Reply With QuoteWell said. In the end, if you draw the money you win. Let the people speak with their wallets and tell us who is the best.Originally Posted by blayze
You guys talk about "quality" like as if if it's some concrete, measurable metric. Similar to music, "quality" acting is in the eye of the beholder.
While far from being the perfect indicator of "quality", the one thing that is measurable in that industry is lasting power and box office $$$$$. Show me the money son!
Well said. In the end, if you draw the money you win. Let the people speak with their wallets and tell us who is the best.
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i guess we just have differing opinions on what is "quality"...
in my mind, money at the box office is irrelevant...
otherwise i would have to concede that movies like harry potter and transformers are the best movies of all time...
YO... don't diss Harry Potter. That's my boy... and that entire series was epic. I'm being serious.
The movie for the half-blooded prince really sucked. I fell asleep while watching it in the theatres. Did not do the book justice.
That's not what I'm saying... But I'm too tired to go into it now. Bedtime.
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Yes, the books are well worth it. Start with the Killing Floor, and try to go in order. The books are standalone, and for the most part don't relate to each other at all (except for Reacher), but it's better to read them in the order they were released.
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Do yourself a favor and read the Reacher series starting at the beginning. His character development as the books progress wins you over bigtime. 61 hours was a bit of a let down, however the latest A wanted Man is very good. The Movie is based on the Reacher character and not any book in particular.
Regardless of Cruise appeal or box office $$$ haul factor, once you read Lee Child you would never picture Cruise as Reacher.
A very good series to read....and yes I'll see the movie and probably enjoy it regardless of the casting... cheers
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Once you have read Lee Child - Reacher series
There are other awesome books along the same lines as Reacher, I'm suprised haven't become movies :
John Sandford - Prey Series with Lucas Davenport
John Sandford - Virgil Flowers series
Michael Connelly - Harry Bosch series
Jeffery Deaver - Lincoln Rhyme series
I wish I knew my fantasy hockey as well as I know my literary characters... cheers
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Dennis Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro series is also top notch.
For a one-shot detective story that is awesome I can recommend Motherless Brooklyn. It's about a New York detective with Tourette's syndrome.
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The Prey series was one that I was actually considering starting. I need to get more consistent with reading books though, when I was younger I would read all the time but nowadays I tend to buy a book or two and it'll sit on the shelf collecting dust for a couple months before I get around to reading it.
I think that's going to be the next series I start though.
The Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben is pretty good too. I think there's 10 books in the series. Bolitar is a former first round NBA draft pick who busted his knee and never got to play a regular season game. Now he's a sports agent who is also an amateur detective (for lack of a better term). He solves mysteries involving his clients. It's a pretty good series.
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Saw the trailer for this... seems legit. You may not like cruise but I think he is ok in these action roles. Although, it just feels like watching mission impossible under a new spy name lol.
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Get an eReader. I got a KoboVox lastyear for XMAS, i've read about 13 books this year. It is the opposite of out of site out of mind... since the Vox also is a tablet sort of... wifi, browser, android, etc...
Good subway reading on my voyage to work and back.
Before I got it, I barely read...
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Has anyone seen the movie yet? Is it any good?
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Top 8 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies count.
We keep 15 players (any position) plus two rookies.
Forwards: Panarin, Ovechkin, Kopitar, Stamkos, Tuch, Rust, Marchessault, Pavelski, Miller, Bertuzzi, Stone, Kakko, Brown, Stankoven, Kovalenko
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