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Does it seem like people hate her? Saying someone isn't good isn't the same as hating them. Usually hate is reserved for people that are assholes. I don't know if she's an asshole, but she's not good in this movie. Then I spent quite a bit of time trying to decide whether or not I thought she was attractive, but I realized if you have to think about it, the answer is no. That's where my emotional/intellectual investment stopped.

I like almost all of those songs but they felt out of place. Cult's "Fire Woman" or "Sanctuary" would've worked and checked the grrl power box. Fighting to Nirvana unironically? Ehhh

Feige has said Larson is the centerpiece going forward. I take that to mean she's the new RDJ or Chris Pratt and I'm very skeptical. I thought Larson (CAROL) was really the weakest part of this movie. Well, her and the writing.

I don't think this is a possibility. It'll be fine. The problem they're going to have is what comes after. Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, and Scarlett Johansson have a screen chemistry and presence that can't be matched except, incredibly, by the GotG cast. And none of those actors individually can carry a movie the way RDJ or Chris Pratt can. Now it's ending and they've put all of their eggs in Larson's basket. After last night I just don't see it. She's certainly no RDJ or Pratt and she's not as good as any of the others either. After End Game is when they're gonna need some help. They've got an overpowered superhero with a wooden stage presence. Sounds familiar....

Well she blew up one of Ronan's ships with her fists. I think she's somewhere in Silver Surfer range for the movie purposes. And was it snark? I thought it was just awful comedic delivery. It reminded me of JCVD's acting more than anything. I couldn't tell if that was on purpose or on accident, with all the 90s references. Hopefully on purpose.

I was confused by all of that too, and going in knowing what had been said about her being the most powerful superhero to date, it didn't seem to fit. She got her power from an infinity stone, like several other characters. Thanos has all the stones and has defeated all of the other characters. Maybe there was something I missed?

I thought the movie was pretty good, really, but Jumping Jesus Brie Larson turned in a solid B movie performance. There were times when I thought maybe the whole point was to troll terribly cheesy 80's action heroes like JCVD or something but I really think she was playing it straight, which makes it funnier. *my name...is...CAROL* made me lol. And those squinty eyes whenever she tries to make a joke! I was choking it back. I thought the rest of the cast was really solid (which made Larson stick out), especially Jude Law and Mendelsohn. It sucks Marvel burned those two on a one-off role. Annette Benning was questionable. I can't be too hard on Larson's acting, because I think a lot of it is the writing. So much cheese! Or maybe she's just miscast. I mean Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth aren't great actors, but they are both well-suited for the roles they play. Evans pulls off a plucky hero mostly in over his head, and Hemsworth does a good job playing an outsider trying to learn the rules and fit in. It works for them. But Brie Larson playing a phenomenon discovering her unlimited potential while dropping lame one liners with a monotone and squinty eyes? Ehhh. That doesn't stack up well against Robert Downey Jr and Chris Pratt. We're going to need better. As for the plot, I liked it. They kind of borrowed from but it still made a good story. The twist reveal was maybe the most poignant part of the movie. There were some things that I didn't understand. I'll do spoilers just in case. Anyhow, I'm ready for Infinity War part 2 now. I feel like Larson may earn a few unintentional laughs and maybe a raspberry or two, but I'm still excited.

It's HBO. If there's no fucking they're gonna be fighting naked.

I should've clarified, but that wasn't my opinion. If you go peruse the old coaching search thread on the football board you'll see a lot of people saying that. A fairly large number of fans didn't like the Herman hire.

We saw this same kind of pessimism when Charlie got fired. Charlie Strong had a better resume than Herman and he was a 'splash hire', therefore Herman is a shitty coach too. On paper their resumes had a lot in common, but there are subtle differences that you can look for. Charlie's success had a lot to do with one star player running amok in the Big East. Herman's success wasn't tied to one player. Even though Charlie had a phenomenal work ethic, he lacked Herman's desire for perfection and his specific vision he wanted to implement. And without putting too fine a point on it, Charlie said and did some things that demonstrated that he probably didn't have what it took to run a massive, complex organization like Texas and even though it was only apparent to fans after the fact, the people that interviewed him should have noticed it right off. I don't know Beard that well and I can't explain why Shaka fizzled out here, but just because they look similar on paper doesn't mean they're the same. Is Beard's success tied to a program or a conference like Shaka's was, or even to a single player? Does he have a vision he wants to implement and a probable likelihood of doing it? Does he have a method to achieve his goals? If so he's a different animal and worthy of a good hard look.

It may be over soon, so cheer up!

