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I'm a bit skeptical about the use of the de-aging technology. I don't know if I'll get used to it enough to forget about it.
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I've been excited for this movie since last year
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Can't wait !
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So are you from Italian or Irish ancestry?...just curious.
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Scot/Irish
Maybe it's called British Islander now.
The name has more to do with and inside joke in IBM doing the time. The team did not survive into the 70's nor did the Mid Hudson Industrial league or what ever it was called.
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I was going to call bullshit on this story but what do ya know, it checks out!
Football in America[edit]
Although there are some mentions of Native Americans playing football-like games, modern American football has its origins in the traditional football games played in the cities, villages and schools of Europe for many centuries before America was settled by Europeans. Early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional "mob football" played in England. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when intramural games of football began to be played. Organized varieties of football began to take form in 19th century in English public schools. According to legend, William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating a new style of play in which running with the ball predominated instead of kicking. Football soon began to be played at colleges and universities in the United States. Each school played its own variety of football. Princeton University students played a game called "ballown" as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as "Bloody Monday" began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes, played at The Delta, the space where Memorial Hall now stands. (A poem, "The Battle of the Delta," was written about the first match: "The Freshmen’s wrath, to Sophs the direful spring / Of shins unnumbered bruised, great goddess sing!"[9]) In 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed that Bloody Monday had to go. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a mock figure called "Football Fightum", for whom they conducted funeral rites. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was once again played at Harvard. Dartmouth played its own version called "Old division football", the rules of which were first published in 1871, though the game dates to at least the 1830s. All of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities. They remained largely "mob" style games, with huge numbers of players attempting to advance the ball into a goal area, often by any means necessary. Rules were simple, and violence and injury were common.[10][11] The violence of these mob-style games led to widespread protests and a decision to abandon them. Yale, under pressure from the city of New Haven, banned the play of all forms of football in 1860.[10]
The game began to return to college campuses by the late 1860s. Yale, Princeton, Rutgers University, and Brown University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_football
Although there are some mentions of Native Americans playing football-like games, modern American football has its origins in the traditional football games played in the cities, villages and schools of Europe for many centuries before America was settled by Europeans. Early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional "mob football" played in England. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when intramural games of football began to be played. Organized varieties of football began to take form in 19th century in English public schools. According to legend, William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating a new style of play in which running with the ball predominated instead of kicking. Football soon began to be played at colleges and universities in the United States. Each school played its own variety of football. Princeton University students played a game called "ballown" as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as "Bloody Monday" began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes, played at The Delta, the space where Memorial Hall now stands. (A poem, "The Battle of the Delta," was written about the first match: "The Freshmen’s wrath, to Sophs the direful spring / Of shins unnumbered bruised, great goddess sing!"[9]) In 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed that Bloody Monday had to go. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a mock figure called "Football Fightum", for whom they conducted funeral rites. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was once again played at Harvard. Dartmouth played its own version called "Old division football", the rules of which were first published in 1871, though the game dates to at least the 1830s. All of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities. They remained largely "mob" style games, with huge numbers of players attempting to advance the ball into a goal area, often by any means necessary. Rules were simple, and violence and injury were common.[10][11] The violence of these mob-style games led to widespread protests and a decision to abandon them. Yale, under pressure from the city of New Haven, banned the play of all forms of football in 1860.[10]
The game began to return to college campuses by the late 1860s. Yale, Princeton, Rutgers University, and Brown University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_football
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Do you just hate all human life except for the white nationalists?
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See it. Just released on Netflix. Saw it twice in theatres. Watched it for the 3rd time today. 1st on tv.
BRILLIANT!!!!!
BRILLIANT!!!!!
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I'm looking forward to this....haven't been in a theater in years but I have gift cards for the movies from last Xmas that I've never used....this would be a movie I'd use the on
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wrong thread....my bad
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I think thats the right post for all the threads.
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It's worth it. Just saw it on Netflix. Fantastic fucking movie. Surprised Leo isn't in it.
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Watched it.
Very long.
Not good.
Very disappointing.
Very long.
Not good.
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Pesci was the best part of the movie.
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The more-of-a-cat-guy guy loved it. So maybe it's just not for dogs.
(You really didn't like it? Man, I thought everyone in it was fan-fucking-tastic.)
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Man, and I thought you liked Trump and all his cronies. Guess not.
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I've never seen Pesci do anything bad.
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I watched it. I enjoyed it. It was not the greatest film ever - but it was certainly interesting.
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I think it would have been hard to watch on the big screen....it started slowly for the first hour...then picked up a bit. I watched it on Netflix in 45 minute stretches with breaks and thought the acting and settings were brilliant. One thing that I noticed.....no gratuitous sex...no T and A and the violence, murder was not action film style....the guns just made a small pop and didn't sound like a Clint Eastwood cannon..the made it very realistic on that end ....it was filmed sparsely and in a 70s style. I thought Al Pacino was playing more Al Pacino than Jimmy Hoffa ….DeNiro and Pesci were amazing all through the film. DeNiro really portrayed a PTSD war vet turned hit man well...his emotions were stuffed so much I thought his head would explode but they didn't make him "The Joker" with over the top emotions. I thought overall it was a brilliant film as a true story and not aimed at the thriller action crowd...it was toned more like Nebraska than Scarface
