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Let's see if this works Based on various conversations - I finally figured I should upload this. http://youtu.be/I9jvNV9I9Rk Just a note before anyone bitches. I ripped this off a DVD that I made of random matches off of my copies of Dean's perm tapes. So it is basically 4th generation. But it is definitely good enough for government work.

Fantasy Booking Warning: Orton unifies the two titles this Sunday. Monday's Raw opens with Orton and the Authority in the ring claiming there is only one true champion, champion of champions, when unfamiliar music hits. AJ Styles walks down to the ring, grabs the microphone from Stephanie, and proclaims that are still two World Champions. He raises his TNA title triumphantly. The Authority and Orton stare at him in silence momentarily before breaking into a fit of laughter. Styles lowers his head in shame and walks to the back...never to be heard from again.

They all look like something a bird left on my windshield.

Dayamn.

We've all had that thought.

My first born child will be throwing with his left arm from the age of 4 months

Today I am youtube chaining Senegalese wrestling videos, thought you guys might enjoy some African Catch rasslin. That entrance blows anything Wrestlemania has done out of the water.

OK, this is where I get off. DVDVR won me over on Mark Henry and Chris Masters, but Ultimate Warrior pimping is a bridge too far.

"So there's a guy that spins around?" "Yes." "And he's called the Top?" "Yes." "And he dates a woman who used to be a figure skater?" "Yes." "And her name is the Golden Glider?" "Yes." "And there's another guy ..." "Please don't ask about the Rainbow Raider." "I was going to ask how you pronounce Killg%re." "Oh."

The only people who see Ryback and don't think "Goldberg" are kids and the internet crowd that overthinks it. I always wanted Ryback to scream crazy coke/roid promos, but he never did and his actual promos, outside the bully stuff, are just dreadful. It's really hard to buy into the guy. All the head shaking and snorting and stuff looks so phony. Some of that is the writing, most of it is the fact that Ryback is just some normal dude who works out too much.

Raven had the best theme music.

Goddamn there's some anger in this thing.

Still don't get it? People read your thread, but you cant have Michael Cera getting a Rimjob on the same list as Children of Men and claim thematic elements-! It's a foolish list that can't be tied together by any tone or style.

Is no one talking about this? http://youtu.be/6FgfOi_E_3U

Carrying the tie theme:

I don't know if I have anything constructive to say about Ryback's push, but I see people say Goldberg wasn't a good wrestler and was worthless after his streak died, and that is just wrong, damn it. First of all, Goldberg got really good at one point and was having good matches. Everyone points to the Havoc match against DDP, but he had good matches against Scott Steiner too, and he was a legitimately awesome big match worker on a consistent basis by the time he got to WWE. He got better pretty quickly. People always say things like "But, but, but the Lesnar match" when the crowd was the reason that it sucked and "But, but, but Regal made him look terrible in a random Nitro match" when that isn't the case at all and it was a legitimately awesome competitive six-minute match before Spear, Jackhammer, Splat. It's like people are desperate to paint Goldberg as sucky in the ring when he was absolutely not. He was green at one point, but he never flat out sucked. Second of all, Goldberg was rendered worthless by WCW's (mostly Russo and Nash's) stupid booking. He was still amazingly over, but he was made to look like an ass by the nWo numerous times (see: Fingerpoke of Doom, where how Goldberg is treated ended up as the very worst thing about that angle), ended up turning heel for some bizarre reason when the fans still wanted to see him destroy the nWo for good, and then ended up stuck in a feud with Totally Buff which he lost and was then taken off TV and pretty much killed dead at a time when the fans obviously wanted Goldberg/Booker T for the title and would have been open to Goldberg/Steiner for another round of matches, too. WCW tried to kill his heat about a billion times and then finally, when they couldn't do that, they simply took him off TV. He was absolutely not worthless inherently; he was just made so by every booker that he came across from the time that Nash started booking the shows.

This argument is dumb for a myriad of reasons, but the biggest one is simply the fact that Ryback wasn't even the guy's first gimmick or quasi-main event run. The fact he had his run as Skip Sheffield in the Nexus should kill idea of him being a main eventer dead since: 1) Him getting injured is a big part of what made the angle no longer work (hence he's not dependable, so Vince would never put the belt on him and give him a bigger workload after he couldn't handle the workload of being protected in a 8 man group) 2) He was in the ring with top stars constantly during that run (and hurt people in that run as well) so he really had no excuse for being as green as he was and still is. 3) If he had such great charisma he would have found himself in the #2 turncoat role of Nexus but nobody was ever really clamoring for him to get in that spot (that went to DB and then Otunga for God's sake). 4) HE WAS THE LEAST OVER WRESTLER ON NXT SEASON 1 BY MILES. He wasn't competing with the Cena's and Taker's of the world. He was on a show with 8 other complete unknowns on an even playing field and couldn't get a soul to notice him organically to save his life. So what makes you think he has the required it factor to be WWE champion? Even if he was over, it clearly wasn't anything he was doing right. His push against Punk was no different than the flavour of the week heels Cena and Hogan get fed during long title reigns or what Flair used to get for his NWA title reigns. He was never EVER gonna touch that belt, they just needed a guy to keep Punk busy. Saying "he was over, why not give him the belt" is like saying "hey, Earthquake was over after he squashed Hogan that one time, why not give him the belt?". Cause it makes no goddamn sense in the long run.

Girlfriend whines about getting married? No sells it and acts cool. Girlfriend whines about arguing with her sister? No sells it and acts cool. Girlfriend whines about her insecurities and not being able to relax in his home? No sells it and acts cool. Girlfriend puts sweat clothes in the nice clothes hamper? WHAT THE FUCK? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As soon as I saw Children of Men occupying the same list as the Matrix sequels I said "fuck this thread." Outloud. My neighbors heard me. I hope they were watching Four Brothers.

Seems like the first thing Fandango's dance partner should be able to do is dance. Summer Rae can not. Fandangirl had the perfect balance of elegance and snobbiness. She was subtle, giving off the vibe that she wasn't really a bitch, just someone who happened to be with a bit of a dick. She was realistic. Summer Rae is too over-the-top, too mannered, too distracting. She's too obviously playing a character. I dont' want to come off all weird about Fandangirl the way some people do with AJ, so I'll just close by saying that I'm possibly in love with her, and if she was selling her shit on ebay I would probably buy it.

Maybe Col. Parker got Bunkhouse Buck to send his nephews The Young Bucks to poison the Briscoes' chickens in order to create a chicken shortage so the Colonel could increase the price of his chickens.

It's the Fargate.

Cena or Orton wins, and then HHH comes out, congratulates the winner, says they're retiring the two belts or whatever unified belt they're making, and then announces himself as new champion, revealing an undisclosed third belt.

Don't be ridiculous. That gumpy clown clearly couldn't deliver in a main event match, and the idea that he should have been put over and had the promotion focus around him is dipshittery

Gimme a break.

Oh... boy. That's a whole bunch of terrible.If I had to pick, it'd be 4th row center. I have a feeling that HHH & Steph's kids scribbled those on a restaurant placemat or something. I wouldn't use any of those.

Goddamn I don't even know if they ever wrestle but I'm HYPED.

I can't wait for Weidman to KO Silva again

Good for GSP. More guys should learn to retire on top instead of turning into jokes like Roy Jones Jr. or Evander Holyfield.

Hey I know a dude who doesn't get on the internet who thinks that Ryback is a Goldberg ripoff so since everyone is just completely making shit up in this thread, I'll definitively state that all casuals think Ryback is a Goldberg clone.

Warrior's good matches are a result of him being a guy that knows his limitations in the ring and is perfectly fine with playing "Follow the Leader" with whatever better talent he was in the ring with.

In reading this thread, there is way too much focus on Ryback's feud with Punk. He was still very over coming out of that feud. It was the poor execution of his heel turn that brought him down several notches. If you remember, arguably the second most over face on the roster, was coming out to crickets within a month of his turn. Ryback literally got no reaction during his entrance at Payback. Who could forget those five minutes backstage promos where Ryback, the Neanderthal wrecking ball, was reading in complete audience silence, chapters from a book about his motivations. Once the crowd stopped caring about him, creative stopped caring about him too. He became just another guy for the Cenas and Punk of the world the defeat to send the crowd home happy.

This post will be all kinds of spoilerific and will also no doubt repeat some thoughts I've expressed previously. You've been warned! Thanks to being sick all week, I was able to get all the way through Friday Night Lights. Definitely one of the best series I've ever watched though it never quite reaches the heights of The West Wing, for example. Without a doubt the best "high school drama" show I've ever seen though. There's such a high level of authenticity to the dialogue, to the situations, to the characters that you find yourself wondering why more shows can't do it that well, too. I thought season 1 was the best of the 5 though season 5 is very good, too. Season 2 wasn't nearly as bad as expected - was still very good, in fact - but definitely did stick out compared to the other four. I think the show was definitely hurt in the last two seasons by the main characters not being as good as those in the first three. The last two seasons had too many cliched characters (you've got the "troubled tough girl" in Epic, the "reformed crackhead single mom", the "deadbeat convict dad who reverts back to form", and so on) but they were still generally written and acted very well, so you still accept them. I liked also that the last few seasons dialed back the "she's sassy and fierce and independent!!!!!" part of Tami Taylor's personality. It was grating and unnecessary and felt just a tad forced. I liked the relationship between Eric and Tami - it felt real. Not perfect, not 100% lovey-dovey but real. And I liked that both were allowed to be intelligent, real, functional people. Other thoughts: - Said it before but, man, Minka Kelly is hot. Can't believe I never noticed her before even as GQ was naming her Sexiest Woman and all that - That said, the producers definitely made the right call in emphasizing the Tyra character over Lyla. More interesting, more faceted, better actress. Unfortunately, once they did that, they just sucked all the energy right out of the Lyla character and she became just this lifeless nothing. - I love that all the characters (Joe McCoy excepted) are basically good people trying to do the right thing. They're flawed - Saracen drinks, Tim's a crook, Julie's a bit easy to get in the sack, Lyla's a goodie-goodie who cheats on her boyfriend, Eric's willing to look the other way on recruiting stuff, Tami's OK with leading on a co-worker, etc - but they're good people. - Too many last-second wins for the football teams. Yeah, I know, it's a drama but c'mon. - in general, the football on the show is done really, really well. The action on the field is pretty realistic and looks good. But, yeah, that one "Saracen fumbled at the goal line" and the "mud bowl" episode were more than a little tough to take. - mentioned it before but the Matt Saracen character is one of my favorite of all-time. Whoever said he should have gotten an Emmy is 100% dead-on. It's a shame that Saracen was basically non-existent in seasons 4 & 5 and that what was shown wasn't very interesting. - someone else mentioned that at least some of the dialogue was improvised and it shows. It feels real and natural, especially Landry's dialogue. I love his awkward, hesitant delivery and underlying sarcasm and snarkiness. - lots of plot holes and dropped storylines though - Lyla as a born-again, JD McCoy the superstar, Santiago the rescued thug, and so on - I hated how the ages of the characters kept changing. Knocking two years off the ages of several major characters was stupid. Changing Landry & Saracen to being not the same age was stupid - especially since Landry is portrayed as older than Saracen in the first season then suddenly is younger in the fourth. - I'm not sure I've ever heard a broadcast network show with more profanity than FNL. Yeah, "damn" and "ass" aren't the worst things ever said on TV but, holy cow, they sure said them a LOT. - I had to laugh when 20-year old Tim Riggins after getting out of prison vows to "never do anything illegal again" - as he's drinking a beer underage. Yeah, it's hardly a felony but I still found it funny. - Adrianne Palicki is a lot better looking with light/blonde hair than the dark she showed in the finale. And we won't even discuss what Aimee Teegarden has done to herself since the show ended. - Back to the plot holes - when Dillon was split into two high schools, they just completely ignored a whole bunch of logic/plot holes. For example, where the heck were all those East Dillon kids before the split? They were attending Dillon yet the school was somehow lily white? Wouldn't at least SOME of the players - like, ya know, Luke - have already been on the Dillon team? Then there's the whole matter of splitting a not-gigantic school in half and yet somehow both of the halves remain 5A (the largest) class? - I thought the series finale was great. They tied up almost all of the loose ends in realistic, good ways and it was a very satisfying ending. All in all, a great show, easily one of the best I've ever seen.

"So, you're super fast." "Right" "And one of your two arch-enemies is a guy with the exact same power with the same costume, only the colors reversed." "Yes." "And the other one?" "He's a gorilla." "A gorilla?" "Well, he's from a race of super-intelligent gorillas that live in a hidden city. And he's telepathic." "...." So, once again, the best rogues gallery in all of comics: The Motherfucking Flash.

