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March 20th, 2010

Tonight Movie Central...

...taught me two things.

1. Coraline is a mad good film. I'd argue around as good as Up, but very different.

2. Angels & Demons is terrible. I've never seen a movie rely so heavily on two intelligent, informed people telling each other what they both already know in order to inform the audience. They also failed entirely at the Hassassin character, and dropped pretty much every genuinely dark aspect of the rather disturbing original plot. Almost everything that could have been good in the film was dropped. A worse adaptation than most.
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spartfartmen
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TKdademon
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Well that's just the British way to spell it, so I figure that was originally the right call.
TKdademon
TKdademon
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Yeah pretty much.

Gotta hand it to Brian Burke though. He gave tradition a giant middle finger and brought a couple of penalty killers, grinders, and defensive D-men.

That reminds me, if Canadians spell the word "defence," do you also spell "defencive"? Because I've never seen that and it looks weird to me.
TKdademon
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I don't know enough about the Russian superstars to say that they AREN'T the best in the world, talent-wise... But hot damn, Canada make a hell of a case for that title in their own right. The fact that the San Jose Sharks are perennially dominant and the West and their best line was Canada's third... That's huge.

But I can't help but notice Alex Ovechkin's complete disappearance in the Olympics. I think it reflects on your talent if you can't step it up on the grandest stage. My Penguins bias will always keep me from saying anything good about Ovie, but his performance didn't make him look very good. And where in the hell was Kovalchuk the whole time? If the Olympics had a skills competition like the NHL All Star thing (and how friggin' cool would it be if they did), no question Russia would have the best lineup for it. You couldn't hand pick it any better.

But that isn't what wins hockey games. The Russians dominated weaker teams on talent alone, but that just doesn't hold up against other teams.

Also, Nabokov sucks in big games apparently.
TKdademon
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I'm all for a hockey discussion, but FMM isn't the place for it. In any case, I'm not saying it was a landslide Canadian victory just because it was supposed to be, but a great many people saw the Olympic rosters and assumed a Canadian victory, and while it was a lot closer than they expected, they were right in the end. Canada won.

And I think you're right about why the Russians lost. It's the same reason the Dallas Cowboys don't win Superbowls anymore. A collection of individual superstars does not make the best team, which I touched on when I mentioned how the US probably had the most complete team in the tournament. Props to Finland though. I had them pegged to take home silver before Kiprusoff shat himself in goal against USA. They built a solid team.

Now, I don't actually know anything about the KHL beyond the fact that I want Alex Morozov to come back to Pittsburgh and play post-lockout hockey, but all I've ever heard from anyone (sans you) is that they picked a lot of guys from the KHL that probably aren't as good as some of the Russian talent they picked over in the NHL, and did it mostly for political reasons to try and prove that the KHL is just as good or something like that. If you're educated enough on it to know otherwise, then more power to you, but I've only seen like 2 KHL games in my life, and both have been really slow compared to NHL hockey, so you can see why I might assume the league as a whole isn't as fierce.

I may be a lowly American hockey fan, but I stand by my judgment that Canada won because they had the best lineup of players. If Crosby didn't produce, Iginla could. If he didn't, Heatley could chip in. Shea Weber was on another level every game I saw him. But the biggest thing is that they also played well as a team, something the Russians never really got going. Ovechkin was absolutely invisible in the Russian games I managed to watch. Pavel Datsyuk was easily their best player while I was watching, and no one else really caught my attention. I mean, Malkin had that two goal game, but he's Malkin so of course I heard about that.
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I think it's a very cool thing, and I reckon everyone on the site has at least one of those in them... I'm thinking of doing more when I'm inspired by more annoying achievements
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Cheers for the AH image template!
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Sorry, I hadn't the time to read the entire thread but I thought I should bring this post to your attention. After re-reading it I thought an apolgy was in order for the way the comment came off. I'm glad you didnt react and I appriciate that.
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Oh my bad, well thanks for the invite.
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