Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Intel you need to know)
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It seems Sarks’ favoritism of Baxter has a lot to do with Brooks’ potential to draw NIL $ away from Baxter. No question brooks is very much under paid in comparison to other offense key players.
Obviously @ndennis25 and I feel strongly about those 3. I can't help the poor lists composed by younger people, like yourself, that missed these classics.
A&M is the main comp, right?
They have tons of people bought in. They are better build for the long haul.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "The movie can be experienced as pure spectacle, I suppose, if we give up all hopes of making sense of it. Bombs explode and planes crash and the theater shakes with the magic of Sensurround. But there's no real directorial intelligence at hand to weave the special effects into the story, to clarify the outlines of the battle and to convincingly account for the unexpected American victory.
Robert Niemi, author of History in the Media: Film and Television, stated that Midway's "clichéd dialogue" and an overuse of stock footage led the film to have a "shopworn quality that signalled the end of the heroic era of American-made World War II epics." He described the film as a "final, anachronistic attempt to recapture World War II glories in a radically altered geopolitical era, when the old good-versus-evil dichotomies no longer made sense.
Cannot argue with list, but two of my old school faves were "Run Silent, Run Deep" and "30 Seconds Over Tokyo". In the latter watching the planes fly into Tokyo skimming the waves is one of the best scenes in a war movie other than SPR. Then watching the aftermath, was heartbreaking.
Two more I have never seen. I'm making a list of recommendations I haven't seen.
Can we please get an update this week on PFF passing charts for quarterbacks of interest and how they do under pressure, against the blitz etc since the last go around. Will be interesting to look at Quinn and Gabriel in particular going into the game
I can't help it that old people aren't making lists!!!!
Enemy at the Gates is another good one, no problem with that list though besides Inglorious Bastards.
Downfall, if we're including foreign language.
Holocaust is another great forgotten TV miniseries from the 70s. There's a little combat in it so I think it qualifies.
Downfall, if we're including foreign language.
Holocaust is another great forgotten TV miniseries from the 70s. There's a little combat in it so I think it qualifies.
If only Texas would get the B B’s all rolling with regards to NIL….aggy wants to win no matter what
Ketch, why don't you put a badge on subscribers that belong to Texas One? Money where people's mouths are. So many talkers on here and very few actually making a difference.
I have lists for everything. I just can’t find them…..
That’s referencing the new Midway movie that I didn’t like either. I’m talking about the classic 1976 movie.
I don't have that kind of access to what's happening with the fund.
I can't find a list, but that doesn't dissuade my opinion. I find lists with the 2019 movie. That is unfortunate as the 1976 movie includes so much historical footage along with a compelling story with many of the best actors of that time.
I can understand Battle of the Bulge being excluded as it lacks historical accuracy. It is a great drama, but should be docked for the inaccuracies in interest of fitting a time limit for a movie.
Kelly's Heroes is total fiction, but wildly entertaining.
I feel like it takes a movie being truly, truly great to make the top 10 of this list.
Dunkirk might have been No.11 for me.
These two realities make me very confident entering the rivalry game. I think we have the better QB - who seems to elevate his play for big games - and OU has played no one. Sagarin has their SOS at 60th with Texas at 15. Big delta in quality of competition.
I’m literally watching Band of Brothers on Netflix right now! Been a long time.
I’m actually a few years younger than Ketch
However, I grew up in a single TV house. I was able to get my cartoon fix till about 9ish when Dad took over command.
Fall was football, the rest of year was movies like those I’m lobbying for. Can’t count how many times I’ve seen Midway, Battle of the Bulge and/or Kelly’s Heroes (along with tons of others).
I eventually took to both Football and the movies.
Edit: However, Thundar, Voltron (lions), and Speed Racer didn’t go down without a hell of a fight.
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