Metal Man

I definitely plan on reading the book. I always found movies to be a poorly organized cliff notes version of the book most of the time, especially for something like this, so I look forward to the additional detail.

I am curious for what anyone who has seen this movie thought of it. I think it was mentioned a couple of times in Vadar's November film thread but I didn't want to hijack it with discussion on this particular movie especially seeing there seems to be a lot that could be talked about. I didn't read the book so I can't compare it to that. However a couple of weeks ago my gf really wanted to go see it for whatever reason so I went along not really knowing what to expect. I came out of the theater really impressed by it and enjoyed the ride quite a bit, even the 3D which is saying a lot because I usually am pretty against this 3D movement in films today. Another mark of a good movie for me is how long after I think about it and this one has really stuck in my head and I find myself contemplating meaning even a couple weeks later. There are tons of metaphors in it, and I'm sure many different ways to interpret them, so I'd like to hear what other people got out of the movie and maybe be able to generate some discussion on what some of the content may have meant to them. Definitely recommend it to anyone who likes thought provoking films.

That's an interesting divisional realignment theory. I could see the KC move out but I would think they would move Cleveland instead to the East as to not break up the Pitt/Bal rivalry which is one of the best in football right now. Definitely makes for good discussion though I obviously don't want to see how it would play out.

I thought it was kind of funny. Granted I'm Italian and not Mexican but I can say with 100% certainty if it was a photo of hot girls all dressed up like traditional Italian sterotypes with signs talking about the mafia and spaghetti I would be equally amused. People in our society definitely need to chill the f' out and see things like this for the silliness they truly are.

Yeah, I understand how the anitquated rules affect that far away. I did a ton of digging when I first moved out to Syracuse about 8 years ago because I couldn't believe I was still in the black out area and that it went so far east. I also agree that if the FCC, or whatever group needs to, reexamined how far Syracuse CBS could reach now they would see the digital signal doesn't come close to eastern Rochester anymore but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen. It just annoys me for some reason that whenever any media outlet talks about the black out radius they always mention the 75 miles when in reality it is much farther than that.

I love how they always throw in the 75 miles radius thing when talking about the black out... even though it blacks out as far east as Utica which last time I checked was a little over 200 miles away. Also, he must have purchased some inventory already if he is giving them away.

Well to be fair as far as the league is concerned the tickets were all sold and it goes on the record as a sell out. What a local businessman decides to do with the tickets afterwards shouldn't really be a concern.

Evidently he is just giving them away at Russell's right now. I just got off the phone with my sister and she was given 4 tickets to the game by just showing up and asking for them. She didn't even have to spend any money. I would have expected you to have to at least buy a gift certificate or something but I guess my brother in law heard on the radio they were giving them away so he had my sister run over and check seeing they live right down the street, I don't live in the area but figured I'd pass the word to any locals who want to go to the game. I think she said the seats she was given were 337.

I don't understand this opinion but it seems to be frequently posted the last few days. Giants snuck into the play-offs last year and frequently the teams with the best records and bye weeks lose their first game. I'm not saying the Bills could win the super bowl if they snuck in but once the play-offs start anything can happen so why on earth would anyone hope for the Bills NOT to make it this year regardless of what their record for getting in happened to be?

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEsLEymqLnU&list=UUYoKOLp7YSJtt5UVujx4iXA&index=5&feature=plcp Saw this performance last summer of a 12 year old kid jamming with Buddy Guy. Joe Bonnamassa was playing with some blues legends at 12 too though he is in his 30s now. The point is valid that the young talent around today is nothing compared to all the legends emerging all over the place back in the 60s/70s but the good news is all hope is not lost. You just need to look harder these days as main stream music is mostly loaded with over produced tween crap.

Any current drummers list is incomplete without Danny Carey from Tool. http://youtu.be/ojastIWl9sA

Doesn't this dollar amount seem a little high? Lucas Oil Stadium cost 720 million, estimated 777 million today for inflation according to wikipedia, and that also is a retractable roof. The stadium has a smaller capacity but it doesn't seem right to me that 10 thousand more seats and a sports museum would double the cost...

Every time one of these "should have drafted" threads start everyone seems to forget the most important part.... Everyone who comes to Buffalo is worst than they would have been somewhere else. Swap Marcell for Von Miller or AJ Green and we are having the same discussion about how we should have drafted Marcell because he is tearing up the league.

Think for yourself and question authority. It may sound juvenile to some but to me it speaks to the only philosophy that can allow for progress and for a society to advance.

So when does it become stealing versus sharing? Let's say I don't have cable but my girlfriend does. She pays for all the content but I go to her house to watch it all for free. Or she has one of those old VCR machines and records a tape full of my favorite shows which she passes to me so I can watch them all in my own living room for free. Or she is tech savvy and digitally records these shows for me and then transfers them to a network drive that only the two of us can access and from there I can watch them in the comfort of my own home for free. Or she is not my girlfriend and just some stranger who uploads them to a site where I can download them and watch them in my own home for free. I think Dr. nailed it... This is all a lot less black and white than some of these arguments are trying to make it and it has been around forever. For all of you guys so adamantly against it... can you all honestly say you never dubbed a cassette or record back in the day? And don't say the new technology somehow makes it more illegal, that's BS because the piracy level is exactly the same.

It isn't stealing, it is lending/borrowing. No different than if I loan my copy of a DVD to a buddy who may then loan it to his cousin.... Only difference is you are borrowing from strangers and it is a lot easier to exchange stuff without having to be physically present.

Ha, I see what you did there. Where are the youtube videos? I find it hard to believe in today's world no one had an iPhone, or its equivelent, rolling from the time he got to 2nd base.

http://youtu.be/V3iaxt7a16g Sound could be a little better but some of the stuff they do with their formations on the field is pretty impressive even if you don't appreciate the video game references.

I have a lot of friends who are Braves fans saying the same thing and rightly so because their team would have been in the divisional series no matter what last year. However ask the Cards and Os players/fans and I'm sure they'll all say they love it because if it was last season they would be sitting at home right now instead of still playing for a championship.

They have to win one extra game, 12 versus 11 for a championship. But on top of that and maybe more importantly they lose the advantage of setting their line-up to make sure they get their number 1 starter more turns in short series. Unless they want to gamble and not play their best pitcher in that one game play-off but that would seem too risky to me. I get the argument about hating making the season last longer, but how is having more teams in the hunt later a bad thing for baseball fans?

Unless they were in your division then it didn't matter because they wouldn't let division opponents face off in the first round for some reason.... In any case like I said I think the difference here is how much harder we all believe it should be for the WC team to win it all. And you'll get no argument from me about the 2-3... that is insane. Oakland is facing elimination now and they haven't even gotten to play at home yet. What kind of higher seeded advantage is that? Total crap.

I get all of this. I guess the differing of opinion is should the wild card team have a harder road to a championship. To me it should and just having to play an extra road game in a 5 or 7 game series isn't all that hard to overcome in baseball unlike in football where winning three straight road games to make the Super Bowl is definitely a taller order than winning a couple at home.

Exactly. This season NY and Baltimore clinched play-off spots with a weeks worth of games to go. Last season they would have just packed it in not really caring about that extra home game all that much. This year they both had to play it out right down to the very last game.

There needs to be some kind of deterrent to the wild card that makes winning the division more important. Not being able to set your line-up for the divisional series and having to be in a play-in game seems to be fair to me. This way if you can win the world series as a wild card you really accomplished something. Not to mention keeping the season more exciting for longer. I like the idea of scheduling a double header or two a month someone put out there. Playing baseball in November and even late October is ridiculous.