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#1411 Re: The Garden » The 2010-11 NFL Season Thread » 823 weeks ago
ESPN is partially to blame here as they always speculate on Favre and his retirement plans. Yeah, it doesn't help that Favre is a media whore but still they make a big deal out of this for the last four or five years.
He'll play this year because the Vikings just offered a salary increase, gave him time to make his decison (aka skip training camp) and he only had minor ankle surgery. If they were really scared about Favre retiring the Vikings would have looked closely into acquiring another qb. I think Favre realizes that this is one of the last chances he has to reach the Super Bowl and he'll play this year.
#1412 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 824 weeks ago
On Inception--I found it to be great although not at the level of tejas or bono's level. It actually flows pretty well for a 2hr and 30 minute film. I found the acting fine. Parts of the third act lagged a little. It's probably the best summer film released this year. To be fair, the movie crop this summer has been awful.
Last films seen--The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. Really boring. I normally don't advocate remakes at all but I'm definitely looking forward to the Fincher remake. He also cast Daniel Craig in the lead role as Blomkvist today. Anyway this Swedish version is just kinda bland and doesn't capture the interest that the novel creates. It's a fair adaption, but it's just a boring film.
Sexy Beast--Insane performance by Ben Kingsley. Interesting varation on a heist genre film.
Secret Things--only mentioning this here because someone on this site put it on one of their film lists. It's a pretty good film.
#1413 Re: The Garden » The 2010-11 NFL Season Thread » 824 weeks ago
I haven't watched ANY of the NFL shows this offseason. Kind of a scary thought. It's the last sport I watch every season and if I drift away from it, that's pretty much it for me. Always hated baseball, stopped watching basketball right around when Pippen retired, don't pay much attention to women sports anymore as the next gen always comes in so quickly and I got sick of keeping up to date, and don't give two shits about hockey, soccer,etc.
I think it's pretty easy to get back into it though. The season starts in September and it's pretty much on for like 9 hours on Sunday (including SNF). College Football is even more insane as I'm pretty sure it lasts at least 12 hours + on Saturdays (counting the late west coast games as well).
In the NFL offseason it is real easy to skip all the stuff as it is pretty much the Draft and FA. Preseason games aren't very good too; so probably just tune in for the regular season.
It's definitely got the most important and entertaining regular season of all the major sports. I LOVE baseball, my number one sport by a hair over the NFL. But I'd much rather watch a Bengals vs. Panthers regular season game than a Royals vs. Mariners. The fact that the season is a lot shorter makes each game more meaningful, plus the "fantasy" factor as well. I think it also depends, at least for me, on how good the teams you cheer for are at certain times. Growing up for me it was Red Sox first, then Celtics, then Patriots. Mostly because I played baseball and basketball, not football growing up. Mix in the fact that the Patriots were god awful in the early 90's. Then the tide turned a little and the Patriots got better and the Celtics became god awful, so they switched spots for me. And even though the C's are back among the elite, I now have season tickets for the Pats so they still rank #2 for me.
To me I like watching postseason baseball but the regular season is a bit meaningless. Since you mention the NBA, as time passes I find myself just avoiding the current product. It is just so freaking stale. I am speaking only on on court play and not off court stuff (awful trades, shitty officiating). 90% off the plays are either pick and roll or isolation. College Basketball while the scoring is less is far more enjoyable. You get to see movement and all 5 players touch the ball.
I'd probably rank my list
NFL
NCAA F
NCAA Basketball
MLB
NBA
On to the extra games--don't think it's a good idea since it will invariably lead to more injuries.
#1414 Re: Guns N' Roses » I have to be honest with you... » 827 weeks ago
I'm sure. But, the whole thing just has bad karma written all over it...kinda like Chinese Democracy. He looked like a complete buffoon last night and just made a mockery of sports, competition, and overall respect for others. Can anyone ever scream "I LOVE ME" more than that assclown did last night? What an obnoxious display of vanity.
