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Wonder if it will open with her killing Cyclops again and deciding on Wolverine as a paramour, then joining Magneto.

That's too bad, I really did think was a pretty good movie, and don't really think anything released this weekend that would usurp it. Maybe people are thinking is to much a Potter clone.

Just read the following, makes me happy:

Went and saw The House with the Clock in the Wall. Jack Black and Cate Blanchett steal movie with their "bickering". Fun movie, probably on a par with early Potter movies. The kid stuff was kid stuff and didnt really detract. REcommend, especially for those of you with kids.

They should do a Deadpool/She-Hulk movie. both breaking 4th wall and at somepoint talking over each other to do so.

Maybe a skrull disguised as wolverine.

3 hours ago, DShomshak said:

Male and female partners who have no sexual tension between them at all. They are smart, competent, dedicated to their jobs, respect each other, and the writer has to come up with some other basis for drama and character development

On Blue Bloods tv show, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and his partner (Marisa Ramirez) are exactly what you describe. It is actually very refreshing, and the shows writers do just enough to make them annoy each other for you to not get the impression they are romantically interested. Course, for the most part I really like the writing on this show^.

The parts I don't are when they take the sister played by Bridget Moynahan, who is DA, and have her go overboard to be "cold", especially with her chief inspector. Sometimes she does dumb things, despite being really smart and savvy. Funnily, I commented that she does dumb things not because she is portraying a woman, but because she is portraying the non police officer in the show, and the show is very pro-police (though they show the negative parts a lot too).

I mentioned this movie in the what have you viewed thread: Season of the Witch with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. It is the most anti cliche movie I have seen. Neither friend betrays each other - ever. The church member sent with them to escort the witch isn't a lecherous pervert only accusing her because he desires her, the person tearing the group apart with illusions turns out to be the possessed girl, which equals witch to the church, though in this case to the devil seeking the last book that can tell how to banish it. The acting etc isn't great, but we loved that the twist was really there was no twist.

Good sign for baseball. Saw a report other day that fewer and fewer kids are playing football (mainly due to the concussion issues I believe) and are playing basketball and baseball and soccer. There have been a lot of commentary about that kids weren't really playing baseball compared to the other sports, which is why the league seems dominated more by latin american/island teams now. Not sure I agree, but there have been a lot fewer african american players it seems in the last 20 years or so, percentage wise.

I read an article today suggesting if he has the surgery now, perhaps he DH's next year early in the season(since he could probably start hitting by then) while recuperating his pitching arm. Then we see what he does as a full time DH for a year and he can make decision for 2020.

By the way, all the idiots saying Angels should not have had him pitch after he had been cleared aren't really thinking. You would rather know now that he needs TJ surgery then wait until halfway through spring training and then lose him for all of 2019 and half of 2020.

And Ohtani will miss 2019 - http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24588925/los-angeles-angels-says-doctors-recommended-tommy-john-surgery-pitcher-dh-shohei-ohtani

1 hour ago, Doc Shadow said:

"One good slug of this, and you can hit a man with phaser stun, and he'd never feel it or even know it."

Must be next generation, and really, didnt need a slug of anything, since stun with a phaser never hurt anyone, much like Worf, the uber fighting security chief from Klingon.

Went and saw Mile 22 today. Mostly what you expect. People in it are good, script is good, but odd. I don't want to give to much away, but feels like the start of a series.

1 hour ago, Old Man said:

 

Umm, what? 

ditto. I thought was just something he said to cause outrage, where did pictures at a party come from. time to google I guess.

I think of 2 stories about her when I think of her.

1st was stepping in for Pavarotti in, iirc, 1998 and sang his aria in his key and absolutely killed it.

2nd is when they were doing the tribute to Carol King, one of the other ladies didn't want to go back on stage for the finale and Aretha walked right by her heading to stage and made some comment that got her to do so.

Truly a great, perhaps greatest, female singer in american history.

It's funny, I have been watching a lot of the Shaw brothers Hong Kong movies, and this picture looks almost identical to the opening logo of their films, with the girl sitting on the rock. Sadly, my google foo is weak and no matter what I use, I can't find the image I am looking for.

16 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

The Angels making bad moves would not surprise me. They have perhaps the greatest position player of his generation in Mike Trout, and they can't keep him healthy (and they might not even be keeping him happy, which they need to do if they are to have any hope at all of contending in the near future).

 

If you're Mike Trout, two or three more years of losing while your prime starts to slip away is not where you want to spend your time. He's signed through 2020 for a total of $144 million, so if they want to keep him long-term they need to show they're willing to do what it takes to win now.

Problem for Angels has been revolving GMs. Reagins handicapped their minor leagues with bad trades and handicapped the pro club with bad contracts. DiPoto was fixing a lot of that stuff but couldn't get along with Scioscia and decided to bypass him, which was dumb when you had a clubhouse that had some very old school style mentalities (Pujols etc). Going straight to the clubhouse and players with coaching and player positioning information was stupid. Eppler is trying to fix stuff, but is under pressure due to the Trout contract. I think he has done well improving the minors and making the team viable in the future. Other problem is guys signed, coming here and not just underperforming their career numbers, but doing so badly. Most pundits at beginning of year with Cozart, Kinsler and Upton signings and supposed health of pitching staff actually predicted Angels to be where Oakland is in division right now, but injuries to their pitchers, mainly, have killed them and a bullpen that could not seem to hold a lead after the 6th inning doomed them. People can say  that part is their own fault (Pujols contract for instance, though again, an inherited contract for Eppler), but I don't care who you are, no one could have expected with the guys who seemed healthy that only 1 of the 6 starting rotation for them would be pitching at this point. And we have had 2-3 other starters come in and 2 weeks or less later - Tommy John surgery.

Darkest Minds - basically Divergent meets X-Men. Was ok, clearly first of a series, which is sad since what if it doesn't do well in theater. What was the conversation in the DC thread about starting a franchise.

Angels just brought up guy who is basically their best minor leaguer - Taylor Ward. Am I wrong, or is bringing him up, for a team that has no chance of making playoffs, 3 weeks before sept callups just mean we will lose a year of his eligibility (ie rookie and arbitration control)? Maybe I read it wrong. This seems stupid to me, but again, maybe I am wrong. Yes I want to see the guy and see if he can play in big leagues, but not if means we lose control a year early for and extra 14-15 game viewing.

as your personal astrophysicist I ask you keep looking up

Missed me by THAT much.

2 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

 

Indeed. He appears to have lost all the physical qualities that made him a great pitcher, for no other reason than the advance of time.

 

He is apparently taking his situation very hard. Of the 11 runs he gave up in his last start, four were unearned -- and because there was an extra inning game the night before he was in the game a lot longer than he normally would have been. That was the real humiliation.

In his case, it's not even age thats the problem. It's that he basically has pitched more innings then anyone else in the 13(?) years he has been pitching. Seattle basically rode that horse every time he pitched then put it away without combing or brushing it.

One thing with video challenges, get rid of - the call stands - as a result. How many times have you watched a replay on tv, said, oh this should be overturned and it come back the call stands (not out or safe). I almost feel like no one actually looked at the play.

I think it says everything that I can say about Venom in that it came out of the original Secret Wars. Despise the character and hate most things that were "changed" in the Marvel Universe from that point on (Kitty and Colossos breakup, alteration of the FF, Symbiote Spiderman).

Well, if DC decides to do another Green Lantern, maybe they should talk to him about doing it.