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I'm pretty impressed with the 'Tombstone' jump. I only saw it for the first time about a year or so ago. So good. My brother does the "Noooo! Noooo! NO!" thing all the time. One time we were playing a boardgame and someone drew a picture that looked like Wyatt Earp spying on a sexy hot tub party, so I described it as such, so my brother had to draw a picture of said event and it had Wyatt Earp pointing at girls in a hot tub yelling "NOOOO!" and it's one of my favouritest memories ever, especially since we were the only two who got the reference.

I love 'Shawshank'. I wouldn't have any problems with it being #1, really.

I already deleted mine, but it was something along the lines of the host asking "The way Graves turned on his longterm partner Neville last week, could you ever imagine turning on Brodus, Tensai?" and he hemmed and hawed a little bit then basically went "Yes" without even hiding it and they kinda laughed and said "Brodus is such a fun-lovin' guy" and Tensai basically sounded like he was looking forward to it. It was all really light-hearted, but it was really funny. He sounded like he was daydreaming about the day when he wouldn't have to dance anymore. Tensai's actually quite good on commentary.

Not like Bryan has a long shelf life with the style he works. Very true. I actually worried throughout the whole Daniel Bryan slow burn build that he would just blow out his knees or get a severe concussion and end up on the shelf on the eve of his big push. Oh come on. The Natalya hate on here from some people is getting ridiculous. She's not great, but she's not as awful and incompetent as some people here make her out to be, and she's generally put in the position of going out there and trying to make super green models look good. Summer has the longest legs Natalya has probably ever had to put the move on, and I doubt Summer is an expert on getting put in a Sharpshooter. She struggled with it for like one second, then when she locked it in and rolled it over it looked really good. And Summer was pro enough to sell it like it fucked up her leg afterwards. Even when her and Fandago were standing on the stage for the last segment she was still selling it. She's got potential. Here's another thing that'll probably tick you off. Summer Rae is already a better worker than Nattie is or probably ever will be. I hear this all the time about Nattie being good, Nattie not being another model, Nattie having to make gold with models in the ring, but whenever someone says "Name one good Natalya match" is when the argument falls apart. Summer Rae has already had 2-3 matches better than any Natalya match. I didn't like the Wyatt Family being on the ramp at the end, either, but I'm so baffled by the "Harper & Rowan are dreadful" line of thinking. That backstage beating looked like an actual beating, two dudes just mauling a little guy. Harper's big boot isn't even his best move, I'd wager, his clothesline and that move where he grabs the guy in a headlock and rolls him like an alligator is just awesome. They're perfect heels in that they don't do anything flashy or showy to get the crowd behind them, just big, methodical mauling beatdowns. My fantasy booking for the end of the night, rather than a Big Show appearance was for Randy to be celebrating in the ring with Triple H and Stephanie, and the Wyatts music to hit again and they come out and maul Randy Orton and Triple H while Stephanie looks on in horror. Wyatt says "The devil made me do it" again and Vince McMahon walks out on stage at the end and surveys the carnage and laughs.

Yep. He's never been a superhero. Never. He lost in 18 seconds to Sheamus and came out of it stronger. That's why I think you guys should stop getting so wound up about individual wins and losses. It hasn't mattered before. He was second to leave NXT. He was fired for choking someone with a tie. He won the US Title and jobbed a ton. He isn't affected by these things the way shit guys like McIntyre and Barrett are. Somehow, despite the nature of the business, people will follow the guy down as well as up. So chill the fuck out. My initial hypothesis on the success of this angle was because Bryan's the wrestler wrestling fans can relate to the most. He's a genuinely geeky dude fighting a power structure made up of cool kids that want one of their own to have the belt. He's the goofball with the messy desk who didn't get the job promotion because the frat guy boss passed him up for a younger "brother." He's the chubby girl in high school who can sing and act her ass off who is relegated to being a Pink Lady because the pretty girl's mom is on the board of trustees at the community theater. He's a band like the amazing Luna who get signed to a major label but don't get radio airplay while some nimrods like the dreadful Eve 6 or Alien Ant Farm end up selling out arenas.That's why Bryan has this success. He's been an easily identifiable underdog since Day 1. Fired from the Nexus angle. His first feud was with The Miz, the ultimate in WWE marketing who cruelly mentored him and put him down. He had a great run with the Smackdown belt and lost it to Sheamus, who is a talented wrestler but definitely someone who oozes the phoniness of a guy who wants to go to charity events to cement his career and not because he gives a crap about other people. He got saddled with what should have been a DOA gimmick w/ Kane and turned it into one of the most entertaining comic acts in a really long time.He's not a Superman and he never will be, and thinking he should be is a wrong way to look at things, especially if you complain about Cena always being a superhero who overcomes the odds. You've described exactly what's wrong with this angle (well, besides HHH saying Bryan isn't good enough to be a top guy and essentially being proven right). Wrestling is escapist entertainment. A guy who constantly eats shit from his boss and never gets any meaningful victories isn't someone the fans can live vicariously through. He kneed him in the face less than 24 hours ago and knocked him out cold?!!?! He celebrated over said boss after he'd been knocked out by a giant 8 days ago!?! So, he doesn't have the title! Maybe he doesn't want it...like Sid!

