TimLivingston

And this thread has officially jumped the shark.

Goldustcanrana and that finish were fantastic. Poor Mark couldn't catch Fandango for the finish. He can dance, though. He looked like Flair dancing towards Elizabeth at WM 8. Everything else sucked ass, though.

MORE BLU-RAY: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is still awesome. A lot of people aren't fans of the pace, but I love how deliberate it is. Lets the characters tell a better story and raises the tension. Great piece of filmmaking. SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION has been talked about ad naseum. Only thing I'll add is that the ending is still one of my favorites in the history of film. TAXI DRIVER might be my favorite Scorsese film. DeNiro is incredible in it. Some of the most unsettling parts in a movie I've ever seen still to this day, and I've seen it half a dozen times. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is awesome. Fight scenes were actually pretty cool, as I thought they might be the parts that didn't hold up the much outside of the finale. THIS IS SPINAL TAP is brilliant. Not much more that can be said about it. Dragon Gate should run an angle about them trying to play a concert at Kobe Hall the same night as one of their shows.

I want to see the team that had Jeffrey, Decker and Gordon on it.

Fucking Westbrook. Never should have gotten his revenge.

If OSU wins, I clinch my bet on the Oregon under.

When they decided to make Sam Harry fucking Potter with his resurrection in Fallen, I gave up. And FSW, if you're gonna sit there and think that Venom was actually good in SM3, I don't know you anymore. Venom in basically any other Spider-Man setting? Fuck yes. 100% agree. But Topher Grace made Eddie Brock look like a bitch in that movie. If you're gonna play the bully, you need to actually, you know, be the bully.

The "Holy Trinity" will always be Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. Mermaid came out and jolted it, sure, and Rescuers Down Under was fine (Also snuck in there was DUCKTALES: TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP, which is underrated), but those three brought the studio back to prominence. That's how they were able to get Pixar involved, got Ghibli involved, all that.

POD PEOPLE might be the most underrated MST3K ep ever. The ET stuff had me rolling. But for me, there is only one Thanksgiving tradition:

SHE'S 35!!!! Holy crap, Disney Channel. You really do make some magic happen.

On top of that, MI:5 has a Christmas Day release in 2015. I really don't see how they'd want to go up against fucking Episode VII at all but hey, what do I know?

Getting through my Blu-Rays (yay unemployment) so some thoughts: DR. STRANGELOVE is still brilliant and has some of the greatest single lines in movie history. Everything is just incredibly well done. I'm still sad that Kubrick didn't really explore comedy that much after this. FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE really does make the original look like an unfinished piece of shit. That being said, it's really accessible only if you are a big fan of the series. Otherwise, it's not going to be thought of highly. Animation is really well done, too. Like the re-done ending, as well. I still prefer THE GODFATHER to THE GODFATHER: PART II. I know that people will talk about how PART II is the superior film, but I think the performances were much better by the entire cast in the original, whereas PART II were Pacino and DeNiro tour de force performances. Obviously, that is the very definition of splitting hairs, but man alive are they both fantastic. But fuck PART III. It's akin to the Indiana Jones movie that shall not be named. THE HANGOVER has not held up as much as I had hoped. It really suffers like a lot of movies of its ilk where once the surprise is gone, it's hard to feel the same way on multiple viewings. It's losing its luster. Of the INDIANA JONES trilogy, TEMPLE OF DOOM seems like such a huge outcast when put up against RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and THE LAST CRUSADE. The one thing I loved about RAIDERS was that it really didn't waste any time getting to the conclusion. With CRUSADE, it was a bit drawn out, but it was an awesome last 45 minutes or so, beginning with the tanks. Sean Connery is the fucking man. Hard to choose which one I enjoyed more. THE LION KING being the last of the Holy Trinity of Disney films that brought the animation studio back to prominence is still fantastic. Forgot how great the Timon and Pumbaa parts were. Scar, of course, is in the top tier of Disney villains. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL was sensational. I'm not sure if it's a better movie than Skyfall, but holy crap is it a great ride. Just non-stop stuff. The Dubai scenes were awesome visual spectacles and I really dug the ending. Hate that Brad Bird won't be back for MI:5, as he was awesome here. Not enough Michael Nyqvist, either. THE MUPPETS was just fun. I had seen it before so it was nice to watch it again, but Jason Segel did a great job of getting everyone together without diluting what made The Muppets awesome in the first place. Can't wait for the sequel. Still have a lot to come down the pike, including the five-hour cut of Das Boot. Can't wait for that one.

Show was pretty good as they started the Cesaro/Regal burn and had a killer main event. If you're gonna do big spots, make them look good. These looked fucking awesome. They told a decent enough story, too. Sami is really good at putting over the other guy's stuff, but he can tend to overact a bit. This time around, he was a little bit more subtle than normal and it was really great to see. The Ascension, though. MAN are they a black hole. God bless Renee for trying to put them over, though. I'm really surprised that they didn't wait on the title shot for Neville until the 200th show, where Regal and Cesaro are scheduled to go at it. Make it a big deal. I guess they really wanted to make sure that match went on last, though.

Back when it came out, anyone who saw it said as much. It still is to me at this point. Cesaro/Zayn is up there. But I have a feeling Cesaro/Regal will top it.

Ugh. The rhyming.

Melky Cabrera has a ring so that doesn't exactly help.

Tape was 4/13/02. If there was ever a match I needed to see thanks to a DEAN review, this was it: Minoru Tanaka/ El Samurai/Kakihara/Naruse/ Jushin Thunder Lyger vs THE GREATEST HEEL 10-MAN EVER: Gedo/ Jado/ BLACK MOTHERFUCKING TIGER/ EDDY MOTHERFUCKING GUERRERRO/ KOJI MOTHERFUCKING KANEMOTO: Gedo and Tanaka start off and I'm trying to figure out if this is 2 out of 3 or an Elimination match. Either way, Minoru gets the flying Cross Armbreaker 30 seconds in for the first fall. Gedo and Minoru start back and Gedo and they start eventually start beating on Kanemoto - as El hits the assisted Old Man Tope that he follows up with punches directly to the face. Kakihara tags in and gets trapped in the corner with BT throwing the best punches of the match. Eddy and Silver King trade slingshot Sentons and you wet your pants with joy. Jado starts kicking him and they all browbeat Kaki in the corner. Naruse makes the hot tag and does these Ronnie Garvin punches to the chest on Jado. Naruse goes for the choke and Eddy and Gedo stomp him down and they drag him into the corner and give him the business. Kanemoto tags in and starts punching him in the face. Naruse drives Gedo into the face corner and they un-facishly start ripping at his face. They all take turns double dropkicking Gedo in the face as Lyger Camel Clutches him. Kakihara hits the Vertical Suplex as they seem to be channelling a Stud Stable vs the Armstrongs 10 man. Eddy hits the apron Fistdrop to Kaki's head and he and Silver King start working on his leg. BT hits the fabulous Superkick but Kaki DDTs out of a Quebradora and Lyger tags is only to get cut off by Kanemoto. BT, Eddy and Gedo post young Lyger's groin into the post. Koji starts busting up Lyger's leg and Eddy is awesome putting on the Screaming For Hatred Figure Four. The heels do the GREAT thing of circling the submission to keep the faces out all the while continuously smacking the ref in the back of the head to get him to ASK HIM! ASK HIM! This fucking rules. Eddy is hell on earth on Lyger's knee as he tags in BT who hooks in a kneebar. Eddy cheats like a motherfucker and is AWWWWWESOME cursing at the ref and the crowd. Lyger gets the desperation shotay but Eddy fucking rules it by dropkicking his knee to cut him off. Koji and Lyger battle it out in the middle over the suplex. Lyger wins the struggle but can't get Kanemoto up and over. Koji knees him in the fucking head and but misses the moonsault and Lyger finally makes the tag. El Samurai is all afire- taking on BT and is giving him the biz with the DDT. BT catches El off the top with a dropkick and Silver king then does the FABULOUS Mortal into a Dropkick to the face. Eddy comes in and whips El right into the fat ass kicking leg of Koji Kanemoto. Eddy with a fabulous Brainbuster and recovery of a missed Love Machine Splash but El catches him with a Scorpion Deathdrop to escape and tag Kakihara. Kaki KILLS Eddy with a side flying kick to the head that Eddy leans into like a KING. Jado and Minoru tag in and Minoru hits his neato dropkick sequence for two, but Koji Kanemoto makes the save by beating the living dogpiss out of Minoru. Minoru gets a heelhook on Jado and all hell breaks loose as Jado reverses it into a Crippler Crossface. Giant face stompdown saves Minoru but Jado hits a Superplex. Minoru rolls out of the ring and they do the lucha sequence of everybody hitting a big spot on whoever is in the ring with Minoru hitting the missile dropkick and also setting himself up for Jado to reapply the Crossface to get the second fall. The third fall opens with Lyger hitting Quebradoras on Gedo and Eddy. Naruse tags in and Jado works him over - cutting off the ring and tagging in the fresh man and everything. Naruse makes a comeback with his ode to Garvin punches on Kanemoto. They kick each other in the head and Koji is first up with a Boston Crab. He then hits a Moonsault but the faces make the save. Gedo goes for a moonsault but Naruse gets his knees up and tags Minoru. Minoru and Gedo counter out of some standing switches until Gedo grabs the ref and simultaneously crushes Tanaka's testicles for two. They throw Tanaka into the corner and hit some lariats and Jado, Gedo and Koji Superplex him off the top. After a kick out, Jado hits a Lyger Bomb to set up Gedo's Frogsplash for the win. This match was motherfucking great.

