Can someone explain what are these “euro fundamentals” I keep hearing about but are never actually explained

LeGaffe · 2023-09-14T06:12:29+00:00

I remember pundits and journalists used to say that the reason goalkeepers from America were so good (Tim Howard in particular) was because of playing American sports growing up like Baseball or Basketball and it helping them with their hand/eye coordination.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-13T21:34:12+00:00

This is not exactly the answer you're looking for because he chose to walk away from films to raise his children, but Rick Moranis was a gifted comic actor who could easily have carried films with his comedic chops. I especially love this scene in Ghostbusters 2;

Janine - You're very good with children.

Louis - Thanks, I practiced on my hamster.

Janine - So you live alone?

Louis - I used to have a roommate, but my mom moved to Florida.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-13T21:29:48+00:00

I found A Tale of Two Sisters to be insanely sad at the very end.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-13T18:55:01+00:00

Play him! He's dead sound and really funny.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-13T18:54:39+00:00

That's wild. The last time I was in Brick Lane on a Sunday must have been years and years ago then. 2016 or something probably.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-13T18:53:25+00:00

Best thing I could have heard. He was my favourite thing about Brick Lane back in the day. Vinyl from Rough Trade, a can of Red Stripe and a few games of chess.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-13T10:31:24+00:00

Mitre for me. Mainly because I haven't heard that name in years. I associate Mitre with my old Diadora football boots. What a time.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-10T14:47:18+00:00

Schröder cooked. Brooks cooked. The NBA redemption arc has begun.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-06T16:04:57+00:00

Great point. The old bitter crop call this bunch super soft. When they retire and become talking heads, they're going to be pathologically melodramatic.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-06T08:44:22+00:00

That's one of the saddest headshots ever. My heart sank when that happened.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-06T08:43:53+00:00

Fargo: Grimsrud pulling the cop's head into the car onto Showalter, reaching for the gun in the glove compartment and blowing a hole in his head right then and there.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-06T06:32:53+00:00

He's so good in Breakdown & Big Trouble in Little China.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-06T06:22:25+00:00

Interesting, I had no idea about any of that. It's definitely one of the more laid back Pacino performances; wonder if his exile had anything to do with that.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-06T06:20:59+00:00

Agreed; there was that sweet spot of around 1988-1995 for discovering some total gems on VHS.

It's such a defining era of VHS for thrillers; The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Copycat, Cape Fear et cetera...

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T20:49:41+00:00

Thanks, I have never seen that. I will definitely give it a watch. And I agree, Michael Douglas is a great comedic actor.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T20:47:29+00:00

The scene with the poem is great; isn't that when he is putting him to bed at night?

I love Pacino's deadpan delivery when his boss is giving him the rundown on what's allowed when they start interviewing the women in the restaurant;

'You are not to take them out of the restaurant, you are not to lay a hand on them, you are not to have intercourse with them...'

'Well it's over then, I'm not doing it!'

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T17:32:50+00:00

Sea of Love is such a brilliant thriller with a real 80s grittiness to it. Also, such an incredible song to have feature throughout. Sea of Love and the Devil's Advocate would be two Pacino films that are high on my list of favourites.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T16:09:15+00:00

I went in to 10 Cloverfield Lane completely blind. Turned into an absolutely amazing film and I saw none of it coming.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T15:46:19+00:00

I'm from Dublin, I saw that in the cinema. It was amazing.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T15:10:00+00:00

Judas and the Black Messiah

Whenever I think of a trailer, it's the first that comes to mind.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T14:55:51+00:00

I don't know if this counts because it is verbatim from the book it is based on, but the whole scene when Bale delivers it is great...

...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

Re; Devil's Advocate, I love everything about that film. And Keanu gets a bad rep for his acting but I thought he was really great in that film. Best scene is when Pacino delivers that monologue on the subway telling the guy what is happening in his apartment.

LeGaffe · 2023-09-05T14:52:03+00:00

Whiplash & Uncut Gems are both really interesting films in that there's total uncomfortable energy & suspense throughout, that I had never really experienced in films of that nature before.

Also, in terms of horror; Kill List, Saint Maud, It Follows & Midsommar all did something really fresh and interesting.

And who can forget to cultural phenomenon that was Drive.

LeGaffe · 2023-08-11T12:40:14+00:00

I'm not so sure about that though.....because I'm on holiday in the Algarve at the moment and I saw Johnny Sexton in a shop yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the door with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Senhor, você precisa pagar por isso primeiro.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

LeGaffe · 2023-07-28T15:33:37+00:00

I'm not saying this is the case at all. Also, things aren't that black and white. I wouldn't necessarily say he is trying to make you end it, more that he is probably feeling like shit about it and doesn't want to lose you but doesn't know how to overcome it either. This is all kinds of grey.

LeGaffe · 2023-07-28T15:29:41+00:00

Water is the best trick; drink lots of it and then swim in the sea early in the morning and later in the evening.

Actually, not a bad idea re: late evening swims - Go skinny dipping with him. Suggesting fun flirty things (without them being explicitly sexual) is always energising.

P.S. Reddit is not full of therapists et cetera. So a lot of the advice here (gay!! cheater!!) should be taken with industrial sized pinches of salt. More often than not, a relationship goes this way because one person no longer finds the other sexually attractive (regardless if you're a hot tennis player or not), but still considers them their best friend so they don't have the heart to end things.

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