LouisianaLonghorn

re: Britain Gets Worse: Prince Harry & His Wife Are Moving Back

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/20/26 at 1:22 pm to 14&Counting

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His move to go Hollywood was a bust. They are toxic there. They can’t afford their lifestyle and facing a financial crunch. That Santa Barbara estate is costing them almost $1 million a year. Their private security is costing them probably $3 million a year. He lost that libel case to the Daily Mail and in the UK loser pays the others legal fees. He is on the hook for something like 15 million pounds. The deals have dried up and her “As Ever”brand is dead. They don’t have the cash flow. Their marriage is probably heading for a breakup and he has to get the kids back to the UK. If he gets divorced in California she will take everything including custody of his kids. Reportedly she has been discretely shopping a post breakup autobiography.

Agree. They are trying to bring their kids back into the royal fold after keeping them away from Harry's family for years. They've run out of money in the States, so they're sucking up to King Charles. I'm curious to see if they ask him if they can regain their status as working royals. The British people won't tolerate them any other way. It seems as if Meghan is pretty universally despised by the royal family, particularly by Harry's aunt Princess Anne, as well as by Princess Katherine and Queen Camilla. I don't think that Prince William trusts Harry after he threw his family under the bus, so my guess is that he and Meghan will be on a very short leash. Harry knows that if he can't get back into his father's good graces before his brother ascends the throne, then he may be screwed.

Political Talk

re: East of Eden (Netflix) Teaser

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/19/26 at 10:31 am to TAMU-93

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Cathy is in no way a hero, anti or otherwise. This "modern interpretation" is going to blow.

This x 1000! Cathy Ames was a vile human being. She's one of the greatest villains in literature. She's a sociopath who destroys the lives of everyone she touches with no remorse. I'll be very disappointed if they retcon her character into some sort of victim.

re: The Watcher-Netflix

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/17/26 at 2:58 pm to JDPndahizzy

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Bump... Can someone tell me the ending? I can't watch another episode..

SPOILERS:

They never reveal who was writing the letters. There are several suspects, but it's never stated who The Watcher really is. They set it up to seem like Dean and Nora were behind the whole thing, only to have the "real" Watcher show up at the end. It's a convoluted mess.

re: City of Austin, TX teaming up with CAIR?

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/15/26 at 9:13 pm to Gunny Hartman

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WTF are you talking about?! How is this Abbotts fault? He's not the mayor of Austin.

Kirk Watson is a socialist pig.

Political Talk

re: Shooting at... checks notes... Zachary Hot Air Balloon Festival

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/15/26 at 9:03 pm to Cosmo

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Even Zachary isnt safe from youts

Yep. Youths and "teens" are at it again.

O-T Lounge

re: What's your favorite LSU logo?

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/14/26 at 11:02 am to BilJ

I’m kind of partial to the updated version of the classic tiger head.

re: Is the JD5 statue in jeopardy?

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/13/26 at 7:02 pm to Godfather1

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give him what he wants.

Why?

re: James Bond producer reveals the next 007 actor will offer a “really different” character

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/11/26 at 9:20 am to AUCom96

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Of course it will be a "really different take".

Bond doesn't work in this era. He's a capable, physically aggressive and intelligent caucasian male with a strong streak of nationalistic pride. The franchise has also always thrived off a sense of humor. None of these things are accepted or thrive in modern big budget cinema. Bond had become a joke when Craig was playing him. This will likely be worse.

I'm hoping what they mean is that, since they've already said they're aging down the character, that we will see his "origin story", so to speak. It could also mean they're changing his race and/or sexuality. There was a rumor a while back that he would be bisexual. I don't think they will go that route, but who knows these days. Hollywood has already shown that they have no qualms with fricking up characters and stories that are beloved by the masses.

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re: Explanation for “Piped-In Music”

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/11/26 at 8:45 am to tigahlovah

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I think a good compromise would be to play that crap during the 2 hour warmup up until the GBFTL takes the field, doing their pregame routine that kicks off with the 4 most chilling notes in college football

What I can't stand is when the DJ, or whatever hell he is, plays recorded music over the band. From what I've heard from some former Tiger Band members, the band is literally told when they can and can't play, and they obviously play a lot less than they used to. It doesn't help matters that Tiger Band just isn't as loud as they have been in the past. There is a lot less brass, which equals less power of sound.

re: Union open on home gamedays?

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/8/26 at 9:11 am to liquid rabbit

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Highly unlikely. Closure was due to "changing consumer habits."

Interesting way to say that ghetto trash caused it to be closed for everyone. I believe that we may be the only school in the SEC that doesn’t have it’s student union open on home game days.

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re: Robin Hood...

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/6/26 at 8:35 pm to Bayou Warrior 64

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I liked the series. I hope it has a second season this coming year.

