Wreck-It Ralph

INTRODUCE
Looking at first glance at the cover of Wreck-It Ralph, you see a bulky man in overalls with many other villains from video games behind him. This is the first thing that made me want to watch this movie. You can't make me go out and watch just any movie, the movies I watch are childish and have to set a spark inside of my heart. Not everyday do you get to watch a movie about a video game villain who wants to fulfill his dream of becoming a hero.





DESCRIBE
Ralph longs to be loved just like his games perfect good guy, Fix-It Felix; problem is, nobody loves a bad guy. But everyone loves heroes so when Ralph visits Hero's Duty, he sees his ticket to happiness and heroism. His main goal in this game is to win a medal but he soon wrecks everything and lets out a deadly enemy that threatens everyone. What is Ralph's only hope? Vanellope Von Schweetz, a young trouble making "glitch" from a candy coated cart racing game. She just might be the one to teach Ralph what it means to be a good guy. The lead actor and voice of Ralph is John C. Reilly. He is better known from movies such as Talladega Nights and Step Brothers. His film break was a small role in a Vietnam war drama, Casualties of War. In the 90's he starred in Days of Thunder, Shadows and Fog, and What's Eating Gilbert. Reilly has been in plenty of dramatic and comedy related roles.

ANALYZE
Wreck-It Ralph is similar to many of John C. Reilly's previous movies. Reilly has been in comedy, family, and a couple of animated films. The only thing a little different about this movie was that this one was family friendly. He wasn't using foul language and telling disgusting jokes like in some of his other films such as Step Brothers. Wreck-It Ralph was important to many different audiences because of the video game Fix-It Felix. Fix-It Felix is an 80's arcade game so many adults were drawn into the movie theater, as well as children because it was animated and about video games. Here is a link to Fix-It Felix's Wikipedia page. http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Fix-It_Felix,_Jr.


INTERPRETATION
It is a great movie for showing the art in video games. Wreck-It Ralph is a great at explaining how large video games have become in today's society. Their target audience ranges from small children to adults who remember going to the arcade or playing Fix-It Felix. I wouldn't say Wreck-It Ralph has too many stereotypes. The only one that comes to mind is how the people in the arcade playing the games are portrayed. The girl is shown as nerdy with glasses.

EVALUATION
When deciding how I could evaluate this movie, I had trouble deciding what were obvious strengths and weaknesses. Although looking online at some critics and reviews, most would agree with me that it was a great movie all around. I can say Wreck-It Ralph was above Reilly's usual standards, even with him being a great actor, it is up there with one of his best movies, Step-Brothers. Some critics said "Wreck-It Ralph is a serious contender for the title of best animation of the year." I wasn't too found of a critic which said, "It's a cool game to be sure, but watching someone else play gets old after awhile." The critic obviously doesn't know what having an imagination is like. Let alone, it is a movie, not a video game. We watch movies, we play video games. Just because it is a movie about video games, it seemed as though this person was expecting to play a video game in the theater. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wreck_it_ralph/

ENGAGE
Wreck-It Ralph will be out on DVD March 5th, 2013 and of course I hope this move will be my next present I receive. I saw this movie in the previews before another movie in the theater, and was instantly excited. I then heard, from my friends, that it was very good, so I had to go see it.

 SUMMARY
"When the game is over a new world comes to life." That's exactly what the movie is about! The arcade lights go out, the open sign turns closed, and Ralph goes to his pile of bricks and wonders what it would be like to be a hero. I think everyone wonders what it would be like to be a hero, that's why the movie is so touching. Ralph just wants to be loved how Felix is loved by everyone. I learned a lot more about the film from this critique such as who the voices of the characters were and what other films they have starred in. I also learned that some people do not get the main idea of the movie, and think it is a bad film just because it wasn't what they expected. John C. Reilly is a great actor and this is another great piece of work. I recommend to anyone who hasn't seen this movie to go see it, it will not disappoint. If you would like more information just follow this link! http://disney.go.com/wreck-it-ralph/

The Bachelor

What kind of culture is television reflect back at us today?

DESCRIBE:

I have been watching “The Bachelor” all season so far. This is actually my first season watching and as I have been told it is very addicting. A brand new episode comes out on Mondays. The episode I will be explain on my blog is from Monday, the 28^th 2013 on the ABC network.  This is a reality TV show that features; drama, romance and it’s the perfect show for me. It steals women’s hearts by having this very attractive man looking for the girl he wants to spend the rest of his life with. It starts out with at the most 26 women and he chooses who leaves and stays with just a rose.

