Super 8 movie review (less than I thought it would be)

I had actually brought this up with Perry at some point in class when we were talking about documentaries to watch for the sake of reviewing and I remembered how I had heard great things about it a few years ago but never got around to watching it. After doing some searching online I found the full movie to watch. Let's just say that if I hadn't known it was produced by Steven Spielberg, I would have immediately guessed he was involved somehow. I liked the choices made by the team of Speilberg and Abrams. A LOT of the shots reminded me of his early films. The truck scene on the train tracks seemed like a modernized version of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind where Richard Dreyfuss sits in a very similar looking truck. A lot of the rest of the film seemed to be.... Like rehashed footage from E.T. But don't get me wrong, I LOVED the movie. Michael Bay did some nice explosions in there, although computers will never beat the old fashioned way, but I loved the kind of.... References and Easter eggs Speilberg put in the film to shout out his earlier work which I came to love in elementary school. It shows that he is still capable of doing some amazing movies. Highly reccomend Super 8. 

American Promise movie review

I had not seen this documentary before but I had heard... Just marvelous things about it. American Promise. The story of two African-Amercian boys within the top academic percentile of elementary level boys in the nation. This documentary is the story of Seun and Idris. The documentary focuses on how two boys adjust to life around a mainly... Caucasian population at The Dalton School. The Dalton School is the top elementary school in the nation and also functions as a high school. The students transfer from elementary school to high school, if their grades permit, and after they graduate they almost always feed into Ivy League colleges across the nation. The story was very clear and I really liked how much planing the docs took. The two boys started being filmed when they were both three and the film depicts their journey until their senior year of high school. I absolutely loved the ending, BUT I don't want to spoil it for anyone who happens across this blog. One of my favorite factors about this film is that it really had a great color pallet. Since we started learning about that in class, I wanted to pay attention to that factor while I was watching this. While part of me loved this documentary so much, another part of me didn't like it because I saw so much of myself in the little boy Idris. Stressing out about work and forgetting to do work and have materials. He was so scatterbrained and I loved it so much because it was relatable to me. I was lucky enough to DVR the first airing of it on KERA and hopefully it will be on netflix soon. I HIGHLY recommend this documentary to anyone interested in seeing it. It had a fascinating subject and shows that today there is still discrimination to some extent. The American Promise is an eye widening documentary and, like I said, is simply spectacular.