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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #1512 on: June 04, 2026, 10:49:38 AM »
We've been watching Netflix's Rafa documentary about Rafael Nadal.  We're both suckers for documentaries of almost any sort, but sports-based ones tend to be our favorites.  Wife is a major tennis fan, and I've picked up a little bit of that from her, so I was at least aware of and watched with appreciation some of Nadal's big matches in the back half of his career, although I'm not a fan, per se.  

I think it was a really cool era for the years Nadal, Federer, and Djokovic made up the "Big 3" and were dominating the grand slam tournaments.  Add in Andy Murray, and it was kind of a golden age for tennis.  

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« Reply #1513 on: June 04, 2026, 12:16:59 PM »
The Big 3 were really remarkable. There are always good rivalries at the top of tennis, but to have three such dominant players competing against each other for as long as they did...wow.

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« Reply #1514 on: June 04, 2026, 12:27:53 PM »
I liked tennis and used to watch a lot of it during the eras that transitioned from Jimmy Connors-John McEnroe-Pete Sampras-Andre Agassi.  But I guess that means it's been over 20 years since I followed it much.

Nothing like watching McEnroe absolutely lose his mind out there on the court, that was always entertaining.

I recognize the names of that "Big Three" but couldn't tell you anything about them.

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« Reply #1515 on: June 04, 2026, 12:33:18 PM »
My glory days were those of Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, and Ivan Lendl.

Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert on the women's side.

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« Reply #1516 on: June 04, 2026, 06:07:33 PM »
don't pay attention to that much anymore, but saw lot of people pissed off Christopher Nolan has an actress from Africa playing the role of Helen of Troy and Elliot Page- a trans-man (formerly Ellen Page) playing the role of achilles.

thank god for AI.


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« Reply #1517 on: June 04, 2026, 06:50:41 PM »
I saw the Mandolorian last week.

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« Reply #1518 on: June 04, 2026, 09:57:10 PM »
I saw the Mandolorian last week.
What'd you think?  I've enjoyed the TV series, wasn't sure how it would translate to the big screen.

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« Reply #1519 on: June 04, 2026, 10:04:12 PM »
If you like the series, you'll like the movie. By no means is it some grandiose, groundbreaking Star Wars epic, just a good Summer popcorn movie.

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« Reply #1520 on: June 04, 2026, 11:51:53 PM »
Steffi Graff was a DAWG...she did not mess around.
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« Reply #1521 on: June 05, 2026, 07:50:52 AM »
I saw the Mandolorian last week.
movie is tanking at the box office....was it any good?

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« Reply #1522 on: June 05, 2026, 08:19:54 AM »
What'd you think?  I've enjoyed the TV series, wasn't sure how it would translate to the big screen.
I also saw it. Was a movie, not much else? Didn’t move plot forward. Just people doing some stuff. 

Pretty inert.

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« Reply #1523 on: June 05, 2026, 12:35:56 PM »
I liked tennis and used to watch a lot of it during the eras that transitioned from Jimmy Connors-John McEnroe-Pete Sampras-Andre Agassi.  But I guess that means it's been over 20 years since I followed it much.

Nothing like watching McEnroe absolutely lose his mind out there on the court, that was always entertaining.

I recognize the names of that "Big Three" but couldn't tell you anything about them.

Not to derail the thread too much, and you might not care, but just some quick info:

The Big 3 had a long span of dominance, with Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer winning 24, 22, and 20 Grand Slam tournaments, respectively.  Their Grand Slam victories far surpass the next closest record-holder, a career you might be more familiar with--Pete Sampras--who has 14 Grand Slam wins.  Which frankly, is insane.  He's just overshadowed now by the other-worldly Big 3 who came after him.  

What's neat about Sampras is his dominance / time.  He racked up his 14 wins in a span of 12 years.  The Big 3 had more wins, but over something closer to a 20 year period.  The amazing thing about them is their longevity combined with keeping their game at that high a level.  The amazing thing about Sampras is his level of dominance at his peak.  His peak may not have lasted as long as the Big 3's, but arguably he was even more dominant while he was at his peak.  

It might be more correct to look at the years of their entire careers rather than the span of years they won titles, but since I'm talking about "peaks," combined with the fact that then I'd have to look stuff up, I'm just thinking about them this particular way.  

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« Reply #1524 on: June 08, 2026, 03:15:57 PM »
As part of the education campaign for my kids, rewatched [La Femme] Nikita and Dogma this weekend. Neither one is quite as good as I remember them, but I still enjoyed them.

Fun that Jean Reno plays essentially the same character as he does in the Professional, which I watched (as part of the same project) last weekend (or the one before?). That is a great movie. Excellent performances all around, and a fun ending.

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« Reply #1525 on: June 08, 2026, 05:05:24 PM »
I've seen Dogma and The Professional.  Never seen La Femme Nikita (I assume you're talking about the 1990 movie, and not the late 90's TV series, which I did see a little bit.)

This weekend I tried another "classic" I've never seen, Platoon.  I've been on a bit of a kick lately ever since Jaws, trying to go back and watch popular, well-known, or acclaimed movies from before my time.  It's quite a different tone and style than the slew of war movies that followed it some ~10ish years later, such as Saving Private Ryan, which it seems that a lot of war movies are still trying to borrow from to this day.  However, I thought it held up about as well as a movie from the 80's can.  Tom Berenger and Kevin Dillon's characters were truly hate-able and horrifying.  

Speaking of, it was interesting to note how many of the actors in that movie are recognizable from other things.  Almost everybody in it went on to star in other things, seemed like.  Most notably for me, imagine my surprise when Dr. Cox from Scrubs was in a classic war movie.

It took about an hour longer to watch than the actual run time.  There was a lot of pausing while my wife recounted stories of veterans she sees (she works for a VA contractor, and Vietnam vets make up a good chunk of her patients).  She would see something that reminded her of stories they tell her, or things that she's treated vets for related to Vietnam, and tell me about them.  She also can't help herself, when she sees something in a movie like that, she acts as if they're real people and says stuff like "That guy probably died within 20 years from pancreatic cancer" or something like that.  But a lot of them won't hardly say anything about their time there and getting info pertinent to their medical claims is like pulling teeth, she says.  One of my uncles served in Vietnam, and he's kinda like that.  He's not angry, angsty, unstable, bitter, or noticeably messed up.....but he will not talk about Vietnam. 

 

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