Brian Fowler

Ladder matches are way older than either of those.

Well, what do you expect? Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell. (Tip your waitresses.)

Nash/Triple H instead of HBK/Triple H, HBK/Taker #1, Lesnar/Taker way up.

Yeah, but now he's going to star in that Leprechaun reboot they are doing...

Maybe his parents were double agents secretly working for the Red Skull.

Oh, not hiding under the beds already, are we boil and ghouls? Movie: I Saw The Devil Chosen by: Lawful Metal I suggest someone review I Saw the Devil, even if it's not really a horror movie. Still, probably the best movie I've seen on Netflix. Reviewed by: Brisco I Saw The Devil (Jee-Woon 2010) Evil comes in many forms, but the scariest form of evil is the evil that comes from within. This Korean thriller examines how far a man of the law will be driven to extract revenge when his pregnant fiancee is murdered. The hero Kim Soo- hyeon is taken to an extremely dark place in his pursuit of the killer. In essence he adopts the "To catch the monster, you must become a monster" mantra where he plays catch and release with the killer. This inspires Kyung-Chul, the serial killer, who intends to win this little game by attempting to deny Soo-hyeon the satisfaction of revenge. While I tagged this film as a thriller, and at its heart it is, it contains more than enough violence to drift to the horror genre. The amount of violence can be unsettling from a simple dick beating to straight up cannibalism. The violence is the engine that drives the film to the very depths of the humanity. Soo-hyeon deals with some truly messed up people, while at the same time finding himself increasingly pushed in that direction. His antagonist Kyung-Chul is one of the worst human beings in cinema. He kills for seemingly no reason at all and does not flinch at the violence he commits. Director Jee-Woon does not hide the violence from the viewer, and truthfully the violence helps set this apart from other great revenge thrillers. I am not one to be against film violence but this was pretty brutal and is a necessary evil to take the viewer to the dark depths the characters have sunk to. I have seen some talk about the portrayal of women in this film. The killers do attack women 99% of the time, but I do not see this as women being weak. A man who kills for fun certainly would not want to get caught and I see this as the killer having a comfortable pattern of stalking women or finding them in prone positions. And really, does the fact that a serial killer chooses women as his main prey really an indictment on women as a whole? The argument is weak. This film caught me by surprise, for one this was the first Korean film I have had the pleasure of watching. Second, I expected an over the top pick from the board as opposed to a spectacular well rounded film. Lead actors Lee and Choi are absolutely amazing, playing their roles to perfection. I cannot recommend this film enough. 5/5

First, some house cleaning: I have a review that I'm about to post, and then I have 2 more from other people, and my own. Also, I am going to be out of town until sometime Sunday night, so there won't be a Saturday night review. If you haven't done your review yet, now would be a great time (says the horrible hypocrite who never did his book review this summer...) Moving on

Presumably he was well compensated, yes. Especially for the sequel. But was it worth it deep in his soul?

I so almost posted "So, his career really crashed, huh?" but then decided it would be too mean.

http://antagonie.blogspot.com/2013/10/review-all-monsters.html So, Tim Brayton (who I believe has at least a couple of other fans here) is planning to basically review all of the Toho Kaiju films starting tomorrow and going up to the release of Godzilla next May, with the Godzilla films being done once a week on Saturday, and the various others being filled in chronologically during the weeks. So, yeah, this might be the best blog event ever.

No Stud Stable, Ben? You're slipping.

God, Arn's "He's just a man, he's just a man" trying to calm down Larry even though Arn himself is clearly freaking the fuck out IS pro wrestling. Then, of course, the match itself was 912 different kinds of awesome.

Cody sucked for the vast majority if his career thus far, but I loved my Genesis...

What the heck happened to Sandow, anyway? Seemed like they turned him face against Del Rio, then he's completely disappeared, since.I don't know, but I damn sure am grateful.

Should probably flip RVD and R-Truth, since Truth has been part of the Punk/Heyman war.

I like Eyes Wide Shut, but not enough for it to make my ballot. The Lion King is lower than I expected.

They were the only good matches Cody had that year...

The multi tag team Demos/PoP double turn match is fantastic.

Slaughter's 1990-91 run is pretty underrated in general (I think mostly because of how horrific the gimmick/angles around it were.)

He had that great run 94-95 (or maybe 96? When did the team with Slater end?) but didn't do much after that, did he?

Poor, poor desperate NBC...

My favorite team ever is the 1990 The Warriors team, just for the in-joke in the team name. I find the booking of the 1990 show fascinating, now looking back on it. You had the Ultimate Survivors match at the end, which made the booking have to do interesting things. It was obvious Hogan and Warrior were going to said match, and were almost certainly going to be the final survivors. You had the WWF starting to build up Slaughter to be Warrior's Rumble opponent, which makes for one tough spot. Clearly, they didn't want Slaughter to go into the final match and lose to Warrior (or Hogan) but they also needed him to come out of the show looking strong. Having his three teammates each go down until it was 4 on 1, and then going on a rally to get rid of 3 of them before losing to Tito kept him looking at least relatively strong. Then you had a Hogan/Warrior/Santana team, and how the hell do you make a heel group credible against that? You have Dibiase, who is somewhat credible still, not that far removed from his 1989 main event run. But nobody else who could make it to the match would be all that strong on their own. So, the best way to get around that? Have The Visionaries run the table against Jake's team. Jake gets a pass because of the whole "wrestling half blind" angle, Snuka existed only to get a legends pop and put people over by that point, and so it was really only sacrificing The Rockers, who worked quite well as scrappy underdogs anyway. It's a weird case of booking themselves into a corner, and then working their way out of it. I think that's probably why the Grand Finale match of Survivors never returned.

NFL always outdraws MLB, pretty much without question. Hey, the NFL is actually not taking a Sunday night off for the World Series this year? Is it because the game is starting earlier in the day?

I was sold on that post with "Vincent Price episode of The Muppet Show" for the record.

And we press on into the long night, full of darkness and evil. Movie: Q - The Winged Serpent Chosen by: The Mad Dog It is so ridiculous and over the top, but when I watched it at my friend's 9th birthday party (in 1984, on BETA!), we thought it was great. The opening moments will explain why. Everyone is clearly just fooling around in this film, but they seem to be having fun...so hey, give it a whirl. Reviewed by: Execproducer Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) "It's name is Quetzalcoatl... just call it Q, that's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart!" Stop-motion animation is almost as old as cinema. In the silent era, it was used largely to give movement to inanimate objects. Later, it would bring to life giant monsters and mythological creatures and allow experimental film-makers to explore the limits of their imaginations. Later still, it would make its way to television to bring families together on holidays as well as to sell raisins. Today, it has brought to life the irreplaceable dog, Gromit. In Q: The Winged Serpent, we have the terrifying nightmare of what may be the flying incarnation of an Aztec deity hunting it's prey over the gritty, urban roof-tops of pre-cleaned up NYC. Michael Moriarty stars as Jimmy Quinn, a pathetic loser of a small-time crook, whose unearned ego is matched only by his rotten luck, but completely dwarfs his marginal jazz piano skills. Fleeing from a botched heist, Jimmy stumbles upon the lair of Q: The Winged Serpent atop of the Chrysler Building. Between the freshly picked clean skeleton and giant egg he discovers, Jimmy has a secret that he hopes to turn into a big pay-off. We are also given the Superstar genre team-up of David Carradine and Richard Roundtree, two NYC police detectives, investigating the sudden rash of headless window cleaners and body parts dropping from the sky. These dudes are seriously overworked because they are simultaneously trying to crack the case of a string of ritual murders with apparently willing victims. Fuckin' New York! I love this film. Directed with a sure hand by B-movie legend Larry Cohen and top-notch cinematography from Fred Murphy and Robert Levi (especially the gliding aerial shots over the city), Q: The Winged Serpent features many layers expertly stretched over the frame of the standard Samuel Z. Arkoff formula. Half of the fun, of course, is seeing all of the B-movie conventions that play out on-screen: The tough-guy dialogue ("Fry up about 500 pounds of bacon, we're going to have us some breakfast!" Carradine's Sheppard says before lighting up Q: The Winged Serpent's egg with his machine gun), the fact that most of the uniformed police officers look like hippies and porn extras, the cheesy gore effects, and on and on. Though this isn't ancient Arabia or the ice planet Hoth, the stop-motion Q: The Winged Serpent marries surprisingly well with the early 80's urban background, probably mainly due to the economy with which Cohen uses to present the flying monster. But the main event here is Michael Moriarty giving what may be the single greatest performance in a flying monster movie....or for that matter, any kind of monster movie. He is truly something to behold. There are some negatives, to be sure. The pairing of Carradine and Roundtree doesn't really amount to much. Shaft is a bit under-used... though the scene with the four cops driving in pursuit of the ritual killer, one cop in mime drag, might bring a smile to your face...and Carradine is overly nonchalant for someone making the connections that he does between the deaths and their cause. In fact, everyone seems just a little too quick to accept the reality of a giant flying killer before it has even been spotted. And while the climatic battle with Q: The Winged Serpent is a helluva lot of fun, some of the SFX surrounding it are a little less successful than the monster itself. Still, a fun romp and recommended. Stop-motion animation: 4 out of five stars.Story and presentation: 3 out of five stars. Michael Moriarty: A MILLION BILLION STARS!!!!!!