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QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 25, 2010 -> 12:10 AM) I love it! Ya know if the Heat can go 65-2 the rest of the way they can still finish 73-9 and beat the Bulls 72-10 record.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 05:08 PM) This thread is making me wonder what the Marlins might give us for Lillibridge... No s***! Linestink, too.

Former Bull Quintin Dailey died. He was only 49. Jeez. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AsPc...=ap-obit-dailey

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 9, 2010 -> 06:04 PM) This is the biggest farce award in baseball. Fo sho! That said, I'm glad Buehrle got it. Sometimes they get it right.

Joe Borchard

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 8, 2010 -> 10:29 PM) Don't mean to derail, but I thought of something that might make for a good list. How about, films you know are not that good but you love anyway — the Guilty Pleasure Film Thread? Everyone's complete lists would be really interesting but I don't think you'd have enough movies making more than 1 or 2 lists. I LOVE bad movies but I don't think many if any of my favorites would make any one else's list. Who's ever even heard of "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?" and that'd probably be #1 on my list. Otherwise, great idea for it's own thread maybe.

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 7, 2010 -> 05:04 PM) I think he should stay. In fact, invite him over every Sunday for Chiefs games. Same goes for the Jazz. Just have this guy stay until the baseball season starts.

"Paralyzed" - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 10:58 AM) Passed away at age 76. RIP Sparky He was one of the truly greats. A great manager and a great person. RIP.

How'd the White Sox do?

Best movie villains.

I don't drink. How about favorite marijuana strains? Seriously though people have been clamoring for favorite beer before so have at it!

Happy Halloween!

Psycho is one of the most respected movies of all time from the worlds top directors, and is still shown at film schools for its masterful directing. To say that the shower scene is lame is ....well, lame.

What do you want full frontal nudity, in vivid color with lotsa blood spurting all over the place? That would make it "better"?

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 29, 2010 -> 12:37 PM) I freaked out more by seeing his mother. ...of course, I was 12. I was 10. I saw it at the theater when it came out in 1960. My friend and I went to the theater like we often did on Saturday afternoons. We didn't have a clue what we were about to see. Scared the s*** out of me. As for the shower scene being "overrated" that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time, sorry. It's been studied in film classes for decades for it's editing. Psycho was original and groundbreaking and in 1960 considering films at the time and prior to, was totally shocking.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 29, 2010 -> 04:05 AM) Off the top of my head I agree, although the Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake with Donald Sutherland comes close IMO. Most people also rank The Ring as better than the Japanese original (I don't), although I know that a contemporary American adaptation of an international film is not the same as the modernization of classic films that comprise most of the remakes we're talking about. What I don't get is the shot-for-shot remakes, ala' the Omen remake. Why even bother?? Remaking Psycho was one of the stupidest ideas ever and didn't work on so many levels. I don't even think the Peter Jackson "epic" version of King Kong was better than the original. Of course the special effects were better but it was turned into a 3 hour snoozefest with which I was bored and didn't even watch the whole thing. I totally agree with the remake of The Thing though...a way superior film to the original.

Wow. I really enjoyed the facebook pictures. Thanks for making them available for our viewing! That had to be quite the experience.

Ok. I'm convinced...I'll check out Saw. I just pretty much don't like blood and gore movies. As for The Sixth Sense, easily the best thing M. Night Shamalamadingdong ever did. I had it at #8 on my list. I was working a 3rd shift security guard job at the time The Sixth Sense came out and one of my duties was to go and patrol an old factory that had recently shut down. The electricity had been turned off so I had to walk through the whole place with my flashlight providing the only light. It was very creepy. There were long cords of some sort dangling from the ceiling in a few places and every time I saw those I would think of that one scene in The Sixth Sense where the kid saw the people that had been hung. As I would walk through that building I often wished I hadn't seen that movie.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 12:55 PM) Saw and The Ring, definitely two of my favorites. I never saw Saw.

General Johnson (Showmen, Chairmen of the Board), R.I.P. General Johnson was lead singer of the Showmen ("It Will Stand", a great salute to rock 'n roll in 1961) and later lead singer of the Chairmen of the Board ("Give Me Just A Little More Time", a #3 hit in 1970). He was 67 and died of lung cancer Oct. 13th.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 23, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) Zombieland didn't get one vote. I considered it, but I tend to like the older stuff better. Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead were both really good, just not horror movies in my book.