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On 10/19/2018 at 9:17 AM, AxB said:
Patrick Lennon (the guy who had the Pro-Wrestling column in the Daily Star for like 12 years) said that when Angle left/ was fired from WWE he (Lennon) phoned Angle up to try and do a five minute interview, just to see how he was taking it. And Angle went off a furious angry rant... for about six hours. Which Lennon wouldn't have minded, but he said if he'd have put anything Angle said in those six hours in his column and printed it, neither one of them would have ever worked in Wrestling again. So I think there was a legit concern that Angle was not only breaking down physically at that time, but mentally/ emotionally/ psychically as well.
I remember hearing Angle doing a local radio interview very shortly after he left WWE and he sounded like he was definitely on something. I remember calling a friend of mine to tell him to turn on the radio, telling him, "this guy is super fucked up right now."
On 10/19/2018 at 11:52 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:Brent Albright was awesome. Albright getting heat for being a "Benoit clone" when he was brought in as Benoit's protégé is a typical WWE move where there is no logical explanation, so you just shrug your shoulders like Yano and say "because WWE?". Gunner Scott was also a piss poor ring name. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Brent Albright.
I was about to post "Gunner Scott" sounds like something from the Country Musician Name Generator. Then I Iooked it up and remembered that's the name of a character on the show Nashville.
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1 hour ago, The Natural said:
The gloves Ronda Rousey wears.
That would have been my second guess, behind "Roddy Piper branded bondage gear."
Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the safeword.
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9 hours ago, odessasteps said:
In hindsight, it seems people preferred Airwolf over Blue Thunder in the battle of super helicopter shows.
I was team Blue Thunder, since I was more familiar with it from watching the original movie on SuperTV. Why I was allowed to watch stuff like that, Carpenter's The Thing, etc on bobo Baltimore cable at like 10 years old is another issue.
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3 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
Yes, but i don't think they are getting nearly as much money from them as they are the KSA. Certainly not from any one or two alone. We still don't know the exact parameters of the deal, and might never, but it looks like bare minimum its $400 million over the decade.
Yeah, that was the point Meltzer made. How much is WWE going to get from, say, Checkers over 10 years vs the amount he's making on the Saudi deal? It's not even close.
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15 minutes ago, AxB said:
Also, if you can get them pregnant, why would it only happen once? Aren't most female replicants used as sexbots? Or was Sean Young especially designed to be the replicant Virgin Mary? I bet that was actually addressed in 2049 and I missed it because I was distracted by wondering why a blind person would have such interesting lighting designs in his office.
Exactly. It was hand waved in the film and was pretty ridiculous. If you didn't just accept the fact that a human fucked a robot and the robot got pregnant, and buy into that whole-heartedly, it made the movie a joke. They also never justified WHY the entire fate of the world depended on killing or saving this robot baby. It was a plodding film that relied on a ridiculous central conceit and never explained the stakes. But hey, it sure looked pretty.
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1 hour ago, Swiftian said:
Probably not a common feeling in the IWC, but I actually feel bad for WWE here. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Setting aside morals for a second here, most businesses would bite off the hand offering them millions of dollars to do what they already do but on a bigger scale. They would've been idiots to turn that deal down from a business standpoint. Likewise, they wouldn't be smart to renege on the deal now and potentially get sued for breach of contract. They have shareholders to answer to who would prefer not to lose their investments.
On the other hand, it would be bad PR to fly over there now and put on a show for a murderous regime when "the world is watching!" Not that the wider world is concerned about a wrestling company, but while other western companies and governments are doing deals with Saudi Arabia behind closed doors, WWE is doing theirs in full public view with pyrotechnics.
I'm actually really interesting to see how they handle this on Raw and Smackdown. I'd imagine they'll still build towards the matches but downplay the location of those matches. If the show does go ahead, I can imagine it being quite downbeat.
You'd have a point if nobody knew how awful the Saudi government was until they lured a journalist to their consulate and chopped him to bits, but that's just not the case. This country's record was well-documented long before WWE signed on with them.
