...Adventure, Sci-Fi IMDB 7.1/10 (380,350 votes) Rotten Tomatoes 72% (critics) 79% (audience) Metacritic 59/100 CinemaScore (poll) ‘A’ grade from A+ to F scale Director: Colin Trevorrow Main stars: Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Irffan Khan Vincent D’Onofrio Ty Simpkins Nick Robinson Jake Johnson Budget: $150 million Box office: $1.670 billion Opening Weekend: $204,600,000 (USA) (12 June 2015) Reviews: There are about 600 external reviews on the web Fans from Jurassic Park have reviewed the film rather negatively due to the change in cast however the feeling of nostalgia was brought to a lot of the fans. "Jurassic World can't match the original for sheer inventiveness and impact, but it works in its own right as an entertaining – and visually dazzling – popcorn thriller" – Rotten Tomatoes Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five and felt that it was "terrifically enjoyable and exciting summer spectacular" "savvy, funny, ridiculous in just the right way" Media platforms/merchandise: The film has several platforms that attracted the audience: websites, games, social media accounts, toys, shirts, mugs and many more. Fans: -There have been fan made trailers and remakes -There have been parodies made -Fans have made websites Jurassic World (2015) Release: 12th June 2015 in USA Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi IMDB 7.1/10 (380,350 votes) Rotten Tomatoes 72% (critics) 79% (audience) Metacritic 59/100 ...
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...Rotten Tomatoes staff first collect online reviews from writers who are certified members of various writing guilds or film critic associations. To be accepted as a critic on the website, a critic's original reviews must garner a specific amount of "likes" from users. Those classified as "Top Critics" generally write for major newspapers. The staff determine for each review whether it is positive ("fresh", marked by a small icon of a red tomato) or negative ("rotten", marked by a small icon of a green splattered tomato). (Staff assessment is needed as some reviews are qualitative rather than numeric in ranking.) At the end of the year, they identify the film that was highest rated as receiving the annual "Golden Tomato."[citation needed] The website keeps track of all of the reviews counted for each film and the percentage of positive reviews is calculated. (Major, recently released films can attract up to 300 reviews. If the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered "fresh," in that a supermajority of the reviewers approve of the film. If the positive reviews are less than 60%, the film is considered "rotten". "Top Critics," such as Roger Ebert, Desson Thomson, Stephen Hunter, Owen Gleiberman, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Peter Travers, and Michael Philips are identified in a sub-listing that calculates their reviews separately. Their opinions are also included in the general rating. When there are sufficient reviews, the staff creates and posts a consensus statement...
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...Juan Peralta Ms. Venon Ferard DRE 097 1/24/2017 Everyone’s Son The morning after Maudlin’s first N.F.L game, Lorenzo Maudlin IV woke up in a hospital. With very little memory, Maudlin did not remember the tackle that left him unconscious on the MetLife Stadium turf on September 13. His mother, Akima Lauderdale, an alcoholic with an affection for selling cocaine, has been in prison in Georgia. His Father, Lorenzo Maudlin III, served roughly 12 years in a California prison. Maudlin and his four siblings bounced between relatives and foster homes. Every day Maudlin coordinated and managed catastrophe. Searching for food and gripping taunts for wearing the same clothes. Being pulled out of class by officers because his mother, Lauderdale, had been arrested again, then forced into the care of the state. In college, Maudlin was rushed to the hospital after injuring himself at practice, and again after a vehicle hit him while riding his scooter. His position coach Maurice Hart from Maynard H. Jackson High School in Atlanta said “I’m telling you, that’s the toughest man I’ve ever met in my life.” After a brief time, Lauderdale was sent back to prison in 2014 for charges including aggravated assault and voluntary manslaughter. In his parents’ place, a network of advisors, coaches, and teachers surrounded him, creating a surrogate family. With their help, Maudlin despise expectations. According to a 2012 presentation, 15 percent of students in foster care nationwide earn a high school...
