But what I realize is that with movies like these, and all the superhero films coming out. The movie is only as good as the villain is.

One of the best movies that has come out this century is the Dark Knight, and you know you love this movie for how Heath Ledger just absolutely owned the part of the Joker. This is why you went to see that movie, your attracted to how weird it is. Unless it is some masterful twist to a movie, or just amazing acting, your attracted to the creepiness of the villain. The main characters in adventure/action films have been winning forever. Sometimes we want to see a deep and dark villain that intrigues us. This Bond really doesn't give us that which is why I give it a 7/10.

Source of Inspiration 2

I chose this as one of my inspiration posts because I though I needed a picture that kind of summed up how I actually felt about movies. The quote by the famous director Martin Scorsese shows and proves how movies are much more than movies. Much of the time movies mold peoples childhoods, change how we think about the world, and actually change our terminology when it comes to talking in day to day life. You know you always end up quoting movies with your friends that make you life, you know the end of an emotional movie sometimes touches a nerve. When it comes to shaping childhood, don't even get me started when it comes to Lion King, that movie still carries over into my day to day life in some ways.

This is why I actually wanted to do movie reviews for my blog posts. I didn't just want to review some of the films and give you what I thought about it based on how well the storyline was constructed, or how well the cinematography was in the film. Yes, films do need these systematic elements to be a good and complete film for the viewer. But the emotion of the story, or the one liners in a comedy, are what we really take away from the film. You always hear people talking about how that one moment in a scene made you feel, you don't talk about how upset you were by the lighting of a certain scene when you sit around with your friends. Your left with the emotion of the film.

So, with my reviews I tried to actually describe how the movie might make you feel in some regards. I wanted to kind of flesh out the moral side of the story, and what the underlying causes are of the film so you can have an opportunity to dig deeper into it. Some movies change the way you think, change your philosophy of life and they all serve as memories. There are all much more than "just a movie," there are something that can change your outlook on life and most certainly have a direct influence.

"Source of Inspiration #1"

The majority of my posts will now rely on what inspired me to design my page the way it is. My page may not seem like the most advanced when it comes to the design parts of it but nonetheless, I didn't want to take away from it was just supposed to be a blog about movie reviews. Anyways, you will notice that the background of my page is blue, and when I was actually creating this page I had in mind that I had to make these types of posts. When I was actually just creating the page I looked down next to me and I actually ended up seeing the exact image below this paragraph and decided to use that for my color.

Now, I love my Xbox One and I actually praise this controller for sticking it out with me. I'm sure you're wondering "What kind of moron are you to say that this controller stuck it out with you?" Ill just say that such games like Madden, FIFA, NBA 2K16 have all left me with games that I have lost. Sometimes, those losses result in the throwing of a controller across your living room out of anger. Yeah, I should probably learn how to not do that for the sake of my future children. This guy has survived, he's been through so much and he still works to this day. So for that, I dedicate this post to my blue controller. The blue background is dedicated to you my friend.