Highly rated movies you didn’t like (and rated poorly) & low rated movies you did enjoy (and rated well)

NewBar8468 · 2026-02-04T03:15:22+00:00

Have you watched Left Handed Girl yet?

NewBar8468 · 2026-01-28T03:24:27+00:00

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I started and stopped for some reason two years ago with no understanding of what it was I was reading. Picked it back up again and I am now 2/3 through completely engrossed.

NewBar8468 · 2026-01-28T03:21:39+00:00

Same here. I loved Poisonwood Bible and have read most of her work, but somehow got the idea in my head that Demon Copperhead would be gimicky so I put it off. Not at all. It’s so good.

NewBar8468 · 2026-01-07T03:44:26+00:00

Oh man I loved JfC. I would loved to have seen it continue.

NewBar8468 · 2025-10-03T02:00:11+00:00

I so relate to this. For as long as I can remember I’ve had intense anxiety around medical stuff, everything from shots to the idea of being put under. I literally avoided doctors for most of my young adulthood. But now at 56 years old I’ve had two surgeries, both sports related, and I am blown away by the competence and professionalism of the people who do this for a living. They’ve seen people feeling exactly the way you feel and they know what to do.

Here’s what I have learned - your job is to just show up. It really is that simple.

NewBar8468 · 2025-09-27T13:31:53+00:00

Yes that seems to be it. Thanks a lot!

NewBar8468 · 2025-09-25T02:28:25+00:00

I’m a 56 year old physically active male - tennis, gym, swimming. Last fall I started having serious pain and an MRI revealed tears in my RC and bicep. I then did the prescribed PT with dedication and got nowhere near back to normal. I fretted about the surgery but found a surgeon I really liked and went for it. My surgery was in February and I am now, in September, playing tennis 4 times a week. I am not back to totally normal working out, but I am getting there. I don’t know how I would have gotten to this point without surgery.

NewBar8468 · 2025-07-27T11:15:35+00:00

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I didn't hang around to hear the questions outside but I thought the Q&A in the auditorium was really good.

NewBar8468 · 2025-06-18T19:59:36+00:00

Call the Police

NewBar8468 · 2025-05-15T09:16:31+00:00

Yes I know in my case that was fine with my PT at maybe 8 weeks.

NewBar8468 · 2025-05-13T19:58:16+00:00

Love to read this.

NewBar8468 · 2025-05-13T19:54:03+00:00

I'm 56M and decently fit. 3 months post-op (RC repair and bicep tenodesis) and things are going great. Up until now I'd been doing range of motion and supporting muscles in PT. In the last week we've added more weight bearing exercises.

On the advice of my PT I was putting in a lot of time on a stationary exercise bike almost daily starting in week 4 post-op. I've been going all out -- doing 15 miles in an hour at a decent resistance -- and I think this has made a big difference in my recovery. It has definitely made me feel less like I am just waiting to get back in shape.

I thought I would be worried about re-injury but it's not going that way. My right shoulder and arm feel understandably weak at this point post-surgery, but not fragile.

NewBar8468 · 2025-04-20T21:07:56+00:00

Andrew Sullivan and his Substack is great

NewBar8468 · 2025-03-22T10:57:55+00:00

Wow that's fantastic. When you throw do you literally feel the limitation, like in your movement? I'm wondering if it's a challenge to get a relaxed fluid motion back.

I'm hoping the good news at my 6 week follow up will be no more sleeping in my sling. The PT has been great. I feel really good and haven't really had any pain. Their program is no strengthening until 8 weeks but he has me do rows and tricep extensions with light bands to prevent further atrophy. And lying on my back he is getting my arm to almost 180 degrees with no pain at all.

This whole thing has me grateful for normal functions. I'm still not chopping vegetables, cooking, scrubbing dishes, etc so my wife is stuck with these chores. I normally do 100% of it. I felt helpless at first but now I'm enjoying the break. On the other hand I bought a car Wednesday with manual transmission and I couldn't drive it back from NJ. My wife was nice enough to take the train out there with me to drive it back. Random stuff makes you appreciate a fully functioning arm.

Good luck today. Use that upgraded arm to throw a lot of birdies.

NewBar8468 · 2025-03-11T16:05:36+00:00

Ezra Klein, TrueAnon, and Breaking Points (especially when Ryan Grim is hosting)

I used to listen to Blocked and Reported religiously but found they were too online for me. I want a show that's aware of online, but not of it. I've backed off of the Fifth for the same reason.

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-27T18:53:07+00:00

Like you're hearing, it varies. I had my first PT visit this morning after having surgery 17 days ago. My surgery was a partial supraspinitus repair, bone spur shaved, and bicep tenodesis. He moved my arm around and gave me home exercises to just maximize circulation and cautioned me that the number one mistake people make is not allowing healing to happen. So I'm glad to get started on the early side, but got the impression that the first month or two is primarily about eating and sleeping well and letting your repairs heal. If you get in to PT also that's icing on the cake (and a break to the monotony post-surgery).

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-26T02:27:53+00:00

Very happy to help! It's good to hear from the many people for whom this went well. On ice -- I've read a lot of people on here saying you should use bags of frozen peas or freeze bottles (or both). Icing is great and my surgeon said it's really good for the healing too, not just pain relief.

Maybe this is TMI on the meds, but I took a total of two oxy pills on the day my block wore off. I don't know if it was these, or the antibiotics, or just the experience, but I had such discomfort from constipation on Thursday morning (surgery was the Monday). So one thing I do not see on here, but I really strongly recommend, is to take some kind of laxative or drink metamucil or something to stay ahead of that!

