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sammysdewysensitiveeyes · 4 years ago

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"Hand me that loofah."

Keeping his face carefully averted, Pyro picked up the sponge, and tossed in Fabian’s general direction.

An angry “Watch it, you idiot!” indicated that the loofah had struck it’s intended target. Then there was a low chuckle.

“I get it. You’re a married man, after all. You can’t bear to look upon me, lest you completely lose your self-control. Don’t feel bad, you’re hardly the first.”

Pyro was, in fact, struggling not to lose his self-control, but was fighting the urge to vomit.

“You should have invited me to the wedding,” Fabian continued, accompanied by splashing sounds as he apparently flopped around in the tub. “Are we not friends?”

That sentence was technically true the way Fabian had phrased it.

“Yes,” Pyro responded simply.

“But I can understand that, too,” Fabian continued. “You didn’t want to be upstaged at your own nuptials, and my presence certainly would have captured all the attention.”

“Dominic and I thought you might be a bit too busy,” Pyro said, although the truth was less “thought” and more “hoped.” “We didn’t want to intrude on your valuable time.” He was absolutely going to relay this whole horrible conversation to Avalanche tonight over drinks, with a very exaggerated impression of Cortez.

“Well, I always make time for the little people!” Fabian exclaimed magnanimously. “Hand me that towel.” Water sloshed and Pyro was hit with a fine spray as Cortez stood up in the tub. At least it sounded like he was standing up, Pyro wasn’t going to look. He grabbed the nearest towel and thrust it blindly at the demanding voice.

A hand grabbed his wrist and yanked Pyro around, so that he was face to face with a dripping, naked Fabian Cortez, with soap suds sloughing off his glistening body. It was actually a very nice body, that was the worst part, with with a “package” that partially explained the man’s unearned confidence. But the smarmy, arrogant smile completely ruined the picture.

“Looking’s free, you know,” Fabian grinned.

Directing credit, Pyro thought fiercely to himself. Executive producer.

“Why don’t I give you some privacy to get dressed?” He said aloud, plastering a fake smile on his face. This would all be worth it when show’s profits started coming in, and then Pyro would get himself and Dominic matching His and His jet-skis.

He still wasn’t entirely sure how he wound up in this position. It had started with Shinobi pitching a reality show to the Council, which had somehow, inexiplicably, gotten a majority approval vote, possibly because Krakoa hadn’t been attacked in the last few weeks and the Council was bored. It was Survivor meets the Bachelor, in which groups of male and female mutants competed to win the hand of the handsome, debonair, and, most importantly, ridiculously wealthy Shinobi Shaw, through date nights and dinners and pointless jungle challenges of strength and skill.

Pyro had just made a few innocent comments, that was all. Just a couple of suggestions to Emma, who had wound up saddled with the bulk of the responsibility, about story arcs and pairings and how to arrange scenes for maximum drama and pathos. He understood that stuff, after all, as a romance novelist it was his bread and butter. (And he was a bit of a soap opera fanatic, but he wasn’t going to admit that freely.) Emma had listened with an eager, almost hungry glint in her eyes, and there had been a short conversation that had somehow ended with Pyro agreeing to serve as a writer, director and general creative supervisor, in exchange for a percentage of the profits and fairly massive salary. (Massive to Pyro, anyway, probably a drop in the bucket to Emma “Swimming in the money bin” Frost.)

And it actually had been kind of fun. “Reality” TV presented a unique challenge, in that he wasn’t allowed to directly tell the “performers” what to say, but he could do absolutely anything else to construct his creative vision. He could ask leading questions in the talking head interviews, edit scenes by splicing completely unrelated shots together, and put volatile contestants in a room with plenty of alcohol, then poke at them until they exploded.

Unfortunately, his duties had somehow gradually expanded to include talent-wrangling both on and off-set, which left him stuck making nice with Fabian Cortez, the most “colorful” (obnoxious) and, unfortunately, most popular, of all the contestants. Iceman would probably win the show as the nice, relatable, boy-next-door type, but Fabian was what kept viewers tuning in.

“Oh, that’s quite all right,” Fabian purred. He contorted his body as he toweled himself off, appearing to pose for nonexistant cameras. “I’m a generous man, I can spare you a bit of eye candy, even if our relationship must remain professional.”

“Yes, that would be best. Listen, we need you to do another challenge with Sienna Blaze.”

Fabian’s “generosity” quickly withered away.

“I will NOT get in front of a camera with that maniac! Such an uptight, ill-mannered, man-hating – well, I’m too much of a gentleman to use the word that she so richly deserves! She nearly killed me last time! Over a simple compliment!”

Yes, Pyro remembered it well. Fabian’s near barbeque had garnered record-high ratings. And hopefully tossing them into a mud-pit together in bathing suits would produce similarly explosive results.

“Oh yes, I know, Fabian,” Pyro cooed, hating himself a little. “She’s very difficult, and you’ve been such a professional about it.” He pulled up comforting mental images as he spoke. Jet-skis. Wagyu steak. Insanely expensive whiskey. Him and Dominic having a long honeymoon in Bali, Sydney, Seoul and Tokyo. All those zeros at the end of the check that Emma had given him.

“Well, a professional shouldn’t have to put up with this kind of shabby treatment!” Fabian said haughtily. He was finally wrapping the towel around his waist, to Pyro’s great relief. “I asked for Norwegian strawberries in my dressing room, and that idiot assistant brought me French!”

