Movie Review Assignment

I read a review of The Dark Knight Rises by Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. He starts out talking about the previous Batman movies and then gives a basic summary of what's going on at the beginning of the movie. He provides the background for this movie by referencing the previous ones. He then starts to get into more specifics of the acting and talks about Christian Bale and how Anne Hathaway's character got Batman "out of his shell and back into his batsuit." Next he talks about the villain, Bane, and how even though the character wears a mask throughout the film, the actor does an excellent job with his voice. Following that there's a short paragraph about the "visual pow" of the film where he mentions that IMAX cameras were used for a majority of the shots. Then he mentions the characters that have a bit less focus and their part in the movie. He sums up the review with a few sentences expressing how good he thought the movie was.

I think for our quarterly movie review we should be given a good amount of freedom. There should be basic guidelines, but for the most part I think we should be able to structure it the way we want to. A list of what we need to put into our reviews (key points and such) would be helpful and then we could show those key points in several different forms. Another idea would be to not always have a written review. One quarter we could get into groups and create a type of news report that would review the movie, that way it would continue to be interesting.

Here's the movie review I annotated.