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  1. Put me down on the list of people who hated that Guevara segment and that was even before he insinuated that he spunked on the title belt. I honestly thought the two of them were heels all of a sudden at the beginning. Very smarmy and obnoxious characters.
  2. It's the song. Still pops into my head every now and then. Pure pre-school nostalgia for me.
  3. I seem to remember some old timer sticking to his guns. Was it Sammartino? Or Superstar Billy Graham?
  4. I don't particularly care for the guy, but I don't understand the criticism of him. People seem to be mad that they got worked by a professional worker into believing that he was something he wasn't. All these accusations of being "fake" and "phony" don't make a lick of sense in the world of wrestling. Isn't that exactly what the business is? It'd be like getting mad that Hogan didn't actually take his vitamins and say his prayers. How dare you lie to us Hulkster!?!
  5. "Amer-er-ican Dree-am. He's just a common man..."
  6. Recently introduced my son to The Sixth Sense. At 13, maybe a little too young for it as it's quite slow moving, but wanted to introduce him before he ever became aware of the twist, and he ended up liking it overall. We've also recently had a small Mark Wahlberg run with The Other Guys and Daddy's Home. I remembered that Shyamalan and Wahlberg did a movie together that was absolutely pilloried but I had no other knowledge of it and pulling up some scenes on YouTube, we laughed our asses off. So of course that was the next movie we watched. It is shockingly inept and I honestly have no idea how Wahlberg or Deschanel ever got work again, particularly the latter. Amazingly wooden performances. Total turkey, but if you don't want to watch it to see, the Honest Trailers video has all the best bits. Anyway, that led us to looking up Shyamalan's filmography on RT. This film has 17%. After Earth has 12% and The Last Airbender has 5%. Are they worth watching for so bad they're good type laughs, or are they just worthless? Is the low score on the Avatar one just because it strayed from the cartoon (never watched it so have no attachment to it)
  7. I loved the green board. It was my introduction to a whole new world of wrestling I was unfamiliar with (indies, puro, lucha, etc) and I look back on that timeframe fondly (had just started subscribing to the WON at the time too) but these days I'm less a fan of wrestling and more a fan of an entertaining TV show. I only watch Dynamite (and AEW PPVs; Rampage doesn't air on TV in Canada and I always forget to stream it) and just come on this forum every few days to catch up on wrestling news and maybe some film/TV discussion. I'm not sad about that, wrestling is just another form of entertainment to me these days. I remember the Kaiju board. It was an awful place. I signed up to lurk there to read some of the IWC gossip (which was admittedly kinda fun) but was genuinely shocked at the overt racism on there, as well as some gore stuff (one of which is still seared in my memory) Not a nice place at all. I miss FSW. He was a bit too dickish sometimes, especially to certain posters, but he was good for a laugh. I didn't know him IRL but he lived here in Calgary and I think actually worked in the mall near my house. I always see the "CM PUNK was FSW!" thing thrown around, and I can't tell if some people actually believe it or not so as someone who was there that night, I figure I'll tell the story. FSW famously didn't like CM Punk. One night, someone posted a tweet from CM Punk where someone had asked him "Who are you on the DVDVR board?" and Punk replied "FSW" which was funny. I clicked on the twitter account of the person who asked the question (someone named Bryan Mills) and not really being familiar with Twitter at the time, I started randomly scrolling through their posts just to see what the deal was and then started spotting some interesting things. The person was a Liverpool FC fan, also liked Southampton FC and had a thing for Anna Kendrick so I posted that the twitter looked suspiciously like FSW's profile as he was into all three things. Someone else ( @Death From AboveI think, as us Albertans were all online at the time given that it was late in the evening) pointed out that Bryan Mills is the name of Liam Neeson's character in the Taken movies, another thing FSW was into. Holy shit, we had just rumbled FSW's twitter account and he came on here and admitted it. It was hilarious. So, Punk-hating FSW asks Punk a question about DVDVR, Punk replies that he's FSW to the actual FSW! What are the chances of that? So you have FSW sitting there in his bedroom, probably diddling himself with excitement, but unable to post about it because he doesn't want to draw attention to it as he doesn't want to out his twitter account. And it's also funny to think that Punk lurked enough times on DVDVR to know who his #1 hater was. Anyone know what happened to FSW? Is he still online posting elsewhere? Still on Twitter? Re-registered on here at all in the intervening years?
  8. My dumbass thoughts on CM Punk's entrance having never seen any of his ROH stuff - Is this The Terminator music? Kinda sounds like Terminator. Well, an AEW knockoff version at least. Holy shit, is he gonna come out dressed as the Terminator like HHH that one time? Holy shit. Oh, no wait... he's just wearing baggy shorts and a hoodie. That's lame. Did not get the significance of any of that until I saw the crowd kinda singing along and Excalibur explaining that it was a throwback ?
  9. I always wonder why people complain about a 4 hour show as that seems like the perfect length to me. But I never actually considered that it's because I'm out west and so the show runs from 6-10, whereas most of you are ET. God knows how I did it back in the day on the other side of the pond and then still went to class the next day.
  10. Haha, I was gonna say I like the more intimate vibe. They're obviously avoiding the hard cam so as not to show a half empty arena while people file in.
  11. re: Daniel/Bryan It's weird really. So Bryan Danielson, AKA Daniel Bryan, is married to Brianna Garcia. And then 8 years later along comes ickle Daniel Garcia. Daniel's son, innit.
