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Jordan vs. LeBron

I watched this video the other day:

I'm grateful to Bill Simmons for covering my main thoughts about this video so well in his piece about "LeBron's playoff irrelevancy". Which are:

1. "Jordan never would have done THAT." The THAT in question is not bringing it in the playoffs. Taking your foot off the pedal in the playoffs is just not done if you're supposedly one of the top players in the game.

2. "We made so much fuss about LeBron these past two years and he's not even the most important dude on his own team." LeBron might be the better pure player, but Wade is a leader and winner.

The Heat may go on to win the title this year and for six or seven years to come but unless something changes with LeBron's approach to the game, he'll never be as great as Jordan was. There's more to being the best than just talent.

Azért ezt tuti csak kitalálták, ilyen nincs ;-D

India's most expensive movie yields most astonishingly violent and demented action-scene in cinematic history

Yesterday, David wrote about the stunning climax of the Tamil movie Endhiran, the most expensive movie in Indian cinema history. I just got around to watching it and I was so completely boggled by its brilliance that I thought it was worth revisiting.

Imagine that you took the Axe Cop kid and teamed him up with the Wachowskis, along with every serious SFX wizard on the subcontinent, and said, "Go ahead kid, spend whatever it takes to make the most demented, blood-drenched, bullet-addled, ultra-super-duper-violent action sequence in the history of films." Then you waited a generation for another Axe Cop kid to be born and raised on the first kid's output, to grow to maturity, and you gave her the same challenge: that's about one tenth of one percent as demented, glorious and violent as this ten-minute climactic scene manages.

Killer robots, a seeming infinitude of them, outnumbered only by the endless cannon-fodder Indian soldiers, each with his own machinegun. There are many like it, but this one is his. And it will soon be the killer robots. They will form into enormous, improbable geometrical solids, and they will improvise with those guns to create enormous whirling ballistic buzz-saws of death, except when they're forming up into huge, stylized cobras and such. And there are lorries filled with gas bottles, daring kamikaze missile-firing choppers (each more doomed than the last), and, of course, a software worm with the power to overcome them. Or does it?

There are only two copies of this movie for sale on Amazon (as of this writing), though I expect that will self-correct shortly, as this clip (with its curiously fitting Russian-language descriptive track) is ripping through the Anglo Internet, where thousands of potential watchers wait only for the opportunity to snap up their own copy of this genuinely unprecedented monsterpiece.

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If I had one word to describe this video it would be, “Freedom!!!!” Because that must be what rider Danny MacAskill, also known as ‘Taggart’ and ‘Danny MegaSkill’ felt while he filmed his bike riding tour from Edinburgh to Skye in the United Kingdom. Danny is a 24-year old Scottish street trials pro rider from Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, who has shot two viral videos, earning him international media attention.

His latest video, “Way Back Home,” was released on November 16th, 2010 and was sponsored by Red Bull. A combination of superb riding skills and excellent camera work make for an unbelievable 7 minute visual feast of beautiful Scotland.