A Boy Named Seo

Good call. A film-head friend of mine even called it "Payne's Wes Anderson movie" and that felt accurate. But not insulting, the aesthetics were beautiful.

Currently streaming all over but free on Peacock. Paul Giamatti plays a teacher at a Massachusetts boarding school who has to take care of the rich kids who can't go home over the 1970 winter break. Highly recommend. [YOUTUBE]AhKLpJmHhIg[/YOUTUBE]

This keeps getting recommended to me. I'll check out the trailer.

I'd forgotten how much ass mom kicked when she came home and found some hatched gremlins. Threw one in blender, stabbed one nearly to death and let hit bleed out and microwaved the last one. And Phoebe Cates' story about how she learned the was no Santa Claus was fucking hilarious.

I watched this in a theatre last night, I'm assuming for the first time since 1984 and I definitely haven't seen it in over 30 years. It was darker and funnier and campier than I remembered. What'd you think of Gremlins?

This was not the best movie, nor was it the best super hero movie, but as a hispano, there were so many small things in this that made me cackle - "Mexican Doc Brown", Vic's vapo-rub making a casual appearance, a superhero FINALLY yelling "Hey pendejos!" before kicking some ass. Super-man could never. Did you see it? [media=youtube]4wxyy8Rcz4k[/media]

I sent you an offer for an established bat! I've found I love trading more than even running a team, which no doubt, has played a part of my perennial cellar dwelling. But trade me some stuff! And I will trade you some stuff! Yay!

I'm starting this thread to move '24 talk here, but if you'll notice, I put a cute, lil star emoji in the title because I am shopping 2023 New York Mets All-Star pitcher Kodai Senga for a big 1B or OF bat. He will make a reasonable $33 this season and would look great on your team. So don't be surprised if you get a trade offer from the Cicely Marmots! Alternately, feel free to slide into my trade DMs!

Arbitration season is underway. Inflate those salaries!

DiComo had a blurb about him a couple days ago and says his time might be coming:

How many from here are still in that league?

I've already set a google alert for this dude, so I may as well share any good stuff that pops up. He's the 2-way guy the Mets drafted in the 3rd round of the 2023 draft out of Oklahoma State. And I love that the Mets were like, "Do your thing, bro. Hit, pitch, whatever," and he got a handful of games between rookie ball and St. Lucie where he did both. So far (strictly as a right-handed hitting DH), he's gone .125/.375/.313 (.688) in just 24 plate appearances (but he did hit a bomb with St. Lucie). On the mound, the righty appeared twice and went 3.1 IP, with a hit, a run, 2 walks and 2 Ks. Fun! A review of his season just dropped today and here's the highlights (link: https://www.si.com/mlb/mets/news/nolan-mclean-new-york-mets-prospect-wraps-review-2023-matt9) Found an interview with him talking about being a baby Met. It basically confirmed I adopted the best player ever hands down. He apparently loves THE DARK KNIGHT and calls the movie a "masterpiece" and Heath Ledger's performance one of the "greatest cinematic acts that could ever be put together" (scroll to 4:32). He even does a Bane impression at 5:30, wow I love this guy. At 6:08 he waxes about his love for "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Ric Flair and the Rock and even goes for a Ric Flair "WOOOOOO!" right about the 7-minute mark. How do I buy a McLean jersey. [YOUTUBE]Fg9BeLhIJzw[/YOUTUBE]

I posted something on Otto to see who all is coming back. I'm not sure I know everyone there anymore. Smiggy58 is commish, right? I'm terrible but I love that league.

Congrats, mm. Great late season resurgence and beat down. Yeah hopefully we can get a couple more heads next year and have some playoffs or head-to-head or something.

Do we need any new peeps or are we all back for next year? Looks like arbitration is coming up in a couple weeks and IIRC last year a couple few teams were ghost ships and didn't participate.

