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Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
Just wondering how many of the board quooks here have jerked off to this.
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NOC.haie said:Thought it was a pretty good movie. Laughed at casting Ben Affleck as Phil. Doubt a guy wearing neon and teal running tights would be throwing around that many "F Bombs" though.
Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
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Did it tell the story of him cheating on his first wife?haie said:Thought it was a pretty good movie. Laughed at casting Ben Affleck as Phil. Doubt a guy wearing neon and teal running tights would be throwing around that many "F Bombs" though.
Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
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It was a decent movie. Not bad, not fantastic. Decent.
Damon put on a solid performance but Sonny Vaccaro was an Italian tornado. More like a younger Joe Pesci or Steven Buschimi-style.
Inserting the Raveling portion was forced. Raveling was coaching at Iowa when Jordan came out of college not working for Nike.
Viola Davis was outstanding.
It gets about a 6 out of 10 Throbbers.
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Asphyxiation at the 46Q trailer confirmed.46XiJCAB said:
NOC.haie said:Thought it was a pretty good movie. Laughed at casting Ben Affleck as Phil. Doubt a guy wearing neon and teal running tights would be throwing around that many "F Bombs" though.
Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
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I'm hoping you would find that a reason to admire Knight, and not the other way around.HuskyJW said:
Did it tell the story of him cheating on his first wife?haie said:Thought it was a pretty good movie. Laughed at casting Ben Affleck as Phil. Doubt a guy wearing neon and teal running tights would be throwing around that many "F Bombs" though.
Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
Just wondering how many of the board quooks here have jerked off to this. -
Frankly, I am laughing at pretty much any casting of Ben Affleck. Always an overrated actor, and the guy is now a walking disaster. His whole "recovering drunk" routine is so banal at this point. His drunk basketball coach or whatever he was to redemption movie was so obviously his schtick that I hated it and I didn't even see it. He was good in the Town because he was playing himself with a little more made-up tuffness. They don't have tuff kids at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Not like Aberdeen. At. All.haie said:Thought it was a pretty good movie. Laughed at casting Ben Affleck as Phil. Doubt a guy wearing neon and teal running tights would be throwing around that many "F Bombs" though.
Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
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Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
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That plus the whole thing with him washing out of being a top pick for the Bruins...just wasn't needed. But still, the Town and the Departed are must watch every year for St. Patrick's Day.creepycoug said:
Frankly, I am laughing at pretty much any casting of Ben Affleck. Always an overrated actor, and the guy is now a walking disaster. His whole "recovering drunk" routine is so banal at this point. His drunk basketball coach or whatever he was to redemption movie was so obviously his schtick that I hated it and I didn't even see it. He was good in the Town because he was playing himself with a little more made-up tuffness. They don't have tuff kids at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Not like Aberdeen. At. All.haie said:Thought it was a pretty good movie. Laughed at casting Ben Affleck as Phil. Doubt a guy wearing neon and teal running tights would be throwing around that many "F Bombs" though.
Would have been nice if Nike would have gone tits up and/or gotten swallowed up by Converse, so didn't care for the ending.
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Haven't seen it. It must be good if it survived him in the lead role. I'll give it a try.RaceBannon said:Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
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Affleck needs to stick to non super hero action movies. That's more his thing.
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You've been proven wrong Skip. Again.46XiJCAB said:NOC.
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He was legitimately good in Good Will Hunting. Also a decent job in The Town. Haven’t seen The Accountant. Haven’t seen Dazed in probably 20 years.RaceBannon said:Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
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Also good in The Last Duel.thechatch said:
He was legitimately good in Good Will Hunting. Also a decent job in The Town. Haven’t seen The Accountant. Haven’t seen Dazed in probably 20 years.RaceBannon said:Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
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Argo, go fuck yourselfRaceBannon said:Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
And his big role in Dazed and Confused
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RaceBannon said:
Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
And his big role in Dazed and Confused
Other than that he can't act
Dazed holds up except for the terrible child actors.thechatch said:
He was legitimately good in Good Will Hunting. Also a decent job in The Town. Haven’t seen The Accountant. Haven’t seen Dazed in probably 20 years.RaceBannon said:Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
And his big role in Dazed and Confused
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Movie was okay but odd it was made. I legit wonder if Nike/Phil put in a lot of funding for the advertising because who was asking for this movie?
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Last Dance covered it quite well regarding MJ
Winning Time revealed that Nike offered Magic Johnson a piece of the company that would be worth over a billion. He took 100 grand from Converse -
I don't count Good Will because that was break-out role and by definition had to be decent. But even in that, his isn't the memorable character, both because of script and because of him. I think he overacts the Boston white trash thing a little, which is his bread and butter. I've spent a ton of time in Boston - you really don't run into people who talk quite like that all that often. Damon is the better actor of the two and of course was Good Will Hunting along with Robin Williams.thechatch said:
He was legitimately good in Good Will Hunting. Also a decent job in The Town. Haven’t seen The Accountant. Haven’t seen Dazed in probably 20 years.RaceBannon said:Affleck in the Accountant was by far his best effort
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I think you answered your own question. Nobody ever asks for movies. That's why the shit ball to good movie ratio is about 100 to 1, and the shit ball to great movie ratio is about 1,000 to 1.WoolleyDoog said:Movie was okay but odd it was made. I legit wonder if Nike/Phil put in a lot of funding for the advertising because who was asking for this movie?
For whatever reason the Hollywood script world loves these like behind the scenes true life biopic movies but they don't exactly kill it at the box office, so it's strange.
