The Graduate (1968) & Rumor Has It (2005)

Room Clerk: "Are you here for an affair, sir?"

The Graduate is a humor movie that was published in 1968. It was directed by Mike Nichols. In 2005, Rob Reiner produced Rumor Has It, that is like the continuation of The Graduate.

In the Graduate, Ben Braddock who just graduate from college, has an affair with Mrs. Robinson who is his parents friend. Then he fell in love with his lover's daughter and wants to marry her.

Rumor has it, is about a woman who finds out that her family inspired the movie the Graduate. She cheats on her husband to find out the truth about her mother and grand-mother.

The Graduate main characters are:
Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson
Dustin Hoffman as Ben Braddock
Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson
William Daniels as Mr. Braddock

Rumor has it main characters are:
Jennifer Aniston as Sarah Huttinger
Kevin Costner as Beau Burroughs
Shirley MacLaine as Katharine Richelieu
Mark Ruffalo as Jeff Daly

My personal rating: I would give **** to the Graduate and *** to Rumor has it. I really liked the Graduate. Ben makes the movie, he is really awkard and it makes the movie funny. He also says a lot of funny quotes. I like Mrs. Robinson, she has a funny personality. The movie is not too long like the others we watched before and the story is more entraitaining. I like the Graduate better and I think it is because of Dustin Hoffman he is really funny. Rumor has it is more confusing, at the beginning it is hard to understand who is who and the link with the Graduate.

My rating scale:
*The movie was really bad
**The movie was bad
***The movie was ok
****The movie was good
*****The movie was really good

Sources: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398375/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/

Sarah: "I didn't come here to tell you that I can't live without you. I can live without you. I just don't want to. "

Psycho (1960)

Norman Bates: "Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!"

Psycho is a famous horor movie, directed by the famous, Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho is not as bloody as the horor movies that we have in the 21st century, but we can see that many of the movies have something in common, or from Psycho.

Psycho is about a woman who stole $40,000 from her employer's client. She ran away and end up in a small hotel. She met the owner, it seems like everything was fine until someone killed her in the shower. Her boyfriend and sister were looking for her, and made a scary discover.

The main actors are:
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
Vera Miles as Lila Crane
John Gavin as Sam Loomis
Martin Balsam as Milton Arbogast

My personnal rating: I would give ***. I do not really like psycho, first of all because it is in black and white. The music is really anoying and I don't think that it fits good with the movie. I also think that some of the scenes, like in gone with the wind like unreal. When The woman is stabbed in the shower, the murder stabbed her a lot of time, but there is no blood in the bath tube. But like Gone With The Wind, I we have to judge the movie from the time it has been published. I do think that for a almost 50 years ago movie, some of the scenes look good. Like I said before many "today's movies" have been inspired by Psycho. The movie was nominated for 4 Oscars obtained 5 wins and 3 nominations.

My rating scale:

*The movie was really bad **The movie was bad ***The movie was ok ****The movie was good *****The movie was really good

Sources: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/quotes

Norman Bates: "Hey'll come now, mother! He came after the girl, and now someone will come after him. Please mother, it's just for a few days, just for a few days so they won't find you! "

My Top 10

1) Never Back Down (2008)

2) Fast And Furious (2009)

3) The Notebook (2004)

4) Pearl Harbor (2001)

5) Road Trip (2000)

6) The Fast And The Furious (2001)

7) Borat (2006)

8) American History X (1998)

9) Bring it on: In It To Win It (2007)

10)XxX (2002)

Gone With The Wind

Rhett Butler: "Take a good look my dear. It's an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about - how you watched the Old South fall one night."

Gone With The Wind is consider as drama-romance .The movie was adapted from Margaret Mitchell's novel. The novel was published in 1936 and the movie came three years later, in 1939.Gone with the wind is also consider as an epic movie, set in the South of the United States, during the civil war. The story is mostly tell by a white southern point.



The main actors are: Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
Leslie Howard as Asheley Wilkes
Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton
Hattie Mcdaniel as Mammy



My personnal opinion: I would give **. I did not really like the movie. It is really long, 3 hours and 39 minutes, and there is not a lot of actions that is happening during the movie.
I also think that some scenes look unreal, like the horse back ridding accidents.
Gone With The Wind was produced in 1939, and I think that for a movie that was made seventy years ago, the actors are pretty amazing. There is no really extraordinary scenes. We also should remember that Gone With The Wind won ten Academy Awards (8 regular, 1 honorary, 1 technical)

My rating scale:
*The movie was really bad
**The movie was bad
***The movie was ok
****The movie was good
*****The movie was really good

sources: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/quotes
http://www.wikepedia.com/

Scarlett:"Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war. "