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date night

Brian and I watched this movie over the weekend. We both thought it was pretty funny. It got some tepid reviews so I wasn’t sure about watching it, but it was definitely worth the time. The only negative I’ll say is that there were some scenes that dragged on for …

grown ups

We watched this movie the other night. It was not good. It was hardly the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it was the worst Adam Sandler movie I’ve ever seen. For all of the star power in this movie, you would think it would have been at least half …

brothers

This was a movie about the horrors of war, but more from the standpoint of the effects of war on families than on actual combat (though there was some of that, too). So, it was a refreshing take on war movies. It starred Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman. …

the day after tomorrow

We watched this movie last night. A while back, Brian watched part of it on television and liked it so I figured we might as well rent it. Jake even joined in. At first he didn’t want to watch because it wasn’t a comedy, but given his obsession with the …

young frankenstein

A friend of Brian gave us a bunch of DVDs, so we watched the first of them last night. Growing up, we seemed to watch all of the Mel Brooks movies (my Dad was a big fan), so I had seen this before, but it had been a while. It …