NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - PHASE FOURTEEN! Part One!

[Rebels57]

Yes, @Rebels57 has developed a terrible habit of not tagging people lol

@Asnito, you are up with two picks.

I was at work

 

[BernieParent]

Yes, @Rebels57 has developed a terrible habit of not tagging people lol

@Asnito, you are up with two picks.

Rebellious.

 

[mja]

I don't know what this has to do with anything.

Exactly.

 

[Asnito]

For our movie lawyer we are going with a movie that I saw many years ago and was a nice surprise as I was going in with zero expectations.

We are proud to select Frank Galvin from 'The Verdict'

 

[Asnito]

Since I know if we went with Plan B for our Babe choice @CanadianFlyer88 would come along and smack the crap my knuckles with his ruler I am going in a different direction.

Our Babe selection will be Jen Lada.

 

[Asnito]

@Rebels57 it's that time again

 

[BiggE]

Mr McMahon just gave me a sneak peek at our next pick. Um guys, I’m sorry. It’s not my fault.

 

[DancingPanther]

I feel like my team babe should be easier than I'm making it. I feel like I'm missing someone obvious

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I was just standing here, and Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet, and I asked myself "Why won't Tom Cruise just come out the closet?"

We start the day with @Rebels57 still on the clock. He told everyone not to snipe his drummer, but I think someone sniped his drummer. There are plenty of shitbags left out there, so it shouldn't be an issue. @BernieParent is on deck, and as you would expect, The Bishop is giving these turds a soft landing when he chooses them - you can't turn innate kindness on and off like a spigot, innit. It's good, though, because when I fall on these dillwads like the Sword of f***ing Damocles, they'll get what they have coming. Most of you are too young to have even heard OF Tiny Tim, much less heard him, but let me tell you this - he looks like Danny DeVito's Penguin, and he sounds like a chew toy that Lizzo is slowly crushing to death under the planetary weight of her fat ass as she thunderfarts. @CanadianFlyer88 is on the lido deck with five members literally stuffed into his Cream Filled Oasis Hole. I hate to break it to him, but he's going to have to pry the crowbar out of my cold, dead hands if he wants to get a shot in on Clapton. Striiker is on the lido afterdeck, and I just hope he doesn't develop high blood pressure over the excitement he feels at finding and choosing another musician. Calm down, son.

Apparently we aren't even halfway through the hockey season. What the f***? They can eat all the dicks, because I can't even. Know what I can do? I can make some tremendous picks. I have one up my sleeve that will make you shit yourself, I'm not even kidding. I don't know when I'll pick it, but I'll pick it, by Jove.

You know what else is almost but not quite halfway over? "Justified" season one. I am super familiar with the rhythm of Elmore Leonard, having read at least 10 of his novels, and probably more. "Justified" is based on one of his short stories, and it has the exact same pace and tone and characterization that all his stories have and all good adaptations adopt. It's very languid for long, leisurely stretches, and then it explodes in violence that is here and gone in a blink. There have been some of those moments in the early going, but I suspect that it is building toward something bigger. No spoilers. The thing about it is that you can pick it up and put it down to watch something else and then come back to it. I'm normally more of a "churn through a show with manic bingeing" guy, but I'm trying to mix it up this time.

I started watching "Archive 81" last night, but it's not the kind of thing I want to watch after dark for two reasons. First, it's too f***ing scary, and I already have more than enough to be scared about. Second, it's one of these shows with Millennial characters who are completely insufferable. I'm not going to go into why, because it's tedious to write and boring to read, but it's not the kind of thing I need to watch at night because I already have too much trouble sleeping - I don't need to be enraged on top of everything else. It just makes the snakes come at me harder and faster.

 

[BiggE]

I was just standing here, and Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet, and I asked myself "Why won't Tom Cruise just come out the closet?"

We start the day with @Rebels57 still on the clock. He told everyone not to snipe his drummer, but I think someone sniped his drummer. There are plenty of shitbags left out there, so it shouldn't be an issue. @BernieParent is on deck, and as you would expect, The Bishop is giving these turds a soft landing when he chooses them - you can't turn innate kindness on and off like a spigot, innit. It's good, though, because when I fall on these dillwads like the Sword of f***ing Damocles, they'll get what they have coming. Most of you are too young to have even heard OF Tiny Tim, much less heard him, but let me tell you this - he looks like Danny DeVito's Penguin, and he sounds like a chew toy that Lizzo is slowly crushing to death under the planetary weight of her fat ass as she thunderfarts. @CanadianFlyer88 is on the lido deck with five members literally stuffed into his Cream Filled Oasis Hole. I hate to break it to him, but he's going to have to pry the crowbar out of my cold, dead hands if he wants to get a shot in on Clapton. Striiker is on the lido afterdeck, and I just hope he doesn't develop high blood pressure over the excitement he feels at finding and choosing another musician. Calm down, son.

