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  1. Wombat

    75th Golden Globe Awards

    Lolz I'm not watching this. But this does make me realize: What's even the Oscar-bait movies this year? I realize I have no clue, and I'm not sure if it's just I've given up all pretense of caring or if Harvey burning Weinstein to the ground has totally fucked the award season dynamic (+real...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Is literally anyone on Earth excited for the AFC games next week? Now the NFC is a different story. I've heard people theorize that the Eagles are about to switch to Jay Ajayi mode, but I'm doubtful they can score enough to top the Falcons. And while I think the Saints are the best team in the...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Are the Rams aware there is a game clock?
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Injuries are demolishing the favorites today. Let's hope it holds true for next week.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    So one of the two games the Patriots (likely) have before the SB are these Titans. Come on NFC.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    We not doing picks? As wild a year it has been for most teams, the Patriots are a Chiefs Offense Exposed and an Antonio Brown-as-decoy away from the Super Bowl, yet again. While I think the NFC has defensive teams that could beat the Patriots on any given Sunday, I won't bet on any of them in...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    The Patriots are the clear favorite this year.... But next year they have an over-40 QB, no succession plan, and their coaching staff looks like it will be completely raided. I have no idea if anything in that article is accurate or not, but if Darth Bill wanted to get back at his QB/Owner who...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I thought it was widely reported that Vader showed up on the beach and murders anyone still left alive, but they slow him down enough to transmit/fly out the plans before they buy it.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    As much as the Jags/ Titans / Bills fans deserve to see a playoff game again, I can't see any of them as serious threats to NE and would prefer the Ravens were still in it.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Is it meanspirited or just desserts to hope that the Packers injure enough Vikings to ruin their playoff chances? Because an O lineman on a cart should only be the start.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    With the rate Chicago is losing lineman, will they be the team to give the Browns their Christmas miracle win?
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Question for you: Is the lack of payoff on Snoke and Rey's parents bad in itself, or is it just that the audience hung onto those points as the only new thing TFA brought to the table?
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    Black Panther (2018)

    That japanese trailer makes me feel sorry for the advertising people tasked with trying to sell a mainly black-cast movie to Asia. Hell, that trailer doesn't have a black person's face in it until 29 seconds in (the bad guy, of course). Edit: and let's not be revisionist - Thor 2, Iron Man 3...
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    HAPPY!

    One one hand, I love me some Grant Morrison - The Invisibles was probably the most underrated comic of the 90s. On the other hand, this seems like Morrison thought "Man, they should make a Preacher tv series", with angels and devils being real, graphic violence, and everyone important being...
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    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

    Holy crap this movie will be terrible. There's about zero chance the volcano blowing up will be anything other than the end action scene of the movie, and any time a trailer (much less the first trailer) spoils almost the entirety of the climax, the movie is dogshit.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Did the owners have a bet going? First one to have to fire someone buys everyone Jaguars (the car, not the team) for Christmas? And now the Giants have to pay up? That said, the floodgates should be opening wide - the sooner the old regime is out and you can start interviewing new people, the...
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    Plinkett, Half in The Bag and other web movie reviews

    I thought they were just riffing on how drunk they were for their Halloween BOTW, but no, they appear to be legitimately drunk as fuck. And as someone who was alive in Milwaukee at the time of the copyright, no one I had ever met talked like that, outside of parodying Minnesotans. I have to...
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    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    I don't recall Tony needing his legs to fly around much in the suit, much less that that portion couldn't be controlled otherwise. That said, Rhodey's crippling in Cap 3 always bugged me. Cheadle doesn't have enough screen time in these movies for any impact to matter, and its not like Marvel...
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    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    Doesn't the trailer rule out Heimdall as Soul Gem? Thanos would have picked up that gem as well when he wrecks Thor's ship, right? And yet I don't like Wakanda as the source either. Sure, it would explain why Wakanda was so far along - even a couple geniuses with infinite "lifespans" could get...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    One of the longer stories suggested Eli knew it was coming and the Giants offered to have him keep starting the first halves for the streak, but he figured there was no point in keeping up the charade. It's weird to think that we're about due for the Eli/Rivers/Brees/Big Ben era to start...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    I've been on the "Don't count on Eli being there next year" train longer than anyone, but in the middle of the season, to evaluate Geno Smith, and ruin his starts number? Other than the coach and GM fishing for some silver lining to keep their jobs, this makes no sense. Cue everyone and their...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    I really can't wait for the Saints/Eagles playoff game. I only hope the winner can still put up a fight against the Patriots. What I can wait for? The absolute fucking beating the Steelers will lay on the Packers. I can't believe this didn't get flexed out, nationwide Packers / Steelers fans or...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    It's weird, after a wild start to the season, does anyone have any hope for any team in the AFC playoffs other than the Patriots, Chiefs, and Steelers? And even there, the Patriots have to be the prohibitive favorites, right? At least the NFC will have some surprise entries.
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    College Football 2017-2018 Season

