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Awesome stuff, thank you
This is the song that was being played all up and down the dorm my freshman year
I realized after I had responded that I had misread what you said originally but didn't know how to go back and edit it enough to change my response, that's on me. I do think that outside stuff often comes into play like that though. The sociocultural climate tends to affect the results as well. For example, several of the voting members of the Academy admitted to voting for 12 Years a Slave without actually watching the movie... but it was a great movie so no harm I guess.
And yes, I don't necessarily fault them for not getting the winners right (IMO) because getting the 4-6 is the more objective part of the process. Those are generally, objectively by most critics/viewers, the best 4-6 nominees in that category. Too much subjectivity and bias goes into the final selection and that's just a natural function of how we are as humans.
Man the crazy part for me was how many of these hits from the LB's and DB's would have been called "targeting" today.
Well, this is awkward timing for that to be leaked, considering he and Fuente are on that Orange and Maroon tour right now.
I didn't extrapolate. I personally think its a commonly held belief among the academy (not necessarily by you).
I'm glad we're on the same page on the nominees, though it's easier to pick 4-6 great performances than the ABSOLUTE best one.
So he goes to college station? I'm not buying it.
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10 years 2 months
# | Devin Wilson will play both Football and Basketball for the Hokies Bruce Ellington played both basketball and football for South Carolina a few years ago. As a football player, he had 106 career receptions for 1,586 yards and 16 touchdowns. As a basketball player he averaged 11.2 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1 steal per game. Not too shabby.
Yeah we'll just have to agree to disagree on the first one but I think you extrapolated something from my point that I didn't say. I don't think you have to play someone with a sort of debilitation at all, but to me, the role of Pat Solitano in SLP required significantly more range to execute properly and in such a brilliant fashion. I did not think the Lincoln role stretched DDL (I think he did a good job, though), I think it was no where close to his role in There Will Be Blood, for example.
I totally agree that Benedict Cumberbatch was better in The Imitation Game than Redmayne in TToE, and also that TIG was a better movie. Which once again would support my notion that the nominees are usually right, but in my opinion, not always the winner.
Yeah, I don't remember many 2 sport athletes in the mainstream since Bo or Deion.
Hopefully he'll do well and get some attention.
I had heard that Blacksburg was not his favorite place . Small towns are not meant for everyone.
I think my favorite part is that just about each contender had some big hits against LOLUVA
I kind of agree with your point but respectfully disagree with your example. DDL absolutely deserved the oscar and did a great job portraying a well known figure in history in a more complex manner. What I do not like is the thought process that you have to play someone with some sort of debilitation in order to win an Oscar, which seems to be prevalent. The guy who played Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything was great, but was he better than Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game? I don't think so, but I think he was given the nod because he played an individual (and did a great job don't get me wrong) suffering from a debilitation.
That's just my $0.02
In my opinion the Oscars usually get the nominees right, but not always the winner. That's just me though. Sometimes there is a clear cut winner though, like JLaw in SLP. That said, some years the Academy favors its golden boys a little strongly. I think Bradley Cooper's performance in SLP portraying someone with manic bipolar disorder (which was extremely praised among the actual bipolar and mental health community) should have easily won the Oscar over fantastic actor, Daniel Day Lewis, but whose role as Lincoln was essentially just a string of anecdotes in a weird accent. The role didn't require much of his talent and he didn't even have the best performance of the movie (Tommy Lee Jones).
HOAT: "What? I see nothing out of the ordinary in this picture. You guys never seen a horse running in place before? Psshh, Racists..."
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10 years 2 months
# | Devin Wilson will play both Football and Basketball for the Hokies I think it has, Bleacher Report shared it on instagram the other day and several of my friends tagged me in it or talked to me about it later that day (I live in upstate SC, so they wouldn't have seen when it first circulated). That said, the impact of the attention might not be too much unless he really, really balls out.
That is a terrifying legacy of dream-wreckers.
If you find those online please share. I would love to see how those were. I agree that keeping it to 1 time period would be best & that there are a lot of upper end actors in the film will give it a greater chance of being successful.
it certainly is a tough pill to swallow. Maybe we should have chewed more...
Anyone think this will bring some positive attention to the program?
Seems like a cool thing.
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10 years 2 months
# | Devin Wilson will play both Football and Basketball for the Hokies Pretty sure that's what the NCAA rule change was titled.
This bites.
This was the one area of Buzz contract that concerned me. The amount of money allotted to his assistants seemed quite low overall which makes losing them almost an eventuality rather than a possibility. I know Chew has worked with the A&M coach n the past but bottom line I think this comes down to dollars. I wish himy luck. His connections with the AAU program will be extremely missed as he was instrumental in many of our recent top recruits that came into the program the lot couple of seasons.
SEC generally equals more $$$
Or perhaps Michael Keaton in Birdman?