Stigmata (1999).  This one isn't bad at all.  It got panned when it came out.  It's a time capsule of the 90s (to me that was a positive).  It's not a super scary/moments one.  More philosophical in nature about the belief in god.  This was set and filmed in Pittsburgh.  I thought it was New York for a while.  The ending is sort of interesting, but I'm not sure it works that well for me.

Heat (1995).  I've watched this waaaay too many times in the past year.  I'm not sure how this crept up on me and became one of my all time faves.  I remember I used to watch it for the famous shootout.  Now, I see greatness in most scenes/characters.  I end up feeling for Eady at the end because she got betrayed more than once by Neil.  And you notice the acting.  Watch DeNiro near the end, especially when he's driving and makes a key decision.  You can see the doubt in his mind.  I now appreciate the Pacino (high on coke) rendtiion of Vincent Hanna.  He kind of reveals why in one of the scenes with the wife where he says he channels that energy (for the hunt).  There's also the entire brotherhood/loyalty/family/ ethos that permeates this film.  The Jon Voight character is practically Neil's father.

I totally forgot about those two.

It's funny I think about some girl too when I kind of think about New Kids.  I think I was 10 or 11 when they got big.  There was this one girl that transferred in.  She was born or was from Burma/Mynamar.  This was about the only time I knew anyone from that country. 

As years go by, you learn that you did some crappy things to people when you're growing up, you never realize those things at the time.  I'm glad that wearing band/artist tees are still somewhat prevalent though.

What blows me away about some of those 88 and 89 charts is that a lot of those albums were released the year before (or later).  No way in this current era of disposable music this happens.

Yeah, INXS was everywhere with Mediate, Need you tonight and Never tear us apart.  On the very poppy side, New Kids on the Block seemed like they were everywhere in 1989.  Not as big as Guns but kind hit a pop culture high in 89-90, until people got sick of them.

Cheapness and inexpirence at HC isn't the Bears' problem.  Look at all these other non experienced HC that got hired on other teams.  GB coach:  no previous HC experience, only was an OC at the Rams and TEN,   Rams coach:  no HC experience.  Bengals guy:  no HC experience.  the MIA HC whose team just put 70 pts on the Broncos, again first time coach.

They've just consistently hired the wrong people.  I even looked at the previous candidates from the 2022 coaching search.  Majority were DC guys, some of them failed retreads.  The only offensive guys were the Bills OC (ended up getting the NYG job) and Doug Pederson.  And they weren't hiring Doug Pederson.

On the GM stuff/inexperience stuff you may have more of a point.  They chose to overpay LB on day one of free agency and chose to sign a OG with questionable practice habits and shitty pass blocking skills, traded for Claypool and he's disappointed.  Those are bad moves/losses to me.

The Bears need to just improve whatever fucking criteria or processes that go into hiring these guys.  At some point, they might be better off tossing a dart at a random board of names.  You can be cheap as an owner and succeed in the NFL.  The Bears are cheap and dumb.  That aint gonna work.  Either the owners gotta step up and start giving a shit about who they hire or just live with this cycle of crappy Bears football.

This is going to be a long post about the Bears.  But if this current staff "manages" to lead them to the worst record in the NFL for the second straight year, they can't be brought back at all.  Pro teams sell hope and you aint selling shit if you are bringing those guys back to ruin their new NFL QB.  Look it may not be Fields fault but he's going to be gone unless he shows major improvement in the next 14 games.

The bigger problem with the Bears ownership is simple: they just haven't picked the right GM's and coaches in the past 10-15 years or so.  They can be as half assed owners as they want as long as the team keeps on winning.  They haven't won because the guys picking the groceries/and cooking them have sucked.  They passed on Mahomes in 2017 for Mitch Trubisky.  That aint on ownership.  I have no idea whether or not the new GM has an idea what he's doing (I'm leery given some of the bad moves he's already made).  But if he doesn't it'd be best if they hired an established GM who has won before, just to steady the ship and run it like an NFL team.

As far as the coach goes, hire an offensive guy, preferribly from the SF and Rams tree since it's a high success rate.  No more defensive HC who like to lean on the run and play tough defense (aka meatheads).  For better or worse, it's video game football and you have to score points at this point and have a guy who can design an offense/scheme and offensive playmakers.