The Comedian

The Wyatts failed because they were an alternate heel stable in the "heel authority figure" era. Ever since Bischoff joined the NWO and Vince started sending lackeys after Stone Cold, any heel stable not affiliated with the heel owner/CEO/president/commissioner/general manager/etc. is bound to come off second-rate. That said I don't mind all that much because I thought Harper was wasted in the role he was in. There's a guy who could be their next Undertaker, but they need to move fast on that cause he's already in his thirties...

It was clearly an example of excessive prayer...

The Substitute is great. It's basically the "white person saves ghetto school" genre crossed with the "criminals run afoul of secret badass" (ie. The Equalizer, Under Siege, etc.) genre.

I liked Belushi in The Principal, even if it is part of the tedious "white person cleans up ghetto school" genre

C'mon son, Johnny Dangerously

You can do topless at 17 with parental consent, which I recall reading from when Jessica Biel did her topless shoot at 17. Which, come to think of it, she did because she felt her wholesome Seventh Heaven reputation was what caused her to lose out on American Beauty to Birch...

Yep. I remember when I was in grade school Spaceballs was this huge deal, but it's really pretty bad. Men In Tights was kind of a comeback for Mel after those two stinkers. It also had Dave Chapelle in a major role about a decade before anyone knew who Dave Chapelle was. I don't know that Dead And Loving It was that bad as much as it let people down after the hype of Brooks and Nielsen collaborating.

I wrote a passionate endorsement for it somewhere in the TV thread but it kinda got ignored...

Yeah a parody movie tourney would be pretty damn epic I think... ...at least it would be after we clear out all the (insert genre) Movie fodder from the 21st century out in the first round...

Right here, you walked on to the fighting side of me. Hey guys save this for what I wanna propose for the next movie tourney after this Superhero shit is done... OK, if you're interested here's what I got so far...

The '08 Rambo is fucking awesome dude...

yeah I think whatsnewonnetflix got ahead of themselves on this one... in other news Netflix does have Silver Linings Playbook now and I watched it last night and damn it really is that good...

I loved Prometheus, and the amount of criticism it got for Charlize Theron's death (which can be explained as simply as "people who are panicking do irrational things") is ridiculous.

Early Edition was also very underrated...

In regards to Simmons homerism, one of the things that annoys me the most about him is this: I know several Bostonians, and they're all very low-key and humble about their teams' successes in the 21st century. Simmons however has practically single-handedly created the notion that Boston fans are obnoxious entitled douchebags.

Whether Goodell is a liar or not, my problem is that I don't buy for a second that Simmons cares about anything other than his ridiculous "I want the NBA to bigger than the NFL someday so I can be the #1 media expert for the #1 sport" pipe dream.

This is really something that's unique to baseball I think. Take, for example, Nicklas Lidstrom in the NHL. Lidstrom is vastly superior to Jeter as a player - as in so much better that Jeter can't even sniff Lidstrom's rarefied air - and more than his equal in class and dignity as a person. "The Perfect Human" is a pretty great nickname to have, dontcha think? What did he get from the Red Wings fanbase or any other? Nothing. After he retired, they had a ceremony to retire his jersey. That's it. No year-long schmaltz-fest. Dr. J got a retirement tour. Then so did Kareem. Bird and Magic probably would've gotten them too but their abrupt retirements killed that, and the concept kinda went out of vogue...

I never really got into Star Wars or Star Trek. Star Wars I think was just a bit before me, as I was a He-Man/Transformers/GI Joe guy. I have fond memories of watching Dr. Who on PBS as a kid in the 80's, but I've never really revisited it as an adult, nor do I have any desire whatsoever to watch the recent stuff.

Hardcore Gaming 101 did a whole article about stolen video game art: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing.htm

I'm just shocked at how long it took someone in WWE to steal that move from Caprice Coleman...

Bad Ass and Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses are a much better pair of action movies starring Danny Trejo than Machete and Machete Kills...

In Vince's world 1998 never ended...

So the best we can hope is that Daniel Bryan is Rodimus Prime and ROman Reigns is Ultra Magnus, right?

That was pretty cool, but I kept waiting for Rollins to back into Lesnar at the end there...

Yeah I got the same feeling about him. Although to be fair, it's hard to blame him too much given the situation. He went from Power Plant to World Champ and #1 babyface in less than a year, in possibly the most leniently-policed locker room in the history of the business.