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Nope, Scott brought Lindeloff in and it was his idea to leave a lot of the stuff that tied it to the Alien franchise so it would be more standalone. Hence why he took the majority of the heat for its poor showing and lack of exposition and why Scott didn't want to bring him back. It's hard to say The Alien Engineers script is better than Prometheus the film but it definitely had the things we wanted/expected from Prometheus So it was Lindelof and not the studio? Somehow that makes it worse!

All this.

What are the meta materials? I found Prometheus to be a disjointed mess indicative of excessive studio meddling. From what I heard, the studio told Scott to leave out a lot of the stuff that tied it to the Alien franchise because they wanted it to be more standalone, which really ruined it. I still need to read the original script ("Alien: Engineers") to see how much better it should have been.

WCW Warrior was actually the result of a Ted Turner-funded black ops project to clone the original Warrior (Kerry, obviously) from the remains of Kerry's amputated foot, which Turner operatives stole from the scene of the accident.

Oof. This show is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's on the DVR for tonight but man, that sounds bad. Is the main character supposed to be the most unlikable person on the show, by the way?

It was a joke. It was based on "don't make a Batman movie, make a Tim Burton movie." It was meant to be funny, not personally assail your enjoyment of the film or malign your tastes. Lighten up. No insult was intended. How about this? It wasn't fun. Shouldn't super hero movies be fun? Nobody goes to see a superhero movie because they want a depressing two hour meditation on daddy issues. You can pick elements and defend Lee by saying "it was from the comic!" but Hulk has been around since 1962 and has a long history, from which Lee cherrypicked the elements that appealed to his sensibilities as a filmmaker. It just so happened that the things that appealed to him did not make for an enjoyable comic movie. Is it "a Hulk movie" because it contains elements from the character's 40 year history? That's for fans of the character to judge, I suppose. But it wasn't good as a superhero film. It was an Ang Lee movie first and a Hulk movie second. Imagine a Quentin Tarantino Hulk film with lots of bad language, pages-long discussions of pop culture, and gratuitous shots of feet. But Quentin would still put in stuff from the comics. Would you be okay with that? Ang Lee picked the subject matter that he was interested in and made a dull, maudlin movie around it. I liked The Ice Storm but I don't want to see that kind of thing in a movie about a giant green super hero.

"Doctors without Borders" only lasts until you quit, Paul. NWO is (say it with me) FOOOOOOOOOOR LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE."

Ah, so now it all makes sense. I guess it's not as bad as "don't make a Hulk movie, make an Ang Lee movie."

Burton really Burton'd it up with Batman 2, including making Penguin a deformed emo goth with a sad backstory. Also, real life penguins with missile backpacks, a goofy gang of circus freaks and Catwoman being brought back to life via cat licks. This movie had more in common with the Schumacher Batman films than Burton fans would like to admit.

I can't remember the last time I watched Raw, even on DVR. I know they're making a lot of money off rights fees but 3 hours is just too much. It's killing them creatively and is making for horribly boring TV. Raw would be can't miss TV if it were only an hour, maybe 90 minutes. A shorter show makes them get more creative, trying to figure out how to do more with less. Instead, we have writers and bookers trying to figure out how to fill three hours and just get through the night. It definitely shows.

"Sure, you're a great humanitarian and all, but have YOU ever worked the Tokyo Dome? Fuck off."

"Wash your hair, motherfucker." The ones that kill me are action movies where guys blast through walls when fighting. A good example is the Rock spearing that pole down during the big gunfight in The Rundown. Also, Bane punching a hole in that concrete pillar during the final fight of The Dark Knight Rises. If I'm watching the T-1000 shove Arnold through a concrete wall, sure thing. He's a metal robot. But two dudes made of bones and skin, come on. It takes me out of the movie a little bit. On a related note, too much wire work during fight scenes. One guy punches another and sends him sailing 40 yards, airborne. If it's The Matrix, sure; The Expendables, no. Agreed. Fighting in movies and TV is pro wrestling 10 punch in the corner level dumb. One-punch knockouts exist only when the plot calls for it. Otherwise, dudes just wail on each other and there's usually never evidence of damage later. Not even a black eye. Don't even get me started on gunplay, where everybody should be fucking deaf by now.

Now I'm imagining 2014 Steve Borden wearing a fake chest a la Ricordo Montalban in Wrath of Khan. Thanks. (I know that's just an urban legend and it's not true, shut up)

Hopefully that would be a condition of the new network picking them up. Announce team change would be a good start, even if it is Josh Mathews. The announcers would be a good start? I disagree. A name change would be a good start. The name "TNA" is an embarrassing, Russoesque shitshow. Christ what a fucking idiot Russo is. I imaging him and Jarrett patting themselves on the backs back in the day over their wit and edginess. "Dat's a double ontonder bro!"

We just had a disagreement over whether Bill Watts is the type of guy who flies the Confederate flag because he's really into states' rights. It's no big deal.

He works under a hood as El Cornudo

Fake NWO Sting on the box art from the WWE Sting DVD. Oops.

Maybe smarter people there (I know, hold your LOLs) came to their senses and realized a press release about hiring a WWE D-level announcer was amateur hour even by TNA standards.

It goes with the overall theme -- it was pretty painful to squeeze into it.

Oh no, not at all. Just nitpicking about Dave spooging over this spot as evidence of the fact.

Word. Terry doing push ups =/= OH FUCK DOC IS SO STRONG N SEXY

Tim Burton's Batman is really not very good at all. It was good for 1989 when I was 14 and there were no comic book movies to compare it to, but today it's just embarrassing. It was considered "more serious and dark" back then because we were stupid. Watch it today and you'll see it's one (very short) step up from Adam West.

I'm always bothered when Meltzer verbally fellates Doc, using this spot as proof of his strength. It's like Dave's such a mark for Doc or maybe for strength and fitness that he forgets it's a cooperative spot. Sure, Doc is strong, but Gordy is doing half the work there. I was actually there in person, not far from the ring, and I can tell you it looked phony as fuck, and really dumb from a "how is that supposed to hurt?" perspective.

I flipped through his alleged autobiography a while back and he really came across like a mark for himself. An example: He suffered severe injuries and almost bled himself out legit punching through a limo window with his bare hand. You see, he turned down the safer method of breaking it with a lead pipe because "Goldberg wouldn't do that." I feel like he held grudges against anyone who didn't treat him like a megastar, an NFL legend and the baddest dude on the planet.

Is that one of the orphans from Los Angelitos de El Generico?