One of the reasons Mobile is demolishing and rebuilding its downtown civic center is to host a hockey team (allegedly). 

The family of my girlfriend in high school was from Michigan, her dad was a hockey referee before they moved to Alabama. To appease him I tried to watch it but the game just never made sense to me and I couldn't (still can't) follow the puck. I've been to a few live hockey games since and the same problem persists. I'm never sure what's going on. I should have stuck with her, though, she's an executive with an NBA team now.

Maybe minor league hockey works in Mobile. They've tried it before and it didn't (see Mobile Mystics, 1995-2002).  Minor league baseball did, until it didn't (see Mobile Bay Bears, 1997- 2019).  There's a really nice abandoned park where they used to play out by Costco. I think Mobile really wants to be Pensacola or maybe Pensacola just supplanted Mobile?  Pensacola has the Blue Wahoos baseball team (est. 2012) and the Ice Flyers hockey team (est. 2009) which both seem to be surviving, and maybe thriving. 

I'd like to see Mobile get a minor league baseball team again. Bring life back to that stadium. I don't want another Diamondbacks or Padres affiliate. Give us Red Sox, Braves, Cubs, Cards, or something relatable. Shame to see that stadium just rot after the Bay Bears became Trash Pandas.

Huge diversion. Apologies.

Longleg

Not what I expected. Extremely strange movie.

Maika Monroe proving she can do dour, sour, and mopey (see also Watchers, It Follows .. might just be the natural state of her face?), Nicholas Cage proving he can do really bad makeup (Dad of Mask?), Kiernan Shipka proving she can look ugly (which is a little surprising), Alicia Witt proving maybe she's just a D-Girl after all (right Chrissy? What did we ever see in her?), and Blair Underwood proving he looks pretty good for a 60 year old and probably should have had a better career (where has Jonathan Rollins been since L.A. Law, anyway?).

Weird story about a serial killer who uses props to get others to do his dirty work, the people who help, and the motivation behind it. Not sure why the name 'Longleg' was chosen, had some questions about the herky-jerky camera choices, had some questions about some really problematic directorial decisions - not the least of which was the back-and-forth-in-time trope. 

Without giving away too much - in case you watch it - here are a few from the first few minutes that bugged me.

Dour face goes on a door knocking "manhunt" with a randomly assigned FBI partner (and you knew he was expendable like a Star Trek red shirt almost instantly). She intuits where the bad guy is, he gets his face blown off after knocking at the door, and she..... backs up against the flimsy window of the apartment.   This isn't back to the wall stuff, the bad guy could have shot right through the window into her head and ended the film in that instant. She doesn't "call it in" despite moments earlier saying they should call it in, instead she goes into the house to search for the guy, only to find a Dexterish panapoly of plastic sheeting.

Then she goes back to the agency (hello Mr. Clinton) and is questioned by her boss about how she knew the bad guy was in that specific apartment.  BASED ON WHAT?  The red-shirt partner eschewed "calling it in."  Who was aware that she "knew which apartment" other than her? What did she do, go back and say "yeah, I knew which one he was in, so...."  and that was just accepted at face value? 

I had a lot of problems with the script and the directoral direction. A LOT of problems.

It's a low budget film (does Cage do anything else these days) and it has a moment or two, but overall.... just didn't care for it. It was slow, it was bleak, it made little sense at times, and it left me flat.

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It does for me.

Let’s back up to the “dance team” for hockey. How does that work on ice?

That said actor may go to hell for that role. What a piece of shit the origin story character is. Love it.

That's why I can't watch it. Feel like I might join him.