Movie Notes: Easy Rider
Synopsis
Captain America (Peter Fonda) and his sidekick, Billy (Dennis Hopper) journey from Los Angeles to New Orleans on really cool motorbikes in the late 1960s.
Movie Notes: Chinatown
Chinatown is of the film noir genre and although it was made in the seventies, its story is set in the period when many film noirs were made. The setting is Los Angeles, where water is money because of its desert location. The basic plot surrounds water’s value to the city of Los Angeles. Whomever controls the water has power and can generate insane wealth merely by choosing where and when water goes. In fact, California today is still very much subject to both power corruption (Enron making profits by shifting power from one state to another) and insane land valuations being propped up by the highest bidder.
Movie Notes: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is set in an insane asylum in which reside a definitive “cast of characters,” each vivid, colorful, and memorable. Into the mix is thrown R. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) who’s trying to avoid a prison sentence by faking insanity. In his initial conversation with the head doctor, it’s quite obvious Jack isn’t nuts — he’s a rabble rouser, a quintessential troublemaker: an instigator.
Movie Notes: Mars Attacks!
Synopsis
Martians attack Earth and an assortment of random, ridiculous characters try to prevent the end of humanity.
Movie Notes: The Bucket List
Synopsis
Billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and auto mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), both diagnosed with terminal illnesses, decide to live their lives to the fullest, checking off life goals from a “bucket list” of last wishes.