Ultron

Am I the only one who doesn't see the big deal about this in any way? There's a long time between now and the season. Tebow may not even be on the roster at the start of the season, much less play a game.

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The film had a ridiculous number of visual payoff

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You must have watched a different movie then I did.

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If you paid attention, you would have realized that Jon Lithgow's character was a member of Generation Y. Interstellar took place after basic societal collapse and they were in mere survival mode. Apple and Samsung in all likelihood had collapsed, and if you'll notice in the film, there is only one type of car. They were the caretaking generation, and they only made what was necessary. In an age of post-internet as we know it, iPhones aren't going to survive. Just give them a computer that can give them the weather, email, and crop yield estimation, and that's all they need.

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You're all over the place here. They never said that Lithgow was a Gen Y guy nor did he given any indication that he was a part of that generation.

You say that society collapsed? And yet we are able to communicate across the globe. We still have power. We still have schools. You say Apple and Samsung are no more and thus phones are gone then turn around and say that computers still exist? Who is making them? Who is providing access to the internet?

Not to mention no real or logical explanation is given as to why our planet was in that situation to begin with. This was just not a good movie. It's like they took half a of a great sci-fi script, and shite a bunch of Hollywood cliches on it and expected people to believe it was great because it starred one of the top stars in Hollywood right now (Matt) and was lead by one of the biggest names (Nolan). This was a textbook mediocre movie.

Meh I'll still see it, but The Thing looks like a big rocky turd, literally.

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No clone wars and no space battles

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I'm not saying that I went to GameStop Friday and pre-ordered the game after I got off work....

























But that's exactly what I did.

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-titanic

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- braveheart

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-gladiator

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- lord of the rings

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You can frick right off.

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Crash. easily

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I 37th this.

You missed the point. In the 90's teams/stars were aided by illegal defenses, now it's via flopping. I really have no dog in this fight, because I thoroughly enjoyed the late 80's through early 90's style of basketball and I enjoy the game for what is is now (but the flopping is pissing me off). It seems some people think you can only love one way and hate the other.

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The argument was that big guys back in the 80's and 90's were better shooters

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That;s not what he was saying in what you quoted and then I quoted. He said that big guys back in the day also stretched the court and they did largely via the mid-range game. He then brought up Bill Lambieer.

Those were two separate points. You argued against a point he didn't make and I engaged you on the argument you made, not on the argument he made. But really, this whole thread is silly. Even if you make the argument that it was easier for elite players on offense, it was still harder for them on defense. Do you know how hard it was to stifle much less shut down a good shot creator back then? And with the advent of the dribble drive and on ball screens today, any advantage that defenses gained with being able to play zones and packing the paint has been nullified.

The talent isn't any better than it was back in the day, but it is being played smarter by lessening the load on individuals. People can argue all about spikes in athleticism from the 70's til now, but really you're arguing the difference between $9.95 and $10, The main thing that has change through the year is pace and philosophy (dictated by new rules).

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There's a reason they brought Han back and refuse to kill him off (unless they finally did in this one).

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Han already died in the first movie he appeared in and they revisited his death at the end of Fast 6. The only new footage of him in this movie was one image of him.

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Does anyone think it has enough steam to knock Avatar out of the #1 spot. I've been hoping that something, anything, will finally do this. Dances With Smurfs is an insult to the human race.

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It won't get close.

Funny story though, after The Avengers came out and set the box office record for opening weekend, I read an article where a guy was discussing what movies could take that opening weekend record and potentially take that record and 4 of the 5 are happening:

Avengers 2
Star Wars Episode 7
Batman vs Superman
Justice League

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This is a load of crap. I just looked up on basketball-reference the number of seasons where a player who was 6'9" or taller made at least 32% of their 3-point shots.

You wanna know what I found out?

#1 is Dirk Nowitzki with 16 seasons shooting at least 32% from 3.

13 out of the top 20 played the majority of their career in the 2000's.

How about number 20-40?

16 out of the next 20 on the list were from the 2000's.


That means out of the top 40 big men 3-point shooters, 29 out of 40 are from the 2000's era.

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Consider the Three-point line didn't make its way down to the high school level until the late 80's this isn't surprising. Guys didn't start shooting 3s at a young age until that time and it takes awhile for it to trickle up.

This wasn't a big gotcha like you thought it would be.