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    NFL Week 9 - Fußball in Deutschland

    in The Locker Room

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    8 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

    Didn’t realize this. Despite being called the best division in football a few weeks ago by some NFL analysts, the entire NFC West managed to score the same amount of points as the Giants - who were lead by an undrafted rookie QB that had a QBR under 4. 

    6 points for the entire division. Lol.

    ~*The Official Thread of One Term/Twice Impeached/Worst of Them All Presidential Tantrums, Candy Throwing, and Pants Shitting*~

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    10 hours ago, Chairslinger said:

     

     

    Maybe the quick and easiest way to demonstrate Trump's essential political nature as an authoritarian dictator is the casually insane ego masturbatory lies he tells about himself.

     

    You could change the names and it would be impossible to tell who was telling what lie between Trump's perfect election, Lil Kim's 38 under golf game, or Putin and his l33t hockey skills.

    The media would never do that because it would be "unfair" to call out the lying liar who lies all the time. They gotta do both sides you know.

    What Are You Reading or Listening To?

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    On 10/25/2023 at 10:15 PM, thewhyteboar said:

    I enjoyed that noir. Had a lively theme of  Catholicism running through, which I always enjoy. I’ll track down something else by the other if I want to go back to the genre. 
     

    Time for another Western, Valdez is Coming, by Elmore Leonard. 

    Fantastic Western. I need to see the movie someday. I also read Stoner by John Williams, which definitely lived up to the hype--"The best book you've never read" is the blurb on the cover. I now have read 3 of John Williams' 4 novels. Each of them are wonderful and so different from the other. 

    I haven't settle on a new novel yet, but I'm going back and forth between Elmore Leonard short stories, a few chapters of Moby Dick, and a new book on the directing team of Powell and Pressburger.

    ~Rate The Last Movie/TV Show You Watched Thread~

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    On 10/1/2023 at 12:53 PM, thewhyteboar said:

    September: 

     

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 5/5 Incredible, full of life, while avoiding cloying sentimentality. Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and Colonel Blimp are possibly the greatest trio of movies from anyone? Very few directors can match that.

    A Canterbury Tale 4.5/5 I kept rolling with the Archers. This is really lovely with some great shots. I'd love to watch this with my daughter as a holiday film when she gets older.

    I Know Where I'm Going! 4/5 The last of the Archers that I watched. Solid rom/com. Roger Livesey kicks ass.

    Henry Fool 2.5/5 Did not connect with this one. Thought the humor was way more full of misses than hits. 

    The Wild Bunch 5/5 Rewatched this as I decided to also read a biography of Sam Peckinpah. No greater master at crosscutting or editing than he. 

    The Last Run 3.5/5 Fun car chase movie with George C. Scott. Some really lovely jackets. Peak fashion.

    Do The Right Thing 4.5/5 I'd never seen this before. What a cast, what a story, what an always-timely message. 

    White Lighting 3/5 Fun seeing a bunch of guys who pop up in Peckinpah movies.

    Gloria 2.5/5 I really wanted to like this, I like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, but I just think it didn't really work.

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 5/5 Gorgeous. Just gorgeous. I particularly liked the score (Philip Glass), but this is a movie where everything (set design, costumes, cinematography) just comes together perfectly. 

    October:

     

