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“The Day After Tomorrow”, a feature US movie of 2004 directed by Roland Emmerich, was undoubtedly a commercial success. There have been many disaster movies before, but quite a few of its predecessors might have been compared to it in terms of computer effects and quasi realism. The general public liked the effect of the new Judgement Day, and the box office of ‘The Day After Tomorrow” has exceeded 550 million dollars worldwide, while the original budget was around 125 million. The filming took place in the total of 17 locations, including New York City (with a hefty amount of special effects), Los ...

Introduction

Science fiction and disaster films often must take dramatic liberties with science and truth in order to serve a greater narrative purpose; events are compressed, effects are exaggerated, and realism and physics are thrown out the window in order to provide greater drama and spectacle (Revkin, 2004). In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich in 2004, the world is subjected to global disasters brought about by climate change. The effects are myriad; global cooling sets New York in a coating of ice and freezing temperatures, glaciers crack and separate, and a “superstorm” is said to cause rapid climate ...

Movie review of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”

American cinematography in the 50s operated on full power. Especially there were many films about aliens and terrifying nightmarish monsters. I expected something like before watching “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Fortunately, my expectations were not met.
This film is something special it's like a pearl, which emerged in the ocean of paranoia, of primitive fantasies and propaganda. All these characteristics, joined together, gave this film immense tenderness and care. Every decade has one or two iconic films that stand out from the crowd of movies released. “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is just one of them. ...

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN 50 FIRST DATES

Interpersonal Relationships in 50 First Dates
Interpersonal relationships basically refer to the connection and/or linkage between two or more people who interact in a given context (Dwyer, 2009). This may be the workplace, the school, the church, at home, etc. Sometimes these relationships exist between individuals that some people encounter in their daily lives either often or rarely. Notably, for a relationship to exist and hold, always, there must be effective communication taking place or going on between the parties. Communication is a tool that can be used to either built or destroy interpersonal relationships (Cushman, 2011). This brings in the ...

Even when times are dark, there can always be hope. This paper will reflect on the former television show on AMC called Intervention. It will reflect the learning experiences from the show. Last it will show why this is important throughout the paper.
Intervention has therapists that are all former addicts. They come to the home of a family of the addict to meet them and learn about the addict and their family. The therapist then plans an interview which will deal with confronting with the addict. The addict is not aware of this intervention. Because this show has ...

Synopsis

An army space capsule brought back something to earth, a virus, a toxin, which is a live micro organism that killed many people in a town in New Mexico, the organism also killed the soldiers who were in the crash site. They all died in very unusual reason or have killed themselves because of the pain, but that did not affect an old man and a baby. Scientists are eager to find out the reasons behind this unusual event and how to stop this micro organism from spreading a worldwide catastrophe.

Microbes in the movie

Microbes were used in the movie as the main reason of potential global catastrophe, ...

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of psychological catastrophes that change the course of human lives, which are on the brink of extinction. Carefully selected music, camera shots and more than believable acting performance are attributes making it one of the best movies in 2011.
The catastrophes that befall the young and unfortunate heroine Justine, played wonderfully by Kirsten Dunst, have little to do with the apocalypse, which she welcomes as release from a world wrought with evil. The first part of the movie, entitled “Justine,” signals events that mar her seeming happiness, such as her ...

Inside Job is an excellent documentary which deals with the banking crisis and all that went along with it. It is an indictment of those CEO’s and financial traders who risked the market without any sort of scruples and who also demonstrated a tactical acumen to destroy others without any qualms or compunction.
Principally the documentary focuses on the disaster which occurred when sub prime loans began invading the market. This undoubtedly led to huge problems when those who began buying houses which they couldn’t afford and started losing their jobs ended up defaulting on their loans ...

The movie that is going to be discussed for the purposes of current critique paper is a documentary “Chernobyl uncensored”. Another name for the film is “The Battle of Chernobyl”. Using the testimonies of Chernobyl disaster’s witnesses, materials from video archives and the photographs of a famous Chernobyl photographer Igor Kostin, the creators of the film revisited the large-scale nuclear incident at Chernobyl power plant that took place in 1986.
I chose the film for review due to two reasons. First of all, it is necessary to remember that the Chernobyl disaster was the most significant nuclear power ...