"They would've been idiots to turn that deal down from a business standpoint." I disagree. Even setting morals aside, they should have anticipated a horrible regime doing a horrible thing and thought about how it would make them look, what the potential blowback on their business would be. Even your most cynical MBA would warn your company away from immoral shit because it can hit you in the wallet. Either they were greedy or just too dumb to have foresight into something that should have been obvious. Neither is very good and nobody should feel bad for them for either their greed or their stupidity.
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All that, plus a human had a baby with a robot. I guess you'd enjoy it if you can look past that key conceit, which I couldn't.
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21 hours ago, SorceressKnight said:
Hasn't it been found in demographic studies that in the modern era, pro wrestling fans are actually one of the most liberal fanbases out there?
That's probably why WWE is faltering right now. Vince's right-wing belief system really bleeds through into the storylines and booking, and what Vince believes is not what his fanbase believes. For example, the right wing has a real hardon for the laughable myth of American exceptionalism/individualism and it informs the booking of every babyface Vince has. Shit, the Shield JUST got back together and they're already teasing a breakup. Only heels have each other's backs. Babyfaces are all "self made" and act alone. A more liberal fanbase is not going to be down with this cynical bullshit over and over.
Here's a really good post I read a while back that contrasts New Japan's stable system with WWE's "everybody is out to get you so fuck them first" style.
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Well I already stopped watching Fear the Walking Dead after they did a rip n' replace of the whole cast and swapped out interesting plots for slow, ponderous bullshit. OG TWD might be next. This is how you start a season? Talky, dull, everyone is pissy at each other. I can already get that at my job. I don't need it in my entertainment, too.
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Well all that plus, you know, what the fuck is the message supposed to be there? As mentioned...Austin vs Lita, sure, Lita was a combatant and it was in the context of a fight, sort of. Austin vs Kiebler was a babyface beating up a woman because she wouldn't have a beer with him. Holy fuck. This is the message they were sending: if a hot girl doesn't want your attention, doesn't want to hang out, whatever, then that bitch deserves a beating. Trailblazers for "nice guy" culture, there.
Vince is a fucking sociopath. All his babyfaces are assholes, nobody stays friends for long, and women better know their place.
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The conversation was with himself as much as it was with the scholarship candidate. I think that was Jimmy understanding fully exactly what he told her: that once you've gotten a bad reputation in any way, the higher-ups in life will never ever accept you into their club, so fuck 'em. His sheer glee at the end of the episode when he told the court person he'd need a DBA for his license and that "'s'all good, man!" was Jimmy completely embracing who he really is. He's always been Saul and now he absolutely gets it. What an episode, what a season.
Bonus guest appearance by GALE'S NOTEBOOK. That's some attention to detail, there.
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I miss seeing Mike Bailey in PWG.
"He looks like his mom dropped him off at the wrong building for karate school and he decided to stay AND FIGHT GROWN MEN!" -Excalibur
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On 10/2/2018 at 9:16 AM, The Natural said:
Braun's reacts to camera flashes:
The pose on the shirt reminds me of this:
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17 minutes ago, Michael Sweetser said:
From what I've been told by my friends that have done visits at the Performance Center for NXT tryouts, Steamboat curses up a storm there. Not kidding.
But it's cursing done in a nice context, like, "holy shit, dude? How's your god-damn family? Did your mom kick that fucking gout?"
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9 hours ago, Matt D said:
Caught Solo on Redbox over the weekend. I liked it way more than I was expecting. Parts felt a little insubstantial but I laughed a lot and it was amazing how thoroughly fan-service-y the whole thing was, especially considering no fans actually wanted it in the first place. It didn't feel like an event, but it did kind of make me feel like I was 13 and playing X-Wing and reading Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina or something.
I watched it over the weekend and really liked it much more than I thought I would have. I was kind of blown away by how good it actually was. I don't think Disney needs to dial back the "a Star Wars every year" plan based on this film's perceived failure. I think they need to can the guy who decided putting this out unhyped six months after the last one was a good idea.
