metsmarathon

i'll give it a 4.5 as i said in the 6/6 igt, i'd hardly classify this particular pixar project as a "kiddie flick" there was some pretty mature subject matter in there. i'd say it was the most grown up movie disney has put out in a long, long time, if ever. i mean, there was enough for young kids to enjoy, but there was some heavy heavy shit in there which, if it doesn't fly over the tykes' heads, is going to make for a long and inquisitive car ride home. i mean, you've got dreams shattered by infertility, death of a loved, longtime spouse and the subsequent feelings of loneliness, the creeping dissociation of the elderly from modern society, and a frightening moment of sudden uncontrolled rage from an otherwise peaceful and kind old man. and that's all before house takes off for skies, in what i've gotta believe has to become a future episode of mythbusters! overall i really liked the movie. it was very well done, and (spoiler alert) also had a classic disney-esque villain' death by plummeting. dug was friggin hilarious, and, i think, accurately captured the canine thought process. the pixar short leading into the movie was also, characteristically, very good. i loved the shark. i should definitely try to see this movie in 3d, though i'm curious how much it would necessarily add.

the jerk running my draft seemed to think drafting catchers early was a wise move...

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in the past, points were taken away for CS, but that's changing this year in an effort to boost offensive production. in the past, pitching was scoring a bit too many points relative to hitting (and i dominated in pitching)

ok, i'm in a custom espn points league, wherein we have 10 keepers. i won the league this year, but that's not terribly germane. its a 10 team league. i've got as definite keepers: mark teixeira josh hamilton johan santana brandon webb dice-k and likely keepers: carlos marmol (assuming he's closing) brandon phillips here's my problem... i've got garret atkins and kevin youkilis. both are good 1b/3b's, and both are slated to perform rather well next year. half the projections i've seen, including espn, seem to think that youk will have the better season next year. but half of 'em show atkins as the better play, including pecota and marcel. in our league, we don't have to have all 10 keepers chosen - open keeper spots turn into earlier draft opportunities. and i'm weighing, whether to keep both players, relegating one to a utility role, or do i risk losing one before my chance to pick comes up in the draft? and if i only keep one, which do you feel is the better keep? Total Bases (TB) 1 Walks (BB) 1 Runs Scored ® 1 Runs Batted In (RBI) 1 Stolen Bases (SB) 2 Strikeouts (K) -1 above are the current batting settings

the hard.

go that way, really fast. if something gets in your way, turn. what a sham! highway robbery! what may well be my favorite movie ever, ousted by coming to america! jeez! what kind of forum do i post at?!

technically, clone wars makes seven, doesn't it? of course, they shoulda really stopped at three...

i should update my netflix... but tehn i've gotta watch daylight first for that to matter.

this one is tough. i love the untouchables. but i think i'm unfairly allowing the pitiful sequels to affect my love for robocop... with either, i cannot skip them when i surf their wave. just with robocop, i hafta doublecheck the channel guide to see if i'm wasting my time or not with an awful sequel. have i mentioned that the robocop sequels are awful? hmm... alright, i think i'm gonna settle on the untouchables. the tommy guns get me every time.

i think i've seen risky business, and i'm pretty sure i haven't seen werewolf, no no vote for me here...

empire. natch.

my vote goes to the bunny.

Nymr83 wrote: you may hate walmart's labor practices but what do they have to do with being bad for the environment that you can't say about every other company? c'mon, what commodities does walmart sell that aren't, essentially, disposable? the clothing? disposable. the furniture? disposable. the electronics? disposable. granted, i think that costco might fit in more with the "buy in bulk; use in bulk" commentary that is exemplified by buy 'n' large, but walmart is the easy, and no less apt, target. the movie is more commentary on the whole 'buy, use, toss' product lifecycle than it is on mega-retailers, necessarily; but then, who but the mega retailers truly espouses that philosophy? buying new is far more important than servicing old. but really, the criticism is laid not on the company necessarily, but on the consumer. if consumers didn't want to by so damned much, only to waste and/or dispose of it, then there wouldn't need to be so many mega retailers (or in the case of this movie, so much of one). is a message of 'use and waste less' really that subversive? if yo watch the movie, are you really going to equate 'buy n large' to target, or kmart, or macy's, or bloomingdales? or are you going to instead think immediately of walmart, or perhaps costco? and if you do, does that really immedaitely undermine the whole foundation of our capitalist society? i hardly think so. think of the economic opportunity that wall-e represents! why, a small business could get rich by proposing one of them!

c'mon... what about my secret identity? no love for jerry o'connell?

an infinite number of universes, and they only go three digits deep? sheesh...

george clooney and renee zellweger and john krazynski play some old school football in this sporting comedy. overall i liked the movie. clooney and zellweger had terrific chemistry, and jim from the office pulled off the football bit fairly well. the sports scenes looked authentic enough when they needed to, and silly enough when called for, that you could imagine that this is what football used to look like when footballers might've looked like you and me. i also like the period attire and the overall look, and wonder if people ever really did talk like that, because it would be cool if we still did. in total, i think i'm giving it a 1st and goal.

for san francisco, what about... ?

maybe not, but my BMI says "overweight", and i'm certain i outweigh the scrawny brit with the belly by a fair amount.

i'm a sad sack who's run a marathon on mere weeks of training, and in one case, on no training whatsoever the preceding month. yet no movies get made about me. am i not interesting enough?

bumparoonie...

except in basketball. i highly recommend it in basketball.

i must admit that, as part of his supporting cast, i'd really appreciate it if, in some spy movie somwhere, uncle sam were not cast as the bad guy... it would also be nice if julia stiles worked in my office. but one thing at a time, i guess.

so if we all vote down paper clips, will edgy be forced to come up with a new list? this could be fun, like that time we did that thing with the baseball players...