The Comedian
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21 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Who is Big Mamma?
Jimmy Valiant's street lady.
The bit where he lends her to Dusty Rhodes is one of the greater moments in wrestling history...
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I hate Stankonia, but a lot of that is because I consider ATLiens to be the greatest album of recorded music ever produced, and Aquemini to be extremely good as well, and then when I copped Stankonia...well it started OK but somehow devolved into some kind of concession to the execrable rap scenes of Miami and New Orleans...
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
I thought it was great fun. Punk having to lay there and play dead listening to the whole thing... My only question is how do you respond to that?
Finally escalate the anti-Cena promos. I've enjoyed this Cena heel turn for the most part, except that all his opponents so far, even Punk, have been kid gloves with their promos. If this angle ends without me hearing the words "Alex Riley" and a reference to killing Cryme Tyme's merch during someone's anti-Cena promo, then it's a failure.
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Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one that was weirded out a bit that Pamela didn't age up Bobby's voice at all...
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Y'all had to realize something huge was eventually coming for Seth...he didn't do all those jobs to Cody and Punk for nothing...
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6 hours ago, Johnny Sorrow said:
The Cena/ Punk stuff was fucking great. I loved it, including the hypocrisy shit. I love that Punk is gonna be a "hypocrite" because Harley Race would definitely have worked in Saudi Arabia. One of the best in ring promo segments in awhile, and it was halfway through a LONG show. SD can't get back to 2 hours fast enough.
Thank you.
My take on the Cena heel turn?
Fans: Why can't we get more old-fashioned hateable heels instead of "cool" heels?
Cena: Becomes a completely hateable old-school heel, with a year-long angle building to what will be a satisfying payoff when he finally loses
Fans: Cena's heel turn sucks!
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At least now I know why they call that gimmick "Furface". I'd only ever seen the latter iteration with the red tights, g-string, chain mail vest, star mask, and black durag, looking like Captain S&Merica or some shit...
Also funny to note that he brought back some of those mannerisms for The Zodiac, particularly the super-dramatic Mongolian chop...
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I don't care if it's a work or not because the initial outcry was fucking stupid anyway.
"Oh no, WWE has told a 53-year-old millionaire that he doesn't have to come into work every day any more!
...after giving him a World Title match main event in a PLE as a send-off!
...knowing that he could easily get another big bag from the competition if he so chose!
...or that he could simply sign a Legends deal, come back sporadically, and semi-retire into the convention circuit!
...what a goddamn tragedy!"
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31 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Going on Sunday to sinteresee the Wes Anderson movie. Low expectations.
Wes is at his best when the twee is just a way of presentation of interesting, likeable characters. I've said before that I consider The Royal Tenenbaums to be the greatest movie of the 21st century thus far, and Moonrise Kingdom is pretty high on my list as well. But when the twee is all the film is about, like say The Life Aquatic, you end up with a pretty film without much substance...
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2 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
Wait, what is The Beatles reference in Wake Up Dead Man?
I believe that's one of the backmasked lines in "Revolution 9" that helped fuel the whole "Paul is dead" phenomenon... actually might have been "turn me on dead man" but still ...
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1 hour ago, RIPPA said:
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
Only Netflix would do a "Date Announcement" where the date is "Coming soon"
So are all the sequels gonna have Beatles references in their name?
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19 hours ago, Peck said:
Al Isaacs?? Did Yokozuna join the Hart Foundation that night?
Don't sleep on that Texas Death Match between Chris Hyatte and Dusty the Fat Bitter Cat...
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I wonder if stacking the NDA (New Dangerous Alliance) like this leads to a Brock return. Regardless of how anyone feels about that, at least it would be the proper way to use Brock at this point, in the Andre role of monster baby-face that you bring in when the heels are overwhelming you...
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1 minute ago, DangerMark said:
Can we at least ban that stupid name for it?
The true name of the play is the Brotherly Shove...
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5 hours ago, Phil Schneider said:
SEE Mad Dog Connelly hit me with a trash can at 4:33~!!!
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3 hours ago, zendragon said:
Is Taker the only guy who got multiple pins on Hogan, and Hogan never got his win back?
I don't know, but I did see somewhere (one of Tom Green's WCW Deep Cuts maybe?) that Hogan tried to get WCW to bring Yokozuna in right after Warrior so he could get that win back too, but by that time Yokozuna was too heavy to get the ok to compete from any State Athletic Commission, so poor Hulkster has to live with never avenging that L...
Man is Hogan an ambulatory sack of shit ...
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The most ironic thing about Seth Rollins to me is that, his WWE tribalism aside, he's pretty much a perfect fit for the AEW main event style. Meltzer would probably drool over a 30-minute Rollins-Ospreay MOVES~!!!fest...
