That guy who spent six weeks in the bathroom got a 91.

Summer School

It's been awhile since I saw it, but I seem to recall the fight scenes in Creed being…not good. Like, just a barrage of phantom punches ala Rocky's 3/4, a degree of unbelievability which actually took me out of the scenes as a viewer. I could be proved wrong on a re-watch, though.

I think I like Miller, but he was paired with Joe Morgan for so many years that often in my mind he'd be guilty by association. He really is good - great and distinct voice, avuncular attitude, strong knowledge of the game. Now I wish he'd been paired with someone better for those years he was doing ESPN's games.

To be fair, in baseball the distinction between "game-winning" homer and "walk-off" is not entirely arbitrary. A walk-off by definition is hit by the home team in either the 9th inning or later and which wins the game, i.e. the other team "walks off" the field and the home team "walk off" as winners.

But that Paul W. S. Anderson - visionary!

Oh I certainly enjoyed Slacker more. The rotoscoping got old for me after awhile, and something about the DIY aesthetic of Slacker worked for the half-baked ideas it was espousing.

Ah, I've never actually seen IT, so I was never going to get that. That's probably the more direct allusion they were going for there (if they were going for one), particularly if they used a slingshot, but all I kept thinking was "This bridge right here - this is the Alamo".

Oh, and also Roy Scheider in Jaws. He does do it himself (with the help of some CO2), but yeah, that last-stand mentality definitely triggers something primal in the viewer.

Another Spielberg reference (at least in my opinion), and not his fantasy stuff, was Lucas with the slingshot. The impossibility of the tactic and the eventual success (or what seems like success) to me was pure "Saving Private Ryan", with Hanks shooting his pistol at the tank on the bridge. I remember as a kid in…

I think it can be done again for sure, there's just so many games every year, most in-game opportunities present themselves enough times.

The truly unbreakable ones are always going to be ones which are a relic of a prior era or absurd career accumulations (Cy Young's win total), which themselves are partially the former.

I've actually not watched Breaking Bad (gasp!), but being familiar with the invention of the televisions which they show shows on, I get your drift.

The last few felt "less than" for me, compared with the rest. I did like the general storyline they pushed to the front at the end, but it certainly seems disconnected to what came before, even if it has connections to other pieces of Daredevil.

Half of it, anyways.

Looper didn't fully land for me. I like Rian Johnson's stuff for the most part, and Looper contained a bunch of elements I should have liked, it just never congealed. I think it was the 2nd half romance / slow-down that did it. Not that I require a fast pace or action to keep a movie interesting, but in that…

Belle and Sebastian's "Sleep The Clock Around" and the final minute+ where it's just this wall of sound grandiosity, with melancholy bagpipes rising above everything. It's so great.

Doesn't it defeat the idea of calling something a "sweep" when you only refer to the things it won and not the many things it did not?

Munich is great. And heavy handed though it could be, Lincoln was great, though I'm a sucker for dialogue-heavy movies.

Jenkins is an inspired idea, too. Gangly friendliness.