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Matt D

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  1. I think that Bock does most of what Flair does as well as Flair. Watch him bump around or stooge vs Verne or Hogan. Watch him fill time in interesting ways for the first part of a match vs Martel. Watch him bring the stiffness vs Wahoo. On top of that he switches things up so much more, and there seems so much more thought and strategy to his matches. He does the things Flair excels at excellently and he does what Flair does poorly excellently too.
  2. Aaron's entire run has been very, very good
  3. Reading Aaron's Thor, I'd be amazed if it was anyone but Jane at this point.
  4. Richards is so ridiculous that it's hard to take him seriously enough to hate him. I kind of pity him.
  5. I absolutely love the first two or three minutes of almost every Bock match because it's obvious he comes in with a game plan and it's not always the same one.
  6. I hadn't watched that match in years but I actually think Zack looked really good in it. He had a few moments of being not so smooth at the start, but he bumped huge for Christian (the neck snap from the outside in, the corner clothesline, eating the shots from the apron, the shoulder tackle from the top) and he looked pretty good on offense, managing to add some shots in with the abdominal stretch and getting the knee in there for the chinlock and making sure to switch things up. There was a sense of struggle. That has to be his career match, right? Christian was so good that year. He was the master of teasing a spot early in the match and paying it off later, or doing a spot early on and then twisting it later and so good at switching up things match to match. I really liked how Zack took over because Christian went to the top too much and Christian's comeback came because Zack went to the superplex twice, for instance, and the fight for the tornado DDT.
  7. I watched zero WWECW. I had a few "gap years" where I just watched Raw and pretty much it. I have zero idea if that stuff was any good. By one cut off leg, do you mean he wore something like a Flo-Jo look? Because if so, my opinions on him have changed dramatically. The only Ryder I know is the one that my annoying friends from home who are even bigger nerds than I am about pretend wrestling whine and moan about all the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ6-di_dWzw
  8. i actually think you would have been really into Zach Ryder in 2009, Gregg. (I say this not remembering if you were watching ECW then or not), but the song and the one cut off leg and the Saved By the Bell moments with Rosa where they filmed it in slow motion, totally breaking all semblance of reality. He had some fun matches that year too. That was then, though.
  9. It's possible, but there is both a level of detail, and little moments, like him disputing the "nun" disguise story at the dinner party (I think it was then), that would make me feel otherwise. It's one thing to create a fantasy, but then to create an embarrassing way for other people to look at it that would annoy you? It doesn't ring true to me. It's certainly a possibility though.
  10. Is this a tvtropes thing now or is Sam just a wrestling fan from NC?
  11. I think it boggled everyone's mind when they had Miz turn on Morrison and not the other way around. Morrison basically ended up the 2010 version of what Ziggler is today.
  12. I promised words and here they are. RVD is my least favorite wrestler ever, by far, because he just doesn't get it. His understanding of wrestling is diametrically opposed to mine. I think guys like Flair have an opposing view of what pro wrestling should be to me, but it's not diametrically opposed. It's still something I can appreciate and it still contains details which I love. With RVD, everything he does is against the things I care about in wrestling. He hits his shit. He'll not just no-sell his comebacks, but make sure to sell before that in a way that makes it all the more aggravating that he blows it all off so he can hit his shit. The worst, the very worst, is when someone works his back. Which brings me to this point: It's been suggested to me that any bad RVD match is not because of RVD but because the person working with him didn't work in the one specific way that a RVD match can work. Which makes him different than any other wrestler in the history of wrestling. He is the most limiting wrestler ever. He's a king of contrived spots, of no-selling his opponents' actions to get himself over, of working dumb. And now that he's older, it's absolutely obvious that he NEVER got it. He hasn't changed up his act. He hasn't started wrestling differently to make up for his physical decline like any wrestler who knew what he was doing ever did. It wasn't just that his athleticism brought him to the dance and made him stand out, it's that he just doesn't understand the art of professional wrestling at all. He just stumbles through it, high and careless. He's the worst, not boring or a heatsink like the Harris Brothers, or goofy and glaring like Sid. He's actively offensive in every way.
  13. I'm not going to say a ton. First and foremost, I am not a poetry guy at all, so I burned through the poem and went back when I had to. My favorite parts of the book, as in the most readable, were the historical bits. Then, every now and again, he'd say something hilarious or actually clever in the commentary. I guess my main notion is that I kind of wish this was all real. If it was real, it'd be worth it. As it is, it's so much effort for relatively little payoff. It had to take an amazing amount of time and effort to write the poem and to link it all together, to move forward and backward in the writing, to really get into the head of Kinbote, to work out the history and how it intersected. I think the actual writing of the commentaries were probably pretty easy since it's like opening a floodgate and letting out every terrible, overblown first draft that you ever wished you could have. It's the writing equivalent of being a heel I guess, of just going out there and letting it go. It's hard to criticize specific things here because there are so many filters. The narrator/commentator is so dubious, but he's also extremely earnest, to the point of calling out his own desperate lie early on. It's hard to link the world of the early histories with the character we're left with at the end. I felt a real disconnect between that, as there's a skip of a couple of decades. It's more than that, though. If we saw too much of the transformation, then too much might have been revealed early. For instance, I think Shade's work as a formative piece should have been featured more in the historical bits but you get why that didn't happen. There are little easter eggs like Timon of Athens which would raise eyebrows if you hadn't worked it out yet. I think maintaining the mystery a bit longer came at the expense of developing certain parts of the book better, if that makes sense. In the end, it's wildly ambitious with moments of real joy, but it was a hell of a chore to read.
  14. Crossbones kind of had a mini series feel to me.
  15. Ha. I survived it. Eat that, Nabbie.
  16. Well too be fair - I can't think of a single female reviewer period. (Excluding the woman for Entertainment Weekly whose name I am spacing on) Is there a female version of Roger Ebert? I don't entirely understand how the math goes on reviews, but I'd be kind of curious to go back and look at superhero movies on RT and look at a) the Male/female divide and B) how that then breaks up as rotten or fresh. Again, I don't want to stereotype (though I know I am) but in truth I think there might be some sort of correlation.
  17. Grey hair is awesome compared to no hair.
  18. Not to stereotype too much but I saw no female reviewers in there this morning for instance.
  19. Neither here nor there, but in my head, the two movies I'm comparing Guardians to the most are Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm sort of amazed that Pirates only has a 76 on RT.
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