    As someone who doesn't really care about College Football but has caught most of the local (Wisconsin) games because of my crew, I can't tell you how much I would like this terrible team to be the only undefeated major name left, just to watch the rankings madness.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    I've never seen any hard numbers on it. It does only stand to reason that you have a higher chance of escalating an injury if you only have 4 days of rest vs. 7. Then again, the flipside is you have 10 days to rest after your TNF games vs. everyone else with only 7. In addition, the...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    The day Rodgers went down, I said Top 5 Draft Pick wasn't out of the question. And while the 49ers, Browns, & Giants aren't going to beat Rodgers' 4 wins, every other team could. Seriously, with the Lions unlikely to take Week 17 off, the only game the Packers _may_ be favored in is the Browns...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Hey guys, did you know there was a football game on? Not sure the Packers do. Although us giving the Browns their only win of the season should properly display Rodgers' value.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Meh, I actually unsubbed yesterday after the reveal. Sure, I'll sub to play the new expansion for a month (and do Antorus on LFR at some point if I have to), but another leveling revamp (probably) and murdering / being murdered by the peoples I just spent an expansion saving isn't worth (the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, how is that not just (procedurally generated?) scenarios?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Wait, are they really going to redo the vanilla leveling again? Have Horde not step off Kalimdor and Alliance not step off Eastern Kingdoms? It was borderline a waste of time in Cataclysm, but now those zones are newer than multiple other expansions*. Is that seriously their schtick...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ugh, I hate the (regularly scheduled) PvP nonsense. "Monsters from another dimension want to kill us all? Let's beat each other up until they win!" Not to mention the absurdity of pretending we won't be fighting the same raids, regardless of what faction we're on. Speaking of which, is the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A Wow presenter with Charisma? WTF?
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Err, to be clear, I didn't say it made logical sense. I just said it made football PR sense. A 2nd round pick for 8 games and negotiating rights (when the only real leverage is that you just guaranteed to pay him top 5 QB money next year), when all anyone talks about are newbie QBs, is tough to...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    You guys are, what, 0-8, and everyone was making the comments about how abandoned the stands were? At some point you have to pivot from "We're the Factory of Sadness West" to "Yeah, we're terrible, but here's our plan to get better - starting with one of the few best QBs not locked up for years...
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    Super Mario Odyssey

    Let me preface this by saying I loooved Galaxy (I 242 starred it, or whatever the max was), and like most guys our age, 120 starred World a couple times when I was a kid. I think Odyssey is great - but it's not better than World or Galaxy (so far). Upsides: This is the Adult Swim of Mario...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    See you next week Joe! the only hope Miami has at this rate.
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    I had to open my fucking mouth about the NFC wildcard race being crowded. Well, we can scratch the Bucs out, and the Packers will likely draft in the Top 10 - hell, I'm not sure ~5 is out of the question with the O-line we had by the end of the game
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Gonna be honest, between Division loser of Packers / Lions, Falcons / Panthers, Seahawks / Rams, & the Cowboys, the NFC wildcard race is already getting heated. Edit: And it's not like the Bucs or Redskins couldn't still get in there either.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    The amount of misdirection in that trailer is hard to wade through. (Kylo kills his mom! - except we know Leia was supposed to be major in 9, so unless they redid the ending of that scene and no one's behavior was altered as a result for the rest of the movie, that's not the case.) The one...
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    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    Psst... MM has little say on roster construction, even to the point of making passive aggressive comments about it press conferences.