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  1. I dunno, I'm pretty tired of Jericho in AEW, but he's changed quite a bit in his time in AEW: formed the Inner Circle as a dominant, semi-serious heel group; did the feud with MJF replete with musical number (which for the record, I DETESTED) which is pretty much as big of a changing things up as wrestling production goes; clearly got annoyed with comments about his physique and got into much better shape; tried a lot of new catchphrases but ditched them if they weren't catching on (My Jerkoff Friend etc.0, did the Jericho Cruise episode of Dynamite which, again, was pretty different for a wrestling show; formed the Jericho Appreciaton Society which was more of a semi-serious/comedy group; had his group wear themed-costumes for big matches which isn't something I see too often in North American wrestling; worked an actual losing streak angle which was aimed more at getting young guys over than himself (i.e. didn't immediately get his wins back or beat the guy down in order to get this heat back and the longterm goal, seemingly, wasn't to get himself a title match). That's just off the type of my head and doesn't include reasonably innovative ideas that might have been his (Stadium Stampede). I mean, he's even basically kept himself out of the main event scene for the better part of the last year, working side-feuds, tag feuds etc. I think he's maybe hit a wall in AEW in that the crowd's not so into him right now (Though I suspect if he went face, played the greatest hits in terms of moves and catchphrases), but I don't know if you can fault the reaction on him too much. It reminds me of when Seth Rollins went off about being one of the greatest workers in the world, called WWE the greatest fed in the world, and people online got really mad about it and he had a few months of muted reactions, before crowds decided they actually still liked him and re-appreciated him. Jericho's crowd response seemed to plateau around the Callis feud (which probably would have gone like gangbusters if Omega hadn't gotten hurt/ill) then the online allegations seemed to turn a bunch more against him, but again he's playing sort of a tweener role right now. If he came out on Dynamite and called Don Callis an "ass clown", put him in the Lion Tamer, said he was on "the list" and that that he'd never "everrrrr" do it again, I think he'd get cheered like crazy all voer again. But I think he's been guilty of trying to change too much and be a little too giving, in terms of taking losses, so he's sort of a borderline main eventing Dustin Rhodes.
  2. I still can't wrap my head around WWE agents seeing Daivari do the magic carpet finisher, loving it, hiring him, then never letting him do it again.
  3. -Mike Enos was so incredibly fun around this time. I remember at the time I was doing a kayfabe Top 30 for both leagues based off wins/losses (I wasn't really online at the time, otherwise there'd probably be a Geocities site up somewhere with all my rankings still! Alas, they were done pen on paper.) and Enos would turn up almost every week and destroy some jobber and I kept bumping him up and up the list thinking "Man, Enos is going to win a title at this rate" and then he would get clobbered by, say, Stevie Ray and fall back down the list. Then he'd start destroying guys and I would be repeatedly fooled all over again. I feel like the same thing happened wih Wrath: big win, impressive win, loss to a random NWO guy, big win, impressive win, Goldberg rolls over him. -I'm not sure if there was any wrestler around this time that I was less enthused about than Rick Steiner, except maybe Rick Steiner the following year when he turned heel and said "If you want some, come get some. If you don't like me, bite me." every damn week.
  4. I genuinely think that they could have broken Scott Norton off from the NWO, given him a mini-Goldberg run of destroying jobbers and mid-carders and ended up with another borderline main-eventer on their hands. I know WCW wasn't interested in that and that, from what littie I've read about Norton, he wouldn't have ever pushed for it. But he had such an undeniable physical presence in the ring. He's got that Mark Henry/Powerhouse Hobbs/Samoa Joe feel of no matter how many times he gets beat, when he comes out the crowd gets a hushed 'oh shit!' reaction. Heck, you could've run an angle where after he destroys Miller repeatedly, The Cat buys him off and becomes his manager, sending Norton after all the guys The Cat has annoyed until Norton finally turns on him and destroys him again. You could've run half a year of him destroying jobbers to build up as a Goldberg opponent ("The one man who might be tougher than Goldberg!"). You could put him in the Horsemen. You could make him Raven's new muscle. But fringe member of the Horsemen with a 50/50 win-loss record was such a complete waste of him.
  5. I'm up and down on Dennis Lehane stuff (love Gone Baby Gone, meh on Mystic River) but this was one where the book (or was it a short story? I forget...) actually added some much needed context for the peripheral characters like how the ex=boyfriend had been so badly abused that you could at least comprehend -while not condoning= what an awful person he was. Hardy was amazing though
  6. This is really a 'Hate It or Love It' movie, I think. I watched it and kind of loved it and was unnerved by it and thought it was a particularly effective scary movie (Maybe not 'greatest director of our times' good but...). My friend and his wife saw it and HATED it, didn't find it entertaining, scary, upsetting or anything. My mom (HUGE fan of Halloween movies (not the franchise, I mean, more like Halloween-season movies: Christine, Addams Family, The Shining, Silver Bullet etc.) but not necessarily gory/horror films was completely non-plussed by it. My sister was a HUGE Felicity fan at the time this came out and went to see it with her now-husband and the scene where they [spoiler]set off a bomb in Keri Russell's head[/spoiler] came and went and she whispered to him "Do you think she's ok?" and he went "Considering her eyes are pointing in two completely different directions...I don't think so." ad THAT is the onlly thing I can remember about the movie. I watched [b]Borderline[/b]: I thought this was going to be a semi-gritty smuggler Film Noir with Claire Trevor and Fred MacMurray, but it was more like a drug-smuggling 'It Happened One Night'. This was rather innocuous and somewhat dull but it does feature the single WORST musical number I've ever seen with Trevor trying to seduce Raymond Burr which should be funny but the dancing women are completely out of rythym and sound like squawking chickens. So it's worth a watch for that alone! [b]Black Widow[/b]: This one the other hand was a great little murder mystery. Van Heflin is Broadway writer who strikes up a friendship with a young female writer and offers her support (All the while keeping his wife in the loop about it) and even letting her write at his place during the day. Of course, she ends up dying and, of course, he ends up being the suspect and gradually all his friends (Reginald Gardiner and a scenery-destroying Ginger Rogers) and his wife ( Gene Tierney) start to suspect him as he runs around NYC trying to stay ahead of the police (George Raft) and clear his name. I was genuinely surprised at the murderer's identity (But maybe I'm just easily misled) and thought it was fun little flick that I haven't seen discussed much. [b]Abraxas[/b]: The Jesse Ventura as a space cop one with (thankfully) Rifftrax commentary. This movie was SO full of made-up sci-fi terms and legends and the like, that 60% of the movie was like reading installation instructions in another language. On the IMDB trivia page it says that the lead role was offered to Arnold Schwarzenegger before he opted to do 'Terminator 2' instead as if that was any sort of choice. Like if someone came up to you and offered you dog poop on a stick and instead you went out and bought ice cream I guess it's technically a choice. but not really. [b]The Super Mario Bros Movie[/b]: This was okay, as a "Hey there's one of those things" nostalgia movies but as an actual story it didn't really have any weight to it. All the crises last about 2 minutes (He's going to have to fight DK, done. They crashed off the track, done. She's gonna have to marry Bowser, done.) even the big final showdown was like "Eh" (He doubts he can beat Bowser, he hears one of his commercials, he gets inspired to beat Bowser). I'm not sure I've ever seen a big blockbuster movie that was so...light? [b]Smiley Face[/b]: I'm not sure I've hated another movie as much as this one in a while. Anna Faris is a pothead who ingestsa lot of marijuana, then seeks out to make money to replaceit, then just meanders from one thing to another. I'm not a pot-smoker, but not against stoner comedies/movies- heck- my favourite movie is The Big Lebowski!- but this was basically pointless. The big climax was stupid, the denouement was pointless. Anna Faris was reasonably funny in the lead, and you can tell someone saw John Krasinski as Jim playing Dwight and said "Do that but for a whole movie" and that's fine, but if you don't see this, you're really not missing anything. Actually, hate is really not the right word because there's really not enough to hate. It's just kind of fluff. Pointless fluff. Pointless, unfunny meandering fluff. Maybe hated is right.
  7. I just have to mention here how much I an enjoying you going thru the 95 WWF stuff because it's mostly what I grew up with and I want to rewatch but your reviews scratch that itch and make me, you know, not have to rewatch it!
  8. So I had no idea who Blackblood was and checked the YT comments and learned, but also learned that there are a handful of VERY passionate Kenny Kendall fans (and that's not including a number of comments that seem to be deleted praising him!) Bret Hart Oscar/MOM stories from his book. So very Bret ("New rap sound") "One of [Owen's] latesst victims was Oscar, the fat rapper manager of a new black tag team called Men On a Mission,or M.O.M. Three hunderd pound Mo was cool and mellow with a dyed-white buzz cut and carried the team. Mabel was a 450-pound mass with a white mohawks, who didn't do much but stand there in hideous, baggy purple silk pants. But their gimmick capitalized on the new rap sound,and when Oscar came out shouting on the live mic,"Get your hands up in the air!" he really pumped up the crowd. Owen egged on the 1-2-3 Kid until he tried to seize the heavy, out-of-shape Oscar in close quarters. Kid expected to manhandl Oscar and jumped right on his back but Oscar panicked, charged back and forth into the walls and knocking Kid silly!" and "After the show that night, I asked one of the locals where there was a good rock 'n' roll bar and he suggested a place called Lizard Lounge. I told Oscar, the manager from Men On a Mission, to meet me there, but when I showed up with Kid, my faithful sidekick of late, it turned out ot be a heavy metal hangout with neo-Nazi skinheads guarding the door. Then Oscar strolled through the front doors, oblivious to the slack jaws and scowls of the doormen. When he said "Wassup Bret?" I told him to stay real close. Only then did he check out the place and realize he might as well have come to a Klan rally. But Oscar was a man, and he wasn't going anywhere. So we had a few beers and Oscar confided that he was afraid that something was going to off between him and Shawn, Razor, and Diesel, who'd made it clear that they didn't like M.O.M. I told Oscar it it got serious to tell me and I'd keep an eye on things. Then Oscar shuffled out, nodding politely to the skinheads at the door, who nodded back dumb-founded, no doubt wondering whether he had brass balls or no brains!"
  9. I only caught a couple minutes of Jericho-Takeshita and laughed really hard when Jericho got dropped on the top rope, layed there with his head down, practically dead, then reached down and pulled up his pants.
  10. Thanks! I guess it would be poor form to follow it up with an angle where someone "stops short", especially in light of recent news
  11. I didn't watch Smackdown last week, can someone explain this Damage CTRL-Seinfeld connection he's talking about?!
  12. I think it was director James Gunn who said Cena was the best ad-libber he had ever worked with; that in Suicide Squad when Idris Elba refers to Cena being in his "tightie-whities" and Cena responded "That's racist!" it was completely unscripted and broke them all up.
  13. I was coming in here to see if anyone had posted the Drew tweet and -even better- I got it twice!
  14. It could be worse, it could be mid-90s WWF where every luchadore they bring in has a theme song that you know would fit well on a "Soft Acoustic Guitar for an Empty Room" playlist playing in the background at Michael's.
  15. Oh, I was referring to the 2000-signing (that was actually on WCW's website IIRC) before Heyman quashed it by saying he was under contract to WCW that effectively ended his impending WCW tenure before it started, as well as his ECW tenure (I remember Lance Storm and Justin Credible beating up someone backstage and Storm saying something like "That's one more foreigner out of this company" which was seen as a thinly-veiled, slightly obscure (I mean, he was billed as being from Bombay...Michigan) and final reference to Sabu!).
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