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2 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said:
Went to the theater for the first time since Covid last night to watch this movie. Saw it in the Regal cinemas X Screen format. It’s 270° where they project part of the movie on the side walls. Took a moment to get used to, but then was pretty inventive and cool.
As for the movie, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I really liked the actor from Stranger Things who played the Red Guardian.
Relating to the end-of-credits scene, I wonder if they will find a way to resurrect the Black Widow character using the multi-verse?
They don't need the multi-verse for that. They're going with alternate versions of the characters from within their own universe.
5 hours ago, TBBills said:Yea I thought it was good, lots of action and not too much forced comedy that has killed movies like this in the past.
They tried it a bit with Yelena, but it was far more subtle than the other recent MCU movies.
Oh, and I saw some comments recently from Scarlet talking about how she regrets some of the unnecessary sexualization of the character when she was first introduced. Now after seeing the movie I can't help but roll my eyes at that. There had to be 5 or 6 blatant shots of her ass in the movie. They'd start filming at the ground, pan up her legs, then switch to a different camera once they passed the waist. Now I'm not complaining, but the comments definitely seem a bit hypocritical.
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I couldn’t help but laugh when Johansson had the Foligno nose
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I understand the recent expansion team reasoning, but Vegas finished tied for the Presidents’ Trophy this year. They should be included in the draft too.
So they’re one of the top teams in the league and they also get to keep their full roster.
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On 7/13/2021 at 6:55 PM, ThurmanThomasEnglishMuffin said:
Worst for me was a Mayonnaise based sandwich at the Hyderabad airport in India. Felt it on the flight to Bengaluru. Threw up for two days after.
Mayo based the same way that a hamburger is a beef based sandwich? Or was it just some sandwich smothered in mayo? I'm not even sure why someone would buy the first option... but then again, to me mayo is vile.
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2 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
I wonder how 'The Mandelorian' would have fared with a baby Jar Jar instead of a baby Yoda? 🤔
I mean, that one is easy to answer. He fires his blaster the second that baby pod opens.-
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4 hours ago, The Poojer said:
gonna be a multi film thing or a one off? Kinda hoping for the former. Ray Liotta seems like a perfect fit in that
@shrader, almost a chance fictional meeting between the goodfellas family and the soon to be sopranos crew...that would be super cool to see
And Liotta needs to pay a visit to Dr Melfi. -
The brief glimpse of Ray Liotta in there makes me wish they found a way to give Joe Pesci a cameo.
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14 hours ago, The Jokeman said:
Marv Levy was a far worse GM than GMTM. While I think GMTM gave too much in some of his trades but at least guys he got produced like Adams thus far.
Zach Bogosian
Josh Gorges
Andrej Meszaros
Andre Benoit
Tyson Strachan
Cody Franson
Carlo Colaiacovo
Justin Falk
Taylor Fedun
Dmitri Kulikov
That's the reason why Tim Murray failed. These are the defensemen he added who got significant playing time over those three years. Bogosian and Kulikov unfortunately didn't work out and the rest are a bunch of has beens and never weres. Murray only cared about the forwards and then tried to patch up his blue line in the clearance aisle.
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27 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
There's always a buzzkill in the crowd!
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Always take the survivor's benefit! 😆
Even after your dead... It's the "gift that keeps on giving!" 😆
Buzzkill? I love this whole Bonilla thing. It's the ultimate head scratcher. I feel like they add more to the story each year to make that mets front office look even more stupid.
The amount of time left on his deal dwarfing all those other contracts just goes to show how special this one is.
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2 hours ago, Gugny said:
Worth pointing out that the Mets are far from alone as far as teams who've gone the deferred payment route:
• Max Scherzer: Will receive $105 million total from the Nationals that will be paid out through 2028.
• Manny Ramírez: Will collect $24.2 million total from the Red Sox through 2026.
• Ken Griffey Jr.: Will receive $3.59 million from the Reds every year through 2024 as the deferral from his nine-year, $116 million deal signed in 2000.
• Todd Helton: Will get $1.3 million from the Rockies every year through 2023 as the result of $13 million deferred when he signed a two-year extension in 2010.
That list of four has a combined 17 years remaining. That stacks up pretty nicely against Bonilla's 14.
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I saw the two threads back to back and for a second there I thought Billy Fuccillo was Jambi.
Anyway, I couldn't place the face so I had to click on the link to get the Seinfeld role. I didn't realize those two guys even had names. I'm going to have the whole "are you talking to me" thing stuck in my head all day.
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So pretty much everything about this half of the season was ridiculous. The over the top coincidences of John Dorie senior and Teddy, nukes... The writers went way too far overboard trying to make things happen in this show. I mean, it was entertaining enough, but so many of these things don't fit very well into the universe they've built over the years.
Some of these splinter groups better be dead whenever the show comes back with a time skip. I have no idea how things work with fallout, but June and Dorie are basically just in the ground below vaporized Dakota. They're in that bunker for a very long time. And then there's Dwight and Sherry in their basement/shelter that doesn't even have a door. And highrise Strand.
