Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

The final Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is based on the book series by J.K. Rowling. It is being spilt up into two movies one that has already come out and the other coming out in theaters on July 15, 2011. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is about Harry, Ron, and Hermione going on a difficult quest to find and destroy the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. They need to destroy the Horcruxes so that Voldemort can truly be killed.

I’d have to say the biggest letdown that this movie had was that the film didn’t just keep going. I was really into the movie and I felt like it just stoped. After two hours and thirty minutes some people might just get tired of watching, but it didn’t feel like the story was finished. Sure it had a great stopping point but I just wished it kept going. I cannot wait till July 15th! After keeping up with all the movies over the past decade the series is finally coming to an end. In my opinion, this is the best series ever and I’m sad to see it go. This series has the best effects, even in the first movie ten years ago. Since this movie is all about magic, I can’t believe they made the story look so realistic. It’s amazing. I also love the acting of the three main actors. They work really well together throughout all the films and I’m glad that they kept the same actors in all the movies. If you haven’t seen these films, which I highly doubt because you’d be hiding under a rock, you have to see them! The last movie comes out on July 15th and it’s going to be epic! :)

Blogging

My blogging experience is probably different from yours. Since blogging is required in my English 9 class I have to write several blogs about my chosen topic, TV shows and movies. If it weren’t for this class, I probably wouldn’t and never would have created a blog. I believe that having to create this blog for class was a positive aspect in many ways. First, this forced me to do something that I probably wouldn’t have done on my own. Now that I have tried and done a little bit of blogging I will probably continue blogging on my own personal blog. Everyone in our class

had to write their own blog. Reading other people’s blogs is a good way to learn something new about a subject that we normally don’t know about and learn a little bit more about each other. Finally, I believe it is necessary to have a variety of different types of writing in english class. Having just formal essays and assignments makes the class boring. Blogging is something different and I’m glad that our teacher included blogging as one of our assignments this year. I would totally recommend her continuing this particular assignment with next year’s class.

Prom Night (2008)

Prom Night is a movie about the life of Donna Keppel. Donna had a high school teacher whose name is Richard Fenton. He was obsessed with her and would do anything to be with her. In the beginning of the movie, he comes to her house looking for her and he ends up killing her family. Donna was there and had to witness this terrible tragedy. Luckily, he was caught and was sent to prison for life. After three years of losing her family, she is still under psychological treatment, but is feeling much better. She attends her senior prom. It is supposed to be the best night of her life. Donna was with her boyfriend and her best friends and nothing could be better than this night. That is until the psychopath Richard Fenton escapes prison and finds Donna at the hotel. He would kill anyone that would get in his way of him being with Donna, even her friends.

Even though this movie is freaky and scary I totally recommend it. I’m not much of a fan when it comes to scary movies, but this one is the exception. This movie kept me guessing at every event that was happening. It was just unpredictable. Trying to guess what is going to happen is always fun and even though this movie is scary, it’s entertaining.

Cloverfield

The United States Defense Department finds a videotape in what used to be Central Park in New York. The video recordings start off at a going away party. Rob Hawkins’s friends decided to throw him a surprise going away party because he decides to accept a job offer in Japan and is leaving the next day. All of a sudden, there was an earthquake that occurs and the people at the party see the news that a ship has capsized in the harbor area. They go to the penthouse to see what was going on and see the accident. There were explosions that was going on in the city. Getting to safety, everyone runs downstairs. There was a monster destroying New York. The movie is captured on the tape recording that the friend was using to record the party. It follows the group’s night trying to escape. Before escaping the monster, Hawkins needs to save a friend who he’s in love with.

During the movie, I was trying to picture myself in their shoes. Imagining myself trying to escape and survive this event was horrifying. It seemed like one of my bad dreams or something. It’s was obvious that the monster didn’t exist in real life and it seemed like it could happen because everyone says that the world is going to end. I just pictured this movie to be the end of the world. Throughout this movie I felt sorry for the characters because all this movie had was tragic events. Even though the movie was depressing at times, it is still a movie to see.

Life as We Know It

"Life as We Know It" is about Holly and Eric. There was another couple, Peter and Allison who are happily married. Holly was best friends with Allison and Eric was best friends with Peter. Once Peter and Allison had a baby whose name is Sophie, Holly and Eric become Sophie’s godparents. At one point, Holly and Eric were set up on a blind date and it was a disaster. They were not meant to be together. But one night, Allison and Peter both die in a car crash leaving their daughter Sophie to Holly and Eric. This seems absolutely crazy because Holly and Eric just couldn’t be together; But they had to take care of Sophie because she had no one else. Holly and Eric set their differences aside and tried to raise Sophie as best as they could. Of course, they run into some problems on the way.