Was trying to rewatch some Hanks stuff recently and see some I hadn't seen, but this one wasn't on the radar. I guess I missed a lot of stuff in 2020.

mm steamrolling his way to the cup. I think i was up by like 2 points last week and now I'm down 6. It's less a free fall and more getting pushed off the roof.

This was released today. A note from Josh: "Hey everyone! Just a note to introduce our cover of Cyndi Lauper's “Good Enough!” Like many, I grew up to The Goonies. As a Northwest misfit myself, desperately hoping to find buried treasure and fight pirate ghosts, it was right up my alley. Every time I watched, the song, “The Goonies ‘R' Good Enough” stole my heart away every time that it came on. I just wanted to play that song so bad. Thanks to Sam Kassirer and the whole band, my dream has come true! Hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it!" Those are exactly the vibes I got listening. Not a great cover or anything, he just really, really wanted to play it. [media=youtube]q4mTfLOws38[/media]

Some people think of Sex and the City when they think of Kim Cattrall. The real ones think of Mannequin.

I went to see Goonies with a friend who's a little younger than me but had never seen it, and it meant slightly more than nothing to him. I didn't try to convince him it was great and he didn't try to convince me it wasn't, so I guess we'd both be terrible at twitter. I had no idea Hocus Pocus was a huge as it is. I checked out that article you mentioned and it didn't make me want to fork over $3 to see it for the first time. I absolutely hold Goonies and Sandlot in higher regard than the other films you mentioned. Dirty Dancing has a heavy nostalgic chokehold on Gen X'ers, though. Gonna go let lost in Letterboxd reviews of DD for the next half hour and take the temp of that movie in 2023. Edit: LOTS of 4 and 5 star reviews for DD. The people love it.

Saw this on the big screen the other night for the first time, since, I guess 1985. Spielberg had just come off Poltergeist, ET and Gremlins, and would follow up Goonies with Back to the Future and The Color Purple amongst others. It's got young Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, Ke Huy Quan and Jeff B. Cohen as "Chunk" (Cohen is now the Academy Award-winning Quan's entertainment lawyer!) Loved it in '85 and still laughed my arse off in '23. Hey you guys! Do you like the Goonies? Also, dig this wild interview with Jeff Cohen. [media=youtube]o_tVPbJ4J-M[/media]

They should've left the acronym METS and gone with "Motivate" "Envision" "Strength" "Trust" or some ****.

The Mets last pick in the 2023 draft already got his first promotion. Kellum put up a cool .885 OPS in the rookie league for the affiliate whose name I just learned is the ridiculous Florida Complex League Mets. Thankfully he plays now for the single A St. Lucie Mets, which sounds like a real baseball team.

I missed this - my dude signed officially. Dig that strange, corporatized Mets logo behind him. Someone alert Paul Lukas NOW!!!! [TWEET] [/TWEET]

Saw it at the 70mm IMAX last night. It was LOUD, I feel like I just walked out of a Dinosaur Jr. concert. Ears were ringing, but it wasn't from the dialogue, which was sometimes hard to make out over the rumbling and crackling, which is pretty constant. That was big, bombastic movie (pun yall). Great performances, and a bunch of Oscar noms coming, I'm sure. *** spoiler spoiler spoiler *** I will say the third act ended up feeling like a bit of a restart after the bomb is built and the war is over and the focus shifts to the politics and back-stabbing behind revoking Oppenheimer's clearance. I think the movie regained most of that momentum and I liked getting that chapter of his story told, but it probably could've been an award-winning two-hour summer blockbuster just the same if it ended with him conflicted and miserable after WWII ends. Around New Mexico, there have been lots of people displeased that the movie neglected to talk about the families who lived near the Trinity site who were given no hints at all what was happening and of course were ravaged by cancer and other health problems. I don't think they needed to include that to make you realize the best interests of innocents and civilians were never at the forefront of the government's plans, but one shot of a confused farmer when the bomb went off could've at least reminded people that the Trinity site wasn't Mars or anything, people lived there. TL:DR long, loud, great, not perfect flick.