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  1. I don't recall ever crying, but the Denzel scene is masterful.  An extended camera shot focusing on just him, with the sound of the whip on his back, and tears flowing down his face as he's showing tremendous restraint and whatever dignity and defiance he can muster, while keeping his eyes squarely on Col. Shaw.  Denzel is one of the best.
    And yeah, it's one of my favorite musical scores of all time, which added to the power of the movie, especially the battle scenes.

    One thing I appreciated about Glory is that it didnt have much battle porn, that glorified war. But it showed men, black and white, heroic and scared, killing and dying. It glorified the men who were in the war.
  2. With the current trajectory I’d pencil Shadeur in as a Cowboy.

    Middle of the 1st or 3rd round depending Dax’s status.

    Other Circus Destinations
    Cleveland
    Vegas
    Arizona
    Carolina

    Based on Need
    Rams
    Giants

    So thats 7 teams in the market, but I dont think serious organizations like the Rams or Giants (they try) want non-serious people at QB.

    So that leaves five dysfunctional teams in various stages of QB uncertainty that likely will take a hard look and want a piece of the Sanders hype machine.

    Its also possible and likely in the eval and interview process, the Sanders team will alienate these remaining franchises. Thats why I think Jerrah will get both Sanders kids.

    Travis Hunter is an elite prospect. He will get drafted, then work will get done to separate him from Deion’s team or whatever it is.

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  3. Just fucking trash. None of the people in the video look like they would spend a single dollar in any of the clubs/bars/restaurants on 6th.
    I've said it before. Block off the whole area, charge $20 to get in, that $20 will be credited towards drinks or food. It's a win for the club, restaurant, and bar owners. That would keep most all of the trash away.

    So your policy is just to move “trash” around and kinda keep them out of an area that has been known as “Dirty Sixth” for 30 years.
  4. If your memory of Real Genius is that it's a great film or some cinematic achievement, you'll definitely be disappointed on a revisit, but it absolutely holds up as a funny 80's college campus comedy.
    I think it's aged well because it's not very gimmicky and has legitimately good performances from Val Kilmer and William Atherton. Atherton was a legendary 80's wet blanket villain and his chemistry with Kilmer is hilarious to watch decades later. It's been said that Kilmer is a character actor stuck in a leading man's body, but he's genuinely great as the clear lead in Real Genius. Awesome 80's montage sequences too, including the Tears For Fears popcorn ending. 

    Disagree with your premise. It is a masterful comedy that mixed genres, captured the time period perfectly, and was ahead of its time. Its anti-militaristic message is about as good as it gets. A near perfect movie. Shit, even dorky lead Mitch was perfectly cast opposite scene-stealing Val Kilmer as Chris Knight.

    Id put this up there with Dr Strangelove and Tropic Thunder as seminal comedic masterpieces.
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  5. Good.  I hope that he keeps campaigning like that.

    Thats by far his best strategy. Shutting the fuck up. He’s a loathsome person. The normals who pretend he’s same as Biden feel better about voting for lower taxes and being tough on crime and saving babies . Thats a small minority, probably 1-2% of undecided morons. Probably some DT Southpark Libertarians and other bothsiders.
  6. Always enjoy the takes from early mock season. Wonder how this one (full of notable names from Surly past) will age.
    https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2025-nfl-mock-draft-shedeur-sanders-travis-hunter-headline-way-too-early-look-at-next-years-class/
    Spoiler

    #1 Sheduer Sanders
    #2 Travis Hunter
    #4 Harold Perkins
    #6 Carson Beck
    #9 Cam Ward
    #11 Princely Umanmielan
    #12 Quinn Ewers
    #15 Noah Thomas
    #16 Donovan Jackson
    #20 Evan Stewart
    #21 Kelvin Banks Jr.
    #22 Denver Harris
    #23 Landon Jackson
    #25 Jalen Milroe
    #29 Shemar Turner
    #30 Collin Oliver

     


    Wouldnt touch Sanders for anything. Lot of potential. Not getting coached up. Shows little leadership ability. I predict operation shutdown after 8 games.

    If Im the New York Giants next year. I make sure to build up Daniel Jones
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  7. Yeah. She's just sexy and it boosts her attractiveness in my book. A bit like ScarJo.
    Also she got very naked in Oppenheimer.

    She got naked in Imax. Her sweaty body left an impression. Most importantly, she was totally convincing as a leftwing pinko academic of that time period.
  8. Damn shame this was made.  Horrible compared to the original trilogy even though the cast  had some stars.  One actor that I normally can’t stand and find hideous is awkwafina but strange enough, at the end, when she didn’t have the crazy make up and hair, she looked decent.  
     
    bangability rankings:
     
    1 Sandra bullock - classic beauty. Have had a crush on her forever
    2 Ann Hathaway.  Underrated body
    3 Kate blanchett
    4 Rihanna 
    5 awkwafina.  Yep I said it
    6 Helena bonham Carter 
    7 Sarah Paulson 
    8 Mindy kaling 


    In their prime?

    Risk It All…
    Rihanna
    Hathaway

    Marriage Material…
    HBC
    Bullock
    Blanchett

    Civilians…
    Sarah Paulson
    Mindy Kaling

    Just Friends…
    Awkafina
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  9. I watched it again. The Baron is on screen for what 5 minutes tops? I’d have to double check , but there are 10+ chapters from the Baron’s POV in the book. 
     
    Also Giedi Prime is depicted as peak Roman Empire in black and white. It’s supposed to be a polluted industrial hell hole. I’ve always imagined the planet as a giant oil refinery. Lynch’s version looked campy as hell, but it was more true to the book.
    Paul’s acceptance of Irulan is also problematic. He tells the emperor he’ll marry his daughter, but in name only. He’ll never consummate the marriage, and Chani shall be his consort and mother of his children. Paul and Chani just don’t seem to be clicking at the end of the film, which felt off given they’re much in love at the end of the book. 
     