The one problem I have with romantic comedies is that all the stories seem to be the same. This movie actually proved me wrong. Even though this movie was depressing at times, I still laughed at many different parts of the story. The amusing parts weren’t predictable and were original. One of the qualities of this movie was that it was realistic. The plot of the movie seemed like it could happen to someone in the world.

Salt (2010)

Evelyn Salt is an agent that works for the CIA and is highly respected by many people for the accomplishments she as done for her country. One day Orlov, a Russian defector, shares crucial information with Evelyn; The Russian president will be assassinated when he attends the funeral of the U.S. Vice President. Orlov says that the assassin is a women named Evelyn Salt. This assassination is all apart of Orlov’s plan called “Day X”. This was an operation that has been organized since the Cold War. The operation’s purpose was to destroy the United States. In order for this to happen, Orlov trains a group of young Russian kids. Once the Russians are trained, they are sent to the United States to blend in and work for the U.S. Government. Once “Day X” arrived the Russian group will strike. Salt is a part of this group. But there is something different about her.

When I first watched Salt, I could not believe that the movie ended so suddenly. I was still guessing the events that I thought were going to happen next and it just ended. I was so into the movie that I felt like the story just started. Disappointed that the movie was over, I still thought it was awesome. The action and the stunts that Salt did during the movie were mouth dropping and I didn’t even know that some of the stunts existed. Salt is one of those movies were you have to watch it a second time in order to get it. And it was twice as good.

Make It or Break It

ABC Family’s television drama series, Make It or Break It, is a story about the lives of four gymnasts whose goal in life is to make it to the 2012 Olympics.  These four gymnasts are: Payson, Lauren, Kaylie, and Emily.  Each of these girls live very different lives and have problems of their own, but they all have gymnastics in common.

Payson is the most focused and determined athlete at “The Rock”, which is the (fictional) elite gym that they train at.  Because of this reason, she is the best female gymnast in the gym.  Payson had a back injury in the past and after practicing for Nationals, it flared up.  But since she her determination dominates her, she ignores it and keeps training.  When she competes at Nationals, Payson falls and injures her back. This back injury is very serious and she was told that she couldn’t do gymnastics anymore. Payson has to deal with this career changing news and figure out a way to be the same gymnast she was.

Lauren is a two-faced liar and the one that stirs up all the drama between the girls. She does many things to make the other girls hate her. In the beginning of the season, she betrays all of the athletes in the gym because she goes to another gym with their head coach before competition.  This is very bad because without a head coach, the gym and the athletes are a mess.  Also, she stabs Kaylie in the back because she sleeps with Kaylie’s boyfriend, Carter, which they both fight over throughout the first season.  Even though Lauren acts out and hurts many people, she is the most vulnerable character on the show.  The reason for this is because her mother leaves her at a very young age.

Kaylie is the National Champion.  She would not have achieved this if it weren’t for Payson’s back injury, but since she was runner up, she won.  When Kaylie won, everyone thought her luck was the reason why she won and not because she was a good athlete.  This brought the most pressure for Kaylie because she believed that they were right.  Having to live up to the title when everyone thinks you don’t deserve it brings a lot of pressure and this pressure pushes Kaylie to work harder to beat the best athlete in the world on the China team.  Kaylie has to deal her relationship issues with Carter, as well as her parent’s divorce.

Emily is the new comer and the outcast of the show.  Since “The Rock” is an elite gym, it would be very expensive to train there. The reason why she can even train at “The Rock” is because she earns a scholarship from them. Emily has this scholarship because her family is economically challenged and this hurts her gymnastics career in many ways.  First, it is one of the rules at “The Rock” that the athletes aren’t allowed to have jobs.  Second, she has to worry about her family members and if the electric bill has been paid. Finally, if they want to take their career far, as their coach says “you need to eat, breathe, sleep gymnastics”, meaning they can’t have any other distractions. Having this job wears her out and distracts her from her gymnastics career. Emily’s job at the Pizza Shack soon hurts her and is used against her to take her scholarship away. Another issue that she has to deal with is her experience.  She has only trained at the YMCA in a small town in California.  This isn’t enough and doesn’t compare to the other girls who have been training at “The Rock” for most of their lives.  Training at “The Rock” is a big opportunity for her because that’s the only way that she can become a serious and well known athlete.

This TV show is one of my favorites out of the many TV shows that I watch, so I totally recommend that you try the Pilot.  If you just watch one episode, you’ll be hooked like I was. J