“I’ll look into it,” Pyro assured him, fully intending to send Fabian the exact same strawberries (which were, in fact, grown on Krakoa) with his apologies and a fake Norweigian label.

He had a vague notion in the back of his head that Emma should be handling this, Emma was supposed to be in charge! And yet she’d gradually eased the responsibility into Pyro’s arms, only sashaying onto set once every few weeks for a “status report,” and spending the rest of the time off performing mysterious and supposedly very important duties for the Hellfire Trading Company and the Council. She never picked up her phone or responded to voice mails.

It was okay, though. Pyro could handle this. He was a damn writer, and he was good at it, and he would poke and prod his stars through the storyline he had planned, because he was absolutely brilliant. Even Emma had said so.

“Anyway, don’t worry about Blaze,” Pyro insisted, his voice dripping with sticky-sweet honey. “We’ve given her a talking to about her behavior.” He had done no such thing. “I’m sure she’ll be much nicer to work with. In fact, we think the audience will really enjoy you putting her in her place. Really demonstrate your masculine superiority.” Was that too much? They couldn’t have Fabian dying on camera, after all, even though it would be hilarious.

“Well, I should hope so!” Fabian said, rubbing lotion carefully across his pecs. “I’m obviously carrying this entire show, and I will be treated with the respect I deserve.”

“You know,” Pyro added slyly, “I think she’s actually got a bit of a crush on you. You know how some women are.” No, this was definitely too much. Oh well, they could edit around Fabian’s inevitable death and resurrection, and in the mean time they’d get some amazing footage.

“Oh, of course,” Fabian said, with a leering understanding creeping across his face. “I suspected from the very beginning. She couldn’t handle my raw sensuality.”

“Who can, really?” Pyro hated this, he really hated every second of having to pull on the polite mask of social niceties and insincere compliments. It always seemed almost obscene. May as well just flip the other fellow over and start tongueing his arsehole, right? Except that was actually fun in the right circumstances.

But he’d done it before, as a journalist dealing with self-important sources, as a novelist schmoozing with publishers and book sellers. He could do it now, for the astronomical salary that Emma was paying him, and for the Prime Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program that was hovering in his sights. Emma had assured him that it was a strong possibility. Just imagine rubbing that in the faces of all the critics who had called him a talentless hack! They’d say…well, they’d probably say that an Emmy for trashy reality TV was the highest possible honor for a hack like him, but Pyro wouldn’t give a fuck, because he’d have an Emmy and they wouldn’t.

“C’mon, then, we’ll give you a quick touch-up with bronzer. We’re shooting the scene in fifteen minutes.” Pyro began to guide Fabian, still clad in only a towel, towards the bathroom door.

“We’ll shoot the scene when I’m ready, and not a second before!” Fabian insisted. It would probably be another hour of Fabian demanding and sending back expensive snacks before they could even get him to the set. Luckily, they were actually scheduled to shoot the scene in two hours.

“Yes, of course, whatever you want,” Pyro wheedled, imagining the satisfying explosion of flesh and blood that would very likely occur when Fabian and Sienna Blaze came into contact. And Fabian was going to do it, that much was clear now. “I know you’ll do a fantastic job. You’re brilliant you know, absolutely brilliant……”

For a moment, Pyro trailed off as a crack opened in his mental wall, and memories slipped out into the light. Emma pouring more wine into his glass during their monthly meetings, assuring him again and again that he was absolutely brilliant, a true artist, that the show would thrive in his capable hands.

“No, that’s completely different,” Pyro muttered to himself, shaking his head.

“What was that?” Fabian twisted around, the towel slipping dangerously low on his hips.

“Oh, nothing,” Pyro exclaimed brightly, slamming the mental wall shut again. “Now, let’s get you into make-up, ya big handsome star!”

#fabian cortez #pyro #st john allerdyce

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dramaclover · 4 years ago

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Ending & Thoughts: Legal Mavericks 2020

Initial Thoughts

When the first drama came out, I was one of the few people that wasn’t obsessed with it. I mean it was good and I like the message but I wasn’t as into it as everyone else. The bromance between Vincent & Owen wasn’t that great of a watch. And the cases weren’t as interesting. So when I went into watching the sequel, I didn’t have much expectations. Also cause sequels tend to not be as good, example Line Walker 3 wasn’t the best sequel. But this sequel proved me wrong. It was waaay more enjoyable then the first one.

Plot & Characters

Hope Man (Vincent Wong) is a blind barrister that works together with Gogo Kuk (Owen Cheung) a former police turned private detective & Deen Jie (Sisley Choi) who is Hopes legal executive. Together they solve various cases and uncover the justice behind it. New cast members included Eva Shaw (Kelly Cheung) a rival barrister, Kan Siu Wang (Pail Chun) Hopes former Master that mentored him. Kwok Lam (Jessica Kan) Hopes new apprentice & Kong Bo Chai (Lesley Chiang) an inspector police were both fun new additions to the cast.

For most direct sequels there are very rare instances where I would like the new cast additions. For example The Exorcists Meter 2.0 I hated all the new additions to the cast. But for this sequel, I like all of them - well most. For some people they believe Bo Chai & Kwok Lam were unnecessary but I find that they were a nice comic relief (with the bickering) and Bo Chai was needed since she was a police they were able to solve more cases with her help. Kwok Lam though she was born rich, she has a strong sense of justice & she would even go against her Father to pursue it. Kan Siu Wang shocked me with how he’s not as evil as you’d think. You would think he would be the ultimate boss that Hope needs to defeat but that’s not it. He likes power and money but he also knows there’s fine line between black & white.

