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Got damn, Technology. So I'm watching this movie FINDING FORRESTER. Anybody remember that one? It's got Sean Connery as a reclusive legendary author and the guy who played Delmond on TREME as the poor inner city kid he mentors. Anyway, it's probably exactly the movie you expect it to be based on that setup. But there's this one scene that was just hilarious to me: The kid takes Forrester to Yankee Stadium as a surprise for his birthday. Forrester asks, "How did you know it was my birthday?" And the kid responds, "I looked it up in the almanac." I died. This movie came out in 2000, and already this kid sounds like somebody from the Dust Bowl to me. I mean, barring the unlikely event that this poor kid from Brooklyn had an almanac laying around his apartment, there was some degree of effort required to find out that information. He had to at least make a trip to the library for that shit. If this movie came out in 2013, when Forrester asked him that, the kid would've been like, "Uh...I typed your name into my phone, bitch."

Nope. No. I'm sorry A&M. You don't get to give up 48 to Duke and then chant SEC afterwards.

LOL. Duke went up 35-17 and then went for an onsides kick. And got it.

These I, FRANKENSTEIN commercials (or rather, just the one I, FRANKENSTEIN commercial that they run during every commcercial break lately) are gradually driving me insane. DESCENDER OF THE DEMON HORDE. The fuck does that even mean?

Texas A&M's late season tailspin continues, down 21-3 to DUKE. I honestly think Manziel checked out after the Auburn game, and the whole team followed his lead.

I finished up TOMB RAIDER today, and, man, I was impressed. It's derivative, sure, but also immensely playable. I think I was most impressed with how well layed out for collectible hunting all the areas were. It was extremely convenient, the polar opposite of the colossal chore it was in ARKHAM ORIGINS.

Loving the hypocrisy of Texas fans tonight. Same people who've been trying to run Mack out of town for years are all misty-eyed about him leaving now. Give me a break.

Recruits can call coaches, but that's it. Coaches can't call them, and no face to face contact of any kind. So if Recruit Whoever heard those reports, it's perfectly okay for them to call up Penn State and be like, "What the fuck?" The dead period is mainly there to protect the kids from being hounded during the holidays.

That would be a terrible hire. Schiano did nothing at Rutgers after Ray Rice left. Couldn't even win a champsionship in the shitty Big East, even when he had Rice.

Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face in BATMAN FOREVER. Granted, it was a shit movie, and Two Face was probably the worst written part of the whole movie, so clearly it wasn't all his fault and I doubt he could've saved it if he had been on his A-game. But he clearly made the choice to try and go toe-to-toe with Jim Carrey in terms of over-the-top scenery chewing, and he chose...poorly. Maybe the most embarrassing role of his career. At least in the shitty MEN IN BLACK sequels he gets to act like he's over the whole thing.

Lockett is taking Michigan apart.

I really thought Bridgewater got hurt on that play for a second there. Went down hard and awkwardly.

See, that's the danger inherent to hiring an NFL assistant. They're always going to have that desire to be an NFL coach in the back of their mind. Same thing happened with Jagodzinski and Boston College a few years back: got successful and within two years he was interviewing for an NFL gig. Of course, then BC fired his ass for it.

Christopher Lambert.

Back to BLACKFISH: THE BRYNDEN TULLY STORY for a minute... That trainer who survived being dragged to the bottom multiple times (think his name was Peters) was a boss. A stone cold boss. Ice water in his veins.

No, we gotta keep this going. We can't be more than 3 pages away from somebody putting forward Shia.

ITT we list all the actors we have ever heard of.

I got this cheap on Black Friday and just started playing it today. I'm really liking it so far. I mean, it's not going to win any originality awards or anything, but I think it stitches together a patchwork of UNCHARTED and something like ASSASSIN's CREED pretty competently.

I guess everybody is watching that one. Did anybody else feel like Sea World is just a cover for breeding an army of psychotic killer whales? When Waterworld comes, those guys will rule the seas.

I've been trying to get Netflix to send me that blu-ray for months now. Every time I think I've got it, it seems to come up as "short wait" as soon as I send back my previous disc. Yes, I am one of the 5 people in America still paying for the disc service.

The "quadruple option" already kinda exists. It's not all 100% classic option with just handoffs and laterals, but a lot of the spread run teams run plays where the QB has 4 options. Auburn does it a bit. Ole Miss does it a ton.

So I saw this yesterday, and I think I almost hated it. By far the worst of these 5 movies. I spent most of the movie in disbelief of how bad it was. Say what you will about the first Hobbit, but at least it has a proper beginning and end. This one had all the problems of the first and neither of those things. It's just a lot of stuff happening for god-knows-how-long-it-was. The Dwarves' plan to beat Smaug and the giant molten gold statue was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

Cell phones would pretty much kill the plot dead.

No, you're totally right. I wrote a lot on this very subject in the MOS thread on the old board. It's an interesting topic, but since I'm totally burnt out on the same fucking MAN OF STEEL and CAPTAIN AMERICA arguments getting repeated ad infinitum, I'll just say right on, dude.Just because Superman has been culturally relevant for the past 70 years, that doesn't mean he'll be relevant for the next 70 years. In fact, I'd say that, prior to MOS, his relevance, beyond an object of nostalgia and kitsch, was already on the wane. Icons have to adapt to the times, or they cease to be useful as icons and are therefore discarded.

Victator.