In the early 1960s, a lot of people had no doubt that soon a third world war would start. It was supposed to be a nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, which would lead to the destruction of humanity, or at least to the collapse of modern civilization. Regularly occurring conflicts like the Korean War of 1950-1953 and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 intensified the tensions and cultivated the fear in society. Sooner or later, with malicious intent or by mistake, the Cold War could turn into a "Hot War". Everyone understood it, and there ...

Following the devastation which was brought about by the Hurricane Katrina and the consequent unsteady response that it was accorded by different agencies, the roles of the federal government come up as extremely pivotal in averting national crises such as the latter and even the September 11th attacks. It is in this light that the following article will present a discussion on the benefits of federalism and how it might constrain federal outreach, as well as, too much power. This also comes up in light of the public’s dissatisfaction with the manner in which the government responded to ...

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San Andreas: A Movie Q & A

Q1: Dr. Lawrence Hayes replied to his student that California supposed to get an earthquake every 150 years (San Andreas 00:11:07).

Q2: The Caltech seismologists are measuring the magnetic pulse rate at the Hoover Dam in Nevada, which may predict earthquakes (00:12:28).

Q3: The first measured magnitude of the earthquake at Hoover Dam was 2.2, which quickly developed into a major earthquake measuring 7.1 (00:16:10).
Q4: The geographic feature that Dr. Hayes of Caltech used to connect Nevada to California, and which he called “natural deformation” was the leading edge of the marked “plate boundary fault” (of the Garlock Fault) (00:27:30).
Q5: Seismologist Dr. Hayes of Caltech instructed the female reporter to hide under ...

The earth as we see it is composed of different components that make up the earth we know day. These components vary from the physical elements that are seen by the human eye to strange and unexplained forces that are in the visible elements of the earth. This has triggered the scientists to devise ways in which they will understand fully what happens on earth and why it is in the shape it is today. The scientists through governments have sent into space different space satellites that are able to help them get the desired knowledge of the different ...

Introduction

On the wake of 20th April 2010, the deepwater oil rig of the coasts of the Venice exploded and caused a huge fire. In what could later be termed as the BP Crisis of 2010, about eleven of the workers who were at the plant at were burnt to death. In addition to the death cases, the explosion led to flow over 4.9 million barrels into the sea for three months. Upon expansion, the spill expanded to cover an area of over 70,000 square miles of the sea surface. The BP crisis has been considered as one of ...

I liked Dante’s peak because it starred two of my favorite movie personalities, and there was enough action to keep my interest. As far as the geology as portrayed in the movie, the movie makes does a very good job of ensuring that the physical geology is represented very close to the real appearance. The many, though not all respects, the depiction of the eruptive dangers of volcanoes come very close to the mark. This is especially so with regards to the massive eruptive power released during a volcanic eruption. The Cascade Range stratovolcanoes of Alaska erupt explosively and release ...

The main theme of the video is the loss of lives of more than 7000 people who died in the earthquake in Nepal. The members of their families were left devastated and the whole country was suffering for over a year. The other major points are related to grief and survival. The earthquake caused devastation and all of this had a negative and lasting impact on the lives of many people.
The buildings collapsed and even if the did not, they were left unsafe for living. The danger came unexpectedly because it was from below the ground. Apart from ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Movie Review of Erin Brockovich

Introduction
“It only takes a single act of kindness to turn the world around and put yourself at the center of it.” If there is one statement that could describe the plot of the film Erin Brockovich, the beginning statement captures everything. Erin Crockovich is a true story of a woman who fought the ill practice of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Released in 2000, the film that stars Julia Robert was a biographical sketch of how a single mother has been able to overcome the challenges presented her coming from an accident and an unsuccessful lawsuit. While the film was a success, ...

A thought-provoking and original film, “The Fog of War” is highly controversial. The critical reception of the film reflected both some historical disagreements over the Vietnam and Cold Wars and appraisal of its ability to speak to universal and contemporary questions. The director, Errol Morris, was accused of presenting a historically inaccurate and self-serving narrative and being too lenient on the major figure of his film. On the other hand, “The Fog of War” won an Academy Award for being the best documentary. In general, the film tells the audience about grueling problems in ethics, politics, and contemporary history. ...

