Movies

Movies are a wonderful source of entertainment; they teach us things, make us feel happy, sad, angry, frustrated, scared, relieved, and they make us laugh. The main reason why most of us like movies is for their ability to transport us into another world. When we watch a movie we forget our troubles, we let go of the stress in our lives temporarily. We are influenced by movies, they dictate the new styles, who is the most popular celebrity, even the way we talk. People come together to watch movies, we go to our friend's homes, or to our significant other's home, or people come to ours to watch a movie. We talk about them afterwards and discuss what we thought was most interesting about the film or talk about what we learned from it. Ever since I can remember I have loved movies, the way good actors transmit their feelings and the way a good director portrays his vision.
Hollywood is the place where most movies are made; its where most studios are located and it has given us various icons throughout its history, icons such as Charles Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Marylin Monroe, Rudolph Valentino, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and many more. These names are some of the first ones, today there are also a great number of outstanding actors such as Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, George Clooney, Clive Owen, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and a few more. Good actors are not commonly seen, most movies out there are terribly done, they have horrible acting, not very good directing, and sometimes even the writing is terrible. It is not an easy thing to do, to make a good movie. We can blame that on people's unquenchable thirst for fame and how they will do anything to star in a movie but that is a whole different subject.
There are movies which are made with extremely low budgets, a recent one would be Paranormal Activity which was made with only $15,000; other movies are made with huge budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars like Lord of the Rings or Avatar.
Other countries make their own movies as well, however no other country's movies are as popular as American movies.
I love a good movie, the genre doesn't matter as long as it is done well.