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  1. I heard a review on NPR today from one of their snooty, hard to please critics. The reviewer, David Edelstein, ended his review by calling the upcoming film "Call Me By Your Name" a "masterpiece." It floored me a little. Subject matter not up everyone's alley, but worth checking into, it sounds like.

    Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird have both been setting the film critic circles ablaze. I've yet to see either :(
  2. Acceptance of losing?

     

    How about a coach who accepts losing possession? Everything "rotten" about this team flows from Bylsma. He set our rebuild back 2 years.

     

    It'll take the team this season to learn the conditioning required to play real hockey in the NHL. Unfortunately their confidence is shot right now and things look even worse.

  3. I just have to laugh at this. I got treated like a red headed Pokey last year for saying this exact thing.

    I still don't understand how Bylsma protected them. Was it by coaching a brand of hockey so out of touch that we let the other team have the puck so we could set up our team defense? Y'know, ingraining bad on-ice habits that Housley is going to be de-programming all season long?

     

    (That's right, I can STILL blame the team being bad on Bylsma)

  4. Of course Marcus and Ennis would say that. They just played for Starts Gorges in 3-on-3 Bylsma for 2 years. Of course playing to lose has become ingrained. In order to play real hockey in the NHL you need to have the expectation of winning posession. The fact that the Sabres aren't doing that is not a reflection of their character. They're not ruined. They've been playing counter-intuitive hockey for 2 seasons straight.

     

    The fact that we've been rocked by injuries and that our new coach is struggling is not helping.

     

    I get so sick of hearing hot takes about the hypothetical personalities of the players. I'm sick of hearing about money that Jack hasn't even seen yet. And I've heard enough about rotten cores for my lifetime. The rotten core was rotten because Darcy sat on his hands and accepted a team with Vanek and Pommers as the best forwards for years. Not because those guys didn't have the character and spirit in them to win.

     

    It's all a bunch of Because Buffalo BS. The Sabres have a lot of growing to do this year, but I still believe the talent for a contender is mostly assembled. The team will find it's confidence and rip off a couple of win streaks in the second half of the season, I have no doubt in my mind.

     

    It sucks that we're not gonna make the playoffs yet again but it is what it is.

  5. I re-watched Star Wars 7 recently and I enjoyed it a whole lot less.

     

    There's charm and some great acting (Harrison Ford and Oscar Isaac are frankly too good for this movie), but it's way too safe.

     

    Also, Rey, Finn, and Kylo Ren are all written way younger than they are supposed to be. And wayyyyy younger than the actors are. Rey's internal conflict of being abandoned by her parents and still thinking they're gonna come back is like 13 year old stuff max.

     

    Finn pretending to be a resistance member in the first half of the movie is the only thing for him to do other than shout "woohoo!" at other characters.

     

    And I mentioned before how I think Adam Driver is too old to be Kylo Ren. It seems like it should've been an Ezra Miller role.

     

    I hope in 8 all the characters are inexplicably aged up before the movie starts. I feel like there's a pretty good chance of that happening.

     

    Going from JJ Abrams to Rian Johnson is like upgrading from Tyrod to Carson Wentz, so I'm still p excited.

     

    150 minutes, though? Bleeecchhhhh tooooo long.

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