What makes or Breaks a movie

A movie is most compelling and rememberable to me mostly due to the how influential it is.  Mainly how the story is put together and set up for the audience in new and interesting ways.  The story of the movie or film sets the basis for the movie.  Such as the story line determines the setting of the storyline and scenery and those determine the costumes and characters in the movie.  Also the visual aspects of the movie make or break it.  Such as the settings and scenery, the costume design, and the characters themselves all make the movie come alive and entertain us.   A movie must have all these aspects to be a good movie.  One can not have the visual aspects of a film be wonderful, but the storyline be overdone and redundant, such as the movie Avatar.  Or have a wonderful storyline, but dire and drab visuals.  

The movies in the week 2 viewing were scratchy and visually not to wonderful, but that is mainly due to the lack of technology at the time.  Taking that out of the picture the storyline for The Voyage to the Moon, was new for the time and the costume design and setting was unique and influential, also the fact that is was all done without a moving camera makes it more special.  Its visual aspects are still used today, such as in the music video for The Smashing Pumpkins, Tonight Tonight.  I personally liked the costume for the aliens, the cave of mushrooms and how the moon had a human face.  George Melies created this film in a time where no one had gone to the moon, and he imagined how it would be and how the inhabitants would be.  The other movie The Great Train Robbery was on the other hand more slow and realistic.  It lacked the creative appeal of The Voyage to the Moon, but instead it had more scene changes and special effects, like the bomb on the train.  But the movie in itself was not as good compared to the other movie.  

As I mentioned before one of my favorite movies is Breakfast at Tiffany's.  Not only is it visually beautiful in setting and characters, but the storyline is interesting and has been used over and over again.  In similar movies such as Pretty Woman and other recent movies.  A bought woman who does not believe in love, who ends up finding true love in unexpected places.  Also it is a movie that I can watch over and over again.  Like this scene from the movie, which is a staple for every romantic movie.  The final kissing scene in the rain, which has been used afterwards in movies like Dear John and Spiderman.

Another favorite of mine is The Matrix.  It takes an idea and makes it so complex and unique.  Yet it stays in line so the audience can watch it without being lost or confused.  The story itself complex in it is an alternate universe run by the energy from harvesting humans, but also it keeps the human emotions in finding one's place in live and also in finding love real.  It also brings complexity and thought provoking ideas.

 It is very hard to make movies that are new and unique not a days.  To make the storyline new or the visual scenery and characters new, but when a movie does it is an amazing thing to view.