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June 8th
Ocean's 8


"Anything men can do, we can do better." The theme of female remakes/reboots keeps right on rolling as George Clooney's sister Sandra Bullock assembles her own crack team of super-thiefs to pull off the heist of the century: stealing a $150 million diamond off the neck of the world's most famous actress (Anne Hathaway) at the Met Gala. Her crew? Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Awkwafina, Helena Bonham Carter, and Dakota Fanning.

For all the hate 2016's Ghostbusters received online it still went on to make a very respectable chunk of change (about $230 million worldwide), which wasn't enough to put it into the positives only because it was way too expensive to make (costing nearly $150 million). Ocean's 8 isn't going to have that problem and I think between that and the very smartly counter-programmed release date, women are going to turn out to this one in droves and turn it into a big time hit. Which is wonderful since I've always been a sucker for heist flicks and the trailer looks great- count me in, ladies!

Related: Ocean's 11 $183, Ocean's 12 $125, Ocean's 13 $117

Ng Sez: $138

June 15th
Incredibles 2


Having to wait 14 years for this is undoubtedly the most absurd scheduling decision in Disney history, especially considering they talked Pixar into making two Cars movies in the meantime despite no one asking for them... but let's put all that behind us because it's finally here! Mr. Incredible struggles with becoming a stay-at-home Dad when Elastigirl is promoted to the status of world's #1 super hero. (Will Samuel L. Jackson agree to be his Tully?)

The whole cast is back including legendary writer/director Brad Bird, and I couldn't be more excited! The addition of Breaking Bad alums Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks is a nice touch as well. Basically I would be SHOCKED if this isn't the best movie of the Summer, and I'd be equally surprised if it didn't have the blockbuster results to back that up.

Related: The Incredibles $261, Finding Dory $486, Monsters University $268

Ng Sez: $439

June 22nd
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom


A volcano or something is set to blow up Dinosaur Island, and only Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard can save these noble (genetically modified, shouldn't exist in the first place, ate hundreds of people) creatures!

2015's Jurassic reboot was... perfectly fine. No one's a bigger Chris Pratt fan than myself and he was the right choice for the role, it had some incredible action sequences and all the dinos looked pretty good. All that being said, I didn't see a need to return to that world so soon. Universal Pictures saw it another way, and when you consider World's eye-popping numbers it's hard to blame them: it finished its run as the 3rd biggest movie in history, both domestically and internationally (behind only Titanic and Avatar). In summary, I'll be in the theater opening weekend, crossing my fingers that they came up with a more compelling script than the trailer would lead us to believe.

Related: Jurassic World $652, Jurassic Park $402, The Lost World $229

Ng Sez: $393
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May 18th
Deadpool 2


Now you can see why no male-centric movies wanted to release in May, would have been put in quite the Marvel pinch! Anyways so yeah, deadly time-traveling super solider Cable shows up and Deadpool has to form his own "super duper team" to answer the threat, rest assured many hijinks result.

FOX took a huge risk on Deadpool two years ago; everyone said super hero movies had to be serious, PG-13 (because they couldn't survive without teen boys filling the seats), and that only the MCU was strong enough to center them around lesser-known characters. Then DP1 went out and became the highest grossing R rated film of all time, the first successful superhero/comedy mashup, and even outgrossed every other mutant slash X-Men movie, including Wolverine's stand alone hits! Deadpool's humor doesn't always land for me but I love what he's done to lighten up the comic book genre so I'll be there opening weekend to support the dude.

Related: Deadpool $363, Logan $226, Green Lantern $117

Ng Sez: $319

May 25th
Solo: A Star Wars Story


Everyone's favorite smuggler gets his first starring role; we take a deep dive into the past to see how a young Han Solo met his friends Chewie and Lando and got his hands on the Millennium Falcon.

The main trilogy will conclude next Christmas, until then we're back to the "off brand" Star Wars anthology series. Positives: Rogue One was way better than I expected, Donald Glover is the perfect choice for a young Lando, and having Woody Harrelson and Emilia Clarke involved is certainly promising (as is Ron Howard in the director's seat). Negatives: I can't get over how un-Harrison Ford this guy is! I'll still check out Solo on opening weekend and hope the rest of the film is good enough to make up for Han's casting, but in the meantime I'm going to stay very conservative with my box office pred.

