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  1. 2 hours ago, Which Tyler said:

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/342790462083346

    That's the 7TB hard-drive, with all our films, photos, music, files etc on it - she's ripped out the power cable from the wall, and the USB cable from the TV - both of which are destroyed (hopefully she hasn't destroyed the USB input).

    One of the dumbbell weights is destroyed as well.

     

    4th dog, 10th if you include childhood. I've never known one this destructive. Every single time they're left alone in the house, something is destroyed, however hard we try to protect stuff.

     

    I refuse to crate her, especially with Beli's past. Any other suggestions?

    More exercise is the simplest first order possible solution.  A tired dog is a good dog.  Some dogs need 3+ mile walks every day.  I'm glad you are refusing to crate the dog when no one is home.  Good luck.

  2. 6 hours ago, SeanF said:

    After Seasons 7 and 8 (which only appear worse with hindsight), GOT has no rewatch value, for me.

    You can rewatch 1-4, all the flaws are still there, but the show is good, sometimes great during those years. 

    I also found, that after the horrific 7 and 8, rewatching 5-6, while still bad, were still much better than 7/8 where quality fell off a mountain.

    Yes, GRRM bears much responsibility for GOT going totally off the rails once they ran out of books. 

    It's interesting that they chose for their project something that had built in so many challenges for an adaptation, instead of something a little more straightforward.   It is hilarious in a bad way that Rian 'yes I ruined Star Wars' Johnson is also involved.  Doesn't bode well, but we'll see I guess, I have not read the source material.

  3. I much prefer 1984 Baron to the new one.  The loss of his hideous facial disease is a shame.  I love both Jessicas.  Always hated Kyle M so Chalamet is a big upgrade.  There is a lot to like in the Lynch version, even though there is a lot that is insanely bad.  It's a loss for the movies that they've eliminated almost completely the stuff about the spacing guild.  Dune should have a GOT kind of vibe to it.

  4. I've never watched Godfather I&II and not been blown away.  Perfect casting, great acting, cinematography, okay I could have used a little less brown, but that's a quibble.  I def feel that it deserves its place as 'one of the best movies ever made' even if James Caan wasn't Italian.  I can't imagine though what Paramount had been thinking when they wanted Robert Redford to play Michael, that would have been insane.

    Casino is one of my favorite Scorcese films, I like it much, much better than Goodfellas.

    Watched The Batman this weekend, which I had completely forgotten even existed.  Liked it a lot, but I have hated how the super hero movies all devolved into total camp, jokey one liners and much prefer when they take their stories more seriously.

    Also Wolf with middle aged Jack, still charismatic as hell, young hot James Spader and Michelle Pfeifer, who was so beautiful in the 90s.

  5. 35 minutes ago, DMC said:

    Yeah, gotta say this is what lost me with the first season.  The conclusion of that was just so stupid on so many different levels I'll have a hard time getting back into the show.  Otherwise, though, I thought the first season was fairly inoffensive.  Or at least the choices they made were understandable and/or defensible for a middling depiction with really awesome production values.

    It was completely mediocre in everything but CGI, which is fine for an Amazon Prime show except that it cost a BILLION dollars and is Tolken.  That makes it a failure.  

    I had a pretty hard time getting through most episodes in a single viewing, same for WOT, but I eventually got through it, and I expect I will also watch season 2. 

  6. Is there any legitimate reason to believe that ROP will improve?  Are there interviews from the showrunners or actors or producers that give any impression of such a desire for 'improvement'?

    I expect it to be exactly as bad as it was in the first season.  The extreme levels of stupidity with the Galadriel/Sauron story and how they ended it, make it impossible to fix the character flaws the show introduced for her.

  7. 23 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

    You're pure evil.

    As to the strategy in both games for the losing teams, I only saw part of Chiefs-Ravens and none of Lions-Niners, but overall it sounds like the two less experienced teams panicked and broke their tendencies/game plans. Both seemed like they choked based on the postgame coverage. 

    Not really.  The Ravens played pretty poorly from the jump, they did appear to change their general strategy, e.g. abandoned the run, etc..  The Lions played well, then choked, and still almost pulled it out at the end.  You could even say that refusing to abandon their tendency to go for it on 4th was a key reason they ended up losing.   

  8. Watching Reacher, I don't notice it being any worse than season 1, which I remember exactly zero information about the plot.  It's dumb, superficial action entertainment.  There is no there there.  And, that's fine sometimes.

    Also rewatched 1948's The Heiress, a masterpiece of directing, casting, acting.  It's funny that William Wyler is practically forgotten when it comes to 'best directors' lists these days.  Rewatched LOTR, which triggered a remembrance of how much I hate ROP and its dumb version of Galadriel.

  9. 3 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

    I've always said there's a few groups of QBs: Elite, Really Good, Mirrors, Bad Starters and Backups. The problem is the Really Good category is pretty slim. 

    Is there even anyone in the 'elite' category right now except Mahomes?  Is Joe Burrow or Lamar Jackson elite?  I don't think so.    

  10. Just now, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

    Dak is a top 10 QB, but like with Allen you need him to be hot for a month to make a deep playoff run. That one shit game is always looming. 

    If Dak is a top 10 QB, then the NFL has fallen farther than I thought.   He's better than average with a strong streak of mediocre. 

  11. 15 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

    I think one of the bigger strikes against his legacy is that with Brady he was stellar, and without Brady he was less than mediocre. Whereas Brady went off and went to another super bowl without Belichick. To be fair it's only been a couple of years, but it's still not a great sign of how good Belichick is. 

    It's been a bad couple of years.  But, let's not forget he was the DC for all the Giant's Parcells superbowls and had finally gotten the hapless Browns to be good before Art Modell pulled the rug out.  He has a long history of winning before Brady.  

  12. 20 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

    Probably not in the NFL, but we've seen somewhat similar runs in the MLB and NBA. The wild part is how bad of a GM Belichick was. It just highlights how one person shouldn't have both jobs.

    I agree he would have been better to have a GM, or at least a stronger second in command.  But, you can't really say that he was a 'bad' GM, considering that there was basically a superbowl appearance almost every other year for 20+ years.  That is insane.

  13. 20 minutes ago, Maithanet said:

    I mean, they're sorta right, but there's nothing they can do about it.  The glory days of the Pats dynasty ended when Brady left.  Whether they keep BB or get a new coach, they are just another team now, and will be wallowing in the mud with the rest of us. 

    That said, Belichick has been an absolute titan in the NFL these past 24 years.  So many of the biggest moments in the Brady-Belichick era are because some other player (often a no-name guy) made a big play, and you can't attribute that to anything but coaching.   

     

    Eh, I don't say it wasn't time for BB to leave the Pats, but seriously, they won their last superbowl 5 years ago.  The game has not 'changed' other than becoming ever more sloppy and poorly officiated.  BB problem was, for whatever reason, he was not a good judge of talent and if he didn't have someone on staff who was, then bad draft/trade decisions would happen.  

    I expectr the Patriots to be mediocre to bad for the next several years, though I do like Vrabel, he's no BB.

  14. Saltburn.  Mixed feelings.  I like it more if I don't take it too seriously since it has a lot of plot holes and is somewhat confused thematically.  Nice cinematography, excellent acting, obviously a gorgeous setting.  R Pike stole every single scene she was in. 

    I'm not a huge fan of the 'eat the rich' type movies, though I know some don't see that this film really fits that genre......but then, Fennel did say that the expectation was the audience would be invested in Oliver and side with him [I didn't and wasn't]....you could see what a freak he was early on in the film when he's stalking Felix...even before any of the other reveals.  Also mixed on the 'gross out' scenes, not really offended per se, but they went on for a looong time and not sure we really needed that many minutes devoted to the grave scene or some of the others.  

     

    Spoiler

    In my imagination, Farleigh and his mother, and maybe Duncan is their ally, come back strong and uncover Oliver in all of his murderous deceit and the house goes back to the blood family.  But that's me, they were in no way bad enough people to deserve the fates he gave them.

     

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