It seems that all I do on over holidays is watch movies. Perhaps it’s the only time of year that I have hours on end to do absolutely nothing. It felt good.

Anyway, here’s the movies I saw and a 6-word or less review:

The Hulk – That ending made no sense
Robots – Someone get Robin Williams a sedative
Four Brothers – New Kid goes bad
American Pie: Band Camp – Should have gone straight to DVD
Coach Carter – Bummer of an ending
The Dukes of Hazzard – Missed the end, don’t care.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Hello, Christian imagery!
Fantastic Four – Please don’t make a sequel
The Incredibles – Similar heroes as Fantastic Four
Mr. & Mrs. Smith – Entertaining
Spanglish – Needed bilingual subtitles

I would have watched more if I could get the frickin’ DVD player to work in my laptop on the flight out. I got video, just no audio. I spent a lot of time on the plane out trying to figure out what was wrong, then a few hours more once I got to my parents’ house. After reinstalling every possible driver and rebooting 50 times, I figured out that playing audio requires an AC3 decoder. One is built into the lame WinDVD program that came with my laptop which I had uninstalled. I swore that Windows Media Player played them just fine before. I reinstalled WinDVD then figured out that I could just install AC3Filter and now any DVD player worked. Grrr.