I enjoyed it too. I really liked the two young actors who played Robin and Marian. I hope they do a second season too, since he doesn't really "become" Robin Hood until the end of the first season. It gets bonus points for bringing Queen Eleanor into the mix.

re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: it's passed D&W for biggest R Rated film $1.35B

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/4/26 at 12:05 pm to RollTide1987

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The Odyssey has passed $400 million at the domestic box office as of this morning.

Good for Christopher Nolan. That doesn’t mean that everybody has to think it’s a good movie.

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re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: it's passed D&W for biggest R Rated film $1.35B

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 8/3/26 at 6:48 pm to Fewer Kilometers

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Replacing Lupita Nyong'o wouldn't have helped, and Eliott Page kind of worked playing a victim and martyr. I'm far more pissed about their building up Agamemnon and it turning out to be Benny fricking Safdie.

While I am 100% against the race swap casting, Lupita Nyong’o as Helen and Clytemnestra weren’t the reason I didn’t enjoy this film. She was in the movie for only about 10 minutes total, and some of that was in flashback scenes. It was too slow, very bland, and some of the performances (Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway in particular) were just not good. Why not show more of the Greek gods? We only get Zendaya as Athena. Why make Circe look like a homeless woman? Even the stringing of the bow, which is the climax of the story, fell flat.

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re: In what format are you seeing The Odyssey?

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/6/26 at 5:42 pm to biglego

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Strictly bc of the casting choices I’m not interested

Same. It's a shame because I'm basically a Greek mythology nerd. Jason and the Argonauts is one of my favorite movies. I even enjoyed Clash of the Titans and it's inferior remake and sequel.

Some really bizarre casting choices by Nolan in this film:

Everyone speaks with an American accent (even British actors)
Characters using modern dialogue
Agamemnon looks like Batman
Race swapped Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra
Not a single authentically Greek actor in a major role

re: Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/6/26 at 9:49 am to Jay Are

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This one is way too fluid

Agree. Too wet and too much vomiting, like in an Evil Dead movie.

re: Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/5/26 at 7:21 pm to Richleau

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In the annals of mummy films there are scores that skirt the line of your prototypical mummy film. This is no different.

True, except the only thing really remotely "mummy" about this movie is the initial Egyptian setting. The pyramid and sarcophagus weren't what you'd typically see in a mummy movie. If they had gone in a slightly different direction and had the dad be an archaeologist who unearthed a cursed tomb, I think I'd have enjoyed it more. It wasn't a bad movie, it just reminded me a whole lot of Evil Dead.

The way I felt about this movie is similar to how I felt after watching Wolf Man. The creators of that movie went a different direction in that there really was no werewolf, at least not in the way most of us think of werewolves. It had nothing to do with a full moon, silver bullets, etc. It was just a dude who got infected by a virus that essentially turned him into a rabid animal.

re: Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/5/26 at 2:05 pm to Richleau

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It really is a great flick.

My issue with it is that it's really more of an Evil Dead movie than a mummy movie.

re: November 14, 2026 Texas finally comes to Baton Rouge. It's Payback time!

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/4/26 at 3:30 pm to Red Stick Tigress

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I'd limit their seating to just enough for a pep band and scatter them throughout the upper deck. No band member can sit next to another.

Then give the band seats to others.

Petty begets petty.

While I do agree that it was shitty to seat the LSU band in the end zone uppers at DKR in 2019, you have to remember that, at the time, Texas was not a member of the SEC, and they were not obligated to give LSU any lower bowl seating because the Big XII didn't mandate it. Again, what they did was shitty, but they didn't break any rules in doing so.

That said, I would definitely seat their band in the East uppers in Death Valley this season if it all possible. Turnabout is fair play. I just don't think that the SEC will allow us to do to them what they did to us. Word around Austin is that Texas wants to bring their full 400 + member band to Tiger Stadium. If they do, I don't see how they won't end up in the upper deck because the high dollar Texas donors won't give up their prime seats and the band seating comes out of the total ticket allocation.

re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: it's passed D&W for biggest R Rated film $1.35B

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/2/26 at 8:39 am to LSUbacchus

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Did Christopher Nolan live long enough to become the villain? Dude doesn’t miss and people acting like this will be a bomb

Every good director has at least one stinker. This could be Nolan’s. It’s clear that Nolan wants this film to be in the hunt for an Academy Award, and that probably explains some of his casting choices. He’s got to conform to the Academy’s DEI criteria. That said, his decision to have his characters use modern vernacular when speaking is puzzling to me. It takes me right out of the story when I hear Tom Holland’s Telemachus refer to Odysseus as “dad.”

re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: it's passed D&W for biggest R Rated film $1.35B

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 7/1/26 at 9:14 pm to Frac the world

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Idk why but this feels like it’s gonna be a mashup editing nightmare of just cutting to scenes all over the place instead of a single chronological narrative

This. The story is a lot to cram into a single movie, even one that is 3 hours long. The weird casting choices and Nolan's strange decision to have the entire cast speak with American accents and use modern vernacular makes me seriously wonder about this movie.