CritiqueCritique
I chose the movie Deadpool because it is one of my favorite movies. I really enjoy action comedies so Deadpool was the perfect film. The scene I picked is one of the first scenes in the movie. It sets up the main plot of the movie in which our comical hero chases after the villain Francis. It’s also sets up the action aspect of the film so the viewer know to expect a lot of violence and bloodshed.
Starting with sound, there were a ton of sound effects. I mean a lot. As soon as the scene begins, there are gunshots, they sound really realistic like automatic army weapons. The bullets bouncing off of cars and stuff also sounds exactly like you’d imagine it too. The motorcycle, wheels screeching, and glass breaking sound perfect. It’s like it’s actually happening. The bullets going through people and the brains splashing on the ground obviously aren’t very realistic but they add to the scene a lot and can gross people out. There’s also most likely separate sound when Deadpool is talking because the mask covers his mouth and the words aren’t muffled at all.
The fake brains look really good. The slow motion happens a lot in the scene and it makes it work really well. When he jumps in the air and spins to shoot the camera slows down like it does when the bullets fly out of the gun. The zoom and panning with the buckets when they fly out of the gun looks perfect so you can see the number on the bullets so the viewer can count them down. The camera angle changes around Deadpool usually following where his gun is pointed. The viewer never gets bored during the scene while action is always happening. The whole scene is comical which really plays to the movie as a whole.
Documentary Review
For my documentary review, I chose Ice Guardians. Its a documentary about the highly controversial role of "the enforcer" in modern day ice hockey. The documentary is a long series of interviews of fans, players, psychologists, and doctors all presenting their viewpoints on fighting in hockey. The interviews are masked by mostly game footage. All the players talk about how fighting is a good thing and its part of the game. There are intervenes with famous past and present
players such as Brett and Bobby Hull. They all talk about what
fighting was like when they played. The general idea among the
players was that fighting was a nessecary and good part off the
game. This idea came from people who got injured being
enforcers and from the stars they were supposed to protect. The
fan's interviews are showed back to back and usually disagree
with each other.
I paid attention to all the film making details that went into
making the documentary. To start off with all the interviews, the
people were facing different directions in all of them. Some were just basic left or right but some were camera angles close up at a perpendicular angle with the face so u could see the sides of the eyes, but not the eyeballs. The different angles were interesting to see. The start of the documentary was news feed for the first couple minutes. I think it set a serious tone for the documentary and it wasn't what I would've expected to see. The way the documentary is structured is also interesting. There are gray slides that cover he whole screen with a couple words on them like "Why Hockey?' that set up what the next 15 minutes or so is gonna be about. Some of the b roll the documentary uses is really old school back from when the players didn't wear helmets. I thought it was very interesting seeing the older film and watching all the different game scenarios while people were talking. Of course you see the Ken Burns effect in the interviews because what kind of documentary would it be if you didn't. There was a really interesting shot around ten minutes and twenty seven seconds in to the documentary.The shot is a full screen shot that blurs the outside and pulls a box out in the center of the
screen while everything around it is still playing. So essentially, two things are
playing but your focus is on the small box.
I would recommend this documentary to anyone who enjoys hockey. If you
don't enjoy hockey then you probably won't like the documentary. You don't
even have to care about the fighting to enjoy the documentary, theres so much
footage from old games that its enjoyable to anyone who likes hockey. The
perspective from the stars about how they need the enforcers would really hit
home with the other viewers. I recommend watching the documentary solely to
see that fighting isn't brutish, but that it's a part of the game and it's actually got
some class to it.
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