Hiya doin'.

[slightlyoffaxis]

So my sister made me listen to that "Hiya Doin'" song-thing when it came on the radio today.  I hadn't heard it before, and it's pretty funny, but it's pretty much designed to get you to automatically add "Hiya doin'" to the end of anything you say after you hear it.  All night I've been thinking "I want some more apple juicehiyadoin'," and "I'm

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[nevershake]

Actually in a lot of ways soccer is quite exciting(moreso than football, continuous play, no bullshit timeouts, much shorter game). Because the goal is so big any good possesion near the goal is always exciting as it's always a scoring opportunity. The reason the scores are low is because at the top levels the teams are evenly matched. I saw Sweden v Iceland and Sweden was so superior in the second half they subbed IN their injured player to score a goal.

GO ARSENAL! 49 league games without a loss.

I arbitrarily decided to be an Arsenal fan after reading Fever Pitch

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I didn't mean that soccer the sport was boring. But movies about soccer aren't as captivating because you can't boil down a 90-minute game into 2 or 3 plays for the sake of the movie because so much of it is just going back and forth without scoring.

[nevershake]

Ok I can see that. Have there even been any realistic soccer movies? Shaolin Soccer does not count.

[slightlyoffaxis]

Ladybugs, Soccer Dog and Bend It Like Beckham. So no.

[rockmarooned]

Soccer Dog may not be strictly realistic, but it's definitely true to the experience of playing soccer with an unusually skilled dog.

Actually, Bend It Like Beckham wasn't really an unrealistic soccer movie so much as it barely had soccer in it-- all of the real soccer was basically in montage form. What was there looked OK. They just didn't really dramatize it.

Will Ferrell has a soccer-themed comedy coming up called, actually, Kicking & Screaming. So our Kicking & Screaming only has a few months left as "the" Kicking & Screaming (if the movie is a big hit, which I expect it will be). Olivia D'Abo, of the REAL Kicking & Screaming, co-starred in another piece of soccer cinema, The Big Green. You'll recall that the poster was centered around the fat kid from The Sandlot getting a soccer ball to the crotch.

They made a movie of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch but it was barely released here (if at all), and the American remake will be about baseball (and star Fallon & Drew Barrymore) (a non-acting match made in heaven

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We ran a charticle of upcoming soccer movies in the November issue, 'cause there are many. Highlights: the aforementioned Kicking and Screaming, which they'll hopefully retitle (but doubtful, very doubtful); Goal! starring tiny little Diego Luna, basically a fictionalized version of Pele's life; The Game of their Lives, about the 1950 U.S. World Cup team; and The Yank, with Elijah Wood as a hooligan. 'Nuff said.

[nevershake]

Soccer Dog? Was that like Air Bud?

[wonkywheels]

As long as you hate Man U! I don't really know much about English football, but I know I hate Man U. I even have a keychain that says it.

[nevershake]

Man U are punks! Actually I don't know anything about the league except Arsenal RULES

[wonkywheels]

Man U are the New York Yankees of the Premiership.

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This is kind of apropos of Jesse's post, too, but I think it's lame to root against a team instead of rooting for one. I can't see how anyone can get enjoyment out of that, especially a sports fan. If you root against someone you're not hoping that it's an evenly matched, good game with your team being better skilled and playing better. Which I would think would be more interesting than, say, a game where the final score is 19-8 or something

[wonkywheels]

But in the Oscars there are 5 nominees. Maybe it'd be better to compare it to the presidential election. Do you really like Kerry and want to race to be close and well-debated? No, you want Bush to lose! (OK, so it's not totally analagous because I wouldn't want him to lose to Pat Buchanan or something, but it's sorta close.)

[slightlyoffaxis]

Yeah, I think in an election the ideal would be to vote for a candidate I actually liked instead of against one that I absolutely hate (dearmercifulGoddon'tlethimwin). *Sigh* maybe someday.