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Dirty Grandpa (2016) – Review

Recensie Dirty Grandpa

In general I will finish watching every movie I press play on. That sometimes mean I will have a heard time to keep watching, but also that for some movies I will watch them at slightly higher speeds. Lately I’ve been questioning myself why I force myself to finish each movie I start. I think it is because I’m able to give my opinion about a film (because a movie might become better later on), but is that the real reason? Or does it simply give my some kind of satisfaction to be able to say I’ve finished it and add it to the number of movies I watched as some sort of reward? Isn’t it better to spend my time on a good movie which I actually enjoy? Sometimes it can be fun writing a review of a horrible film, because it allows you to air your frustration. Still, Dirty Grandpa almost managed to get me to stop it before it ended. Continue reading →

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Bad Neighbours (2014)

Review Bad Neighbours

When I lived in an apartment a couple years ago I was lucky that the neighbours downstairs and me had a good understanding. It meant we both could play music/watch movies at considerable volume without this resulting in problems. When those neighbours left I had to wait and see what type of people would move in. Luckily the arrangement remained the same. But after a while I started having an issue with them as they would play the same song everyday for hours and continued to do so for weeks. The bassline of the song started to get on my nerves and I started wondering how to address this, because of course you run the risk of upsetting the “natural balance”, which could result in escalation. I decided to go in friendly and luckily they understood and we could both continue the way we always did. For Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) Radner it turns out differently. Continue reading →

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17 Again (2009)

17 Again tells the kind of story you’ve seen before in movies like Big (boy in the body of an adult) and Switch (man in the body of a woman. In this movie it’s about a man who ends up in his own 17-year old body. When Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) was young he made the choice to follow his big love instead on focusing on sports. His choice hasn’t turned out as he had in mind though. His wife Scarlett (Leslie Mann) wants a divorce and he doesn’t have a close relationship with his children either. When he visits his old high school he wishes that he had made a different choice. It turns out that the janitor can make his with come true.

Mike wakes up the next morning and is 17 again (a role played by Zac Effron) and has to go to school again. He tells his best friend, Ned Freedman (Thomas Lennon) his secret and he pretends that he is the father of him to make sure Mike can go back to school. With his knowledge as an adult it turns out that it is quite difficult to live a carefree life. Continue reading →