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... “Don't Tread On Me” is a classic phrase which adorned the revolutionary fervor of Americans and their founding fathers, well known for its appearance on the Gadsden Flag. Consisting of a coiled rattlesnake and a bright yellow background with the statement written underneath, the flag was first adopted as the flag of the revolutionary navy and has southern roots. The snake, being a significant political symbol of unity due to the Albany Plan of Union, was additionally a symbol of nobility in South Carolina. Appropriately, he would attack only in self defense and was always deadly, gaining the admiration of Christopher Gadsden and a nod from the Continental Congress. Gadsden was a notable individual of the south then, and today an admiral of Libertarianism, his designed flag adopted by the modern Tea Party. E. Stanly Godbold and Robert H. Woody's biography of Christopher Gadsden explains his upbringing and significance in revolutionary American politics, admitting him to be a radical. Gadsden was born on February 26, 1724 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Thomas Gadsden and an indentured servant's daughter named Elizabeth. The cultural standards in the south at the time demanded that sons emulate their fathers, leaving Christopher to become a successful wealthy merchant long after his father's death with a comfortable life. Gadsden's early political education was reflective of what would soon become the arguments for revolution in the south: the tenets of the English Whigs and...
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...Calvin Adams Suzzanne Morris ENG 112 2 October 2016 Getting To Know Parks and Rec Today, there are so many different television shows to watch and the variety just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Some people may like horror, drama, reality, etc. This essay is for the people who enjoy comedy television. These people might like one show in particular. The show Parks and Recreation. This show is a positive, successful, uplifting, modern television show that is worth the watch. Parks and recreation is about a group of people who live in a small town in Indiana called Pawnee. These people work for the government in the Parks and Recreation department. The show follows these characters and lets you take a look into their crazy lives individually and as a whole. The show mainly focuses on the main character Leslie Knope played by actress Amy Poehler. Leslie and her colleagues work every day to help make Pawnee a better place. The show first aired on NBC in 2009, and ended in 2015 with seven seasons. You may still watch this show due to reruns, DVDs, Hulu, or Netflix. This television show can be seen as uplifting for many reasons. In the show, Leslie loves her town very much and tries her absolute hardest to make it a better place for the residents. Unfortunately, the residents of Pawnee do not care much for what she is trying to do and make it harder for her to do her job. Even when they do this, she still does not give up and she gets the job done. The message here is that if...
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...Big Hero 6 (2014) Rotten Tomatoes gave this cute, dark, and tragic story based off a Marvel comic an impressive 89% and it had received praise for it's tear jerking story-telling and a multicultural cast of characters which are said to be the first for any Disney film. In a Rotten Tomatoes review of the Oscar-winning Disney animated take on a complicated Marvel comic, Big Hero 6 has been heavily praised for it's tear-jerking story which was completely different from some of Disney's previous animated films like Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and The Little Mermaid. This Disney film does not involve princesses and evil royals, but involves a grief-stricken child prodigy and his robot companion. It has also been praised for being plot-twisting, funny, sweet, adorable, and of course, tear jerking. It would go on the win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2015. Big Hero 6 tells the story of Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter), a 14-year old robotics prodigy who resides the the futuristic city of San Fransokyo with his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) and their aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph). When he is tricked into developing a desire for a higher education by his brother after being arrested for taking part in an illegal bot fight, Hiro comes up with the most brilliant invention that all of San Fransokyo or in this case, the entire Disney cinematic universe, has ever seen-microdots, tiny little robots that fuse together to build anything one's...
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...Plot Having stolen some compromising documents from a powerful and successful entrepreneur/gangster at a party, a man known as Fred (Lambert) escapes from the police and takes refuge in the underground world of the Paris Métro. There he integrates with the dwellers and befriends several colourful characters, some of which are living under the subway to avoid police arrest like him. While the gangster's henchmen look for his trail, Fred develops a romance with the gangster's young trophy wife Héléna (Adjani),who had invited Fred to the spoiled party, and is bored with her gilded-caged life. Fred forms a pop band with some of his friends, like "The Drummer" (Reno) and Enrico The Bass Player (Serra), who compose the songs. While he is working on his project, Héléna's powerful husband pressures the police to find Fred. One of Fred's sidekicks, The Rollerskater, who had been targeted by the police from a long time, is captured by Commissioner Gesberg (Galabru). Another one, The Florist, robs a train carrying money alongside Fred, and then escapes. At a performance in the subway with the newly formed band -which was possible because Fred paid off the actual performers of an announced concert, with money from the train robbery, and put his band in their place- Fred is searched by the police and a henchman of Héléna's husband. The henchman shoots Fred just when Héléna was about to reach and warn him of the approaching danger. The film ends with Héléna kneeling beside Fred, who is...
