Posts posted by GhostOfTomJoad
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On 9/1/2020 at 8:49 AM, HoustonFrog said:
Yes and no. It totally blew me away visually and mentally, all the actors were good/great. I would call it too complex though. Multiple scenes where the actors have to explain to each other (the audience) what’s going on.
It’s a movie that may be a masterpiece once I fully understand each scene, but after one viewing, feels like a brain attack. Also, plenty of British/Russian/Indian people in it, will watch with subtitles at home and that should help a bunch.
Also a good reminder that Nolan uses real gunshot noises. I remember jumping in my seat at the very first scene in Dunkirk when they start shooting, same thing hereThis is pretty much spot on how my wife & I felt about Tenet. It's almost mentally fatiguing by late in the 2nd act to try & keep track of when/where the Protagonist (Nolan not giving the character a name is quirky but also gives him a timeless/ageless quality) is in the film. Nolan does a decent job tying things together in the final act but you've got to work for it. Multiple viewings are required to get what's going on. For the first viewing you're probably best off following the advice the Protagonist is given when a scientist explains inversion to him: "don't try to understand it, just feel it."
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And what Trump will claim that his voters were unfairly targeted & thrown out so ALL votes in NC are invalid & should be thrown out.It's a computer. The code looks for dupes and throws them out.
Any risk to that isn't unique to NC.
And the NC Secretary of State is a Democrat. She's probably laughing her ass off at that quote.
I mean by suggesting this Trump is suppressing his own vote!
Sow discourse & controversy. Shit on the ceiling. Make anything resembling a peaceful transfer of power impossible. So he alone wins. -
So Trump encouraged rally attendees in North Carolina to vote twice -by mail and in person- in order to "test their system." Other than a sitting POTUS telling citizens to commit a felony, what else is wrong with this picture?
This is just another calculated step to overwhelm the election precincts, delay the tabulation and ultimately destroy any confidence in the legitimacy of the election. How many MAGAts and Qanon nuts are going to spread this message of "Vote twice, it's your patriotic duty"?
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Inspired by the Unpopular Opinions thread, who are the dickheads who've ruined your live music experiences?
There was the drunk out of his skull fuckhead at Jerryworld who spilled beer, hit people, & puked all over himself at the U2 Joshua Tree tour a few years ago. My wife was denied the opportunity to see the original tour in 87 by her mom so this was a chance for her to recapture that magic. Instead she spent half the concert trying to avoid beer, vomit & flailing arms. I was at the FEC show back then with $22 tickets. We spent close to a grand including hotel to have a shitty experience.
Then there was the drunk at a Patty Griffin show at Stubbs who decided he wasn't gonna wait in line so why not just unzip & piss where he was standing.
I've never understood the appeal of getting drunk or stoned before a show. I want to enjoy & remember the experience. And not waste the effort expended on getting tickets in the first place.
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So now this is the thread where people out themselves as the biggest asshole at the show that everyone prays they don't have to sit by?A few friends talked me into using an extra ticket for Springsteen in Pittsburgh one time and I got good and wasted before so I was the idiot screaming for Freebird the who show. Some guy wanted to fight me for that. Especially after I said Springsteen sucks and his own songs were awful and if he wanted to sing a good song he should try Freebird.
I hate The Dave Matthews Band
I saw Bob Dylan in the Akron Rubber Bowl and he was terrible. I don't like Bob Dylan.
Here's to you, mister shit faced drunk who wants to ruin everyone else's experience because your fucked out of your skull mind thinks you're funny or worse...interesting.
Did I sit next you at the U2 Joshua Tree show at jerryworld a few years back? Were you the guy who spilled beers over 3 rows of people, pumped his fist in the air so wildly he punched the woman behind him in the face, and when security came to drag him away he'd already puked on himself?
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I've had a few late night, whiskey-fueled debates with a good friend of mine if the Stones' best album is Let it Bleed or Sticky Fingers. Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want are such high ceilings, but Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Moonlight Mile aren't that far down the ladder.Pos rep on "Let it Bleed". I was/am somewhat reserved on "Live With Me" as a solid track. But otherwise, the album is the best start-to-finish Stones record, period. Full stop.
We almost always come around to Dead Flowers being the tiebreaker. -
Funny you mention because in 2016 she was very pro-Cruz and anti-Trump, calling him out regularly on Twitter & her short lived horrendous radio show (that she broadcast from her PC at home but posted pictures from KLBJ's studio & claimed that's where she worked).Trump is definitely going to retweet her in the next few weeks, right?
I'm sure she's full MAGA now. -
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Bought tickets to a Drafthouse showing next Friday afternoon. Wife was a bit hesitant but after she read all of their enhanced safety policies (temp screenings at the door, distanced seating, all food/bev purchased in advanced so limited contact w/ staff, etc) she came around to it. It's been odd seeing our Drafthouse sit empty all of these months. I can't imagine another theater I'd consider going to at this time.
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I'm as big of a Bruce fan as you'll find, but The Angel and Mary Queen of Arkansas are not exactly stellar works.For Springsteen I'd go earlier Springsteen and submit Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
Born to Run (released 45 years ago this week) doesn't have a bad song. Neither do Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska or Tunnel of Love, IMO. -
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Did a little digging on IMDB and apparently Reeves' vision for this is a detective noir take. Chinatown and Taxi Driver (at least the score) are cited as inspirations.
I'm pretty much done with the super hero genre & don't feel any great need to watch a new Batman movie, but if Reeves does make this a true detective thriller I might change my mind. -
Trailer looks promising. The only film of Reeves' I've seen is Let Me In which was damn good (I haven't seen any of the planet of the apes reboots).
I love Jeffrey Wright as Gordon. And Paul Dano should be awesome. Not sure about the need of Farrell as the Penguin unless it's just to set the table for the next movie.
Anyone else get this vibe from RP?

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Idiot Son Sells Birthday Scotch For House
in Daily Texan
Good on the son. It seems he's doing exactly what his father intended him to do. He was instructed to never drink it so why not sell 28 bottles for £40,000 and use it to buy a house?