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Anybody see Splice?
Freaky and disturbing. Particularly when it got sexual.
Those blobs were eery. Don't mess w/ human chromosones.

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Going to the Sky-View Drive-In theatre on sat night to see "Abduction" & "Warrior" so hopefully one of the two will be decent.

I think I'm more excited about going to a drive-in movie than the movies themselves.

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cardinalkarp wrote:Going to the Sky-View Drive-In theatre on sat night to see "Abduction" & "Warrior" so hopefully one of the two will be decent.

I think I'm more excited about going to a drive-in movie than the movies themselves.
Planning on doing some necking?

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JackofDiamonds wrote:
cardinalkarp wrote:Going to the Sky-View Drive-In theatre on sat night to see "Abduction" & "Warrior" so hopefully one of the two will be decent.

I think I'm more excited about going to a drive-in movie than the movies themselves.
Planning on doing some necking?
YOu can do some serious 'tail gating' at a good drive in. Coolers of beer and snacks. I saw a guy with a mattress in the back of his pickup at the last one.

Granted, it started raining.

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robbotis wrote:Anybody see Splice?
Freaky and disturbing. Particularly when it got sexual.
Those blobs were eery. Don't mess w/ human chromosones.
Yes, it was decent up until the sex. Maybe David Cronenberg could've pulled that off, but they didn't.

Those blobs looked like a penis crossed with a chicken breast.
[SHOW]
The whole thing about the second blob turning into a male made no sense, because that's the opposite of what would happen. You might have two males and one would turn female but not the other way around.

It became ridiculous how many attributes that thing by at the end - wings, underwater breathing, etc...

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JackofDiamonds wrote:
cardinalkarp wrote:Going to the Sky-View Drive-In theatre on sat night to see "Abduction" & "Warrior" so hopefully one of the two will be decent.

I think I'm more excited about going to a drive-in movie than the movies themselves.
Planning on doing some [expletive]?
Yes :wink: :cool:

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The drive-in across the river from my hometown (been gone for decades) showed disney-esque flicks (Herbie the Love Bug etc) on one screen and often had R-rated to porn on the screen behind it (Eager Beavers. )

I never had the cajones (actually and figuratively -was probably less than 8 years old-and a good guilt-ridden Catholic to boot) to turn back to sneak a peak at the good stuff. But oh the stories my buddy would tell about what he saw on the other screen...

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Nearly every single fear I had of why Moneyball might suck was confirmed last night. Jonah Hill is [expletive] horrible (as usual) and the fact that he's supposed to be Paul DePodesta is absurd. The baseball stuff is riddled with inaccuracies and the non-baseball stuff is sloppily put together, sort of spackled in as an afterthought.

Pitt was very good in it. I've been around baseball people and he looked and acted the part really well. Did I mention that Jonah Hill was [expletive] awful?

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JL21 wrote:Nearly every single fear I had of why Moneyball might suck was confirmed last night. Jonah Hill is [expletive] horrible (as usual) and the fact that he's supposed to be Paul DePodesta is absurd. The baseball stuff is riddled with inaccuracies and the non-baseball stuff is sloppily put together, sort of spackled in as an afterthought.

Pitt was very good in it. I've been around baseball people and he looked and acted the part really well. Did I mention that Jonah Hill was [expletive] awful?
This.

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TimeForGuinness wrote:
JL21 wrote:Nearly every single fear I had of why Moneyball might suck was confirmed last night. Jonah Hill is [expletive] horrible (as usual) and the fact that he's supposed to be Paul DePodesta is absurd. The baseball stuff is riddled with inaccuracies and the non-baseball stuff is sloppily put together, sort of spackled in as an afterthought.

Pitt was very good in it. I've been around baseball people and he looked and acted the part really well. Did I mention that Jonah Hill was [expletive] awful?
This.
Do you guys think people who aren't as knowledgeable about the source material will like it? I know I'll hate it just because I know too much about baseball, the early 2000's A's and the book itself, but I suspect people who just view it as a movie will like it.

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