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I was wrong about the waivers, but right about Vancouver picking up guys. Canucks trade Kellan Tochkin and a 4th for Zac Dalpe and Jeremy Welsh from the Hurricanes. Sounds like Dalpe will get a chance and they just took Welsh because they can afford to bury his contract while Carolina can't. Welsh was pretty sought after coming out of college, I know the Oilers were in on him at the time, I wonder if the Canucks were as well.

I was wrong about the waivers, but right about Vancouver picking up guys. Canucks trade Kellan Tochkin and a 4th for Zac Dalpe and Jeremy Welsh from the Hurricanes.

My friend said he went to 'Snakes on a Plane' and there was this big group of loud drunk dudes in the back row who erupted into applause when the "Motherfuking snakes on the motherfucking plane" line was said, then stood up in unison and walked out.

I loved this show. -Enzo-Cass really dominate on the mic like...no one in WWE I can currently think of. I think Cass needs to wear different tights, something like Kevin Nash's to make him look bigger. I'd like to see them keep Breeze/Parker together as a team for a while, and sort-of build up a Goldust/Booker T Raven/Dreamer kind of thing where Breeze keeps brushing off Parker, then finally helps him out. The pop will be huge. I'd like to see Lefort's Legionnaires add one more member to team up Dawson (Maybe the jobber guy that English faced), and keep Russev as an enforcer and singles guy. I still see something (however small) in O'Brien but I think he needs a name change/gimmick change and to be someone on the main roster's bodyguard. Visually, he's totally impressive. -English-Guy was totally entertaining. I actually really like the no-name guy (I seriously can't remember his name) as he bumped well, threw some okay moves, he's like a better Michael Elgin. English is totally perfect. He could probably use a manager/agent/director. -Bayley-Banks was entertaining but the ending came out of nowhere. I loved Renee Young correcting the PBP guy by mentioning it was the Hug-Plex and Regal said "Renee Young corrected you. Aren't you just withering in shame? You're such a sad little man, aren't you?" Also, loved Regal's story about his girlfriend with the 40 inch in-seam on one side, with 36 on the other. -Zayn-Local was a bit abrupt. The Dallas-Zayn feud is so good. Dallas is just nailing it now. -JBL as the boss was good. I hope some time in the next little while he interrupts the show and reminds Renee that a woman's place is not behind the microphone. I love the way JBL and Triple H bothh such gravitas that they can just shut a crowd down/turn heel on a dime. Triple H correcting the 'Yes' chants was good, JBL telling the chanting fan "It's not sing-a-long with the Wrestling God" and making fun of the Rhodes family was better.

Awesome. Reminds me of seeing 'Apocalypto' in theaters and there was a family behind us who were fairly uncomfortable the whole way through, then when the jaguar pretty much rips that one dude's face-off, without a word (at least an audible one), they stood up in unison and walked out of the theater.

Reminds me of when a bunch of them started doing this during Bo Dallas' appearance a couple weeks back, only to turn around when they realized he was intentionally heeling it up.

Some just staggering footage on this one (If you don't know, Werner Herzog goes into Iraq and films the burning oil wells, then edits the footage into a narrative from the viewpoint of a sort-of alien coming across these scenes). This is about as experimental as I get these days, but the footage is just staggering, like getting a guided tour of hell. This movie is so good, and so real, and so, so sad. I hadn't rewatched it before the countdown, hence why I dropped it some, but when the main guy basically finds his soulmate in a 14-year-old girl then has to say goodbye to her it's so good and sad (And not creepy at all, which is how it sounds when I describe it). Plus that cast: Dillon, Hutton, Emmerich, Natalie Portman, Michael Rappaport, Martha Plimpton, Lauren Holly, Uma Thurman, Mira Sorivno, Pruitt Taylor Vance, Annabeth Gish, and even not-annoying performances from Rosie O'Donnell and David Arquette!

I had a bad experience at 'AHoV', too! First of all, the theater employees decided to start vacuuming the back hallway while the movie was going on and it took me forever to figure out it wasn't some weird Cronenberg background noise and actually a goddamn vacuum! The, at the end, and if you've seen the film it's wrapped up into a little bow pretty much as neatly as one can get, there is pretty much total closure, and some woman behind us went "THAT's it?!" like she was expecting the film to detail the rest of their lives. Other good ones -Went and saw 'Quarantine' opening night because I thought it looked scary (I was wrong) and the audience was loud and fairly into it, but in one scene when a zombified old lady attacks someone and the guy caves in her skull with a sledgehammer, one dude stood up, pumped his fist and yelled "YEAAAAAAAAAAH!" I'm guessing he had a lot of issues with his grandmother. -Saw 'Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy" with two then-high-school friends and we were just in tears laughing throughout the entire movie while the rest of the audience sat in silence. As we walked out we were repeating our favourite lines to each other and still laughing as everyone went "That was the worst movie I've ever seen." To this day, I'm not sure who was right, us or them?! -I saw 'Sideways' with my brother and when there's a shot of Hitler on the TV, the entire audience, save us, broke into uproarious laughter. I looked at my brother, who shrugged, and we thought nothing of it. A couple weeks later, we decided to see the movie again, went, and, again, when Hitler was on, the audience broke into huge laughs again and I looked at my brother and he said "Man, Hitler kills in this town!"

