Jump to content
IGNORED

The Films and Movies Thread


iacas

Recommended Posts

I watched The Rover on Netflix the other day. It's kind of vague, but I enjoyed it. Barely a par. Guy Pearce is still awesome.

Corey

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

A Most Violent Year - birdie... I guess

The critics loved this movie. I suffer from mob overload, Tony Soprano, Corleone, etc... and I really liked this director's other movies, Margin Call and All is Lost because both were on subjects that fascinate me - the financial debacle and the getting stranded at sea, but this, not as much. But this isn't your typical mob movie in structure and I could not predict what would happen. Kind of a study in surviving in a corrupt world. Director did an amazing job of making NYC look like it was in the early 80s w/the graffiti. So now I've seen Isaacs in two movies so I can easily spot him in Star Wars this December. He's a good actor but man he keeps playing unlikeable characters, Jessica Chastain kills it as lady MacBeth from the hood accountant. David Oyelowo from Selma and Albert Brooks does consigliere.

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

Just noticed this is on Netflix Instant (US) - Dead Snow - Eagle. Two words: Nazi Zombies.

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

My Old Lady with Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas.  Par.  The acting was excellent.  The story was a bit meandering but overall a good drama.

Scott

Titleist, Edel, Scotty Cameron Putter, Snell - AimPoint - Evolvr - MirrorVision

My Swing Thread

boogielicious - Adjective describing the perfect surf wave

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

Last Days of Vietnam, streaming free today. It's a 2015 Oscar nominee. Still working my way through it. Birdie. Amazing coverage of people getting out to S Vietnam. There's pushing helicopters off large ships, Chinooks breaking apart, ships filled to ten times capacity. [URL=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lastdays/player/]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lastdays/player/[/URL]

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

The Birdcage Robin Williams, Nathan Lane Absolutely hysterical. The dinner scene is a classic of awkward riotous humor. Eagle. [VIDEO]The Birdcage - Original Trailer: http://youtu.be/P7FcPlt8hHc[/VIDEO]

Colin P.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator
Inherent Vice. PTA, I loved Boogie Nights but this was a confusing mess and I see why people are walking out on this film. Funny comment I heard - if I were watching this on DVD I'd walk out of my own house. Maybe if I read the book first. There are some funny bits but I can't make out some of the dialogue with the mumbling and female vocal fry. For some weird reason I now feel compelled to read Pynchon's book. Tiger Woods blade chip over the green bogey. [video]http://youtu.be/OUZgOQ186-A[/video]

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

The Judge - Birdie.  Great acting and interesting story.

Scott

Titleist, Edel, Scotty Cameron Putter, Snell - AimPoint - Evolvr - MirrorVision

My Swing Thread

boogielicious - Adjective describing the perfect surf wave

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Watched "John Wick" yesterday evening.  Great movie!

Driver: Titleist TSR1 12*

3 Wood: Titleist TSR1 15*

4 Hybrid: Titleist TSR1 20*

Irons: Titleist T350 5-W2 23*-53*

Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM8 50.12F, 56.14F

Putter: Titleist SC Super Select Newport 2

Link to comment
Share on other sites


  • Moderator

Still Alice - Woman just turned 50 learns she has a rare form of Alzheimer's. I don't know as much about Alzheimer's as I should, this was eye-opening, especially learning the stigma attached to it. JM is an amazing actress and works well with Baldwin - you totally forget them as a couple in 30 Rock. I got dusty a couple of times. Birdie.

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

Great news

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id;=59174

Quote:

Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.

Marvel and Sony Pictures are also exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films.

The new relationship follows a decade of speculation among fans about whether Spider-Man – who has always been an integral and important part of the larger Marvel Universe in the comic books – could become part of the Marvel Universe on the big screen. Spider-Man has more than 50 years of history in Marvel's world, and with this deal, fans will be able to experience Spider-Man taking his rightful place among other Super Heroes in the MCU.

Mike McLoughlin

Check out my friends on Evolvr!
Follow The Sand Trap on Twitter!  and on Facebook
Golf Terminology -  Analyzr  -  My FacebookTwitter and Instagram 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

Whiplash - - birdie!

Oscar worthy performance by J K Simmons alone is worth the price of admission.

Weird Al, Whiplash crossover:

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

Into the Woods

Terrible words to a golfer. Good thing it's the name of a Sondheim musical. Lots of big name stars casted - Streep, Depp, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, Anna Kendrick. The surprise is they all have good singing chops (well, Chris Pine.) Oscar Noms - I thought Streep - nominated for an Oscar again? Now I see she deserves it - more so than for Osage County last year. She played the witch with a nasty comedic panache, channeling Carole Kane's Miracle Max's wife in the Princess Bride (LIAR!!! LIAR LIAR LIAR!) *and* she can sing although it's hard to top the original witch, Bernadette Peters. Chris Pine did a better William Shatner than he did in Star Trek singing "Agony", it was over the top funny, people were getting a good chuckle from him as he intended.

