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  1. second the 'Sharp Objects' similarities... even down to cattiness of old high school 'friends'. 

    i just want to make sure i followed the story correctly...she has a lesbian, teen mom daughter who appears to do academically well, and her ex-husband lives within shouting distance with his new fiance' and he remains extremely close with her actual family (mom, cousin, etc).

    both those circumstances are... unusual. 

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  2. 3 hours ago, sheeeit said:

    ... role had little or no range and he could just be this [wise, grisly, tough protagonist] that he is good in.  But watch it critically when he is on screen with other great actors (and his movies have had a shitload of great actors)...but he is a bigger "movie star". 

    hmm... with this criteria, i offer...Clint Eastwood. comedy, romance, drama, action, western, heist, war ...he's pretty much done everything. and it's all pretty much one-note Clint.

    his movies are great, and he's definitely a movie star... but he's not winning any acting awards. 

    literally. i looked it up 😄

  3. 2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    He crushed the Jessie's Girl scene.

    god yes... to this day that scene gets me, that look he got in his eye, it's really hard to describe...i literally still go thru a catalog of what Dirk might be feeling in that moment. 

    that and the scene with his mother were incredible. BN is my favorite PTA movie and it's not close.

  4. edited to clarify...caricature/cartoonish... feels like the bulk of his career. Tim Burton has certainly made him a lot of money!

    actually, that reminds me...in the female category i'd add Winona Ryder. altho she's probably not really A-list anymore. but i've always thought she was one-note, mediocre at best... can't recall anything she ever did that required real acting chops. the only thing i can recall her really stretching herself in was The Crucible.

  5. 2 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Fake blonde.

    Always the fake blondes.

    Sweatergawd, real blondes conform less to the myth than the imposters.

    (goes for either gender)

    thank you...as a real blonde i have always said this, don't lump me in with the stereotype! 😠

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  6. 3 hours ago, Da Fino said:

    Brad Pitt Lol GIF by Focus Features

    the most underrated Coen bros flick imo and one of my favorite Pitt roles. Pitt's range is huge.

    Cruise may be coasting at this point but he has acted his ass off many, many times. 

    DeNiro is like top 3 best actors ever. 

    the above opinions are just wrong lol 😋

    also...agree on Wahlberg's range in general, but he deserved an Oscar nod for Boogie Nights. 

    i submit...Johnny Depp. he excels at over-the-top caricature/cartoonish and period pieces...but i can't really recall any other dramatic roles...Donnie Brasco i guess, but he was pretty dull next to Pacino and Madsen. i don't do chick-flicks tho, i guess he also has a bunch of those, he is pretty to look at. i suppose he has a niche that i just don't 'get'.

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  7. holy shit at the prices mentioned above 😳 glad we got ours 15 years ago! we're also in central Austin so space was limited, we ended up with 13,500 gallons for only about 35k. 

    csb: we finished construction around Christmas 2005...and i made a bet with my husband, if the Longhorns won i would 'christen' the pool. they did, i did... and i almost gave myself a heart attack bc the water temp was like 40 degrees! 😁

    anyway...renovation near completion! 2 week delay on plaster but they got it done this morning and i love it! 😍😁 my goal was for it to be as blue as possible, i think this is gonna look great with water in it!

    acid wash tomorrow am and then start water, should be full some time Thursday... exciting!

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    OH...but we still need some landscaping, ugh... those ugly stumps around the waterfall used to be gorgeous huge 15 year old fan palms ☹ guess we'll try to buy some semi-mature ones to replace them. putting this place on the market in about a year and definitely want to bill it as 'an urban oasis'!

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  8. 12 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

     

    jfc between this story and the Indianapolis shooter... what the FUCK is going on with our so-called social service and mental illness agencies?? i mean FUCKING HELL!!! 😡 i'm kind of enraged! in both instances people close to the perpetrators basically BEGGED for help over and over and they got shit! omg is EVERYTHING in this fucking country broken?? are we all just fucking callous and incompetent?? 

    jfc this is just horrifying!! 

  9. i guess later on he tweeted this...

    which...yeah okay, all those cultures contributed to the settlement of this country, sure...but when talking about groups that are basically the core of the history and culture of this country, i'd argue that you have FOUR major groups...

    Europeans (which include ALL of those he mentions), African/slaves, Mexicans, and Native Americans.

    the pie chart has a lot of wedges, but some of the biggest ones aren't who he thinks. 

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  10. 6 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Answer to this GOP, answer to this. It is on you, not because the blame lies solely with you, but the percentage of the Democratic party that will not sit down and discuss amending gun laws and closing loopholes in this country in good faith is so small as to be a joke compared to the stonewalling and meaningless words that the GOP formulates. "This is the price of freedom," you say as another family, another neighborhood, another community, another state suffers the trauma of physical and mental wounds that last a lifetime.

    We all know risk, it is a choice we make every single day but you have put us before a firing squad of your own devising; in the name of votes, in the name of arms sales, in the name of cowardice when faced with doing what is right. You did everything in your power to take away people's access to healthcare, and all but loaded the weapon and pressed the trigger. Sure, the young man made his choice but he was in a mental prison that you constructed. Shame. Forever shame.

     

    from the article...

    "We can't continue living with the constant threat of gun violence everywhere we go," said Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., whose district includes Indianapolis. "It's not normal. It will never be normal..."

    🤣🤣🤣 how adorable

     

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  11. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


    It’s right at our Trader Joe’s. I literally had to check find my friends to make sure my wife wasn’t there.

    Close to home. Fucking literally.

    ditto. fuck.

     

    ETA per Google maps looks like they have the whole area shut down, including a good chunk of 360. must still be at large.

  12. 2 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Agreed completely. I didn’t say totes the lefts narrative bc I don’t believe you can be intellectually honest and do that (or the rights narrative- the world doesn’t work that way), and I don’t disagree with your push back on that term. I don’t think the person who used that term likely thought it out at all. 
     

    look at us, being all agreeable and shit 🤣

  13. 1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    He’s a definite liberal and I agree with him very seldomly but he’s intellectually honest and I appreciate him.  No problems with that dude from my POV 

    being a liberal and 'totes the lefts narrative' are two different things. 

    i agree with your assessment and that's what i was inferring - to me he is a practical and reasoned thinker. most importantly (for me) he is not a hypocritic ('intellectually honest' as you say), which is what often puts him at odds with some on the left. he has described himself as libertarian in the past, but there's no doubt in recent years his positions have aligned more with progressives. that is still not the same as 'totes the lefts narrative'.

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