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1 hour ago, just drew said:
I will always be baffled by the WWE office's insistence that Seth Rollins was a better choice than Dean Ambrose to build around after the Shield broke up.
Naw, it makes sense from Vince's perspective. He did faux hardcore during the Attitude era when he thought he had to, but he always hated the real bloody stuff because he wanted wrestling to be mainstream and he felt hardcore dragged it back to the low class carny era. Ambrose/Mox, meanwhile, is so hardcore-obsessed that he's getting spiked bats stuck in his back and going to work indie death matches even as a highly-paid multi-time World Champion. I guarantee that within a few minutes of Ambrose first pitching ideas to Vince, McMahon probably rolled his eyes and thought, "I wanna make this guy Roddy Piper and instead he wants to be fucking Raven."
Meanwhile Seth is the biggest company suck-up in the WWE. So yeah, I'm not surprised Vince went the way he did.
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None of these releases strike me as odd. The two biggest names are Kai and Strowman. Kai is injury-prone and mainly just acted as a cheerleader for better workers. Strowman is a bum. He gets brought back as part of the post-Vince amnesty, and right away he cuts a Twitter promo whining about vanilla midgets like he's Kevin Nash in 1998 (2025 Nash has of course moved on to making the same argument about women.) And did the guy ever make any kind of effort to freshen up his look or gimmick, beyond maybe changing the shade of his wifebeater or the pocket location on his faux cargo pant wrestling tights? He seems like the kind of guy who thinks a long beard is his personality...
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4 hours ago, twiztor said:
Picking up a crumb from last month's thread:
Who was the first heel you rooted for, and what age group were you?
Personally, and i just referenced this the other day, when Hogan and Savage feuded leading into Mania 5, i sided with Savage. I would have been 6-7. I think that speaks more to my absolute adoration of Savage moreso than my taste in characters, but it's easily the first instance of me going "against the narrative". I loved the Ultimate Warrior and the Legion of Doom and was back to cheering Hogan against the evil traitor Sgt. Slaughter a couple years later. I also always liked the Repo Man and the Mountie for some reason, likely the comedy. But other than those isolated incidents, i was fully aboard the babyface train until the nWo came about and rocked my world.
Bad News Brown, pre-teens. As I've said before, he was Stone Cold about ten years ahead of his time...
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13 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Conservative comedians don’t understand that comedy is an art. They just think you can say offensive, mean-spirited shit and that’s supposed to be the joke.
Norm McDonald was conservative and he understood comedy better than anyone. Actually, he said stand-up was a craft, not an art, because art is subjective, whereas the goal of stand-up is not subjectively, but to get everyone in a group to react in unison. One thing Norm criticized, which is a problem with most modern liberal comics, is the tendency to chase applause rather than laughter. Laughter should always be the goal of the comedian, not ,"cheer me because you agree with my politics."
Checking this WWE roast, it is pretty bad. Not because it's offensive: that's what roasts are. They're "refuge in audacity" humor, as TV Tropes calls it. It's "I can't believe they went there!" humor. The problem with this one was two-fold. One, good roasts limit themselves to participants. By signing up for a roast, you're agreeing to take as well as give. This roast mocked a lot of non-participants. Two, it just wasn't funny. It was a bunch of cheap-ass grade school-level jokes. Certainly no one with the chops of a Girardo or Gottfried.
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10 hours ago, JLowe said:
Already posted in the AEW folder but I now live about 2 miles from 2300 Arena and am super stoked to be able to take transit and walk to DEAN~! 3 so I can get properly tanked in honor of my friend.
I mentioned Athena in that folder, since DEAN~! was a huge fan of her work and women/joshi wrestling. But any chance we can get Daniel Makabe out of retirement for this? Maybe against a hometown guy like, say, Wheeler Yuta, a Danielson protege?
Happy for you man. I lucked out with the first DEAN~! show being a half hour drive from me. Now it's your turn...
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Hey, speaking of Weezer, here's a thought: is "Buddy Holly" the all-time king of bad song/good video?
Obviously, the "Happy Days"-themed video is cool as hell. Hell, doing the Fonzie dance at the end of the video became a meme amongst my friends for a bit. It's so good it tricks you into thinking the song ain't half bad.
And then years later, I'm putting together my 90's rock playlist on Spotify and of course "Buddy Holly" goes on there. However, whenever it actually comes up I find that it's an instant skip. Why? It's a garbage song. I mean, right off the bat it hits you with "white bread guy ironically uses Hip-Hop slang", which was always shite. The rest of it is standard "Hey girl please be a dork from the wrong era with me", only without one iota of the charm of, say, "Teenage Dirtbag". But man that video hit enough nostalgia bits to fool me for a couple decades...
