Sad to see that story about the dog with megaesophagus. There are some people who came up with a method for feeding dogs with the condition - they're feeding chairs that allow the food to move into the stomach by keeping the dog upright while he eats.
https://www.baileychairs4dogs.com/
Well, many of them are but he was one of the cranky ones. Most dogs calm down when they're neutered. He got mean to the point that he eventually would bare his teeth at me if I even tried to pet him. He lived a good life at my dad's farm, though (that's not a euphemism - he actually did have a...
That's pretty normal for responsible rescues. A great many dogs are bad with kids or other animals. Why wouldn't they be? Kids act stupid around dogs all the time - when I was a kid my golden retriever nearly bit my face off because I thought it would be funny to yank his tail while he was...
My wife and I have three pitties and do fostering. It sounds like the dog could potentially be adopted if his triggers can be identified (don't trim his nails for starters, it sounds like) and then trained out of him, but that's a long shot since there are so many pit bulls out there that don't...
My dad took me to see Empire Strikes Back when I was a kid. It was at one of the only remaining old style "movie palaces" in the area, with the single huge auditorium. It went out of business a few years later and I believe it's since been turned into a golfing equipment store. Anyway, we...
Zemeckis seems like the main guy that's really been pushing in this direction, going all the way back to that Tales From the Crypt episode that "resurrected" Bogart.
Yup. They cast him and everyone thought it was a joke because they figured his name was too funny and that he was just another young pretty boy (I'm not blaming them, either, because I was dreading Miller's JLA movie and I love Miller's stuff usually).
Marketing budget? Most people I've talked to aren't even remotely aware of Let Me In's existence, nevermind what kind of movie it is or of what quality.
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But it's his character. If anyone's leaving an Indiana Jones project it's everyone but Lucas. And it's not like he sprung the aliens thing on his partners - for years the big rumor on the "next Indiana Jones movie" was that it was likely to involve Indy fighting Soviets in the 50s...
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I think Van Damme might be the most "gettable" of those three. Russell supposedly has some kind of "no ensemble films" policy, which is why he turned down the first movie. Seagal has a personal beef with the producers. Van Damme, though, seemed to turn it down the first time around...
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Bingo. The reviews for this, like Rambo before it, are hilariously reminiscent of action movie reviews from the 80s and early 90s. Stallone and his crew should be proud :)
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I enjoy this passage from Nothing Lasts Forever:
“She started to scream. Leland could see that she had never lived, that she knew she was dying without ever having experienced most of the natural course of life. Leland thought of his dead daughter Steffie and shot this bitch in the...
The most interesting thing to me about the whole situation are the indications, however unverifiable, that Lebron, Wade, and Bosh may have actually committed to Miami under the table as long as two years ago thanks to Riley and Wade selling the other two on the idea and Riley making it so nearly...
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Based on box office receipts, audiences aren't going to see much of anything these days except Twilight... Bond is actually a very well-rounded character...if you go by what Ian Fleming wrote.
I think Knight and Day isn't doing well because the trailers didn't do enough to differentiate it from that Ashton Kutcher/Katherine Heigl bomb that just came out, and the concept isn't exactly the most gripping to begin with. I'm also unconvinced that anyone really cares about Cameron Diaz...
I just read Zero Cool by John Lange. Lange is actually Michael Crichton under an early pseudonym. This was okay. Crichton seems like he's going for a Hitchcockian North by Northwest flavor with a regular guy protagonist vacationing in Spain and caught up in an inscrutable war between rival...
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I had a similar experience reading Stirling's Conquistador a couple of years ago. I couldn't finish it because it was so long and yet so little was happening with the plot and the characters. I like his ideas but the actual writing was disappointing. I just read The High Crusade...
I love Zola in the comics because, aside from his wild genetic experiments, he looks like a walking tv set with Zola's evil face on the screen at all times. I will be deeply disappointed if they don't get him in that form by the time he appears in the modern era.
The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. This is marketed as a fantasy novel but it's more like historical fiction based on Xenophon's Anabasis with a sci-fi overlay. The "Greeks" are humans but it's implied that they're not native to the planet on which they live, and the "Persians" are a race of...
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Yeah, I've had run-ins with such people before. They don't socialize their dogs, plain and simple, so the dog has a stunted upbringing and never learns to relate to people and other animals outside their homes. The animal might act like a harmless goofball at home but will then growl at...
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This.
It always amazes me when my wife and I walk our pit bull because we'll sometimes get young guys walking up and complimenting our dog on how "TOUGH" she looks despite the fact that she's the sweetest dog I've ever known and responds to everyone by wagging her tail so hard her...
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Yeah, pretty much. The Best Animated category was largely created in response to Beauty and the Beast getting nominated and they didn't want any more uppity cartoons taking Best Picture slots from "real movies". I think it's unlikely an animated film will ever win Best Picture so long as...