messyjesse

Lord Palmerston!

I appreciate Saban's greatness through and through, but CFB was absolutely soul-crushing to watch when he was around. Pretty much nobody was getting a shot at the NC without going through Bama, sometimes multiple times.

Other elite coaches like Carroll, Meyer, Dabo and Smart were/are good for a stinker here and there, but Saban went unbeaten against unranked teams for something like 15 years. The ultimate buzzkiller.

Gonna drop another rec for Sicario. My favorite movie of the last 20 years.

Saw it at Alamo. It was alright. Pretty fun throughout. The cuts are a bit messy. I read someone describe it like a video game where after you beat one level you go to another that's completely different. I think that's fairly accurate.

The Circe scene was wild. Definitely my favorite part. "Back into your disguises" was a GREAT line.

The cyclops scene was really jilted and hard to follow visually with some of the cuts. But that scream was awesome. Might be the loudest thing I've ever heard in a theater.

The other gods and monsters stuff could've been better. The storm was good but most of the rest felt undercooked.

Suitor stuff was meh.

Roll your eyes at the "woke" parts if you want (I did) but on the whole it's pretty on par with Nolan's other films.

My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in October '21. Had a double mastectomy in December. Started chemo in January. Rang the bell in May.

She did eight rounds through a port, four rounds of the red devil followed by four rounds of taxol, over 16 weeks.

The red devil wasn't fun--lots of tiredness, mild pain and nausea. But manageable after a few rounds.

The taxol absolutely sucked. Little tiredness and nausea but she was in a LOT of pain. She was a warrior through it all but those last eight weeks were brutal on her.

In both cases the worst days were always the 3-4 days after the session. The offweeks were a welcome reprieve.

She underwent all the usual stuff with hair and nails. No two ways around it. That shite kills the cells.

I wish I could say that I was with her for every session but I wasn't. School or work or daycare stuff would come up. Not like there was much to do for her anyway. She just sat in the chair for three hours.

I did my best to keep her spirits up in other ways. I started leaving Post-it notes on her mirror. Sometimes funny, sometimes encouraging, sometimes just little love notes. I think it helped.

Four years cancer-free now.

What a blast.

That's awesome, thanks for sharing :lol:

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I thought putting a nobody juvenile like LDC in Titanic was an insane casting mistake

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Gilbert Grape was a critical success and LDC got an Oscar nomination for it. Romeo + Juliet made $147m at the box office. I feel like even if he wasn't an A-lister he was absolutely already something of a teen heartthrob when Titanic came out. Both those movies were very popular with early 80s kids and of course that was the same audience that propelled Titanic to $600m.

Heck, if anything I think Winslet was the riskier choice. I knew who LDC was before Titanic came out but I'd never seen or heard of Winslet. (I would've been 11 when Titanic came out, for reference.)

FFDM is the best of that trilogy by a long shot. Best villain, tightest story, best ending.

I actually think Fistful is better than TGTBTU too.

TGTBTU is good but too bloated. A good 40 minutes could've been cut with no problems. This is Morricone's best work though.

Possibly my favorite shot in any animated movie ever.

Clubhouse Games is a great time waster.