If Steve Patterson was an enemy agent whose sole mission was to destroy Texas men's athletic programs, he couldn't have done much better. We will have spent close to $60 million on two amazingly mediocre coaches. To be fair, Perrin and others played a role in some of that as well.

Intimate scenes are a no go but slamming an old lady's head into a metal pole is all good? Interesting. Does watching violence excite you? If so, you're probably a psychopath. Does watching porn turn you on? If so, you're normal. Humans react very differently to scenes of violence and scenes of human intimacy. There's been science done about it.

Okay thanks. I'll probably go see it this weekend because I won't have my kids. I've stayed away from the hype good or bad, but I almost feel like I'm Star Wars'd out on Marvel. I like the original cast and movies. The new stuff doesn't carry the same excitement, and my kids still haven't forgiven me for taking them to see Infinity War.

I feel like we need to distinguish between Ant Man and Dr Strange. Ant Man was more of a comedy with a focus on physical comedy and delivered it pretty well. The giant Thomas made me laugh in the theater. Also Paul Rudd has great natural comedic delivery. Dr Strange was more of a supernatural drama with phenomenal actors. It was a decent movie, but it felt pretty wonky at times and was slow to start. Without seeing Captain Marvel I'm confused when you guys say it falls in this range. Was it more of a quirky comedy or a serious drama? I was already on the fence about seeing it since I have been a Carol Danvers fan for a long time and don't agree with the MCU's direction here, Brie Larson doesn't do it for me, and also this derriere is pretty disappointing:

Interesting backstory on that film - it was originally conceived as a sequel to The Professional where Mathilda would be the lead character. Obviously that wasn't the final product though. Kind of like Commando/Die Hard.

Those types of heroes are a joke now. Like the classic 'face' in WWE. Point of No Return was better, and Bridget Fonda was more realistic as an assassin. She was a junkie or something that got 'killed' and put into a secret program to become an off-the-books killer. Plus Harvey Keitel. Geena Davis is 90s cool but super cheesy in retrospect.

Cersei later explains it to Jaime right before he leaves her to go north. She says it was all a ruse, and asks if Jaime really thinks that Euron would give up on his desire to marry the queen so easily. He's using his ships to bring back the Golden Company

I just finished S7 and I missed a few things. - I forgot Cersei and Euron's secret plot to hire the Golden Company and 20,000 soldiers + elephants using Iron Bank gold. It doesn't make sense to me, since the loot train from Highgarden got attacked by Dany and maybe that's why I had forgotten it. Maybe someone can explain that one for me. - I forgot about the Nymeria scene. I imagine she and Ghost will have a role to play in S8. - I forgot Tormund and Dolorous Edd were at Eastwatch when the Wall came down. It didn't show if they survived. - Concerning Dorne, Ellaria Sand is possibly still alive in the dungeons of King's Landing with the corpse of Tyene. Gross. Maybe we see her again.

I think pop culture heroes tend to reflect the trends of the day. Old school John Wayne characters perhaps weren't 'deep' or layered characters and instead tended to be archetypes, but the PLOT was usually the point in those old movies rather than characters. They were mostly parables and allegories. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence or 12 O'Clock High for example. The Searchers and The Shootist had more nuanced characters. The antihero was a creation of the 70s and 80s and was primarily a rejection of the white hat hero from the 50s and 60s. That's where we get The Man With No Name and Rambo, and eventually delve deeper towards Walter White and Tony Soprano with the cynicism and rejection of a moral center in the 90s and 00s. By now the brooding male antihero is a cliche, but for whatever reason it doesn't translate to female characters. Sarah Linden in The Killing was a great example of one, but how many women liked her? (not many) Women still mainly gravitate towards characters like Carrie Bradshaw and Wonder Woman which is the female version of the white hat hero. The problem, as I see it, is that Hollywood has lost the ability to tell parables and allegories without hitting you repeatedly in the face with the morality hammer. An archetype hero is fine, so long as the story supports it. A female paladin-type is just fine within the right context. And that's the problem. Because a paladin needs specific supporting characters and a fairly specific story, and Hollywood tends to look down their nose at stories like that.

HBO Go is splotchy especially on mobile apps. I just switched to Hulu over the winter. Guess we'll see how that goes.

