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two films this week... First couldn't get enough of cute cuddly tardigrade aliens in Mickey 17? Then Pixar has a film for you in Elio! While not the success of Coco (both films share a creator) this is a very good tale of a misfit kid reaching out to the cosmos with some scene that do rival the Day of the Dead scenes in Coco with the breathtaking colors reminisce of early technicolor films showing what they could do. And a film about people living in quarantine isolation who couldn't relate? 28 years later (must.not.make. Sandra Bullock joke) is actually a coming of age tale. I wonder if the script was in anyway inspired by David Gilmour's (the anthropologist not the guy who replaced Syd) The Making of Masculinity. Where in indigenous cultures had manhood rituals because you needed real men to do things like hunt the mammoth, and you made young males prove their worth (I've thought that films like Fight Club and American Psycho deal with the idea of masculinity in an era where we no long hunt the mammoth). You have a 12 year old boy hunting infected with his father in a manhood ritual, and then going back out with his mother to find a doctor (there's also several scenes that makes me thing of The Rage Virus as analogist for AIDS), some shoots reminded me of Brian De Palma and the overall sense of dread knowing the Zombies could be any where at anytime felt very Hitchcockian, also a good job of a horror film that manages to primarily exist during daylight hours.

All time great feeling show, loved it. Lived up to all expectations and delivered. I think my only disappointment was hoping for more surprises (jeff jarrett) in the Casino. Juice was cool and I liked seeing the Gunns finally pop back up with him. I was a little surprised there had been zero Jericho involvement for a show of this level, even if just a Fozzy show during the week of or something. I thought he was a more likely return here than Cope, thinking tonight would've planted the seeds for Cope returning later but it was cool to do it now. Always wondered how they'd go about reuniting Cope and Christian after everything, but this was a good start. Love the Dustin win. It felt so out of nowhere but I wanna see as many TV defenses as we can get. ROH Tag, ROH Trios, and now TNT champ. Thought for sure Fletcher was winning and then on the finish, I thought Garcia had gotten the pin until the music hit. Great Texas moment Loved Swerve/Ospreay vs Bucks, one of my most anticipated matches. HUGE pop for "Ain't Nobody" getting used for Swerve, always hoped he would use that before his current theme really took off, so that was awesome. I would've probably put money on the Bucks, so I was shocked by the outcome but love it as Ospreay's one of my favs and a fan of Swerve as well. the unpredictability of the event was excellent in that even the more predictable ones still had lots of doubt. thought Toni/Mercedes was legit damn near perfection. The finish was almost exactly was I envisioned it going. Incredible blowoff to an epic feud. Definitely one of my very top favorite matches of the year. Okada/Omega was fun, did feel like somewhat greatest hits version of things. I liked Tony pointing out on the scrum that if it was Continental rules, Callis would be FIRED, so they'll now go back to no more interfering. I was surprised as I thought Omega would be the one guy that could beat Okada after this long 400+ day reign. Incredibly epic main event, great back and forth, wonderful storytelling and the perfect finale. Even still, I was biting on Hangman might lose when the nail bed came in to play and the Bucks coming out after everyone else. Moxley definitely had a hell of a performance as the villain, I could still almost feel sympathy for him seeing him get hung covered in blood. Amazing visual. Agreed with most all of this! I couldn't tell for sure whether Skye was in the match or not, the way she ran out alongside Julia and was later doing spots with Mina and Statlander while the others went on chase to the back. Syuri was a cool surprise while I was still bummed Deonna got left out entirely. Great night of wrestling.

According to Alvarez (yeah), Cole was injured on the lariat from Fletcher on Thursday's Collision. If true, it's probably another concussion and we all remember how long it took for him to come back last time. Pure speculation, but he might be considering retirement or been suggested by the AEW medical team to consider it given his history.

Is there a bigger name that I'm missing? Cyril Gane has the same recent record with 3 wins in 4 fights and has had two title shots as well. Not a tone of name value in the division

It's a cool theme in a vacuum but stuff like that works way better if it's Japan, or combined with one of his existing themes to act as an intro or something.

I could hear Casey's cries from across the pond when Kenny Omega came out to Take Flight. ;).

Full PPV thoughts: Relieved Hangman Adam Page ended Jon Moxley's AEW World Championship reign of terror. I've always said their first Texas Death Match at Revolution 2023 was ***** and better than Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Adam Page one at Full Gear 2023. This was even better. Overbooked and all the better for it with rights getting wronged. Interference by Bryan Danielson, Swerve Strickland, the Death Riders and Darby Allin. My MOTN and has a chance of making my top ten AEW matches ever for the match and the payoff. A MOTYC. Timeless Toni Storm vs. Mercedes Mone was a terrific match. Both delivered the billing of the biggest AEW Women's match ever. It's one I need to rewatch as I was half asleep after Hurt Syndicate/Jet Speed/Patriarchy put me to that. I will say I'm not sure if I preferred the match ending on the three rolling Storm Zeros or the Avalanche Storm Zero. Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega was definitely the weakest of their five matches. This has high expectations as a result. It was still great though. Surprised Kazuchika Okada won. I really don't like the Young Bucks and Will Ospreay but I really liked their tag team match with Swerve Strickland more than I expected going into the show. MJF won the Men's Casino Gauntlet match. I thought it went too long and was the worst of the Men's. I preferred the Women's one and the rightful winner in Athena. Disappointing surprises in both though. I hope Adam Cole's will be okay. I would never wish ill will on a wrestler I've never liked. Didn't expect Cole to vacate the TNT Championship and Dustin Rhodes to take it. Oldest TNT Champion ever and second oldest AEW Champion ever. Good opener in the Opps vs. Death Riders/Gabe Kidd. Fuck Gabe Kidd and fuck Gabe Kidd for his lame ass "I'm a madman" stick. Five hours and 57 minutes is way too long a wrestling PPV. Started at Saturday, 8pm UK time and ended 01:57 Sunday morning.

Spectacular show! FTR-Outrunners 2 was fun on the zero. Dug the Opps-Death Riders and strong finish. Earlier in the thread somebody mentioned the negative of Casino Guantlets being a lot of ppl lying around for a long time - spot on. Production had the hardcam far wider than necessary throughout the night, and in no place was it more evident than the 'geeks' lying around ringside during the Casinos. Still, I didn't not have fun watching that Men's match, and very much liked the MJF win. Juice Robinson returning as the most generic enhancement talent possible wasn't on my bingo card. Bad move on the beard removal and the dull new presentation. I only caught the end of the TNT title match. I like a brief Dustin run before Fletcher murders him. The Cole stuff feels very ominous. His heartfelt promo added nicely to the posi vibes of this show. Swerve/Ospreay-Bucks was so goddamn fun. I love the Bucks moving on from the 'EVP' tags. The Womens Casino was more hit than miss, but not without some ugh moments. I like the Athena win. Hurts-Pats-Jetspeeds was a bit wonky at points. Speedball stood out again. The Nick Wayne turn was nice. Cope making a quick save felt a little contrived, but suckered me in on the 'Go find yourself' line. Mone-Toni was the classic it needed to be. Goddamn did I ever feel that pop on the 3! The Omega entrance made for some good satirical comedy. Not a fan of Omega's alternate theme. My expectations were in check and I thoroughly loved Omega-Okada. I question the wonky call on the Continental rules being altered for the most important match. Not sure Kenny needed the extra protection in the booking. The Page-Moxley main event was so fanfuckintastic! The Danielson pop filled me with pure joy! Mox's sell on the finish was a total highlight. Darby, fuck yes! Loved the Swerve-Hanger stuff. Man, Page pulling the strap outta the case! So many great little moments on this show. Awe-inspiring effort throughout. L-U-V-A-E-DUB!

I did, mate: We love and miss you, DEAN.

Gotta be real I am balls deep in POE 1 at the moment and loving life. RIghteous Fire is so goddamn stupid.

Okay but hear me out: Will Osprey is a dork I haven't watched much wrestling this year but this show sounds very cool.

I didn't get to see the event, but based on what I've read (so far) it seems like Hangman's redemption is complete. EXCEPT For things to truly be corrected and for everything to be all is right with the world, they MUST have him reconcile with The Dark Order.

After doing a Conan deep dive last couple weeks, decided to watch the movie. Which I’m sure I’ve not watched renting it in 1983 or so. as a teen, I don’t know how much Milius and Oliver Stone had changed from the original stories.

Yeah, I get wanting to give JR a moment after all the cancer stuff, but he sounded like he was sundowning hard by the end. Also forgot to mention they pulled off the Cope/Christian thing pretty well. Hopefully whoever was writing for Swerve and Hanger picks up this angle too. Cope made the point early on that he could see in Nick's eyes that he would turn on Christian eventually. He didn't just save Christian and pretend nothing ever happened, he's going to make Christian give the Happy Gilmore apology first. Bashing Christian in the nuts with Spike didn't bring his best friend back, it's going to take genuine empathy and self-reflection, and Cope is the bigger man taking the first step towards that.

I like when pro wrestling makes me feel something. The main event, and Hangman, make me feel something. For personal reasons I'm not going to discuss here, his character arc from 2019 to 2021 really meant something to me. This current one doesn't reflect anything in my personal life, and that's fine, but it was still really well told, they hit all the marks that I've been saying they should've hit when I didn't think they would until after. He deserves it. I know in the Discord today I was trolling about wanting to see Hangman lose just to see the meltdowns, and that's partially true I'm not going to lie, but in my heart of hearts I kind of felt this would happen. TK isn't Vince McMahon, or Triple H, or Eric Bischoff. Sometimes the best story is the most simple one, and I feel like AEW doesn't do swerves just for the sake of "watercooler talk" or ratings or money or anything like that. If it's a good story, with a simple ending in mind, then that's the route they go if they can. They went down that path tonight. I'm happy with this. Hangman was my favorite until Punk showed up in AEW. Hangman was the guy who made me feel like that Punk fan watching WWE every week just to get to his segments and matches. I felt the same way about watching week to week, seeing this multi-year storyline change and evolve. You can't imagine my inner turmoil when my two guys started feuding. When that whole thing made Punk's run there implode. Now I'm back to watching WWE just to see Punk's segments or matches, and watching Hangman's arc in AEW change and evolve weekly. I'm happy with this. But I still think Darby is the soul of AEW, and Hangman is the heart. I'm gonna rewatch a few more matches in the next few days, because I was tired after the first two hours and was fighting to stay awake, but I needed to watch this. https://i.postimg.cc/qqdYcTcZ/IMG-3700.jpg

Whenever someone asks so what's the deal, I can't help but hear it in Jerry Seinfeld's voice.

I couldn't watch the ppv live, so I'm up now watching the replay. I'm up to Swerve/Ospreay vs. Young Bucks.

Danielson then immediately showing up on the biggest AEW PPV of the year and doing the Yes motion to get the crowd to chant it makes this even more funny. Either he was just being silly about WWE telling him that or he went out of his way to do the opposite of what they asked.

If I was to guess, it's probably concussion related.

This is one of those 1 + -1 is zero things. Also, as much as one can love Derrick Lewis, Derrick Lewis conceivably having a third chance at UFC gold is some improbable stuff that should not be taking place in the year of our lord 2025.

Reminder that Vampiro is not actually a cholo but a Canadian named Ian! (check out his documentary if you haven't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNfGJTGcQOM). Nothing on cagematch that I can find of either piper or valentine having a bullrope match, and nothing on history of wwe. Wonder what he's thinking of if not some long forgotten house show in the great white north. My whole problem with Cage is he's a 275lbs guy who still wants to wrestle like he's 220lbs. I once saw him blow a 619 in a three way against Scorpio Sky and Luke Hawx. It's like "Dude you are the biggest guy in the building let alone the match!" wrestle like it! He's actually pretty solid when he plants his feet and slaps meat!

Beau confirmed they were married “for many years.”

Also, having Jim Ross on the call was elder abuse. Holy shit.

Unnecessary shit like the Bucks and the bed of nails. And Ospreay looking like a dork getting Pillmanized as the manager of his partner from earlier was hiding under the time keepers table to eventually handcuff Shafir, because I guess Swerve had a master plan that involved Ospreay getting murdered ? It FELT like 15 minutes of overbooked bullshit, no matter how long it actually was.

Kinda crazy how similar the Okada vs. Omega series is compared to Flair vs. Steamboat. Tonight was their version of Spring Stampede 1994.