I get the feeling, and this is completely me going by my gut (who is often wrong), that the Canucks are going to be keeping their eye on the waiver wire this weekend and possibly grabbing a guy or two off there and sending Horvat and Shinkaruk back, but that's just me.

I'm just happy it wasn't me!

But did your first high vote go to a slasher?

Did you try the impound lot? I get periodic messages about cars being impounded all the time as I'm constantly leaving them behind to steal cabs, chase fat guys with my golf club, get pulled into missions.

Honestly, I rarely ever have good reactions from crowds (My friends have come to refer to my family as being cursed as everytime they attend a movie with me, my sister, my brother they always end up with the worst crowds ever). My personal fave "bad" crowds. -Seeing 'The Fountain' and 'The New World' in big megaplexes with your typical movie-going (read: not artsy-fartsy) crowd and the genuine feeling of anger and confusion after they were over. 'The New World', I get, because it was advertised as a sorta of romantic new world 'Braveheart' and audiences were not expecting a 2.5 hour meditation on life, love and nature. 'The Fountain' baffled me because the trailer showed you just how non-traditional it was gonna be, but people still went. Heard quite a few "What the fuck was that?"s after that one ended. -Seeing 'The Medallion' with my dad and brother and one guy felt the need to bring his 5-year-old. I was willing to ignore it when the kid asked questions about what was going on and the father answered. I got fed up when the dad began supplying answers to questions the kid didn't ask. Finally, when the dad said "He's eating kiwi fruit!" really loudly to an unasked question I went "OHHHH!" really loudly as if I needed the explanation and he piped down for the rest of the film. Thankfully, the film was shitty. -Seeing the first showing of Ang Lee's 'Hulk' was pretty much the worst crowd I've ever seen/heard, it's pretty much legendary amongst my group of friends. The writing was on the wall when the lights went down and some guy made a huge fart sound to make all his friends laugh. There was shouting, heckling, cellphones. The guy down from me was particularly puzzlingly critical, going "That is SO fake" when the Hulk jumps but having no problem with him being a giant green man who can throw tanks?! Then, during the part where Hulk saves Jennifer Connelly from the giant mutated dogs and she calls the cops which, you know, pretty much everyone would do if they were just menaced by giant dogs and saved by a giant green man the guy got really mad and called Jennifer Connelly a "Bitch!"

By the way, the soundtracks are available for purchase now. I'm currently picking up the Original Soundtrack one (There are three: Vol 1 is all-new music featured on the radio, Vol. 2 is the original soundtrack and Vol. 3 is a sampler of all the different stations). I had no idea the original score was co-produced by Tangerine Dream but it makes SO much sense as I've been getting a real 'Thief' vibe from this game. So awesome!

My favourite film I saw this time around that I hadn't seen before. Just ridiculous. I can't even begin to explain it...just see it.

Man, The Wild One is a weird one. Marlon Brandon's accent vacillates between Southern, Italian, New Yahk and somewhere else and changes repeatedly, sometimes within a sentence. The movie starts out as an indictment against vicious motorcycle gangs (Though this has to be the most lackluster 'vicious' gang ever, as all they do is drink, dance, hit on women, cause minor vehicular damage, and fight each other) but halfway through it's more like an indictment of smalltown mob mentality with Marlon Brando as the tragic antihero. Anyways, it's mostly silly (Why does Lee Marvin's rival gang wear silly hats (One guy has ribbons on his hat!)?), over-the-top and nothing special. Also, Marlon Brando is not very convincing as a biker, Lee Marvin comes along and out-menaces him in a very minor role.

Really?! People don't like the radio?! The radio is, by FAR, my favourite thing going: The Descendents, Queen, Phil Collins, Eddie Murphy ('Party All the Time' is SO good), Rick James, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Amerie, Britney Spears, Hall and Oates, Bob Seger and Phil Fuckin' Collins! Seriously, I can just drive around for hours listening to the radio.

Was screwing around today and kicked down a fence in front of the ocean and ran and jumped and Michael did a picture-perfect dive, only I ended up going head-first into the dock instead of the water and he let out this pitiful "Agh" and slowly rolled off the dock into the water and it absolutely SLAYED me.

