Posts by Brenda Gomez2

I was watching some highlights last night and it hit me how much the roster construction in college athletics has shifted over the last few years. It feels like every time a new season rolls around, the "stars" are just a rotating door of players who were leading teams somewhere else just twelve months ago.

Don't get me wrong, I get the logic. Coaches want the quickest path to a winning season, and if a proven veteran is sitting in a locker room halfway across the country, why wouldn't you go get them? But there’s something about the old-school way—building a guy from freshman year through to his senior season—that felt more authentic to me. There was a sense of loyalty and a shared journey that seems to be evaporating.

Now, it feels more like a series of high-stakes transactions. It’s hard to get emotionally invested in a player when you know they might just be a temporary fix for a specific tactical need. Do you guys think this constant turnover is actually improving the level of play, or are we just losing the "program identity" that made college sports special in the first place?

I mean, when Americans make an American movie with American actors, we’ll watch it too. But in the meantime, we have this one. It kills me how people expect a movie to actually make them laugh, almost like they're sitting through some old-school screwball comedy, and then they act all disappointed because they didn't crack a smile... Honestly, nobody bothers educating the audience anymore.

I haven't actually seen the original, but this was absolute garbage. What really floored me were all those missed opportunities to build any real tension, almost like they were filming some half-hour TV episode where you just have to rush straight into the action... everything feels rushed, just "get to the gore already" with zero suspense. Another massive turn-off was the catastrophically bad acting, especially from Colin Farrell. He deserves a golden raspberry for this one. Either he’s become way too full of himself thinking he can coast through any movie without trying, or he just showed up, took the paycheck, and ran...
If this were some low-budget trash flick in the vein of Megashark or Turboalligator, I wouldn't care; I would've watched it with genuine enjoyment just to waste some time, but because this was shot as an a-production, every single lack of quality and failure to meet basic standards is completely unforgivable.