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We're three pages in and NOBODY has mentioned that this big, beautiful man never won an Oscar? That's like the DVDVR Snub and Mistake all rolled into one.

What did her confidants ever do to WWE?! Now her confidence...maybe.

The World, The Flesh and the Devil: I came in a little late on this on, but caught most of the last 2/3s - 3/4s of it. Harry Belafonte who believes he is the only survivor of a nuclear holocaust. After a while, he meets Inger Stevens and the two become friends, though the prejudices of modern society occasionally shine through. They then meet a third survivor (Mel Ferrer) who immediately has his eyes on Stevens. Belafonte steps aside, at first, because, as a black man, he can't possibly have a relationship with a white woman, end of the world or not. But gradually, he decides to not let her go. A pretty damn groundbreaking film for its time, with its discussion of racial issues and portrayal by Belafonte. Pretty good with some amazing imagery.

Hopefully for a more exciting team. Rowan's very green (but I think his faults have been overstated), but if you're dissing Luke Harper than I don't even know, man...

I was going to just ignore your comments, but since you're so upset about people ignoring them, here we go.. Why is it ridiculous? There is nothing out there that really sounds like it, save for some rappers/producers most have never heard of. Instead of making a collection of bangers and radio hits, he went somewhere really different, so how is that not trying to push anything forward? Yeah, but if a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear it? We're not talking about some producers/underground guys pushing a genre forward, but the biggest rapper in the world taking rap in an entirely different direction than any biggest rapper in the world before him. I can make a whole rap album using barking dogs as samples, it doesn't mean that anyone other than me and my dog are going to hear it. It doesn't mean that anyone is going to be inspired by it. I might have created a different sound, but the genre doesn't move forward because of me. But when the biggest rapper in the world does something different, even if it was inspired by someone else, it changes things, he pushes the genre forward, because he's capable of changing the genre. I mean, I'm sure you'd hate someone like Drake, but you can already feel influences by 'Yeezus' on 'Nothing Was the Same', where the songs are long, have surprising breakdowns and different segments, just the way 'Yeezus' did and don't always go for the easy, radio-friendly hook. Welcome to music! This has been going on forever. First off, lyrically, a whole album of anti-establishment would be boring, and would lead to people complaining that he's ripping off Dead Prez or something. Second of all, you could argue that sonically, the whole album is anti-establishment, the only thing on here that sounds like classic Kanye/radio-friendly Kanye is Bound 2, so that's another way you could argue it's anti-establishment. And I wouldn't say the rest is about his sex game, and I don't think it's bragging either: it's about loneliness, an inability to settle down, trying to balance a family life with a love of the nightlife, feeling trapped and lost, and heartbreak. Just because the subject is sex doesn't make it bad, doesn't not make it anti-establishment, either. All the guest spots either end up sabotaged (Frank Ocean) or are just generally godawful (Keef, Assassin, Vernon). Exception granted to Charlie Wilson, and I am kind of eager to hear a Kanye-produced Wilson record which they've been talking aboutThat's all opinion, and I completely disagree: Ocean's hook is amazing, the Keef/Vernon parts of 'Guilt Trip' are among the more heartbreaking on the album. Ugh. This is like saying "I find 'Moby Dick' to be less of a novel since I've been taking night classes of creative writing".

per Sharks beat writer Kevin Kurz Awesome!

Though not as much as teenage me would have hoped! Especially for a movie about a strip club!

I had no idea my vote stayed exactly the same, that's crazy as I really did re-order the whole list, not just take my old list and make changes. I used to periodically watch bits of this when it came on Showcase (Canadians know what I'm talking about!) because it had nudity but once I actually bothered to pay attention, I found it was actually really emotional and good. I love this movie. Just ridiculous stunts and choreography. I still haven't seen this movie, but seeing it here reminded me of this exchange on 'The Larry Sanders Show' I wish they hadn't cut it off before Hank asks "Is she hung?"