I actually think it is interesting story line, though I wasn't blown away by the actual movie itself. Nike is a classically American 'build something from nothing [waffle irons]' tale, and the role that one athlete played in taking it from just another athletic shoe company to the cultural behemoth that it is today is compelling if you're not a Husky fan.
I am old enough to actually remember the era of basketball that was obsessed with big inside guys and the questions about whether Jordan would really do all that much for any franchise. I can tell you nobody was freaking out about Portland taking what's his face over him at the time. For anybody who saw even a fraction of what was coming, and was willing to put their $$ where their mouth was to prove it, is a story. No doubt about it.
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Yet they fired Kanye. Sad!creepycoug said:
I think you answered your own question. Nobody ever asks for movies. That's why the shit ball to good movie ratio is about 100 to 1, and the shit ball to great movie ratio is about 1,000 to 1.WoolleyDoog said:Movie was okay but odd it was made. I legit wonder if Nike/Phil put in a lot of funding for the advertising because who was asking for this movie?
For whatever reason the Hollywood script world loves these like behind the scenes true life biopic movies but they don't exactly kill it at the box office, so it's strange.
I actually think it is interesting story line, though I wasn't blown away by the actual movie itself. Nike is a classically American 'build something from nothing [waffle irons]' tale, and the role that one athlete played in taking it from just another athletic shoe company to the cultural behemoth that it is today is compelling if you're not a Husky fan.
I am old enough to actually remember the era of basketball that was obsessed with big inside guys and the questions about whether Jordan would really do all that much for any franchise. I can tell you nobody was freaking out about Portland taking what's his face over him at the time. For anybody who saw even a fraction of what was coming, and was willing to put their $$ where their mouth was to prove it, is a story. No doubt about it.
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I was on Nike early. Fred Brown was a NIke guy when the company must have just started. 70's. Bought a pair and they really were great to play ball in. Guys would ask what I was wearing
I knew it was the Oregon track guy but didn't care. Creep is right - Nike is a great success story. If it wasn't for 1994 and Oregon football they would get more credit from Husky fans
The whole kids in sweat shop thing started at UO. We? were just happy to take it and run with it
Along with MJ Nike also gambled on Tiger before he took a shot as a pro. It may seem obvious now but golf is littered with "the next Nicklaus" who were never heard from again
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Nflx recently got the rights to shoe dog to turn into a movie, so if I had to guess the studio that made Air was sitting on an older script/some form of rights and needed to rush to get it out before the official shoe dog movie comes out. It’s actually why you see a lot of biopics drop in pairs (the 2 Steve Jobs movies within a year of each other etc).WoolleyDoog said:Movie was okay but odd it was made. I legit wonder if Nike/Phil put in a lot of funding for the advertising because who was asking for this movie?
For whatever reason the Hollywood script world loves these like behind the scenes true life biopic movies but they don't exactly kill it at the box office, so it's strange.
Still was entertained by Air though. Luckily for us chris Tucker is in trouble with the IRS and is back to acting. Thought he was great in it. -
Wesley Snipes school of tax prep grad.ntxduck said:
Nflx recently got the rights to shoe dog to turn into a movie, so if I had to guess the studio that made Air was sitting on an older script/some form of rights and needed to rush to get it out before the official shoe dog movie comes out. It’s actually why you see a lot of biopics drop in pairs (the 2 Steve Jobs movies within a year of each other etc).WoolleyDoog said:Movie was okay but odd it was made. I legit wonder if Nike/Phil put in a lot of funding for the advertising because who was asking for this movie?
For whatever reason the Hollywood script world loves these like behind the scenes true life biopic movies but they don't exactly kill it at the box office, so it's strange.
Still was entertained by Air though. Luckily for us chris Tucker is in trouble with the IRS and is back to acting. Thought he was great in it.
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I was on Nike early. Fred Brown was a NIke guy when the company must have just started. 70's. Bought a pair and they really were great to play ball in. Guys would ask what I was wearing
I knew it was the Oregon track guy but didn't care. Creep is right - Nike is a great success story. If it wasn't for 1994 and Oregon football they would get more credit from Husky fans
The whole kids in sweat shop thing started at UO. We? were just happy to take it and run with it
Along with MJ Nike also gambled on Tiger before he took a shot as a pro. It may seem obvious now but golf is littered with "the next Nicklaus" who were never heard from again
The reason they offered Magic stock was because they didn't have any money in 1980. They offered Tiger his own brand to be like Mike
The Throbber wore red suede Blazer low cuts in 7th grade. Cutting edge in 1977.
Then it was back and forth between Adidas Superstars and Converse All-Stars (like Dr. J) through high school There was a rebellious phase of rocking Chuck Taylors in games which was fucking stupid as those were shit for performance. But that was more a middle finger toward my shitty high school coach.
Locked in on Nikes in college and never went back. Their technology got so much better in the mid 80's and went next level after Jordan.
Played in an alumni game circa 2010 in KD1s. Not as good as any of the Air products.
Sketchers are my jam now. Though the Throbber can still finger roll.
Affleck sucked balls as Uncle Phil. Clowned a legitimate business titan. Phil should sue for defamation.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms though.
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Thought about watching on Prime but passed. I’m not a fan of either Matty Damon or Jennifer’s husband.
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Okay.46XiJCAB said:Thought about watching on Prime but passed. I’m not a fan of either Matty Damon or Jennifer’s husband.
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Maybe they’ll make a straight to digital version with Larry the cable guy and dean cain you can watch46XiJCAB said:Thought about watching on Prime but passed. I’m not a fan of either Matty Damon or Jennifer’s husband.