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...Social status is the position a person holds in society (Linton, 1936). As a rich blonde stylish g irl living in Beverly Hills, Cher’s status is looked upon much more throughout the movie versus Tai. In the movie, their status is shown through behavior, clothing, and the way they are treated by others. Tai’s life is in no way similar to Cher’s when it comes to their social status. Tai is not rich by any means but, Cher is. Tai is treated differently by her peers. She is looked at as charity, wears dirty boy clothes, is clumsy, doesn't do her hair, and her vocabulary is far from perfection. In one scene from the movie, a girl named amber comments on her look for gym class by saying, “She could be a farmer in those clothes” (Rotten Tomatoes, 2016). Tai’s peers do not look to her for advice when it comes to academics, fashion, or even boys. As for Cher, she is treated well by her peers. She is always dressed in the best clothes, well kept, and she is far from being looked down on by her peers. She is treated in a more positive way compared to Tai due to her social...
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...was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of “hot or not” game for Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to compare two student pictures side-by-side and let them choose who was “hot” and who was “not”..... REVIEW SITE A review site is a website on which reviews can be posted about people, businesses, products, or services. Review sites are generally supported by advertising. Some business review sites may also allow businesses to pay for enhanced listings, which do not affect the reviews and ratings. Product review sites may be supported by providing affiliate links to the websites that sell the reviewed items. Rotten Tomatoes is a website launched in 1998 devoted to film reviews and news; it is widely known as a film review aggregator. Coverage now includes TV content as well. Rotten Tomatoes staff first collect online reviews from writers who are certified members of various writing guilds or film critic associations. To be accepted as a critic on the website, a critic's original reviews must garner a specific number of "likes" from users. SEARCH ENGINE SITE A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search...
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...resting spore, and produces the sporophytic phase an example is rhizopus. It’s a black mold and grows on old bread and fruits. C. Describe what type of growth you observed in each of your substrates (e.g., number of colonies, shape, color, and defining characteristics). I saw about three different types of fungi on the bread. There was a dark green and white while the cheese only had some green fungi and all the colonies were all attached to each other looking like a sponge. On the strawberry I noticed a whitish-greenish-grey growth also with the hyphae growing outwards. It was all around the strawberry and the colonies was about 3 growing towards each other. On the tomatoes I noticed very a lot of green-bluish and white colonies, I think there is grey also Its all over the tomatoes. The yogurt had a dark grey lump of growth on top of it. It looked like it was floating but it is not. The corn had a white and brown growth. It looked long and stretching down the corn (Gladwin, & Trattler, 2011). D....
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...Courtney Vargas C. Abbott English 102 May 2, 2013 The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Which is better, the movie or book? Being nominated for awards from groups such as Toronto International Film Festival, Writers Guild of America for Best Adapted Screen Play, and Detroit Film Critics Society for Breakthrough Artist, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor, and winning Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Film and Boston Society of Film Critics for Best Supporting Actor, it is no wonder that The Perks of Being a Wallflower is described as a “heartfelt and sincere adaptation that is bolstered by strong lead performances” (Rotten Tomatoes, 2012). Just as far as the movie goes, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a story to remember. Stephen Chbosky is not only the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower book, but is also the director of the movie. Taking place in the early 1990s, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a story of a teenager who is starting high school and his experiences through his freshman year. Charlie, the protagonist, is a loner entering high school and shortly after entering his school he essentially gets adopted into a group of smart, outcast seniors. His two best friends in the group Sam and Patrick, “seniors, stepsiblings, and self-defined misfit toys” (Chaney, 2012), give Charlie the time of his life his freshman year meeting new people through parties, football games, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and trying new things that most high school students...
