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I loved Team Madness. It's a shame Savage was pretty broken down and probably overdoing it on the gas. Although even if he'd been in great shape he'd still be stuck in dying WCW without an olive branch to go back to WWF.

The consensus in the area from people I've spoken to (besides that Collingsworth can eat a dick) is that they would have listened to Merrill Reece instead of the television commentators, but the radio broadcast was a bit behind the game.

I generally like Corey, but what a dickhead for the parentheses part. This is why Cena's instagram is the best. He's so oblique the posts are sometimes inscrutable.

I'm hardly a Mayberry expert, but I was still really surprised to see that Jack Nicholson guest starred twice on The Andy Griffith Show. I knew he kicked around Hollywood in a variety of weird jobs before Easy Rider, but I'd never seen any of his TV work.

Only thing missing is her friend telling her she's drawlin if she don't let that boul put that jawn on her finger.

It looks alright, but that poor kid is going to get torn to shreds. I thought he was the best part of "Hail Caesar!" but he's clearly in over his head here. It's probably a mixture of not knowing how to make the part his own and not being accustomed to acting against green screen.

Hunter and Shawn both were played out by the DX Band at WM 14 with Hunter winning and Shawn losing. The band also played a gloriously shitty version of America the Beautiful at the beginning of the night that had the crowd in an uproar.

All of that is great, but it is ignoring that his character would do anything for his family.

I'd have to watch all of Roode's NXT matches again to evaluate where he stands with the best NXT performances. He's been a great character since Team Canada, Beer Money had some terrific matches, and he's had consistently good singles output since around the year he challenged Angle at BFG. I sort of fell off on NXT around the time he came in, so that might be a good place to start a deep dive.

My favorite Sting theme was the instrumental version of Seek and Destroy he was using post-Crow song.

Looking at these lists, the most notable thing is that Finn may have been NXT's biggest draw, but his time on top produced some of the least memorable matches of the Takeover era. It's not even that any of them were bad; NXT has just been an embarrassment of riches when it comes to talent and match presentation.

Speaking of theme songs: I just heard Triple H's pre-Motorhead song My Time, and somehow I never noticed the repeated references to "Mr. Dunn." It's weird, because in 1999 it was essentially an in-joke for people that worked at WWF and fans that read the Observer.

It reminds me of one of my favorite Ebert lines: "Predator begins like "Rambo" and ends like "Alien," and in today's Hollywood, that's creativity. Most movies are inspired by only one previous blockbuster."

Rawson Marshall Thurber directed Skyscraper, so I'm still optimistic that it's going to be good. But damn, that's some hardcore 9/11 imagery. Also, Ghost Protocol has the greatest set piece built around a tower I've ever seen, and I don't think anything in this is going to touch it.

It's kind of charming how Dwayne's so into this notion that his Die Hard meets Towering Inferno movie is an original concept.

Cactus Jack 2000 totally sounds like a syndicated action show that would be on in between Pamela Anderson's VIP and Andromeda. A lot of the heat Foley had with Hunter for awhile seemed to generate from Triple H downplaying Foley's importance to getting him over and establishing him as a credible main eventer.

I have a visceral reaction to the first few bars of Ziggler's song, but that's more about him than the song.

Foley won the blowoff during his 97 feud with Hunter. Although even there I'm pretty sure he got wrecked by DX on their first night together shortly after that and there was no follow up because he transitioned to the Kane feud.

Taka/Hunter is a good call. I think the HHH/Shawn title match on Raw that ended in a double pin is the best match they ever had together and the closest Hunter ever got to the traveling champion vibe he was trying to conjure up at the time. The Punk/Cena title match that went to a draw was another one that I thought was pretty excellent, and probably their best on a technical level.

Taker was also stuck with a rogues gallery of monster heels that were his size or bigger, so he spent a lot of his early years having plodding hoss matches. You can see him revel in working with Bret in 95/96 and tell that he wanted to prove that he could really go.

Oh man.

It looks like a perfectly fine time at the movies. Plus it has Michelle Pfeiffer. Meow.

Gibson talked about it when he was promoting Hacksaw Ridge. It sounded like he's going to add a bunch of characters experiencing personal or political turmoil who are affected by the resurrection. I'm sure he's berating a screenwriter into figuring it out right now.