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The Raid: Redemption

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This past summer when I was in CT, my brother and I watched The Raid: Redemption. I had never seen it before, and it had been a while since he had last seen it. Over the years I heard that it was one of the best action movies ever made, and was excited to finally have the chance to watch it! And who better to view it with than my brother, who enjoys movies about as much as I do! The Raid: Redemption is about a S.W.A.T. team that becomes trapped in a building run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs. The movie is first and foremost an action flick, and is phenomenal at that! The fight choreography is some of the best I have ever seen! It is fast, intense, and at times brutally unforgiving. The director purposefully uses long takes and wide angle shots during the action sequences to show the audience as much of the action as possible. This is something that has become a lost art over the past 10-15 years with the popularity of shaky cam. Thankfully, movies like th
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How I Met Your Mother

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How I Met Your Mother is my all time favorite show! Though I did not start watching it until it's 8th season was released, I have seen the whole show (all 208 episodes) twice. Some of my favorite episodes I have seen 5 or 6 times! I never tire of the characters, story, or humor. When I talk about the show, you would think they are my friends in real life (because they are). One time when I was talking to someone about favorite shows, and they said they had never seen it. My wife Barbee overheard and said "Uh-oh. That's like a sin in Austin's book". For those who don't know (which is nobody here 😉), How I Met Your Mother is a love story told in reverse. A father tells his two teen kids the story of his life with his four best friends leading up to him meeting their mother. The story is told through flashbacks as he narrates from time to time. Season 1 starts with Ted (the father) being there to see his friends Marshall and Lily get engaged. Inspired by th
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Ready Player One

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Ready Player One, there was a lot of excitement surrounding this movie! It is based on a book of the same name. I did not have the chance to see it until recently because I was reading the book and wanted to finish that first. As I finished the book, I became very eager to see how the movie would turn out. I heard overall good reviews for it, despite the fact that it was a book to movie adaptation. After watching it, I will say, the book is vastly more in-depth than the movie, but that is always expected. I highly recommend reading the book if you enjoyed the movie. The movie takes the essential plot points and details from the book and shapes them into a very entertaining film. Ready Player One's story takes place in a near future society where everyone is obsessed with a virtual reality video game called the OASIS. The game is so much a part of society that children go to school through it, and adults go to work through it. Life has become so dreary that the average pers
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Mission: Impossible Fallout

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Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't posted a new review for a while; my summer has been packed. With going to Mexico, then having my sister visit back to back with going to CT for my other sister's wedding, life has been crazy! I have had the opportunity to watch a bunch of movies though during that time, so look forward to some new posts over the next few weeks! Mission Impossible Fallout is the latest entry in the Mission Impossible movie franchise! We're now six movies in and the franchise is one of the few that seems to get better with each new entry. Fallout is actually the first direct sequel in the movie franchise which is really cool, as we get to see the continuation of Rogue Nation's story. The story for this entry is similar to the others, which probably the only slightly weak part of the film. After a mission gone wrong, Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must race against time to save the world from the remnants of the Syndicate whom he took down in the last movi
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Ant-Man & The Wasp

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Hola! While in Saltillo the past two weeks, I had the opportunity to go see the new Ant-man & The Wasp movie with my wife and many of our students that we are helping to tutor in English. We had about 15 people in our group and reserved a whole row of seats! It was definitely an experience to remember! Also, with the conversion from dollars to pesos, we can go see a movie here for like $2 a ticket, so it's hard to resist!! Ant-man & The Wasp is the follow-up to 2015's "Ant-Man" and takes place not long before the events of Avengers: Infinity War which was released earlier this year. Ant-man was the first Marvel movie released after Infinity War, and it much more light-hearted and fun adventure that I thought was refreshing after all of the seriousness revolving around the Avengers first encounter with Thanos. This movie starts after the events of Ant-Man and Captain America Civil War, where Scott Lang now tries to balance his life as both a father and a
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The Incredibles 2

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The Incredibles 2 was finally released on June 15, 2018! It is the sequel that Disney fans have waited and desired for almost 15 years. Both the original and its sequel were written and directed by Brad Bird. Bird has a nearly perfect record and is known for making all around great films: including The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, and Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. The Incredibles 2 has probably been one of the most looked forward to movies from Bird. He was asked many times over the years when we were going to get The Incredibles 2, and he always said he wanted to do the original justice and come up with the best story he could for the follow-up. The 14-year wait was completely worth it. The continuing story of the Parr family is everything I wanted it to be. Each character throughout the movie is both funny and relatable to watch. We pick up with each of the Parr's lives right where the first movie left off. The Underminer is attacking the city, and it's up to the Incr
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The Incredibles

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In anticipation of going to see The Incredibles 2 this weekend, I thought it would be fun to talk about the first one! The Incredibles was the first movie I remember seeing in the movie theater and growing up was one of my families favorite movies to watch together. I'm pretty sure my dad still has his Mr. Increcible t-shirt! The movie is, in a word ... incredible 😛 The Incredibles was released in 2004 and is the story of the Parr family. Bob and Helen live with their 3 children doing their best to live a normal life. But Bob struggles with wanting to relive the glory days of saving the world. He is summoned to help a company stop an out of control robot, and gets in trouble. Now it's up to his family to save him. Even 14 years later, The Incredibles is still recognized as a great superhero film for all ages! It perfectly blends fun, action, and humor for all. The movie mostly focuses on what it means to be a hero, and how they can come in all sizes.  Each member of
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