Brian Fowler
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28 minutes ago, elizium said:
Belichick* is getting hired by Washington**!
*Steve
**Huskies
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10 hours ago, RandomAct said:
I wish people would give me as much credit for one thing I did well 16 years ago with lots of help and get endless chances because of it too.
With multimillion dollar contracts.
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Normally don't care much about ST Coordinator hires, but a bit of a surprise one; Jay Harbaugh is leaving Michigan for the same job with the Seattle Seahawks.
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In one of those weird things, Doc Rivers will coach the Eastern Conference in the all-star game.
To his credit, he reportedly is giving his all-star ring and paycheck to Adrian Griffin.
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
The last segment is Quentin playing an obnoxious young director who has gotten the penthouse suite in the hotel for the night (along with his buddy Paul Calderon and some other hangers on), and has a bet set up, based around an old Twilight Zone episode. I can't remember what the bet's over but it involves a meat cleaver. And they are drinking a lot of Cristal. Tim Roth drops the pretentious waiter act and hoity-toity accent and starts speaking Cockney. It has a very satisfying finish.
Something to the effect of "I can get my lighter to light ten straight clicks" or similar. It's been a long time since I watched it.
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If Johnson tanked his interview with Washington so badly they weren't interested anymore, it's odd that they were flying to Detroit partially to interview him again.
But, also, I'm good with it either way.
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6 hours ago, Log said:
Wasn't there a Raw in the Stone Cold era where the whole show, it was this race to see if he'd make it to the arena before the end of the show? Am I making that up?
Anyway, they need cameras on Swift leaving Japan to see if she can make it to Vegas before the end of the game.
Maybe? There's definitely a very infamous Nitro that involved whether or not Goldberg could walk across the street from the police station to the Georgia Dome in a half hour or so in time for the main event.
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1 hour ago, HarryArchieGus said:
Maybe ppl in this thread liking NBK more than True Romance is simply a good reminder that we bring our own consciousness to our personal viewings.
For the sake of your purposed argument, I would suggest True Romance is a movie made by a formulaic filmmaker who brings little to no authorship to his film. Tony Scott was a good hand for the studios who could seemingly bring in a star studded picture on time and on budget. It's certainly a competent film, but True Romance suffers the same way the wave of Tarantino-rip offs of the 1990s did. Specifically 'Cool' unredeemable violence and a style of dialogue that without the QT direction comes off like a hack Film Student Dude. The two or three interesting scenes feel wasted by the overall purposelessness of the film. It also feels like standard 'Movies for guys who like movies' - guns, drugs, violence. Further, it features a pretty insufferable soundtrack - which feels particularly intolerable considering it's writer's knack for quality and interesting tracks. Fucking 90s Aerosmith? Or Hans Zimmer paying the worst homage to Carl Orff's Badlands score possible. Zimmer's Orff score sounds like Twee bullshit here.
Natural Born Killers on the otherhand feels very much like a leader of the 90s zeigest. The violence feels far less gratiutious in that it represents a point. It, and the film overall, asks questions and presents a discussion of the state of the media and the 24 hour news cycle. These questions weren't asked or probed in mainstream film or not like they were with NBK. Where as TR feels like a competent rendering of a Tarantino script, NBK feels like Stone takes full authorship. Sure, Stone's inconsistency suggests that could be 'for better or worse', but with NBK he brings so much creativity that feels worth praise. The choice of the various cameras was a pretty fresh idea in 1994. The wild editing style felt new. And the fantastic music. Where the TR soundtrack feels like any other Hollywood movie of the time, NBK uniquely jumps from Patti Smith to NIN to Dr Dre to Leonard Cohen to Patsy Cline to Enya to the Cowboy Junkies. That's happened since, but you'd be hard pressed to find such a varied group of qualtiy songs pre-NBK. Anyway, there's a few ideas of why somebody might prefer Natural Born Killers to True Romance.Now I feel like you watched a completely different movie than I did, because literally none of that works in NBK in my view. Like, literally none of it.
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Reece Atteberry became the first Michigan player to enter the portal since Harbaugh's departure. He's mostly been a special teams guy, never cracked the rotation first as an OL, or this past season after switching to DL. He'll be a fifth year senior.
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17 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Despite the plot I think it's pretty apples to oranges just because NBK is so out-there.
Was thinking about it this morning, there were three films that as a kid really introduced me to the realms of possibility in cinema that were of the time and weren't horror movies.
1. NBK
2. Fear and Loathing
3. Trainspotting
and the rest were all the Tarantino films. Just a statement, that's what influenced me going forward as a baseline.
Honestly, I just think NBK is a fucking terrible movie that fumbled every idea it tried to express. Easily my vote for the worst movie ever written by QT, up to and including Four Rooms.
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3 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Presenting the worlds dumbest gambler
He showed the staff at the sportsbook the text and told them who it was from!
That man was too dumb to do crimes.
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Gotta be honest, I cannot wrap my head around the idea of anyone thinking Natural Born Killers was better than True Romance.
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On the "best Criterion" note from a few days ago, a side recommendation: the Raymond Bernard Eclipse series that has Wooden Crosses and the best film version of Les Miserables in it is absolutely spectacular, with the obvious caveat that the Eclipse releases are bare bones without the normal Criterion bells and whistles. But you can also find it for under $25 which is a hell of a deal for what it is kinda two but also really kinda four masterpiece level films.
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13 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Reigning league MVP Joel Embiid didn't play last night in Portland due to injury.
However, due to the new "Hey this TV contract is for a LOT of money, go out there and play you assholes" rules, he can only miss 5 more games all season and still be eligible for MVP consideration.
Also Tyrese Haliburton is only four missed games away from not being eligible for All-NBA.
Making an All-NBA team this year would increase his pay over the next five years by slightly over forty million dollars.
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2 hours ago, dogwelder said:
TBF, Washington was coming to interview both him and Aaron Glenn and are expected to still interview Glenn.
As far as Glenn goes, his players love him but the defense wasn't very good, especially the second half of the season. Some of it is talent, they desperately need a second pass rusher opposite Hutch and general improvements in several spots, but I'm not sure why he's considered much of a candidate this year. Feels like, of the two, Glenn is the one that could use more time as a coordinator.
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After having some time to calm back down.
Intellectually, I know the Lions just had their best season in literally decades, and are still a young team with a potentially bright future.
But it hurts. And I know it can go badly very easily in the future.
I think I would actually feel better if San Fran had just stomped them.
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6 minutes ago, Contentious C said:
Your Detroit Lyin to Themselves if They Thought Those Were Good Fourth Down Decisions
I have no idea how the first one wasn't a good decision. They even got the guy open.
I want to know why the Lions suddenly developed an inability to catch passes in the second half.
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Okay really should've kicked that one I think
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3 minutes ago, cubbymark said:
Campbell should have gone for the FG up 24-10. They fuck around, SF gets a spark and now it's a game again.
That's something I'll live with. Campbell is who he is, and his utter fearlessness are a big reason the Lions are here. Wish it would've worked.
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Anyway, I really did just see the Lions completely dominate the first half of the NFC title game, right?
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1 minute ago, hammerva said:
Dan Campbell going for a FG on a 4th down on the 2 yard line. I never thought I would see it
I think it's the right call situationally. One of the biggest advantages of going for it there is the "even if you get stopped the other team takes the field inside the 5" and you lose that at end of half. It was the one of the three failed fourth down attempts Oregon had the first game against Washington that I disagree with going for it.
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Oh my God
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DETROIT BAY BAY
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JAMEO~!
2024 NFL OFFSEASON
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It's fun. They hired Belichick's son as DC, and Pete Carroll's son as OC.