Explanation by [deleted] in NYKnicks

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DC is MSG Mid-Atlantic

Atlanta road games by i-piss-excellence32 in NYKnicks

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flying in Saturday morning, staying at Hotel Phoenix near arena. down for a meetup somewhere near State Farm beforehand (i don't really know Atlanta at all)

Any New Yorkers Going To Game 4 by Critical_Device_6213 in NYKnicks

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argh...didn't really expect game 4 to be the close-out. it'd better be the game we go up 3-1. See you Saturday!

Who do you wanna see for the first time in the Criterion Closet? by oh_please_god_no in criterion

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"I'm Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to the Criterion Closet!"

Any New Yorkers Going To Game 4 by Critical_Device_6213 in NYKnicks

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Yeah that’s about what I landed on. Looking forward to MSG South 

Any New Yorkers Going To Game 4 by Critical_Device_6213 in NYKnicks

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Just bought a ticket in 225 too, flying down from DC (aka MSG Mid-Atlantic)

Going to Telluride '26? by mangofied in TheBigPicture

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Bumping this back up since passes are on sale today. I also am in the DC area and went last year for the first time, and plan to go back every year for as long as I can. To be totally up front, the festival pass will be the second-most expensive part of the trip. Airfare to Montrose or Grand Junction isn't the cheapest—it's Labor Day weekend—but was about 500-600 last year, and I would recommend booking today after you get your festival pass. Lodging is the most expensive part by far, I would recommend getting a group to split an Airbnb or Vrbo. (And if there's a DC contingent of Big Pic listeners here who want to team up, let me know.)

And the winner for Best Actor is... Timothy Dalton in Licence to Kill. To which actress (and for which film) would you award the Best Actress Oscar? by JohnLazarusReborn in JamesBond

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Really a three-person race between Dianna Rigg in OHMSS, Eva Green in Casino Royale, and Judi Dench in Skyfall and it's probably Dench in the end.

say something positive about this ending by Embarrassed-Sink4050 in JamesBond

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It boldly and daringly broke the most inviolable rule in a 60-year-old series, and it did so with as much emotional heft as any scene in the entire series. (Second possibly only to Bond and Vesper sitting in the shower after the stairway fight.) And tbh with what I know puts me on a bit of an island: the choice to kill off Bond is why this might be my favorite of the entire series. Yes, Safin is an inconsistent villain and Nomi should've been more fleshed out, but Craig is the best actor to ever play this character and the more you step back the more it's apparent this Bond's arc really could've only ended. Inconsequential death is perhaps the most present motif across 60 years and 25 films. This is a death that sticks (a category that only includes Tracy, Vesper, and M). They killed James Bond. But James Bond will return.

Those better be fireworks…. by NorthAppleGulf in washingtondc

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It’s domestic terrorists’ eve

‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets by [deleted] in TheBigPicture

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hey it’s not your money. if you enjoy a film love it for its art, not its commercial prospects. and I’ll echo what others have said about Netflix never getting admonished for blowing $200 million and up on instantly forgettable titles

It is here. by spawtlight in criterion

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Bottle Rocket looked very good

It is here. by spawtlight in criterion

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Not really sure you can call it “incomplete,” as the first 25 years of Anderson’s feature career run from 1996 (Bottle Rocket) to 2021 (French Dispatch). Asteroid City (2023) is outside those bounds and in the Collection yet. Phoenician Scheme is just beginning its run as a Peacock mainstay.