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Reynolds Woodcock

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  1. I think the 36mm Explorer is one of the great every day watches, but holy shit that “Land Dweller” is absolutely garish. I can’t believe some of the shit people put on their wrist.
  2. I may have joined the party at 36 this morning. Have been trying to incorporate 15-20 minutes of yoga/stretching into my workout routine. I'm doing some toe touch stretch where you rotate locking your knees one after the other. After 5 or 6, my lower back seizes up so bad it hurts to breathe or walk, much less stretch or exercise. Wtf, this sucks
  3. I guess there are a couple things to unpack here 1. Of course “UATX” would accept an applicant with those qualifications. I’m also willing to take a principled stand of accepting dates with all women who look like Alexandra Daddario. 2. It sucks that not all kids can get into all schools. Life is tough and, at times, unfair (or, at least, tough to swallow). It will continue to be so.
  4. A perfect message to persuade gullible, low brow parents.
  5. 1. There Will Be Blood (there really isn’t another option) 2. The Master 3. Phantom Thread 4. Boogie Nights 5. Magnolia Gap here 6. Punch Drunk Love 7. Licorice Pizza 8. Hard 8 9. Inherent Vice
  6. My friend, you are not that old. You need to cut expenses and save in a disciplined manner to the max extent possible. The last thing you need to do is try to time the market or make a speculative bet on crypto. That is exactly how you make a bad situation worse.
  7. Guy on the left would need to be about 40 pounds heavier.
  8. Will be at Kentucky and, most likely, Athens
  9. Not sure there is a right answer to this, but I would watch them in chronological order unless you are just looking for the highlights. There Will Be Blood and The Master are two of the great films in cinema history, but they are certainly heavy. Phantom Thread is in my personal top 3 for PTA (username checks out), but some find it slow. Magnolia is an epic. Licorice Pizza will feel like a refreshing iced tea after watching all the others. Inherent Vice, Hard 8 and Punch Drunk Love are historically considered his lesser films, but even those would be the best films in most other directors’ filmography.
  10. Assume you are already maxing something like a mega back door Roth (assuming you/spouse have all the requirements)?
  11. That is horrifying. Friend in high school called a bunch of people out to a common meeting spot for our small town high schoolers. Charismatic guy. Said he had something cool to show everyone or something like that. Gun to the head. Never will understand
  12. This is why I’ve never rolled my wife’s 401k from her past job into an IRA. We’ve done back door/mega back door, and not having to think about the pro rata rule is great.
  13. You think watching Empire for the first time at home while partially doom scrolling/texting is equivalent to seeing it in a big screen with a group of people collectively having their mind blown?
  14. I'm not stating my opinion of the viewing experience. I am telling you why a director - the artist - is pleading for people to see his art via a certain mode of presentation, which is the question you posed several times. But I agree with your final point. Many people don't have the taste to discern a Barolo from 2 buck chuck. Same thing with consumption of art. On average, ease and cost will usually win out, which is why theater going will be a novel experience in 15 years or so.
  15. I went to MSG last night to catch the Steph (and Jimmy) show. The guy is just so fun to watch even if you are rooting against him. Incredible how the three guys you named continue to thrive.
  16. There is a revenue factor, sure, but making movies is an art form. Like any other art form, the artist wants their product to be consumed in an ideal viewing experience to the greatest extent possible. Watching Oppenheimer on your run of the mill TV with factory speakers (and , god forbid, motion smoothing) is like looking at a screensaver of Guernica. If streaming only replaced blockbuster on a 1:1 basis, there would be no issue. It's the fact that it's aggressively eating away at the theatrical viewing opportunities. The better comparison is really the replacement of vinyl records and CDs with compressed audio files as the primary form of music consumption. Sure, you have any song any time you want, but the tradeoff is losing much of the quality of the product as originally created.
  17. I love going to the movies. The sound, the screen, the shared experience, the lack of phones, it's all great. It is true that if you are the kind of moviegoer who only sees Marvel/popcorn flicks, the shared experience at an AMC filled with people who also have bad taste is probably not going to be great.
  18. Not much better for brunch than egg brouilles with a dollop of crème fraiche and caviar
  19. Not the thread for it, but also not very hard to figure out
  20. Shane appeals to the middle aged, suburban white guy. Not much else.
  21. Well done Sean and Mikey. Adrien Brody, yeesh
  22. All the acting was pretty great in what was otherwise a formulaic, silly movie.
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