Signs

One funny part in the movie signs was the part when Mel Gibson walks into the kids' room and they are in there sitting on the bed with the aluminum foil helmets. Morgan says they are wearing them so that the aliens can't read their minds. I thought it was silly at first but then I remembered something I learned in AP Physics B last year. That idea does have some merit to it, even though what the kids were doing wouldn't have exactly worked. The problem is that the aluminum foil didnt entirely enclose they're brain. If you've ever seen a spy movie, their suitcases are usually made out of a magnetic metal if their is any electronic information inside. That is because if it is totally enclosed there is no magnetic field inside, making it impossible for the information inside to be picked up or intercepted. So if I remember last years lessons correctly: if aliens from the movie signs are trying to to electronically read your mind you can stop them by totally enclosing yourself in a magnetic metal?

The Seventh Seal

I was absent the first day that the class watched the Seventh Seal. There was one part of the movie in which I don't remember much happening, and which I thought the movie could have been just as good without. It was the scene where the men are rolling the cart through the river and to the execution site. Can anyone tell me if im missing something?

Raging Bull

I recently watched Raging Bull. I thought the movie was awesome. It gave me that suspension of disbelief where I felt as if i were actually watching the events taking placing instead of consciously being aware that i was watching a television screen. The fight scenes weren't particularly great, especially the way the blood came squirting out; it was weird. The acting was great, expecially in the scene where Jake is asking his brother if he had sex with his wife. They both had the exact same reactions that real people would. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie and I think Mr. Bennett should give it another chance.