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  3. Posted

    It is awesome and I loved it....... :o the vampire brides were the best

    vampires ever....I was amazed at the great effects

     

    David Wenham who played Carl ....Helsing's sidekick was brilliant and so

    different from his role as Faramir in TTT and ROTK.....

     

    This was meant as pure entertainment and it delivered big time...a must

    see at the cinema and I will buy it on DVD.... estimated to be out in October :wow::wow: :P

  6. Posted

    This was in a San Jose paper today......it mentions the big/small market team

    thing and is being emailed around Calgary like crazy...I got it from 6 different

    people...Enjoy!

     

     

    In Calgary, support for Flames burns bright

     

    Ann Killion

     

    Mercury News

     

     

     

     

     

    CALGARY, Alberta - It hits you over the head as soon as your passport is stamped. People are just a tad excited about the Calgary Flames.

     

    The customs agent wants to know what you think about the series. Almost every other car flies a Flames flag. ``Go Flames Go'' signs paper the local business windows.

     

    This is a foreign country. Not because of that stamp on the passport but because of a mindset. This is the United Land of Hockey.

     

    Oh sure, we like our Sharks. A lot of people are very passionate about the San Jose team. On game day, there are thousands of team jerseys worn in town. A few people even have Sharks flags attached to their car. But it's not the same. Not even close.

     

    ``The only thing hockey is competing with is church,'' Calgary Coach Darryl Sutter said. ``In Canada, there's your God, your country and your game. And sometimes you can't decide which comes first.''

     

    We have nothing like it in our country. The NFL gets great TV ratings, but it isn't a passion from birth to death. Baseball, the national pastime, isn't overriding, not anymore. In pockets of the country there is geographical fanaticism -- for Nebraska football or Tar Heels basketball -- but it doesn't carry across our land.

     

    Hockey is Canada's consuming national passion. And now the Calgary Flames are Canada's team, the focus of all their hockey pride. And they're just two wins away from a berth in the Stanley Cup finals.

     

    It has been 11 long seasons since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup -- since Montreal won in 1993 -- the longest such drought in the history of the NHL. During that time, a team abandoned Canada and moved to a place where it doesn't snow in mid-May. The health of Canada's game is in doubt. Small-market Canadian teams like Calgary seemed on the verge of extinction.

     

    So, yeah, this is kind of a big deal. And in Calgary, it's a frenzy.

     

    In Calgary, no one has to ask that fans wear red to the games. It just happens. The Saddledome, which used to be considered one of the quietest buildings in the NHL, has been rocking. After the Flames eliminated Detroit in six games, a crowd of 15,000 celebrated in the streets (with only two arrests reported).

     

    ``It's rewarding to see how the fans have grabbed on and been a big part of it,'' Sutter said. ``There's been a lot of frustration here because hockey is so important in terms of lifestyle.''

     

    Which is why this has to be so rewarding for Sutter, though he isn't one to talk much about his satisfaction.

     

    It's one thing to build a winner in San Jose where much of the population doesn't know a lot about hockey and the greater Bay Area doesn't much care. It's another to do it in your native land, for people who are really, really passionate.

     

    Sutter grew up in Viking, Alberta -- a few hours' drive from Calgary. After the Sharks fired him, he was quickly hired in Calgary to revitalize the wayward franchise, which hadn't seen postseason play in seven disappointing years. The faithful even hoped they might make the playoffs this season, thanks to Sutter.

     

    But few expected the Flames to advance to the Western Conference finals, knocking off Vancouver and Detroit along the way. Few expected them to be so close to the Stanley Cup.

     

    Sutter can do no wrong in this town.

     

    ``Darryl,'' said Randy Sportak, who covers the Flames for the Calgary Sun, ``is God.''

     

    Locals say the excitement is even bigger than in 1989, the year Calgary won the Cup, because there has been so much pent up frustration.

     

    ``We haven't had the playoffs for a long time,'' Sutter said. ``People in Calgary are probably a little possessive about their team.''

     

    A little possessive. And a little loud. And a little crazed.

     

    ``It's such a hockey town,'' Sharks defenseman Brad Stuart, an Alberta native, said before the series began. ``It will be exciting to see.''

     

    Or maybe not. Stuart and the rest of the Sharks can expect a tsunami of Canadian emotion when they arrive in the Saddledome tonight. Their precarious status -- down two games to none -- will only heighten the frenzy.

     

    The scene is going to be unlike anything most of them -- with the obvious exception of Vincent Damphousse, who played on the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup -- have ever experienced. For some Sharks, it might ignite memories of the passion of their Canadian youth.

     

    But in San Jose, where most of the young players have been sheltered in relative anonymity and calm, they are removed from such intensity.

     

    They are going to be playing a Canadian team on the verge of the Stanley Cup -- in Canada. That's one tough way to try to win games.

     

    Here in the United Land of Hockey, they're hungry for the Stanley Cup. And they're sensing that the Flames can deliver.

     

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  7. Posted

    I hope it isn't Reed...he's my comfort person in ENT... one of my favorite

    scenes with him is when he's drunk on the shutlle with Trip talking about

    T'Pol's *bum* :hug: B) :force:

     

    There are many others scenes too, I would really miss him.

     

    I voted for Anthony cause I don't know who he is so they can kill him!

  8. Posted

    I gave it an 8.5..it did a great job building up to the next two episodes

    but it was a bit of a lull from the last two.. which is what building up is

    all about.... :force:

     

     

    Click for Spoiler:

    I really hope they don't get rid of Hoshi, and the scenes for next week look intense....I was sorry Degra had to die but I wasn't surprised....can't wait untill next week!

  10. Posted

    I think refs should be fined for negligence....e.g someone thru a coat on

    the ice in a Vancouver game and the game was still in play and he bent

    to pick it up and miss Iggy getting his stick slashed out of his hand.....

     

     

    You are so right Jack_Bauer, Sutter is a big hero here in Calgary, and it

    has been 8 yrs since we were in the playoffs and 15 yrs since were made

    it passed the first round....in 1989 when the Flames won the cup they were

    expected to win, they were a top team....this is so much sweeter and we

    are loving it...and last night :force: s game turned out great...but if refs really are

    paid off someone will get seriously hurt one day...as a hockey fan and

    an ex-hockey mom and manager I know this...why doesn't Bettman?

  12. Posted

    After forty minutes of play Calgary is leading 2-1...this is the worst reffing

    I've seen in the playoffs this year.....the penalties are sooooo one sided,

    I am a true hockey fan and I appreciate talent even in the opposition,

    and I usually don't whine......but the ref's sure seem to be out to make sure a Canadian team

    doesn't make the Stanely Cup playoff......it could ruin US TV ratings and cost

    someone a lot of money.....JMO!!!! :dude:

  19. Posted

    I was disappointed in the end of *The End Game*...I think they could of taken

    5 mins for some closure.....Harry with his parents and Tom with his dad...etc

     

    I got 2 books last year written after Voy got home and they were good, and

    very possible knowing humanities history.....can't say more without ruining

    it....

     

     

    The books are 1) Homecoming and 2) The Farther Shore.....worth reading

    if your a Voy fan....but my fav Voy book is *Pathways* :(