Now, here comes my least favourite character which is Eva Shaw. And I’m sure anyone can guess why. Cause she is a Never Wong (Ali Lee) replacement. When I say replacement, I don’t mean she just takes over the empty spot & becomes the mandatory new love interest. No I mean. She is the new Never Wong. She dresses sexily, basically the same attitude & personality, strong sense of justice, falls deeply in love with Hope only to end up with Gogo. Like really? She’s literally a carbon copy. And I’m so disappointed that they decided to go down this route. They even had her dance in the rain with Hope too. Like can’t you be anymore original? Only difference is she doesn’t die. She’s also more annoying cause she’s always changing her mind. One moment she’s on her masters side but then the next moment she’s on Hopes side. Like can you just give a stable standing and stay loyal? Cause I’m exhausted with you going back & forth. She becomes more likeable as the series goes on but it was hard for me to warm up as she was just too similar to Never.

The Cases

The cases were very fun & interesting to watch. The director also has said that these cases are based on real circumstances and brings in the human side. Which rings true. The case of the “Heart Stealer” & “Fast Food Restaurant Refugee Murder” were both cases that brought a tear to my eye. For the former, it was touching to see how a mother would give up her heart just to ensure her son could live the rest of his life with no worries. The helplessness she felt and also knowing how in real life, cases like that could happen. At times like this the rich would win as they have the time & money. A lot of people think that those that always hang around 24 hours food places are gross & homeless. This case shows to not judge someone by their cover. Everyone has a backstory. The bond these group of people had for each other was eye opening. I was so sad when it showed the flashback of them singing & just enjoying each other’s company. You just feel so bad for them. I don’t want to say too much cause I don’t want to spoil to much of this case. The case of the “Silent Witness” & “Beyond Man and Woman” had good plot twists that I did not see coming. On the cover it sounded like boring cases but the background story to it ended up being surprising to watch.

The Romance

A lot of people didn’t like how in the sequel Hope & Yanice Tai (Tracy Chu) relationship became a central storyline despite Yanice passing away in the first. I personally actually liked it & didn’t find it draggy. It could be because I love Tracy as an actress. It could be because I find Hope & Yanice to be an amazing couple with a tragic love story. In this case I just find their story unfinished. As in, I never truly understood why Hope would give up Yanice. He could’ve went with Yanice instead of staying behind in Hong Kong. They’ve been through so much only for him to give it up, it always left a sour taste in my mouth. In this sequel we see him deal with the guilt & anguish to finally letting go and moving on. It also intercepted with another case so it was not random. I thought it was a nice touch for the writers to write in about her developing a tumour in her brain. Because from that she decided to pre- record a message to Hope. So we get to hear her last words & get a final wrap up in the story.

Hope & Deen Jie is odd to me. Like I’m aware that Deen Jie has a crush on him. But in this sequel she was possessive that it was uncomfortable in some parts. Hope has shown over & over again that he has no interest. Yet she’s still stuck on him. Towards the end they have a fall out because she thought Hope had heartlessly kicked her out of his firm & withheld her Fathers illness from her. She finds out later on it was cause of her Fathers order that he did that but she was still bitter. In the end she admits she was angry not cause of her Father but because she had believed he had fallen for Eva. So she was bitter out of jealousy. This part bothered me to no end. They are not dating. She knows he doesn’t like her. He never led her on, from day one he has said he only has Yanice & that he couldn’t move on. So I guess the idea that he has fallen in love again but not with her triggered her pettiness. It got to the point where she battled him in court with her helping a scumbag rapist just to spite him. Like girl, what happened to helping the helpless & doing what’s right? You threw that away for a guy? Like in the end she does the right thing but that was annoying. I would’ve enjoyed the development of Hope & Deen Jie’s love story if they hadn’t made her so petty and possessive. So for me, no I don’t like them together as a couple but enjoyed them more as friends. If anything I thought if Hope couldn’t end up with Yanice, Eva would’ve been nice. But they did a bait & switch. In the beginning they heavily made it seem that Hope would end up with Eva while Deen Jie would end up with Gogo. That was a weird but interesting twist though. I haven’t seen another drama where they would change up the love interest like that.

Gogo has always been a very casual guy so for him to end up with Eva was also odd to me. Eva has a glamorous, mature feel so I don’t find them a matching couple. But opposites attract in this case. I also thought they had no chemistry whatsoever. Eva was never interested in Gogo dispite him always flirting. She only liked Hope, it just looks like she settled for him out of the blue. I actually prefer Gogo with Bo Chai instead. They had better chemistry and he abruptly ended the relationship with Bo Chai that made her never get over him. I hated how he used her love for him to do things as a cop she shouldn’t be doing. They were engaged and he dumped her over the phone while she was trying on wedding dresses. He never ever sincerely apologized for that & he got over her so quickly. So I guess it’s good they didn’t end up together, he doesn’t deserve a good person like her. Bo Chai also never got real closure from it & her character sorta disappears towards the last episode. Gogo was also in a relationship with Never until it ended with her dying. So for him to end up with Eva whose a replica of Never just irks me.

