"Best Film of the Season!!!" (Blog 13)

Four stars, five stars, six stars, two thumbs up!...Where does it end? (and couldn't this guy give three thumbs up if he really loved the movie?) Ever read a movie review that promised "the best family movie of the year" but really tricked you into seeing a cheesy holiday film that was shown in the smallest theater the first weekend it was released?

What makes a great film? Well to answer that question we have to narrow it down to not what kind of film it is but rather to what audience the movie is meant to appeal to.

Since I am sixteen years old I will begin with the type of movies that are named after my very own gender:  Chick Flicks. I have a very large family which consists of ten plus women all between the ages of twelve and forty with one thing in common: those tear jerking, heart-breaking, epiphany giving films that have all females swooning and/or crying by the time the credits are trickling down the screen.
    Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightley), for example, is a classic "chick flick". First and foremost because it is based of the world famous novel by Jane Austen. Second: Who doesn't love a perfect romance?And all females love it. Last year in my tenth grade English class my teacher, Mrs. Pillow, played Pride and Prejudice for the class. I had seen it so many times before, but I didn't mind seeing it again because it made me feel something-the movie was a full-length day dream that the teacher wouldn't yell at you for. And I could tell by the looks on their faces, all the girls in my class felt the same too. As for the male population of Mrs. Pillow's fourth period XL English class; they were pretty bored. Nothing exciting about the movie. In fact a few fell asleep.
    And that's just it. Depending on how well the response to the film was tells you if it was a great movie. If the audience absolutely loved it and wished that the film was their life, then it wasn't a waste of time.
   Now, drag all those girls out of the theater where The Notebook is playing where Noah and Allie just met at the carnival and put them in front of a screen playing Machete (starring Robert De Niro)...there might be a small problem.