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groundhog day

This was another film from our top 13. Brian and I thought it held up pretty well. Jake didn’t seem all that into it. Perhaps the humor wasn’t juvenile enough? I guess it was more of a date-type movie. At any rate, my rating stands: 4/5

fletch

Jake was looking for something to watch last night and came upon this movie. I liked it so much when I was a teenager that I named one of my pets, a parakeet, after it. While the guys thought it was really funny, I was not as amused. But, given …

vacation

Brian and I watched the 2015 version of this movie last night. We both thought it was hilarious, which might tell you more about us than you need to know. I wouldn’t say it holds a candle to the original moviesĀ (at least the first few of them), though–the humor was …

goodnight mommy

This was an Austrian horror film. Europeans do horror very differently than Americans (see Martyrs). While this film wasn’t a 90 minute torture fest (it was only a 30 minute one), it definitely wasn’t like any American horror film that you might see. I thought the premise was pretty good–though …

pulp fiction

We’re making Jake watch our top 13 films with us. We started with Pulp Fiction. It was as good as I remembered it. Jake saw parts of the movie in the past, but never in its entirety. Needless to say, he liked it. My rating: 4/5