Related: Rogue One $532, The Last Jedi $620, The Force Awakens $937

Ng Sez: $265

June 1st
Action Point


Here's another week the rival studios avoided like the plague, and between Star Wars and the second weekend/tail end of two surefire comic book hits you can't blame them. Left to pick up the pieces is... Johnny Knoxville?! He stars in an '80s teen flick throwback about the world's most dangerous theme park where (of course) he and his friend Chris Pontius perform all the stunts.

Jackass may have debuted almost 20 years ago, but idiots injuring themselves in ridiculous ways is timeless. If anyone had doubts on that matter they should have been assuaged by the shockingly successful Bad Grandpa a few years back. I can't see this one becoming the same kind of breakout hit, and I won't be rushing to the theater to get tickets myself, but I do dig the goofy Wet Hot American Summer-style vibe so I'll probably catch it when it comes to Netflix.

Related: Bad Grandpa $102, Jackass 3D $117, Jackass: The Movie $64

Ng Sez: $63
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Wow, what a season it's going to be at the theater- not one but THREE Marvel superhero blockbusters, a new Star Wars, the most anticipated Pixar release ever, and a sequel to the third-largest box office draw the world's ever seen! That's worthy of a Summer Movie Preview IMO... and if someone keeps this thread alive we could use it to discuss the latest Hollywood excitement all season long, how nice would that be?
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2018 Summer Movies

* everything behind a $ below is in millions of dollars and is based on the domestic gross, not the combined worldwide number

April 27th
Avengers: Infinity War


Ten years later... it all comes down to this. After spending the last decade hunting down stones across the galaxy Thanos finally arrives on Earth, and all factions of the Marvel universe (the Avengers, the Guardians, Strange's sorcerers, the armies of Wakanda, Spiderman's quiz team) must unite to stop him.

Well, what more is there to say about this franchise? This is the 19th film in the shared universe and audiences certainly don't seem to be growing fatigued, considering Movie #18 just blew past Titanic to become the third biggest hit in the history of US cinema. The only question is if it can threaten The Force Awakens for biggest opening weekend, and how many Star Wars films it'll be able to knock off while climbing the lifetime charts all Summer long. All I can say for sure is that I'll be a dead ringer for our grizzled new Captain America when I hit the theater in full costume on opening night.

Related: The Avengers $623, Avengers: Age of Ultron $459, Captain America: Civil War $408

Ng Sez: $646

May 4th
Tully


Rival studios knew Disney was going to land an extinction-level crater on their box office dreams in early May, so no one wanted to put out a new movie this week. That means instead of another standard blockbuster we get a heartfelt Summer indie with Oscar hopes, which is fun in itself! Won't make any money but hey- nice change of pace.

Writer Diablo Cody (of Juno fame) reunites with Charlize Theron to tell the story of an exhausted mother of three whose life is turned around by the night nanny her husband hires named Tully (played by Mackenzie Davis, aka the girl you fell in love with in Black Mirror's San Junipero). Seems like a pretty typical slice-of-life indie drama/comedy, but as someone who loved Juno and Young Adult I still think it could be worth seeing. If the reviews are positive I'll be sure to give this a chance.

Related: Juno $143, Young Adult $16, Atomic Blonde $52

Ng Sez: $29

May 11th
Life of the Party


After being stunned by a divorce after 20 years of marriage, Melissa McCarthy decides the only way to get her life back on track is to return to college to complete her degree. And for some reason she has to join her daughter's sorority to do it. Can you just imagine?!

Alright so yes, Old School did this 15 years ago (continuing the trend of gender swapped reboots- more on that later) and this new version of the same idea doesn't look especially original or gut-busting. But this movie's not for us, and honestly McCarthy is perhaps the most reliably bankable star in Hollywood right now. I won't be lining up to see this one but everything she stars in finds a big audience with older female viewers and I doubt this will be an exception.

Related: The Heat $160, Spy $111, Ghostbusters $128

Ng Sez: $101
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Impressive stuff!
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Ouch, might be the Xboner of the day.
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The Lab
Space Pirate Trainer
Tilt Brush
Job Simulator
Eleven Table Tennis
Rez Infinite
theBlu (my favorite way to introduce new players to VR)
Vanishing Realms
Thumper
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Raw Data
Pavlov
The Invisible Hours
Final Soccer

Cool free experiences:
Rec Room
Budget Cuts demo
The Body VR
Accounting
Google Earth
Pearl
Gnomes & Goblins preview
INVASION
The Night Cafe
VRChat


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Straight 1v1 bracket featuring all video game characters (removing the rule that they have to originate in games).


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Whaaaa can't believe I didn't hear about this.
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Can't afford to miss this opportunity!
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I don't think much would have been different in 1999 versus 2002.

