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re: CFB About to Turn Ugly
Posted by ouflak on 5/3/24 at 3:41 pm
[quote]One note, if the NCAA and TV agree on their lawsuits, players will have to sign contracts which require them to play bowl games. [/quote]
And just how do you plan on making those players, especially the top players sign these contracts? Gun point? Because a top player who can pull in a mil...
re: Sony, Apollo Make $26 Billion All-Cash Offer for Paramount
Posted by ouflak on 5/2/24 at 3:15 pm
[quote]This would explain why Sony hasn't made any moves to create their own streaming platform....[/quote]
They did. But it failed badly, apparently due to catastrophically poor marketing decisions. [link=(https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/display.aspx?sp=113095219&s=1&p=113077109)]Discussed h...
re: As gold as it still is, could Starship Toopers be remade and improved?
Posted by ouflak on 4/30/24 at 1:15 pm
[quote][quote]But it wasn't a satire of fascism[/quote]
I don't know what to tell you, guy...
[quote]Others, and Verhoeven himself, have stated that the film was intended to be ironic, and to critique fascism. The film has also been described as criticizing the jingoism of US foreign policy...
re: There is an 'R' rated Little Mermaid coming out
Posted by ouflak on 4/30/24 at 12:56 pm
It kind of looks like they are bringing in some of the ethos from [link=(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(TV_series))]Siren[/link]. That wasn't particulary high budget either, but still had some decent effects. I wonder if Disney bought the rights (or is the Little Mermaid public domain enough t...
re: As gold as it still is, could Starship Toopers be remade and improved?
Posted by ouflak on 4/29/24 at 3:57 pm
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That's why Verhoeven making the movie a satire of fascism[/quote]
But it wasn't a satire of fascism as fascism assumes, by definition, autocratic dictitorial power. There was literally a peaceful transition of power right there on screen fairly early on in the movie.
[quote]The movie ...
re: As gold as it still is, could Starship Toopers be remade and improved?
Posted by ouflak on 4/29/24 at 11:18 am
[quote]right-wing ideas like citizenship[/quote]
For fear of turning this into a debate that belongs onto another forum, I don't think citizenship is a 'right-wing' idea. And I don't think voting rights are a right-wing idea either. Heinlein certainly expressed some very peculiar views on those s...
re: As gold as it still is, could Starship Toopers be remade and improved?
Posted by ouflak on 4/29/24 at 7:55 am
[quote] It was obvious the director hates the military. [/quote]
I'd read the books several times before I finally saw the movie. I think the movie did the best job it could of trying to portray the militocracy world they lived in. They even openly question its right to exist morally, ethically, ...
re: Few BIG NEW releases coming out this summer. Lotta re-release of classics though.
Posted by ouflak on 4/27/24 at 4:09 am
I know it's an ask, but could you put a (remake - [i]year of previous[/i]) tag on these. Some I'm sure are remakes or reimagings, but a few I suspect are genuinely new films that just happen to have the same. Atleast one is a remake, but I'm not sure which film version of the same name it's a remake...
re: Famous roles nearly played by other actors! I’ll start.
Posted by ouflak on 4/24/24 at 2:42 pm
nm...
re: Honest discussion about NIL. Would love to hear thoughts.
Posted by ouflak on 4/24/24 at 2:15 pm
I think everybody talking like transfers are something that can be controlled have gotten lost in the NIL forest and perhaps not seen that the very same dynamics are at play there as well. There's not going to be any control transfers for all of the same fundamental reasons.
And I don't see any w...
re: Fallout **SPOILER** Discussion Thread
Posted by ouflak on 4/22/24 at 4:08 pm
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And wouldn’t Overseer 33 have recognized her from hundreds of years ago anyway before they went through the wedding. [/quote]
I thought she did. It seemed very odd....
re: Sony in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount
Posted by ouflak on 4/21/24 at 8:57 am
[quote]When is the DOJ going to start actually doing their job? All these mega mergers and acquisitions need to get shut down with a quickness[/quote]
But we all knew this was going to start happening at some point, didn't we? Having all of these myriad of competing streaming services with conten...
re: Movie Characters that were miscast
Posted by ouflak on 4/20/24 at 6:48 am
[quote]You think maybe he’s just being a pussy and then just finally nutted-up. [/quote]
Well actually... if that's the impression you got, then that's probably the right impression. That sort of transformation is basically what happens in the book. He'd had extraordinary training all his life wi...
re: VA creates a law making it illegal for the NCAA to punish schools which pay players...
Posted by ouflak on 4/19/24 at 7:16 am
[quote]The law explicitly states that athletes should not be considered employees of their school.[/quote]
That will either be amended out in the next ten years, or the entire law will be replaced by a more modern alternative. Just my prediction.
[quote]Saban[/quote]
Has absolutely nothing ...
re: Are we in a golden era of TV right now?
Posted by ouflak on 4/18/24 at 2:49 pm
[quote]The Sopranos
The West Wing
Band of Brothers
Six Feet Under
24
The Shield
The Wire
Battlestar Galactica
The Office
Deadwood
Lost
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
How I Met Your Mother
Rome
Avatar: The Last Air Bender
Friday Night Lights
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Big Bang Theo...
re: Rings of Power: Season 2. Where are you?
Posted by ouflak on 4/8/24 at 4:35 pm
[quote][b]Sauron attacking Eregion[/b], with Gil-Galad sending Elrond and a host to try to help out. You should also have Celeborn leading another host to try to defend. Eregion falls and Celebrimbor is taken; and both Elrond and Celeborn's forces are hemmed in and in big trouble until the Dwarves j...
re: Power 5 teams with ZERO wins vs. AP #1 opponents (All-Time)
Posted by ouflak on 4/6/24 at 5:03 am
[quote]We've beaten teams that ended up as #1. Who gives a shite about a bad mid season ranking?[/quote]
For those of us who are kind of into these neat little trivia bits of stastistics, would you mind posting a list?...
re: Anyone here still collect physical media?
Posted by ouflak on 3/24/24 at 9:53 am
Yes, DVD's only. My collection is extremely specific to those films that I truly like and would want to watch again. No fillers. So around maybe 200+ hundred total.
The next additions will likely be Dune 1&2, though I'm notoriously patient and am happy to wait if to see if there is going to be a ...
re: ‘The Acolyte’ Official Trailer #1 | Disney+
Posted by ouflak on 3/21/24 at 2:03 pm
[quote]You think Star Wars properties should be recycling the same simple themes over and over again, and never attempting to add any sort of nuance or depth...? [/quote]
If they were adding nuance and depth, they would be producing Very different films and series than what's currently being gurg...
re: NIT Selection Show - 8:30 PM CDT - ESPN
Posted by ouflak on 3/18/24 at 2:38 am
[quote]Oklahoma declined the NIT invite[/quote]
I don't like this either. Just makes the season, which has had some wonderful moments, feel like a huge waste of time. The NCAA tournament is certainly hugely important in all facets, but it is not the be-all-end-all of a basketball season. Really a...
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