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Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 01, 2026, 08:01:01 AMIt was never a big deal. So many big names opted out. It's a tradition that won't really be missed.

Especially in more recent years after the game was moved to the week before the Super Bowl and players opted out because they were worried about injuries.

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Bad Movies / Re: 10 most prophetic sci fi m...

Last post by M.10rda - September 01, 2026, 08:30:08 AM

The prequel trilogy is bonkers. PHANTOM MENACE is rife w/ broad and offensive African-American, Japanese, and Jewish minstrelsy. ATTACK OF THE CLONES (which is the least watchable of the three) at least I guess has the sober idea that technology created to serve civilization will eventually destroy it. By the third chapter the U.S. had invaded a foreign country to seize its resources and started attacking the civil liberties of its own citizens, so George Lucas clearly felt smart about having the Senate cede all its power to Emperor Palpatine. But who needs sociopolitical commentary from George Lucas?!

Of course the rise of Palpatine sequence now seems timely and cogent again.

The fact that it's JJ Binks who persuades the Senate to crown Palpatine is pretty funny somehow (unintentionally). There are a lot of white Binkses in politics right now.

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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by Rev. Powell - September 01, 2026, 08:19:11 AM

"Navigator" is even harder than "Yukon."

Life After the Navigator

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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - September 01, 2026, 08:16:12 AM

"Chrome" by Ty Segall

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by Rev. Powell - September 01, 2026, 08:11:29 AM

1. Barbarella (1968)
2. PATRICK (1978)
3. Akira
4. Erin Brockovich
5. Harvey
6. Ted
7. Shane
8. PAUL (2011)
9. Barb Wire
10. KATRINA (1969)
11. Carrie
12. Patton (1970)
13. Shaft
14. SHIRLEY VALENTINE (1989)
15. Hamlet
16. Dracula
17. Barton Fink (1991)
18. HARRY BROWN (2009)
19. Willard
20. Dr. No
21. Frankenstein
22. Donnie Darko
23. EMANUELLE (1974)
24. Goldfinger
25. Bronson (2008)
26. Van Helsing
27. Mitchell (1975)
28. ARTHUR (1981)
29. Annie (1982)
30. MARTIN (1977)
31. Django (1966)
32) Zelig
33. JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
34) Willow
35. Oppenheimer
36. ZOOLANDER (2001)
37 Barbie
38. JACKIE BROWN (1997)
39. Léolo (1992)
40. Angélique (2013)
41. Amelie
42. Gia(1998)
43. FOXY BROWN (1974)
44. Billy Madison
45. Happy Gilmore
46. Ed Wood
47. Joan of Arc (1948)
48. ABBY (1974)
49. Rocky Balboa (2006)
50. LUCY (2014)
51. Forrest Gump

and

52. Mandy (2018)

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - September 01, 2026, 08:06:17 AM

I added a couple words to THEY WILL KILL YOU's title in my original post so I guess that doesn't speak highly of that film being memorable, either.

A very quick one:

OH WHAT A KNIGHT! (1928):
Pre-Mickey Disney short w/ Willie's contemporary "Oswald the Rabbit", another proto-Mickey/proto-Bugs. He's just Mickey but he's a rabbit, he's got a mule-ish friend who is sort of Goofy or Pluto, and he has a cute girlfriend who's a cat (so Advantage: Oswald). She's trapped in a tower and protected by a big mean knight ("Pete" in a suit of armor) as well as an enormous lion (her dad, maybe?). This is a refreshing slice of pre-code animation where characters can lose their clothes briefly, the bad guy can get stabbed repeatedly in the @$$, and if Muufy's tail is bitten off by an alligator, he can just pull it right back out to full length again. (Phew.) 3.5/5 Entirely pleasant.

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Entertainment / Re: NFL doing away with Pro Bo...

Last post by Rev. Powell - September 01, 2026, 08:01:01 AM

It was never a big deal. So many big names opted out. It's a tradition that won't really be missed.

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