1) GOOD WILL HUNTING

Matt Damon stars in the thrilling show, Good Will Hunting about an orphan who, despite suffering abuse, goes on to become a highly intelligent student at MIT. In fact, he’s able to complete some equations that only a few geniuses in the world could finish.

Will’s life takes a turn after he gets arrested for an attack. However, this does lead to him finding a counselor that’s a perfect fit for him. It’s a movie that’s deeply interesting and would provide plenty of information that would make for a well-written essay.

2) CASPER

While it might be a children’s movie, Casper is nonetheless unique. This ghost plays a significant part in the life of kids, is friendly, and is not a ghost to be feared.

It could be seen as a show that provides inspiration about how to live your most fulfilling life. This could surely be developed into a great paper indeed.

3) SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

Love is a theme that runs through many essays. Plus, it’s a topic that is so applicable to us all.

Shakespeare himself had written many literary compositions, and the movie Shakespeare in Love combined creativity, inspiration, and imagination. Wouldn’t you consider a movie based on such amazingly produced writings to be the perfect idea for completing an assignment?

4) MULHOLLAND DRIVE

The psychological thriller, Mulholland Drive, features themes such as loneliness and isolation. While such topics might seem a bit gloomy to write about, plenty of content could be developed around their meanings, effects, and how to move beyond them.

5) INCEPTION

Inception is undoubtedly a movie that requires a lot of attention. It’s not quite easy to grasp at first, but it weaves in a complex set of events surrounding “dreams within dreams” and might leave you thinking: which scene is really reality?

Writing a paper on this one, you could take it in many ways and draw upon abstract principles that leave a sense of wonder at the end. However, based on the complexity of the idea of Inception, it could be an essay suited for the thinker.

6) THE PRESTIGE

Based on life in the 19th century, two magicians rise in competition against one another to become the best around. This leads to each attempting on multiple occasions to ruin each other’s shows, steal tricks, and even the other’s woman. It’s a great watch, directed by Christopher Nolan with a twist.

With so many events, changes, and a storyline to keep you engaged, there are many themes that can be drawn from it: love, loyalty, dishonor, and envy.

7) FRIDAY THE 13TH

This horror movie is based on the character of a serial killer, Jason Voorhies. It’s based in Crystal Lake where Jason himself drowned as a child.

It’s one of the most well-known horror movies and if you’re into a more thriller-type writing style, murder mysteries, or gory storylines, this could be one to base your essay writings around.

8) PLANET OF THE APES

In Planet of the Apes, a small group of astronauts lands on another world after traveling for more than 2000 years. In this new land, primates govern the humans who live there.

Talk about imagination, but this one could provide great inspiration for creating a paper surrounding life, the universe, and space. It could make for a great idea if you got creativity deep inside of you.

9) DEJA VU

A man joins the FBI to help a case surrounding an explosion on a boat. However, he has the ability to look into the past in order to help him. It takes him into a situation where he has to try and rescue a lady that he’s met before.

It’s a show with an exciting storyline that you could turn into a paper.

10) GARDEN STATE

A young fellow comes back from his mother’s funeral and finds it difficult to deal with reminders from the past.

It’s one that can speak to feelings of despair, love, and pain. Hard emotions to deal with, they are ones that everyone’s had to experience, so people can relate to the themes that can be drawn upon here for your essay.

FINAL WORDS

Here, we’ve shown you how to write an essay about a movie using the top 10 examples. So, what are you going to choose to write your essay on?

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The Good

The Adam Project is a movie that is full of light-hearted fun. Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobell make for an interesting duo. It’s clear to see how one can grow into the other. they talk a lot and Scobell does a good job of imitating Reynolds’s style of humor. I thought they were a cut duo and I enjoy the chemistry between the two of them.

The plot and premise of The Adam Project are really cool. I like time travel stories a lot and the movie is a good melting pot of Sci-Fi. The Adam Project draws inspiration from a ton of pop culture sources including Star Wars, Looper, Avengers Endgame, and more. If imitation was flattery then all of those film franchises are gleefully blushing at The Adam Project’s behavior. The plot is pretty predictable but the sheer charisma of the leads and the writing make everything forgivable.

