Because Brady & Belicheck are cheating ass egotistical sons of bitches.

They wanted to bury the Broncos and the legend of Manning, just like with all there previous running up the board bullshit over the years.

Finally bit them in the ass. The old man & Denver are going to the Super Bowl and it couldn't have happened to a better team of douche bags than the Pats.

Irony though... Denver didn't win. NE gave it to them.

Whoa there killa, I ain't giving fat ass a pass on the prequels by a long shot. Lucas might be the biggest flop of a director in history because of those prequels. No director had more talent (McGregor, Neeson, Portman) to work with, more love and momentum from the world to resurrect a beloved franchise, and no more "benefit of the doubt" because he was a God to geeks for creating the source material than Lucas.

And this was Lucas' meeting with Disney for Directing Episode VII...

60% of the material was in Sith. I totally believe that, because of the three, Sith is the most fleshed out an entertaining of the lot.

I'm not giving Lucas a pass on the prequels, overall. I'm giving him a pass on at least ATTEMPTING to come up with an original story. No different than when Paramount decided to continue on the Star Trek film franchise beyond the TOS cast, and adapt it forward with the TNG films (Generations kinda blew tho, the rest I liked). They were trying something fresh.

Abrams, I like the guy and his TV shows, but with films, both the Star Trek & Star Wars reboots have been largely rehashes. I really liked Star Trek 2009, it added alot of old elements and new elements, and very solidly rebooted the franchise. They were also helped by a GREAT cast. However, Into Darkness was a complete (and TOTALLY UN-NECESSARY) rehash of Star Trek II. Star Trek II is basically The Empire Strikes Back of Star Trek films. Nobody needed a reboot, and to take one of the most powerful endings in sci-fi/action movie history, and certainly Star Trek, and to water it down to the dumbest of levels, not to mention gradually taking Star Trek out of the humanist story, the adult-narrative philosophical-aspect that made Star Trek legendary and mature, and to turn it into just a straight action-gimmick... it just seemed lazy and retreading old waters.

Same thing with Episode VII. Lucas took a swing and BIG miss on the prequels, but it was a legit swing. Abrams just kinda took all of the parts that made the original Star Wars trilogy so great, and rehashed them. While watching it, he certainly made the best Star Wars film since Jedi, if not Empire (although I do like Sith). Good job JJ. Some things were great. The new characters mixing with old was done very well, unlike say TNT's Dallas reboot. But the main plot that moved it all along (not complaining about Kylo Ren), about the First Order and the new Death Star was just kinda -- -- for me. I would've liked a bit more fleshing out of the First Order, maybe possibly a New World Order -- IN SPACE! gimmick would've been cool, but instead it just felt like another resurrecton of "Dark Side". Hell, they even say it in the film, when they reference the Sith, the Empire, and now the First Order.

I felt that maybe JJ was kinda being controlled by Disney, and couldn't jump too much with the source material, very similar to the same issues that plagued Tim Burton with Batman 1989 and Rob Zombie with Halloween 2007 -- they both had to make a "safe" film for financial reasons. Then they were successful, got their sequel, and went fucking crazy with their follow-ups, and both made films much more their own vision, so much to a point they alienated the fanbase and got canned as directors for future sequels (hell, Zombie effectively killed the Halloween franchise with his sequel in 2009).

Maybe JJ will be allowed to go a bit further with his sequel. Especially being it's gonna obviously feature less Ford and MUCH more Hamill.

Agreed. This says it best. It's recycled material, but it still has that same great Coke flavor.

That was kind of how I felt watching it.

Sugar & Salt hell, the Rx Drugs are killing us no different than Coke/Heroin and Scott. The media always villianizes Prescription Painkillers, but that is a drop in an ocean compared to the amount of people poisoning themselves and destroying their brains perminately who take Rx anti-depressants daily.

The numbers are... scary to say the least. NO drug is good for you. ANY of them. They are all a form of poison and body altering. It always amazes me when the evangelical-types who are terrified of using any form of body-altering surgery as some sort of Luciferian 666-tracking agenda, yet they take pills, which perminately alter & damage their bodies, daily, without even blinking.

Same thing. That's why I don't consider illicit drug use to be anything other than a legal term. For every Scott on Cocaine, there's somebody in the country dying younger than 48 from Liver Cancer using basic prescribed doses of Acetaminophen for 15-20 years or so.

Partly true. But even in the underground there's alot of regurgitated shit. I personally think the best music out there is the Soundclound Synth/EDM/80sElectronicRevisionism whatever the fuck scene you'd call it. But that's just me. I listen to a shit load of those no-name artists out there that grew up on John Carpenter scores and consider him a God.

I put it to you this way Rex. I initially disdained Ghost, and i've started listening to those guys... just because it's fucking different. Something.