The end of an era (but not really)

The final blog post for the semester… What a journey! It feels like just 12 weeks ago we were all walking into media 1 for the first time. Which we were. It was only 12 weeks ago, and honestly it feels like so much more. I wasn’t 100% sure what would be appropriate to do for this final blog post, because my god am I sick of talking about myself and my own work. So that leaves me here… I’d review a movie I watched over the past couple weeks, but if I’m being 100% honest, i’ve hardly had the time to sit down and watch anything that wasn’t related to my university work/studies. For this exact reason, i’m going to do something a little different…

For this final post, I’m going to do something extremely professional and extremely thought through.

I got my friends to send me names of movies that I haven’t seen and don’t know a lot about. For each movie i’m going guess the basic plot based only on the cover, compare it to the actual plot outline given by wikipedia/imdb, and give myself a score out of 10! Enjoy.

Zootopia

Brooke’s Interpretation: A fox and a rabbit create an unlikely friendship when the fox is given a speeding ticket, by said rabbit. The pair become a power duo and the fox is recruited as an undercover cop.

IMDb: In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.

Score: 6/10

 

 

 

 

Arrival

Brooke’s Interpretation: Giant egg arrives down on earth. Aliens take over, nobody knows why they are here. The aliens take residence in the antarctic, they don’t really cause anybody any trouble.

IMDb: When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.

Score: 3/10

 

 

 

 

Ant-Man 

Brooke’s Interpretation: A spin off of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. A man drinks a weird potion, finds himself very small, fighting crime and terror within the bug world and becoming the leader and saviour of bugs everywhere.

IMDb: Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Score: 5/10

 

 

 

So this had absolutely nothing to do with the final class, however I would like to take a minute to talk about, as the famous quote, “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, implies, we must also not judge a film by it’s cover. I obviously wasn’t very good at predicting what each film was about just from the cover, and I must say, the IMDb plots sound much better than mine, so maybe I might have to go watch the films now that I have time! Happy end of semester, thank you for following my blogs (even though I know you’re being forced to read them, Hannah). I’m going to leave it here with the only appropriate song for this occasion. Take it away, Vitamin C.

p.s. I am aware we aren’t graduating and we have only been at uni since March, but i’ve been waiting 3 damn months to include this song somewhere.

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