S.K.o.S.

I know you know this, and I'm being Johnny Nitpick here, but it's Masaaki Mochizuki. Looks like we'll be seeing the extent of the pro-WWE bias pretty quickly.

Going to the Raptors game tonight. First live NBA game ever. Bandwagon jumping at its finest.

I think Steen and Elgin could win matchups depending who they were against. Cole is probably deserving too. But I can't say I'd miss any of them if they weren't in.

So I was thinking "Hmm, this is the first WOTD I've literally never heard of" and then opened the thread to a furious GET OFF MY LAWN tirade from Rippa. I nearly fell out of my chair!

No trailer yet, but have you guys heard about this KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER movie from Sundance with Rinko Kikuchi?

May have said this before, but I thought The Mist really needed the Price Is Right losing horn right at the end. For The Prestige... I can see how the full explanation of the sci-fi part of the ending could be considered stupid. Not sure if that's what people are referring to, though.

3/4 of the way there.

Couple quick things: - On Friday I was talking about whether they were going to force Shield/Wyatts into the face-in-peril tag structure. The FIP portion (which was only a small part of the match) was set up really nicely by making Rollins into a face in about 30 seconds with the whole backflip out of the top rope German sequence, then having him get beaten down. - When Josh Matthews asked the 'expert panel' right before the EC match "So no one thinks Orton's going to retain??" they kind of faked me out there. I was thinking that question so obviously telegraphed that Orton was going to win, that it actually meant they were going to have him lose. I clearly cannot choose the wine in front of you...

As of today, the relationship I'm currently in is my longest relationship ever. We still have like nine years to go for it to be her longest relationship ever, but hey.

A hearty fuck you to home ownership. The weekend thaw here was nice, but it meant lots of melting snow, and judging by the two rooms on the top floor of my house that suddenly have wet carpets, it looks like there's a leak somewhere. Quite a few water stains on the walls, as well as on the ceiling of the main floor below.. so the water's coming in somewhere inside the walls or something. This probably won't be cheap to fix.

Not trying to hate on the match before it's even happened, but how likely is it that they force Shield-Wyatts into being a face-in-peril formula tag rather than a crazy brawl?

Has Ron Livingston started morphing into Quentin Tarantino or has there just always been a resemblance that I never noticed?

What's the tiebreaker in case you get a tie within a group? Like if three teams go 2-1 and one team goes 0-3. Would it be total margin of victory by votes?

No idea if this has been mentioned on the broadcast, but apparently Yzerman actually drafted that Latvian goalie last year. Fifth round, I think.

I think it's the report that came out of France a few weeks back basically stating that a deal had been struck to give Russia the pairs gold, and the Americans would get the ice dancing gold in return. If the fix was actually in, there's your "COMPLETE INJUSTICE" screaming. Meltdown at 3:49

I know it says the 17th in the first post, but the due date is the 22nd, right?

I'll say this for the new format: "Here are two guys dunking, pick which one you like better" makes a lot more sense to me than "Give each dunk a score out of 10". But yeah, it felt like it barely got started and then it was over.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there was any way for that spot to go well. Trish was just too short to properly catch anyone diving out from between the ropes.

I can still see that "Well, shit, alright!" look on Vic's face.

Some things I've seen recently that haven't been mentioned yet: Leviathan: This made a bunch of critics' top ten year-end lists, and there's at least one list that has it at #1. It's a documentary about commercial fishing, mostly shot on fishing boats - but there is virtually no dialogue, other than the occasional few words from people working on the ships, so all you're going to learn from this is what you see. It can be breathtaking, mainly because of the camera being willing to go right into everything. There are shots that bounce in and out of the water, following the boat, as hundreds of seagulls move along with it; shots that get right into piles of fish, with the reds turned way up and glowing like in a horror movie so that you're very aware that you're surrounded by dead creatures; and underwater shots that show nets being pulled up, disturbing all kinds of shellfish and starfish, floating around like they're in a snow globe. Amusingly, scientific names of fish are listed in the credits, right in along with the names of all the ship workers. This has a shot at making the low end of my list. 100 Bloody Acres: Gory Australian comedy where a couple of hillbilly brothers who run a bone meal fertilizer business have found that their product becomes a lot better with ground-up humans. They'd been using already-dead car crash victims, but when one of them picks up three hitchhikers, they have to decide if they're willing to kill living people. And one of the brothers is much more eager to kill them than the other. It's a good movie, and there are some definite laugh-out-loud moments, one when the brothers hear their radio commercial for the first time at the worst possible moment, and another that reminds you never to throw a knife to someone. Don't think it'll show up on my list, though. The Act of Killing: This Best Documentary nominee has a very good chance of being my #1. I actually saw it quite a while ago, and I feel like I've been pimping it a whole lot on the board, but it hasn't been mentioned at all in this thread. So - in Indonesia in the 1960s, there was a government coup that led to a large number of communists being killed, around half a million. Of course, when you're killing someone for an ideology, you can pretty much kill anyone you want. Some of the people that committed these murders are still in positions of power in Indonesia today. The director gets in with a bunch of them, including one man who's said to have killed over 1000 people, and offers them the chance to write and star in their own scripted movie about the killings (but he wasn't being entirely truthful, as the only movie that came out of this is this documentary). This is about those people and the making of that movie. It's almost too much to handle in a lot of places, as the subjects are very proud of their past, eager to talk about the killings, and treated with reverence by a lot of Indonesians. Jaw-dropping, and very tough to wrap your mind around. The last scene, and for that matter the closing credits, are just amazing.

And von Trier wore this. I want one.

That Malenko/Benoit match was a draw, so to their credit, it probably was not the best match to put in front of that crowd. Benoit won, but it was initially a time limit draw with, I think, multiple "5 more minutes" restarts (which were booed louder each time). Total match time was just under 27 minutes.

So I'm really trying to buckle down and list everything I've already seen that has a release date of 2013 on Rotten Tomatoes, I think I've got just about all of them... and it's a list of fifty-three. Good lord. Also it looks like Stranger By The Lake is 2014 on RT, so it wouldn't be eligible anyway.

I've watched Stranger By The Lake and Museum Hours, and I guess I burned myself out last year with that whole World Cup project because I really can't find the motivation to write anything about them. Put it this way, they were both alright, and with Museum Hours I would really love to see someone who knows more about movies than me write a piece on it, but I don't think either one will be making my list. Still planning to watch The Past, Short Term 12, Her, and possibly Wolf of Wall Street and Dallas Buyers Club. FWIW I have a friend who said virtually this exact same thing. He heard from a lot of people that it was terrible, thought that he might be the one person who could appreciate it, and nope, it really was terrible.

To your point: http://www.gallup.com/poll/147887/americans-continue-believe-god.aspx Granted, that's a few years out of date, but it surprised me the first time I saw how high that number is. Even when you break it down by age it still never drops below 80%. edit: Clearly I didn't read the "belief in God" vs. "belief in religion" posts.