  12. Might as well add some thoughts on movies I've watched this week. First two are rewatches. Terminator 2 still as amazing as ever. For some reason, I literally never noticed until this watch that when T-1000 is flying the helicopter, he's grown himself extra hands so he can fly and shoot at the same time. No idea how that passed me by. Liar Liar also still a lot of fun, though I was surprised by the amount of sex jokes given that it's essentially a family film. Carrey flails around like a Looney Tunes character here. He's on top form. Full Tilt Boogie Behind the scenes documentary on the shoot of From Dusk 'Til Dawn. I did some video production in university, and have always secretly harboured dreams of working in film, but this film kinda soured me on the fantasy in my head. Seemingly long hours of boredom with intermittent chaos and then partying through the night to do it all again the next day. Probably would've been fun in my twenties, but sounds hellish to me now. The Pond Serbian folk horror effort, filmed in English. Some interesting cinematography and production design, but it's all just randomly thrown out there as if the director wanted to get every idea he ever had on screen. I liked the lead's performance but a lot of the cast are as wooden as I've ever seen. To be fair, some of them are kids but it's on the director for hiring these particular kids. Part of it may also have been Serbians writing English dialogue for them. Bad, bad film. @Zola Crazy story based on an infamous series of tweets (I'd never previously heard of them, but I'm not exactly in the social media sphere) where a stripper decides to go to Florida with another stripper she's just met to make money. Reminded me of Sean Baker's work. Some fun performances all around but ultimately it's somewhat forgettable fluff. Kimi Entertaining techno paranoia from Soderbergh. Zoe Kravitz may be the prettiest woman on the planet (loved her in the criminally cancelled High Fidelity) and she brings a lot of physicality to her role here. I never noticed how tiny she is as a person but she uses it here to show how meek and anxious her agoraphobic character is. She has to leave her apartment at some point and Kravitz stiffens her body to create a unique walk for her character. She has a very cartoonish run though, hands scrambling tightly to her chest, and I've no idea if that's the character's style or the actor's. Kinda funny. Good film, with a Home Alone homage near the end, but the film ties up too quickly and neatly to the point where I wonder if Soderbergh just wasn't as interested in that aspect and just cared more about the Rear Window vibes. The Handmaiden Eroticism and literature in films are always a winning combo for me. Amazingly good scam artist story, though the last 20 mins of this 140 minute movie are very rushed and maybe could've been excised completely. Also, I never complain about male gaze, but well, some of this was very male gazey. Janet Jackson This is the 4 hour doc series that aired recently. Very safe and uncontroversial with the doc not pressing for strong opinions from Janet on her rumoured 80s pregnancy, her father's violence or allegations about her brother. She seems like a nice person, but is either uninteresting or very, very guarded. Maybe growing up in a fishbowl would make you that way though. The doc also touches on that devastating time in American history when some people saw a nipple and the whole of society collapsed. Even now, the doc skirts around it, not showing the footage or a photograph, not even blurred. Bizarrely puritan society. Anyway, the highlights of the doc are the inclusion of home movies filmed in the recording studio during Rhythm Nation and later collaborating with her brother.
  13. Following the above post and seemingly universal positive reviews on letterboxd, I appear to be on an island here in just not loving Pig. It was fine, but I honestly just can't see why people are fawning over it. Must be a me problem.
  14. I think another thing pointing to it not being Cody's decision is that he, being a son of a Booker, would've wanted to leave the company as part of an angle. Imagine how fun it would've been for Rhodes to renege on his no championship shot promise and demand a shot against Hangman with the stipulation that he leaves the company if he can't get the job done. Nobody would actually believe he would leave the company so the fans would think he's definitely putting himself over. The heat would've been volcanic.
  15. I've been watching Toast of Tinseltown lately as someone has uploaded the series to YouTube. It's... not very good really. Toast of London was often quite middling with the odd hilarious wacky bit. This hasn't come anywhere near unfortunately.
  16. How has nobody mocked up a checklist of guys Cody wants to face like Omos, T-BAR, Bugenhagen, Reggie etc?
  17. Recently I was reading Edna O'Brien's short biography of James Joyce when I became aware that this year is the centenary of Ulysses. So that's the plan this year. Have previously read Dubliners years ago and am now currently reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I may take a break in between but hope to get started on the big one by the summer.
  18. I've enjoyed both this show and The Mandalorian far more than I have any of the Star Wars movies released in this period. Just straight up action adventure western stuff with the feel of the original movies. Some fun casting underneath the makeup in this. I think of Olyphant primarily as Seth Bullock so when the barman showed up here I thought they should've got Dan Dority in there because it sounded a bit like him. It turns out they did. Also former UFC fighter Frank Trigg was one of the Gamorrean guards throughout.
  19. I was moaning last week about the nostalgia cash ins of 80s and 90s material. I had no idea there's a Gremlins show out this year portraying the old Chinese guy's childhood days with Gizmo in China. Which makes you think if he was hanging with Gizmo since he was a boy, why did he end up selling his friend for money?
  20. A quick google tells me that according to Kane's book Vince liked Decatur (Decay-tour) whereas Finkel had suggested The Needles mountain range in Washington.
  21. "Sweating like a priest in a playground" was the phrase we used as teenagers.
  22. When I brought the topic up, I meant wrestler's actual hometowns, but seeing as we're on fictional... the dumbest current one is Red Velvet being from "Your momma's kitchen"
  23. People keep mentioning the sign guy last night, but did anyone else notice the black guy (you can see him in the above picture by Lee's knee) who just looked utterly despondent and lost throughout the show like his buddies dragged him to a wrestling show but he had no idea what wrestling even is.
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