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On 4/11/2025 at 11:03 PM, Andrew POE! said:
Movies today....
No Time For Love (Criterion Channel, leaving on 4/30) - 3/5 stars
Somewhat standard romantic comedy but has some interesting bits throughout the movie. I loved the positively Brunuel-esque dream sequence where Claudette Colbert as Katherine Grant fantasizes about Fred MacMurray as Jim Ryan flying in to beat up Henry Fulton (Paul McGrath).
The tunnel scenes were extraordinary bits of physicality with the sets looking like an actual section of a tunnel. The mud sequence where all the actors in the scene were covered with mud by the end was also great.
I also liked how the movie filmed actors being in doorways - most movies of the time didn't really show actors standing in doorways or much in the way of interactions with sets. One shot I liked had Kathryn appearing in a mirror after Hoppy Grant (Ilka Chase) opened it.
Still, No Time For Love doesn't do anything new with romantic comedies, but does do interesting ideas.
Skylark (Criterion Channel, leaving on 4/30) - 3/5 stars
Skylark as a movie hasn't really aged well at all. With this as my first exposure to Mark Sandrich, there's a bit of a focus on physical and verbal comedy. The highlight of course is Claudette Colbert as Lydia Kenyon and the hilarious sequence on the boat towards the end where she tries to prepare coffee and sees what's in the icebox for food.
With a modern lens, the movie has the focus being on Tony Kenyon (Ray Milland), who doesn't really care for Lydia despite saying he does, and on Jim Blake (Brian Aherne, who is a cad essentially. Maybe Lydia should have ran off with one of her friends or Myrtle Vantine (Binnie Barnes) and said forget these losers? To borrow a phrase from Sandrich’s earlier movie, Lydia isn’t a gay divorcee.
Despite my misgivings with the plot and with most of the comedy, the movie is easily forgettable. In the hands of a director like Leo McCaray or Ernst Lubitsch, it would have been different.
The Amateur (2025) (saw in the theaters) - 2/5 stars
"I'm a shooting star racing through the sky, defying the laws of gravity" -Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now"
The Amateur as a movie is a bit of a flashback to an earlier time in 2000s decade. A movie like this, where CIA analyst essentially goes rogue to track down his wife's killers, would have worked in the George W Bush presidency years. The tools and tactics of the CIA on display to hunt down foreign enemies of the United States through one person.
With this in 2024 (during Biden years and pre-Trump 2nd/Possibly Forever Term), the CIA is a bit more corrupt and seemingly inept and flat footed. Alex Moore (Holt McCallany) authorized the very people who killed Charlie Heller (Rami Malek)'s wife to do black ops work for the CIA. Yet the movie is laser focused on Heller's haphazard search for vengeance against the people who killed his wife. Jason Bourne he isn't. James Bond he's not even close. He's in way over his head throughout the entire movie. With sheer luck of fools does anything work out for him. At no point does the CIA get a sniper to take him out from over 100 feet away. It's just pesky surveillance and eventually he tricks the surveillance to see other people as him.
I will say for this type of movie, it doesn't take the easy way out and have Charlie Heller all of a sudden become proficient at killing people directly. Thankfully, the movie didn't have Sarah Horowitz (Rachel Brosnahan) alive on the boat at the end. (It would be fitting, but just even more ridiculous direction in the story).
I will say the positive for this movie is the director James Hawes and his proficiency with doing spy thrillers. His prior movie to this was the underrated One Life. Hawes seems to fit in the same style as Paul Greengrass and Martin Campbell except his main character is a bit more methodical and intelligent. Perhaps, he should be pegged to be the next Bond movie director?
Some of the cinematography wasn't as good as I wanted - quite a few times, the scenes seemed a bit too dimly lit for me. One scene had Charlie using a cellphone with incredibly tiny font that it was illegible on screen. It really seemed like the next step in the trail for the movie (and for Charlie), so whatever.
The Amateur for the most part is semi-professional in the story and professional in the direction.
[Song quote is due to Rami Malek having played Freddie Mercury and it seemed appropriate]
Green Vinyl (Mubi, leaving on 4/12) - 3/5 stars
This short film proves that Plumbers Don't Wear Green Gloves or Listen To Green Vinyl.
(If you've seen the game, you'll recognize immediately the format style for this short film)
You make The Amateur sound like Taken meets Blue Ruin and actually that sounds like a pretty good idea for a movie if nothing else...
Daredevil: Born Again - March 2025
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More awesome news for the next season of DD: Born Again...
Royce Johnson is returning as Brett Mahoney!