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Medal of Honor (1999)
great game
oh sweet lord how i love this game!!i became obsessed with this game from the very first time i played it which must have been about five years ago when i was 13.my brother got medal of honour and moh underground in early 2002 and i played it non-stop!i remember about a year later i was doing whats called the junior cert(state exams taken in your third year of six years in secondary school) and about three weeks before we had our mock exams(practice runs for the real thing-but very important all the same) i got the chicken pox and was out of school for a week.i suppose i should have studied but all i did was play the two games(which i'd already completed) the whole time.i wanted to complete every level with 100% and i did-one of my greatest achievements that year!!!!
i think one of the best things about moh is the way the game is so historically accurate.the levels are based on real missions and the creators have obviously gone out of their way to recreate the series of events in each story and the places in particular.i ended up doing a project on the sabotage mission carried out by a group of men on a power plant in rjukan, norway.i cant remember if its in moh or moh underground but the plans and layout of the powerplant and surrounding area is flawless from what real pictures i've seen.that particular mission was so important because the powerplant was actually where Hitler was developing his own atomic bomb and he would have won the race had that mission not been successful and undoubtedly would have won the war.i never even knew about this story of such great importance until i played the level and subsequently found out it was real after watching a documentary but it was moh that told me the story first!
i've played every game since and i'm determined to buy every version of the game and complete them with 100% as well.every now and again i rent them out for a week at a time with a litre tub of ben and jerrys vanilla caramel fudge-my treat every few months or so and sure who really cares if my exams took some what of a hit!!
A Room with a View (1985)
really good film and English class memories!
i have many happy memories of room with a view-we did it in school for our leaving cert(final exams)last year and we loved it!we had to do a comparative piece on room with a view and two plays-sive by john b. keane and a dolls house by henrik ibsen.we didn't think to begin with that we'd have too much to write about the film because we thought it would probably just be another carbon copy but enjoyable romance and that the plays would have more material on the given themes-love,cultural context and literary genre(how the story was put together/told).but the film ended up being almost the linchpin of all our answers as it dealt with so many of the things we were talking about-especially to do with the love theme.it dealt with the pretense of love versus true love,coming of age,the role of women and how cultural and social status(wealth) affected your independence and freedom to make choices about your own life.as a group of 18 year old girls we really identified with the film and were interested by how lucy's status affected her choices and quality of life and how different our lives were from hers even though it may have been fictional.the fact that we had such a brilliantly enthusiastic and vibrant(and sometimes terrifying!)teacher helped as well!!and the film was really good as well!
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
brilliance!
i went to see this film as part of a school languages programme here in ireland where the irish film institute tour foreign language films to school groups around the country.5 schools from around the area crammed German students aged 15-18 in to our local stuffy hard seated two screen cinema to see it and it was absolutely brilliant!i loved it so much i went and bought it(unusual for me seeing as i am always broke!)in fact the film was so popular that our school is still involved with the programme three years on.it really did impress so many students and me and my friends still talk about the German films we saw in school but i think goodbye lenin was the favourite!it certainly opened my eyes to foreign films