The Unknown Poster

I love Fast Times. Reminds me of my youth. Saw it on the other night. Disappointed to eventually realize it was on AMC. So fully censored. Phoebe Cates was out of this world.

Ha! Neither am I! BB King explained it though. Maybe Connor will be challenging for the Calder... Maybe a Jets line of Connor-Matthews-Ehlers ;-)

That's interesting. Gretzky was disqualified from the Calder for playing one year with the WHA, wasn't he?

Depending on the extent of the stunt some actors do them because it's better for filming. And some are just macho about it

Bubba was a radio personally like Stern or Opie & Anthony. So a lot of his schtick was overly obnoxious but he seems like a jerk in real life. He was attacked back stage at TNA by Awesome Kong because he said some nasty things about the Haiti crises. id say good decision. Bubba supposedly has other tapesnof celebrity friends sleeping with his wife. There is some evidence that Hogan slept with her three times and knew there were camera on at least one occasion. Immediately after sex session, hogan left and Bubba came in and told his wife that the tape was their "retirement plan" meaning he could extort Hogan. Gawker didn't have much of a Defense. Basically they said since hogan went on shows like Stern and talked about sex that it made his sex life public interest and thus the sex tape public interest. But that Defense didnt work. Jury seemingly believed that a stolen tape of a private act of which Hogan had no idea was being taped had no public news interest. and hogan definitely lost over the release of the tape. He was asking for $100m so the jury actually awarded him more than he asked for I say good because these sleazy websites that prey on attacking and humiliating people are just nasty. Regardless of whether hogan is a great guy or not, delivering a blow to a site like gawker is great.

Hiw was Petan?

This was a poor decision at the time lol

The alt universe didn't "exist" until the moment Nero came back in time, which was at Kirk's birth. So the Khan in STID should have been the exact same Khan that existed in the original TOS episode Space Seed, since he was sent out on the sleeper ship in the 1990's. Sure, he was "unfrozen" buy Marcus for a year or two but it doesn't account for the huge change in the character, So the writers didn't even maintain their own convoluted storyline. I always felt the better idea, if we can't make "radical" changes would have been for it to be revealed that "Khan" in STID was actually Joachim, Khan's right hand man in WoK. Play it the same with Joachim pretending to be Khan, complete with the goofy "I am Khan" reveal (that got plenty of laughs in my theatre), but when Spock Prime shows up, he reveals the truth. In the film, Spock Prime did nothing of note. Im cool with that since its good to see Nimoy, but he really had no purpose. If he tells Alt Spock that Khan was our greatest enemy but THAT is not Khan...boom, twist. Then we assume that revelation gives Alt Spock a method to defeat Joachim. Near the end, when they pan over the cryotubes and hover over Cumberbatch's face, instead, it pans again to the familiar face of Montalban's Khan. Meanwhile, instead of killing Kirk in the radiation chamber, Pike should have been the one trapped (ala his fate in The Menagerie from TOS). They still chase down Joachim for his magic blood and use it on Pike. It saves him but does not restore him. Kirk lists Pike who looks like the one from The Menagerie and its an emotional scene of Kirk questioning the choices he made. Kirk says he did it for Pike and asks did I not do the right thing, should I have let you die? And Pike "beeps" yes. Shaking Kirk and teaching him the morale to the film which was sitting in the big chair and making the big decisions. Just my two cents... Cumber was cast very late. Benicio Del Toro had the role and dropped out late. So Cumber began filming before he had a chance to prep. He gained muscle quickly during filming. There was a cut scene of him in the shower and he was pretty muscular but the scene was stupid so it was cut.

There has always been a debate because the costuming for Wrath of Khan had him wearing a chain around his neck consisting of a broken Star Fleet emblem (from an officer's belt) and it would line up perfectly with covering a chest plate. But the director says the pecs were real.

Im not overly familiar with all the ins and outs but Florida is a tough state. Apparently they will have to post $50m bond in order to file an appeal. And supposedly appeals are tough in Florida too. The end result might be Gawker bankrupt and Hogan having to get what he can that way. Or they negotiate a settlement under $50m... Will be interesting to see if Hogan ends at WM now. Major media is covering this verdict and seems to be positioning Hogan as a guy who won one for privacy rights. So if he's portrayed as a hero, I think he will be at WM. Just a matter of the racist remarks dying down.

Will be interesting to see if Gawker negotiated a lower immediate payout. Or what happens.

Good for Hogan. From Observer: The Florida jury just came back with a verdict awarding Hulk Hogan $115 million in his case with Gawker Media. The case will obviously be appealed and there is very little chance he will be getting anything close to that figure. But the verdict sends a strong message to the media regarding publishing sex tapes of people without their consent. The jury broke down the verdict as $55 million in lost economic injuries and $60 million in emotional distress. Gawker would have to post $50 million to take it to the appeals court, which makes that aspect tricky as well, as the verdict could force the company into either bankruptcy or sale. There was a great deal of potential evidence Gawker was hoping to introduce that didn't make the trial due to the rulings of judge Pamela Campbell and Gawker is going to use that in its appeal.

