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I haven't seen either one but Rocket Man got far higher critical acclaim than Bohemian Rhapsody, where the consensus was basically a mediocre movie carried by the lead performance. Those types of movies just don't move me to the cinema though. I just don't have a problem waiting for them to show up on a streaming service. I think I normally get to the movies twice a year and this year I'll probably be there about 10 times. I'm a sucker for Blockbusters and there are a lot of them this year. Captain Marvel, End Game, Spiderman, possibly MIB, Aladdin, Lion King, Joker, Frozen 2, Star Wars, Toy Story 4...I'll probably see them all.
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House of Cards lost me at the threesome with the body guard. One of the worst *** moments I've ever watched in TV. I kept going, but never finished the last season without Spacey.
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I've always heard it's great but just never got around to it. If it were on Netflix I would have watched it by now. I just have minimal energy for seeking out shows and basically need them dropped off for me.
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I've never seen a second of The Wire. I've probably seen a second of Soprano's when I happened to walk through a room and Entertainment Tonight was on or something and they had a clip. But if I've seen The Wire I don't remember it. Didn't watch either show. Don't really watch most big shows, though I've gotten a bit more into them the last couple years. Handmaid's Tale is excellent. Most HBO/Showtime stuff I've never seen.
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I haven't watched the Simpsons for about a decade, but I did love the show and still occasionally look up my favorite scenes. I think it's probably burned out, but if some people still enjoy it, that's cool. One thing I never appreciated when I did watch it but have researched since, is how often they made references to classic films and pop culture. There's a website out there that tracks it and it's literally hundreds if not thousands of times. A lot of them are subtle and probably not caught by most people.
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I was just pointing out that Family Guy is about mindless as it gets. It's a show that requires minimal creativity and is just a nonstop random joke gag. "Remember the time I did that crazy thing," insert random thing Peter did. "Oh, you mean like that one time when..." insert current event gag. You can sit down and watch any random episode and still get it. I don't even dislike the show and think it has been incredibly funny, but that's what it is. The episode of South Park where they mocked it was making that point and was pretty spot on. If I were comparing to South Park, there's really no comparison in terms of ingenuity. That's fine, because you don't have to be ingenious to be funny. This is also why it's remained relevant so long. Because its formula is timeless and it never tries to be more than it is.
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Family Guy trying to make this joke is pretty funny and not in the way they wanted it to be
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GoT never pulled me in. I watched the first two seasons and found it to be good, a worthy time killer, but I never saw it as this unbelievable masterpiece I had to stop time for. Breaking Bad was a much better all-around show in my opinion. Just more creative and better written.
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Family guy can't age because there is no substance to it. I'm not saying it's never funny, I've laughed hysterically at many of their scenes, but all they're really doing is conjuring up random funny stuff. They constantly insert daydreams and "remember the time" scenes in the middle of episodes. It's actually an ingenious formula in that it makes the need to create new relevant material much less demanding.
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Without Stallone/Rocky, I won't have much interest in other Creed films. To be honest, the actor that plays Creed is pretty blah. I just haven't found myself liking him much. On the flipside, and I felt a little guilty about these thoughts, I found myself more drawn to Drago's son than Creed. Viktor Drago has obviously led a much more interesting and painful life that Adonis Creed. His character drew more emotion out of me than Creed, and I found myself feeling genuinely sorry for him.. That is all I can say without posting spoilers, so I'll let it go at that... Whoa, I thought the first Creed was a little corny and didn't see the new one, but Michael B Jordan is a hell of an actor. He made Black Panther.
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I have a Spidey-obsessed 5 y/o, but Into the Spiderverse was a lot of fun.
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There were a couple hot takes that Yelich's best baseball had already been played. Guessing that had something to do with it.. -
Another common option is the non-breadwinning spouse continues working and adds you to their insurance. Some people really love their jobs and would do them for free. I have many friends and acquaintances who've done this. Usually the one working has a pretty liberal vacation policy and they still travel often while maintaining the benefit perks of a job.
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Not necessarily. $40k for two people is doable, it just flies in the face of conventional thinking so there is a knee-jerk reaction that it's insane. Pete Adney has been doing it for years on about $25k with a dependent child no less. As far as early withdrawal penalties, there are a billion loopholes for accessing retirement accounts prior to that age but that's a much longer post. Healthcare is a valid point, however Obamacare has made that a much less stressful proposition than before. You can remove a lot of that burden by taking care of yourself - before anyone says it, yes, I know bad things happen to people who do good things and your uncle ran 5 miles a day and still got cancer. I get it. The odds are tipped heavily in your favor if you do those things, though. His example of the $40k wasn't meant to be taken literally, he just used it because it worked with round numbers and utilized the 4% rule with a nice round $1mm. His point is still valid - the math behind retirement isn't as complicated as we're led to believe. $3 million by age 60 is extremely attainable for two working people on modest incomes. And it's most likely beyond what anyone would need and still enjoy themselves quite a bit.
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The tortoise plan has proven more effective for 99.9% of investors if they are invested in low-cost index funds. It isn't even necessarily tortoisey if expenses are curbed. There are blogs all over the place about guys retiring in their 30s using nothing but Vanguard indexes. Sorry, I'm older, retired and did fine, but this thread is rather amusing. I worked in finance for many years. The amount of people thinking they're better off targeting IPOs or messing around with bitcoin than they would be just dumping gobs of money into indexes is just always going to be funny. The math behind retiring early is really not that complicated. Don't make it harder than it has to be. Joe Blow has no idea when to buy and sell a stock or a BTC. You may play that perfectly once or twice. You're not going to get it to work for 20, 30 years. You're just not.