The Summer of '97, (pre-Ocarina and just before FF7 released in the US), could have been interesting though.


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What? Billy was born in Massachusetts and has always lived in Florida.

This Wisconsin nerd is OUTRAGED at your fraudulent title!


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Happy B-day, I vote you keep up with the news except

- more Pooh pics
- one poll per day


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Ed is fine, he's a best-selling author.


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Bryana Holly
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Wisconsin's pretty brutal this time of year. It was a beautiful & sunny 52 today, but last weekend we got down to 20 with below zero windchill overnight... and the same thing's going to happen this coming weekend as well.

Long term forecast is looking great though to be fair, should be into consistent 50s and 60s by a week from now. Hoooray!

Also,

DreamwaIker posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

everyone thinks where they live has crazy weather nowhere else in the country has

Indeed.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-city-has-the-most-unpredictable-weather/

Really neat article, thanks!


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Horribly weak naturally.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7026-are-you-regularly-playing-any-battle-royale-games

Win the Contest if any top ten streamers decide to push them.

Overwatch might be able win an R1 match legit though.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6568-best-of-2016-pc


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Fun run from Samus but had to stick with Ganon.
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Yes, I can't remember his name but he ran a Board 8 podcast.


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Felix result is very funny but still had to go with Sonic.


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Ehh that part was fine, Evil Scientist will make sense to you after you meet his wife.


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That's the thing, you could have just said that the evil scientist found a way to destroy the world the kaiju didn't know about and gave them the idea or something. Instead they added an awkward retcon.

Yes, that would have been a smart way to play it.

It's also worth noting that in this movie about robots fighting kaiju, there's one robot vs kaiju fight.

Okay, buuuuut it's like 30 minutes long, in two stages!

I think I'm starting to hate China because of this. This movie in particular is bombing even over there, but they just have the worst taste in American movies.

Whaaaa, that's not right. Estimates are that it did about $65 million in China this weekend, that's up over 20 million from the original and it will have no problem smashing the last film's total run there.

It didn't bomb in America either- did about $28 million versus expectations in the low 20s. That's down from the original's opening and it won't match the overall run here, but the foreign box office will easily make up for the deficit.

(In general though I agree with you, the movies China goes nuts for are usually pretty awful.)


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Objectively it's got to be 4, but I voted Brawl out of principle since you had to pay so much to complete that roster in 4.


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I liked it, certainly wasn't revolutionary or anything but as a big dumb blockbuster it was a fun ride!

- It's 'revealed' that the motive of the kaiju was never to destroy cities, they were always just trying to reach Mt. Fuji where they could make the volcano erupt and destroy all human life, and the cities just happened to be in the way. But the portal they came out of in the first movie was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. How do you end up in San Francisco or LA or Sydney when you're trying to reach Japan? We see that the kaiju just know where Tokyo is and don't need directions, so it makes absolutely no sense.

You're right, tearing up California instead of all converging on Japan last movie didn't make any sense. That being said, I did like that the kaiju had a sensible goal this time (terraforming the Earth with enough massive volcanic activity to end humanity).

- The robots are way less imaginative this time around. In the first one they all had distinctive designs, like the sleek Chinese one and the giant bulky Russian one. In this one, they're all sleek. The only way you can tell them apart at a distance is by color.

Colors and also each of the 4 had their own unique weapon. I was fine with the mechs, it was the kaiju looking so similar/not having their own unique powers and weak points that was disappointing for me.

- CGI is worse than the original. In the original, they wisely had most of the fights at night in the rain or something so you couldn't see the imperfections. In this movie, all of the fights are just straight up in the middle of the day and the robots look, again I have to say it, like they're from Transformers.

Have to disagree here, I paid a bunch of money to see robots punch things on a 70 foot screen and I want to see ALL of it! I agree hiding some of your GCI wizardry behind rain/darkness is effective for realism, it's been done well before (such as in Jurassic Park) but I'm not watching a Pacific Rim movie for the realism.

- In the first movie, they put a lot of effort into not destroying the cities they fight in, like that scene where the jaegar steps over a bridge instead of destroying it. In this movie, a jaegar pulls out swords and runs through a city cutting through buildings on the way to the monster just because it looks cool.

I'm 100% with you on this, it did get pretty absurd. "How many buildings do I have to pull down onto this thing?!" I laughed when they tried to put a fig leaf on it with a line saying "don't worry all the Japanese people are now safe in their bunkers so you can go nuts" literally five seconds after showing us a scene of people running for their lives in the streets and getting locked out of those bunkers.

