50 thoughts on “January 15, 2015: Please Advise.”

  1. Director James Cameron said Wednesday that writing three "Avatar" sequels is such a complex job he's delaying the first new film a year and it will now be released in late 2017.

    By "writing" they really mean "identifying a Disney animated film plot to duplicate"

    1. Ugh. Cameron has to know on some level that he got away with a horrible script the first time because he had purdy pictures. Why's he breaking his back to bring quality into this?

    4. What is the WGOM's obsession with Avatar? Oh no. Hollywood is making big money on a movie with big special effects and a stolen and/or weak plot. Call the movie police!

        1. I was hoping Avatar led to a movie version of Old Man's War that could

          Actual Spoiler SelectShow

          Apparently the book/universe is becoming a SyFy TV series. We'll see.

      2. Not an obsession. We just like to mock crap that gets overhyped. Oooh, teh Greatest Movie Evah! A Threedee revolution! Blah blah blah.

      3. Oh, Spooky has an obsession, and more of us have latched on to that.
        Spooky has said it's [one of] the worst movie[s] he's ever had the misfortune to watch in a theater. Or something like that.
        Spooky is a scriptwriter (among other things), so the deficiencies such as the unidimensionality of the villain [literally] hurt him [physically].

        I thought it was alright. It was fun to watch and to imagine the world, which made it better than Pocahontas, because I know that world and have facts to compare it against.
        Pocahontas had better songs though.

        1. You're right about how I feel about the movie. That villain's lines made me laugh out loud, so I can't say I was totally un-entertained.

          I wouldn't call it an "obsession," though. Considering it's in my bottom two movies seen of the last fifteen years or so, I think I've shown considerable restraint in how often I've brought it up. (The other one is DIE-ner (get it?), but nobody's heard of that movie, so there's no reason to bring it up, save for the next movie day after I saw it.)

          And yes, what bS said about overhype. It seems less necessary to hack on a movie that makes 100 million, rather than over a billion.

          1. It seems less necessary to hack on a movie that makes 100 million, rather than over a billion.

            Apparently you have not internalized the fundamental lessons of Mystery Science Theater 3000. 😉

  2. The Lego Movie got nominated. Not for Best Animated Picture (I haven't seen any of the nominees, but they include a non-Miyazake Ghibli), but for best song. "Everything is Oscar-nominated"!

    1. Saw that, I kinda hope it wins.

      I was surprised to see American Sniper get a Best Picture nod. I'm thinking that was all Eastwood, though funny that he didn't get a Best Director nod. I think Director will go to Linklater. Taking 12 years to make a movie just sounds interesting to me.

      1. I'm thinking that was all Eastwood

        I haven't seen it, but I'm hearing as much praise for Cooper's performance as I've ever heard a dude get. Granted, you can always argue that Eastwood drew the performance of his life out of him, so it can go back to being Eastwood.

        1. I haven't seen it either, but I doubt it would be my favorite Cooper performance of the year.

    1. That might have been mine. I made a couple of banners when I was really fed up with the club last year or the year before.

  7. One of the things that happens when you live in a city surrounded by spring training facilities is that it greatly humanizes athletes. There's one player I've become real friends with, and we had a long talk a few weeks ago about how he didn't know if he could sign with the team that wanted him most because they have spring training in Florida and it was 45 extra days away from his wife and kids.

    It's just the kind of thing that would never have occurred to me, but there have been two times in my entire life that I was away from my family for that long, and they were both agonizing.

    1. I'm planning on taking my friend's son (A's minor leaguer) to the local card shop on Saturday; wanted the shop owner to give him advise on IP and TTM signing and other stuff. It is kinda neat to hear first hand about life just starting out in the pros.

      I don't know if I mentioned before, but I have a brother in the Phx area who is a neighbor of Ben Oglivie. He sounds like a pretty neat guy.

    2. Convince him to sign with the D'backs and he can stay with his family all year long. I would think if a player signed a big enough contract, they could just rent a place for the family wherever the team goes. Of course, some don't want the family to be uprooted or have kids changing schools all the time. I'm guessing family was a big reason Perkins asked for his extension.

      1. Yeah, he wants his kids to continue on with the same school and friends. He's retiring before long, which is really the only reason his wife gave him the go-ahead to sign with the new team. Life after baseball is coming soon enough.

  8. From a Minneapolis friend on FB:

    Just found out about the Suicide Commandos/Craig Finn/l'Assassins show tomorrow night. Anyone have a spare ticket?

    I figured it wouldn't hurt to inquire here.

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