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Vince going to his boy Trump's playbook.

No stamina for the job eh? Sounds like someone needs some BLUE CHEW! Use the code 83Weeks and get your first dose for only $5!

Shorty G? Fuck this company.

??? FREDDIE CROUGAR IN ZUBAZ ???

Bischoff was clearly hired for his name value only. Eric took the job, took the money, didn't have a clue what was happening in the WWE, didn't give a shit and went home. Some guys in their later years want to prove themselves for past missteps. Some just want to cash in. Eric was the latter. You guys spending any more time discussing it past that are wasting more time than he has.

I have no idea why people in wrestling can't see Bischoff's real value isn't as an executive, it's as on air talent. He is really great as a sleazy smarmy heel and would be a great manager/mothpiece leading a heel stable.

She knows how it goes

The only answer is purifying fire. Burn. It. Down.

If that’s the case, then you people are monsters. YOU DON’T DESERVE WHAT NATURE HAS GIVEN YOU!

"All of the character select models now stand straight staring ahead as if lobotomised" is an underrated weird wwe 2k uh symptom of the past couple of years

There were three to four specific things Bischoff consistently said that I thought WWE was desperately lacking. He did not, in any obvious way, bring them to WWE. I'd be curious if he had a hand in the "Who attacked Reigns?" story though. Because that, culminating in the tag with Bryan was the best major program in the WWE all year (other than maybe Bryan vs Kofi). I fully admit that maybe he didn't and that obviously there were a lot of other issues. Also, what a wretched year in general. We sat back when it was obvious there was no good choice to win the Rumble and they still managed to some how pick the worst of a number of bad choices and it's just been one thing after another since.

Seriously. This company steps on its own dick more than John Holmes.

Bruce should be a bigger man and just take the W with grace.

Vince/WWE of the last 10 years hasn't met an amazing talent he couldn't completely fuck up yet.

I suddenly know who they should push instead of Rollins.

I'm pretty sure there's an alternate reality where he's president.

Don't steal @GetDown's gimmick!

I can easily see people from Fox wanting to push the pretty blonde military veteran.

They have been pushing a soon-to-be challenger. It's just not the one you want:

Cain has those Morticia Adams powers with the way he’s able to keep his eyes out of the shadows.

