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UpperWestside

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  1. Eden was a really good film that I had no expectations of. It was, like this one, a Monday night film at Regal where they don’t tell you what the movie will be. I feel like Sweeney really leaned into this character and was fantastic just like she was in Eden. I won’t judge an actress based on how they look. I judge Sweeney by her ability to play different roles in movies. This movie really brought out some great moments for her.
  2. Just ignore them. They are not worth responding to. That poster is not going to change. Not now and not after this bout with fascism ends. You leave people like that alone and ignore them. Respond to folks not here looking to rile people up with abjectly ignorant comments while desperately seeking any kind of attention that comes from them.
  3. One of my friends back in New York mentioned this movie to me and that I should go and see it. Plemons is a favorite of mine so I’m in to see this. I think I’ll have to see it in a standard format because Regal doesn’t have that version here.
  4. Well look we don’t all get to spend our free time gallivanting around the world like you do so we settle for what we can do.
  5. Looks like we have either a grocery store support group or fan club here. No that’s cool man. A nice grocery store is relaxing to go to. I have been to the opposite of that many times with some ridiculous stories of encounters I’ve had in them. I wish there was an HEB here. I’d probably ask them for a job I don’t want or need just so I could get paid to walk around the store for hours for a change.
  6. I have mentioned before that I love going to grocery stores (One of my fascinations in being autistic has always been numbers.) and I will just walk around looking at prices to see what they are marking up. They have significantly raised prices at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. I watch the way they raise prices and then three weeks later put up the rollback sign like they are saving customers money. I won’t explain all the prices changes I see because honestly it’s a boring discussion, but I see it happening. Costco has done a much better job with their price control, which is no small miracle to pull that off out here considering almost everything is shipped here from the mainland and then Japan, Korea, China and the Philippines among a few other countries.
  7. They are getting what they deserve. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go to Sam’s Club to make sure they don’t go out of business during this rough time for them.
  8. Well when you have superior pilots and soldiers you can do that in doses. They just needed several million more against the Soviet meat grinder. Really should call it the Russian way of war since every war they join they just send soldiers in to the fight whether they are prepared or not.
  9. Cowardice is the issue. Same issue in every country facing fascism. I won’t forget the fascists and I sure as heck won’t forget the cowards who refused to stand up to them.
  10. Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke. I wanted to hit Ethan’s character in the face with a shovel 20 minutes in because he just wouldn’t stop talking. It reminded me of every single annoying New Yorker I ever met all rolled into one person. Not that all New Yorkers are like this, but Hawke’s character just never stopped talking. By the end I felt bad for who he was playing. Kinda sad honestly even though this was more a work of historical fiction in that the event never happened like this with him being at the opening for Oklahoma! He’ll probably get some really good reviews for this role though.
  11. I gotta say that Sweeney really disappeared in this role for the majority of the film. I was impressed with her portraying Christy Martin. It goes into the fights and her personal life with her trainer/abusive and manipulative husband. I liked Sweeney in the last movie I saw from her which was Eden. She disappeared in that role too as a German woman in the Galápagos Islands. I know people think of her looks first a lot, but she can act. Her quips to the other fighters were pretty funny in this one.
  12. I missed what is likely the greatest World Series game ever today, but for those of you that got to see it, man, that's pretty awesome. Happy for @Sbbruin especially. I hope you enjoy tomorrow's game and that your Dodgers win!
  13. I thought it was cool that he has a memorial out there at the Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg. Tremendous writer who left this world far too soon and that book is the first one I recommend to anyone about the war for any theater of conflict. You felt like you were right there with those men that morning and then for the days adrift at sea after waiting to be rescued.
  14. This one needs to be either a standalone film or 1 season mini-series. Mini-series if they want to do a James Hornfischer version and give the background. Commander Evans has never properly been given the recognition that he deserves. What happened there is just way too important of an event in the Pacific War to not be left on its own. Quite literally the most improbable victory in US Naval history and perhaps world naval history.
