Unnatural

That explains sooo much now, thank you. Looking back, yep I see what you mean, the Ents and eagles definitely come off like that in hindsight with plenty other pieces.

Got me picturing Yuta as a mashup of Drew Gulak/Tim Duncan. Can't remember which players it was but they talked about how Duncan was sly with the trash talk, coaching them during games about what he was gonna do and what they might try to do to stop him But also Yuta marching to ringside Drew Gulak style telling the flippy do's to tighten up their submissions, more fists less flips style ? Or Yuta wrestling someone and coaching them on escape attempts then trapping them and getting the W instantly

? ? ? that one deserves the trifecta too hahaha for Matt925 and Jlowe Mox can't sleep til he gigs on some rubber gloves ? on the pilot episode, next episode they're shopping for baby clothes when he grabs a clothes hanger and gets to working on his forehead!

That's right, hot dang I legit forgot he was in there with all the other stars popping up Shit yeah I'd love a side movie for Oldman's character, I mean I really didn't recognize him at first hahaha. I was thinking WHO TF IS THAT until I recognized his eyes ? Mister TV was on point, there's so many characters you could do splinter movies for before this one's timeline, as it's got such a dynamite cast. I mean Dennis Hopper as Slater's dad, Walken's mob character. I'd love to hit the lotto and make a time machine to go back in time and set up Tarantino to do a bunch of True Romance-verse movies with the cast. Like, you can take any one of the guys just about and give them their own spinoff with them in the lead role, its such a deep bench. And that Sonny Chiba mention, that was another clue it was a Tarantino script before they got to the comic book store, that Slater was so into martial arts flicks. Him fanboying over martial arts and comic books was what clued me in that this had to be a QT flick ? Just might rewatch it this weekend

JohnnyJ is onto something there ? WBD wants AEW content outside of the ring? On top of Yuta evading pro wrestling tropes, how about Mox traveling every circle of gods green earth to find crazy shit to gig himself with Baby bottle? ceasar salad? stryfoam cup? bubble wrapper? ? Mox finding new shit to constantly gig himself with is the new Wile E Coyote for a new generation of kids hahaha. Will he show up on Sammy's vlog to gig himself on Sammy's tongue? Will he crash a baby shower to gig himself on whatever random ass non sharp objects are around? Wanna see mox gig himself with an unused fresh out the box diaper? tune in, to WBD's newest entertainment juggernaut, Mox Rox(r0cks) (or some funny ass punny ass name)

If I could give you a like, a thanks and a laughing react you'd get all three for that one Log ? ? ?

Sami popping Solo like a zit will always get me smiling ? I need more Sami/Solo like I need more Eddie Kingston promos on pastries and desserts

Ugh, when will they let him take his vacation already? ? Poor dude is starting reach Dante levels of "I'm not even supposed to be here today" ? /s

@Curt McGirt you nailed it on the head. The highest compliment I think I can give a movie is that I'm sad having watched it because I'll never have the feeling of seeing it fresh for the first time Like, it's such an experience that getting to the end has me sad I can't rewatch it from scratch since it won't have any surprises for me anymore And yup, that definitely sums this up where I feel like this has to be one of my annual 90s rewatches like Things to Do in Denver when you're dead, starship troopers, The Immortals, Boys N the Hood and a few other ones. Like there's just a few dozen maybe where I never get tires of revisiting them and this goes on the list instantly @Mister TV also co-sign, would have loved a series with them on other cases. When they popped up I literally jumped in my seat, like on top of all the other surprise appearances they were the cherry on top

Thanks to Twitter, i was ready for some of the 4th wall breaking going on, so that didn't catch me off guard. What did catch me off guard was how the writers knew almost nothing about setting up a compelling courtroom drama, so they kept pulling deus ex machina plothammer tropes to settle most of the courtroom shit. "Hey can you testify for me this? Hey can you get your dates to testify for you?" I dunno, I guess after Daredevil I was hoping for something compelling every time we hit the courtroom. That's on me though, since the series came off more Deadpool in being silly for the sake of being silly, so from that pov the courtroom shit was tolerable. Liked the series, but hated the fucking ending where we're gonna get this massive brawl with all these cameos popping in and HOLY SHIT IT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN just for them to go the ultimate route of 4th wall breaking and swerve us by skipping the main event to cut to the aftermath. But again, with KEVIN mentioning budget as the reason for skipping lots of CGI, I kind of get why they went there? This doesn't slip into Moon Knight bottom of the barrel terrritory for me, but it definitely ranks behind the middle tier and just slightly above the bottom tier of the Disney MCU shows for me. Was funny enough with cameos enough to make it a good watch once I got out of my own head about what my expectations were.

