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These are the posts for Saturday, the 4th day of February in the year 2006 of the common era.

Red Eye (2005)

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Whatever female-based, emotion-driven dilemma you may be dealing with right now, I sympathize with you. But right now, we need to break this down into male-based, fact-driven logic.

Red Eye had the misfortune of being the film in last year’s “Hitchcockian thriller set aboard a jetliner” sweepstakes that didn’t star Jodie Foster. I haven’t seen Flightplan yet, so I can’t say which one was actually better, but that film will have to work hard to be as effective and efficient a thriller as Red Eye.

Red Eye

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Wedding Crashers (2005)

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.

This is one of those unfortunate comedies where the concept is actually funnier than the execution. It’s a shame, too, given the cast they had at their disposal. I’m sure the pitch sessions for this movie were a riot. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson crashing weddings to pick up women? Christopher Walken as the Secretary of the Treasury? Hilarity must inevitably ensue, right?

Wedding Crashers

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Director:  | Released:  | 119 min. | Rated:  | Genres: