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20 hours ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:
I guess this is a movie thing?
The Breaking Bad movie is confirmed to be a sequel starring Aaron Paul. Written and directed by Vince Gilligan. It'll be released first on Netflix and then on AMC.
Seems completely unnecessary. But then again, I said the same thing when I heard Better Call Saul was being developed. Now I think BCS is better than Breaking Bad.
Exactly! As long as Gilligan and company are working on it, it's pretty much a slam dunk. Who knew a series about the sleazy lawyer would turn out so amazing?
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On 2/12/2019 at 12:16 PM, RIPPA said:
I swear when I first looked at the Usos shirt - I thought it said "Jesus" and I was like "Boy the WWE is making some bold marketing decisions now"
He has returned (as He has been known to do) to get his dad's heat back after His losing effort with Shawn against the McMahons.
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19 hours ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:
Michelle Rodriguez with an... interesting take on the Liam Neeson situation.
QuoteIt’s all fuckin’ bullshit. Liam Neeson is not a racist. Dude, have you watched Widows? His tongue was so far down Viola Davis’s throat. You can’t call him a racist ever. Racists don’t make out with the race that they hate, especially in the way he does with his tongue—so deep down her throat. I don’t care how good of an actor you are.
LOOOOL one of the biggest bigots I used to know would frequently cheat on his girlfriend (later wife) hooking up with black girls in the club. So I have firsthand knowledge that this is factually inaccurate. There's all kinds of cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics going on when your dick is involved in the decision making process. Also, fucking someone from the group you hate is obviously some racists' kink.
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What's the over/under on how many indy workers were named "Chris Michaels" and "Suicide Kid" back then? Notice they had to specify the territory of the ranked versions.
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That's what happens when it's 4 degrees and snowy/icy one week and 60 the next.
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On 2/5/2019 at 5:33 PM, D.Z said:
Meltzer mentioned this morning that Fox is already hedging its bets. I can't remember the exact wording but the gist is that a Fox exec said that Smackdown on Fridays would be "short term" or something. See, Fox picked up SD to get guaranteed ratings on what is traditionally a soft night. Well now Fox has some Friday night shows doing really well so they're having second thoughts. I forget the numbers, but SD would be either 1/4 or 1/2 the ratings of these shows.
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22 hours ago, J.T. said:
We may as well say it without the code.... but maybe spoilers are called for.
As soon as I saw the caption about us being our own worst enemy, I was like, "Okay, here we go with another good hair vs. bad hair / house negroes vs. field negroes fable."
I am confident that the ending for US will be light years better than the ending for School Daze, although I have to pick Da Butt over I Got Five On It in the category of which movie has the better feature track.
Every damn time someone refers to the European Union by their initials, all I can think of is Da Butt.
And yes, I guess we shouldn't be speaking in code...this movie feels like exactly what you said. From the first shot of the first trailer, where the song starts and the main guys says in "this is a great song" in the squarest way and his voice sounds like the voice Eddie uses when imitating white guys, and the mother has to teach the son about the rhythm of the song (he should automatically have rhythm, right??), then you see their all-white group of friends, and they're hanging out in a yacht....jesus. This absolutely feels like a battle between conflicting views of "blackness."
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On 1/29/2019 at 8:42 PM, Robert C said:
Dear celiac disease. Please feel free to get fucked
i cannot think of anything more repulsive than gluten free beer
Not celiac, just wanting to sample the offerings...I've tried New Belgium's Glutiny and two of Omissions's beers (I forget which two). They're not too bad, but I get where you're coming from. Not a lot of selection out there.
On the "how's it going" front, I did my taxes and I'm pretty pissed that a Republican tax act passed in 2017 made my refund drop by a few thousand. Aside from that, I can't complain.
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1 hour ago, joseph2112 said:
BREAKING STORY: "Guy that does heavy Crossfit has back injury".
Color me not shocked.
LOL who knew working out as fast as possible with shitty form could be a problem?
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I don't understand what's wrong with liking a wrestler for whatever reason you like them, and wanting to see them succeed as opposed to being mired in fart and dick joke purgatory but that's just me.
Is that the argument? That there's a class of fan who like certain wrestlers for the wrong reasons? Because tha's a ridiculous point of view.
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45 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
New trailer for US
My buddy says it appears this is going to be a metaphor for people of African descent displaying the struggle between who they are amongst themselves, and who they are when they are with non-POC. This trailer really seems to be leaning in that direction.
That was my interpretation when I saw the first trailer. What's more indicative of this struggle than a yacht named "BeYachtCh?"
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What is the spectrum of wrestling fans, from super hardcore to "casual," anyway? Is "hardcore" an Observer subscriber? Someone on this site? Someone on /r/squaredcircle? Someone who watches WWE and also New Japan and maybe some indies? Is someone who watches every WWE show and knows it's fake "hardcore?" I don't even know what we're talking about here.
Regardless, I think that as entertainment becomes more and more narrowcasted and niche, with so many choices, the "hardcores" are all any entertainment endeavor may have left. What is a "casual" fan, anyway? Wrestling has always been a super niche product. Are there people who go from having zero interest in ever watching wrestling to actively watching, who then fall off later? I don't get it. With the stigma that comes from watching men in their underwear pretending to fight (Marty Sugar can only put me on ignore once for disrespecting fake fighting, so I don't care), does wrestling really create brand new fans that often? I mean, I suppose it does, but I don't exactly know how.
If there's a point to this rambling (and, hopefully, entertaining) post, it's that wrestling companies should just cater to the people who actually like them instead of booking toward casuals. If there are people who may become fans, they'll just find something cool you're doing and decide to watch. To actively pursue an audience that most likely would never give you a chance is really dumb.