Lots of Sondheim devotees sung bloody murder to the Disneyfication of the musical, removing some of the darkness from the original, the death of a tragic character, but better to get something released than not at all and let a great musical get more exposure. The movie still retains some of the grim (pun intended) aspects of the original. Seeing this, I wish there were more musicals made and fewer superhero movies (too, too many of them), even though I'll still watch most of them... probably. Anna Kendrick I was especially impressed with her voice and musicality - perhaps she can handle a lead Broadway musical role. The little girl as little Red Riding Hood stole her scenes.

Looks like a par but then a birdie , luckily knocked in by gusts flapped by Cinderella's birds. The music of prologue remains one of my favorite Sondheim pieces. The original production casts a big shadow, go find a copy of it and watch that to see what I mean. That, gets an eagle.

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Official Trailer #1 (2015)

Not a Guy Ritchie fan but this looks like it could be fun:

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

  • Moderator

Oh dear Lord, help us with the coming 50 shades of gray/grey, oh who the **** cares avalanche. I am going to try and filter this s**t out of my life if possible.

Steve

Kill slow play. Allow walking. Reduce ineffective golf instruction. Use environmentally friendly course maintenance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Oh dear Lord, help us with the coming 50 shades of gray/grey, oh who the **** cares avalanche. I am going to try and filter this s**t out of my life if possible.

Not so sure I'm against this one actually... I could care less about this movie. HOWEVER, I do remember the week my wife spent reading this book. I'm hoping the movie will have the same effect... if you know what I mean. :whistle:

In the Bag:
:titleist: 913 D3 - 9.5* - Diamana Stiff 62g
:mizuno: MP 64s 3-PW - DGS300
:cleveland: CG12 52* & 56*
:tmade: Rosa

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Want to join this community?

    We'd love to have you!

    Sign Up
  • TST Partners

    TourStriker PlaneMate
    Golfer's Journal
    ShotScope
    The Stack System
    FlightScope Mevo
    Direct: Mevo, Mevo+, and Pro Package.

    Coupon Codes (save 10-15%): "IACAS" for Mevo/Stack, "IACASPLUS" for Mevo+/Pro Package, and "THESANDTRAP" for ShotScope.
  • Posts

    • I've played Bali Hai, Bear's Best and Painted Desert. I enjoyed Bali Hai the most--course was in great shape, friendly staff and got paired in a great group. Bear's Best greens were very fast, didn't hold the ball well (I normally have enough spin to stop the ball after 1-2 hops).  The sand was different on many holes. Some were even dark sand (recreation of holes from Hawaii). Unfortunately I was single and paired with a local "member" who only played the front 9.  We were stuck behind a slow 4-some who wouldn't let me through even when the local left. Painted Desert was decent, just a bit far from the Strip where we were staying.
    • Wordle 1,035 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just lipped out that Eagle putt, easy tab-in Birdie
    • Day 106 - Worked on chipping/pitching. Focus was feeling the club fall to the ground as my body rotated through. 
    • Honestly, unless there's something about that rough there that makes it abnormally penal or a lost ball likely, this might be the play. I don't know how the mystrategy cone works, but per LSW, you don't use every shot for your shot zones. In that scatter plot, you have no balls in the bunker, and 1 in the penalty area. The median outcome seems to be a 50 yard pitch. Even if you aren't great from 50 yards, you're better off there than in a fairway bunker or the penalty area on the right of the fairway. It could also be a strategy you keep in your back pocket if you need to make up ground. Maybe this is a higher average score with driver, but better chance at a birdie. Maybe you are hitting your driver well and feel comfortable with letting one rip.  I get not wanting to wait and not wanting to endanger people on the tee, but in a tournament, I think I value playing for score more than waiting. I don't value that over hurting people, but you can always yell fore 😆 Only thing I would say is I'm not sure whether that cone is the best representation of the strategy (see my comment above about LSW's shot zones). To me, it looks like a 4 iron where you're aiming closer to the bunker might be the play. You have a lot of shots out to the right and only a few to the left. Obviously, I don't know where you are aiming (and this is a limitation of MyStrategy), but it seems like most of your 4 iron shots are right. You have 2 in the bunker but aiming a bit closer to the bunker won't bring more of your shots into the bunker. It does bring a few away from the penalty area on the right.  This could also depend on how severe the penalties are for missing the green. Do you need to be closer to avoid issues around the green?  It's not a bad strategy to hit 6 iron off the tee, be in the fairway, and have 150ish in. I'm probably overthinking this.
    • Day 283: Putted on my mat for a while watching an NLU video. Worked on keeping my head still primarily, and then making sure my bead is okay.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Welcome to TST! Signing up is free, and you'll see fewer ads and can talk with fellow golf enthusiasts! By using TST, you agree to our Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and our Guidelines.

The popup will be closed in 10 seconds...