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100% agree on Vampire. Cruise was perfect as Lestat and had a great performance. Pitt was horribly mis-cast and was not good. I always thought Jude Law would have been perfect for Louis. Another great Cruise performance that doesn’t get enough credit was as Vincent in Collateral.

Definitely the John Adams series.

Jefferson was such a fascinating figure. Probably my favorite book about him is “American Sphinx” by Joseph Ellis. It specifically focuses on Jefferson’s character and accomplishments framed by his many philosophical contradictions. I always thought it would make an incredible “Prestige TV” mini-series.

Yep. Another thing that was great was the Enfyst Next character stealing materials for a proto-Rebellion. Would love to see that character and how she was working with early Rebel cells (Saw Gurerra?) in other shows set in that era. It would be cool if she popped up in Andor.

Yeah there’s a lot to like it in if you can just get past that it’s not Harrison Ford playing Solo. Woody Harrelson is perfect as Han’s mentor; I really enjoyed Donald Glover’s Lando and it’s got some nice action set pieces … the whole mission to Kessel is great.

Absolutely. People are WAY more forgiving about stuff that happens in the animated series, for whatever reason. Yes, I loved them, but yeah as you said there was some stuff in it them would have the resident Comic Book Guys losing their shit if it were done in a live action series.

Yes but the other side of the coin is that lots of the top 37 are “already in.” We’re not competing with those schools - we’re competing with who is also on the outside looking in. So the real question is how many spots are left and what are the schools that are there to fill them? If the B1G and SEC include 32 known schools in their future state, then the question is - what are the next best 16 schools that would get the total number in Prestige Worldwide to 48? I’m pretty confident that OSU would be in that group, given all of the factors previously pointed out.

The perfect number would be 48. Then you get six 8-team “divisions” that more or less replicate 8-team conference era (which was perfect). You get to preserve long-standing rivalries and then you get real playoff with (at a minimum) 8 teams (6 division winners + 2 wild cards) but easily expandable to 16 teams. You print money. Badda-bing, badda boom.

Yeah - and the disappointing thing is that was supposed to be the whole idea of the “anthology” movies in the first place. They executed it to perfection with Rogue One, and then made the dumb decision to do a Han movie second. (I actually think the Han movie is a pretty entertaining flick in hindsight, but it didn’t do big numbers and was thus deemed a “failure”; nobody was EVER going to replicate what Harrison Ford brought to the table and thus fans were ALWAYS going to be disappointed.) They should have stuck to their original plan and let interesting directors tell interesting Star Wars side stories. Rian Johnson absolutely should have done one of these instead of being part of the Skywalker saga… I’m sure he would have come up with something really cool. They need to stay the fuck away from legacy characters being the focus of any TV or movie from now on. There’s too much emotional baggage and they will NEVER get it right in the eyes of fans who have had multiple decades to build up their own ideas about these characters in their minds. If they are going to bring them back, they need to just do what they did with Luke in Mando… bring them in as a quick cameo or whatever. But keep the main story arcs on new characters or characters pulled from the various animated series.

Actually, it’s not about TV markets; it’s about the ability of each individual program to draw eyeballs to football games on TV. It doesn’t mean shit if you’re a PAC school in a big market if nobody in that market cares enough about college football to tune in to your game when it’s on. As such, the Big 12 remainders do MUCH better in that regard than the PAC remainders. The numbers have been posted numerous times over the past few years. And in the new streaming era, online fan engagement is another metric that’s important - and again the Big 12 remainders kick the shit out of the PAC remainders in that regard. In other words, the fact that the Big 12 remainders have passionate, engaged fan bases is a huge advantage over the PAC remainders.

Yeah it really does seem like the end game is getting the top ~50 programs into one big “super league” that represents the top of college football... I imagine how we get there is that B1G and SEC slowly add teams to get to about 25 each then merge. That one super league then makes deals with the broadcast partners and tells the NCAA to fuck off. And once that’s done, we can finally get back to some divisions that make sense geographically and keep historic rivalries intact. So basically back to what things were like in the 1980s/1990s but everyone is under one “umbrella” conference that then have an NFL model for playoffs with division winners/wild cards/etc. I just wish we could just GET THERE because the interim years we are in now are going to be confusing and stupid.

Oh I agree. Their #1 choice is B1G by a large margin I’m sure. But if the B1G drags their feet and dicks around for too long, they don’t want to be stuck with the rest of the PAC leftovers because that will be financial suicide.

