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Reynolds Woodcock

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  1. There was a fair bit of discussion about this movie in the netflix thread. Incredible opening act, mid-tier second act, and absolutely putrid third act. Kathryn Bigelow is one of the all time greats, but this is a total stinker. Wasted some pretty good Ferguson and Letts performances, sadly.
  2. That’s interesting. Based on watching the games, I find it hard to find a discernible difference between Auburn, LSU, Missouri, Arkansas, Miss St and Florida, on the one hand, and Penn State, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Purdue, on the other hand. OU and Vandy would pretty clearly be the second and third best teams on either A&M’s or OSU’s schedule. Just to be clear, I’m not suggesting either team is either overranked or overrated. Just that both have only faced high level competition once this season.
  3. OSU has a resume comparable to your school, just with more cache. One legit win and a whole bunch of bread. But unlike Texas, for example, OSU and A&M have generally showed up and flexed muscle against their bread.
  4. There isn’t going to be a 4th Big 10 team unless Michigan wins out. In that scenario, they would jump 9-3 Texas (justifiably so). BYU is the other team we have to worry about. If they win out the regular season (even if they lose to Tech again in the conference championship game), I think it’s a coin flip if the committee would favor a 9-3 Texas, although we’d have the better strength of record certainly.
  5. I’m reminded today why I don’t click on this thread as much as I used to
  6. Watched King Of New York for the umpteenth time last night, which always leads me to blast this in my head phones for a few days in a row
  7. All due respect to the master, and I love Yojimbo. But if I’m firing one up for a rewatch, it’s good bad and the ugly.
  8. Very good list, although not having the dollar trilogy is a crime
  9. You can nit pick all you want, but every skill position player and offensive coach on this team would crawl through glass to have last year’s offensive line.
  10. QFT. Last year’s offensive line was flawed, sure, but still quite good at pass pro and serviceable at run blocking. This year’s offensive line has at times been closer to the Tristan Nickelson and Cam Hughes offensive lines of yore.
  11. I found Hoop Dreams to be pretty devastating. Agee's dad and Gates's brother in particular (and pretty painful to google those two afterwards). Agee's mom was amazing, and hearing her describe the struggles of her life was pretty heartbreaking. It reminded me of Minding the Gap, which ostensibly is a DIY skateboarding documentary, but - like Hoop Dreams - is really a snapshot of a particular type of lower class American life. Highly recommend for those who haven't seen.
  12. They can say that all they want, but we are absolutely being punished for the Ohio St. loss to some degree. If we were sitting at 8-1 with a Louisiana Monroe win in place of the Ohio St loss, we would almost certainly be ahead of Notre Dame, Oregon, Tech and BYU. We are definitely still being compared to other 2 loss teams and not 1 loss teams.
  13. I would rank it as follows. 1. OSU 2. Indiana 3. A&M 4. Bama 5. Georgia 6. Ole Miss 7. Oregon 8. BYU 9. Tech 10. Texas 11. OU 12. Notre Dame
  14. Finally watched Hoop Dreams. Been on my list for years. Phenomenal movie.
  15. Have you happened to pay attention to surlyhorns.com throughout this season? Not so hard to image such a situation.
  16. I think it was the overhead view that got the call upheld. There was a shot where it seems like a smidge of the football may have grazed a smidge of the white line, so call on the field stood. The parallax error from the pylon cam makes it seem more egregious than it probably was. Having said that, I usually role my eyes when sports fans complain about officials cheating and what not. Yesterday and the infamous OSU game are the only times I can remember being truly stunned at the level of bad whistle we received.
  17. It’s getting cold in New York. Butcher had andouille
  18. A very dangerous night around my block last night
  19. A sniveling cunt of a poster
  20. I needed a palate cleanser after the house of dynamite debacle, so fired up Fail Safe for the first time. Incredible movie, highly recommend.
  21. Act 1: This fucking rips, let’s go! Act 2: ok, not great, but Tracey Letts is cooking, I’m still hanging in there, can’t wait to see how this wraps up. Act 3: Did the POTUS just cite to a podcast while humanity is on the brink of extinction? Holy fucking shit haha what a stupid fucking movie. Don't regret watching.
  22. Certainly left me laughing in disbelief
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