That is true. Now the knives are coming out quickly. The Cleveland owner pretty much has a lot of skeletons that he can pull out. He sent a letter out last night and basically bashed him. He gave another interview and said LeBron quit on the team in the playoffs. Now today, there's a story about how many concessions they made for him while he was a Cav (includes hiring LeBron cronies and building the arena to be closer to his house).
He doesn't owe them anything but it would have been classier if he had told them that he was going to MIA. By all accounts, he never told them and he let them assume that he was going back there to CLE.
His brand is sunk. This isn't like Kobe where he can rebuild it. Even if he wins a few championships, he will be seen as the sidekick and not the main guy. Everyone (except Heat fans) hate this guy.
#1415 Re: Guns N' Roses » Dj Ashba and Dizzy Reed: "We're working on a new album" » 828 weeks ago
Let's say the two meet somewhere in Los Angeles and Cornell invites him over for a few hours. Cornell can sit with a guitar and write a killer tune on the spot. Maybe Axl chimes in with a vocal line here and there and voila....a song is born. Maybe such a situation would inspire Axl in a different direction or god willing make him see that he can do more with his career than just lock up everything in his vault.
You're right though....the window is small. It's why we're seeing a Soundgarden reunion, and Axl's window is the same size so either unleash a killer album or go tour the hits with the original band and write GNR's final chapter.
I want unheard material. Fuck off with the reunion unless he's incapable of bringing a killer album to the table.
I've got no problem with them using outside writers at all. Provided they don't go the Desmond Child/Dianne Warren route. The main problem is and always will be Axl and his total control over the project. He'd want to tweak it and make adjustments or whatever to it and that would kill whatever momentum this project would have.
It's really too bad he doesn't have any producer he can trust. Someone who can tell him to just sing the vocal track (and write lyrics) and leave the production to us. Don't bother with the rest. Just sing and relax afterward. I think Tom Zutaut during 2001 was the closest he's ever gotten to that. Too bad that ended up the way it did otherwise Axl would have been a lot more productive.
#1416 Re: The Garden » Last book you read... » 828 weeks ago
Just finished Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth. Light reading vampire novel.
Also finished the last of the Millenium trilogy--The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest. Great but I still prefer the first novel. This one is quite long and could have used some editing.
#1417 Re: The Sunset Strip » Twlight star Robert Pattinson related to the real Dracula » 828 weeks ago
Reading some of the summaries of the plots of the Twilight series is funny in itself. They could dump the Dan Brown novels in the same category as well. Popular bestsellers that are absolutely awful and ridiculous.
#1418 Re: Guns N' Roses » Dj Ashba and Dizzy Reed: "We're working on a new album" » 828 weeks ago
The problem here with GNR version 3 (or 4 or 5) is that all bands are measured by the amount of musical output they release. Does anyone think that Axl will release anything new in the next 2 or 3 years? By new, I mean material written by the guys currently in the band and not retreads/retooling of the Bucket era cd stuff. Axl is close to fifty and I just don't see him having the drive to get out an album relatively soon. He has a very small window to do this or just reunite with the original band.
If you go by the current reports that Axl's energy has waned and the shows are on autopilot, I wouldn't be surprised if after the current tour ends GNR goes back into a dark/inactive period again.
#1419 Re: The Sunset Strip » Wax on, F Off with Ralph Macchio » 831 weeks ago
The Karate Kid remake is Hollywood nepotism at it's worst. The Smith's are also producers of this crap. Only question I have is why the hell is Jackie Chan is this thing? He has a solid rep in Asia and could easily just do another film there. Guess he needed the money.
#1420 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR's most ridiculous and WTF moments » 831 weeks ago
the entire "I don't know if soon is the word" comment. That one is pretty funny since he said it in fall 2002 and the album came out around six years later.
Buckethead's fascination with wolf dog poop and jacking off to porn and Axl's (or the band members) concern for the sanitary conditon of the studio.
The rambling statement Axl used to describe "Oh My God" in 1999. Can someone translate what the hell he said there?
Since I Don't Have You--the video is cheesy and Duff is clearly out of it.
Blaming MLB for the website lack of coherency or information being posted is another one I just thought about.
Those are just off the top of my head.