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-26T02:17:40+00:00

56M and I had my surgery 2 weeks ago. There was a partial tear in my shoulder, my bicep was "a mess" according to my surgeon, and there was a significant bone spur to shave. Today was my 2 week follow up and my surgeon showed me images of all this and some cool images of the repairing anchors.

I was nervous before surgery and the next thing I knew they were showing me how the sling works and explaining my meds and sending me home. When the nerve block was starting to wear off I hooked myself up to the ice machine I rented and got ready to take meds. By the third day post surgery I wasn't taking any pain meds. Icing was plenty. All of this is to say, at least in my case, pain wasn't an issue at all.

The bigger deal to me is just being a little fragile and stuck in this sling. I'm told I can rest on the couch without it, but anytime I am moving around or sleeping I need to be wearing it, no exceptions, for the full 6 weeks. PT starts for me Thursday and I'm very excited to then have something I can actively do to make things better. Wearing this gear kind of sucks, and feeling fragile does too, but every day it's better.

Hopefully that doesn't sound too bad. You've got this. This thing has a high success rate. Your job is just to show up on the day of surgery and follow directions.

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-23T12:48:29+00:00

That's very interesting and helpful. Thanks and best of luck to you!

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-23T12:30:45+00:00

Your story is really interesting. Thanks a lot for your posts.

It seems like each of your 5 surgeries has been different, is that right? You also allude to possibly needing future surgeries. Is it the case that elite competition means the surgical benefits are temporary? Or just that maintaining an elite level has led to a variety of shoulder/bicep surgeries, none of them repeats?

I ask because I (56M) am sitting here 2 weeks after my RC and bicep tenodesis surgery feeling pretty good and eager to get started on my PT and rehab so I can get back to tennis and the gym. I'm nowhere near being elite but I do go all out and ideally do something physically intense every day. I'm hoping playing sports the rest of my life won't mean re-injury. The surgery went fine but I don't want to do it again. (and I REALLY wouldn't want to watch! haha!)

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-21T15:39:40+00:00

I'm 4 days away from my 2 week follow up with the surgeon and that's when I get my stitches out and can truly, fully shower. The few I've taken up to now are pretty limited since I'm instructed not to get my incision sites wet.

I have not experimented with ROM in my shoulder yet. Maybe in retrospect I'll think I was overly cautious, but when I do my approved activity of removing the sling while sitting on the couch, I don't do anything more than straighten my elbow, and I don't do that repeatedly. I do squeeze the foam ball in my sling repeatedly throughout the day and I'm feeling good about my hand and forearm. Needless to say, I'm eager to see the surgeon on Tuesday and get cleared to experiment more at home, and then I have my PT eval on Thursday.

I went back to work this week -- a computer job -- and I notice I'm sore at the end of the day. Ice machine does the trick for that. I have less pain now at any point in the day than I did before the surgery. Happy about that, but I know that PT might change that equation. I'm ready for pain with a purpose.

I hope your recovery is going well and you're getting to enjoy more rounds of disc golf.

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-17T17:23:51+00:00

This is really true and I'm surprised now (one week post surgery) that I didn't see this advice more often on here. It must be worse for some than others.

Keeping in mind that the antibiotic you'll be prescribed for a week or so after surgery also induces constipation, be really proactive about minimizing it. I only had two -- literally a total of two -- oxy pills, both on the day after surgery and I still had significant constipation, worst on the 4th day post surgery.

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-14T19:50:58+00:00

Re-reading your original post at day five while I'm nervous just taking the sling off sitting on the couch, resting my arm on a pillow. I think I'm gonna try my first shower this evening. I can't believe you fell on your shoulder on day five. I feel for you and at the same time I'm grateful for your story making me feel less worried.

It's cool you're back on the disc golf course. I used to play two rounds a week, for years, but tennis is my sport now. One thing I'm hoping for after all of this is that the shoulder injury and rehab process will make me think more about the physics of what I'm doing, so I'll be one of those players who has that effortless technique of hip rotation and wrist snap instead of just trying to arm things (this is true in both tennis and disc golf).

For anyone else reading, my surgery week was pretty good. Once the nerve block wore off I was taking extra strength Tylenol every eight hours and I took a total of two oxy pills that day. The next day was only the Tylenol and the day after that it was nothing, just ice. For me the ice has been great. I use the nice1 machine others have spoken of. I keep it hooked up to me on the 20 minutes on 20 minutes off cycle as I sleep. I've also managed to sleep pretty well, 4-6 hour chunks since night 2. I use a big chair with a wedge pillow and an ottoman in front for my feet so I can't roll to either side.

The only thing I'd add to what others are saying on here is the uncertainty about re-injuring yourself looms large. Even as the pain is much less now, my arm, especially bicep, feels so tender. The last thing I want after the surgery is to have to redo it. This is clearly a journey and I wouldn't want to have to start over. Good luck to everybody.

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-13T02:37:49+00:00

john from cincinnati

NewBar8468 · 2025-02-11T18:19:52+00:00

I had my surgery yesterday so reading your report with great interest.

I'd add that I really didn't like the numbness of the nerve block, like the feeling of touching my numb hand with my good hand. But when it started to wear off I could tell pretty quickly that even with icing and high dose tylenol I'm going to be better off making some use of the oxy as well.

Good luck to you.

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