I don't think it's actually 'G-Rated' but WWE tends to err on the side of caution in regards to the PG limits and that's the rallying cry you see behind fans who are so INTO TNA/CZW etc. "I don't like to watch G-Rated wrestling". So, you take that prevailing attitude and you cater towards it: "This ain't your daddy's wrestling" "This is NOT TV-PG!" etc. etc. I actually enjoy WWE much more currently than I did during the height of the Attitude era, but there's a portion of the fanbase who feels disenfranchised by WWE going kid-friendly. TNA is never going to defeat WWE head-to-head, or even come close, putting out the same style as WWE. They could take a bigger chunk of the market, if they offered something different. I don't know that you could go full-on Attitude/ECW, but you could use bleeped-out words and a little bit of blood to differentiate the company. And if they started making money offering a more "adult" alternative, I'm sure Panda would welcome the change. Don't they already do this? They had a camera guy outside interviewing fans and they were yelling "This is better because chairshots to the head! It's NOT PG" At least that's how it was when Ric Flair was there sneezing and bleeding every week. Didn't Abyss have a bat with nails sticking out of it buried into his back once? And he died but didn't die? Either WWE talks to me like I'm an idiot child, or TNA talks to me like I'm a braindead 13 year old, who needs close ups of women's camel toes while they bend over the ropes in order to stay interested, because I haven't found my old man's Penthouse stash yet. To be fair, I'm not really marketing this toward you, jae. I'm talking the audience that feels insulted by not having adult wrestling on TV. It wouldn't be very good, probably, but I think it would draw a better audience than WWE-lite which is how TNA has been ever since Hogan arrived: former WWE guys wrestling TNA guys in similar-looking matches, using similar moves, with noticeably worse music/effects/lighting and awful announcing. It's like forming your own football league, stocking it with guys who have left the NFL and other guys who could never make it, with the same rules, worse graphics and music, and Mark Madden on commentary. The XFL wasn't better than Arena Football, but it was different, and drew attention (At least at first). Well, personally, I'd rather they copy 1990s Michinoku Pro/WAR with crazy high-flying and weird tag teams, but would anyone except a few people watch it? The idea of a Southern wrasslin' company would be great, but it would be too difficult to retrain mass audiences to appreciate something like that. In terms of marketing to a big group of people, you'd be courting the ECW fans who miss the blood, the WWE Attitude fans who miss the boobs, and your average teenager who wants to see lots of both.

Wait...wait, wait, wait. Fax Bahr directed 'Hearts of Darkness'?!?! The same Fax Bahr whose best-known for being a writer for MadTV, Jamie Kennedy stuff, In Living Color, the screenplays to two Pauly Shore comedies and Blue Collar TV?!?

Boy, my list for this would be radically different now. Mishima at #13?! I don't really remember it well enough to have it Top 30 now. Plus, I don't think I'd seen any John Carpenter before this poll, so that would be more votes for Escape From New York and They Live and BIG (like Top 10, maybe even Top 5) votes for The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China.

I've never understood why TNA doesn't go full Attitude Era/ECW. Move it to later in the night, have blood, and sexiness, and lots of swearing. It's not like Spike doesn't have shows with those things (They show some bloody movies, they have lots of fake blood in something like 1000 ways to die; their commercials have lots of scantily clad women; and 'Bar Rescue' is wall-to-wall swearing (albeit bleeped)) so I can't imagine that Spike would have too much of a problem with it. And then you could rightly book it as "an alternative to that kiddie wrestling". It wouldn't necessarily be a better show, but you'd have all kinds of people talking about how awesome it was and defending it because "At least it's not G-rated wrestling."

Just pretend you were using the French spelling of Russia and you'll be okay.

The Enzo thing is awesome, as is everything he does now. A couple weeks back, he walked into the NXT arena and just controlled the crowd from the get-go. I haven't seen anyone on the mic in NXT, save Bray Wyatt, who just has the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. Love the Louis promo, too. I like that his gimmick seems to be French Tobias Funke.

Is it wrong that my favourite thing to do so far in the game, so far, is tow truck missions and stealing a cab and picking up fares?! Rock Star could put this same game out as "Grand Theft Cab Driver" and it would probably be my favourite thing ever. Maybe I should pitch the idea of "Grand Theft Menial Labour"?! "While Franklin, Michael and Trevor go out and commit bank heists, murders and drug deals, the underappreciated members of Los Santos go about their day-to-day business. Now you can control a member of Los Santos' workforce: drive a cab, a bus or a tow truck; clean up Trevor's murder scenes; clean Michael's pool; groom Chop! It's all here in 'Grand Theft Menial Labour'!"