Honestly, they are all the same level to me.  This band never ever needed a keyboardist anyway.  It's just extra uneccessary padding.

A bunch of great posts here.  The CD thing dragged on and wasn't a one off well in part because he (Axl) owned the name now.   I guess there are certain expectations with that as opposed to a one off like Snakepit.

And I've been just randomly listening to some Buckethead solo stuff and came away with the same conclusion as most:  How the fuck did Axl Rose not get at least 2 albums worth of tracks with this guy as his lead guitarist?  You can also ask how the hell he wasted all the time he has had in the band with Slash.  It always comes back to the same with Axl; lack of productivity.

I've seen this one too.  My thoughts echo yours.  It's pretty good 2/3 of the way through.  It's got a nice storyline with Nicholoson being the retired cop thing hunting a killer.  Then it just veers into predictableness or just loses all energy and momentum.  The "thud" for me was when  near the end the FBI had the task force in and were waiting for the killer and of course he never showed up.

The ending (last scenes really) was just really sad to me.

I watched this a while back and I had one big issue.  I found the main character totally unlikable.  In fact, I think the Bill Murray character almost steals the film from Tootsie.

Re-watched Trespass.  It's basically The Treasure of Sierra Madre transported into the 90s and in an abandoned church.  But it's fun as hell on multiple levels.  You have the good guys and bad guys fighting amongst themselves.  And there's the other plot elements that I enjoyed.  I'd say it's probably an underrated Walter Hill film.  It doesn't beat The Driver for my fave Hill film but this one is pretty good.

LOL WTF?  They're M&M's.  Freaking colored chocolate pieces to eat.  The last thing I'm thinking of when I'm eating those things is gender empowerment or whatever bullshit that clown wrote.

Makes sense.  I'd say Belicheck would employ the stop Allen gameplan and dare the Bills to run.   Watching both of the NE/BUF games, it seems the Bills moved the ball easily between the 20s and then just had issues after that (they'd make some stupid play call, usually a pass).  Honestly, BUF should have swept both games. I do think the Bills aren't very good at defending the run though.  And NE needs to run play action on early downs to avoid obvious passing situations.  Buffalo also doesn't run it enough, imo and that plays into NE hands.

In modern NFL, you have to be sucessful in the red zone.  NE can allow as much yards between the 20s as the want, if they limit BUF to FG (or turnovers) it's a win for them. Turnovers, big plays (sacks here) will also be key.  BUF is missing Tre'Davious White as well.

It's also a cold weather game which generally favors the better running team, in this case NE.  Take advantage of Smith and Henry at TE as well.  Buffalo better get ahead because NE can grind the shit out of the clock if they are ahead.  This just smells like one of those games where Belicheck takes away Diggs and plays two deep safeties and basically dares BUF to run (aside: seen that movie before 2019 WC game vs TEN).