Big Blue Huddle

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on March 29, 2022, 01:53:01 PM
If they have an open marriage, then presumably that is something they mutually agreed to, and both of them were seeing other people. So given that, I am not sure why Will Smith would feel any more jilted, cuckolded, or humiliated than his wife would. Or why either of them would if they both agreed to it. I am not sure I see any connection between the open marriage and what happened at the Oscars myself, although admittedly I am not privy to the intimate details of their personal life.

Smith is clearly a hot-tempered, volatile person with violent instincts who thinks it's ok to smack someone. It's not the first time he has been caught on camera slapping someone. He also showed no remorse or regret the rest of the night after the incident and only put the apology out there once his PR team and agent got to him and persuaded him to. I disagree that this is publicity that he wants. He looks really bad right now, plus he didn't need any additional publicity as he was awarded best actor by the Academy. That is more publicity than almost any actor gets. Nobody wants to look like the biggest douche bag in America, which is what he looks like right now.

You think so?  If only real life was like the printed word.  Cut and dry.  Suuuuure they both wanted it.  The rest of what you wrote is just based on what you declared as given.

Have you ever met people in an open marriage before?  I have.  My sample size is only two couples (though I would guess this is far more than most people have encountered in their lives) and in both cases I got the sense that one of them wanted it more than the other and that the latter merely agreed to it more than wanted it themselves.

You can say "clearly" this and that but you just never know.

And if you dont know how one incident can lead up to a completely unrelated incident....then that renders anyone on this message board who has ever apologized for bad forum behavior with the explanation that "things have been stressful in my life lately" as an excuse maker.   I don't think that's fair?  Do you?  Besides, what need is there for a logical connection when we're talking about irrational behavior?  One can have a string of unconnected bad incidents that trigger some strange misdirected retaliation. 

On a side note, reading through this thread, I can tell you guys are in full on draft geek mode as the analysis of this incident is rife with deep dive pin point hawk eyed looks into tells and body language.  Some of you guys were born with calculators in your diapers.

Quote from: MightyGiants on March 29, 2022, 12:18:46 PM
Daniel Jeremiah had an interesting take on this.  He figures Smith got caught by his wife laughing at Rock's joke so he had to sort of make things right

That's not an "interesting take" so much as an obvious thing any married man would recognize in an instant.

Of course it was real.  It was also a sickening display of high school virtue signaling herd mentality how much consoling Smith received from his cohort.

I like Chris Rock and I dont think he deserves one bit of blame or a smack across the face.

As for Smith, I feel sorry for him.  I had not known what was going on in their so-called 'open marriage'.  This seems to have nothing to do with Rock or Alopecia and everything to do with Smith and his wife.  His disjointed acceptance speech wreaks of a humiliated, broken, cucked and frustrated man.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is very underrated to me. 

The characters that inhabit Tarantino

Quote from: LennG on January 20, 2022, 07:02:32 PM
We have Prime, Netflix and regular Hulu. Any good?

Out of those options it look like you

Lenn,

We streamed it on HBO Max but you can stream it on Hulu if you have a premium subscription as well as Amazon for rent.

The film stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck.  Directed by Ridley Scott.

I think I first heard it mentioned by Dan Carlin of the Hardcore History podcast as a very underrated and under appreciated film.

The Last Duel.

Two French Knights (or were they squires?) in the 1300s have a bitter disagreement over a plot of land promised to one as a dowry but wrestled by the other as substitution for rent owed to a lord.  The wife of one then accuses the other of rape while the accused claims the wife wanted it.  It gets settled in a bloody duel to the death.

The bulk of the film is a telling from the three sides of the story surrounding all the insults and slights and about the alleged rape.  Brutal duel at the end.

True story about Knight Jean de Carrouges and his friend turned enemy Jacques Le Gris.

My wife thought it was gonna bore her to death but she wasn't feeling well tonight and we kind of just put it on not expecting much and we both ended up liking it a lot.  The film got NO attention at the box office and its a shame.  These are the kind of movies Hollywood abandoned.  A period film with practical affects (not CG) and a gripping and nuanced story. 

Black Hawk Down.

No politics.  No psycho drama or philosophical musings about the futility of war.  An intense look at a chaotic event in recent US history.  Its become a rare thing in Hollywood which lately seems to always want to inject some message or lesson. 

