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It just kills teenage me to see MATRIX characters used as punchlines in ads. That shit was SERIOUS, man.

Russel Wilson is going to win a Super Bowl ring in a game where he could have taken a knee on every play and still won.

It's a non-threatening version of some of the junk they grew up on I guess. Doo-wop, Motown, etc. Yeah. It's retro soul but without the soul. He's like Sam Cooke but less likely to die in a justifiable homicide.

Terrible job covering that kick by Peyton.

Oh man, old white people LOVE Bruno Mars. It's hilarious. Every old white person I know.

Have you seen her career lately? She might not even be around this time next year.

He's a can crusher.I don't even know what that means!Flat track bully?The fuck you say? Enough with your English colloquialisms. Speak American in this American thread for American football.He beat da bad team and lose to da good team Oooh, can crusher. I got it now. For a moment, I thought that was a reference to the big red spot on his forehead.

And it's their fault he missed a wide open guy streaking down the field?I didn't say he hasn't made some bad throws. But if you're looking at the game objectively, most of the egregiously bad plays that have resulted in this deficit have bee the result of poor OL play. That's really not debatable.He's playing absolutely fucking terrible even when the rush doesn't hit him.Not to mention, part of Peyton's whole thing is his ability to beat the rush with smart passes and perfect footwork. You are obviously too close to this to be seeing it clearly. I'm seeing him miss passes constantly, and not avoid the rush the way he usually does masterfully. And I'm seeing him be utterly befuddled on how to attack the cover 3. Look, I totally get how someone who really wants to get on Peyton's case can read it the way you are, but as an objective observer who gives not a fuck about either of these teams and is only watching because this is what we do on this day in America, it's obvious he's not playing nearly as badly as this thread is making it out.

He's a can crusher.I don't even know what that means!Flat track bully? The fuck you say? Enough with your English colloquialisms. Speak American in this American thread for American football.

And it's their fault he missed a wide open guy streaking down the field?I didn't say he hasn't made some bad throws. But if you're looking at the game objectively, most of the egregiously bad plays that have resulted in this deficit have bee the result of poor OL play. That's really not debatable. He's playing absolutely fucking terrible even when the rush doesn't hit him. Not to mention, part of Peyton's whole thing is his ability to beat the rush with smart passes and perfect footwork. You are obviously too close to this to be seeing it clearly.

He's a can crusher. I don't even know what that means!

And it's their fault he missed a wide open guy streaking down the field? I didn't say he hasn't made some bad throws. But if you're looking at the game objectively, most of the egregiously bad plays that have resulted in this deficit have bee the result of poor OL play. That's really not debatable.

I love that it's Manning's fault his OL is playing like ass and letting defenders hit him while he's passing. You guys are ridiculous in here. It's like the Playa Haters Ball, except even more sad. Have some decorum, people.

I feel like an idiot for just now realizing it, but that's Vide cor meum playing over the last scene of the season finale of HANNIBAL. I think that song was the best of the HANNIBAL movie. Which also then reminded me that the opera scene from earlier in the season was an homage to the opera scene from that movie.

Another thing that really hurt the show over the long haul was their insistence on killing off or otherwise dispensing with every supporting character except Chloe and Kim. The last few seasons were such a drag because you always had to wait for them to set up all the new characters, instead of being able to just hit the ground running with a bunch of established characters with years of backstory built in. And, of course, by then the show had trained you to expect that of the new characters, 1) at least one of them would be a mole, and 2) half of them would probably be dead by the end. So why even bother caring? The only character introduced in the latter seasons who really "stuck" was Renee Walker, the FBI agent who comes around to doing things the Jack Bauer Way in season 7 and kinda goes crazy between 7 and 8. She was neat. So obviously they killed her. I think that was the point I was offically glad the show was ending.

PIG FUCK!

From Not Chris Farley in TWISTER to one of the most respected actors in the biz. What a ride.