- Lots of really awkward pandering to China. China is the most important country in the world and is the only useful force against the kaiju, everyone in China is attractive, smart, and heroic, etc. It's like in Transformers 4 where the entire movie is in Texas, and then they go to Hong Kong for virtually no reason.

Welllll the Chinese THOUGHT they were brilliant masterminds but really they *spoiler warning* were getting played by "that idiot non-Mandarin speaking" Newt and had to suicide their 100 beautiful new mechs after they went rogue and the American bots had to save the day. But yes point taken, China does get shown as the superpower with all the coolest new tech, which makes sense as this movie exists almost entirely because it was a huge hit in China (much like every Transformers since #2).


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LAST CHANCE to have your say!


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Martha Hunt
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Despite my vote I've got to admit, red and Andy make a good point. Sure, Mario and Link will be introduced to a new generation of gamers every few years so it's not too difficult to stay relevant/popular, but it's pretty wild how Mega Man/Seph/Crono continued to fend off tough challengers for years despite not having any influence with the younger crowd. (Aside from a few re-releases and cameos here and there.)


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GOSH back to a perfect tie at 80 votes. Let's call it official at 100.


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Nothing tops MvC!
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The 1s had this easily in the early going (over 60%), but never count out the NN!


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Both were incredible streaks in their own way, but I think I'll have to side with the #1s.

Sure, they always had the more talented players, but these aren't hardened professionals we're talking about here- they were 18 and 19 year old boys who could easily have been cocky and overconfident, or frozen up and choked under pressure when the biggest moments arrived. Yes, they were playing against unknown guys without NBA aspirations, but for the most part those #16 players were 21 and 22 year olds who had been playing together for 4 years and coming in hot after winning their (small) conference tournament.

Outside of a rally or something else weird, Mario should never lose to more than 3-4 video game characters in a given year... but a killer injury, bad calls by the referees, or anything else can happen on the basketball court.


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UVA was easily the overall favorite in terms of bracket predictions, BTW... 18.5% of the 17 million brackets on ESPN had them going all the way, more than 2% more than the next closest team (Villanova) and twice as many as the next most likely winner (Duke).


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It's all over!

#1 seed (and widely considered the best team in the country) Virginia has been defeated by little-known UMBC, ending the most epic streak in sports. #16s had been defeated 135 times in a row until this evening.

But the real question is, how does this compare to the GameFAQs version of The Streak- the unbeatable Noble Nine going an amazing 124-0 since the birth of Character Battles back in 2002. Let's find out!

Noble Nine
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Nine

Close calls:
Sonic over Zero, 52.34% in 2003
Sonic over Aeris, 53.02% in 2003
Snake over Frog, 51.39% in 2004
Snake over Bowser, 50.59% in 2005 (1,196 vote margin)
Samus over Tifa, 50.49% in 2006 (1,418 vote margin)
Sonic over Vincent, 52.09% in 2006
Mega Man over Sora, 54.28% in 2006
Crono over Auron, 54.50% in 2006

The #1s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament_upsets#16_vs._1

Close calls:
* Sixteenth-seeded Murray State took top seeded Michigan State to overtime in 1990, but eventually lost 7571
* Two 16-seeds have come within two points of upsetting a #1 seed, both in 1989. In the East Regional, Georgetown hung on to win 5049 against a Princeton squad who were 23 point underdogs. Princeton had the opportunity to win the game with the last shot, but Alonzo Mourning blocked the last two attempts to secure the victory. In the Southeast Regional, Oklahoma fought back from a 17-point first-half deficit to take the lead over East Tennessee State with 1:21 remaining. ETSU also had a chance at a last-second win, but Alvin West's shot from halfcourt was deflected and Oklahoma defeated ETSU 7271.
* In 1996, Western Carolina missed a three-pointer to win and a two-pointer to tie in the final seconds, losing 7371 to Purdue.

For comparisons sake, #15 seeds defeated #2s a full EIGHT times over this same stretch, including 4 times just in the last few years.


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Gabriela Castrovinci
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Have to back Kefka here, for the memes if nothing else.
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Both strong matches, I enjoyed seeing the Yoshi win more but still went with Vincent.
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Yes I've started working on my list, fun stuff.
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Both interesting upsets but there's nothing quite as enjoyable as a Halo flop.


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Going Ganon here, the Luigi loss still stings to this day.


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Went Samus here for the WTF factor.

