I blew away the competition so bad that other parents complained that I had to be cheating. We're talking about a weekly prize of a Personal Pan Pizza at Pizza Hut.We had a competition for reading books when I was in 4th or 5th grade. You would read the books and take a short quiz that essentially proved you read the book. How is powering through book after book and I was in first place.
The last book I read was this one. About a boy who loved his dogs. Another kid dies. Dogs die. Raccoons die.
I wasn't ready for it. I was just trying to get through the books.
I would come in second place in the book reading competition. Another kid was reading fluff and was able to get more points by the volume. But I read Where the Red Fern grows. I won.
Let me guess, you got cheated on?Most just cheat on their wives.
Fucking great movie......Tupac in that oneBullet with Mickey Rourke never fails to tear me up.
Liked it assholeHacksaw ridge was upset me.
Because it was so shit.
Most overrated movie I can think of
Don't feel badLiked it asshole
You’re a dodoDon't feel bad
Lots of morons fell for that shit. Not me. I deleted it with the swiftness never to be viewed again.
Fuck that garbage movie
Still Alice wins every try not to cry challenge there is.
Brothers from another?
Wow time flies.
There I was top of the class in 3rd grade, of course a private school.
Just starting beginning algebra in mathematics, studying topography of America from Carlsbad caverns to the Ozarks. In Language Arts structuring sentences; prepositional phrases/coordinating conjunctions.
Science experiments included charting a voyage through the Straits of Magellan with nothing more than seasonal awareness, telescope, inscribing compass and ruler.
But reading was where the real fun was.
During Spring Break whoever read the biggest book w/biggest report won "bonus bucks", where we could score Skittles/Mars bars etc., this while balancing the mandatory 12-page essay on an assigned composer w/bibliography(I landed Joseph Haydn).
Well who've thought the local library was filled with devotee's of Russian literature.
And there began my adventures into Tolstoy, as War and Peace and the 32-page report that followed became my obsession to win the attention of the class debutante.
That was a Spring break to remember.
No mostly had a run ins lately with guys who try to cheat on their wives and girlfriends.Let me guess, you got cheated on?
I have cheated in every relationship but my last, she cheated on me.
never seen it. solid cast tho! olivia was one of my childhood crushes. and anna is one of mu current crushes
I don't believe it's very well known. Surprising given, like you mentioned, the cast.never seen it. solid cast tho! olivia was one of my childhood crushes. and anna is one of mu current crushes
dude on left from office space right? and number 3 was likeable on "new girl"
Came here to put this, but you wrote it better.We got the music thread. What about movies?
What tugs at your heart strings?
For me it's the grey with Liam Neeson. I told my friend this and he just laughed at me thinking I was joking. Most people think this is just a movie about wolves and Liam Neeson kicking ass. This is one of my favorite and underrated movies.
Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson were the right type of Hollywood couple. No drama, no short Las Vegas marriages, just good parents raising kids.
And then it ended.
Abruptly with a simple slip on a ski trip, Natasha died and Liam Neeson lost his wife of 15 years. She slipped and bumped her head. She got up and said she was okay, didn't want to mess up everyone's fun. And then 15 minutes later she went unconscious forever.
The grey isn't about fighting wolves. It's about the existential crisis of a man who is lonely and fighting depression and lost his reason for living. It's about Liam Neeson coming to terms with his wife's death.
The letter in the movie is written by Liam Neeson to Natasha.
View: https://youtu.be/usYoix4u37g
That movie captures the depression and heartache of a man better than almost any movie I've ever seen.
I actually started watching this movie with my two sons last night. It's 3 hours long so we cut it off an hour and 11 minutes in and picked it up today. We just got past the part where John Coffey helps the warden's wife but we had to pause it to go to mma practice.(It's my off day but they have kickboxing/jiu jitsu today)