The Bad

Ryan Reynold’s comedy is an acquired taste. If you don’t like Ryan Reynolds’ ad-libs and his particular style of observational humor then beware. The movie not only provides a healthy dose of this raunchy humor, it actually relies on it. This is not unheard of in a Deadpool movie where you can struggle to tell where the character ends and the person begins. The Adam Project gives in t Reynolds’ charm and just lays this crass on thick.

Walker Scobell doesn’t have much range yet. His inability to stretch his emotions leads to the writer’s over-compensating with dark humor. It’s especially detracting when coupled with Reynolds himself helping to compensate for Scobell’s inexperience by adding on to the dark humor. It’s noticeable.

Overall

The Adam Project is a fun movie that made me cry.  I could definitely recommend this movie and I will likely rewatch it at some point.  I thought this movie could have used more diversity. The movie seemed like diversity with the exception of the brief scenes with Zoe Saldana.

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THE GOOD

OMG Lightyear is a fantastic movie. Lightyear opens up by skipping over expectations. Whatever you think the plot or narrative might be about is teased but tossed out early in the movie. A lot of movies try this approach but few do as good a job at the execution as Lightyear. This movie is a film about the history of the famous space ranger toy Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a “real” person and he’s trying to save his crew after an accident leaves them stranded in space. Pixar movies seem like they follow a formula of introducing plot and character motivations before they even show the title. We learn a lot about Buzz in the opening moments of the film. We learn about his character, his friendships, his goals, and more. This opening shows us how Buzz feels guilty that his crew is stranded and his dedication to getting them home.

This movie has some incredibly funny writing. This is your only warning because some of the most hilarious moments are the spontaneous jokes the movie delivers. Lightyear will more than likely have you laughing out loud at the movies so this isn’t for the meek. Keep an eye out for SOX because things really pick up comedically after they introduce his character. I won’t judge if you laugh so hard that you cry real tears because I’m guilty of that too. Lightyear, and most Pixar movies, have a way of luring you into a false sense of comfort and then doing something really funny or will introduce a plot twist that completely changes your expectations for the movie. Lightyear is exciting because I have no idea what will happen next. There’s a point where I noticed myself fully immersed and just enjoying the whole experience.

As expected Lightyear also features some gorgeous animation. CGI has come a long way since the first Toy Story and Lightyear feels like a Pixar showcase. You’ll see incredible detail in the character models, the environments, and the lighting. There are a few moments in the movie where the visuals look like a high-end Xbox game. The dirt and grit of Gears of War seem to have inspired some moments in Lightyear and I love the results. Lightyear raises the bar for what I expect from my 3D animated films and I can’t go back.

Lightyear also has some beautifully written supporting characters. In addition to Chris Evan’s starring turn as Buzz Lightyear we have Izzy (Keke Palmer) and Alisha Hawthorne’s (Uza Aduba). I love that it feels like Pixar is on the front lines of representing diversity in their films. Both of these strong women receive some great screen time and emotional arcs that make them remarkable. I love that both of these characters are tightly written into the story.  Efren Ramirez as Diaz rounds out the group of Buzz’s crew but Buzz’s cat SOX is an absolute scene-stealer. There are a ton of great characters but Sox is one to keep an eye out for (Meow meow meow!!)

THE BAD

The Pixar formula is getting predictable. The first step in a Pixar movie is to introduce you to the characters. The next step is to sprinkle in some relatable situational comedy that makes you laugh to get your guard down. Finally, Pixar likes to make you cry. After you dry your tears they start playing the opening credits and the real movie begins. It’s a good formula but if you’ve been watching Pixar movies since Toy Story 1 this can be a little predictable.

Overall

Buzz Lightyear is still a fantastic character that is proving he can carry a film all on his own. Lightyear is a well-written, funny, and emotionally complex film that will leave you wanting more. Lightyear has a great and diverse cast and that is both lovable and memorable. I fully believe that Sox is an amazing character and deserves a spinoff cartoon or movie.