  15. I prefer watching movies that deal with the events of The Pacific War, even ones that are not about the US. This film did a good job outlining those early days. I thought the ending of the film drove home some of that early dread when you saw guys who had to stay behind and fight a battle they knew they would not win with no reinforcements coming from America. One of the things that strikes me about John Wayne is he did all of these films during the war and it was because of that that he became such a legendary star. I am also reminded of the fact that he chose not to enlist as a soldier and it was that decision that haunted him personally for the rest of his life. He would regularly get asked by fans of his where he served at during the war and he always had to answer that he did not serve his country. Many just assumed he had served due to the war films he was in. His daughter said that it ate away at him for the rest of his life that he chose not to enlist when so many other stars readily joined the war effort.
  16. Heard her speak in-person before. She’s authentic and highly intelligent. We need more people like this running the government and less grifters. Hope she makes it through to the other side once fascism collapses.
  17. It did not disintegrate entirely because the idiot traitors lost their war. This time it's idiots throwing away a country because of abject stupidity and zero understanding of anything other than that brown guy is taking my job washing dishes that I really wanted. This actual breaking down of society for no real purpose is the one we have not seen yet, but probably should have at some point before now considering how we historically treat people.
  18. People give in to their worst inner impulses. Hate for others is the driver here. It’s not shocking to me in all honesty and it’s because we see this happen over and over throughout history. Once enough people latch onto an idea or movement, no matter how ridiculous or destructive it is or will be, people ride it out until it collapses. We are not a special people. We never have been. That this took 250 years to happen is probably the part that is shocking considering our history as a country. I told the woman at work that I mentioned that I will never forget TFG telling people to vote for him in 2024 because “what the hell do you have to lose?” She just looks at me and says “a lot.”
  19. I’m getting my fill of war movies right now with this class I am taking in the fall semester called World War II in film. The first one was They Were Expendable which is pretty good and it was cool seeing Robert Montgomery alongside John Wayne. Having an actual person who fought in the war was really cool. This week is an Italian neo-realism film called Roma Città Aperta which is one of the best films about the horrors that f fascism that I have ever watched. That the movie was even made is fairly extraordinary if you read the story about getting film from the US Army because there was nothing left after the Nazi’s left. This week has two films and the other is Das Boot. It’s cool because there is a lecture about it from one of the German professors that helps teach this master’s program. Dr. Benkert gives great analysis of stuff like this.
  20. You keep your hands off our guy! Dillingham is really good and still growing as a coach. We’re still a couple of recruiting/portal classes away from being a serious challenger once in the playoffs. We’re out on this year thanks to our QB being hurt, but man I have to hand it to Dillingham for having kept the season together when you quite literally have nothing behind Leavitt when he’s hurt. There are posters on this board that would be as valuable to ASU football as Sims is when he plays.
  21. When is the loosely coordinated anon going to start putting their names out there? We all know this part is coming and that is when it really hits the fan. Once people can’t hide anymore and a name and face is put to the fascists doing this is when you see some sparks really fly.
  22. Well let’s hear it!
  23. Of everyone I can’t wait to see get theirs this is the one. That guy will have to hide in North Korea by the time this all unravels.
  24. These wannabe Italian Blackshirts arrested the husband of a co-worker. He was due to be in court soon because of a DUI arrest. These societal washouts/incels arrested him instead and have marked him for deportation because of the DUI. His wife spent 1500 to get a lawyer that did next-to-nothing to help and his bail was raised. What really hacks me off on this is that he works full-time and provides for their family. Unfortunately he’s from Papua New Guinea so he’s definitely the wrong color to expect any leniency from these ghouls. We are an absolute farce of a country. Seeing my co-worker now have to figure it out likely without him is really on-brand for the US in 2025. I can’t wait to leave and never return once I go. I’d rather be a citizen of New Guinea or The Solomons than continue being an American.
  25. Maybe UT should get this guy in the portal. That's what 3 or 4 games worth of yards from Manning.
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