(well it wasn't really wtf once we'd seen the pic but still)


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Good luck, followed and will throw you a sub someday when I see you on.


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Glad to see Servbot make the bracket for its historical importance... but Ocelot/Pac was legit entertaining, got to give it the nod here.


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That's a really strong ten... much as I liked almost all the winners, I've got to admit this list is better.


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LiquidOshawott posted...

I think its more just that blockbusters have kinda faded out of the picture more than anything.

Also, what movies do people fanboy over other than Return of the King from the decade prior? I guess theres the Departed and Gladiator but Im not sure if those count as fanboying over

I'd say this board fanboyed over (or would have if it was around at the time)...

Return of the King
The Departed
No Country For Old Men
American Beauty
Gladiator
Titanic (well okay, B8 would have called it overrated, but a female version of B8 would have been crazy about it)

And no way, blockbusters in the past decade are bigger than ever! The problem is, these days casual moviegoers only head to the theater 2-3 times a year to see the biggest of the popcorn flicks (which the Academy only rewards for Special Effects/Sound Editing) while they watch TV shows to get their fill of smaller-stakes drama.

In the 90s/early 00s stuff like Breaking Bad and Stranger Things and True Detective would have been seen by about as many people as they were these days... but they would have been movies, and they would have been Oscar nominated, and people would have felt a bigger connection to the awards season as a result.


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Poor showing for me, it's a shame- I was really gunning for the third win as I saw more nominated films before the show than any other year. Thoughts:

- I liked Shape of Water, it's a worthy winner, but I'd have preferred a Director/Pic split to better reflect what a competitive year this was. a Get Out win would have been cool but I was rooting for Three Billboards, since Jordan had already won (and gotten a huge ovation) for Script

- strong speeches from McDormand and Oldman, helped that they were near-locks with 3 months to prepare them of course. Rockwell's sick Grandma story was also pretty great

- Dunkirk's a great choice for Editing but would have been nice to see Baby Driver not shut out

- Kobe Bryant, Oscar winner is hilarious

- tried for an upset with Wonder in Makeup, still say it was worth a shot!

- I liked a few of the Best Songs in the theater but none of them came off too great on air... maybe they were having sound problems on set?

- I wanted to go back and swap out Faces Places for Icarus after I saw the latter is available on Netflix, but was too lazy to update my ballot. whoops!

- figured DeKalb Elementary was the Shoe In of the Week, but maybe Parkland happened too late to be reflected on most ballots?

- the Jet Ski was the gift that kept on giving, the references throughout the night were funny and having the winner ride off into the sunset with Helen Mirren and his Oscar in hand was the perfect payoff

- visiting the theater across the street took a little too much time to set up but it was cute, I preferred it to having the strangers walk in from the street like last year. and getting a random fan to introduce the next presenters was neat

- speaking of which, those presenters (Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph) were the non-Jet Ski highlight of the night

- last year's Best Pic mixup was obviously going to be a big time recurring joke, but I thought they did a decent job of giving gentle ribbings without beating a dead horse TOO hard. my favorite bit was the extreme close up "and we'll be handing out THIS EXACT ENVELOPE next!"

- I like the little montages when they have a point (here are some of the historic performances that won Best Supporting Actor in the past, etc) but the montage of "and here's every popular movie of the last 50 years, less than half of which we nominated for anything!" is pretty dumb, and always has been (they've done it about 12 years in a row now I think). the montage of war movies also felt a little out of place for this occasion

- guys, did you hear Rosanne is coming back? wow, Rosanne! "surely they didn't manage to bring back the original cast though?" that's where you're wrong, kiddo! now be sure to stay tuned so we can tell you about the return of Rosanne every five minutes for the next four hours


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Yes but only barely (in Wisconsin).
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Glad to see it was so competitive. And wow, that's a great Wall of Champions!


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Bump to see if that helps anyone get past this.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Helm's Deep was fun, but I dunno, I might have preferred the Mines of Moria fight due to the tension and emergence of the Balrog. From the moment the party hears a distant drumbeat in the mines to the moment they collapse grieving Gandalf... maybe the best sequence of the trilogy imo.

HECK yeah.
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WOW, best Final ever!

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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BKSheikah dominated even The Show hosts in 2017, wow!
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I got these messages pretty often for about a month, on all kinds of websites, and on multiple computers. I figured it was my ISP's fault and I think I was RIGHT because once I switched to Google's DNS service instead of Time Warner's I've never seen them again. Following the instructions here is what did the trick for me:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using


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BKSheikah dominated even The Show hosts in 2017, wow!
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