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Spectre: 4/10 When I first saw Walz in Inglourious Basterds, I thought he was a genius. Now I just think that he's a cariacature of Craig Ferguson (or vice versa). I don't think I've cared about a Bond movie since Casino Royale.
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What I don't get is why people like Goose and the FifthLine spend so much time talking about how they don't like a player. The amount of time wasted on negative energy is pretty sad IMO. If I didn't particularly like a player, I'd never think to run onto CDC and talk about how bad he is, yet you guys have been doing this for two years. Don't you get tired of doing the same thing over and over again?
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Its been a game where NOBODY on offense has played particularly well, because it has been an extremely tight game. Virt is at least creating offensive chances.
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Sam Mende David Fincher Wes Anderson Richard Linklater Scorsese (barely holding on)
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You have a very loose definition of what a 'fact' is. I count one 17 year old dman on Sweden... and several that are half a year older than JV. If you want to make the argument that Virtanen is playing against guys who are not as highly touted and in the same 'class' as him, fine. Just stop inventing stats to try and illustrate your point. You do this all the time.
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Holy &^@#. Another case of this Aussie goof lying to prove a point. How many times are you going to continue to just make up stats? Guys far younger than himself? That's not possible in a tournament where the age gap cannot be more than 2 years. Guys older or the same age on Sweden: Andreas Englund Linus Soderstrom Gustav Forsling William Lagesson Adam Ollas Mattsson Marcus Pettersson Aho .... and that is just goalies and dmen. Too long to do forwards, which says something.
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Creed: 4/10 Gone to the well one too many times. I just didn't care about whether Creed had success or not.
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I thought they did lay it on a bit thick when Rey and Fin first met, and JJ took every opportunity possible to illustrate that Rey needed help from nobody. That said, I find it funny how easily upset people get in response to others whom these people think are too emotional. 'The PC police have created a strong female lead because of their bleeding liberal heart'... then they go on to decry the fall of America and the death of capitalism.
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Regarding what was in your spoiler, absolutely emotional.
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The fact that he didn't shows he is more focused on being a key offensive cog for TC.
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Virtanen line trusted by Lowry to restore order.
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Sick bastard. Read the Star Wars thread and was surprised that people didn't like the two new characters. They were given some corny lines, but they at least have back stories that have the potential to be interesting. People seem to be forgetting that Luke was just some guy in the desert. The Force isn't something that is 'learned', becoming a Jedi requires training, but its not like Leia required training to be 'Force Aware'.
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Star Wars: 8.7/10 A few corny lines, some stale acting from Carrie Fischer and . Overall, however, I loved it. The sounds brought me right back to childhood. We got a set of 4,5, and 6 in a gold box. Digitally remastered. I probably watched those movies 100 times. Loved the callback to previous scenes in the original (e.g., the light sabre in the snow). This trilogy will certainly help remove some of the bad taste left by Jar Jar Binks et al.
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The Revenant: 7/10 Beautiful imagery, phenomenal use of natural light. Love that they went to Argentina to keep the natural light theme consistent. However, very little depth to the movie. In an era where we're made to believe that death is commonplace, all of a sudden we're asked to care about one man's revenge story. There are several thousand revenge stories to be told. I just couldn't care enough about DiCaprio's character to make the movie compelling. I might rate it higher for the cinematography alone, but a pretty disappointing film. Not because it was 'bad', but because I was so amped for this film.
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I thought it was Walz. While I was watching, I was annoyed that Walz simply reprised his role from Django.
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To each their own, but I don't think there was any way for me to watch that movie and not believe that I'd already seen these themes in films of Tarantino's past. The style was stale. Misguided concepts of justice isn't something new to Tarantino's work.
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People talked about Aldo being scared; I didn't see that. I think he game plan was to ignore CM's antics so that he wouldn't get any more revved up than he already was. CM still my favourite, and I usually hate trash talkers.
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It has neither of these two things. You are mistaking 'words' for dialogue. Your review and the one you cite is an example of taking a movie and trying to infer deeper meaning based on current events. The inference is extremely weak and based on very loose source material. I don't get why cartoonish violence earns points. Didn't Kill Bill do that for you?
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This new movie is similar to Django, which is what I meant by going back to the well. On top of the frequent use of the N word (which he's done frequently before), the jokes feel like the ones that didn't make the cut from Django. Funny accents, yelling, repeating lines delivered from earlier scenes...
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The last quote is particularly informative. I think his quest to write more original screenplays has resulted in him going back to the well over and over because it is that much harder to come up with new material. His new movie shouldn't even be counted as an original screenplay given how derivative it is of his own previous work.
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Oh just hold on, you've got Mexican stereotypes on their way.
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The Hateful Eight: Hated it/10 Tarantino attempts to direct a movie without having to do anything unique. White people using the N word for 2+ hours. The movie is 100% dialogue driven, which would be fine except the dialogue is so poorly written. Movie would have been 30 minutes longer, but a running joke is that the storm is loud and so everyone has to repeat themselves. This might be the worst Tarantino movie I've ever seen. People will praise it for rich dialogue, but I thought it was lazy.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CWrfEq9WUAEy5ZB.mp4 This board really sucks when it comes to trying to post videos/gifs. Link is to a blindside hit that JV took.
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The opening scene of the Revenant was so great I stopped watching it so that I could wait until I got to my parents' house to watch it on their fancier TV. ...and based on the first few minutes, I doubt Leo wins an Oscar, simply because the cinematography and costume design will over-power any acting performance.
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Marty St Louis exited very similarly to Kesler, and he's a Canadian Olympian and was captain at the time. The night Boeser was drafted, he was in a Mexican restaurant at like midnight, still wearing his Canucks jersey. Let's all breathe. JV, Bo, Hutton, Virt, McCann, Demko... there is a good young crop of kids that I'm sure he'll look forward to playing with.