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80s all the way.

c'mon man, I'm not even sure we could beat the Celtics if we played perfect ball (for us). they're just better than us, period. There's nothing wrong with admitting that.

so funny, and predictable. When I read the first post in the thread I said to myself "Diesel will be the first person to say he doesn't like it". What do you know... At least you didn't say it's racist..but then again I haven't read the whole thread yet.

I wouldn't say they're the best team in the NBA, but they're definitely better than us. Anyone expecting us to win this series or even push them in it needs to wake up. All I want to see is us playing hard, competing and trying to win, not just rolling over and taking the beating everyone expects us to get. If we can steal a game from them I will be happy as a pig in mud.

yah it ended pretty much like everyone suspected. Early on people were like "what's wrong with Tiger, why is he being so cautious", but in the end you see why. He played the course smarter than anyone else, with the exception of Immelman, who simply played lights out for three days and that allowed him to shoot a 75 on Sunday and still win.

Thanks to the mighty skillz of dolfan, we're back on our feet.

try forza next, it's pretty good!

c'mon, you're no more indie than Obama is a communist..wait..bad example.. anyway. Your comments make it quite obvious where you stand, just because you preface it with "I'm independant!" doesn't make it true..

This is not the place for you or anyone else to offer their opinions on politics. If you want to do that I suggest you get Diesel to reopen his blog. Then he'll actually have someone besides himself reading it.

So now you're blaming the Bush administration for gas prices being high? You're a real piece of work.

I'd have to say Serenity. Had no interest in the TV show and didn't care about the movie but now I love it.

Other SCi-fi movies of late that I enjoyed: Sunshine

there's a reason it was free, cuz it wasn't worth paying for. It sounds like video game music. Quake 2008!

Stop making stuff up. This has devolved into one of your typical "diesel doesn't know, but he'll keep the arguement alive until everyone else is tired of talking about it so that the fact that he doesn't know what he's talking about will never really be exposed" posts. I've read every post in this thread several times and the one consistency is that Frosgrim tempers his statements with things such as "it's generally accepted in the scientific community" or "scientific evidence supports". Very little of what he has said has been prefaced with "this is a fact". He's also admitted many times that science doesn't have all the answers yet. We has humans, don't have all the answers to a great many things, but that doesn't invalidate the information that points to an eventual answer.

It's obvious to anyone who reads the beginnings of this thread and compares them to the posts at the end that you've been reading other sites and running with other peoples ideas as if they were ones you had already previously formed. Just end it already, say "that's interesting, I'll have to read more" and be happy that you actually gained knowledge in an area where you previously had none.

as an interested reader of this thread I will say this.

I read Frosgrim's posts and despite not knowing much on the subject, what he says makes sense and whether it's in lay-terms or not, I understand it. I read Diesel's posts and it's all over the place. It sounds like he's saying one thing, being told something contrary and then going to find websites with differing information to use to continue a discussion that is obviously outside his realm of knowledge. Just my two cents.

also... hasn't science been able to place amino acids, proteins and other naturally occuring chemicals/components together and create things that at the very least, mimic basic signs of life? They would respond to light or heat or show an attraction to other components that in turn allowed them to grow (ie food)? I'd swear I've seen things on TV and read articles on that. To me something like that is creating life from non-life.

please, post some links. In all honesty this was probably one of the most interesting threads I've ever read on this site. It was made more interesting by the fact that while there was disagreement, civility has prevailed! BRAVO!

agreed, I don't think he'd like it. I enjoyed it but didn't think it was quite as good as the critics.

By seasons end the spurs will be poised to lift another trophy.

I'll miss Warrick, but I'd rather have the 3mil in cap space he'll give us. I'm going to pour one out for him later tonight !

He died over the weekend from a life long battle with cancer.

I didn't say there are movies that everyone WILL enjoy, but there are movies that everyone can enjoy. There is a certain science to story telling, whether it be in movies or books or whatever. Just because a movie is filmed well and follows the rules of good story telling doesn't mean that the particular topic will appeal to everyone or the visual medium it's told in will be something everyone likes, but following the rules of good story telling will go a long way towards making any subject and any style movie a better than average one.

As I said before, learn the elements of good story telling and learn how to pick them out in a movie. You'll find that it will help you enjoy things about movies that you simply weren't capable of enjoying before. It doesn't change anything about movies you enjoy, because when you enjoy a movie or its story or the way it's shot you'll overlook other problems, but it'll help you understand what someone means when they say "the movie had pacing issues". While the pacing issues might not affect your enjoyment of the movie at all, at least you'll understand what the other person is trying to say and why they might dock the movie a point where you did not. Then again, they might point something out to you that you didn't really notice and in the end you'll agree. You'll also learn how important certain aspects of story telling are to you in relation to others and what you're willing to sacrifice in return for something else.

I'm completely serious too, i'm not trying to break balls here. Spend some time and learn what I'm talking about. You'll end up getting so much more out of movies than you are right now and your appreciation for movies, even ones that you might not like initially will explode. You'll even learn why those "ADD Will Smith" movies do so well and you might end up letting yourself enjoy them for what they are.

c'mon man, if a movie isn't rewatchable, it's not a great movie, period. That's just silly to say. A great movie begs to be watched again, you WANT to watch it again. If you call a movie great and don't really care to ever watch it again, then you're not being honest about the movie by calling it great. I'm not saying that in relation to the movie we're talking about here, but in general, it's just silly to say that.

and there are movies that everyone can enjoy. Movies that are paced properly and have good dialogue and setup scenes properly and plot points that constantly drive the story forward, those are movies everyone can enjoy. That doesn't make them "ADD Will Smith Movies" (ADD doesn't exist by the way) either. Most great movies have all those qualities, which is why partly why they're considered great!

As you said in your 2nd reply, the narration was a little much. Which I agree on. It, along with a few other things, caused the movie to drag at times and hurt the pacing of the movie. So after disagreeing and getting defensive, in the end you saw the same problems with the movie that I saw.

There are certain elements to good story telling that are universal. If you learn what those are and start watching movies with an eye or ear for those things, you'll probably enjoy movies even more and you'll be much better at discussing what you like and why and understanding why someone else may like or dislike something.

eh.. I gave it a 7/10..maybe 8/10.. it was a good movie, but certainly not great. Definitely not a movie everyone can enjoy as it had definite pacing problems. It was a very well made movie, which I think you're probably confusing with great. You can't even consider this a western of any sort. It's a art film with a budget that's happens to center around the Robert Ford and Jesse James. Watch it a few times and see if it holds up.

The secret to success in the NFL in this era is in the O-line and D-line. Spending big money or big draft position on a WR or RB is pointless. If you build up your lines you can make a great RB.

Everything I've heard , and there's been a TON of falcons talk today, is them trading down with the #3 to get more picks. If there's a shred of truth to this, a sliver, the GM should be fired immediately because this shows that he has no idea what this team needs.

it sucks that we got trumped like we did, but lets be honest, the lakers are no joke. They're a legit good team at both ends of the floor and they have the best in the game to fall back on when they just have to have a bucket or need to shut down a perimeter scorer. We caught them in Atlanta, but anyone who thought we were going to get that luxury in L.A. was sorely mistaken.

Bibby is going to help us a ton, but this wasn't the game to pass judgement by.

HEHE.

Fight! is a really good magazine, definitely more lifestyle oriented and less technical than other mags. Think of it as MMA meets FHM. Really good articles too though. They're based out of Atlanta and I have some friends who work there.