Go look at the TV metrics man. They are out there. They’ve been posted a million times in this thread. Oregon and Washington are roughly on-par with OSU, BYU and WVU. None of the other leftovers draw shit, either in terms of fans in the stadiums or eyeballs to TV. Stanford and Cal have fancy names but nobody watches them.

I FINALLY got thought season 3…. SUPER pumped for season 4. I’m still LOL’ing at the Baron in the Barbie car.

IIRC, the Stillwater songs were co-written by Nancy Wilson and Peter Frampton.

From the metrics that matter (ability to attract eyeballs to football games) the leftover PAC is complete trash after Oregon/Washington… and the two of them aren’t anything super special. They are basically on-par with the top of the leftover Big 12 (BYU/OSU/WVU) in that regard. The rest of the leftover Big 12 (save for KU) is MUCH stronger in that regard than the leftover PAC. K-State, Baylor, Iowa State, TCU, and everyone else have much larger and more engaged fan bases than Oregon State, Wash State, Stanford, Cal, etc. If Washington/Oregon can’t land in the B1G they would be much better off joining some combo of the AZ schools, Colorado or Utah and join the new Big 12. Honestly, if Oregon/Washington can’t land in the B1G, the biggest bang-for-buck from a media standpoint would be for them and the AZ schools to join the Big 12. That would be a very solid league of 16 after the B1G/SEC. Washington Oregon Arizona State Arizona BYU Texas Tech TCU Baylor Oklahoma State Houston Cincy UCF Iowa State Kansas Kansas State WVU

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Came here to post this. Mark Harmon… peak Kirstie Alley…. Courtney Thorn-Smith…Chainsaw… Dave…. That hot Italian chick. I watched this movie basically once a day on HBO in between about 1988-92.

Yeah I posted it way up-thread, but Ewan McGregor recently said that literally 100% of the dialog in AOTC had to be done in ADR after the fact because of some unforeseen problem with the 1st gen digital cameras they used in that movie. That would certainly be a huge factor in why the acting seems especially bad in AOTC. Asking actors to come back days or months later to re-record dialog from the day they were originally performing (even if it was just in front of a green screen) is a recipe for terrible performances.

This is the exact kind of nitpicky shit that I don’t understand. Do you apply these same criticisms to the original trilogy? Because there were PLENTY of times that you could pick the OT part with shit like this. For example - why did the Death Star only send out like 10 TIE Fighters to take on “30 Rebel ships?’ It was the FUCKING DEATH STAR… it had to have a complement of hundreds, if not thousands, of TIE Fighters. Why not send out and overwhelming force and wipe out all of those Rebels ships in like 10 seconds? Why did they only send like 5 Imperial Walkers to the surface on Hoth? Why not 20? Why were 5 TIE Fighters chasing the Falcon in ESB instead of an entire squadron? How about Luke’s plan to rescue Han in ROTJ? What if Jabba assigned R2 to the lower deck of the sail barge (or didn’t bring him at all) and he didn’t have access to the roof so he could get Luke his lightsaber? And on and on and on. There were countless examples of shit like this in the OT and every other fantasy/sci-fi movie but it’s seemingly only every Star Wars series that are picked apart by the Comic Book Guy collective as evidence of how awful it all is.

Like this seriously bothers you? He’s a father worried about his daughter so he breaks silence to check in and let his friend know what his plans are to make sure the other potential galaxy savior is safe. And he was just saying “he” and “her”, etc. It’s not like he said, “I’ll go back to Tatooine and check in on Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin Skywalker, a/k/a Darth Vader.” Was it a plot device? Sure. Am I so predisposed to nitpick this shit to death that I need to channel my inner Comic Book Guy and let it (and stuff like this) negate my enjoyment of the show when I’ve let stuff like this go a million times before? Nope.

Yes and then Luke gets the mask all the way off. Pretty cool, actually.

A pretty reasonable explanation is that Vader believed he just buried Obi-wan under a few tons of rocks and that Obi-wan didn’t have anywhere near the strength to get out of it; so he, in effect, buried Obi-wan alive - while standing over him and talking shit about how he beat him. That’s actually a pretty brutal and sadistic way to kill someone so I think it’s completely in-line with what Vader would want to do to him.

THE Ohio State University has the shittiest, least friendly fans I’ve ever encountered in my 20+ years of attending college football games, and it’s not really close. It’s like they took the relatively small % of every fan base comprised of delusional, self-important jersey-wearing shit-bags, concentrated it down to its purist form and applied it to the general population. That’s all I’ve got on this topic.