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The other day I ranked the albums I listened to in 2013 . I'm not done with 2013 yet. Today it's time to rank the movies of 2013. From the good to the bad to the horribly, horribly boring -- they're all here: 25. Mud I kind of feel like I should give this one another shot. After all, I was playing Candy Crush when I was watching it. Then I fell asleep. That's how boring it was though. It failed to keep my interest from the start. Mud is a drama about two young boys who find a man named Mud hiding out on a secluded Mississippi island. The two boys -- Ellis and Neckbone -- help Mud in what he says his goal is: trying to win back the woman he loves. In return, Mud will give the boys his boat. Mud ends up tricking the boys into stealing. All the while there's other drama unfolding with Ellis' parents, who are separating. The entire movie seemed pretty disjointed, but maybe Candy Crush is to blame for that (love that app!). Joining McConaughey a...

Amidst all of the movies I was looking forward to seeing this year ( Man of Steel , G.I. Joe 2 , Thor 2 , etc.), there’s one that fell off my radar: Red 2 . I’m not sure why I forgot all about this one, but I did. I enjoyed the first one. Red was about a group of retired special agents who were trying to be taken out of action permanently. Red 2 is every bit as hilarious as the first one. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie, I was laughing out loud. So was the rest of the theatre. It’d been a while since I’d seen Red , so I’d forgotten a good deal of the specifics of that movie. Thankfully, you don’t need to know much about Red in order to enjoy Red 2 . There’s some typical action movie scenes, including car chases, sneaking into a high-security government facility, and explosions. Somehow it didn’t feel like it was ‘been there, done that’ though. Just like in Red , this time around the characters find themselves dodging bullets (literally) and trying to avoi...