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So last week, I got some of my picks right and some of them wrong. For instance, I predicted that the Buccaneers would win 37-22 over the Raiders, but the actual score was 45-20 Bucs over the Raiders. I predicted that the Chiefs would beat the Broncos 44-21, but the actual score was 43-16 Chiefs over the Broncos. I was so close on that prediction!! I predicted that the Cardinals would win 27-22 over the Seahawks, but the final score was actually 37-34 Cardinals over the Seahawks in a shootout. Cardinals kicker Zane Gonzalez kicked a game winning field goal after he missed one earlier which gave the Seahawks a chance to go win it, but a penalty on Seattle gave the Cardinals a shot and they intercepted the Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson 3 times. That game has got to be the game of the year in my opinion!!! I predicted that the Rams would beat the Bears 19-13, but the actual score was 24-10 Rams over the Bears. I predicted that the Packers would definitely win over the Texans 41-23, but the actual score was 35-20 Packers over the Texans. And last, I predicted that the Patriots would win over the 49ers, but the actual score was not even close. The score was 33-6 49ers over the Patriots. So, I was completely wrong about the Patriots. I got 5 out of 6 picks correctly for week 7!!!!
Now let’s get into the week 8 picks, shall we?! The first game I will predict is the Rams @Dolphins game. I actually think the Dolphins can win over the Rams because number 1: They are coming off the bye week, and number 2: They feel like they can beat some good teams and be a sneaky playoff team. So, I say that the Dolphins would win 31-23 over the Rams. The next game I will predict is the Vikings @Packers game. I think the Packers will win over the Vikings 36-24. The Vikings are just not playing good right now even though they got their first win against the Texans. The next game I will predict is the Steelers @Ravens game. One of the greatest teams in the NFL right now! This should be a really good game and I expect this game to be a shootout. I am going to get an edge to the Ravens 39-31 over the Steelers. I think the Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson will do just enough and so would their defense. The next game I will predict is the 49ers @Seahawks game. Another great game to watch tomorrow. I possibly think the 49ers will win 26-19 over the Seahawks. The next game I will predict is the Cowboys @Eagles game on Sunday night football which nobody wants to see because the entire NFC East is so awful and somebody’s got to win the NFC East. I think the Eagles will come away with a win over the Cowboys 20-13. The last game I will predict is the Buccaneers @Giants game. I think the Bucs will win over the Giants 38-17 on Monday night football. It just won’t go well for the Giants as they continue to struggle on offense and defense which they lost defensive end Markus Golden to the Cardinals for a sixth-round pick.
So, what do you guys think of these week 8 NFL predictions?!
I would like to hear some comments, thoughts, or opinions down below!
Stay tuned for week 8 prediction updates!
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Halloween and stop motion go hand in hand in most of our minds, thanks to movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Mad Monster Party. Now, there’s a new stop-motion addition to your Halloween viewing list this year. Thanks to Boing Boing, we’ve discovered this delightfully quirky stop-motion music video from Boston’s indie rock darlings Hallelujah the Hills for their song “The Memory Tree.”
The whole music video was made in quarantine. It tells the story of a spooky lil’ ghost on an existential journey of self-discovery through the multiverse. You can watch the full video for “The Memory Tree” above.
Hallelujah the Hills’ singer Ryan Walsh spent several months making all these miniature handcrafted ghost puppets. As well as the teeny tiny ghost homes they inhabit. All in order to create a world for this little spook and his friends to live in. Or, as the case may be, to not live in. The attention to detail in the ghost house is pretty great, especially the Ouija board the ghosts use to contact the living. There is some live-action mixed in to the proceedings as well, towards the end of the video. Once the ghost seemingly makes it to our reality, he becomes a dude in a sheet.
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The aesthetic of the video is that of an old silent film from the ‘20s. The main narrative of the six-minute short is that of a ghost traveling through the many layers of reality, until he makes it out his world into the land of the living. The video is also eerily relevant. It starts with a title card that says “tired of more misfortune, he has not left the house in a full year.” In 2020, those words are all too relatable for most of us.
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Few actors possessed the gravitas, the wiliness, the star power of Scottish film icon Sean Connery. In a career spanning six decades, Connery portrayed some of Hollywood’s greatest men of action, and some real-life legends. Still best remembered for originating the role of super spy James Bond on the big screen, Connery’s career highlights read as some of the latter-20th Century’s best, and worked with some of the great filmmakers of the age. Sean Connery passed away on Halloween at the age of 90.
Hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, Connery began his acting career in the mid-1950s with supporting roles in British film and television productions. His first brush with American films was the Disney children’s fantasy Darby O’Gill and the Little People in 1959. By 1962, at the age of 32, Connery hit the big time as the lead role of James Bond in Dr. No, the first in 007 film franchise. He’d go on to play Bond in a further five official films and a sixth out of continuity.
While Connery is arguably the best actor to play James Bond, perhaps neck-and-neck with Daniel Craig, he’s certainly the best actor at playing James Bond. Though Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Craig all have their fans, it’s Connery’s portrayal of Bond that is still the gold standard. The dashing ruthlessness with which he played the spy has yet to be matched. And while several of his films feel downright barbaric today in their treatment of women—a mentality, sad to say, it seemed Connery shared—they remain the most faithful to the spirit of Ian Fleming’s original novels. From Russia with Love is my personal favorite.
In addition to the Bond franchise, Connery boasts a wide array of films and collaborations. These include Marnie for Alfred Hitchcock in 1964; The Molly Maguires in 1970 for Martin Ritt; Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express in 1974; The Man Who Would Be King for John Huston in 1975; The Untouchables for Brian DePalma in 1987, which won Connery his sole Oscar; and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, which is possibly his second most beloved role.
Connery also did his fair share of bizarre genre fare, with John Boorman’s Zardoz from 1974 as the most baffling. If you haven’t seen Zardoz you owe it to yourself. Other such films include Outland from 1983; Highlander in 1986 and its sequel Highlander 2: The Quickening in 1991; DragonHeart and Michael Bay’s The Rock in 1996; the truly terrible The Avengers in 1998; and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003, sadly the movie that led to his retirement.
While in relative seclusion for close to 20 years, Connery’s iconic status never diminished. New generations of film fans discovered his great performances with each successive year, and anywhere there’s a 007 marathon on some cable channel, you’ll never be too far from Sean Connery.
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