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I hope the marathons have a great time!

Old-timey guy.

Yea!!!

The more I think about it, there have to be sequels that bridge the gap between this one and Alien. There are way to many questions left unanswered that lead me to believe there will be more...otherwise this movie was worse than I originally thought walking out of the theater.

#1's gotta be an old-timey player, right?

Nice work, Edgy!

I saw this one last night. It is pitched as Ridley Scott's quasi-prequel to the Alien film series, but other than the opening title and the last 45 seconds of the movie, it stands on it's own as a philosophical sci-fi flick. Earth scientists that discover mutiple cave paintings are funded by an aging, dying man to travel into distant space to find an ancient species that they believe started life on Earth. Things get dicey as circumstances are not what they first seem to be and alien-infested hijinks ensue. Ridley Scott can still create an amazing visual film. During the first scenes on the huge transport ship, the references not just to his 1979 Alien film, but also the sequels are evident in the design and feel of the shots. The Alien series world is definitey visually represented in the film, even if it is very rarely referenced by the plot or characters. The story was almost too big for the film. Unfortunately, the philosphical who-are-we and where-did-we-come-from questions were attempted, but were lost in the tension of the action sequences. I definitely sat through the second half of the film with a feeling that I wasn't entirely sure what was going on and that there would be a big "AHA!" moment...but it never came. The acting was decent, but again, the character development was overshadowed by the action and granduer of the situations. Michael Fassbender playing the obligitory Alien series android was the best of the bunch. I was amazed at the amount of actors in this movie that were playing characters with different accents than their native one: Noomi Rapace is Swedish, but had a British-ish accent Michael Fassbender is German born, but moved to Ireland at the age of two, but had an American/British/Android accent Guy Pearce is an Austrailian, but had an American accent Idris Elba is British, but had an American accent Charlize Theron is South African, but had an American accent Patrick Wilson had a small role; he is American, but had a British accent I guess I was hoping for more of a true Alien prequel, so I came away slightly disappointed, although, I would have most likely been disappointed in a true attempt anyway. I will definitely watch this film again when it comes out for home viewing, as I feel there is a lot that I missed in trying to keep up with the action. I wouldn't mind immediately revisiting the original Alien now, too. This film was better than most but not excellent.

I'm five minutes from I-90. I don't want to see any Mets anywhere near me.

Win or no win, the bullpen makes me ill.

Rauch has balls of steel!

Gwreck wrote: Maybe Johan can see fit to not give THIS lead up. That goes double for the bullpen.

Thanks...it's sometimes difficult for me to understand the sarcasm of tweets.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: If I'd known it would be this kind of party, I'd have stuck my d*ck in whatever kind of potatoes they serve here. BOC!

Wow...opposite KABOOM for Kirk!

I have to imagine out of the 106 pitches he threw last night, at least 90 of them were knuckleballs. RA doesn't need to tip his pitches for the batter to know what's coming. He's just throwing that one pitch really, really well. Either he was joking or that was ridiculously stupid tweet by Maddon.

metirish wrote: Ike hotting up? Until his BA is over .200 (.250 would be better), he's still got a lot to prove. But...I like the baby steps.

Wright said himself post-game that he wouldn't have gotten the runner had he used his glove. That makes me believe it should be a hit. Sorry, RA.

That HR looked like Red Sox Bay. Not often enough, but good on Jason for that at bat.

HahnSolo wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: - games where a road pitcher had a no-hitter but also gave up run(s) while his team was getting shut-out so he never pitched the bottom of the 9th Andy Hawkins, anybody? No hits but 4 runs thanks to a crappy MFY defense (3 errors in the 8th). http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1990/B07010CHA1990.htm I attended that game as a 15 year old. Bizarre.

Throwing the knuckleball, Dickey could pitch for 4 or 5 more years. I say lock that shit up. Even if he falls off of what he's done the past two years, you could have worse back-end starters to go along with Harvey, Wheeler and Niese.

metirish wrote: Would you flip Zack Wheeler for him? I wouldn't.

Dickey 6 Davis 1 Nickeas 1 Torres 1 Murphy 1

I think last night put RA officially in the bidding for NL starter at the All-Star Game...although, Matt Cain helped himself a lot as well.

Another defensive misplay by Wright. Ruled an infield hit, but looked like a bad decision to barehand to me.