Dowdle is a High Variance Rusher

(great movie btw...but then again I'm a fan of Tarentino's work)

 

Total yards is mostly a proxy for carries (like we saw with Najee).

YPC is useful. But what it tells us is how often a player got big runs (which is why Najee's YPC was typically on the low end of acceptable).

As demonstrated above (and you also commented earlier) YPC can also be skewed by usage. This is why the extra information from succ% (consistency) is useful.

 

Ditto Tarantino but even went to a theatre to see Hateful Eight and unfortunately towards the end he sprinkled in some stupidity and I walked out thinking that was a let down

 

Man...I remember when we used to go to the theater to watch movies at least 6-8 times a summer. The very first time I remember going to a movie was when my parents took us to a double feature in a drive in (Back to the Future, and I think a movie called Cloak and Dagger?). I'm sure that's not the first movie I went to, but it's the first one I remember.

But that was when it was $2 (Canadian) on Tuesday nights (when we were teenages...I'm sure even cheaper in the mid-80s). I remember how exciting it was when our parents would call up the theater and tell us what movies were playing so we could pick what we wanted to watch.

When we were kids, the old theaters really were theaters. And if you got there early, you could go sit up in the box seats on the side (like Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets...had to look up the names)

Now I don't think I've been to 5 movies in a theater in a decade.

• This year I went with my oldest (16) to see the re-release of Return of the King. This was a really fun "bonding" experience with because she asked me if I wanted to go watch it with her.
• Before that, my in-laws took our kids and us to see Sing 2 (2021)
• At work, my boss took us all (we're an engineering department) to see Hidden Figures in 2016
• I saw The Force Awakens with my family over Christmas in 2015
• When my wife and kids were away visiting family, I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2014

I'm sure not all new movies suck. I just don't want to spend whatever it costs now to spend a ****-ton of money to sit around with a bunch of idiots on their phones. Especially since home theater stuff is so good now and the movies will be streaming soon anyway. Although I still don't end up watching them. Even ones where I think they sound cool. Just too much other stuff to do now. Aside: I think this is how a lot of young people feel about sports like the NFL. There's a reckoning coming for pro-sports after GenX I think.

Anyway...all of you can get the f--- off my lawn. I'm trying to shake my fist at the clouds over here...

 

I used to travel a lot and it was a choice between going to an evening movie or sitting in a bar or a hotel room. I saw a lot of movies.

I’m retired now so i am very selective. Plus there is free popcorn for old farts on Monday. But there are some movies that are infinitely better on one of the top of the line big screens with fancy seating and top sound. I only go to the theatre for what I think is one of those. Two perfect examples that will not be remotely the same on the best home theater are:

Top Gun Maverick

Oppenheimer

 

Both of these movies are on my list of "want to see movies" that I just never got around to.

And I'm not even really picky with movies. Really anything with a half-decent story, characters that I like, and/or a bunch of **** that blows up and I'll be happy with it.

If my brother lived closer to me, I probably would have gone with him to see the new Naked Gun movie. Maybe when Spaceballs II comes out we can make it happen.

 

Top Hun was what you expect

Rent Oppenheimer and you will know when to play it loud it’s a good movie especially if you are happy you were born

 

Willis Carrier in 1906 invented the air conditioner but it wasn't for homes it was for the publishing company he worked for. The company's paper would warp and the colors would bleed because of the high heat and humidity. Carrier's invention was the first to control room temperature. It was used only in companies until around 1920. Back then movie theaters were closed for the summer because it was just too hot to sit and watch a movie. A theater in NY City purchased one of Carrier's air conditioners and was the only one open for movie goers. Soon the other theaters had no choice but to also get air conditioning to compete for the movie goers dollar. Then came the great depression followed by WW2, so it wasn't until the 1950's that homes started to have it.