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Also McFadden had been injury prone to the extent that there's no reason believe he'd have much better luck health-wise; even on a decent franchise. Considering Jerry's penchant for paying low mileage backs I'm sure McFadden will end up a Cowboy sooner than later.

Or Stephen Jackson, or Darren McFadden (when he actually plays) or the first six years of Frank Gore... Shawn Lee getting injured pretty much ruined any small chance of the Dallas D keeping this game close/interesting, didn't it? I'm thinking with their stale offense once again sucking they didn't have much of a chance regardless.

I don't want to half-arsed jump into this discussion but simply consider the Bills are 3-5 in games where Spiller has topped 100 yards. (126 ATT. 970 YARDS, 7.6 YPC in said games.) Or just consider MJD's unfortunate career on a poopy doody franchise; where even if they have a stellar record in games where he's topped 100 yards the franchise is just too bad for even him to make a real difference in their overall fate.

Lookee. Lookee. Cowboys get gifted a turnover in prime real estate and go nowhere but backwards. Pathetic.

The only way Brees won't break the single-game yardage record is because the Saints will have pulled away by the mid-third. I hope I'm wrong on this but not likely. The Cowboys offense have scored tiddly wink points all year if you take away all those TD's their BAD defense has gifted them.

Well, I don't disagree there. I was going for more along the lines of a guy who would've had great title-swapping feuds with Hart, HBK and Austin. I wasn't even thinking about him in the post brand-split era where whichever title is stranded on Smackdown definitely has significantly less value than the I-C Title when Rude and Savage held it. At least the prestigious I-C belt was clearly a stepping stone/waiting station for getting bumped up to the big belt. Now you just have two belts; and one is always this weirder lesser World Title where any random guy can win it. Although I do think between Rude and Hart there was a weird period where that belt was sort of limbo as Perfect and Von Erich were never considered serious guys to take the next step up. Rude did at least headline a Summerslam. And Perfect was still stuck as the opening match for a year and a half at Summerslam after originally winning the I-C Belt.

Brock showed way too much ass. That's why it's utterly stupid and anticlimactic to throw him to UT at WM XXX. If they knew they were building to Brock/UT all along he should've been mowing through everybody not named Cena. Heyman needing to intervene a half dozen times to screw Punk is overbooking.

I know it's not a popular opinion to have on-line but this is pretty much exactly how I feel. If Rick Rude wasn't good enough to be on top, then I don't see it in Daniel Bryan. I don't care how many people in the crowd chant "Yes!" I loved Mr. Perfect. He did fine in the midcard. Is it really some big catastrophe if Daniel Bryan isn't WWE Champion & carrying the banner of the company? Ricky Steamboat was never WWE Champion. Jake Roberts wasn't either. Different times, different eras, I know...but there's a lot more to it than just workrate. I mean, compared to like The Miz? Yeah, Daniel Bryan would be a good fit. Daniel Bryan is a helluva worker. No one when they were watching him back in Ring of Honor in 2005ish thought that one day he'd be in the main event of a WWE Summerslam, wrestling for the WWE title in a Hell in a Cell match that featured both Shawn Michaels & Triple H. That's insane. Now people are complaining that he's not the top dog in the biggest wrestling company in the world when he's like 5'7", 180lbs? C'mon, man. He's more famous that he has ever been, he's making bank & he marrying a Bella twin. He's doing pretty fucking OK. How you figure? If Rude resurfaces relatively healthy any time during the period where babyface Hart and HBK were on top OR The Attitude Era, the only way he doesn't get a run on top is if Vince held some petty childish grudge against him. As it was, he was doomed to be there in his physical prime during the Super Hero era where nobody was good enough to go over Hogan or Warrior. The only way Rude wouldn't have been as good (well, hate-able anyways) as a sleazebag douche champion as HBK is only because there had to be tons of fans that already resented and downright hated puny male stripper HBK as the face champion and when he made the natural transition to DX douchebag it worked perfectly. Rude, on the other hand, had all the makings of a guy that would've been a too cool not to cheer for 'tweener that suddenly became en vogue during that era. But we all definitely lost out on a lot of great feuds by Rude's in-ring career going kaput before he had a chance to resurface in the WWE as an active wrestler anytime during the mid-to-late 90's.

The only voice I want to hear weigh in on this whole Dolphins kerfuffle is Charles Haley.

Too bad Hogan couldn't have been fodder for "The Streak" at let's say WM XX.

Why the hell did you post a picture of a throwing fullback then?