The Good

I throughly loved Paul’s betrayal. And I also liked how instead of making him a full out villain they made him a man that knows a line that should not be crossed. He has helped bad people but in the end he was able to see the difference between good & bad. He sent one of the innocent accused to jail but he was also the one that ultimately set him free. He stole Deen Jie away from Hope but only cause he saw potential in her & knew she had way it takes to be a good barrister. He set up Deen Jie to battle with Hope not to spite him but because he knew doing this would help Deen Jie. So it’s like ultimately he’s not as bad as they portrayed him. In the end Hope even calls him Master again. I thought in the end there would be a huge showdown between Hope and him with the latter ending up in jail or something. So it was great spin to have him coming out as a semi- hero (for helping them patch things up between Hope & Deen Jie). It was unpredictable and enjoyable to see this instead.

The sequel is more case driven and I’m glad cause that’s what it made it more interesting. The first one focused more on Hopes journey to finding himself & rebuilding his relationship with his Father that left him when he turned blind (which I understand). Also talked more about friendship and focused solely on one evil villain. So the first one fell flat for me.

The Bad

I didn’t like how Hope was always in court battling the same people it’s either Eva, his Master and then Walter Wah (Hugo Wong) who is the same character from the first drama. I guess that’s TVBs way of staying in a budget instead of hiring new people to play different barristers.

It was disappointing to see Deen Jie fix her buck tooth & change her appearance so drastically. What I liked about her is how she didn’t care about the way she looked and that the heart is what matters. In the first drama Never had asked her why she doesn’t fix her teeth since she has the money. And she said she didn’t find it necessary & the inside is more important than her appearance. So for her to change the way she looked for Hope was just sighhh. But I guess the writers want the main couple to “look good”. I wonder if they always had Deen Jie become the main love interest in mind when they wrote the first one.

I also did not like how they had a cliffhanger ending. It ends with Deen Jie getting stabbed in the neck & in a coma. And of course Hope slowly coming into terms that he has fallen for Deen Jie. They did it cause they are potentially writing another sequel in collaboration with China. But with Vincent leaving TVB & the lacklustre ratings, I don’t know if it’s gonna happen anymore. But seeing how things turn out Deen Jie will probably end up with amnesia or something cause their love line will not run so smoothly. But if a sequel doesn’t happen, I can just pretend that ending did not happen and that Deen Jie is back working at his firm together solving crimes.

Final Thoughts

Everyone was great but I didn’t find any standouts. Vincent reprisal as a blind barrister is still amazing but I don’t see TVB awarding him Best Actor for the same role twice. Also he didn’t show up to the TVB Anniversary Gala which sorta shows his standing with TVB. Sisley improved for sure but I wouldn’t say she’s Best Actress material yet, it was nice to see her become the antagonist though. Kelly was nice & stable as usual. And Owen Cheung just stayed the same, nothing new was brought to the table at all. And weird enough the bromance between Hope & Gogo wasn’t as fun to watch compared to Al Cappucinos Cheung Sai Lung & Ko Ban. Here they just seemed like good friends instead of “brothers”.

I see a lot of comments about Sisley being a huge standout. And I agree with how much she has improved but I still think she still has a lot to learn. I admit her turn as the antagonist was interesting to watch but it wasn’t as great as they say. She isn’t loud acting anymore that’s for sure. But at the same time TVB is running out of actresses so I wouldn’t mind her winning so quickly.

It was lovely to see Tracy come back in a voice role. The directors had invited her back to film but she rejected the role. I wished she had accepted as it could’ve been her goodbye role since it seems she has no interest in continuing acting. She’s only doing ads & photo shoots as she slowly transitions to becoming a full time lawyer. I wouldn’t say a pity as though she’s a talented actress, becoming a lawyer is more stable. And she got married with her childhood sweetheart. I’m so happy for her but also sad as I will miss her acting. But I can always re-watch Over Run Over.

This was a better sequel then I have seen in years. Line Walker 3: Bull Fight just wasn’t as great compared to this. The Exorcists Meter 2.0 was also a downer. The plot twists in the cases and heartfelt stories made the drama all the more memorable. It’s turning out to be a great year for TVB drama watchers like me. Death by Zero, Brutally Young, Al Cappucino were standouts this year. While this drama, Line Walker 3 & The Witness do not fall far behind.

Side note: but what’s with the characters name? They’re all so strange. Man San Hap full English name Hope Man. I know it’s a play on for justice hero but dang it’s cringy. Then theres Santiago Kuk nicknamed Gogo. Like for real whyyyy. I hate that so much. “Hey Gogo hows it going”. “Gogo, I love you” blergh. Then Never Wong. Are you kidding me? She’s a court judge who chose Never as her nickname? Cherry was fine!! I guess it’s play on for “never wrong” well in this case you were wrong for thinking Never was a good name choice! And they don’t even pronounce the “r” in Never. They say it like “Neva” and it bothers me for no reason. TVB English names tend to always be questionable and I don’t care if they try to play it off as a nickname (Flashbacks to Laughing Gor, Muse, Bingo, Saving, Cash, Fever that’s only to name a few) but this is the first drama where it has this many.

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lucyreviewcy · 5 years ago

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The Mummy (2017) Dir. Alex Kurtzman

What can I really say about this movie?

I wasn’t allowed to watch the original Mummy movies as a kid, so when I eventually came to watch these forbidden films I was vaguely disappointed that they weren’t spooky enough. As a result, I was pretty excited for the much spookier looking Tom Cruise reboot (even though it had Tom Cruise in it - usually something that drives me away from the movie).