The movie I have selected to analyze is The China Syndrome. This movie highlights how journalism and media play a huge role in checking how large and potentially dangerous corporations work. At the beginning of the movie, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) is seen putting the Ventana nuclear reactor into an emergency shutdown because of the coolant going to dangerously low temperatures. The whole idea was that if the core had melted and drained into the earth (which is called ‘China Syndrome) it would have contaminated all the groundwater in the area and made the whole place radioactive. This means that ...

Inconvenient Truth Emotional Impacts and Personal commitment

The film, Inconvenient Truth, shows a documentary of Al Gore, the global campaigner against global warming. In documentary, the director covered the global travels by Al Gore in his struggle to create awareness on the need for fast action on climate change and the imminent dangers. The great efforts and global journeys made by Al Gore and the facts about the severity of the global warming triggered strong reactions from me. The reaction evoked a shocking feeling. Based on the appalling scientific evidences, the negative impacts of climate change are severe and can wipe human population in the region. The drought that ...

A sensitive, yet realistic movie about the life and work of a popular Mexican artist, “Frida” tells the story of Frida Kahlo, a young woman who begins to paint after a trolley accident in which she was badly injured, bringing her close to her death. Although she felt the consequences of that accident throughout her life through insupportable pain, she managed to fight death with creativity, internal emotion, passion, inner feelings and talent, becoming a painter. The movie presents some of her works, which indicate a strong style, vivid passion and intense emotions, marked through the use of strong, dark colors. Likewise, Kahlo’s paintings also ...

Movie Review: Bhopal Express

The film Bhopal Express is an account of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984. The tragedy which led to the death of more than 8,000 people and systemic injuries to more than 500,000 others was caused by leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal, India (Hazarika, 1987). The film Bhopal Express tells of that sad event through the story of a newlywed couple that is threatened with the genetic aftermaths of the gas tragedy (Nayar, 2004). Against this background, corporations have a duty to protect the communities in which they operate and at all times ...

What is the title of the film? What is it about?

The title of the film is Food, Inc. The film features agricultural content in the United States. If highlights the agribusiness across the United States. The paper relates corporate affairs and agriculture. It also provides an insight on the negativity of production on the society. The film comes with a conclusion that production of food via the agribusiness leads to the production of unhealthy foods. Additionally, the food is environmental friendly to both humans and animals. The film uses interviews from people to justify its objectives and claims.

Why did you choose this documentary to view? What did you expect to learn or experience from this film?

The reason for choosing this documentary is the fact that it addresses ...

The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer is considered as a romantic drama movie that mainly focuses on family stability as well as a western love affair. The author of the film creates the characters and setting to convey the message of family science effectively. The characters, Grace, her horse Pilgrim, Annie her mother and the horse whisperer, Tom Booker, have traits that objectify the message.
Grace and her horse, Pilgrim, experience a traumatizing accident that leaves them critically injured. Annie decides to seek help from Tom, the horse whisperer who lives on a ranch in Montana. In the process of helping heal ...

John Grisham, the writer of the novel Rainmaker, together with Bob Yeoman and Francis Ford Coppola that is produced as a movie Starred by Matt Damon and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It outlines the corrupt, selfish, and greedy American society (Movie Reviews for Christians, 2012) legally, the word “rainmaker” in law means someone who brings in big clients to a law firm. Rudy, who is the star of the film, is a humble broke lawyer whose ambition is to make things right in the society where the poor are powerless. When he exposes the Great Benefits Insurance Company, ...

Introduction

Much of the human suffering and economic disadvantages that occurred during the Great Depression (1929-1933) were a result of the boom mentality and unregulated business practices of the 1920s. People with a corrupt kind of business acumen exploited the weakest segments of society in the poorest regions. Praying on a naïve boom psychology, businessmen led a devastating attack on the Midwest that ultimately was not curbed by politicians or financial institutions until the middle 1930s. New businesses exploited weak government controls and took on many of the same exploitative practices as the Robber Baron businessmen of the 19th ...

Whose Life is it anyway?