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On 6/12/2021 at 9:44 AM, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
I am not a huge Star Wars fan, but watched all the movies with my kids in the past few months on Disney+, and sort of got into it a little.
we started on mandelorian (about 5 episodes in). It seems okay, but I have been sort of confused by it— seems like a bunch of disjointed events of mando carrying baby yoda around. I was expecting a more coherent and compelling story line. But maybe it gets better?
It pretty much is a lose episodic show and then they tie it all together down the home stretch. I forget exactly when that starts, but I want to say the last two episodes. The second season is structured very similarly.
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10 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said:
Just watched the premiere episode. I thought it was really good and really liked Owen Wilson as Morbius. Looking forward to see where it goes from here.
Shows like this really make me hate the weekly release strategy that Disney uses. That first episode was entertaining, but in the big picture, absolutely nothing happened. The show could go off in any direction from here.
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It's not old enough to be near the top of my list, but right now Deadpool is that movie that I turn on anytime I see it listed.
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33 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Regardless, he must be traded before his NMC kicks in next year, so there is a countdown in effect. But there’s no hurry at this particular juncture. Interested teams are gonna need to do their own due diligence on his neck issues before committing that kind of time and money to Eichel, so I don’t see a fast timeline, anyway.
I can’t blame the Sabres for wanting to get rid of a dishonest malcontent, though. And I’m convinced these off season theatrics were deliberately orchestrated by Eichel and his agent to deliberately slow down the trade process and extend it until that NMC takes effect and they have control over where he ends up playing.
And wanting to move on does not mean they're going to rush to make it happen. This isn't the same GM who made the O'Reilly deal and also got other sub-par returns like in the Kane deal. We really don't have any history to go on for predicting Adams trades.
-Hall deal with the NMC
-Expiring deals at the deadline (Staal, Montour, Johansson)
-Johansson for Staal
Those are all in a completely different ballpark and they give me absolutely no idea of where he might go with Eichel.
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I almost wonder if Granato is the kind of guy who should be coaching the Amerks. Sure, he got a lot more out of players by using him in better situations, but I feel like that's more of a strike against Krueger than it is a positive for Granato. Any good head coach should be able to know to put players in those better, more appropriate situations. Yes, we know Granato can get more out of these guys, but just how much can he get and how long can it last? I really want to see a more seasoned NHL head coach behind that bench, especially after the last two hires. With Granato, I worry that they're setting setting the ceiling a bit too low.
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2 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
Not so sure about that one. Edmonton has been as bad as Buffalo at developing players. They actually might be the only team worse than Buffalo... (before Ken Holland anyway).
They went something like 10 years without having a contributing player drafted outside the 1st round of the draft. Iirc I think they hit on like 1 second round pick in that entire time or something ridiculous like that.
Draisaitl would be Draisaitl no matter what team drafted him.
He gets to play second fiddle to one of the greatest player that ever lived. I'm not saying he's a scrub in a different situation, but that certainly has a major impact on his career development.
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On 6/4/2021 at 3:30 PM, K-9 said:
I’d give this complaint more credibility if you could point to all your posts pounding the table to draft Draisaitl at the time. Otherwise, it’s just another case of crystal clear 20/20 hindsight. There’s a lot of that in these parts though.
I usually hate hypotheticals, but I bet things would look a hell of a lot different if Reinhart and Draisaitl switched placed back in 2014. All too often people look at the final result and say the draft pick was a mistake. This completely ignores the role played by the player development of each team.
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11 hours ago, Jauronimo said:
Charging has historically been determined by steps. Like if you keep your feet moving through the check then you ran the guy and its charging. Scheifele did not continue to accelerate through the hit. He had a full head of steam but he glided in the last 2 to 4 strides.
I don't have any problem with the ruling of a charge or the suspension BUT lets not pretend the rule is cut and dry. And lets definitely not pretend that the farce that is the NHL's disciplinary process is infallible. There is zero consistency with the way suspensions are handed out. The only consistency is if a guy gets really hurt, the offending player is missing games. If sitting Scheifele 4 games makes the league a safer place then I'm on board.
You just described the consistency. If you injure someone with an illegal hit, you will get suspended. I wish their standard was different, but they've been fairly consistent. The only place they break from that standard is when it's a fight, two willing participants.
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At least one referee on the ice called it charging (probably the other as well). The NHL called it charging. It was charging.
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This approach of blaming a player for scoring a goal... I have to say, it's unique.
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3 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:
I thought the intent was to stop the game-sealing goal. I don't know anything about Scheifele - does he have a rep as a dirty player?
The intent is going to matter all that much. When you trip or hook a guy on a breakaway, your intent is to prevent a goal, but it's still a penalty. This one is going to draw a suspension. Every video they release about a suspension always starts out with exactly what rule was broken and how it was broken, then followed up with the so called damage report. This one checks every box on that list.
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I'm torn here. I can't get behind anyone named Brooks or Bryson.
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Buffalo Sabres & NHL 2020-2021
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I was dumb enough to look at a mock expansion draft yesterday on NHL.com. It's the only one I've looked at. It had the Kraken taking Tokarski. I had to clean the coffee off my monitor.