There were a few alarm bells in the first fifteen minutes of the movie. For starters, we have a love interest who is a solid 23 years younger than our protagonist. She’s also definitely a love interest: she doesn’t do very much apart from get injured and be sad.

The second alarm bell was something I hadn’t picked up on before seeing this movie, but which I believe to be generally true. Rule: if the main character in a movie is called Nick, the main character in the movie is usually the worst. The Mummy compounds this issue by layering the Nicks all over the place. The first two characters we are introduced to are Nick (Tom Cruise) and Sgt. Vail. Sgt. Vail is played by Jake Johnson, who most of us will know as Nick from new girl. This issue is then made even worse by the introduction of Russell Crowe’s character, Henry, who is essentially the Dark Universe version of Nick Fury. THAT IS TOO MANY NICKS. More Nicks than a well-used broadsword. More Nicks than a Santa vs Satan themed birthday party. More nicks than Adrian Dunbar in a room full of bent coppers.

Aside this sig-nick-ficant issue which probably only affected me. There are so many other problems with this movie, but before I list them I want to state that I found it a fun romp. I would probably watch this movie again as a spooky treat around Halloween. I am fully disappointed that the Dark Universe never took off, because if this were the first offering I would have been so ready for the rest of the franchise. Sadness abounds.

That said, I can completely understand why audiences may have had trouble with this movie. Please see the following list of glaring flaws in The Mummy:

Tone. This movie has more trouble with tone than a dog trying to tastefully decorate a penthouse apartment. I don’t know much about its development, but it feels like an original version of the movie was shot and then producers said “Can’t you add a funny in every scene?” I don’t know if it was intentional, but even the big scary Pharoah-faced statue has something vaguely comical about it. As they lower the Mummy into her prison, past this big ol’ face, the face just looks really shocked and vaguely disgusted by her. I guess that’s a nice way of hammering home that the evil lady who just killed a baby really is evil. But also… She just killed a baby. We know she’s evil. We don’t need a statue to make an emoji-esque face to tell us that. This gets worse when later, as she’s lifted out of the prison, the same statue looks shocked and afraid. But we know that she’s bad. We don’t need to be told to be shocked and afraid by a big statue. Stop telling me what to feel, statue! This is typical of the film as a whole. Spooky fight scenes have comical sound effects and any brief emotional scene involving Nick is punctuated by a witty one-liner. I would have been happy with this in smaller doses, it works really well in Jurassic Park. In Jurassic Park we have lots of comical one-liners and witty banter from Jeff Goldblum in the early stages, but as the film darkens and characters start dying, Goldblum’s character is removed from the action and the gags are fewer and farther between. That doesn’t happen in this movie, we have jokes all the way through and a lot of them aren’t even funny. Especially this exchange: “You’re a good person Nick, I know that because you gave me the only parachute.” “I thought there was another one.” This doesn’t work for lots of reasons but it especially doesn’t work when it is referred back to as an emotional flashback in the final scene, sans punchline. The punchline of “I thought there was another one” is Nick’s way of brushing off this and indicating that actually he might just be an asshole through and through. You can’t use that compliment later on as proof that he’s a good person! You think you can do these things but you just can’t Nemo... sorry... I digress...

Gender. There’s a blonde female character who’s vaguely intellectual but actually clearly only there to roll her eyes at Nick and how he’s the worst. She earned her right to eye-rolling by having sex with him at some earlier point but now that’s all she’s allowed to do. She also provides the emotional core of the movie… What a shock, said no-one ever. Perhaps this is just because the last movie I saw that I loved this much was Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw which has Vanessa Kirby kicking ass and propelling the plot forward with sheer force of will, but I found the character of Jenny unnecessarily dull and cliche. She just screams a bunch to tell us about the threat that’s happening. In case we weren’t feeling threatened by the zombie mummies that are attacking her. But we were aware because we could see that happening. So… Thanks for trying, Jenny. Then there’s the Mummy herself. I swear no actress on the planet gets her talent squandered as frequently as Sofia Boutella. Equal parts terrifying and beautiful, Boutella is at her best when she gets to wreak havoc in Kingsman - but since then I’ve only ever seen her in limiting roles that don’t make the most of her delicate threat/allure balance. From almost bond-girl in Atomic Blonde to the-hit-woman-in-the-red-dress in Hotel Artemis (She’s a hitman = THREAT, but she’s in a red dress = ALLURE - delicate, subtle…), Boutella gets landed with characters that are tired stereotypes. Ahmamet is not much of an improvement. The parts of the film where the Mummy is less CGI and more makeup and physicality are really satisfying, allowing Boutella to be her spooky self. It’s disappointing that the mummy makes people into other mummies by kissing them, because of course the only way a woman can win a man over is by using her sexuality. FEMINISM. The Mummy could have pushed her much further, but if this movie proves anything it is that Sofia Boutella would have made a far better Enchantress than Cara Delavigne did in Suicide Squad.