Summary of Plot
The film, ‘whose life is it anyway’ is a clear demonstration of the types of medical dilemmas which face healthcare practitioners on a day-to-day basis. It is starred by Ken Harrison who was involved in an accident and had to be admitted to hospital. Owing to his deteriorated quadriplegic condition, he sued to be allowed to end his life. The premise for this position was the fact that he could no longer pursue his passion of creating art and he could not make love. His normal existence and style of life had been tampered with and ...

SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE

In the late 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, Steve Prefontaine was a distinctive and unique personality. He was an athlete who revolutionized his running career and managed to bring his sport in the headlines. The movie majorly focuses on Prefontaine aggressive personality and his constant refusal to pace himself. The only way Prefontaine was interested in winning was by “flat-out leading” in the whole race. He was undefeated in the US and acquired all of the American records between 2000-10000 meters. At the Munich Olympics, he ran one of the most memorable races. Prefontaine was greatly favoured to attain ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

The movie “A Beautiful Mind”, directed by Ron Howard, and released in 2001 is the true story of John Forbes Nash Jr. A leading mathematician, he is as arrogant as he is brilliant. He marries a student, Alicia, and sets himself up on the fast track in mathematics, making advancements in “game theory” which earns him accolades from his peers. Eventually, Nash is visited by CIA Agent William Parcher, who attempts to recruit him work with for code-breaking activities for the U.S. government. However, evidence begins to suggest that Nash may not perceive reality as it really is. His sanity ...

Hard Decisions in the Movie Crash

Introduction
Crash is a crime drama film that was produced in 2004. It is directed by Paul Haggis who is also the producer and its co-writer. Paul Haggis was inspired by a real life carjacking incident that took place in Wilshire Boulevard outside a video store in 1991. It focuses on racism and as well as social tension present in California. Starring is Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Episto, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillipe and Larenz Tate .

Dilemmas Facing the Characters

The aspect of racism present in Los Angeles as portrayed in the movie is obvious. ...

Introduction

Careful examination of a person’s behavior can sometimes be the most challenging part. People may not open up about what they are going through or what they are experiencing. It is upon an individual who has proper counseling skills to look at a person and come up with the correct diagnosis of the problem in question. Not all the time would one come up with the correct diagnosis, but the essence is to develop a plan of action with respect to the disability of the individual. The movie ‘Towelhead’ provides a challenge of conceptualization (Ball, 2008). The movie provides a broad converse over ...

Question 1) The ethical issues observed in the video

There are multiple ethical issues observed in the video. They include:
Chuck, who is VP of Engineering at Phaust, has a brother-in-law who is the sales representative for Lutz and Lutz (L&L), a company that sells controls. Fred is initially instructed to purchase controls from L&L, though Wally informs him that the existing relationship has no bearing.
Fred is faced with having to determine whether to line the ponds – a practice legally required in the US – to reduce or avoid toxic/dangerous waste from entering the soil in the area. Even though local laws/regulations are “clearly inadequate,” this is an issue, ...

Movie Review “I'm in love with a church girl”

Biographical and a Cultural Criticism
The movie shows Miles Montego trying too hard to change his lifestyle within a short period. Having been a major drug dealer for a while, and while still maintaining strong contacts with his former colleagues the conversion to Christianity is a tall order for Miles. He is in love with a strict church girl, has just gone through a traumatic loss of mother, faces criminal challenges from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and has to handle the accident of his girlfriend Vanessa. Miles’s conversion to Christianity ends up not being a climax or a wholly convincing biography.
The film features interracial ...

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Introduction
The following paper is a movie review for the movie “Inside Job” used as an example to discuss various aspects of business ethics. The paper will discuss what ethical or unethical business decisions were taken into account in the movie along with the stance of the movie maker or characters about those ethical or unethical practices. The paper will also analyze the rationales behind those decisions and what lessons can be learned and what steps can be taken to ensure more ethical business decisions by an organization.
The movie “ ...

Ireneo Funes develops skills that should be beneficial for the entire human race. He is a savant. However, his skills turn out to be a disaster to him. He is a miracle wasted. Funes demonstrates that the ability of the brain is yet to be understood. He has a memory that even the experts of the time such as Borges cannot comprehend. Had there been an appreciation of his skills, Funes should have been recognized globally and may be used as the best global diary or world clock thus giving him proper care and utilizing his capabilities.
Funes fell off his horse, ...