This idea that every PED user ever shouldn't get paid is ridiculous. Bottom line is that the players could make the PED penalties worse through the CBA. It's not rocket science. If PEDs are such a blasphemous thing, then by all means. Make the first offense a year ban or something.

That Eddy Guerrero 10-man from New Japan in 2002 when he teams with Black Tiger, Koji and Gedo and Jado. It only surfaced on like one tape, but I'm hoping somebody has uploaded it somewhere.

Jax has to be the most unlikeable lead to have been given that much airtime in a long while.

Welker not calling off his blockers to get away from the punt was the equivalent of him throwing a guy a chair, but it went to the other guy instead. Still a better booked end to the game than the PPV.

LONG POST COMING. I combed through the thread because I've seen almost all the movies mentioned and they basically fall into the "unpopular" category. And a lot of them aren't bad. My Fellow Americans - This was supposed to be the first non-Grumpy Old Men buddy film for Lemmon and Mathau but Mathau got sick. I'm actually really happy with Garner here. He's sharper with the putdowns. Story is decent, but this is more to hear a bunch of senior citizens give each other shit and it's a fun ride. Not sure if it's better than either of the Grumpy Old Men movies, but still fun. Starship Troopers - Fucking ay, this movie rules. I know people read the book and aren't happy about the adaptation, but man alive, it's an awesome movie. Farcical to a T. Drop Dead Gorgeous - This is one of those movies HBO would show during the summer and I'd watch at least once every couple of weeks. Awesome cast. Will Sasso's parts had me rolling. Battleship - LIAM NEESONS, baby. Zoolander - This is definitely not a bad movie. This is most definitely a forgotten movie. Dark City - Kiefer Sutherland creeped me the fuck out in this one. Also, needles that go anywhere near the eye freak me out, so there's that. Still, visually stunning. I remember Ebert being all about it, too. Bring It On - Great movie. Eye candy, ridiculously over the top arguments, great one-liners...good stuff. AND, I'm also a fan of Stick It, which has The Dude in it and does a lot of the same stuff. The Godfather Part III - A lot of people point out that it's a great movie if you take out the horrible Sofia Coppola performance. But this is a cash grab. And not a good one. The story sucks, Pacino had moved into Yelling Pacino Mode at this point, Andy Garcia was not that good...it's obvious that the first two movies were great because they worked off the actual novel. Yeah, Michael's storyline in Part II was not from it, but it's a good continuation of what they set up in the first. This is considered an epilogue, but it's an unnecessary add-on. Blue Chips - Hoosiers, White Men Can't Jump, then this. Shaq, Penny, not-Larry Bird, ACTUAL LARRY BIRD, Bob Cousy not missing any foul shots, Al Bundy as crack reporter, BOBBY KNIGHT...I mean, seriously. C'mon, now. This movie is awesome. Airheads - One of the great unheralded great casts ever. A great collection of comedic minds. And Brendan Fraser. The Rocketeer - Besides it being a cool little period film with a neat premise, you have the fucking Hindenberg and DALTON. Oh, and Jennifer Connolly at her absolute best. Don't see what else you need. Rookie of the Year - Funky butt loving. John Candy. Gary Busey. Barry Bonds striking out. Yep, this rules. Flash Gordon - Better soundtrack than Highlander. So many points. FLASH JUMP. Ready to Rumble - Yeah, I'll defend this movie til the day I die. Perfectly acceptable movie. David Arquette isn't that great, but Oliver Platt, JOEY PANTS and Scott Caan are fine. Pootie Tang - I know even Louis C.K. finds it hard to defend this movie, but it's great. Sah da tay, my damey. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Fuck yes. All about this movie. The girl gaijin can't act her way through a paper bag, but the driving is incredible and it's a great, dumb action flick. Tin Cup - I love this movie. Don Johnson is a great asshole. Rene Russo isn't exactly great, but Cheech is awesome and every time I play golf and someone brings out a pink ball, I have to say, "We'll be playing with the pink lady today." For Love of the Game - Least of the Costner baseball films, but it has Vin Scully doing commentary, John C. Reilly at catcher and some cool baseball psychology stuff. I enjoyed it.

Peralta is official at 4 for $52, which is a good deal for the Cardinals. Considering he wanted something like $75M. People in the media really need to stop listening to players and their agents when it comes to money in free agent contracts.

Were people legitimately shocked when Clay got killed? It was telegraphed from last season. Plus, why wouldn't they take out both him and the Irish at the same time? The show is off the rails at this point. Lost what made it great long ago. I'm watching at this point just to see what lengths they'll go to.

Definitely not on as high a stage as this.