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the hammer

Brian, being a big fan of Adam Carolla, wanted to see this movie, so we watched it last night. He thought it was hilarious. I, on the other hand, am not what you would call a fan and found the movie to be so-so. There wasn’t anything intrinsically wrong with …

american sniper

This told the biographical story of Navy SEAL (and sniper) Chris Kyle. I’m a sucker for a good war movie and this was definitely one of those. I guess there was some controversy over the movie due to the subject matter, but the guy was just doing his job. Conversely, …

machete kills

We watched this movie Saturday night. Well, some of us managed to stay awake through the whole thing and some of us were too tired from spending the day in the sun (riding motorcycles and shooting guns with my family). These Machete movies are kind of ridiculous, but I find …

godzilla

Jake and I watched this last night. I wasn’t sure about it (and Netflix was telling me I wasn’t going to like it), but I watched it anyway. The movie had a looonnnng setup and was short on plot. The special effects were pretty spectacular, though. But, that was not …

red river

This was a John Wayne movie–one of Brian’s favorites, so we watched it last night. I’m not typically a fan of old movies (I can barely rewatch stuff from the 80s let alone something from 1948), but I guess it was ok for what it was. Some of the dialog …