James Mangold is maybe the best director who is nobody’s favorite director.

Yea, me too. I had alpha’d a lot of section repeatedly and some of them are just ingrained into my psyche. I also discovered a lot of stuff I otherwise wouldn’t have, which was really fun.

Benioff was a pretty successful screenwriter/novelist. 25th Hour, Brothers, Wolverine: Origins, Stay are all varying degrees of good and/or successful. I quit GoT after season 6 or 7 as I ran out of characters I cared about, but a decade plus of successful screenwriting for some of the biggest directors and franchises…

I worked at a video store when this came out and the trailer was on the monthly DVD from corporate so I unfortunately not only know what this is about but can distinctly recall some of the bits from the trailer.

Gotta go with Kate this time again, though I’ve never had Pozole. My personal top 5:

I ate A LOT of Chicken N a Biscuits as a kid. With squeezey cheese. I’d make little squeeze cheese sandwiches with two crackers. Whole box would be gone in mere minutes.

I feel the opposite. Almost all of the MCU is ultimately forgettable and Logan, Deadpool, Days of Future Past, X2, and even Wolverine and X-Men are all equal to top or second tier MCU films IMO.

04 Pistons are my favorite team and I also have been thinking about the parallels. Kawhi is more of an MVP candidate than anyone Detroit had, but the trade for Gasol in not unlike the trade for Sheed, and everything else you said is pretty accurate.

X2 is a classic. X-Men is really good. Logan is a masterpiece. The Wolverine is very good. Days of Future Past is great.

Agreed on the Nesquick! Any powdery chocolate is better than syrup IMO because it doesn’t gum up the viscosity and creaminess of the ice cream. Plus the little bit of grittiness is fun.

Very excited for this. The trailer was stunning. I loved Blindspotting’s take on the gentrification of Oakland last year and it was a supremely underrated movie. Can’t wait to see how this turns out. 

*I amend ‘nothing but incredible’. He’s made some incredible films and almost all have been at least good IMO

I’m enjoying Brad Pitt in this late leading man phase of his career. I loved The Immigrant and Two Lovers, really liked LCoZ, and thought We Own the Night was pretty solid, and the Yards was an interesting early effort. Overall I think I like him a lot, and really dig his mixing of more European type character work…

I’m 100% in. James Gray has made nothing but incredible films and I’m a huge sci-fi fan and can’t wait to see what he does with this canvas. I’m actually surprised at just how much action it looks like there is. Bummed it got pushed back a few months, but I’ll be seeing this in the theatre.

Dreamworks has done some good stuff with Netflix between Trollhunters and Voltron, so I’m optimistic.

He really needs to add in a reliable floater/runner. Teams were walling off the top of the key and the front of the basket. If he can get good at pulling up on drives from 6-12 feet and just spraying in little flips, hooks, and floaters after he bursts through the initial defense but before he hits the sagging big,…

The Warriors are doing what they typically do well: Shrinking the floor with multiple bodies and zoning up with great help defenders behind a great individual defender when playing against a superstar. Kawhi never managed to look comfortable. I think they should do more post-up touches on the weak side. They only did…

He’s somewhere between Larry Johnson and Blake Griffin to me, so I’m using that to sort of inform this.

This is why I wanted Denver to beat Portland. Denver woud’ve gotten waxed as well, but we’ve seen this story twice already. Portland has no shot and is going to lose in exactly the same way they lost the last two times they played GS in the playoffs. Denver did a surprisingly good job containing Lillard (Jokic is…

The subtitled dog from BEGINNERS who hangs out with Ewan McGregor would be on my list.