This movie doesn’t know the difference between Zombies and Mummies. As soon as she wakes up, the titular Mummy starts snog-converting all of the locals into mummies who then become her lackeys. But they just look like zombies. She’s made zombies. They shamble around like zombies. We have the “Zombie on the car” sequence that I’ve seen before in zombie movies. These are zombies. I didn’t come here for zombies. I came here for mummies, the risen dead. Not zombies, the undead. The thing that’s really irritating about the snog-mummification sequence is that she turns all the living people into zombies even though it is later established that she can cause corpses to rise from the dead. So why is she bothering to turn all these alive people into zombies when she is in a graveyard. That’s so much extra effort. Has she never mapped a process? Has she not considered she may need to conserve her resources? Have you ever heard of RECYCLING? I mean she’s from ancient history so I guess not. Eventually, we do end up with a significant number of mummies because of some very heavily established buried knights (SO MUCH EXPOSITION), but those are fine. I’m just mad about all the zombies.

Tom Cruise. I regret to inform you that Tom Cruise is no-longer a bankable star. The Mission Impossible movies are a bankable franchise and that is a different thing. I am never tempted to go and see a movie because Tom Cruise is in it. I spent the last hour of this film listing actors who could have made this movie better. The list ended up with one name on it and that name was Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds’ typical cynicism in the face of a well-loved franchise might have resulted in a more consistent tone to the movie. We know from every other movie that he does that he can balance serious and silly in a way that keeps the audience laughing and crying. We know that he can make even the thinnest of storylines seem plausible. We know that he does well opposite another equally sarky character so the chemistry with Jake Johnson (one of the few commendable parts of this movie) would still work and maybe even be improved.

I loved Russell Crowe in this movie and there won’t be any more Dark Universe movies and it is all Tom Cruise’s fault. This point doesn’t need much expansion. Russell Crowe is just really fun as Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde and I loved every second of his performance. The structure of the movie is weird because it introduces him and then drops him almost immediately for about an hour, but he’s just great. I don’t normally love Russell Crowe in anything and this really won me over. I would have watched all the Dark Universe movies for Russell Crowe alone. My boyfriend pointed out, from only hearing his voice emanating from my laptop, that Russell Crowe in this movie sounded like he was voicing the big fat posh tuxedo cat that used to live near us. I loved it.

I didn’t know how many feelings I had about this movie until I started writing them down. I loved the idea and I felt like I was enjoying it but now that I look back there were so many problems. It’s like if I spent a few days knitting a scarf without looking at my work and then discovered that I’d dropped like half the stitches and it was just a mess. That’s how I felt.

I hope you can look past the many problems I have highlighted with this movie next time you need a wild, undead but also risen dead romp. In a lot of ways, The Mummy is just like Sofia Boutella’s characters in everything: both alluring and threatening at the same time.

#themummy #the mummy #tom cruise #movie review #mummy 2017 #sofia boutella #feelings #stop telling me how to feel statue

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hawk-in-a-jazzy-hat · 8 years ago

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On the Ending of Logan

Okay so I posted a sphiel the other day about endings and why Infinity War should be the last superhero movie for a while. I stand by that, but in the meantime I’ve watched Logan, which is probably going to become one of my favourite movies because it is completely and utterly my jam in every respect; dark yet strangely meaningful, fantastic character interactions and drama, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart giving the performances of their lives and probably the best child actor I’ve seen in recent memory.

This film, despite its minor flaws, should stand as Wolverine’s swansong. But more than that, I think it should stand to end the current X-Men phase, and that’s down to the ending. From a plot perspective, it reaches a little. But from a purely thematic perspective, it is the perfect conclusion to events that have been going on since the very first X-Men film, with an ending that wraps everything up very nearly to where it all began.

Obviously I’m going to be freely spoiling Logan here, as well as the majority of the other X-Men films. But without further ado, let’s dive in.

Jackman’s Wolverine has remained a staple of the series since the first movie, and has pretty much remained the figurehead. X-Men is probably somewhat revolutionary in terms of the superhero movie, having redefined the genre into something that could work in the box office. Sure, Tim Burton’s Batman remains a cult hit, but X-Men showed that the concept of heroes in spandex was viable blockbuster material, and for a little while everyone tried to do the same; some worked, like Spiderman, whereas others, like Daredevil, didn’t.

And X-Men gave pretty much what it promised; superpowered fights, delightfully over the top villains, speeches on justice and humanity, and a cast of eclectic characters bouncing off one another. Classic comic book stuff. X-Men was a good film. X2 was even better. The Last Stand gets way too much flack (and I would argue is still better than the original), but I can see the point that people realized it was getting a bit silly, especially since Batman Begins had come out the year before.

Comic book movies needed to change, and when the Dark Knight came out in 2008, it became clear how; suddenly the silly costumes and campy moments needed to give way to gritty reality and political commentary. Iron Man in 2009, and the MCU in general, took it in a slightly different direction by having their movies essentially be long character studies. The ‘heroes’ became severely flawed; egotistical, naïve, violent, having harsh backstories and even harsher stories. The heroes, and the villains, needed to become relatable and human.

X-Men didn’t cotton onto this, at least not at first. If The Last Stand was getting old, then X-Men Origins was way out of date. They were clearly trying, but it wasn’t viable as a superhero movie anymore. Despite an admittedly interesting dynamic between Logan and Victor, the rest of the movie was fanbaity, cartoony, and frankly just…boring. It was impossible to sell the franchise on cool visuals anymore, and even the face of the X-Men couldn’t carry the old phase any more.

So they changed it up with First Class, which probably remains the best X-Men movie to date. That was the new generation of heroes; human heroes, and weirdly, increasingly human villains. Magneto became far more of an antihero character, and instead was replaced by Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club, who really came across more as a racist arsehole than a grand sweeping theatrical villain. And for the context of the movie, that’s a good thing.