Really this is the worst argument I have ever seen. First if we are going to go back to NXT season 1 for fuck's sake and say that it disqualifies him from getting a run, we may as well throw Cena in the hamper too since he didn't get over as the guy who wore different colored tights. Guys get repackaged all the time and it can really bring out the best in a guy to take on a new persona. But the heck with that right? That Mean Mark Callous will never amount to anything! 1) He broke his ankle... and so he can never be trusted again? Well, so long Cena (again) we can't trust you not to have your elbow explode. So long Rey Mysterio and Mark Henry we can't trust you not to be hurt again in six months. So long Daniel Bryan who hurt himself doing a top rope dropkick and so can't be trusted. 2) Who missed time due to Ryback injuring them again? Remind me. I remember guys not wanting to work him because he was too snug and all but I also don't remember a parade of injuries. 3) He was probably either #2 or #3 in the Nexus as far as being an actual threat was concerned. Otunga got more microphone time because he can talk a little more but David was never booked as a physical threat. One could argue that Gabriel was number 2 since he got to put the exclamation point on the Nexus beat downs with the 450 splash but Skip was clearly the Sgt at Arms in the Nexus scenario as shown in their Survivor Series match going over Mark Henry and someone else to even the sides up. Bryan was never the number 2 guy in the Nexus because he never made it past the first night of the faction before getting pulled from the group. I would argue the Nexus really lost their momentum when Skip went down. 4) Less over than Darren Young who had to go back to NXT for a second go around? Less over than Michael Tarver? Otunga? Slater (who turned out to be a better worker than Ryback but was miscast as a face at the time)? The problem with NXT season one is that only Wade really got over even a little bit. And basically Ryback's gimmick was that he was a big, dumb Nebraska guy which isn't a recipe for success. I'm not even arguing he should have been given the WWE belt! But your post is just so dumb and wrong-headed I had to comment. They could have certainly protected him more and gotten more out of him than a team with Axel (who does need to be in a tag team) from both an in ring and character prospective.

I'm sure to lose some people with this statement, but Temple of Doom isn't that good. Really, Raiders (despite its massive flaw) and Last Crusade (so awesome) are the crux of the series.

Since we are on the internet, I'm going to require you to be more specific about what of hers you want to buy on ebay. "Shit" is both not specific enough and potentially far, far, far, far too specific.

GOG is essentially just a store for (almost exclusively) old PC games. Unlike Steam, there's no piece of software that all your games run through, it's DRM-free. You just pay them, you get links on your library page, you download that game's .exe installer, and it's on your system for life. Like the old days.

So the Animal House ending.

She's not even fucking close to being as good as Summer Rae...

That was the only thing in the divas match that got a reaction with the group I was watching it with. I seem to rememeber the concecious with her when she was with DJ Gabriel (?) that she was supposed to be the Lita and he was the Papi Chulo, but she never has done alot that I recall. But she does seem to have improved.

The fact that there's two pages on how irrelevant Indy is closes the case for Jim Cameron.

I don't think he really watched any of these movies.

Dynasty did it first.

All of this post is wrong 1) He was over. He was killing jobbers for almost a year, and people dug it. He confronted Punk backstage and people went nuts. Everything built well until they had to stick with Punk. 2) Yes. The roster is as interchangeable and boring as it has ever been. Nobody actually kicks ass, they all talk a lot and it's dull. A guy who does nothing like that and fucks people up would be a change of pace. 3) People walk him through matches, he gets better. Like Goldberg. 4) All of those dudes are interchangeable, none of them have any mystique. There's no point to the Wyatts, the Shield are just "guys who wrestle matches" now, Rhodeses will never be anything beyond what they are. Cena and Orton are opposite sides of the same coin, Bryan and Punk are opposite sides of another coin. They're all fucking dull however many good matches they have. Nobody is exciting, nobody is different, nobody just fucks people up. That's what Ryback could do and what he should have done. CM Punk was a failed experiment, so go the other way, see if people respond to Ryback.

How the fuck Paul Heyman isn't the Penguin is beyond me.

I like guys with flash finishers so I had no problems with Rhino's moveset. It did bother me how a guy with such awesomely curly long hair could be considered to be a badsass. Samoa Joe also suffered from the Rhino Factor during the monster heel run. You are an unstoppable bonecrusher but you have frosted ends and perfect hairline edges? Really?

Iron Man 3 was fucking terrible.