Apparently we aren't even halfway through the hockey season. What the f***? They can eat all the dicks, because I can't even. Know what I can do? I can make some tremendous picks. I have one up my sleeve that will make you shit yourself, I'm not even kidding. I don't know when I'll pick it, but I'll pick it, by Jove.

You know what else is almost but not quite halfway over? "Justified" season one. I am super familiar with the rhythm of Elmore Leonard, having read at least 10 of his novels, and probably more. "Justified" is based on one of his short stories, and it has the exact same pace and tone and characterization that all his stories have and all good adaptations adopt. It's very languid for long, leisurely stretches, and then it explodes in violence that is here and gone in a blink. There have been some of those moments in the early going, but I suspect that it is building toward something bigger. No spoilers. The thing about it is that you can pick it up and put it down to watch something else and then come back to it. I'm normally more of a "churn through a show with manic bingeing" guy, but I'm trying to mix it up this time.

I started watching "Archive 81" last night, but it's not the kind of thing I want to watch after dark for two reasons. First, it's too f***ing scary, and I already have more than enough to be scared about. Second, it's one of these shows with Millennial characters who are completely insufferable. I'm not going to go into why, because it's tedious to write and boring to read, but it's not the kind of thing I need to watch at night because I already have too much trouble sleeping - I don't need to be enraged on top of everything else. It just makes the snakes come at me harder and faster.

I tried watching episode 1 of Archive 81 but it was hard to get into. The characters are annoying and the actors are meh at best. I like Elmore Leonard’s stuff and will give Justified a shot. Where can I find it?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I tried watching episode 1 of Archive 81 but it was hard to get into. The characters are annoying and the actors are meh at best. I like Elmore Leonard’s stuff and will give Justified a shot. Where can I find it?

You can find it by engaging in piracy. I'm not sure if it is somewhere you can get to normally.

 

[ajgoal]

I tried watching episode 1 of Archive 81 but it was hard to get into. The characters are annoying and the actors are meh at best. I like Elmore Leonard’s stuff and will give Justified a shot. Where can I find it?

You can find it by engaging in piracy. I'm not sure if it is somewhere you can get to normally.

Hulu is telling me they have it.

 

[BiggE]

Hulu is telling me they have it.

Oh well, I don’t have Hulu.

 

[Rebels57]

The FOG are going to kick off the day with a Team Actor Swap.

There are hundreds of examples of poor casting throughout the history of cinema. Many times it's because that specific actor is the only reason the movie is getting made because he/she are financing it. Other times it's because of nepotism. Then there are times when the studio execs think that casting a specific actor is going to help sell the movie, even if it's a poor fit.

As perfectly cast as Josh Brolin was in the role of the Mad Titan Thanos, he was not the right choice for CABLE in Deadpool 2. Cable is an X-MEN character I loved growing up and looking forward to seeing on the big screen for YEARS, but his version was a letdown.

Here is some backstory on Cable..

Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) is a fictional character appearing in X-Force and the X-Men.
He is a time traveler from the future and the son of the X-Men member Cyclops (Scott Summers) and his first wife Madelyne Pryor (Jean Grey's clone). The mutant terrorist Stryfe is a clone of Cable and one of his deadliest enemies.

Born in the present-day, Nathan was infected with a deadly techno-organic virus while still an infant. He was sent into a possible future timeline where he could be treated and live his life. In this future world, Nathan grew into the warrior Cable and became an enemy of the villain Apocalypse. He later returned to the present-day era, initially arriving some years before his own birth. Since making his home in the modern era, he has worked alongside the X-Men (including Cyclops and Jean Grey) and reformed the New Mutants group into the original X-Force.

He had frequent battles against the near-invincible assassin Deadpool, who later became an on-again, off-again ally for years.

The biggest issue with Brolin as Cable is he just simply didn't LOOK the part, in any way shape or form. He's not big enough and the costume choices did him no favors. I can usually look past that if the actor does something interesting with the character to make you forgot about that, but Brolin really didn't. Cable has one of the more iconic looks in the Marvel comics and without it, he fell flat on screen.

The actor that should have played Cable but likely wasn't viewed as a big enough star to the studio, is STEPHEN LANG. You may know him as the villain from AVATAR or the the horror gem DON'T BREATHE. Cable fans pined for Lang getting the role for years and Lang himself was also dying to play the role, but the Studio had other ideas. We might not ever get another big screen Cable, so it's a bummer for me that they missed the mark.

@BernieParent shine your perpetual light upon thee

 

[ajgoal]

The FOG are going to kick off the day with a Team Actor Swap.