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On 9/20/2018 at 1:03 PM, RIPPA said:
To the surprise of no one - Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that an annual Star Wars movie is over.
I think they would have been fine if they'd held Solo off until Christmas.
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I like how the piano piece that kicks in about 1:07 into the trailer sounds like the opening of Shimmy Shimmy Ya.
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When Jimmy was writing the letters and postcards, my first thought was, "Miracle on 34th Street!?"
What a fucking show. You know it's good when, even with an extended episode, you say NOOOOOO when the credits start.
The only word I can come up with for the Kim character is "inscrutable." We've just been guessing what's going on in her head all season but now we finally get it and holy shit. She's as addicted to the con as Jimmy but she's been fighting it until now. Going legit, doing pro bono work, separating herself from his business...but then she gets involved with one con and she's right back in. It's an addiction story. Man oh man.
Things are not going to go well with the Germans. I'm worried this is really going to bite Mike in the ass, as he's seriously going half-measure with this thing.
Poor Nacho. And holy fuck did I think that was going to be Tuco in the kitchen. Instead we get Mexican Steven Ogg with his crazy eyes.
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Cosby's going to jail, dudes.
Live by the filth flarn flarn filth, die by the filth flarn flarn filth
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On 9/22/2018 at 3:52 AM, clintthecrippler said:
My personal favorite was when Jim Ross would always put over that Mike Rotundo won the Punt, Pass, and Kick competition...when he was a child.
Like winning a football skills contest as a child was important in putting over that Mike Rotundo has a chance at regaining the NWA Television Championship from Sting.
On 9/22/2018 at 4:28 PM, Raziel said:I always chalked it up to Ross, and Watts actually, in Mid South having a Football Inferority complex, where the two of them always gushed about the football backgrounds of guys. Ross just never stopped, even when going through WCW and WWF/E, where there was always a hint from JR that guys weren't "legit" unless they had a college background, and any kind of Football made someone top tier immediatly, since of course Football is superior to all sports, so if you were "good" enough to make the Browns practice squad, that already started you ahead of someone that only wrestled in high schoold.
I always felt like Ross always wished he'd ended up working in football instead of in phony rasslin, and his commentary always bore out that resentment. Like, Stan Hansen was a bad motherfucker who held titles all over the world, but somehow he wasn't legit until Ross could mention his "playing for the Baltimore Colts" (he had a cup of coffee with the practice squad for fuck's sake).
I mean come on. In kayfabe, wrestling is an individual sport and should be tougher than football. Ross' constant fetishizing BY GAWD FOOTBAW made no damn sense.
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God damn I hope @AxB went to Wikipedia to get the name of that guy. Someone knowing he name of a dude from Spandau Ballet in 2018 off the top of their head scares me. I can only name two Spandau Ballet songs and I would have only known one had not "Gold" been featured in GTA Vice City.
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WE KNOW WHO THAT IS! THAT'S CHRIS PENN!
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17 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
I wonder if the Harris Brothers got their Marty SS shirts before it got pulled.
Ron and Don probably reached their closets' limits on bigot merch years ago
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On 9/18/2018 at 1:42 AM, J.T. said:
Gareth Evan's short in V/H/S 2 entitled Safe Haven is easily the best one in the movie and it stands on its own really well, so it is good to see him make another entry into Horror-ish territory.
Holy shit Safe Haven was so good -- I watched a torrent of the movie where Safe Haven had no subtitles and that still took nothing away from it. It's that good.
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[TV] OCTOBER 2018 DISCUSSION
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This is the same with Larry David's character on Curb, so it's funny that @Edwin mentioned this show specifically as an example of comedians being allowed to not be "PC." He's not some hero; everything is does is wrong and awkward and he IS the joke. We're meant to laugh at him, not with him. The one time his behavior is perceived by other characters as a positive to be used to their advantage ("The Social Assassin"), it backfires. People who think Larry is some hero and his boorish behavior is "comedians being allowed to be comedians" are the same type of simple minded viewers who didn't understand that we were supposed to stop rooting for Walter White somewhere along the line.