LouisianaLonghorn

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Strictly bc of the casting choices I’m not interested

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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I've been clamoring for years that Ole Miss has the trashiest, rudest and most vile fanbase.

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They're like trailer trash who've won the lottery. You can't ask them to act like they've been here before, because they haven't. They think they're college football blue bloods, but up until last season, they haven't really been relevant on the national scene in over 50 years. :lol:

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$370m on a $750,000 budget is crazy. Other than a cast of unknown actors, you can’t tell it was made so cheaply.

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It's a very "small" movie in that most of the plot takes place in Bear's house and the two leads carry the film on their backs and are phenomenal doing it. As I stated in another post about this movie, it's hands down the best acting I've seen in a horror movie since Hereditary.

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Vaught-Hemmingway does not have an upper deck

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It doesn’t have an upper level on one side? I could’ve sworn that it used to.

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Everything except for Emma Watson was perfect. She just can't sing. It was very obvious they were cutting songs off too soon because she couldn't hold out notes she should have been able to hold out.

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Literally every other actor in that movie could sing but her. Hell, Dan Stevens trained for months to learn how to sing and he was excellent, as was Luke Evans, who is a veteran musical theater performer. Don’t cast an actor who can’t sing when you’re making a musical, unless you plan to dub them. Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast and Russell Crowe in Les Miserables are two of the most egregious examples of this.

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I liked the Cinderella live action that they did.

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Cinderella was easily Disney’s best live action adaptation. They’ve gotten steadily worse since then.

Cruella and the two Maleficent movies weren’t bad, but they were basically reimaginings of the original animated films. They took the villains and made them the heroes.

I didn’t see the Lilo & Stitch remake. Apparently live action retreads of Tangled and Hercules are up next.

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This. Give me all the money back they have stolen from me for a fund that won't be around when I retire so I can invest it myself and triple it.

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Agree. It's a fricking Ponzi scheme. Force hard working Americans to pay into it for decades, then, when it comes time for them to collect, try to screw them out of the money they're owed. I don't care what they do with the system, but the fricking Federal Government sure as hell better refund me every last penny I put in since I was 16 years old.

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Not many. Soft fan base.

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Considering how some of our fans love to sell their tickets to fans of the opposing team, I bet they have more fans than we did at their place.