One of my favorite books is an historical fiction about the war that just hits the highlights and most important people. And halfway through its Still a lot of names to keep up with.
Maybe will one day get a movie like “Troy” with an all star cast that boils it down to 2 hours.
Speaking of movies, I’m excited to see what Christopher Nolan does with “The Odyssey” this summer.
I saw One battle after another I think that’s what it called.
Old man Penn still hitting arms!
Hail St. Nick!
Penn looked pretty thick all over. A long way from Spiccoli anyway. Also he did a great job as a villian.
How did you like the movie? I thought it did a good job of handling recent Politics. About current hot button issues, without really cramming any opinions on you.
He was never really a “lifter” build, he reminds me of Wallberg and even Pitt.
One of his first films was “Bad Boys” (no, not Will Smith) and he was “cut” in that film and probably still a teen. The cop from Pet Semitary 2 and the guard in Shawshank was also in Bad Boys and played his usual villian. He was pretty cut too.
I thought the movie was great! And the end with the hills was nice suspense! Well done!
Lol Viking and that hair, quick trailer not a spoiler-
I agree about the chase/hills scene.
Really cool cat and mouse feel with some tension, without being really drawn out. It made me think of “No Country for Old Men,” only stripped down.
I haven’t seen “Bad Boys,” but I should check it out. Looking back, I’ve liked a lot of Penn’s movies.
And it’s cool to see the dude from Pet Semetary 2/Shawshank. As a middle schooler those were probably the first roles I’d seen him play. I knew he had already established a reputation as a well known Bad Guy by then, but I didnt know Why.
And in honor of Robert Duvall I just gotta mention “Colors” as a decent, older, Sean Penn movie.
Sorry for nitpicking, but greeks had writing. Of course many of the stories were recited from folklore, but that was quite usual during that time.
Funny side note, people who live in cultures that rely on spoken knowledge instead of writed texts have much better memory than us. Apparently it does good for you to remember all those names.
I do agree that most greek literature is not easy to read (philosophers are actually quite easy for the most part).
I love a good nit-pick.
My memory was better when I had to remember everyone’s phone number. Lol
Oh definitely. Also, you had to remember streets/routes. Now you always have gps.
Yeah. I kind of miss reading maps. It used to be fun to try to figure out a route on a big old folding map.
You can still raw dog a road trip if you want. A typical high schooler would probably learn more about geography and political borders by doing that compared to watching tik toks about national politics.
I actually always have the map in my mind. Can’t rely on GPS alone.
Can’t disagree.
I still map out big trips ahead of time. My wife used to laugh at me, and then we had a couple instances where GPS was telling me to go somewhere and I knew from studying the map ahead of time it was wrong. She gets it now.
One time going to a Mets game where a friend was driving I noticed he was taking an odd route. He’s like “i’m following the GPS.” I said “yeah but we’re still on the west side of the Hudson. Do not go over the George Washington Bridge.” Sure enough it takes him over the GW on the wrong level and we end up in Manhattan and had to pay the toll to go back over the GW. GPS is nice, but it’s not perfect.
We always have a map. I like to compare them to what the GPS tells me. Plus if we are taking a long road trip I’m not always interested in the fastest or shortest route. We like to drive on 2 lane highways and see more of the actual country. Interstate driving is so boring.
Asking for directions was sometimes part of the adventure too.
There’s a miniseries on Netflix, but they took some liberties with both plot and cast, although not as funny or ironic as having Norse God Idris Elba working the door in the Thor movies while everyone else was having a blast.
Back on the politics talk I get all kinds of stuff showing up on my YouTube one guy is a former lawyer or claims to be leftist who’s got guns and lives in the mountains.
I don’t disagree with some things he has to say but it takes this way too personal and it seems he needs his left friends to like him by always telling people who voted for T “F - you” all the time.
This is when I tune out.
He has nothing negative to say about the other side because he seems blinded.
Me personally I see this free grocery store and I think look at these idiots, but you can’t change these people, this is how they want to live so who would I be to say F-YOU. If they like being scammed into standing in line for hours for something free and then bring disappointed that’s on them for wanting that.
Not everyone wants that, and that’s why the one guy the left former lawyer lives in the mountains.
Tune it out!
If people want free food they gotta understand that a grocery store isn’t the answer, it costs to transport that stuff.
They need a farm in their city and they have to even work to maintain it, which some of these hopeless people don’t want to do, they prefer to hold out a hand but many would be willing to if they only understood that dependence on these politicians isn’t the answer and the politicians don’t want a farm cause then people won’t rely on them and they won’t be powerful and be able to fly off in the jet when shit hits the fan.