Bad Teacher 

Director: Jake Kasdan

Writer: Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg

She is foul-mouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate teacher Elizabeth Halsey played by Cameron Diaz in “Bad Teacher.” She drinks, she gets high, and she can't wait to marry her sugar daddy, and get out of her bogus teaching job. When she's dumped by her fiancé, she was forced to go back to her day job. Mrs. Halsey sets her plan in motion to win over a rich, handsome substitute Scott Delacorte played by Justin Timberlake. Halsey finds herself competing for Delacorte’s  affections with an overly energetic colleague, Amy played by Lucy Punch. Along with fighting for affection Halsey is fighting off the advances of a sarcastic, irreverent gym teacher Russel Gettis played by Jason Segel. Halsey had a huge fascination about big boobs. She found out that the teachers could earn a bonus if their students scored the highest on their state test at the end of the year. Halsey goes through all these schemes by manipulating, lying and stealing to make sure she got the bonus to earn money she needed for her new boob job.
Even though “Bad Teacher” wasn’t favored by many, it was a still a laugh out loud comedy. The highly used sarcasm through out the movie is what made the film hilarious. Most students would love to have a teacher like Mrs. Halsey. Constantly showing movies in class, no homework, cussing at the students, smokes weed, and basically getting away with anything are the kinds of teachers as children we use to dream about in Junior High.  Always praying every year that next years teacher was going to be cool, laid back, and didn’t give too much homework, but that wasn’t always the case. Majority of the time junior high was packed with non-stop homework, useless quizzes, female teachers who were bitches or male teachers who thought they were shit cause they coached  the junior high football team. Hasley had all the teacher beats in the fashion department. Everyday she came to school with her six inch heels, tight mini dress some days or tight fitting pants the next. She made all the other teachers outfits look like they were dressing up for church. 

“Bad Teacher” wasn’t an Oscar winning movie but it definitely gave the viewer and audiences a good giggle and a good laugh. 

“The Human Centipede”

Director: Tom Six (2009)

Writer: Tom Six

The Human Centipede

       Randomly selected to be part of an experiment to be turned into “The Human Centipede” may have some people confused and aware about what that means or how this particular experiment was going to work.  Not knowing what this movie was about and after hearing so many people talk about how disturbing it was, watching this particular film was on the top priority of movies to watch. 

What was so disturbing about the “Human Centipede?” After watching all seven “Saw” movies, there aren’t any movies out there that gets more disturbing than those films. As the movie is playing out and still not understanding what the director meant by the term “human centipede” the anticipation and anxiety became overwhelming. Then came the one scene where the mad scientist Dr. Heiter, played by Dieter Laser, comes and explains to his three victims that he was going to turn them into his new pet; a human centipede. He would create this human centipede by stitching their mouths to each others’ rectums. Disturbed and appalled that someone had the audacity to write a story that had to do with people physically being connected by the mouth to an anus of some random person, is enough to make someone vomit. Not to mention the lack of sanitation it is to be attached to a person in that manner. 

Trying so hard to not push the stop button and turn to something more cheerful, finishing the movie was something that needed to be done. Plus what was the ending to be like? Just as predicted, the ending was just as bad as the idea of making humans into a centipedes. Cops came looking for the three victims. Dr. Heiter and the two cops got into a physical altercation with each other and both the two cops and the scientist ended up dying. No one came to the three victims rescue, because the movie just ended with the cops and Dr. Heiter dying. The chances of recommending this movie to a person is slim to none. The plot in itself is horrific but on top of that the actress and actors in this film, made the movie that much worse. 

Comparing “The Human Centipede” as being more horrific than the Saw movies, some people may disagree. With all seven “Saw” movies, they made people think, and it kept the audience engaged. There was a true story line that gave viewers wanting more and anxious to see the sequels. “The Human Centipede,” there was no reason or explanation to why this doctor wanted to conduct this particular experiment. The film “The Human Centipede had no beginning, middle, or end. It was very choppy and had horrible transitions. It was just wasn’t a movie that should have ever been made, or have a sequel to it.

“It’s the same relationship you have with good friends. Sometimes the disagreements are more fun than the agreements” (Anne Holub 4). 

Most people would be in agreement with this quote. Often times people like to have debates and disagreements rather than agreeing on the same thing. When having group discussions about things, and when everyone doesn’t always agree with everything, it sometimes makes the topic of conversation interesting and gives it a whole new dimension. Many times it is easier for us to talk and focus more on the negative things, than to talk and focus on the positive things. Disagreements give people a chance to hear what is on the other persons mind. In the Blog Critic: “Critical Conditions”, Kris Vire said “That’s true. There are a lot if critics I read because I enjoy disagree with them”. We live in a world where people are highly opinionated and many times want to have a pessimistic way of thinking. When there is a disagreement in a conversation, people want to speak their mind, most of the time they want other people to hear what they have to say. Especially when you are passionate about a certain topic that he or she may be talking about like the quote Donna Seaman said. “Yes, trust is a crucial. As is integrity. So, no, we won’t like everything. But when you slam something, you have to have to be sharp and precise”. Meaning, if you disagree about a comment someone said or a review someone wrote, explain your reasons. Have some evidence some facts to back up your case. That also goes for why people like certain things, for example: Chicago Winters. Well, why do you like Chicago Winters, and give specifics. Also when giving facts about a certain topic and making sure sources and thoughts are correct, to make sure that the facts whether you agree or disagree with the topic is truthful. Chuck Sudo said “I concur. That should be the one thing we can all agree on here, is to have passionate interest in the particular field you’ve chosen to be a critic”. When talking about something its important to have some kind of interest in it otherwise the person may quickly become extremely bored with the conversations. It makes for great conversation and and discussion when the group is versed and education on the topic that everyone is talking about.