New poll please!

by mtex on Nov 28, 2007 10:30 AM CST Comment 14 comments

Suggestions:

Which do you care more about this Christmas season:
- Obtaining a CF via trade/free agency
- Trading Gerald Laird (no matter what the return)
- Making sure that Brad Wilkerson is not re-signed
- The television writer's strike
- The Broadway labor union strike
- Vicente Padilla's strike zone
- Skip Christmas - bring on American Idol!

What's the worst acquisition by any team so far this Hot Stove?
- Torii Hunter to the Angels (5 years/90 million)
- ARod to Yankees (10 years/$275 million)
- Scott Linebrink to White Sox (4 years/19 million)
- Jason Kendall to the Brewers (1 year/3 million?)
- Doug Brocail to the Astros (1 year/2.5 million)
- Kerry Wood to Cubs (1 year/4.2 million)

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I have to say...

I don't really care about any of those things for Christmas. In general... I care about the first WAY more than anything of the others.

And for the record, the writer's strike isn't just over television, they aren't working on film scripts either (that just doesn't have much of an impact now since studios have stockpiles of scripts).

Troy I.

by tdi1985 on Nov 28, 2007 10:23 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

stockpiles of crappy, crappy scripts...

...that will soon be vehicles for John Travolta and Martin Lawrence.

"Red Sox = Evil Empire 2.0" -MR

by RangerMoto on Nov 28, 2007 10:57 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hollywood puts out a lot of crap

but that crap tends to blind people to the fact that there are still plenty of good movies being produced by Hollywood.

The last three movies I saw were all pretty good. American Gangster was okay, though it didn't really offer anything new to the "Drug Lord rises... then falls" genre. Darjeeling Limited was weird, but enjoyable throughout. Michael Clayton was just plain excellent.

And I can't wait to see No Country for Old Men.

It's actually pretty easy to just not go see movies like Wild Hogs or Saw X or any movie starring Ben Stiller.

Dwyade once challenged God to a game of 1-on-1, only to realize it's impossible to play 1-on-1 against yourself.

by thedirkatron on Nov 28, 2007 11:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No Country for Old Men

Well worth it.

T.R. -- enough is enough.

by Chase Irwin on Nov 28, 2007 11:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No Country

I finally saw No Country this w/e. It was very good, but I defintely think they cut too much of Chigurh's dialogue, particulary one entire scene near the very end that shed a little more light on his motivations.

And I'm not sure how I felt about the total lack of a score. I get the effect they were going for, just not sure if I agree.

And after A. Gangster and this, I've become a Brolin fan.

Also, it was pretty funny to see the effect the ending had on the audience...

Brett Gardner broke my heart...

by Brian Thomas on Nov 29, 2007 11:42 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Just saw it

I loved the non-score. Total silence during the most intense scenes of the movie.

I would agree that Chigurh could have had more dialogue. As it was, his performance was totally flat, more like some symbol of fate rather than a real character, with no arc to it. But he pulled it off perfectly. His interactions with other characters were terrifying in their moral emptiness.

by a bebop a rebop on Dec 2, 2007 4:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Bardem

Got to be one of the top 5 best actors currently working.

The Dancer Upstairs is one of my all-time favorites...

Brett Gardner broke my heart...

by Brian Thomas on Dec 5, 2007 10:38 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Darjeeling

Please tell me it was better than The Life Aquatic.

Also, what is this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1094249/#comment and have you seen it?

Brett Gardner broke my heart...

by Brian Thomas on Nov 29, 2007 11:40 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The scripts are probably

Pettycoat Junction.
Rambo 17.
The Partridge Family
Saw 9
CHiPs
Transformers 5 (Dirkatron will rave how this movie should win an Oscar).

if the last few years of movies have been any indication.

"LSB: accept the losing" - Sharky

by DJCahill on Nov 28, 2007 11:04 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

hah..

I'm sure they aren't the best quality...
The real problem is when the SAG and Directors Guilds go on strike next year.

For the most part, I don't really care about the strikes. The television and movie industries can use a little bit of a shake up, since most of the crap they've been putting out lately has been, well, crap.

Troy I.

by tdi1985 on Nov 28, 2007 11:28 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs