Brian Fowler

He managed to be right and wrong in the same sentence... That's amazing.

Depending how high Shawshank is, we might do so at the same time. The most overrated good movie ever.

Did you all manage to calm your fears over the weekend? Good, good, come back in... Movie: Black Christmas (1974) Chosen by: Wait, wait, wait, what kind of moron chooses a Christmas themed film for Halloween? *Looks it up* Oh, right, me. An oft-overlooked absolute classic that is as important for the template of slasher films that John Carpenter would perfect 4 years later Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho, the two much more famous films that get all the credit. Should be more widely celebrated. Reviewed by: Lacelle Black Christmas I was delighted that this was an older horror movie cause I do find many of the newer ones a little too slick for my liking. This movie was all about mood. The tenseness was palpable and I found the acting which is usually suspect in this genre to be more than adequate. I could have swore the old doll was Shelly Winter but alas, it was not. Margot Kidder was a nice little surprise as was Andrea Martin. I was a tad disappointed by the main characters decisions at the end of the film but aside from that, it did the trick for me, which is to keep me interested, entertained and enthralled. I genuinely wanted to see what would happen next.

Compare it to the dark days right after Jordan retired. That was when the East was a mess. When the Spurs and Lakers not only won 5 straight titles for the West, but barely dropped any games in the doing. Since then, the East has been right there with them at the very top, and has actually won 6 out of the 11 titles since. But, past the third team out East, it has generally been a wasteland of bad and mediocre teams.

Semi-awesome/semi-discouraging thing of the week: The Legends of Mid-South dvd set has already been marked down from 19.95 to 12.95 at my (and thus, presumably, your) local Wal-mart. Awesome, because, hey, 13 bucks for that. Discouraging because, fuck, it probably didn't sell many copies at all if they are already discounting it, and given that reportedly the AWA and WCCW sets also didn't sell, it might be the last territory retrospective we get, outside more WCW and/or ECW.

All they'd want the library for is: A.) Sting career retrospective B.) Angle career retrospective C.) Possibly other career retrospectives D.) To continue their "custodian of wrestling's history" thing E.) To fill time on the "it's totally going to launch next year" network

The top of the East has been good most of the last decade. That top might be a bit deeper this year, but the problem has been depth in the East since the mid or late 90's.

It's okay, he's not a main event player.

I missed most of the first hour and a half, so I only saw the Bryan and Cena stuff in clip form, but seeing Sandow's MITB go nowhere is absolutely fucking hilarious. Punk/Bryan vs. Wyatts... This could be an awesome upper mid-card distraction. Show/Orton has potential to be fine, and I think Cena/Del Rio should deliver well as Cena knocks off the rest of the ring rust.

A wise man once said on this very board "Jesus Christ, I hate the fucking Cardinals."

All I know is that, if I had gone out the day after the Notre Dame game and bought a #98 Michigan jersey, Gardner wouldn't have seen a penny. Hell, neither would Tom Harmon's family. That's indefensible bullshit.

That show looks flat out awful. It's like, they think we want Robocop to be two different people, and neither of them be bad-asses. No, no we do not. We want that only slightly more than we want Boston or the fucking fuckers to win another World Series.

Well, it's Sandow, so it really hurts nothing, because, well, it's Sandow.

He's still the better half of that broadcast team.

Well, that was an ending.

I'm perfectly fine with Sandow getting squashed when he cashes in...

I kinda figure they move on from Bryan challenging for the belt to Bryan trying to get his hands on Triple H. Big Show vs. Orton, somehow?

There's everything from mid-1998 into mid 99 WCW, for starters. And by most accounts, he's been the top guy for TNA the last several months before the contract disputes kicked in...

I just don't see the evidence that Bisch could possibly succeed. I mean, the last 15 years haven't shown any reason to think Bischoff has anything left to give that actually helps a wrestling company.

Yeah, that part was terrible, can't deny that. And, I mean, I'm not saying it was great, but it was perfectly acceptable pro wrestling.

Nah, Shawn kicked him because Bryan knocked out Shawn's best friend, as far as I can tell. He didn't come in to favor Orton, he was going right down the middle, but when Bryan attacked Trips, Shawn got pissed and played a little sweet chin music, and then immediately regretted it when Orton made the cover.

If Vince can get a sweetheart deal for the video library and only the talent he wants, like he did for WCW, he'll buy it in a heartbeat. I can't imagine him absorbing all of the debt and contract commitments and such at a premium price, though.

I just wish, if they were going to have Shawn superkick him, they would have just committed to him turning heel. I mean, seriously, who does it help to have a guy that's been retired for 4 years be wishy-washy in the middle of this angle?

The opening tag was fantastic, and Cena/Del Rio, while tamed down from Cena's normal standards, was really good. Main event was good until the story swallowed it whole. AJ/Brie was fine for a diva's match. The Punk beatdown of Heyman was really good. The rest of the show probably happened, to. (Oh, and although I like Ambrose, I kind of wish that opening clothesline-cover had gotten the 3.)

Well, that was an ending.