It will be cool to see how that plays out. How will the Northmen feel about being led by a Targaryen? How will Sansa and Arya react? Dany? I also think there's more to the Night King than we've been shown. We know he's really, really old - that scene where Leaf 'makes' him was THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO when the Children were fighting the First Men. And we know that he can raise the dead. The ritual with the babies hasn't been explained yet. The original Three Eyed Raven also seemed to know more about him that wasn't shared. Like how he 'marked' Bran. And one thing that bothers me - remember when Benjen said he couldn't pass under the wall because there was a sort of magic keeping White Walkers from going past it, that the Wall wasn't just ice? Well in the final episode the Night King and all the White Walkers have no problem walking over where the Wall used to be after it falls. The Night King character is a big mystery. I think this will be the defining storyline of the last season.

I'll add to it: The Dany storyline: Dany as we know had her turn as a mini-despot in the East where her slave-freeing enterprise got bogged down by an oligarchic insurrection, and she lost her way. And she also lost Barristan Selmy and her dragons. She got captured by the Dothraki, but burned all the Khals alive and took all their people. Then she got her dragons, killed the oligarchs and stole their ships, and took Tyrion, Varys, Missandei, and Grey Worm to Dragonstone. Sadly, Daario had to stay behind and watch the house while Dany goes to work. When she gets to Dragonstone nothing really works out the way she wanted. There are White Walkers and Cersei. But she does get several inches of Snow. She goes to war with the Lannisters, and gets the rest of the Tyrells on her side (it's just Olenna now). She sends her fleet and the Unsullied with Grey Worm and Tyrion to Casterly Rock to surprise the Lannisters, but gets tricked. The Greyjoy navy attacks the fleet and the Unsullied are trapped in a castle with no food or money. Meanwhile the breakaway Greyjoy faction under Yara and Theon (formerly Reek) gets smashed by Euron in the fog and what's left of the Dornish characters get killed. Meanwhile, Jaime Lannister takes his army, with the Tarly's, and attack Highgarden. Olenna kills herself. Jaime steals all the food and is on the way back to Sister when Dany and the Dothraki show up and kill them all with fire. Bron saves Jaime. The Tarly's die. Incidentally, Sam is now the last Tarly male and probably the heir to all of the Reach. The Unsullied somehow made it to King's Landing on foot, so Grey Worm and Tyrion are still kicking. After that a peace is attempted to fight the White Walkers with Cersei but it doesn't work out. She also sends her dragons north of the Wall to save Jon and his ranging company, and loses Viserion to the Night King and his phenomenal javelin toss. The Cersei storyline: Cersei loses all of her kids in accordance with the prophecy and now she's a cold hard bitch...queen. After she blew up the Tyrell's and the Faith Militant there's no one left in King's Landing to oppose her, but what and who she's actually ruling over is unclear. The place is probably more glum than Bratislava in the winter. (Euro Trip joke). She and Jaime are at odds over whether or not to help their enemies fight the White Walkers. She says no. Jaime says yes and he leaves. Mountain is still at her side. Qyburn too, although I don't know if you can trust Qyburn to be loyal. He pretty much just used her to get a fat science grant, and who knows who or what he really serves. But Cersei is still powerful. She has the Gold Cloaks and the remnant Lannister army but she's not in a great strategic position, since her supply of gold and food is low. Also, Qyburn seemed to get excited watching the White Walker crawl around. The Winterfell storyline: Sam and Gilly showed up at the end of Season 7 with a load of stolen books from Oldtown and knowledge about key plot points. He also cured Jorah of Greyscale using science. The Hound is on their side. So are Tormund and Beric, but Thoros of Myr is dead so no more bonus lives. Gendry is also around and he's the last person with any Baratheon blood so he's probably the heir to the Stormlands. Arya, Sansa, and Bran team up and take down Littlefinger while Bronze Yohn Royce, the Knights of the Vale, and all the Northmen look on with approval. There is a brief conflict between Arya and Sansa because Arya doesn't trust Sansa, but killing common enemies heals all wounds. Brienne is also there. She's maybe the best fighter in the show and Arya hold her own going toe-to-toe with her in a mock duel. This maybe foreshadows something. Then there's Bran. Bran is now the Three Eyed Raven and can apparently see everything across time and space and even change the past. No one knows his true powers but apparently he has a lot. It's likely tied to the weirwood trees and the magic of the Children, so count on the Night King knowing that and knowing how to deal with upstart Three Eyed Ravens. Jon is the undisputed Leader of the Free People of Westeros, but now the White Walkers are through the wall thanks to Ice Zombie Viserion. Also, the Boltons are all dead. Ramsay got eaten by his dogs while Sansa watched. The Dorne storyline: They're all dead. The Greyjoys: Euron's navy showed up in time to deal a crushing defeat to Yara, Theon, and the Sand Snakes. Yara is captured. Theon has a boat full of Iron Men that decide to follow him after he kills a guy that tried to hit him in the nuts. (He lost those a few seasons ago, if you haven't been following.) The Littlefinger storyline: So the entire story south of the Wall is probably Littlefinger's doing. It hasn't been stated explicitly, but Littlefinger got mauled by Brandon Stark fighting a duel over Catelyn Tully. Then Lyanna Stark ran off with Rhaegar to get married in secret and shortly afterwards Brandon charged to King's Landing to confront Rhaegar for kidnapping Lyanna, who was betrothed to Robert Baratheon. I believe Littlefinger TOLD Brandon that Rhaegar kidnapped her, despite knowing better, knowing Brandon would fly off the handle and do something stupid in his rage. Which he did. Brandon got killed, along with his dad and Lord Baratheon by King Aerys's fire while Jaime and Barristan Selmy watched. Then Young Ned and Robert became Lords Stark and Baratheon and went to war with their partron Jon Arryn in defiance of King Aerys. Then there was Robert's rebellion. Lyanna and Rhaegar and King Aerys died, Robert became king, and Littlefinger became Master of Coin. Then Littlefinger convinced Lysa Arryn to kill Jon Arryn and blamed it on the Lannisters, and also convinced Catelyn that Tyrion tried to assassinate Bran. This started the War of the Five Kings. After the Red Wedding the war was over, the Lannisters were in control, and Littlefinger was Lord of Harrenhal and Lord Paramount of the Trident, and married Lysa Tully-Arryn and fostered her son Robert. Then Littlefinger killed Lysa Tully-Arryn-Baelish and took possession of The Vale of Arryn as the regent for Lord Robert. If you're keeping count that's two kingdoms united under his personal command. Then he took his army to the North and saved Jon and Sansa and defeated the Boltons, and tried to turn Sansa against her family. It seemed like it may have been working, but Bran saw through his nonsense and the Stark kids killed him. Chaos is a ladder. The Clegane storyline: The Mountain and the Hound finally met. The Mountain is a freakishly powerful minion of Cersei/Qyburn. The Hound has repented of his old ways. He's given up drinking and even shows respect for others at times. I think Clegane Bowl is off, because Sandor isn't the raging bitter tormented man he used to be. The Red God/Lord of Light storyline: A lot of screen time has been devoted to the Red God and his assorted disciples. We saw where all that got Stannis, but it's still important to remember that Jon was resurrected by the Red God just like Beric was, so it seems like there is some real legit power there. For what purpose and to what end remains a mystery. Melisandre is revealed to be misguided, but Kinvara, the High Priestess, seems to have some serious powers. Thoros is killed by an ice zombie bear. Sandor witnessed a vision in the flames, although it never says what he saw. Varys also heard a voice when his nads got roasted. It will be interesting to see where this storyline goes. Did I miss anything?