CURSE OF THE DEMON (Tourneur, 1957) IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES (100/85) SELECTED BY: @nate "Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes." I dig everything about this film. The demon's face was a fixture of my childhood, as it took up a full page spread of a long-forgotten article the Famous Monsters of Filmland Fearbook 1983 (I think it was a story about some film festival). This was several years away from the first VCR to grace the Nate household, so there was little chance I had of seeing this by some work of serendipity, but I was always intrigued by that grim visage - the piggish nose, the horns, the dead stare, and that ghoulish, gaping maw. There was no sense of perspective, so I was never certain if this was a humanoid boogeyman a la Boris' Frankenstein Monster, or if this was some proto-kaiju towering over the mere populace. Years later, on a double feature release (with the Americanized cut, Curse of the Demon), I would have a chance to see this film, to find out if it lived up to this image that had haunted me for so many years. The film - a tale about a psychologist's quest to debunk the mad claims of a cult leader about the paranormal - is almost a police procedural, where Dr. Holden (Andrews) investigates both the murder of a colleague and the involvement of the aforementioned cult leader, the genteel Julian Karswell. There's not much more I want to say about the film, except for the acting of Niall MacGinnis in the role of Karswell, as urbane and contrite a villain as you'll find this side of Lecter, but with that same sense of vanity and grandiosity. A great film. REVIEWED BY: @J.T. Curse of the Demon / Night of the Demon (1957) I have to say that I was pretty excited when I found out that my pick was the 1957 supernatural thriller, Night of the Demon. It is one of those movies that you rarely hear mentioned in the same breath as the Universal classics of the early 30's or other influential films like Eyes Without A Face / Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) and Curse of the Demon is without a doubt one of the most important films of the genre ever conceived. The move tells the story of American professor John Holden (Dana Andrews). Our intrepid man of science arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology and the occult only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before he arrived in England IHolden eventually discovers that out that his late friend had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis). Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his up until now unwavering belief in natural order and rational thought. The most striking feature about this particular film is how different it is in tone from it's counterparts. When you think of classic 50's horror films or classic horror in general, it's usually the case that the "monster" is a real and credible threat. The audience has no choice but to believe in the unnatural existence of Dracula, the Wolf Man, or the Creature from the Black Lagoon because the entities are there on screen and the protagonist have to deal with them or die in the attempt. And the key word is "unnatural." The shark from Jaws or the killer gators from Crawlaer definitely treated as if they were "monsters" and it shows signs of very unnatural behavior, but they are still creatures found in the wild in real life. Conversely, there is no evidence to support the existence of vampires or werewolves, but there is no denying the effect they have on the plot in the respective films where they are the antagonists. Despite the now iconic marketing for this movie which puts the titular Demon right in your face, the question of whether or not the supernatural beast actually exits is debatable and that is what separates this movie from the rest of the pack. This movie is intelligent and give the audience the benefit of the doubt of being intelligent as well. The fact that this movie even exists at all is even more remarkable. Columbia Pictures had a really horrible track record when it came to scary movies, but they wanted to cash in on the late 50's horror boom. Producer Hal E. Chester was definitely an odd choice since his specialty was crime films, but he and Columbia made some inspired decisions that yielded gold. For starters, they hired writer Charles Bennett to pen the script and this is the man who was the true soul behind several of Alfred Hitchcock's most iconic movies. Secondly, they hired Jacques Tourneur to direct. Tourneur's sense of style breathed life into a slew of great Westerns, but don't forget that he also helmed Cat People and I Walked With A Zombie so the guy had some serious fright movie pedigree. Put this all together with a great script and a talented cameraman and you've just set yourself up for success, right? Most horror films tend to work on one level or another, but Curse works on several fronts and manages to balance them all very well. Holden's steadfast belief in science is blinding but not to annoying degree, and it takes the timely intervention of Kindergarten teacher Joanna Harrington (Peggy Cummins late of Gun Crazy) to show him that being a skeptic doesn't mean ignoring facts... even if the facts involve the preternatural. Overall the cast is great, but I have to give extra shout outs to Niall MacGinnis as Julian Karswell. Karswell's character is obviously based on the real life demonologist, Alastair Crowley, and MacGinnis plays the role with a cultured and sophisticated sliumyness that is a wonder to behold. Karswell doesn't really have a sinister master plan or anything. He's merely using his diabolical talent to knock off the people whom he finds threatening and the casual manner in which he sends demons to do his dirty work is so wonderfully repugnant. If there is a wellspring from which you could point out as the place where Satanic themed horror movies originally carved their niche, this is the movie that probably did it. From here came The Exorcist, The Omen saga, Rosemary's Baby The Sentinel, and other films both classic and guilty favorite. If you're making a horror film and it needs a convincing villain, who is more convincing than Satan?

Whoooaaaaa, this is great. I need to watch more pre-Hulk WWF.

First Master's Class is in the books with an "A." Only 11 more to go!

Seth Rollins is the problem. I keep trying to tell you people....damn....

I could thrive in it. Of course, this is after they are all dead and I buy the rights to the company at a fire sale in 2050. Note: Its called a fire sale in 2050 because almost everything is literally always on fire.

Chinese government wanted Morey fired. Silver said not only is he not being fired, he will not be punished at all. Obviously he shouldn't be. Well, this is all going swimmingly.

Oh, he tried, Jericho had some tough times those first few years in WWE.

I knew there was something that really pissed me off that I couldn't remember in the utter memory destroying vanilla haze of this entire show. That was it.

Maybe with a Macho hologram to promote.

Did he defeat President Dusty Rhodes?

Remember how they said there were going to be no more "Wild Cards" after the draft was done? Neither do they. ?

I'm convinced they just used the digital de-aging process on a photo of Robert Forster.

Why and when did shaved head/beard become the defacto look for balding men? Once upon a time you'd be ridiculed for having an upside down head

The stare down between Stephens and Rodriguez was everything I hoped it would be. No nose to nose theatrics or anything, but White's "Please, God. Don't let this shit go down right here." look of apprehension and the amount of space he kept between the two fighters sold it for me. White didn't let them get close enough even attempt to shake hands.... not that they would've.. Dana publicly acknowledging that those men probably want to kill each other legit was fucking golden. I am officially pumped for that fight and I am also happy to see that Jeremy and Yair made weight unlike some other dudes on this card.

Always nice to meet a fan. Nothing that has gone wrong with SmackDown on Fox can actually be traced to Bischoff. On JR's pod they theorized that he'd been set up as a fall guy the whole time. But yeah, decade old biker jokes or something

Once again, he was just a gardener.

Here you go. Best drummer of all time:

But, you guys, we were wrong to be critical of him... He was a revolutionary genius back in the day and there's nothing from stopping him doing it again!

None of this is surprising to me. I've always thought the guy was nothing but talk since about 1998.

If the WWE creative team is still looking for a motorcycle enthusiast coasting off of past glory, then great news: FX fired Kurt Sutter today.