I agree there, actually, I wish I had Gregg's enthusiasm for this but I just found it more of a chore than anything. -Emma-Banks: Banks doesn't really do anything for me, save for the trash-talk. She feels like nise-Summer Rae to me. All the other divas have stuff to set them apart: Emma is a goofball (I'm actually enjoying Riley perving on Emma because I believe all of it is true: "I asked her out and she said Nao in that Australian accent, I was getting shot down and it was still adorable" and "I sent her a DM and she didn't reply!"), Paige is intense, Summer Rae is a catty biotch, Bayley is innocent doofus, Charlotte is tall and athletic, and Sasha is...Summer Rae-lite. -Bo was awesome. That little giggle he throws in between lines is mesmerizingly off-putting. The 10,000 squirtguns to Bolivia was amazing. -When I saw the two no-names I thought "Ooh, a squash match" then the Ascension's Gay-Time-Traveling-Clubbers-From-the-Future music started and I skipped forward like a madman. -Sami promo was all right, but a little too whiny for my tastes. -JBL vs. Renee was great. I'm all for a lot more JBL on these shows. I'd like to see a segment with JBL and Bo Dallas handing out squirtguns to the kids of some foreign country. -Parker-Russev was all right. Rather bizarre to see them change gears so quickly again on Russev's push: he's a lone wolf, no he's managed by the French guy, no he's on his own again, no he's got a hot translator! I was surprised to see Parker go down so easily, as he's been a focal point of the show the last few weeks. -Neville-Graves was all right. Graves is definitely better as a heel. Odd that the announcers were talking about how him wearing a suit is him at his natural self, like he's not covered in tons of tattoos: "I was just pretending to be a punk, but I'm really not. All these tattoos are just me being method." I greatly enjoy Tensai shutting down Riley, in Tensai's first colour appearance. When Riley was going on about Graves reminding him of James Bond because he wore a suit and is popular with women and Tensai just gets annoyed and asks what that has to do with wrestling and Riley being sorta baffled. Tensai looking forward to turning on Brodus was amazing, too. Tensai needs to be on here more often. Riley less often.

Huh. I didn't think anybody other than Gonzalez would say that. I mean, why would you want the best wrestler in the main event anyways...I guess. No, I don't know. I really don't.

Probably the truest words in this thread. I mean, you guys know this is a work, right? Bryan holding or not holding the title does not mean he is or isn't the best wrestler in the world. Plus, WWE is much, MUCH worse at booking face title reigns (See Punk, C.M.) than they are at booking heel title reigns with face chase. Plus, this allows WWE to spin the story off in two directions: Bryan vs. Triple H and Big Show vs. Orton. From a mark standpoint, what's a bigger deal? Feuding with Triple H or feuding with World Champion Randy Orton? It's quite obviously the former.

I actually really liked his album from a couple years back which was basically a meditation/ambient album which was so funny and weird to come from a guy who'd never really dabbled in the genre and somehow is a perfectly fitting final album because it's just out in left field. And this is actually my favourite Lou Reed song. Just something so comforting about it. Sounds like a guy just happy in his skin.

The Soft Rock collections always have me going "Hmmm...maybe I should" then silently cataloguing the various songs I want to download. Actually, pretty much every one of these collections always makes me want to do that.

Love the signature. It's pretty hypnotizing.

I remember there was a thread on the old board, but I couldn't find one on here. Anyways, this board was the reason I gave the show a shot after how bad the commercials looked. Comedy Network in Canada has started showing the new ones and the one this week with the insult comic just SLAYED me.