SYNOPSIS:
A sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, he’s joined by a group of ambitious recruits and his charming robot companion cat, Sox. Complicating matters and threatening the mission is the arrival of Zurg, an imposing presence with an army of ruthless robots and a mysterious agenda.

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It also openly courts upsetting old school Rescue Rangers fans (if there are any left at this point) by gleefully sending up the the show’s characters and stories. At a time when every update of a beloved old show or movie is expected to be slavishly faithful and respectful to its source material, Schaffer’s Rescue Rangers movie skewers the very idea of making a slavishly faithful and respectful version of this source material. The result is something that superficially looks like a kids movie, but will almost exclusively appeal to adults who recognize the film’s spoofs of an industry that is perpetually trying to cash in on their lingering love of stuff they grew up watching in the 1980s or ’90s.

The film’s meta conceit, which owes quite a bit of its construction to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is that it exists in a world where cartoon characters are real and live alongside ordinary humans. In this universe, Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers was a popular TV show decades earlier, but its stars — Chip (voiced by John Mulaney) and Dale (Andy Samberg) — were actors and sentient beings, not drawings created by animators, and they have thoughts and feelings like anyone else. And like a lot of people who grew up in the 1980s, Chip and Dale are now older, jaded, and mostly depressed about how their lives turned out. (Can you blame them?)

Near the end of Rescue Rangers’ run, Dale tried to strike out on his own as a solo TV star, which broke up the popular duo and sent both their careers spiraling down the tubes. In present day, Chip and Dale haven’t spoken in years. The former makes a living selling insurance to other toons, while the latter works the convention circuit, signing autographs for fans and fraternizing with some hilarious cameos from other cartoons I wouldn’t dare spoil except to say I’m even more impressed by Schaffer’s salesmanship in those sequences, because he not only convinced Disney to let him lampoon their characters, he was able to figure out a way to razz other companies’ creations as well.

Chip and Dale finally reunite when another old member of the Rescue Rangers cast, cheese-loving mouse Monterey Jack (Eric Bana), goes missing and the clues point to a secret criminal mastermind kidnapping and exploiting toons. While the detective assigned to the case (J.K. Simmons, who sounds like he’s having a blast playing a grouchy Gumby knockoff) drags his heels, Chip and Dale reluctantly agree to work together to find their friend and get to the bottom of the mystery.

This case — which eventually involves chases, fights, and machines that shoot deadly lasers — sometimes gets too close to embodying modern blockbuster cliches, rather than making fun of them. But all of the jokes at the margins of Rescue Rangers are hysterical. Chip and Dale’s Los Angeles is filled with billboards for made up movies and television shows, a couple of which deliver bigger laughs than any comedy since Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Even though this is a streaming movie that’s premiering exclusively on Disney+, it’s the kind of thing you’re going to want to put your phone down to watch. If you’re distracted and looking away from the screen, you’re going to miss a lot of the funniest gags.

While this kind of blend of live-action and animation was pioneered decades before, Rescue Rangers kicks the concept up a notch by throwing in so many different forms of animation. Chip still looks like his old cel-drawn self, while Dale got the equivalent of cartoon plastic surgery and upgraded his look to 3D. Other characters are in black and white, stop-motion, or reminiscent of the vaguely horrifying motion-captured look of The Polar Express. Cinematographer Larry Fong does such a remarkable job of seamlessly integrating the human and the cartoons that at a certain point you stop even thinking about the differences between them. They’re all just people that exist in this charmingly offbeat world.

I can’t say I ever particularly cared about Chip and Dale’s quest to save Monterey Jack, and Rescue Rangers’ third-act lapses into sentimentality feel like a slight betrayal of the rest of the movie’s savage ridicule of Hollywood’s content factory. Still, I laughed a lot at this movie, far more and far harder than I expected to. And a documentary on the making of this movie — and the process of negotiating the approvals for some of this movie’s targets — would be a fascinating watch as well.