Not really. That was the initial hook, but there definitely was a point where they could have walked away from it. (In fact, in the later seasons, they were playing pretty loose with the real-time gimmick, as there would often be these odd leaps in time and place that went beyond even the usual "Jack can make it across LA in 15 minutes at rush hour" business.) What was unique about the show, what really made it interesting when it was at its best, was that it would put Jack in these impossible moral situations and force him to make the choice that no one else could make. At the height of its powers, there wasn't another show on network TV doing anything like that. Even to this day, there still isn't, although cable is a much bigger deal now and filled with men bucking conventional morality. Stubborn adherence to the 24-hour conceit is one of the many things that ultimately dragged the show down, and I'm hopeful, not overly optimistic but hopeful, that ditching it will free them up to get back to the basics of the show. If nothing else, 50% fewer episodes should mean 50% fewer preposterous swerves.

I looked through the forum and was surprised to see we didn't have a thread for this. I guess, like myself, everyone found their enthusiasm for this series waining after the bloated, tedious AC3. Well, I finally bought a PS4 this past week and grabbed a copy of AC4 to tide me over until the real deal next-gen titles start dropping in the next few months. And I'm really, really enjoying it. This is probably the most I've enjoyed a game in this series since the unassailable AC2. I love how it throws you right into the action. The thing I was dreading most about the introduction of a new lead character was the inevitable slog through the first few sequences of tutorials and mythology info dumps. But it's not like that. From the moment you touch down on the first island, Edward Kenway is basically a fully-formed assassin in everything but the title and costume, and pretty much everything is open to you without restriction. You don't hit anything resembling an obvious tutorial mission until the second sequence, and it's over quickly. And since Edward, at least through sequence 5 where I'm at now, isn't really an assassin, there isn't really a big info dump you have to sit through. After he steals an assassin's outfit on that first island, all of the relevant information is parsed out to him in bits and pieces as he bounces back and forth between the assassins and the Templars in The Search for More Money. To my great surprise, I'm loving the naval stuff, too. All the stuff on the boat was one of my least favorite parts of AC3, but they've made some subtle tweaks to the system that make it much more playable. For me, anyway. All of the side missions are much more coherent, as well. AC3 had a million and one things to do, but it was all rather haphazard and scattershot. Half the stuff had no bearing on anything and was just there to be something else to do. Here, everything is pretty tightly focused on meeting pirate-y ends: making money and finding treasure. There are still a few too many missions that require you to tail a target or eavesdrop on a conversation, but I think they've loosened it up a bit, especially the eavesdropping, so it's not so annoying. I guess it could still go to hell over the last 8 sequences, but so far, I may be back on the AC wagon.

AWESOME.I was kinda wondering if this was the part they cast Jeremy Davies for, but I guess not. Pitt is tremendous, though. I totally quit watching BOARDWALK EMPIRE after they killed him off. Hopefully they can keep his crazy ass in line long enough to get to the payoff of the storyline.

The tertiary characters always look like ass in these movies. No idea why.

Dude, the Internet lost it's shit over Ledger. How can you not remember that? Eisenberg can be very good when he turns it on. In a lot of his mainstream fare, he kinda coasts on the flustered, neurotic routine.

I think I'm kinda coming around on it, as the initial shock wears off. Despite his age, I'd say Eisenberg does a good job of projecting an air of intelligence well beyond what you typically see out of 30 year old actor. And I like that there's a big size discrepancy between him and Cavill & Affleck. I think it could work, depending on how they handle the character on the writing end of things.

Damn. I knew they were going to cast someone younger than Bryan Cranston, but, I say again, damn. Dude is younger than me. I guess the comparisons between Lex Luthor and Evil Mark Zuckerberg are inevitable.

Oh, the article also confirmed that X-MEN: APOCALYPSE will, in fact, be some sort of riff on the Age of Apocalypse storyline. Singer also officially debunked the "Apocalypse is an alien that possesses Magneto" bullshit.