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WTF were you thinking with that username? Skaterboi69 taken?
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Listen here, Captain McMississippi, I'll roll with whatever damn user name I want. That's what The Nick would want.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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You just keeping stuffing your piehole with McRibs and clubbing poor Linesman to death. You're about to suffer a chess humiliation unlike any other -- a decisive draw to Bros Up Hos Down!Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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McRibs suck. But I will eat a BigMac if forced."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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You are dead to me.Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Most of you probably recall this as if it were yesterday, but it's worth revisiting....Leko busts Kramnik with a move "invisible to engines" and his Marshall Attack proves successful!
Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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I had played over that game back after it happened. Truly an elegant novelty. Interestingly, he said he thought he was lost and just figured he would go down swinging and then it hit him about halfway through the combination. Sometimes, inspiration is one part preparation and two parts luck."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Some quotes by Bobby. You know, he was mentally worse off than most laypeople know:
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.Is it against the law to kill a reporter?America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...[about his mom, who funny enough is Jewish] She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
Last edited by AlabamAlum; May 1, 2020, 03:54 PM."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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I don't play chess but that litany of hate is damn interesting. You have to wonder about people like this when you realize that guy is not alone. Not eve close to alone, in those kinds of views.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Bobby was capital C Crazy. A true paranoid delusional with a persecution complex."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Knives Out (2019)
d. Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curits, Don Johnson, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Toni Colette, Christopher Plummer
Finally got around to watching some 2019 flicks on my backburner. The untimely death of a rich family patriarch on his 85th birthday leads the detective Benoit Blanc to investigate. The result is an Agatha Christie-style whodunit in which nearly everyone had motive.
The film is quite a bit better than its trailer lead people to believe and it turned out to be one of those films that gained popularity through word of mouth. All the more surprising because it came from Rian Johnson, who "ruined" Star Wars forever depending on how you view Star Wars the Last Jedi. In a weird way the characters very much seem like they're taken from a Wes Anderson film but with much less deadpan, dry humor. These people get angry, swear, shout, etc. And this is very much an A-list cast. You get strong performances out of Craig and Ana de Armas but Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, and Toni Colette all have some great, funny lines. Speaking of Daniel Craig though...either you accept his accent or you don't. He tends to be more of a straight man throughout, hammy as his personality is, although he has a terrific line of dialogue near the end.
I should note...if you are sensitive to politics, the movie at one point has characters arguing about a particular MAGA-era issue. For most of it though the arguably political undertones are more subtle. I can't really say more without giving away too much.
But the bottom line for me, simply put, is that this is a funny, engaging mystery flick. Would recommend.
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DOCTOR SLEEP (2019)
d. Mike Flanagan
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis, Zahn McClarnon, Carl Lumbly
I'm a big fan of The Shining both Stephen King's original book and the Kubrick film so last weekend I said to myself, "oh yeah. I still haven't seen the sequel" and finally watched it.
It's pretty hard to talk about the plot at all without spoiling the movie too much so I won't bother. All the trailers spoil too much also. It IS based upon Stephen King's own sequel but there are major differences. There were major differences in the original adaptation too (more on that below). All I'll say is that the surface plot mostly revolves around a Manson family-like cult of "psychic vampires" who hunt for, torture, and kill people with the 'shining' to extend their own lives.
I would say that I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's NOT the classic the first film is. I didn't find it very scary. But the content is almost more disturbing than the first film? One of the themes of the first movie was child abuse and that's definitely a theme here too. A lot of scenes really draw my respect for the amount of work that went into duplicating sets and actors from the original movie, which could have been accomplished with CGI, but these were built with hard work and eye for detail. Ewan McGregor did a great job as a grown-up Danny Torrance and I really liked Cliff Curtis as his friend and AA sponsor. A couple of the actors they found to play characters from the first movie (no CGI Peter Cushings here!) were GREAT. Alex Essoe as Wendy Torrance doesn't really LOOK like Shelley Duvall but man, she captured the essence of that character really well I thought.
How much you enjoy this might depend on what you'd like to see out a Shining sequel made almost 40 years later. If you want a lot of nods, references, and "tributes" to the original movie, you'll probably enjoy half the movie. If you want a brand new story about Danny Torrance set decades after the events of The Shining, you'll probably enjoy half the movie. If you're open to both you'll enjoy it more probably.
So to talk a bit more about the original book/movie and then the respective sequels...if you're familiar you know that the original Kubrick film and novel are very different. Stephen King hated the adaptation and hated the casting of Jack Nicholson. And I sort of agree with him on that. I re-watched The Shining over the weekend too cuz it'd been a while and Nicholson seems crazy from the start. Jack Torrance was supposed to be more of an 'everyman' character. With some serious problems, yeah, but not a hateful lunatic. I love the movie but it's hard to say at any point Nicholson is a sympathetic character. Anyway the ending of the book is very different from the movie. The hotel burns down. But that also means that in the new movie they had options that Stephen King didn't for his sequel novel.
This movie kind of came and went without much fanfare and deserves a bit better than that. If you're any kind of fan of the originals you should check this out.
In lieu of a trailer here's a neat British promo that ran years ago for "Kubrick season"
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