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Cesc Fabregas had been Arsenal captain for more than a year when Max Dowman was born
Bardem was good. Damson Idris was solid. Dr. Sharon from Ted Lasso was solid. Whigham's part was basically a cameo, I assumed his appearance was just Kosinski calling his buddy
As much as Tarantino gets on my nerves he is incapable of writing a script this boring
Also the worst performance I've ever seen from Brad Pitt, and I love a lot of movies where he's not very good. I didn't know he had a stinker like this in him.
Also, what a waste of Kim Bodnia's time. I hope he got paid oodles, his part could've been an email
It's one of the worst scripts I've ever seen put to screen. I'm insulted on Kerry Condon's behalf. The plot's similarity to Driven is doubly unfortunate because it made me consider the hitherto unthinkable possibility that Driven had more substance
I was totally bought in to watch the Top Gun: Maverick guy do another movie about men who go fast and pretend they're not aging, and the racing footage was really good, but not, like, a step change better than the Gran Turismo movie
I finally got around to watching the F1 movie and Apple should not be able to afford the payola it must've taken to get this movie a Best Picture nom. It was awful. It made me wish I was still writing about movies and TV so I could write a mean review
Yeah that might be cheaper
Yeah let me see if I can afford a 50-mile cab ride home after seven mai tais
I just learned about this place I also want to try it
I worry that we've transcended "hardo" and have moved on to "tightass"
RIP to a real one
Sebastian Vettel running the table naming F1 champs should count as a fifth title for him
Kate lost her shit laughing we still talk about it
It's because the athletes are more diverse. In my experience, baseball players are a pretty normal distribution of personalities once you account for age, race, gender and class. But they're all rich, male, straight (as far as we know) and in the U.S. mostly white. So the politics follow
One real rock-bottom moment for me was July 4, 2014. I went to a baseball game in Cleveland and the 4th of July festivities included a mass military swearing-in and fireworks over "Independence Day" by Martina McBride. I'm still staggered by how badly we've lost the plot.
I'll say that the intentional conflation of USA=The Troops is not something these guys invented. It's been an intentional social reform project dating back to the start of the War on Terror. Probably longer, I'm just not old enough to remember.
Put another tick mark down by this ending up as the baseball post of 2026
i can still find the mental dishonesty to root for players on the field who are lunkheads but enabling this stuff is maddening. sports executives would of course be the last ones to figure out 2024 wasn't the end of history
Lol I cannot think of a single public figure who would harsh the vibes more. The reason I know O'Neill didn't kill bin Laden is he claims he killed bin Laden and he's never told the truth in his miserable life
The DR guys are playing so loose Cris Sánchez laughed. I didn't know he could do that.
One thing I didn't think about for the first decade I was aware of this commercial: Did they get a white guy to play Fake Kershaw, or is that a Korean actor in Reverse Cloud Atlas makeup?
He's given up two runs since I posted this, I don't care he's still my guy
Truly the last people on the ramparts, fighting a war that was won 10 years ago
I love Hyun-Jin Ryu so much, I did not realize how much I had missed him.
The ideal show for those who love putting their cousin in the wall
Shelvin Macular Degeneration
Nikola Myopic
Goggles Shammgoggles
I know you're not supposed to explain the joke, but I had to include the commercial because it's so funny