On Dangerous Ground I LOVE Nicholas Ray movies! They're so dark and moody and melodramatic and awesome. This one starts off really good but veers away from that to really over-the-top (even for Ray!) sentimentality. The first third or so is Robert Ryan as an intense city cop who is becoming increasingly reckless and vicious with his criminals. There's an amazing scene where he pledges to get a confession and he does this little speech about "Why do you do this? You know I'm going to make you talk!" and it's so frikkin' intense and king-sized that you just want an entire movie of Robert Ryan bashing in bad guy's skulls and blaming them for it (I'm thinking something like 'Drive' with Robert Ryan!). But, his methods are too much and he is sent away up North to solve a murder in a rural area where he meets the father of the deceased girl (Ward Bond!) who is determined to catch the crook before the cop does ("It was my kid, so it's going to be my gun that gets him!") and they both end up meeting a blind woman (Ida Lupino) who lives alone and just might know where the criminal is. Of course Ryan falls for Lupino and, of course she helps him find his humanity. But, I really just wanted him to go back to the city and bash heads. So, while I can't BLAME a movie for not doing what I want, I can't overly laud it for that either!

Craziness. I don't know how you could not appreciate the production on 'Yeezus'. I really don't. The songs are fucking HUUUUUGE. Put 'Black Skinhead' on a good sound system or headphones and it's just massive: the thundering drums, galloping beat, and, man...everything. But, then again, if you love 'MBDTF', then I guess I could understand hating 'Yeezus' from that viewpoint, because it's as diametrically opposed to it as there is. Where 'MBDTF' was ambitious but radio-friendly, 'Yeezus' is angry, frustrated, abrasive and not interested in radio-play whatsoever. Even the bad lyrics thing is overblown, sure there are some clunkers ("Keep it 300 like the Romans" and the bit about Asian pussy and S&S are eye-rollers), but there's so much goodness. "I'm aware I'm a wolf" is just cool. And I don't think I've heard a sadder Kanye song than 'Hold My Liquor', or the "If you loved me why'd let me go" at the end of 'Guilt Trip'. But, don't take my word for it, take Lou Reed's. http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed

That Tim Hecker sounds something like a giant glacier slowly but steadily carving a path of destruction through your city. Immense. I've got to give it another go. I'm pretty sure 'Yeezus' is my album of the year.

Oh God, what a date that must have been! When the guy keeps saying "I'm gonna rape you", and she sprains her finger from...well, you know. Weird little flick. I'd like to watch it again. I know I've seen this, but I honestly don't remember anything about it. Though, to be fair, I don't really remember much about the remake either, and that had Hilary Swank, Al Pacino and Patch Adams.

I've always thought this board should do a Top 20 WWE matches of the year poll, also wrestler of the year etc. but never got any traction for the idea, I'd be pretty excited were this to actually happen. Where would NXT be included? And I think you should edit all suggestions into a list in the first post, maybe put it chronologically.

I really love this movie and I THINK I voted for it. That said, I haven't seen it, I mean really seen it (sans commercials, editing, nipping in and catching 20 minutes here or there), in quite a while. My favourite (edited) scene still has to be the scene where the evil mastermind makes McLane wear the sign in the ghetto that says "I hate everybody" (Instead of n-words) and angry black guys who attack him. I like to re-imagine their dialogue as they swarm him: "Yo dawg, that's straight-up misanthropic! How can you hate everybody?!" Probably should have been on my list, but I think it got bumped from the final whittling. I know I completely deleted a movie from my list and still have yet to figure out which one it was...maybe it was this. I like 'True Lies', though the Jamie Lee Curtis scene has been forever ruined by the parody on the Critic with Tony Curtis: "I used to dance like this for Kirk Douglas!" Man, this movie is a nasty piece of business. I can't remember if I voted for it again, or knocked it off the list entirely, because of its nastiness. I SHOULD have seen this by now and probably WOULD have voted for it by now. Last year at the big annual book sale, I went on a mad dash to the DVDs and grabbed everything interesting (at a buck apiece!) and went "Ooh, 'Nobody's Fool', I've been wanting to see that!", got home, looked at the box and went "Awwwwww crap!"

They're setting up a Matadores-Real Americans feud, but wanted to have Cesaro giant swing Khali once more for the fans that never saw it last night. Cole made mention of Coulter tweeting "The Matadores are here...why?" or something like that.

Wow, Jonathan Quick just gave up what might be the WORST goal I have EVER seen and that covers a lot of ground. One of the Rangers, while shorthanded, cleared the puck from his own end, off the boards and out and it slid down the ice, Quick came out to play it, dropped his stick and it went into the night. Incredible. It almost looks, to me, like Quick didn't realize he'd dropped his stick and as he laid it flat on the ice, he realized it wasn't there after the puck had already gone by. Amazing.