Did you even read what I said? I didn't claim their plots were identical, nor nothing close to it. I very specifically stated that the comparison came from the coincidence of having watched one movie immediately after the other. And I already noted the game-changing difference in levels of carnage. Try to pay attention before you start blindly throwing insults around. Where the fuck is this nonsense coming from? Get that Rush Limbaugh bullshit outta here. Since you're so interested in comparisons, let's do one! Let's compare how much I talked about misogyny in the original post, versus how much Fluffy complains about it here. Here's me talking about misogyny: And here's YOU talking about misogyny: I'm sorry, but how did the blue lead to the red? My bad. I guess I misread "all of them" as "all of his movies" to include Re-Animator as well when you only meant those other movies of his you'd seen. As it is, Megan Halsey's womanly intuition leads her to easily recognize what weirdos and/or creeps both West and Carl Hill are well before anybody else. I do see that you didn't give any kind of props to what a magnificent bastard Dr. Carl Hill was. Besides Re-Animator and From Beyond, I've only seen Dolls and his MOH episode. I believe the underwhelming Bride of Re-Animator was a Yuzna joint. But then again I'm not really a completist of any director. I've half-assed watched Dagon several times. Dolls was fine; so was his MOH episode. Dagon seemed too bleak and too weird.

I just miss the fact that the original Halloween II got shoved from the premium channels to crappy watered down AMC this year. It was all over HBO and its extra channels last season. I really consider it the perfect body count sequel.

Heh. You reviewed Re-Animator as if it was as overrated as that foreign darling turd Evil Ed or similar bogus hype heap ilk. Also dude who plays Herbert West has more charisma in his boogers than the entire cast of Dead Alive combined. AND Re-Animator isn't even really an infected horde movie (one isolated morgue with a dozen or so people vs. a whole town of zombies?) Disparity in numbers there, sport. So the comparison sucks shit through a straw. Not the same plot at all but good try. I do massively prefer From Beyond to Re-Animator but still put the latter in about the same tier as Dead Alive. Also apparently there is misogyny in everything. "No tits or lewdness in horror for anybody." Bah. I say that's nonsense and somebody who cries misogyny so incessantly ought to not watch anything. I mean it's obvious they don't want to like anything so why fool themselves?

I usually totally disagree with Jingus in the October threads, but I just finished wathing this and I thought it was pretty good. I found it easy enough to just retcon the original as happening 20 years ago instead of 40. Based on the ridiculous stitches that they pass off as clothing, which are fully in line with the hideous late 90s exposed stomach look, I could have pretended this one was happening in 1995 up until they broke out the cell-phone cameras.I did actively dislike the group of lead characters (four of which were just so magnificently, painfully beautiful that it was borderline absurd) who spent the first 20 minutes or so essentially posing for an American Apparel photo-shoot they apparently thought was happening around them every minute of every day. Die, motherfuckers.But I thought the initial house scenes were pretty good. Just enough of the standard TCM imagery: Leatherface chasing someone down who almost escapes, (that big meat hook gives him the extra reach he needs!) the little quick glimpses of gore, the quick hammer shot to the head, the iconic meat locker. I didn't get the impression that Leatherface was locked in a little room all the time, but that he had the run of the house when gramma was still alive at least sometimes.I also liked how that part and the expected chainsaw chase were quick and self-contained. They got right to it. The creeping around the house scenes were well directed and they made great use of the big complex spaces in the house. Some of them rooms were huge and cavernous and spooky, some of them claustrophobic and panic-inducing (Marvin in the kitchen). The chase scene was fast and chaotic, but kind of made sense and of course relied on the male lead fucking up the getaway. It makes no sense that there was a carnival right there and while that scene was fun looking (chaotic running, colors, lights and chainsaw sounds are literally like horror-movie pixie-stick dust), it really didn't make much sense. But I really liked the pace of it. And along the way there were some great shots. The shot of Leatherface in the cemetary when Lost-Girl yells at him and he starts running toward her. Pretty scary. The Jurassic Park-esque scene of him running toward the back of the van seen through the back window. I actually liked Leatherface as T-Rex in that scene. I also thought the mask-making scene was a nice gruesome touch.But you are right that the face-turn bit was kind of contrived. But instead of seeing it as a face-turn it reminded me of those movies where the main monster at some point is used or unleashed in the middle of someone else's fight and just sort of incidentally causes chaos...and, shit, I'm having a hard time thinking of an instance...maybe like the T-Rex at the end of Jurassic Park? Or like using getting Jason to turn on Freddie??? Dammit, I know there are movies where the "monster" is almost a side character, just a means to cause the Third act to go fucking bananas. At least at first. But fuck, One note: I loved "Marvin" the gung-ho deputy who thought he was so tough.Sheriff [over the radio]: Marvin, we believe Jed Sawyer is in that house! You STAND DOWN!Marvin: Copy that, chief, but a chainsaw don't make you bullet-proof.I liked that guy. Poor, poor Marvin. But the iphone camera thing was dumb. I felt like I was watching HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION or something. This was a pretty good Leatherface movie minus the end. I totally bought this guy as Leatherface and not a pale imitation of all those other slasher mongoloids. But it was a horrible TCM movie which people seem to forget was originally a series about a group of hicks where Leatherface is a big stupid brute to the point of being a sic dog used as a pawn by his older brothers. Also this was the biggest bunch of nobody local actors I've ever seen. Crappy Texas SAG members. Nothing more.

