Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 rather easily
After you're first complaint, I decided to boycott them completely.
Plus JK Rowling is really mean and insensitive.
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After you're first complaint, I decided to boycott them completely.
Plus JK Rowling is really mean and insensitive.
The first time I watched Bridesmaids I fell asleep after 20 min and was convinced it was boring and was only funny to corny women. I was wrong. I have seen it a few times since and it's fucking hilarious. Kristin Wigg in the airplane and when she calls the stewardess Stove (you're named after an appliance) is one of the funniest scenes of all time. The dress fitting scene is amazing too. Funny movie.
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 rather easily
After you're first complaint, I decided to boycott them completely.
Plus JK Rowling is really mean and insensitive.[/b]
This confirms some suspicions.
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I was completely done with movies by this time. Saw Moneyball because global warming (no AC, no breeze, temps in the 90's). I worked in MLB at the time the book came out, and it was controversial (to say the least) in my circle, and I knew many of the people in the book, and portrayed in the film. Living through it, the effects of and reactions to the movie are as entertaining, if not more, than the film itself, for me. Fairly accurate, some of it Hollywooded it up...
It’s crazy moneyball took so long for executives to catch on. The same thing happened in the NBA with going small and shooting 3’s. It’s such an easy concept to grasp and it took Ivy League forks to make it happen.
In both cases, it hurt the game. MLB became a strikeout, walk, or HR game. NBA became dunk, 3’s, and FT’s game.
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This is the origin of the backlash against Beane / Oakland at that time amongst old school baseball people. There were several people / orgs that were doing the same thing the A's were, particularly Earl Weaver and the Orioles, back to the late 60's.
From the scout's perspective, it was based in risk management...focus on college players with a track record against better competition. Lower risk, lower reward, because they are closer to "who they are" when you get them. High school kids are looked at as "lumps of clay", in that you can shape them into what you want them to be, without the bad habits. The orgs I worked for placed high value on HS arms and bats (greater risk, greater reward). The main beef with the "baseball establishment" was that the book (and especially the movie was that it was a "Look at how smart this guy is / how smart I am" vibe, which was more Michael Lewis than Billy Beane.
It has played out pretty much as I thought it would, with a blending of the philosophies...
Uhh...batshit crazy redhead sex.
God I love red heads.
#primelohan