    Salvatore Giuliano - not all Italian neo-realism is my thing, and this was one that wasn’t. I liked seeing Frank Wolff (maybe the first time I’ve seen him speaking Italian). Beautiful shots of Sicily and a good ending, but it didn’t really get my water moving. 
    Sneakers - One of my favorites from when I was a kid. Absolutely holds up, especially with that cast. It’s such a tragedy that River Phoenix died so young–what a talent.
    My Darling Clementine - A gorgeous black and white take on the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Victor Mature gives a wonderful and deeply felt performance as Doc Holliday. The Hamlet scene and his delivery of the soliloquy is quite moving, and a great scene to show what the West was becoming. Monument Valley just pops in the black and white. You get these wonderful shots of the town with Monument Valley in the background. Just great stuff. Plus it has Walter Brennan. Great movie.  
    Rocco and His Brothers - I had only seen one Visconti before it (The Leopard), and even though I liked that one a lot he wasn’t really someone on my radar, I just picked this one cause I love Alain Delon. And now Visconti might be my favorite director. This is just an incredible movie with a bunch of insane performances. Annie Girardot’s gut-wrenching one will be a favorite for a long, long time. It was filmed in Milan and looks beautiful, but it doesn’t just show the fancy areas, though the Duomo makes an appearance, it goes into the tenements as well. It shows real poverty amidst a society that is growing but leaving some behind. A beautiful and sad movie. 
    Anatomy of a Murder - Jimmy Stewart is just a humble country lawyer, Ben Gazzara (always amazing) is his slimy client, and George C. Scott is the hotshot prosecutor. Any courtroom drama with a cast like that is going to be incredible. 
    Senso - I went back to Visconti here, a color movie this time. And it is gorgeous. The colors of the uniforms, the opera house, Venice. Everywhere you look just gorgeous contrasts. 
    La Strada - Fellini’s first big one. Giulietta Masina’s performance glows, she can be so bright and then a half second later you can see the deep sadness. I liked it more than I Vitelloni, but it’s not my favorite of his. The trio of 8 ½, La Dolce Vita, and Amarcord will always be my favorite, though I still have a few Fellinis that I need to watch.
    The Seven-Ups - An insanely good car chase, Roy Scheider, good 70s clothing, and not much else.
    Hopscotch - I watched this because I wanted to watch a Walter Matthau movie. He was good, but this was a comedy that just wasn’t that funny.
    Le Notti Bianche - If you had asked me before this month, I would have said that Fellini was my favorite Italian director. But now I think it has to be Visconti, this is the 3rd of his I watched this month. I liked seeing Marcello Mastroianni in a different kind of role, not as confident as he is in La Dolce Vita. A little more earnest and honest. Which makes what happens at the end all the sadder.
    The Age of Innocence - I’m slowly trying to work my way through the Scorsese films that I haven’t seen yet. I really liked this one, especially how it looked. I’ll be thinking about that gorgeous scene by the lighthouse for awhile.
     

    This month was me becoming a massive Luchino Visconti fanboy.

    • Halal 2

    ~~ CEB Community Thread ~~

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

    Eon, spelled o (silent) eo n ja (ㅇ ㅓ ㄴ ㅈ) =  얹 but the ja at the end not pronounced, seems odd, but then there are words that are the opposite where the consonant at the end is pronounced and the one before it is not. People say English is hard but it feels like Korean breaks their rules all the time.

    I'm no expert (of course), but a lot of that depends if there is a vowel in the next syllable or a consonant. So take 앉, the ㅈ will get moved to the next syllable if it starts with a vowel. So 앉아, the ㅈ sound gets moved to the second syllable and gets pronounced there. So it would be pronounced like "안/자" (an/ja).

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    The Mariners

    in The Locker Room

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    I feel bad for Paul Sewald. 
     

    This season was maybe one of the worst Mariners seasons of all time. They decided not to spend in the off-season, and watched as a division rival goes on to spend and win their first World Series. After they missed the postseason (by failing to beat said division rivals, both of them), they then get ripped by their own core players for failing to do enough. And to top it all off, the team president gives a press conference at the end of the year where he basically says the fans should be content to simply be over .500. 
     

    And the fucking owner doesn’t give a shit, because the team is insanely profitable (according to Forbes the most profitable), so why should he bother spending any money when he knows that no matter what he will make money?

     

    Dark, dark times. 

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    NFL Week 8 - Spooky People Dressed as Referees Rigging Games

    in The Locker Room

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    5 hours ago, PaladinSolo said:

    No idea why you'd think this, hes 1st in yards per catch, 9th in the league in total yards, 10th in completion %, tied for 8th in TD passes, 3rd in QBR and rating, SFs offensive woes these past few weeks have come from Purdy running for his life along with 0 run game cause the Oline is dookie without Williams playing, but hes still moving the team down the field.

    I think you’re making my point for me: he needs everything to be perfect around him for him to be any good. 

     

    5 hours ago, Biggie said:

    He is a huge Seahawks fan that's why lol

    Absolutely impossible for this to play a role in my evaluation of him. 
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Spoiler

    :cool:

     

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