Since any new TCM sequel is FFB (F_______ from birth) they might as well just show what happened to Lattimer's one-armed Leatherface. Actually, Son Of Leatherface would be a nice end-around a lot of hiccups of setting a TCM movie in the modern day.

Even leaving all this out, you still only have a fairly bland slasher movie with the usual tropes, including dumb characters doing dumb shit to get themselves killed. The movie tries to get cute with several nods to the original (there's even a SAW reference thrown in), but doesn't come close to creating the tension and the terror of that movie.On the plus side, Alexandra Daddario (Heather) is REALLY hot, and you get to see "Alex" from LOST in her undies, so there's that.If you want to see a TCM movie, go with either the original, or even the 2003 remake, which is eons better than this one. I regret to inform you that also fucking sucked massively because there WAS NO 30 PERSON INBRED CLAN in the original; just three dirtbags (ranging from severely mentally challenged to completely deranged) behaving badly without any kind of mother figure around to guide them. The massive Sawyer clan BS is something this 2013 thing spun out of whole cloth and simply didn't exist in the original. Plus......... This was godawful as a TCM movie. The real shocker is at least they got Leatherface somewhat right instead of turning him into a cross between Lou Ferrigno Hulk and Jason Voorhees. Well, I mean if you ignore the fact for how well he gets around for an obese senior citizen and all.

Astonished that idiotic assholes like Aikman still insist this Cowboys offense is a high-scoring unit. Take away the defensive and special teams TD's and the outburst vs. the Broncos and they're at 20 PPG. Not good enough. I'll take 3-0 in the division though.

Hatchet III=Best of the bunch!

I'd argue Kozlov's clean televised win over Undertaker and (as anticlimactic it was) mere involvement in a match for the right to challenge the streak makes his push just as legit as Ryback's. Honestly, Ryback's whole current arc seems like some kind of massive rib on Goldberg. Even Ryback's wins over Bryan came after his "undefeated streak" and only served to make Bryan more of a star than him; and also more or less began the theme of Ryback as an impotent frustrated bully.

Also I should mention like an idiot I had the willful misfortune of reading a chock full o'spoilers review of The Seventh Victim before it ran on TCM last night. Then again had I not read the favorable review I probably wouldn't have even bothered with it. As it is, by the end and seventy years later (I'm sure it was quite the jolt back in its day) the twist ending was pretty plain to see coming.

So The Unholy popped up on IFC today and I just had to catch it. Because 4th grade me loved it so much even though current me could only remember the most basic details (red headed temptress demonic whore, gore, tits and monsters.) Holy sheep shit on a shingle was this gawdawful. It was like a crackhead saw a double feature of The Sentinel and Hellraiser and got ideas and stuff. Hey, I’m all for practical FX and loathe CGI but I swear the grand demon here popped in some incarnation or another in a half dozen other things. Scout’s honor. One of those movies being the spider woman monster in the ultimate cult trainwreck (culled together from multiple scripts) Spookies. I sheet you not. And the thing is it has a pretty nice collection of character actors (Ned Beatty, Boy Meets World’s Dad.) But man no wonder I forgot this one. What a mess.

Since Ryback never wins any feuds or big matches and basically became this post-Goldberg parody of unbeatable muscle monsters like Warrior and Goldberg a long time ago, wouldn't he have been better off as just some big scary placeholder monster for Hogan or Warrior to fend off in the late '80s/early '90s? Which I guess would've made him a more juiced up Warlord who himself started out as a Road Warrior rip-off. Or better yet he could've been a Russian. He'd essentially have the same role only there would be no need to turn him from total monster into a complete joke overnight.

Cassel's just the modern right place, right time system friendly jagoff that Bono and Grbac were during the nineties. Speaking of which if you want the real indicator of the Niners being back it's that the Chiefs are finally back to purchasing their castoff QB's.

This much is actually debatable. The highest compliment you can pay Lords is that the long stretches of it where nothing happened were infinitely more interesting visually than the long stretches of The House Of The Devil where nothing happened. Then again thrown in the middle of THOTD's meandering wankery for horrifying effect But that ending? The Lords of Salem could've acquitted itself well by crossing the finish line with gusto but instead we got a bad music video regurgitated all over the finish line. And that's too bad because I kind of liked