THE TIME MACHINE

Have you ever thought about the future? Not just college intuition, but the future.  Flying cars, moving sidewalks, and robotic butlers. Well, one Victorian inventor thought a lot about it. He believed he was born in a horrible century. He hated the thought of man being so destructive and so corrupt with violence that he decided to find a different time zone to live in. A century with no wars; a place where he could live with civilized humans. So, on that note, he decided to build a time machine. But once he found what he thought was his paradise, it turns out that it’s worse than the time period he actually came from.

The Time Machine was based off of the H.G. Wells’ 1895 novel. For some who may not know: H.G. Wells is also the writer of the original War of the Worlds. The movie stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. If you had a time machine, where would you go?

BRINGING UP BABY

What do you get with a stuffed shirt paleontologist, an eccentric childish heiress, and a leopard? A whole lot of confusion and a mess of chaos. It all starts when the paleontologist is trying to get a million dollar investment for his museum’s latest exhibit. And in the process he meets an eccentric woman with an unusual sense of logic that always gets them into more trouble than they we’re already in. And if you don’t think that’s bad enough, later on in the movie the woman receives a leopard. Yes,  a leopard, a tamed leopard named “Baby”. Cary Grant stars as the paleontologist along with Katherine Hepburn as the heiress, who had a hard time doing comedy naturally. Carey Grant stepped in and helped Hepburn with it, and showed her how not to put too much effort into it. Bringing Up Baby was filmed in 1938 it is a screwball comedy and a hilarious one at that.

THE ARTIST

I was actually a little disappointed with this movie. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve seen so many other silent film movies that I’m used to how they’re filmed, or I just don’t like how they filmed this one. I don’t know if this movie was a tribute to silent films and they just added a bit of a twist to it, or if they were just trying to make a modern version of a silent film. Either way I wasn’t too impressed. I didn’t like how they made it more of a modern version of the 1920’s, the mannerisms and the dialogue were off, they picked too many clean cut modern faces to be in this film, and it all just didn’t fit. Nothing really flowed, they didn’t put much effort into their acting and they made it look a bit corny. In silent movie dramas, they had to put in a lot of emotion into the films. They did this because the movie had no sound effects and they really wanted you to know how they felt. In "The Artist," the only emotion the main character showed was depression, in other silent films if they were depressed they would add rage, confusion, and just basically die inside little by little. He didn’t show any variation or major skill in acting. I’ll admit there were a few good parts in the film, but the rest was just mediocre. Two very good silent films that I have seen are: The Red Lilly, and The Wind. If you have seen The Artist  and didn’t enjoy it, don’t worry, the original silent films are not like that.