Quote from: umassgrad on August 19, 2021, 03:16:32 PM

Quote from: jimmyz on August 17, 2021, 11:52:27 AM
I'm glad you agree that to oust a republican it takes a lot less.
I only replied to your post because of this line. Both men are guilty and both should have stepped down. Only 1 did. Your guy, the pussy grabber stayed in office and then urged his minions to storm the US capital in an act of terrorism that cost some their lives.
Maybe the Republican congressman from Florida will step down before being sent to jail for transporting minors to Florida for sex. One of these days someone on the right will do the right thing.

My guy, the pussy grabber, managed to dodge a bullet by shining a light on your guy Clinton the rapist.  It seems to have worked.  And remember, the PC term for riots is mostly peaceful protests.  Although I know the circumstances are different.  One was a day where the lives of our dear sweet democrat senators were threatened.  The other was 100 days where disgusting regular citizens were trampled on, beaten, stabbed and shot.  Black Lives Matter?  All Lives Matter?  No.  Democrat Senators Lives Matter.  I call that hypocrisy.  You can call it 'whataboutism'.

You think Cuomo did the right thing huh?    He ducked the media barrage is what he did.  One guy won because he slogged thru the media barrage because he is a shameless psychopath while the other guy ran and hid.  "At least our guy did the right thing"....pfftt...get outta here with that.

Quote from: umassgrad on August 19, 2021, 09:24:32 AM
Even better, we have video footage of your boy Donny where he says, " I don't even wait, I just move in and start kissing, grabbing her by the pussy, moving on women like the bitches they are! Cuomo resigned but your rapist pal stayed in office and you still support the guy, that is very sad indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSyPDNSK7lc

Oh jeez.  I thought you were gonna produce those mythical pee tapes.

Well nobody said Trump was virtuous.  He is quintessentially the big middle finger in every way. To butt hurt democrats.  To the establishment.  To the Pentagon.  To women.  To gays. To his own supporters.  Trump is out for himself.  At least he didnt say "Hey whatcha gonna do uhh?  I'm Italian!  We talk wit' our hands and when I'm cupping your t!ts, its just my way of asking 'What time is it?' "

And we all know why Cuomo stepped down.  As he says, he didn't want the story to overshadow covid efforts because he is a man of courage and morals.  A true martyr. 

Do I really gotta use the sarcasm emoji here?

Quote from: katkavage on August 14, 2021, 04:07:23 PM
Unless you are Trump and enabled by other felons.

I'm glad you agree that to oust a republican it takes a lot less.  I can only imagine the rage felt by the DNC and the FBI when they made up lame pee tape rumors and just couldnt substantiate any of it the way the truth was substantiated in the Cuomo case.  I mean seriously, when the truth is so obvious that your Roid Rage brother Fredo has to go into hiding to avoid covering it, its pretty bad. 

Well remember, killing people wont get you fired, just ask Cuomo.  Ti++y grabbing, @ss grabbing, begging for sex from your employees and state troopers will...well if you do it for long enough and your brother who covers for you on CNN happens to be on vacation.  Just ask Cuomo.

Seriously, where did this come from?

Is there some big social upheaval over selective service?  And more specifically are women and even more specifically feminists in particular begging to be forced to sign up?  Because its the Democrats pushing for it. 

What's wrong?  Not enough cannon fodder?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/legislation-require-women-men-sign-potential-draft/story?id=79013594

For all you with daughters, it would become, same as for men, a felony to not register. 

Quote from: Painter on July 23, 2021, 12:01:11 PM
Once again, the original topic betrays us. It is indeed a reflection of what is so seriously wrong with our country which is that our notion of freedom has become pernicious. Much of it is a consequence of the politics of low self-esteem.

Certainly, there is no worse affliction for anyone to have to bear than low self-esteem. While it is obvious that racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and religious bigotry are rampant, they are all a reflection of the insecurities, and delusions of a nation which has for so long has shouted, "We're Number One", not hypocritically, but rather as a defense against the truth, and the disgrace we all share.

You can also throw in the self esteem of those who choose to ramp up how rampant racism, xenophobia, misogyny and religious bigotry as an easy way of dismissing their own level of involvement in their own failures.

That's not to say racism, xenophobia, misogyny and religious bigotry don't exist and they most certainly do have an impact on the most susceptible but most reasonably strong and confident people are capable of fending off the versions of these things we have here in America.  Unlike other countries, when you're gay, you don't get pitched blindfolded off of rooftops.  Unlike some other countries, women are not being denied education.  Is that the measure we need to compare ourselves to?  Of course not but should we then aspire to be like...what....Sweden?  An ethnically homogenous country if there ever was one?

We may not be '#1', but then again who is?