Finished this series Monday, and loved many parts of it while also feeling underwhelmed by others. Quickly - my only famliarity with the lore besides the Peter Jackson 3logies were those Hobbit/LotR cartoons from the early 80s. So this was mostly new ground for me, with no expectations but here goes my bullet point impressions What the fuck was up with the urgency to have things wrapped up by Spring? High King keeps mentioning this doom and end of the elves as if there's some impending time line they have to complete things by and it had me lost as fuck. We hear from the Dwarves how Elves measure time differently than other races and yet the Elf High King and his engineer dude are sweating out the clock like they're down by 20 with 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Felt like plothammer shit to me, unless I missed something Deus ex machina the show. Felt cheap how many times they went to the well with this. If they're down to five seasons, maybe trim the fat and take time to focus on the shit that will actually matter down the line. Loved seeing the Dwarven stronghold before the Balrog got to wrecking shit. Fucking impressive just how MASSIVE they made it look.

Two quickie reviews: Significant Other (on Paramount + i think) - This was pretty good since I didn't see the twist coming. I mean, I knew we had a twist coming, but they pivoted and went in a totally different direction with it, and I ended up liking it by the time the credits hit. Hulluraiser - I liked the concept about having to complete multiple puzzles to get to the "final" wish, so to speak. My sister joked it reminded her of having to gather all the dragon balls to make that wish, and that had me cracking up. Liked the designs of the Cenobites and that mansion especially, was miffed that we didn't get to see some of the kills.

Just watched True Romance for the first time ever, and it's funny because other than starring Slater and Arquette I knew almost nothing about this movie. But when Slater takes Arquette to his work and is talking about comic books and shit, I start getting Kill Bill vibes where Bill is talking about Superman and masks, etc. And i'm wondering ok for a 90's movie to talk up comic books that isn't a Kevin Smith film, this has to be Tarantino scripting it right? Fuck yeah! Then you throw in Gandolfini, Sizemore, Penn, Pitt and a fucking all star (imho) cast and I'm pissed at myself for having skipped this when it came out. This movie is everything I love about the 90's, I mean its got fucking BALKI from Perfect Strangers in one of his first non-Balki roles (i imagine???) and I'm just going in my head "fucking young me would've loved this fucking movie back when it came out." So for my first time ever watching this, instant fall in love classic movie. Also caught Clerks III, didn't like it as much even though I sorta like the writing on most of the View Askewverse flicks. But the last two flicks where they follow up on Jay & Silent Bob and then this Clerks 3quel, I feel like dude's got nothing to say so he's pulling a JJ Abrams where he reshoots A New Hope with new characters and a new coat of paint and just, yeah that's not my jam. Feels to me like he lost all creative steam/imagination so he's copying his own shit to peddle to his fans? Overall feel like I could have skipped this and read some Carlton Mellick and that would've been a better use of my time.

Love to get your thoughts on elves in other media. Can't recall which d&d related rpg podcast it was, but they discussed Star Trek as having some Tolkien tropes in terms of how the Vulcans with their pointy ears and superiority complex were Elven archetypes and Klingons with their warrior culture ways were orcs. They could have also brought up Gamorreans from Star Wars as Orcs ( warhammer greenskins?) but I don't remember which ones were elves unless it was the Jedi/Superiority Complex guys. Could've also been in the comment section where they talked up Star Wars. This has to be months ago when I heard this.

Epic confrontation when this went down, was watching with my kid brother and we yelled ourselves hoarse at this segment King Kong vs Godzilla levels hype for us

That's a great shout out

Oh Gotch damnit, could never forget this one ????

Trips discussing the whole white rabbit teaser build up. WWE's Triple H details 'White Rabbit Project' to generate buzz for Bray Wyatt's return - WON/F4W - WWE news, Pro Wrestling News, WWE Results, AEW News, AEW results (f4wonline.com) For my money though, the best storytelling in WWE hands down is the Bloodline story, years in the making and still going strong imho. Legit curious where they go with Bray, but if anything's got me hooked it's Roman/Jey/Sami

Plus he's taking on extra responsibilities like with Moxleys extension. Love the investment they're making with leadership roles backstage

I get what you're saying but I'd think ECW has a more fucked up legacy wrt its influence on the modern scene RoH and all the influence its had definitely need to be recognized though, absolutely

looking back at this epic mash up, what a fucking journey it's been so far?

Can't wait to watch the season this weekend, as I hate watching weekly and prefer to binge all at once Kudos to @The Natural for reminding me, of all the series this year I've only missed this and Ms Marvel so I might catch that one after She Hulk. Seeing the cameos has me hopeful, tried hard as hell to avoid reviews for now. If I can do a quick ranking of the series released, I've got Wandavision/Loki/What If in my first tier.. Winter soldier/Hawkeye middle tier.. And Moon Knight bottom tier. I'm curious, for my own tastes, where the She Hulk and Ms Marvel series will land

I remember this one mostly for breaking practically everybody lmao with his dancing

Wrapped up a few seasons recently: Severance - Intriguing as hell. Absolutely felt like a Black Mirror episode stretched out to a full season, loved how fucked up it was but there was also genuine heart to it. Hope we get a second season This Fool - Had to check this one out since I'm always cracking up at those cholo exercise videos on YouTube. Felt real at times, I know a bunch of reformed cholos trying to turn things around and yet it had a good balance of laughs and honesty. Wished they'd done more episodes before wrapping up the season The Resort - Liked it about midway through, reviews had me hyped to catch the show but the first few episodes dragged forever Reservation Dogs- LOVED this. 5/5 stars