Why would a NMC be a team option? No team would choose that option as it hamstrings themselves.

Id be slightly surprised if they didn't reran Cormier for the moose.

Season 3 of Orange had a poor first half but a good second half. They tried to be too funny. Word is season 4 will be darker. i totally forgot House of Cards season 4 was out. Just watching it now. Two episodes in and it's tremendous.

Trouble? If you consider losing Enstrom trouble then yes. But realistically every team is going to lose someone. With the 2nd year exception jets stand to be well protected. Enstrom might be the sacrifice.

Cumberbatch is a fine actor. All wrong for Khan. I will admit I supported the decision until I saw it on screen initially Benico Del Toro had the role but backed out last minute. The film makers justification for going witj BC was tjeu didn't want to cast someone who appeared middle eastern in a role which was essentially a terrorist. Which is weird but Orci is a huge "truther". STID was a War on Terror analogy where the US is bad, **** Cheney is a war mongerer and Bin Laden might do bad things but it's because we made him and he's really just a nice guy after all. In that context their decisions were ill advised Khan was a Sikh anyway. And probably should have been played by someone who looked the part whether middle eastern or Latino or whatever. But it wasn't just the look. The character wasn't Khan. He was named khan. But he wasn't khan. It sucked.

His potential is offensive alright...

Sting's pro wrestling career is over, neck injury too severe By Dave Meltzer | @davemeltzerWON | Mar 17, 2016 10:25 am Twitter Facebook Google+ TMZ reported today what has been pretty well known for some time, that Sting is retired as a pro wrestler due to the neck injuries suffered in the Night of Champions match with Seth Rollins. Sting was diagnosed with spinal stenosis and told that he needed surgery, which is it believed he has not yet gotten. According to the story, Steve Borden has seen several doctors who all agreed that he shouldn't return to the ring. Sting was injured twice in the match with Rollins in September, both times taking power bombs into the turnbuckles. He went limp briefly the second time but was able to finish the match. The story said Sting may officially announce his retirement at the Hall of Fame ceremony on 4/2 in Dallas, where he is the main event inductee. Real shame. Especially how WWE used him. Almost criminal misuse of a longtime star.

I dont disagree. But what they did also cost a ton of money. Paramount was disappointed with the returns for STID. But let's also look at films like The Martian and Interstellar and Gravity, showing that a smarter, more character driven sci fi film can be very successful.

Totally. The actors are good. The writing and direction were awful. Bones was a parody. Uhura was an emotional needy insubordinate girlfriend. Spock was an overly emotional Vulcan. Scotty was "ok"...I get why he was the comic relief, although Scotty in the original was funny too but played straighter. One thing I loved in TOS was those episodes where Scotty was in command. I was looking forward to something like that, to show that Scotty is a great officer. His forced fight with Kirk that gets him kicked off the ship was so awful...just shoe horned in for the purposes of the plot. Chekov shouldnt even have been there. He was too young. Okay, Nero coming back in time made Chekov born sooner...yeah yeah. Leave him out of the first two films and then have him "debut" in the 3rd as a rookie...would allow for a new perspective of a crew that was well acquainted.

Surprised. Cormier made sense if its a 5 minutes per game on the 4th line role. But maybe Petan will get some better minutes. How many emergency call ups have the Jets had to make now?

Let me take a crack at this: Ehlers-Scheif-Wheeler Perreault-Little-Armia Connor-Lowry-Dano Burmi-Copp-Thorburn Out of those top 12, Ehlers and Connor are not eligible. So you protect Scheif, Wheeler, Perrault, Little, Armia, Lowry, Dano. That's 7. You expose Burmi, Copp, Thorbun (and scratched guys like Peluso). So if Vegas has to choose, they probably choose Copp (or even Burmi maybe). Not the end of the world for the Jets. Using the above line up, the entire top nine is protected. And in fact, Thorburn is a UFA. So if the Jets want him back, just tell him you will re-sign him after the draft. Vegas wont pick him (even if they wanted to). Burmi and Copp would be RFA's so they *might* be less desirable to Vegas because they'd have to re-sign them. They protect Buff, Trouba, Myers(or Hamonic) and expose Enstrom, Stuart, Chiarot. They protect Helle and expose...whomever the back up is, let's presume its Hutch. So we come full circle...Jets *probably* lose Enstrom (or whatever top four D they leave unprotected).

Depends where the other options are. He would look at it as play in Vegas or stay in Winnipeg. if the Jets come to him and say we have three trade offers: Edmonton, Columbus, Buffalo. And he says 'I'd rather go to Vegas.', well thats his choice.

Agree 100%. I think the writers of the films were the wrong choice. They also wrote Transformers films. They are into big, loud, flash bang films for drooling masses. I made the point to Orci that the things they did were the easiest to write. The hard part was what they didnt do, the story. If you write a really good character film, its far easier to make adjustments to speed things up, add tension, add explosions. But how do you shoe horn in character moments, drama and thought-provoking ideas when its wall to wall low brow action?