Mister TV

The Balloon Boy doc on Netflix was pretty good, totally remember the day when it all went down. Such a surreal event with the entire country watching a flying jiffy pop and debating if the kid inside was dead or not. Totally thought it was a hoax in the days after the event and even for maybe the first half of the doc, then they showed how law enforcement railroaded the parents and I realized it wasn't a hoax. The biggest takeaway from the doc is never talk to law enforcement without a lawyer!!!!

Are they all coming back to Hawkins for their 10 year high school reunion?

The recent uploads of Bash's to YouTube got me watching Jimmy Valiant promos & matches during his endless "WAR" with Paul Jones. That feud is all Boogie Woogie, you could have replaced Jones with any heel manager and had pretty much the same success, that's how much of a connection Valiant had with the people and how good his fun and serious promos were. Jones was great when he got then upper hand on Valiant, that I'm not sure say J.J. Dillon could pull off.

Even though we lost our game against Korea was on of the funnest in my 16 years of derby, same with Japan the next day. Unfortunately our final game against Wales wasn't, their coach was a major dick and we got hosed by the refs while being blown out. The USA cruised to winning the whole things, us Greeks moved up three spots from our initial seed to being ranked 35th of 48 teams.

Finally got to watch the 1985 Great American Bash! I really like no announcers, its great to hear the crowd reactions and the banter between the refs and the boys. Face Ron Bass is fun. Sonny Fargo is a bad ref. The ring announcer stinks but is kind of silly so I like him. Why wasn't the ring at the 50 yard line? It looked so weird being at like the 40. Jimmy Valiant & Paul Jones was better than I thought it'd be. Magnum was over enough in the summer of 1985 to be World Champion and bounce between slaying monsters like Kamala and defeating jagoff heels like Tully. Dusty's ego couldn't pull the trigger so he made him Robin to his Batman and Jim Crockett was too much a simpleton to see he had the perfect face to be his "Hogan". The sportscaster carrying the rubber chicken who came out with Flair, totally seems like he was a major prick when the camera was off at the tv station, like throwing coffee cups at interns level prick. Before the match David Crockett is dressed like the teacher you'd see at the mall or a restaurant who'd have a long conversation with your parents. After the match he looks like the uncle of the groom who had way too much fun at the bachelor party. Flair and Nikita was really good until the cluster F at the end. The post match beatdown was unnecessary, let Flair walk out the victor and continue the angle at the next tv taping. How can there be a title change in an unsanctioned match? Dusty & Tully was hot enough that the "lights out" stipulation wasn't needed. Tully as the norm is great in these situations. All the faces dragging a crying Baby Doll away is a really bad look.

He always seemed like A List Kirk Cameron to me.

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I was thinking the same thing!!!! Actually re-watched Big Night on a 9 hour flight yesterday, I forgot how great that movie is!!!!!!!

Wrestlers coming out for a post match save, should either be wearing their trunks and a normal looking shirt, or dress pants or jeans and no shirt.

We played them Thursday!

He should have gone into the HOF decades ago, total bullshit that the gatekeepers waited this long to put him in. This one hurts, he was my favorite player as a kid.

Was flipping through the channels last week and saw that IFC had a National Lampoon's Vacation marathon, since I'm heading off you Europe tomorrow night I decided to watch National Lampoon's European Vacation. First I remember seeing this while on vacation in Wildwood, New Jersey, and I don't think I've seen it start to finish since maybe when I rented it a year or so later, it was a staple on HBO so I remember jumping into at after it started many many times. I think I like this more than Vacation, it moves from bit to bit at a good pace, while the original drags at points, I also never found the Uncle Eddie character funny and he's not in this! Joke wise it bats around .550 and the jokes that don't land or aged aren't that bad. Also, had this been made now or they did a European sequel to the Ed Helms Vacation, they'd totally shot the whole thing in Atlanta or Vancouver, this movie actually went to London, Paris, Rome and a German speaking part of Italy. Staying with the travel theme I re-watched Airplane! just like European Vacation this was on premium cable a lot when I was a kid, still a fun watch and almost all of the jokes are still funny. Last night Netflix suggested Airport, so I gave that a re-watch. This was one of the movies we played during the day at Blockbuster since it was a G, this is the horniest G rated movie ever made, yes its from 1970 and they were still figuring out the rating system, but there's some horny scenes and dialog in this that makes you go "this is a G?". It's also comically over dramatic, and extra over dramatic when Maureen Stapleton is on screen. Helen Hunt totally steals the movie and you can see why she won Best Supporting Actress for this, George Kennedy looks like he's having a blast in his role as Joe Patroni, so much that I kind of feel they gave him the contract for all the sequels when he walked off set one day, Dean Martin is cool as always but seems silly when he has to be frustrated, he calls executive types Penguins and I totally dig that term, they might as well named Burt Lancaster's character Burt Lancaster, with a few exceptions he seems to be playing Burt Lancaster in almost everything. There's multiple scenes where abortion is discussed in a manor that was surprising in today's eyes, hell even in 1993 eyes when I first saw this. It also has that cool late 60's multi box look and editing, like the Woodstock doc that came out that year.

Just looked over what was all nominated for the 1997 Oscars and ouch! That As Good as it Gets, The Full Monty and Good Will Hunting all got nominated for Best Picture over Jackie Brown and Boogie Nights is just wrong. Same with Jack Nicholson winning Best Actor over Robert Duvall for The Apostle and even Peter Fonda in Ulee's Gold. Totally forgot that the actors in L.A. Confidential didn't get nominated for anything!

Once and awhile I fall down a rabbit hole of Siskel & Ebert reviews, about three videos in the other day I stumbled across this one for Brian DePalma's Wise Guys and they both loved it. I hadn't seen Wise Guys since maybe 1990 when it faded away from its cable tv rotation and couldn't remember if it was good or bad, so I gave it a re-watch. Yikes its bad, there's zero chemistry between Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo, the jokes aren't funny, where were the people protesting The Sopranos for disparaging Italian-Americans when this came out, and its bad when a movies bright spot is Captain Lou basically being Captain Lou. Now, there's actually a decent story that was most likely lifted from some old gangster movie that could have worked as a drama with some jokes thrown in or a black comedy. Siskel & Ebert are so enthusiastic about this flick but its so bad. This isn't on any streaming services but multiple people uploaded it to YouTube, which makes me think whoever own the rights gives zero F's about it.

Seeing their names in the post has me wishing there was a Dan Severn & Steve Blackman tag team.