The Wolverine sort of came and went, but that too decided to be more human, looking at Logan’s character more than any of the other movies (with the possible exception of X2, but I think that was a bit of a fluke).

Then came Days of Future Past, which instead of quietly ignoring the previous phase, decided to break all conventions and face it head on; two generations of heroes, fighting side by side, with Wolverine at the centre. It’s here where the phases truly split; the ‘young’ phase, which would go onto a more comic book style (for better or for worse), and the current one.

So many films, always changing depending on what the current audience wanted. And frankly, it’s true; the old films are no longer relevant in today’s society. The franchise knows this, and decided to split them apart to allow for something new. But, and I love them for this, they didn’t forget the old. They couldn’t continue it; even as a campy flashy superhero movie, they would never be able to compete with the MCU. So, they decided to give it the definitive death it needed.

Logan, as a character, is tired. He’s been fighting for so long, the world has changed around him. The mutants he was once friends with have all gone, with the exception of Charles who he keeps locked away, not so much for his own good as for a memento to the past. There are no more tyrannical mutants roaming around; only tyrannical people. Supervillains are no longer relevant; the people who we need to be afraid of now are the people we look up to. The people we depend on. The humans.

This was the biggest change. Magneto was no longer the villain. The Phoenix was no longer the villain. From First Class we had Shaw, who was far more subdued and less theatrical, coming across as an opportunist than a revolutionary. In fact, you could say he was a mutant masquerading as a human. The Wolverine and DoFP took it one step further by having their main villains be humans who were envious of the mutant race, and took control. Characters such as young Magneto, or Viper, would take the stage, but their actions were always driven by the humans. Logan completes the journey; it is the first X-Men film in which none of the main antagonists are mutants. Even the clone is merely a construct; no soul, nor a stop to its rage. Humanity has taken over the mutant, and has crushed it.

The ‘superior humans’ have beaten the ‘inferior mutants’, and in doing so, they have taken their place. And the ‘superior humans’ are bringing the world to its knees.

Logan knows his kind is dying, deep down, but he can’t let go. He’s lost, and he needs a direction. He needs reassurance that there is some way to survive.

There is. But not the way he wants. As he looks at Laura, he sees himself. And he’s split. Deep down, he wants her to be like him. But even deeper, he knows that will destroy her. He holds onto the past for dear life, even though he knows that he has to let go. The franchise knows that it has to let go. All throughout the movie we see the X-Men comics, and we here reminiscing about better times.

We miss them. I miss them. I miss the campy old X-Men films, warts and all. And in a meta sense, I miss the times when we could get behind the superheroes fighting the supervillains, rather than having to cower and look up to the ‘superheroes’ of our own.

It’s so tempting to keep fighting for what’s been and gone, but sometimes, you need to step back and look to the future. The old days are gone. And honestly, that might be for the best. But what you can do is ensure an even better future for the next generation, even if you know you can never see it.

This is Logan’s journey throughout the movie; finally letting go. He must let go of Charles, who he was desperate to protect, being the only father figure he’s ever known. He must let go of what he feels is the only way to fight, and instead teach the next generation how to fight in a better way than he ever could. By surviving. By living. By sending them towards Eden.

All the while, ghosts of his past are chasing him, constantly. The egotistical arsehole, who is relentless, constantly ruining his life. The unethical scientist, who will keep going to new lengths, treating him as an object. And eventually, himself.

While the execution could have been better, having Logan’s final battle be against himself is a stroke of genius, since it finally allows him to see how the humans view him. And possibly, how he views himself. He has lived a long and terrible life, and he’s done many terrible things. He is the Wolverine; savage, unpredictable, more animal than man, and that is the identity he has clung to throughout his years of being a hero. That is the past which will not let him go, and which will kill everyone he’s ever known. It kills Charles, the last memory he has of a better time. And eventually, it kills him.

Logan finally stops fighting to keep the past, when he finally sees the children running towards the future ahead of him. He knows at that point that it’s too late; there’s nothing else he can give, except to give the next generation the best chance he possibly can. But in the end, he can’t stop it. Not completely. His past will never let him go, and it destroys him. Logan dies by his own hand, as he always planned.

But he still wins. For the next generation…Laura…ends the animal right there. The past is destroyed for good, leaving the Wolverine dead. Forever. There’s only Logan, left for a few moments to say goodbye, and to give his blessing.

Logan knew he could never reach Eden. He could only open the gate for the others. And yet, after hundreds of years, he dies peacefully, finally being the hero he wanted.

The final scene may be one of my favourite scenes in movie history. Laura, and the kids, standing there, while she recites the lines:

“There's no living with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand, a brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now, you run on home to your mother and tell her, tell her everything's alright, and there aren't any more guns in the valley.”

The children leave, to where, they don’t know. But to a future, and one they can only hope will be a better one. The camera zooms in on Logan’s grave, with the crude wooden cross. The Wolverine’s final resting place.

Laura turns back, pulls up the cross, and turns it, just a little. Leaving an X.

Logan is dead. The Wolverine is dead. But the hero who saved her life will live forever. The X-Men may be no more, but they will remain a symbol; a beacon of hope, at the border of a better world.

The world is constantly changing, and always will. I’d like to think that, bit by bit, we are heading towards that better world. We are marching, one step at a time, towards paradise. And I want to do my bit to make that happen, even though I won’t get us very far on my own.