Watched While the City Sleeps over the weekend. It's an interesting mish-mash of police procedural and newspaper politics. A dying media baron creates hype around a woman's murder, declaring a serial killer on the loose. As his son (Vincent MF'in Price!) takes over the family business, he basically pits his three top guys: the newspaper editor (Thomas Mitchell, AKA Uncle Billy of 'It's A Wonderful Life'), the head of the wire service (George Saunders), and the TV guy and tells them that whoever breaks the identity of the serial killer will be given control of his empire. The newspaper guy immediately enlists the baron's favourite guy, a TV newsman (Dana Andrews) to break it open, and he does, of course, while trying to win over good girl Nancy Liggett. Also, there's Ida Lupino is the femme fatale, playing all the horny men against each other and the increasingly cocky and manic killer (Drew Barrymore's dad John Drew). There's office politics, drunken escapades, a leering murderer, infidelity and a big chase scene that kind of feels like it comes out of nowhere. Price is awesome in a non-horror role, and Andrews is pretty likable, and Lupino is sexy, but it's not an essential watch or anything. For a 100+ minute flick, it sure feels like they wrapped it up rather quickly with no essential characters ever really in any danger.

I wouldn't be upset if the deadline was something like January 15th, honestly. There's lots still to watch and October is Halloween month around here, and I'm planning to watch a Christmas-related program for every day of December, then you have Christmas/New Year's.

I was watching a bit of Raw at my Dad's place and went "Hooo boy, Natalya (Who's not even THAT good), two rookies, Alicia Fox, Aksana and Kelly Kelly....this isn't going to be good." Then realized that KK is gone and that was actually Rosa Mendes and it's just the worst thing ever. I understand AJ was sent home with a concussion, but they couldn't at least put Layla or Naomi or someone in there?!!? I like how every couple months they go "Rosa Mendes is under contract? Let's put her in a match!" then she wrestles and they go "Oh yeah...let's get her to just gyrate outside the ring again." I'm curious how legitimately BAD JoJo (I always have to fight the urge to put 'Dillon' after each and every type I type JoJo) is that they wouldn't even let her get in the ring, but saw enough in Eva to put her in there. It would be like if you had THAT Jackie Gayda-Trish match and there was someone managing Jackie that was so bad that Gayda was seen as a better alternative. That is how BAD JoJo must be. Exactly what I was thinking when I heard about it. Greggulator is one of my favourite wrestling dudes on DVDVR, always so excited, passionate, enthusiastic and thoughtful.

The worst part is that there was no reason for him to ever leave. At that point, the Jets had Selanne, Alexei Zhamnov and Keith Tkachuk. They realized, financially, they couldn't keep all three and, for some insane reason, decided to deal Selanne, the guy who did all the charity work in Winnipeg and was beloved by the fans. See, I get keeping Tkachuk over Selanne, he was a big-time power forward and those are really difficult to find. I don't get in what universe you would keep Zhamnov over Selanne, especially when Zhamnov's first interaction with the Jets was trying to sue them because he wanted to be a free agent?! You know everyone is saying "Too soon!" "He only got 3 games!" etc. etc. but if anyone watched yesterday's CAR-PHI game...man, Laviolette needed to go. I'm not sure I've ever seen a team NOT play for their coach as much as the Flyers against the Hurricanes. They were down 1 GOAL going into the 3rd and got 3(!) shots on goal in that period. It was just brutal.

Taunting people he perceives as gay by talking about what he's going to do with penis? I don't understand how homophobia works at all. This guy clearly has no idea how to please a woman and is upset about it. A trombone? What kind of lady would enjoy that.

I think I did (Unless there's a different beer run from a booze run, I know I've done the latter). It took me two tries. First time, I didn't see the 'Damaged Goods' meter and was ramming cars off the road willy-nilly. Second time I nipped in about 40 seconds under the limit. Driving down the center of the highway before the second set of meridians was my saviour, shaved a ton of time off. Also, the horn will (usually) stop/slow down cars in the oncoming lane.

