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Can't say anything about Prestige since i couldn't watch it so far, but i only read good things about it. Gladiator without a doubt is a good movies (Great score, good actors (Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe), interesting story and great settings), but there are some things that prevent it from being near the top of my list: a) Too many historical inaccuracies b) It wasn't really thought-provoking in my opinion and that's what a movies has to have in my opinion to be considered one of the best ever, otherwise it is just "plain" entertainment I could watch Requiem for a Dream, Beasts of the Southern Wild, American History X, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Breaking the Waves, Brokeback Mountain, Cloud Atlas, Magnolia, Memento, Lost in Translation, Her, Seven, American Beauty, A Serious Man, Blade Runner: 2049, Dogville, Life is Beautiful, The Seventh Seal, Inception, Moonlight, Manchester by the sea, Matrix, Nocturnal Animals, The Machinist or Shutter Island multiple times and always discover some new "angle", but that is not really possible with Gladiator in my opinion. If it's "only" about entertainment, then i would rather watch movies like City of Good, The Godfather, Scarface, Goodfellas, The Revenant, The Green Mile, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Forrest Gump, Rain Man, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Hacksaw Ridge, Inglourious Basterds, Fight Club, Once Upon a Time in America, Deadpool, Departed, The Usual Suspects, Saving Private Ryan, all of the Lord of the Rings movies, some of the Star Wars movies, Apocalypse Now, Batman Begins or The Dark Knight.

Sadly only the first one so far, the other ones aren't available on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I have to say that this is now top 3 in my favourite computer-animated movies only behind Up and Toy Story, but ahead of Shrek.

I can't believe how unlucky Germany is ... The women finished 3rd just to have to face Mexico for an olympic spot.

Thanks, although i don't think that City of God or Black Mirror are american productions. About your recommendations: Saw all of them already except for Sunset Boulevard. Shawshank Redemption was great, probably in my top 20, Gladiator was also good and is probably in my top 100. I didn't like Gangs of New York though. Sadly in Germany many of the movies i would like to watch (12 Angry Men, Andrei Rublev, North by Northwest, The Best Years of Our Lives, Dr. Strangelove, Leon: The Professional, Ex Machina, Persona, The Prestige, Metropolis, Philadelphia, Some Like It Hot, Stalker, Room, Mulholland Drive, Taxi Driver, Trainspotting, Song to Song, The Thin Red Line, Vertigo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Warrior, Wild Strawberries or To Kill a Mockingbird) are hard to come by (on Netflix/Prime) unless you are willing to buy them. Thankfully nowadays only very few good movies are released every year, so i have enough time to catch up without my "to-watch list" getting longer and longer every year.

Just watched Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 3 for the first time. I have watched a lot of other Black Mirror episodes before and almost all of them are really "disturbing"/unsettling (in a good way) in my opinion. I can clearly recommend this show for everyone who hasn't watched it already. Movies i watched recently that i can recommend: The Machinist The Green Mile City of God How to Train Your Dragon Nocturnal Animals Nightcrawler

Any livestream? Based on the world rankings it looks as if Germany is in a very good spot to finish top 6 or at least top 8 in qualification. Do you agree?

Where did you get that information? On the IAAF website it says that his best time before this year was 1:20.51, which would mean that he improved his PB by more than 3 minutes. Did he already go faster than that before last weekend? In the end it doesn't really matter whether he improved his PB by 3 minutes or "only" 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Taking such a huge chunk off your PB in one single race at the age of 27 when you were already close to world class before that is very suspicious in my book. For reference: A guy improving from 1:20 to 1:17 is roughly equivalent to a woman improving from 11 seconds to 10,6 seconds in the 100 m sprint. If a woman would do that (especially at the age of 27) there would be no doubt in most peoples mind that something fishy was going on.

Same for the german men, absolutely abysmal performance ... Do you know when the women's qualification will take place? My picks: or or or The match between GB and Japan will be the most important one. If GB eliminates Japan, there is a very good chance that at least 2 out of Italy/China/France/India will miss out. I think even if Italy will be eliminated by China they still have a realistic chance to get in. Japan has a shot at eliminating GB and i would favor Italy over GB/France/Taipei/India/Canada/Russia.

I think it's surprising because Italy is the current world champion? and the german guys only started competing together a couple of weeks ago. I would say that considering their age and the fact that they just started competing together, they are only gonna get better. The same should be true for Oliver Zeidler. I think women's double sculls is the biggest question mark, this could have been a fluke performance. The 6 boats that won medals here + men's quadruple sculls should be medal contenders at the world championships and the olympics. I would say Zeidler, the men's eight, the men's lightweight double sculls and the women's quadruple sculls have a very good chance of medalling at those events and one or two out of women's double sculls, men's four and men's quadruple sculls will hopefully medal there too. The last time that Germany won more than 4 medals in rowing at the olympics was in 2000!