As for the future of the X-Men, well…I don’t think there’s much more they can do. I can see us getting a few more on the 80s timeline, but honestly, I think they should leave it for a few years. Maybe even a decade. Because the world is going to change, and the heroes and villains of the world will change as well. And one day, sometime far in the future, something new will come along where we’ll need to stand up and fight once again.

At that time, the X-Men should return. And wouldn’t that be a great way to bring them back. The next generation, standing where the heroes of the past once stood, ready to fight their own battles.

We may even have a new Wolverine standing amongst them.

We certainly have the perfect candidate.

#logan #wolverine #x-men #laura kinney #x-23 #charles xavier

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• A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful – Arsene Wenger • A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. – Bill Shankly • A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are. – Bill Shankly • A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there. – Ted Solotaroff • A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. – Vince Lombardi • After all, is football a game or a religion? – Howard Cosell • All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. – Albert Camus • And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game. – Don Shula • And of course in America you’ve got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. – Parminder Nagra • At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. – Bill Shankly • At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. – George Plimpton

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• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity. – H. L. Mencken • Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. – Sepp Blatter • Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America’s sinfulness. – George Will • Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will • Football doesn’t build character, it reveals character. – Marv Levy • Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates the weak ones. – Darrell Royal • Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.- Bjork • Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. – Jose Mourinho • Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. – Knute Rockne • Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better. – Bill Shankly • Football is a team game. So is life. – Joe Namath • Football is an honest game. It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. – Joe Namath • Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable. – Tom Landry • Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem. – Pele • Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. – Vince Lombardi • Football is like life and I know life. – Rush Limbaugh • Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do. – Oliver Stone • Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. – Woody Hayes • Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. – Duffy Daugherty • Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. – Vince Lombardi • Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. – Merlin Olsen • Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded. – Philip Stubbs • Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. – Elbert Hubbard • Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game. – Queen Elizabeth II • From that moment the pendulum went into reverse – Gerald Sinstadt • Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. – John Heisman • He’s a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. – Lyndon B. Johnson • I also played two years of high school football but I wasn’t very, how shall I say it, talented. – Kyle Chandler • I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one’s existence. I don’t want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. – Theodore Roosevelt • I don’t like to lose, and that isn’t so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. – Knute Rockne • I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate – Thierry Henry • I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn’t find me sitting in on a football game. – Howard Roberts • I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. – Terrell Owens • I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games. – Bo Jackson • I love football and it’s the sport I would really like to play. I’ve said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. – Novak Djokovic • I love football, football is my life. – Wayne Rooney • I played English football – soccer – instead of American football, because we couldn’t afford the equipment. – Wally Schirra • I really do love football. – Ricky Williams • I stopped playing football because I’d done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me. – Eric Cantona • I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park. – Merlin Olsen • I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football. – Les Ferdinand • I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football. – Stephen Chow • If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. – Erma Bombeck • If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you. – Bear Bryant • If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn’t be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. – Irwin Shaw • If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He’d have put grass up there. – Brian Clough • If you don’t play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide. – Steven Gerrard • If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. – Eric Cantona • In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. – Lionel Messi • In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. – Jean-Paul Sartre • In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. – Nelson Rodrigues • In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard. – Theodore Roosevelt • In real football, I wouldn’t want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you’re nuts if you don’t take him in fantasy. – Randy Cross • International football is the continuation of war by other means. – George Orwell • It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana • It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. – Red Smith • It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. – Snoop Dogg • Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally. – Alfred Hitchcock • Maybe Louis does have a golden willy. – Arjen Robben • Most football players are temperamental. That’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. – Doug Plank • Music was important. Football was the easy part. – Zinedine Zidane • Nine in the box… that’s a football term. – Ricky Williams • No talking. Talking doesn’t play football, talking isn’t going to make you practice harder or play harder. – Ken Simonton • Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. – Joe Theismann • Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Halas • Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. – Bill Shankly • Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing. – Eric Cantona • Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football. – Ondino Viera • People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. – Vince Lombardi • Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. – Frank Gifford • Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. – Oscar Wilde • Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. – Dave Barry • Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling. – Vince Lombardi • Sometimes in football you have to score goals. – Thierry Henry • Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. – Don Shula • That’s football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven’t scored but England have had no chances and scored twice. – Trevor Brooking • That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened. – Brett Favre • The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn’t, but there’s plenty of work. – Knute Rockne • The crowd think that Todd handled the ball…they must have seen something that nobody else did. – Barry Davies • The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self. – Edward Abbey • The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. – Lewis Grizzard • The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society. – Jose Mourinho • The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. – Art Modell • The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. – Phyllis Diller • The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. – Ernest Crawley • The town, the team, it’s a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don’t have football as an out. – Brett Favre • There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it. – Dean Cain • There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football. – Greg Schiano • There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance — physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ”national pastime” pedestal in less than fifteen years. – Hunter S. Thompson • This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it. – Terrell Owens • Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team. – Mike Ingham • Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. – Robert Downey, Jr. • We can’t run. We can’t pass. We can’t stop the run. We can’t stop the pass. We can’t kick. Other than that, we’re just not a very good football team right now. – Bruce Coslet • Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important. – Brett Favre • What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you’re in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don’t want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn’t taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you’ve got no more to give and then you’re going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama. – Bear Bryant • When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. – Dick Butkus • Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that. – Bo Jackson • Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team? – Sepp Blatter • Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it. – Jeanne Moreau • You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. – Jello Biafra • You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. 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