There are hundreds of examples of poor casting throughout the history of cinema. Many times it's because that specific actor is the only reason the movie is getting made because he/she are financing it. Other times it's because of nepotism. Then there are times when the studio execs think that casting a specific actor is going to help sell the movie, even if it's a poor fit.

As perfectly cast as Josh Brolin was in the role of the Mad Titan Thanos, he was not the right choice for CABLE in Deadpool 2. Cable is an X-MEN character I loved growing up and looking forward to seeing on the big screen for YEARS, but his version was a letdown.

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Here is some backstory on Cable..





The biggest issue with Brolin as Cable is he just simply didn't LOOK the part, in any way shape or form. He's not big enough and the costume choices did him no favors. I can usually look past that if the actor does something interesting with the character to make you forgot about that, but Brolin really didn't. Cable has one of the more iconic looks in the Marvel comics and without it, he fell flat on screen.

The actor that should have played Cable but likely wasn't viewed as a big enough star to the studio, is STEPHEN LANG. You may know him as the villain from AVATAR or the the horror gem DON'T BREATHE. Cable fans pined for Lang getting the role for years and Lang himself was also dying to play the role, but the Studio had other ideas. We might not ever get another big screen Cable, so it's a bummer for me that they missed the mark.

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@BernieParent shine your perpetual light upon thee

 

[BernieParent]

"The Tampa Bay FireSticks ownership resume the spiteful selection of our members for Cons' Piracy with another individual who plays bad/dull/annoying music very well. Who could watch half an hour of television in the 1980s without seeing this commercial?



"We therefore officially select the pretentiously named Zamfir, master of the pan flute. Ugh."

@CanadianFlyer88 is now on the clock.

 

[BiggE]

"The Tampa Bay FireSticks ownership resume the spiteful selection of our members for Cons' Piracy with another individual who plays bad/dull/annoying music very well. Who could watch half an hour of television in the 1980s without seeing this commercial?



"We therefore officially select the pretentiously named Zamfir, master of the pan flute. Ugh."

@CanadianFlyer88 is now on the clock.

True story: Many moons ago at a long gone bar in Margate NJ, I used to play sports trivia with some friends. We used to crack up over ads for that guy on late night tv (a lot of weed was smoked) and we named our team Zamfir.

Never thought I’d hear that name again, lol!

 

[ajgoal]

"The Tampa Bay FireSticks ownership resume the spiteful selection of our members for Cons' Piracy with another individual who plays bad/dull/annoying music very well. Who could watch half an hour of television in the 1980s without seeing this commercial?



"We therefore officially select the pretentiously named Zamfir, master of the pan flute. Ugh."

@CanadianFlyer88 is now on the clock.

Oh FFS. Well done Bern. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

The Seattle Sockeyes are thrilled to conclude our spite band this round so we can get back to the categories that matter. Our final member of Cream Filled Oasis Hole will be the douchey drummer from Guns N Roses, Steven Adler.

His drug fuelled antics from his touring days apparently weren't enough, so he's now more commonly known for falling off the wagon multiple times on reality television. Addiction is no joke, though, and I have reserved plenty of spite for the assholes that put together tv shows like those Adler has appeared on that exploit people's addictions to further their own fame and line their own pockets.

@Striiker, takes us down to Paradise City.

 

[DancingPanther]

The Seattle Sockeyes are thrilled to conclude our spite band this round so we can get back to the categories that matter. Our final member of Cream Filled Oasis Hole will be the douchey drummer from Guns N Roses, Steven Adler.

His drug fuelled antics from his touring days apparently weren't enough, so he's now more commonly known for falling off the wagon multiple times on reality television. Addiction is no joke, though, and I have reserved plenty of spite for the assholes that put together tv shows like those Adler has appeared on that exploit people's addictions to further their own fame and line their own pockets.

@Striiker, takes us down to Paradise City.

Perfectly said CF, the entertainment industry is filled with slime balls

 

[BiggE]

Perfectly said CF, the entertainment industry is filled with slime balls

Yup and at every level.

 

[Lord Defect]

Hulu. I’m watching it now for the first time. It’s pretty good. There’s quite a few actors in it from deadwood, and I love when shows or movies do stuff like this.

I tried watching episode 1 of Archive 81 but it was hard to get into. The characters are annoying and the actors are meh at best. I like Elmore Leonard’s stuff and will give Justified a shot. Where can I find it?

 

[BiggE]

f***ing nightmare of a day, CDbaby is run worse than the Flyers! They need to be permanently banned from the Quackverse.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@Striiker is up.

 

[Striiker]

@Striiker is up.

Give me a couple minutes. I’ve been on hold for almost an hour and I’m about to lose my shit.