I didn't watch this show, just read the recap on The Torch and the little error in this write-up made it sound like the angle of the year This sounds like Dixie takes the contract, wipes Styles' butt with it, then drops it at her own feet. I'm just picturing her doing this and going "There! That'll show you!"

Oh I know, and they were dreadful, but that's why I specified Big-Budget remake. You know, something like Tim Burton directing Johnny Depp as Gomez, Helena Bonham Carter as Morticia, Shaquille O'Neal as Lurch, Ed Asner as Fester, Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday and Manny from 'Modern Family' as Pugsley. Actually, that doesn't sound THAT bad.

I love the worried look on Elizabeth's face "Randy, your rowdy friends aren't going to be coming over after the match, are they?"

The best thing they did was giving Christina Ricci her own story to carry instead of shoehorning every character together like they did in the weaker first one. I agree entirely. Joan Cusack was pretty terrific in the sequel, as well, I must say.

Watching 'Addams Family Values', I was thinking to myself "I wonder why Hollywood hasn't bothered to do a big budget remake of this again?!" I mean, it will fail, but that's only because there's no way they could hit as many casting homeruns as the Addams franchise. Anjelica Huston as Morticia, that's a home run. Raul Julia as Gomez, that's a home run. Christopher Llyod as Fester, that's a home run. And Christina Ricci as Wednesday is a Grand Slam. You could not recast that movie any better.

Depends. Apparently one of the copies on the back, they actually misspelled it 'Nilborg' to which my brother replied "Wait a minute, Nilborg backwards spells Groblin!"

Hope all is well, Natural!

Only if he doesn't tighten his belt so he can't feel hunger pains. Troll 2 is more entertaining than any movie Miz has been in thus far. I have not seen, nor even heard of, Troll 2, but this bit from Wikipedia instantly makes the movie awesome: You should probably see it. For starters, the movie is about goblins infesting the town of 'Nilbog' (Read it backwards) and it's titled 'Troll 2' to try to capitalize on the (relative?) success of 'Troll'. If that doesn't make you want to watch it...this might.

This line just KILLED me. I'd say it's a definite black mark against Vickie's managerial skills. I mean, can you imagine you're watching football on Sunday morning and Roger Goodell appears onscreen and says "Today, Tom Brady's role will be filled by Charlie Batch because Brady is off in a cage somewhere."

Watched Olympus Has Fallen tonight which is a pretty watchable little US vs. terrorists flick. Gerard Butler is king-sized as a disgraced secret service who comes back to save the White House from a full frontal Korean attack. Huge body count in this one. Also, I'm pretty sure Butler busted out a flying headscissors and a cross armbreaker here.

I only watched the main event, but I kinda want Sunday for Bryan to be about to win, the lights go out and you hear "We're here" and the Wyatts to be Triple H's last gasp/deal with the devil to keep the title off Bryan. They do so, Triple H turns on The Shield because they couldn't get the job done, we get Shield-Wyatts in 6-mans for a while, until Wyatt Family decides they're bigger than Triple H and turn on him, too, which leads Triple H to have to go to Bryan and bury the hatchet because he needs Bryan to save WWE. I think that'd be a pretty compelling 6 months of TV right there.

Had a good weekend of getting sorta caught up on 2013 viewing, my viewings, from best to least best. Mud: Just staggeringly great. Like, where would they turn up a kid like the one who played Neckbone?! It was his first movie and he was so great. If you haven't seen it, it's about two boys who find a homeless guy living on a small island in Arkansas, befriend him, and decide to help him get away with his true love. The scenery is fantastic, the cinematography is magnificent, the acting is superb (It's amazing how quickly Matthew McConaughey has gone from "Ugh, the worst..." to must-see) and the sudden burst of violence comes out of nowhere but is so perfect. If 2013 yields a better film than this, than it will be quite a year indeed. The Sapphires: In which Chris O'Dowd plays a guy who takes a girl group of Australian aboriginals to Vietnam to entertain the troops. The music is great (all good soul music), the performances are fun, and every single thing out of O'Dowd's mouth is funny. The Heat: I had no interest in this from the previews but my sister kept insisting and it was honestly not bad. Pretty funny, a great Dan Bakkedahl performance (I love that guy, now that i can put a name to him), a little too long, but totally worth a watch.