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14 hours ago, Ryan said:
I've seen indy fans wearing them with patches from different companies. Surely, that's kind of a weird cross-section.
I love PWG's "screaming gorilla" design but I'd draw the line at wearing it as a jacket patch.
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2 hours ago, joseph2112 said:
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in the world that recognizes that wrestling has always been at it's hottest when the characters and storylines of the program align with current cultural climate/themes.
And it's also not a secret that almost every single person walking today thinks that there are two groups of people in the world and that one side is trying to gaslight the other side (and their own) to gain power.
And somehow this company has a character that is a "cult leader" in Bray Wyatt and they can't figure out how to make that work. And that story doesn't have to be political in the slightest.
Whatever.
Problem with that is that WWE doesn't do nuance, and that kind of thing is required for storylines that reflect current events.
Exhibit A:
"We're two American-born men of Middle Eastern descent who are fed up with how our people have been portrayed since 9/11!"
TITLE CARD: Two weeks later...
"Alalalalalala death to American infidels! Where are my pointy toed boots and kaffiyeh!? Let's round up some dudes to do some clever gang attacks that look suspiciously like those beheading videos!"
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The entire Tom Jones "Reload" album is kitschy, insincere bullshit. It was only enjoyed by shitty people who thought it was OMG SO RANDOM to hear an overrated Vegas lounge singer cover songs you never thought he would. It's Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine with none of the style, wit, or self awareness. Check out this cover of "Kiss." No feeling whatsoever, just karaoke being performed by a used car salesman.
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8 minutes ago, SorceressKnight said:
And yet, she was shutting it down in the worst possible way, by saying "Even if this is my job, I'm not telling you because I don't think you need to know this answer"...heck, by that argument, Renee was probably the heel in this instance and Corey was the face.
It's obvious Renee's non-answer is because they have no clue how to reconcile a heel character who is IRL married to a babyface announcer, and no interest in dealing with it in any creative way.
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4 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Just like with every pre-written promo, they're talking in a way that real people never talk.
Just thinking about what I wrote there...what is the consensus on how WWE writing works? I know that everything comes down to Vince in the end, but does he get down to the level of rewriting every single interaction on the show? Or are the writers just that bad? Or are they just so beaten down and good at knowing his tastes that they write in the exact way he would? The dialogue in that YouTube video comes off as speechifying at best and, at worst, like an alien trying to approximate human interaction. The delivery (essentially it's acting by people who are not actors) does it no favors, but this writing is Star Wars Prequels level bad.
:18 seconds in is just cringeworthy. "Obviously I'm in a bit of a precarious situation with this...listen, no one is entitled to know what goes on behind closed doors between an husband and wife!" Who would say that, as opposed to, "it's none of your business?" Nobody, fired up and having a confrontation, speaks like this and it's fucking awful.
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22 hours ago, J.T. said:
MGM has the rights to the movie title but Mancini has the rights to Chucky / Charles Lee Ray, so MGM is going forward with a Chucky-less horror movie with some other demon possessed toy doll while Nick Antosca (Channel Zero) is going to produce Mancini's television series featuring the new slasher adventures of the Chucky we're all familiar with.
According to a magazine I was reading yesterday (remember those?) it's going to be called a "Buddi Doll." I mean, it's a cute reference to My Buddy, which Chucky was based on, but come on.
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Wait wait does anyone here think that Renee/Graves thing is a shoot? Come on, my dudes. Just like with every pre-written promo, they're talking in a way that real people never talk. And their delivery, especially Renee's, is more wooden than an 18th century dildo.
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34 minutes ago, Craig H said:
Maybe I'm wrong, but when Dean speaks to hokey shit he doesn't like, I think of stuff like saying this town or that town are diseased, I think of him getting a fake vaccine to inoculate himself to the area he's going to, I think of the completely nonsensical booking of his heel turn on the night Roman revealed he had leukemia, I think of the announcers always referring to Dean as being "wacky" or "unhinged". I think of shit like how his rebound clothesline was called shit like the "wacky line."
Having to pretend to get multiple inoculations in your ass while a crazed septuagenarian cackles with delight off camera like he's Uncle Hank in Requiem for a Dream is enough to make any dude quit.
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15 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
I used to work with someone who had a cousin die really young and they played that song at his funeral. She was horrified when I explained it to her. Well, first she didn't believe me, then she listened closer and was horrified.
That's the crux of the whole thing -- listening to the chorus, quite literally at that, and never paying attention to the lyrics. Same the corny-ass Today Show plays Foreigner's "Cold As Ice" for winter weather forecasts.
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On 1/23/2019 at 8:23 PM, Curt McGirt said:
Yeah, I've never seen this picture.
On 1/23/2019 at 7:41 PM, The Great ML said:Dude. I thought of that the other day and chuckled. Post the pic, I need a good laugh.
It was something like this (spoliered for obvious reasons)
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On 1/17/2019 at 4:24 PM, D.Z said:
Jesus. These are horrifying. From Funko's new "Uncanny Valley" line, no doubt.
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12 hours ago, The Great ML said:
Dude. I thought of that the other day and chuckled. Post the pic, I need a good laugh.
11 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:Yeah, I've never seen this picture.
That was like 12 years or so ago, I think. I definitely don't have it but maybe I'll try to recreate it!
I just tried to image search to see if it was online anywhere and it's not. But there IS an Urban Dictionary entry for it. That is fucking hilarious.
FEBRUARY 2019 WRESTLING DISCUSSION.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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She was absolutely justified in doing that. Wrestling has a long history of sabotaging relationships via booking like this and Vince is a fucking sociopath. I have no doubt at all that he booked her to be with Ziggler just for shits and giggles to see what it might do with her real life relationship. If tipping off TMZ put the breaks on a dumb angle essentially designed to fuck with performers' real lives, good.