  In this particular episode “The Bachelor” Sean Lowe sends the date card in the house, it has all the names of the ladies that get one on one dates during the week. This week he also sent diamond earrings to one of the ladies; Leslie Hughes, asking if it will be forever? Although the date was lovely Sean didn’t feel the spark. If you have seen the episode you would know that it was not forever, Sean decided to let her go. Like in every episode ‘Tierra LiCausi’ stirs up dram and gets Sean’s full attention by saying that she “didn’t like all the drama and mean girls in the house” when really she is the one that is the drama started. The poor handsome Sean is stuck in her trap of lies.

 The Director of the show is Mike Fleiss and the host of The Bachelor is Chris Harrison. He has been the host since 2002, along with the director. Chris was a sports reporter for CBS in Oklahoma before being a host for ABC.

 Most of the brands and products during the commercial were online dating sites and women’s products, such as E Harmony and Covergirl. While I was watching it, the commercials were the upcoming shows that were going to be on. 

Chris Harrison-The Host

ANALYZE:

The girls that are chosen to be in the house tend to be one or the other. You are either a sweet heart or a snob that gets everything they want. They talk like they are from the city and they think that they know it all. Then you have the country girls that grew up close to their families. Those girls are the ones that Sean seems to like more because he cares a lot about his own family. The ladies in the house dress nice and they mostly try to keep it classy. I notice that some of them only where towels.

 Most of the shows on TV these days are aimed to a certain audience. The Bachelor particularly is aimed towards single women. When anyone watches TV it has to be able to get their attention, it has to make them watch more and more of it. Such as “Jersey Shore”, I have seen every episode; I am not even your typical partying girl either. I just got so attached to it. What makes it unique and different? Well there are 26 girls fighting over one man. I’m pretty sure that’s a very different show compared to others, I don’t think it would pass “Honey Boo Boo” though.  I don’t actually believe you can “fall in love” with someone you just met, especially when you only get a little bit of time to get to know them. Although it isn’t love, it is interesting to watch them try to fall in love.

INTERPRET:

Plenty of people have stereotyped this show. I can personally say that I have stereotyped it. I was not a fan before this season, but now that I know what it’s really about, I actually enjoy watching what goes on.

The target audience as was said is single women or any women. The commercials show make up and dating websites. It totally makes sense, the more women that watch the more that buy the make-up on the commercial.

If I were a visitor to the United States I would probably think this show is disrespectful. I am not sure people from other countries would like that girls throw themselves out there on TV.

Evaluate:

This show has some strengths and weaknesses. The strengths would be the way they promote Sean to be such a gentleman. It’s hard to find men like that now a days and it gives people hope. There are probably many weaknesses from other people’s opinions, although I haven’t got to watch all 17 seasons I think that I would need to watch more seasons to find weaknesses before completing shutting the show out. This show is a mix of “real life” and a parody. It definitely shows how hard it can be to trust people. Those people that want to find love but can’t find it, can watch the show and get that feeling of hope. If they use the tricks that Sean has up his sleeve, I believe that any man could find someone to love them. Sean can teach men about being genuine and how the love for his family really makes women love him more. Here is a link of Tierra, and how some of the drama is starting to stir up with her.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/the-bachelor-the-trouble-with-tierra-exclusive-sneak-peek_article_75915

ENGAGE:

I watch this show at work every Monday; it truthfully makes me happy that it is Monday. I have some friends on Facebook that watch it. Other than that my boyfriend thinks it’s a dumb show so I have no one at home to talk to about it.  I am a fan of the show on twitter, and I also follow @SeanLowe on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/SeanLowe09

I couldn't find to much on the producers of The Bachelor but i did find an interesting link on what is going on with them right now.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/bachelor-producers-sue-reality-steve-407801

CONCLUSIONS:

I have learned some new things about the producers and I also looked up some reviews about the earlier seasons. They have made other shows from The Bachelor, such as The Bachelor Pad and the Bachelorette. I was very surprised that there has been 17 seasons all together.

 This is a video of Sean Lowe being interviewed by Ryan Seacrest.