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...This 2010 film involves an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry (IMDb, n.d.). Temple Grandin is a woman who refused to let her disorder limit her true potential (Rotten Tomatoes, 2018). Temple demonstrates the different components and adversity faced in individuals who are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In fact, Temple’s “going through doors” becomes a metaphor for overcoming the challenges she faces in her day-to-day life (Hogrefe, 2014). The film allows the audience to experience the world must like Temple does while recounting her colorful life and remarkable achievements from childhood to adulthood (Rotten Tomatoes, 2018). It is an eye-opening experience to see the impact...
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...The most renowned filmmaker of his era, Martin Scorsese virtually defined the state of modern American cinema during the nineteen seventies and eighties. A consummate storyteller and visual stylist who lived and breathed movies, he won fame translating his passion and energy into a brand of filmmaking that crackled with kinetic excitement. Working well outside of the mainstream, Scorsese nevertheless emerged in the seventies as a towering figure throughout the industry, achieving the kind of fame and universal recognition typically reserved for more commercially successful talents. A tireless supporter of film preservation, "Scorsese has worked to bridge the gap between cinema's history and future like no other director." (Rottentomatoes.com) Channeling the lessons of his inspirations primarily classic Hollywood, the French New Wave, and the New York underground movement of the early nineteen sixties into an extraordinarily personal and singular vision, he has remained perennially positioned at the vanguard of the medium, always pushing the envelope of the film experience with an intensity and courage unmatched by any of his contemporaries. The films of his I am most interested in are: Hugo, The Departed, Raging Bull and Goodfellas. Besides the charming tale of Hugo, all of these films have something in common, extreme violence. Scorsese seems to have worked largely in the medium of violence for most of his career. However, unlike a blockbuster director such as Michael Bay...
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...understand what the Nazis are doing to the Jewish people and then starts to help them save their lives. I would have to say I do not think there is nothing enjoyable about the movie but was a great movie. Even with the horrific and terror on the people it was meant to be done for the reason that to give it a documentary-style of cinematography and the timeless sense of the film (Wikipedia, 2012). It was the understanding of ones love of historical films which make it enjoyable to watch. This is one of the best films ever that conveyed the real horror of the Holocaust by the Nazis. “Schindler's List blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's signature tender humanism to create the director's dramatic masterpiece” (Rotten Tomatoes 2012). The violence in Schindler’s List is unenjoyably, which makes a lasting impression on you after watching the movie. The violence in the film is trying to divulge the awfulness during that time period. These horrible scenes do not want to be seen, but the truth must be shown. In the last scenes in Schindler’s List Steven Spielberg added the actual holocaust survivors from the movie and with their actors that portrayed them in the film. They all walked past Oscar Schindler’s real grave. (Schindler’s List). The scene is shocking and...
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...[pic] De La Salle University – Dasmariňas Communication Arts Department MOVIE REVIEW: WAG THE DOG Submitted by: CARLYN GAE ESTANISLAO COM32 Submitted to: Prof. ROEL S. RAMIREZ, APR mARCH 2011 1/11 I. Background Information / Additional Perspective "Why does a dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail was smarter, it would wag the dog." This film is an incredibly witty movie, with a rare blend of cynicism, humor, and intelligence by Barry Levinson, Wag the Dog thus begins with these opening credits, an early indication of a dark socio-political satire that would unfold to criticize mass media and indecisive public opinion, but most importantly, the abuse of power by political leaders. Wag the Dog also satirizes the immaturity of the society and how people's unquestioning absorption of propaganda only encourages the media to exploit them on a higher level. Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is a retired political consultant, a spin doctor who resurrects the support for the US President's after his disastrous scandal with a teenage girl just eleven days before the election. In order to smother the sparks of rumor ignited by the media, Brean invents an international crisis to sway the people's vote he fakes a war on Albania. The president heroically ends the war and his compassion and exceptional 2/11 leadership qualities are presented through the mass media to the people, winning back their faith. (Lu...
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