I've long thought WWE should have a comedy division (not name it, obviously) but have a match every week that is full of silly spots and playing to the crowd and all, especially with how good Santino is at it, and you could Fandango there, rotate random divas in, rotate random legends in, and just make it a nice, short silly skit of a match. Anyways, I was reminded of this watching Santino/Emma-Fandango/Rae which was just perfect. I could watch and rewatch the intro to the match over and over again, with Emma and Santino being awkward on the dance/hug, then messing up their entrance, then Emma showing Santino her entrance, then Santino almost falling off the ropes. It was just amazing. I feel like Ohno-Harper was almost done to show Ohno how far he has to go. Harper just looked like he was in a completely different league than Ohno here (He is...literally and figuratively). For a guy who's gimmick is a strike (KO, I get it!), Ohno had some really shitty-looking strikes in here. I did like this kick through the ropes that landed him on his feet, but everything else besides his leaning into Harper's stuff was average at best. I know he was a big-time indie guy (I'll be honest, I've never seen a Chris Hero match, but have seen a few Ohno matches) but right now he looks like he's a long ways away from the main roster. Harper just looked like a star. Amore/Cass are just spot-on. I like that Cass is starting to develop a character of being Amore's big buddy/protector who can get just as annoyed with him as everyone else. Ascension-Neville/Banks was pretty blah except for Neville's spots which the crowd really gets into. I liked the part where Victor tried to make the tag and O'Brian pushed him out of the way because he wasn't the legal man. Bo Invitational was amazing. Kruger's got something...I just can't put my finger on it. I think he could be a lot of fun on the main roster in a sort-of Jack Swagger role, who could totally break out with just the right way/right angle/right promo, sorta like a poor man's Mick Foley.

Spurred on by the amazing WCW PPV thread by Newb82, I was looking up to see who was WCW champ before the Bischoff/Russo reset (It was Sid) and was AMAZED at just how many times the title was vacated over the last per Wiki, WCW World Champs -Sting: September 12, 1999 -Vacated: October 25, 1999 (Sting is stripped of the title after losing a non sanctioned match against Goldberg and attacking referee Charles Robinson at Halloween Havoc.) -Bret Hart: November 21, 1999 -Vacated: December 20, 1999 (Hart vacates title because of controversial match with Bill Goldberg at Starrcade 1999.) -Bret Hart: December 20, 1999 -Vacated: January 16, 2000 (Hart vacates the title due to injury.) -Chris Benoit: January 16, 2000 -Vacated: January 17, 2000 (Benoit forfeits the title and leaves for the WWF after dispute with management.) -Sid Vicious: January 24, 1999 -Vacated: January 25, 2000 (Stripped by Commissioner Kevin Nash due to Sid pinning the wrong Harris Brother.) -Kevin Nash: January 25, 2000 -Sid Vicious: January 25, 2000 -Vacated: April 10, 2000 (All WCW titles were declared vacant by Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff after WCW was rebooted. -Jeff Jarret: April 16, 2000 -DDP: April 24, 2000 -David Arquette: April 25, 2000 -Jeff Jarrett: May 7, 2000 -Ric Flair: May 15, 2000 -Vacated: May 22, 2000 (Vince Russo stripped Flair of the title.) -Jeff Jarrett: May 22, 2000 -Kevin Nash: May 23, 2000 -Ric Flair: May 29, 2000 -Jeff Jarret: May 29, 2000 -Hollywood Hogan: Jul 9, 2000 -Booker T: July 9, 2000 (Technically there should be a vacancy between these two as no one ever beat Hogan for the belt) -Kevin Nash: August 28, 2000 -Booker T: September 17, 2000 -Vince Russo: September 25, 2000 -Vacated: October 2, 2000 (Russo decides he is not a wrestler and he does not want the title.) That's basically 8-9 vacancies (Depending on if you count the Hogan one) in one calendar year. One year.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm imagining his theme music being "He's a man called Turd" to the tune of Sting's theme song. The Wall was this close to being pushed as a main eventer. I believe the last week before the Russo/Bischoff reset, they teased The Wall as the new top heel going after Hogan, IIRC. This got a legit LOL out of me. Have we ever checked to see if Vince Russo isn't really two ten year old boys, one sitting on the other's shoulders, wearing a giant overcoat. Because that's who would come up with "Hugh G. Rection"!