Plum Marigold? Are you serious?
Plum Marigold? Are you serious?
Bleu wrote:
Except non of these teammates or prior training partners ever "like" or comment on any of Hasay's posts. NOP, Nike people, Robbie Andrews and 3,000 groupies.
But you obviously follow every tweet she makes so you would know that. Which group of the above would you put yourself in?
kmaclam wrote:
Pappas is WAY more interesting than 95% of the T & F athletes out there. I'm backing her.
Huh? Why exactly? From what she puts out publicly, Pappas is about average level of interesting when compared to most of my friends. Maybe most distance runners you've known are boring, but not the ones I know. I went to a relatively slow d1 school though, so maybe we were a little less serious about running, so people went on to have other interests.
I have world class musicians, semi famous actors, very high level researchers among my former teammates. Very few have gone on to boring lives that I would consider to be less interesting than Pappas. So I'm not sure why I'm supposed to celebrate her for being average, just because she has run moderately fast.
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kmaclam wrote:Pappas is WAY more interesting than 95% of the T & F athletes out there. I'm backing her.
Huh? Why exactly? From what she puts out publicly, Pappas is about average level of interesting when compared to most of my friends. Maybe most distance runners you've known are boring, but not the ones I know. I went to a relatively slow d1 school though, so maybe we were a little less serious about running, so people went on to have other interests.
I have world class musicians, semi famous actors, very high level researchers among my former teammates. Very few have gone on to boring lives that I would consider to be less interesting than Pappas. So I'm not sure why I'm supposed to celebrate her for being average, just because she has run moderately fast.
she's made two movies before age 25 and was the lead actor in one of them. She is an Olympian. She is quirky in an appealing way.
glad to know you have so many similarly accomplished friends. I don't. And I went to a very good college. So I'll admire AP.
"moderately fast"???....lol. Kinda sums up your crappy attitude towards Pappas right there. Besides Symonds, Phoebe Wright, maybe Merber, who else in all of T & F is as 'interesting' as this writer, director, producer, poet, actress....
Karl Hungus wrote:
Plum Marigold? Are you serious?
I heard the love interest shares your name. The resulting marriage happens to be my stage name.
Parent monitoring child's social media group. How does that work for you?
Not a single other runner, Shalane, Molly, Amy, Emma, Jenny, should I go on?
Congrats to Pappas. She is successful in all of her crafts and an Ivy League grad,
She actually got established performers to appear in this?
Andy Buckley from the Office and Rachel Dratch from SNL. Did either have much of a role?
I will probably watch this movie now. Neither is that famous I know (I did not even know their names before I clicked on the link) but I definitely recognize both of their faces and I think most people would.
The only reason I'd watch the movie is because of David Wallace/Andy Buckley. My other thought is that Pappas seems to really crave attention. I wasn't a fan of her competing for Greece because she wasn't going to make the US team at the Olympics. I'm a major fan of many of our US athletes, but Pappas really seems to annoy me with her various antics. No, I am not jealous of her. No, I am also not an unaccomplished athlete either. I was actually ahead of her at our same age until I had a career ending injury back in the college days while she was at Dartmouth.
kmaclam wrote:
Pappas is WAY more interesting than 95% of the T & F athletes out there. I'm backing her.
Her rise to success is interesting, and you undeniably follow her eccentricities.
I'm just not a fan of her representing track and field. She plays on a niche market that stereotypes the sport and its athletes. But it's unoriginal and bad. Even the reviews acknowledged the movie lacked edge, it was just quirky, so they gave it a thumbs up.
I feel the people that support her stand behind what she is doing, but not really the content. And untill she can make quality content that isn't clouded with awkwardness, I don't want her representing track and field. I think she might do better as an editor rather a writer. Let someone else come up with the edge, and she can comb in her quirkiness on the side. But I still think she's too young to even be good at that.
Sounds like you're pretty jealous!
Bleu wrote:
Congrats to Pappas. She is successful in all of her crafts and an Ivy League grad,
I am of the opinion that she is moderately successful so far. What's the saying, 'jack of all trades but master of none'?
It seems like Pappas wasn't willing to reach the level of running her former teammate Hasay has, nor does she appear to be 'all in' on one discipline. She needs to focus her efforts entirely on one thing.
Knew very little about Alexi Pappas until this thread. She seems really awesome and my kind of people. I live in one of the cities that will be showing it in theaters, so hopefully I can check it out. That being said, having her boyfriend as the director must've been weird for the romance aspects of the movie. I've directed my now wife in short films looong ago (just school projects) and would never have been able to handle that.
Regarding craving attention, after reading this NYT article, I think that's the wrong way to put it. At 4 years old, having one's mother take her own life for no reason at all must do a number to one's psyche. Regardless, I wish her continued success in all aspects of her life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/sports/alexi-pappas-track-star-veers-far-from-her-lane.html?_r=0
Karl Hungus wrote:
Plum Marigold? Are you serious?
I wish AP and the film success, but I had this same thought! Worst character name I've seen in a movie since Brian Shute in Vision Quest.
Waste of time. Your time.
Not to take anything away from Pappas's achievement, but it seems that only 4 critics have written reviews for the film. And those four were all in the 2.5/4 star range, which qualifies as "fresh" but not outstanding. Thus 100%. If you actually read the reviews, they aren't that enthusiastic, the consensus being it was a sweet, nice film but not particularly memorable. Rotten Tomatoes is weird in that a film can theoretically get uniformly lukewarm reviews, which all still qualify as positive, and land a 100% rating. Whereas a film that gets 4/4 star ratings all around except for one critic who hated it, won't.
That said, she's accomplished way more in her young life than I ever will, so I shouldn't be nitpicky.
Hfhnhggvvvbbh wrote:
kmaclam wrote:Pappas is WAY more interesting than 95% of the T & F athletes out there. I'm backing her.
Her rise to success is interesting, and you undeniably follow her eccentricities.
I'm just not a fan of her representing track and field. She plays on a niche market that stereotypes the sport and its athletes. But it's unoriginal and bad. Even the reviews acknowledged the movie lacked edge, it was just quirky, so they gave it a thumbs up.
I feel the people that support her stand behind what she is doing, but not really the content. And untill she can make quality content that isn't clouded with awkwardness, I don't want her representing track and field. I think she might do better as an editor rather a writer. Let someone else come up with the edge, and she can comb in her quirkiness on the side. But I still think she's too young to even be good at that.
HAHA!
The self important critics on here are quintessential LR morans. Please keep it up; this thread will be epic! AP can mine this for her next film about adolescent boy runners. You're hilarious :)
Waiting for the film universe to implode when Pappas and Barbaro (Hadsell) end up together. Two Narcissistic attention hoarders. Judging from his track record she's right up his alley: fast runner that's not a beauty queen but has that look like you want to date her but not admit it to your friends.