It wouldn't surprise me to see the Iron Throne end up vacant at the end. Dany had a vision like that in the House of the Undying. Snow falling in an empty throne room. My prediction is that Cersei's death has something to do with her pregnancy, and she and the Mountain are the last two baddies that need to be killed off. I don't know who will kill the Mountain though. I doubt it's Hound. The Night King is probably more than just an ice zombie demon, and that revelation will be what the final season really turns on. I think the biggest revelation will be Bran. I imagine Aerys the Mad King shouting "BURN THEM ALL" when Jaime kills him has something to do with Bran and Wildfire a la Hodor. Like maybe all the wildfire and the pyromancer's secret stashes were all Bran's idea to kill the White Walkers. Lure them to King's Landing and *boom*. We even got a hint of that last season when Qyburn tells Cersei the rumors are true about the wildfire and there's more than anyone knew. I'm really curious to see how and even if all the various deities influence the final action. Does the Red God do anything other than reanimate Beric and Jon? Or is all the mythology in GoT just hoodoo?

I'm not prone to cast aspersions, especially towards a group, but the amount of posters on this thread that apparently believe that Kaepernick would have kept playing or would still be playing but for for his protests is pretty staggering. Nowhere near the lunacy of the Strong/Herman threads, but the trace of personal bias overpowering obvious fact is similar. It's strange in this case though, because we're not talking about the Longhorns. Why is everyone in their feelings about a rando from Nevada? The guy isn't playing because he's not good. There are three leagues, 49 teams, that need good QBs. He's gotten several looks. Apparently an offer or two. If you think not wanting to stand for the national anthem is the reason he's not playing, when guys like Pacman Jones, Joe Mixon, Ray Rice, and even Reuben Foster kept finding roster spots, you're just a fool. If a player is good, if he can help a team win, he's going to get picked up and get paid.