COMPARE AND CONTRAST TWO FILMS

Both the films what time it is there and pushing hands are very similar in terms of the message they carry across and how they do it. Both films involve people trying to recover from major setbacks in their lives and adapt to a new environment in the process. Both films also provide an inside analysis of just how challenging it can be to fuse one’s cultural beliefs with the cultural beliefs of others in an attempt to coalesce one’s life with that of others in a foreign land. Both films portray strong emotional attachments and a difficulty by the characters ...

Omar Amirallay’s 2003 film, Flood in Baath Land, takes a look at how the damming of the Euphrates river reflects the changes in Syria since the rule of Al Assad. The film opens with the scene of a boat on Lake Assad, and a man speaks about how the houses of the people he knew since childhood are now drowned under the water, but that they still recall where their old homes are located.
In contrast to this man’s reflections, much of the film focuses on the filmmaker’s visit to the areas affected by the Tabqa dam. There ...

The Documentary movie “Hiroshima”by BBC reflects one of the most tragic event that has ever occurred during World War II, when atomic bomb was dropped on the civil town Hiroshima.By July 1945 the war in Europehas almost came to the end because Nazis were defeated by the Soviets with the allied forces, the last step to the total victory was to destroy German ally Japanese armed forces.
The movie starts from the test of the secret weapon in New Mexico, created by American scientists. It was completely new, unknown, ultimate weapon that could destroy completely everything by ...

- What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?
The film is entitled Inside Job. A documentary film made in 2010, Inside Job garnered praise and recognition for its creative, accurate, and enlightening narrative of the 2008 economic crisis. The film traces the roots of the problem through an introductory example of Iceland, whose attempts to expand the economy through deregulation policies backfired – particularly on the financial sector. It is later explained that Iceland was not the only country who tried to use deregulation as a tactic and failed. The story ...

The financial crisis in Iceland was mainly because in 2001 the government deregulated the banks in the country. This led to rapid expansion in the banking industry. This in turn led to a large number of banks accumulating foreign debt in order to finance rapid expansion. The crisis mainly started when the banks were unable to refinance the short-term foreign debts that they had accumulated in countries such as the United Kingdom. At the onset of the crisis, the three largest banks in Iceland had foreign debt that was almost €50 billion. This led to the banks collapsing leading to a ...

Engineering

Boston, Massachusetts one of the oldest cities, is a busy community with high percentage of roads chocked with traffic. In order to relieve the traffic issues and to provide the residents with more parks and recreational facilities instead of roads, an ambitious project was undertaken known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T). The project basically encompassed on the vision of building an underground tunnel, miles below the surface, without disturbing the daily routine and holding up traffic for construction. In order to achieve this daunting task many changes had to be undertaken, which could ire the everyday commuter. The following ...

“Murderball” Review: Masculinity in Men with Disabilities

In the movie “Murderball,” directed by Rubin and Shapiro, the paraplegics who play for the USA rugby team are practicing to compete in the Athens 2004 Paralympics. However, the most interesting part of the movie is the individual story of each character that is not always directly connected to rugby or their daily activities. Rather than focusing on their sport and the violence required to excel at it, it is more interesting to listen to their accidents, choices in life, and their paths to rehabilitation and leading a normal life. The behavioral aspect of the movie “Murderball” is the most ...

Introduction:

The Restaveks are what can be termed as child slaves in Haiti where child abuse is rampant and terrible. According to the latest United Nations estimates there are over 300,000 child slaves in Haiti who toil about in horrific conditions without any sort of hope for their future. These child slaves are part and parcel of Haitian culture and they are accepted in the whole scheme of things.
The recent earthquake also created a situation where the poor turned desperately poor and child slavery has increased substantially in a situation such as this. Impoverished families really have no choice ...

INTRODUCTION

In the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott takes great care to fashion a detailed, unique dystopian world for the characters to inhabit. The setting is Los Angeles in the (at the time of production) dystopian future of 2019, where corporations rule the world and synthetic humans called replicants have been outlawed. The film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is tasked to hunt down several replicants who have escaped to Earth. The care taken in the creation of the world of Blade Runner, in combination with the dreamlike, meandering story, creates a visual and cultural ...