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“You two are the most fucked up people I’ve ever met and I deal with fucked up people for a living.”

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In between work and travel and whatnot we’ve watched some pretty good movies lately:

  • Neighbors (imdb | rotten tomatoes) made me laugh out loud a couple of times on the flight from Vancouver to Toronto, so it had that going for it. Seth Rogen’s always good, but Rose Byrne and her potty mouth were a nice surprise. So was Zac Efron, actually.
  • X-Men: Days Of Future Past (imdb | rotten tomatoes) was better than I thought it was going to be. Dark, super-dark. Especially the future parts. Great execution of a crossover for once. Plus the Quicksilver scenes were very well done.
  • We didn’t watch Agents Of Shield so I think we missed some lead-up to Captain America: The Winter Soldier (imdb | rotten tomatoes) but it didn’t need it. It was still a bad-ass action movie that sets up the next several Marvel movies nicely.
  • We saw Gone Girl (imdb | rotten tomatoes) in part because I will automatically see any movie David Fincher directs, and in part because it got such great reviews. It was pretty good.

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"Arrogance is not a uniquely American trait, but you do it better than most."

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Given the 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the fact that it’s a Marvel comic put to film, I would have thought that I’d enjoy Captain America (imdb | rotten tomatoes) more than I did. It was fine, I guess, but not one of the better movies leading up to The Avengers. True, the special effects were pretty incredible (especially how they imposed Chris Evans’ face on some little guy’s body) but the rest seemed hokey, like they were going for the 40s WWII propaganda film feel throughout. Disappointing.