    Otherwise, I loved it. DV understands what Dune should look and sound like, and he built the films around this. 

    As an illiterate, not being true to the book is a feature not a bug. Hearing “according to the book” - who gives a shit?

    Regarding Lynch’s version, his casting decisions were phenomenal. As besotted as I am with Florence Pugh, Virginia Madsen was smoke. Wow, whoa what a beautiful woman!

    Sean Young and Francesca Annis were striking. Hell, might as well add Sting to the list.
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  10. You're setting the lowest bar possible. There are a slew of coaches who could take a one win team to four wins. 
    Outside of ticket sales and lame hype for gullible sports media, Deion hasn't really displayed a single prowess in coaching. He had a vast talent gap at his former job. 
    The portal and his shithead offspring helped him make obvious improvements last year. This year he is seemingly shuffling outgoing mediocrity for incoming mediocrity. And there's reasonable evidence that he had more quality leaving than arriving in this cycle. 
    They'll have zero continuity on the OL this year. Seaton will likely be their best lineman. And he's gonna get abused regularly. Tyler Brown will be a better run blocker than anyone they had last year but it won't matter when Deion insists that his toxic, shithead son throws the ball 50+ a game. Two injuries at OL and they're worse off than last year. 
    I think Shedeur is a good quarterback. He has good speed, he's accurate and has a quick release, though the release is redundant because he mostly holds the ball way too long. He was allowed to fire his own OC and openly disrespected him on television. If his dad wasn't the head coach he would've been in full revolt mode. The fact he was allowed to do that probably made him more of a dickhead. So they have that going for them, which is nice. 
    They'll be improved at wr next year. I don't see improvement anywhere else. Where have you seen improvement? 

    At 3-4, the NFL player shutdowns will begin. Relying on transactional relationships is not a recipe for success in any business. I will relish the meltdown.
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  11. Political hatred for the man aside, I am honestly shocked his opening number was 5%.  For such a "brilliant negotiator", he could probably have asked for 15-20% and likely gotten it to both collect much needed cash and 'permit' the other candidate to show fealty/save face.  Effectively getting them into "who likes Trump the mostest out of everybody in our homeroom class" kinda thing.  Which may very well still unfold.  

    When you have no agenda except kleptocracy and extortion, it makes it easy to not trade in favors. He has no respect or understanding of branches of government and believes he’s king.
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  12. Um, 70% of Texans live in the big four metro areas.
    The issue is strategic, not political. Rural Texas got bright red as the Democratic Party abandoned efforts to win rural county courthouses in the 90s and hasn’t gone back since and consequently lose rural areas by default while the GOP still contests elections in the urban and suburban counties, and the efforts add up.
    So example- Travis County went 72% for Biden- other urban counties were blue, but less so. The bluest county in the Panhandle was Potter- where Amarillo held Trump down to 68%. The panhandle as a whole (including Potter) was over 80% for Trump. Further south on the western edge of the Big Country, Midland county was 75%.
     
    In other words- it’s rural Texas that is out of touch with Texans. They are just so intensely out of touch that they are able to carry the state in coalition with disaffected city dwellers.
     


    Texans includes people in cities. And from my perspective in Austin, dems in city council are being dunked on from issues like homelessness, public safety and affordability. Dems need to be the party of good governance and not get sucked in too much on wedge issues. But they need to be competent and responsive and have a clear communication. When Fitlump is one of our best council members in some respects, you see the rot exposed. And state gov is exploiting this weakness.

    Hell, even the grifter Dan Patrick understands that investors are driving up the price of single family homes. And with our upzoning scheme, welcomed by investors, developers and realtors, we will make each plot even more lucrative. His study on the issue will be a money grab but nevertheless.
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  13. Yes, turnout percentage is higher.  But the state is growing much faster than it did in 1992 (the previous high before 2020).  Both in percentages, and obviously raw numbers.  What's more the growth is younger (obviously, but I mean not just kids but 18-45's moving here/beginning to vote finally), the growth is more people of color (obviously Hispanic, but also Asian).  And most glaring to me...more urban/suburban than rural.  We are now sitting at 85%+ urban/suburban in Texas (obviously you'd need to break that down college/non-college).  In 1992, that number was closer to only 65-70%.  That's the shift that is the most promising, even more than age.  But give the rural/exurb folks credit, they vote at a drastically higher clip than anyone else.   

    Perhaps, but the democrats share of hispanics is less. And transplants to Texas are more conservative than they were in the past.

    The democratic party strongholds in cities are out of touch with Texans and are largely impotent, either by being new urbanists or playing on national politics. And, largely being shat on by the state, who are derelict in their duty.

    Florida and Texas are out of play, once battleground states that are now playgrounds for theofascism and gqp activism.
  14. Chinatown came out the same year as The Godfather II so I don't fault it for "only" winning one Academy Award.
    Chinatown is a phenomenally good movie. I use some variation of "Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown" line all the time.

    In the context of screenplay discussion, I implied the screenplay was exceptional. It was the foundation of an all-time movie. Not disparaging the movie at all which was part of my Columbia House VHS collection along with Se7en and some others.
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  15. Bowen Yang has become my new least liked. He's edged out Keenan at playing the same character in every role.

    Let’s give Bowen another 10 years before he “edges out” Keenan at playing a character to death.
  16. I don't care about typos.
    This wasn't that. Typos are unintentional.

    Maybe we should take your interpretation of typos to the grammar board. Again, there’s not one. Let’s stay on the topic of Sweat getting popped.
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