Sadly they are useless in every sport except for distance running ...

So you predicted that the worst team here would win by 3 goals ... ?

Nice to see that even native? speakers have problems with spelling sometimes ...

Very weird time by the italian guy, he improved his PB by more than 3 minutes ... Let's pray that he will never win any medal!

Great thread! It's a bit early to speculate since we don't even know which athletes will compete, but i will still name my current favorites: - Thomas Röhler (javelin throw) - Isabell Werth (dressage) - Michael Jung (eventing) - Christian Reitz (rapid fire pistol) - Angelique Kerber (tennis) I think Röhler will be around for another olympics, the same should/could be true for Jung and Reitz, so i would probably go with Werth/Kerber for the opening cermony and the other one of those 2 for the closing ceremony or someone who did exceptionally well at the olympics (maybe/hopefully someone like Florian Wellbrock, Max Hartung, Stefan Bötticher or Alexander Zverev).

I don't think all-black suits Germany. I like all-white, but normally many nations have white jerseys, so all-white jersey would lead to a lot of confusion probably. I think white-gold-black-red jersey suit Germany and no other nation (except for Belgium) could have similar jersey, but this retro style just shows a lack of creativity in my opinion. On the other hand this design might bring the german team some luck, since i think that this design was inspired by the men's 1990 world cup jerseys.

Very good world championships for Germany and the Netherlands, GB a bit disappointing. The Netherlands are showing great progress and they could have easily won the medal table. From a german perspective the results in men's eight, men's single sculls and women's quadruple sculls were expected, but the gold medals in women's double sculls and men's lightweight double sculls were rather surprising. In my opinion 6 medals in olympic disciplines should always be the goal for Germany at world championships and olympic games. The men's quadruple sculls result was rather disappointing from a german perspective, i hope that they can turn it around again.

The german jersey looks very retro, i don't really like it though ...

Looks like a pyjama to be honest ...

Men's 200 fly: David Thomasberger swam 1:56.01 in Bergen in April Men's 400 IM: Philip Heintz swam 4:14.27 in Stockholm in April Men's 100 fly: Philip Heintz swam 51.65 last year, but this year he hasn't been faster than 52.41 Women's 400 free: This year the fastest 2 german athletes are Leonie Beck (4:07.06) and Reva Foos (4:08.22), Köhler hasn't been faster than 4:09.07 this year, but last year she swam 4:05.74 Women's 800 free: Köhler swam 8:23.63 in Bergen and Beck swam 8:25.99 in Stockholm Women's 100 back: Laura Riedemann swam 59.81 in Magdeburg (maybe this isn't an approved competition?)

I dont think this means much, they are probably preparing for the next olympics already. Of course its nice to see Germany finally doing great in the single scull again, but i will wait with my judgement until after the olympics.

Germany has also a qualified athlete in the 400 free (Florian Wellbrock), the 200 fly (David Thomasberger) and the 400 IM (Philip Heintz), but i don't know why you have 2 qualified athletes for Germany in the 100 fly? I think only Marius Kusch achieved the standard so far. On the women's side Germany has 2 qualified athletes in the 800 free (Sarah Köhler and Leonie Beck), but as far as i know only Beck has achieved the standard in the 400 free. In the 100 back Germany also has an athlete with the standard (Laura Riedemann).

How the hell is Germany ahead of Switzerland? Switzerland is clearly the better team ...

To be honest i expected this. After all she has won everything and this season i already felt as if she wasn't 100 % motivated anymore. I am glad that she finally retired, now medal decisions will be much more open in the future, while in the past we always had the scenario that anything but a gold medal for Dahlmeier was a huge shock if she was competing at 100 %. It's pretty ironic that the popularity of biathlon in Germany deeply hurts german biathlon for the second time in less than 10 years. Both Neuner and Dahlmeier for sure would have had much longer careers if they wouldnt have earned so much money by such an early age.

Would be too good to be true to finally see Kuzmina getting caught.

Agree. Am i the only one who was "shocked" by how bad the animation was (at least in parts)? I think the parts where the night king attacked Winterfell and when Daenerys saved Jon with dragonfire were animated really poorly ... SPOILER: About your spoiler: Can we be sure that Theon is dead? Not that it matters much, but i dont think we actually saw him die?