Everything posted by Bama Llama
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Updated Bowl Projections per ESPN
Someone explain to me why Bama/OU are playing in Miami rather than Jerrahworld. Does or does not the 1 seed get shortest travel distance? Dallas is 100 miles closer to Tuscaloosa. No sir, I don't like it. Dallas would be a home game for OU, so if someone fucked up, fine with me. Or was this like one of Bill Muuray's "more like a guideline" things?
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We Are Decent, But Waaayyy Behind GA or Bama
Should've punted. Still, his teams have dominated six out of the last eight quarters vs Bama.
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Lebowski turns 20: a 30-minute interview with Goodman, Bridges and Buscemi
And he did it without seeking publicity, so there's that. Total silence from Steve. Not a word. See how YOU like it.
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Is anyone else a sucker for period pieces / historical dramas?
I enjoyed the attention to period detail and class-distinct manners of speaking in Turn: Washington's Spies. The actor who portrayed GW looked as if he just walked off the front of a dollar bill. Several other excellent casting choices. Historical adventures, count me in, from Rapa Nui to Dunkirk. Barry Lyndon would be an example of how to transport a viewer through history.
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Can’t see the line can ya Russ?
College? No, carnival.
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Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
With apologies to Jurassic Park commenters, I must join those above who commented on Saving Private Ryan. I first saw it in a packed house, maybe 300 people, on a Friday night. When it ended and the credits began to appear, for at least ninety seconds no one spoke or got up or even moved. It was totally silent. Slowly, silently, the theater emptied. It sad by far the most powerful, gut-wrenching film I have seen. Leave it to Speilberg. All I could think was, the best war is a very bad thing and the worst peace is very good indeed.
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Listen up, cocksucker
A running plot line in Deadwood always vividly reminded me of Mel's great line in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore": Vera, the neurotic mouse of a waitress, was nowhere to be found. Diners were asking for her over and over and when Mel had heard "Where's Vera?" one time too many, he came barging out of the kitchen waving his spatula and yelled, "She went to shit and the hogs ate her!"
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Cohens Go Netflix: Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Dear Ten Bears: Did you knock? Regards, Shep Proudfoot
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Cohens Go Netflix: Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coens had me at Blood Simple and it shall continue as long as I can find their work. 34 years - so hard to believe. This antholgy is no exception. I'm still savoring every chapter, a veritable feast for the senses. It's hard to watch Stephen "Pan Shot!" Root without flashing back to the blind deejay.
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Breaking Bad
And very little, if any, CGI and special effects. When will the studios and indie producers realize it's about storytelling and characters, not plugging photogenic humans into video games? Send us more like Breaking Bad, and we will watch. 'Sall good, man.
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Far Side's "Trouble Brewing" cartoon gets real
Self-styled missionary kayaks to forbidden island + hostile islanders armed with bows and arrows = https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/world/asia/american-killed-andaman-island-tribe.amp.html
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Little Drummer Girl
Good, long episode series on AMC running these past few days and winding up Saturday, I think. Coen-style directing and camera work, and some pretty dang nice acting jobs from a young Brit actress and Michael Shannon as lead Mossad guy. John Le Carre his own self, who wrote the original novel, does a cameo as a waiter in an outfoor cafe. Scene 1 of episode 1 starts everything off with an example of how gullible people were in the innocent days of 1979.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Ad nauseum use of "dial up," as in "Coach Smegma dialed up more pressure." Just stop it with the dialing up already. I'm talking to you, Herbstreit.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Assholes using the COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS ONLY line at the bank drive-up for their piddly-ass personal shit.
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UCF
UCF has already beaten Bama, in Tuscaloosa, no less, 40-38 in 2000. I loved it when they humiliated Auburn last year in the Whatever Bowl. Each of the P5 should have a wheel of fortune spin to pick a team to go home & home with UCF over the next couple of years, and drop a few paycheck games. Memo to UCF sports marketing wonks: get a better logo. The current one reminds me of a muffler shop.
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Uncle Rico can't even throw the ball 80 yards, you dumbass...
That's what _she_ said.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Take UAB and the points. Here's why: https://theathletic.com/656972/2018/11/16/uab-blazers-football-return-defense-second-year/ "UAB’s 9-1 record this year has been fueled by one of the best defenses in the country. Its 13.2 points allowed per game trails only Clemson, Alabama and Michigan. Its 3.8 sacks per game leads the nation. The Blazers have three shutouts and have allowed points in only eight of 28 quarters in conference play."
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Les Miles the next Head Coach at Kansas
Jayhawks press conferences just got a lot more interesting. And mysterious.
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Post a pic that makes you say "Holy shit."
The shooter never even _looked_ into the dashcam vehicle. The cop whose voice we heard must've thought he was a dead man.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
We hereby revoke your avatar and declare you daft. Sincerely yours, The Beatles
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Fuck You Petrino
"Louisville football is on a collision course with the national championship. The only variable is time." - Howard Schnellenberger, 1985
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The movie you just watched
I'll run off that bridge when I get to it.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Millennialspeak news and sports reporters beginning EVERY FUCKING SPOKEN sentence summarizing some event with "So . . . ." So - nothing! Say what you came to say without a fucking "so . . ." preamble and get on with it. And since when did a reaction have to be a "takeaway?" I blame bold roast coffee beans and ritalin.
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No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
Fox Sports recently ran a short segment trailing a camera crew around Pullman for Mike's daily walk. It was the week before Halloween. Mike sauntered along a sidewalk faced by Craftsman bungalows, absolutely no one around, steaming large coffee in hand, gazing at brilliant blue skies and autumn leaves, when he just. Stopped. And wheeled ninety degrees to gaze in rapt wonder at a front yard full of ghosts, bizarre jackolanterns and cornstalk monsters. He just stood rooted there without moving for a good fifteen or twenty seconds, taking it all in as if memorizing the scene. As he said in the live mascots video clip, he's "curious." Bravo, Pirate. I hope that fucking Auburn eagle flies the hell out of the stadium this week, right after he squirts about two quarts of eagle shit on the Aubies and snatches off a wig hat or two. Leach to Auburn - free the eagles!
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Worst Casting
Bastardi! Beat me to it. Read this whole thread and all the Tom Cruise debate just to be sure no one else had mentioned my candidate for worst casting, spoken word, Keanu as Jonathan Harker, everyone's favorite sacrificial lamb whose innocent journey sets up the entire plot, is cast as a Victorian surfer law clerk. His casting spoilt this movie but I still watch it every time it catches my eye. Oldman, even with the odd hair and getups, gives me the heebie jeebies every time he opens his mouth, whether to utter lines like "Leesten to the cheeld-d-ren of the naeiight; whot bewwdifole mewzzick dhey mayke," or to lick Jonathan Dude's drops of blood off the edge of that straight razor.