6. The Spanish Prisoner (6 out of 10)

The Spanish Prisoner is a suspense film about a loyal employee, who is part of an elaborate confidence game, the Spanish prisoner. No one is who they really seem.

For an older movie, I guess it was not as bas as I had expected it to be. The entire plot did really surprise me at one point, and how the FBI was just another part of the scheme. I should have figured because then the movie just would have been too short. I did however, expect the main character Joe Ross' friend Susan to end up turning it all around on him and stabbing him in the back. It would have all just been too good to be true if she would have helped him.I really enjoyed how the "bad guy" of the movie, Steven Martin, and his well thought out play to steel Ross work. I really enjoy movies that have a heist or robbery of some sort.

A big thing I really did not like was how the Japanese tourists t the end of the movie, who were really cops, acted oblivious to the fact that Steve Martin was holding gun at Ross on the ferry. If any normal citizen was on the ferry and saw that I'm pretty sure they would freak out. They should have at least acted like that because I'm also sure anyone with the gun would be super sketched out either way. I don't think there would ever be a criminal so confident.

5. Serendipity (4 out of 10)

The movie Serendipity with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale is a story of "romance, with a sense of humor". It involves two strangers who believe they are meant for each other, and decide to let fate decide the future due to their already being in other relationships.

Honestly, I did not find this movie humorous at all. I think it is expected that you would think everyone would like a movie with a chase and/or a thrill to really get you going. I found Serendipity as predictable as to the joke, "Why did the chicken cross the rode?" No need for that to be answered. Also, the film gave me anxiety, and definitely not the kind that could be relieved by finally seeing the end of the movie. I just felt like I was wasting time of my life! The movie just bugged me more than any other. Over and over again, how John and Sara had kept missing each other by an instant was too much for me. Talk about bad timing.

I find the idea that John Cossack's character, Johnathan and Kate Beckinsale’s character Sara were each dating different people and still let themselves get attached to each other plain scandalous. Truly, I do not find it funny, I find it wrong and that it goes about my morals. The frustration I got from his lying to his wife and going out to find someone else before their wedding day terrible. I guess the only thing I can appreciate is how he called the wedding off before Sara got there. That would have been trashy.

4. Finding Nemo (10 out of 10)

Finding Nemo is a story of a father, Marlin’s, quest to find his son, Nemo, and how it betters their relationship for the future. Along the journey he gains new friends and overcomes his fear of the ocean and becomes more understanding.

I really find the story of Finding Nemo quite charming. I love Pixar Animation over any other cartoon productions. It is definitely one of my favorite movies. The colors they used especially in the movie were amazing- just as bright and strange as the real ocean. The idea of an underwater world that happens to be just like ours is really amazing, and how they had the fish and other sea creatures have human like characteristics and even sharing the same emotions we do. It makes the story even easier to relate to. I guess its just a sweeter way of looking at kidnap.

I do not think that there is one bad thing about this movie that anyone could ever not like. I find Finding Nemo hilarious and heart warming. I especially enjoyed the characters that surprised you with unique traits. One of favorite characters had to be Dory. How the silly fish had short-term memory loss just made the story all too funny. Also, the three sharks were a surprise. I never expected a vegetarian shark in the ocean! I do not believe that there is one character I do not like, which is a surprise. I usually can always find a flaw in any movie.

1. Avatar (My Favorite Movie)

Avatar is a movie that takes place on the planet Pandora, where earth has traveled to mine a mineral that is extremely valuable. The people of earth try to colonize on Pandora with avatars while the natives called Na’vi  reject earth and start to act hostile as their ecosystem begins to be harmed.

I enjoyed the movie avatar so much that I went to go see it at the theatre twice. I could not get enough of the amazing graphics or the story line. Hearing how Avatar had been in development for so long prior to seeing it really got my expectations up for this movie. I was all together surprised on how strange it was. The life forms in avatar were all so unreal, and really got me thinking if that is how something could be past Alpha Centauri. The writer had even come up with a sort of religion that lived in everything, Eywa, which was like Earth's mother nature.

The whole romance ordeal in the movie was just okay for me. The first time I saw Avatar I was so angry that Jake Sully had betrayed his own kind and stayed with the Na’vi. I still enjoyed the movie, though, and my second time seeing it I realized that his acts towards the humans were just. Earth never should have put themselves in the position where they thought they could go destroy another world’s ecosystem just to better their own. It was genocide and showed how genuine Jake was to realize the wrong that was going on. I still plan on seeing this again in 3D.  

3. The Karate Kid (7 out of 10)

The original 1984 Karate Kid is based on a teenage boy, Daniel's struggle to adapt with his move from New Jersey to California. Daniel's apartment handyman Mr. Miyagi struggles to teach Daniel to be a black belt in karate due to the short time he has and who he must fight at the end, Johnny, the karate champion.

The Karate Kid was a little too unreal for me to really get into. I understand I wasn't around for the early 1980's but I cannot imagine karate being the main priority of the popular guy's in high school. I also did not understand their extreme measures to make the main character Daniel's adaptation to the living area so hard. The actions of violence were so intense, like running Daniel off of a hill on his bike, or beating him severely with no mercy like the Cobra Kai were taught. I show more interest in the newer version of the Karate Kid, even though I have not seen it,  because it takes place in china and seams more likely to happen. 

I really enjoyed the relationship that developed between Mr. Miyagi and Daniel, but Daniel's attitude really annoyed me. He doubted Mr. Miyagi often, and would act as if he were going to abandon the kind old man. Mr. Miyagi would then explain to Daniel all of the reasons as to why to do his chores, for example, to build muscle memory. I feel as though Daniel should have gotten upset once and then realized why he had to do those things on his own, and would have came back to apologize, being from then on super obedient to whatever was asked of him.