RATING: 7/10

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After getting Robert Pattinson to headline The Batman, Matt Reeves and the rest of the team behind the film now had to round out the remaining main roles. Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro and Paul Dano were all cast as leads opposite Pattinson, with Dano playing Edward Nashton, a.k.a. The Riddler, the film’s main villain. The film’s plot was kept somewhere deep in the depths of the Lazarus Pit but the project was rumored to focus on Batman in his second year of being a vigilante while being heavily influenced by the classic Long Halloween story. The Batman would finally debut its first trailer during the first DC FanDome event in 2020, shocking fans with its gritty detective-driven plot and Pattinson’s brooding portrayal of Bruce Wayne, ultimately intensifying the hype behind the film. Fast forward two years and The Batman is officially set to be released in theaters this week. I can finally say that I’ve seen the film and I believe it rivals The Dark Knight.

Directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman is easily the must-see movie of 2022. Heavily inspired by classic noir-type films like Chinatown and The French Connection with a dash of David Fincher’s Seven sprinkled throughout, the DC Films production pulls off what previous Batman movies couldn’t by highlighting the titular vigilante’s detective skills. The film is very narrative-driven so if you’re expecting a big action spectacle with heavy CGI, that isn’t what you’re getting here. The Batman is a neo-noir work of art. Not only does the film live up to the hype, but it also far exceeds expectations. With a lengthy, near three-hour runtime, Reeves and Pattinson get to really strut their stuff. The world that Reeves builds sets up some pretty interesting stuff and will make you excited for the future of Batman.

Robert Pattinson’s The Batman starts off by introducing us to the latest incarnation of the Dark Knight and Gotham City. Batman narrates the film as he finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation which puts the vigilante in over his head. The case marks his first run in with The Riddler as he kills his first victim on Halloween night and it just so happens to be the Mayor of Gotham City, plunging Batman, Jim Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department into a really insane case that gives off Seven vibes. Along with a well-done murder mystery, The Batman also features everything you‘d want in a Batman film. A corrupt GCPD, Batman honing his detective skills, amazing villains and some downright masterful performances.

The Batman introduces us to a very different Bruce Wayne, played by Pattinson, and this version of the character is influenced by the late rock star Kurt Cobain. Pattinson is perfectly cast and sells his performance with his eyes. The actor has this natural brooding demeanor that bodes well for his take on Bruce, but it’s when he’s opposite Zoë Kravitz’s Selina Kyle that he really starts to find his footing. Kravitz is no stranger to comic book movies, having played a superhero in X-Men: First Class, and now she gets to toe the line with the iconic Batman villain/love interest Selina Kyle. Kravitz was easily one of the highlights of the film for me. She’s mysterious and a total badass. She absolutely feels like she was born to play Catwoman. The film also introduces us to a brand new Commissioner Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth, played by Jeffrey Wright and Andy Serkis, respectively. Wright and Serkis each bring something new to the table all the while respecting their characters’ history.

Every hero is only as good as his villain and The Batman has a few to spare. Paul Dano makes his DC Universe debut as The Riddler and he’s a force to be reckoned with. Dano’s Riddler mirrors the kind of psychopath that you’d find today. He’s one of those guys that hides behind a computer and a mask to commit atrocious acts. Dano gives us one of the most intriguing villains we’ve seen in a comic book movie in a long time. The film also features Colin Farrell as The Penguin and it’s a brand new take on the character. Farrell plays the DC Comics icon like a classic mafioso-type and delivers my favorite performance in the film, with John Turturro a close second. Turturro takes on the role of Carmine Falcone, a.k.a. The Roman, for The Batman. The actor hasn’t done a serious role like this in quite some time and his work here was well worth the wait. Falcone is the Kingpin moving the pieces behind-the-scenes and he’s easily one of the best things about The Batman, despite his limited screentime in the film’s trailers.

Overall Thoughts: The Batman is the best time I’ve had at the movies in quite some time. It’s the most Batman movie ever. Robert Pattinson crushes his take on the character and I can’t wait to see what he does in the role next. The film also features a surprise cameo that you won’t see coming. If I were a WB executive, I’d let Matt Reeves flesh out this universe any way he wants. I think Pattinson’s Batman will become a household staple in no time. I definitely recommend seeing the movie on the biggest screen possible.

Rating: 9.5/10

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