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  1. And then for Lana to bury Capitalism and Bradshaw's wife for the reason America is in a recession still.
    6 points
  2. If that happens I want Rusev to no sell it like Taz did King's piledriver.
    5 points
  3. You know Speed Force is doomed the moment Cole says it on tv and JBL shits on it
    3 points
  4. And just like Wally West in the DCnU, they've disappeared from WWE tv continuity.
    3 points
  5. Best. Stable. Ever. "Where's Wally?" #fowlerized
    3 points
  6. Denial Anger <---- Bargaining Depression Acceptance
    3 points
  7. They should be using Orton to put Rusev over, not the other way around.
    3 points
  8. Rusev holding the US belt needs to happen soon. Not only would the matches with Sheamus be awesome but the promos by Lana would make that belt seem important for the first time in years. The guy that eventually got the belt from Rusev would be over like Rover.
    3 points
  9. Started in on things that showed up thanks to hoarding B-day Amazon gift cards and cashing in my "Hey, it's almost my birthday...I can order stupid stuff, right?" card: 1) The new HALLOWEEN box set 2) last year's FRIDAY THE 13TH box set 3) the CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES set Popped in the 1st disc of F13th, the uncut original. It looked really great. The thing that makes that first movie work so well is just how real and ambient all the locations are. Everything from the small-town diner to the various cabins. Such great set dressing, I guess is what it's called. And of course directing that takes a little time to let you drink it all in. The great moving camera shots that sometimes look like POV shots and sometimes are just there to give it some realism way before that became such an expected thing. The little bits of POV that keep shifting from counselor's view to "killer's" view to a "fake killer's view" (where the killer isn't there, but we get a POV shot anyway)...it's all just a little disorienting without being overdone and annoying, or even calling attention to itself. And just the right amount of claustrophobia. So much of the time the camera moves so freely in big spaces, and then when it suddenly forces you into tight shots, (like when the guy is in the generator room) it really heightens the tension. I swear most horror movies today has so much in closeup that they miss that change of anxiety-level. Even after all these years, it got three screams from my wife (Kevin Bacon's death, body crashing through the window, and the Jason-in-the-lake shot). Watching it this time, maybe because her scenes looked so great in this transfer, it really felt like the story of poor Annie stands out...the girl who never makes it to the camp. She apparently hitchhiked and backpacked all the way there from who knows where because this was her best shot to actually get real experience working with city kids and she has big plans to be, like a social worker or a teacher or something. That's pretty amazing that we are able to build that much backstory for her in the minutes she's on screen. She's the one that hears the story of Camp Blood along with us. She's the one who hears from crazy Ralph and is warned. She tells us about how she's following this dream of hers to work with kids. The actress is so great. They clearly cast her so that we would think she was the final girl...and even though her story never even crosses the main story, we end up knowing more about this one girl than about any of the other characters. Since they draw her up so much, and trick us into thinking she's the main person we'll be rooting for, her little section is like a little complete short story prequel to the real movie. And I feel genuinely sad when she looks up from the ground at her attacker and whimpers "No!" shaking her head...like "This can't be how my journey ends...I'm supposed to do all this stuff I've been planning." It's like we're seeing what it would look like if the final girl didn't survive, but instead just tripped...and died. And even she can't accept it. The only thing that lessens the effect is that we've already met Alice before we go back to Annie. But, still, none of the other victims feels quite so sad. Like, she was supposed to be a final girl, in a different movie maybe. But she accidentally ended up in this one and so she never made it to her movie. She's also the youngest and most enthusiastic character. There is something about this genre that is bound to the idea of destroying youth. It's such a corrupt thing for a story to do, to set loose a force that seems, for whatever reason, to be compelled to find the people farthest from death, the people who are the strongest and fastest and most full of energy and excited plans...who are just coursing with life an emotions and hormones and racing through the world...and slaughtering them...cutting them down and watching them slowly crawl toward their final breath. I know this isn't exactly a new observation and they made a big thing about this in A CABIN IN THE WOODS, but the older I get, the more perverse it seems...the more horrific. It was always sort of there. Like, say, Mina and Lucy in DRACULA. In the 19th century popular engravings: and even back to the 16th century caution: Renaissance boobs within: But it was only one part of Victorian (and earlier) horror. In these movies, it's a main running sort of Jungian theme: the perverse slaughter of the young. Not children. That's a different kind of horror: But, people at the prime moment of strength...the "Malcolm MacDowell in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" moment of maximum restless energy and potential to do...good, bad, whatever. Like, when I was younger I didn't really understand the power of that moment in life. I was just like "Fuck those other kids HAHA!!!! Get 'em Freddy!!!" But it's a dark theme. And every now and again it really stands out how dark it is. There was scene in HALLOWEEN: H20 where Michael is chasing the sarcastic goth girl. She was a strong character, in that early 2000s, post-SCREAM smart teenager kind of way. The new generation of "we've seen it all" horror characters. And after he wounds her, he just slowly follows her as she crawls across the floor, scraping and clawing hopelessly as her life ebbs. Every October that movie is on AMC and that scene always makes me cringe a little at that notion of destruction of youth. And now I get the same thing from poor Annie: RIP, Annie. You are causing me an existential crisis. Also: Listening to the commentary track, Betsy Palmer is so great...she invented this whole backstory for Pamela Vorhees...and she has the whole fantastic point-of-view "I was a good lady...who went a little wrong..."
    3 points
  10. Yeah, fun times with the DVDVR crew on PS4. I hope to have many more in the weeks to come. PSN is being weird. I've sent friend requests to Craig, Chaos, and Brisco with issues ongoing. We'll sort it out eventually.
    2 points
  11. 2 points
  12. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE STEELERS STINK
    2 points
  13. Could Regal have been the last one to use knucks? Also, Chris Hero needs to go full on Mac-circa season 7 where he attributes his weight gain to just cultivating mass to impress HHH, wears shirts a size or two too small and thinks he's almost a muscle-head.
    2 points
  14. Remind me to never upset Steve Smith.
    2 points
  15. You f*ck with Steve Smith, he will f*ck with you. He's a bad man.
    2 points
  16. This officiating crew for GB/CHI are straight up making shit up. The only good thing about them is that they're doing it both teams. It's ruining my enjoyment of the game.
    2 points
  17. WCW booked Goldberg as an unstoppable monster. when Goldberg came to the WWF, he was a top face. That means he has to both take and give in matches/feuds. Since he wasn't used as an unstoppable monster, people say he was misused. But if the ONLY style you can work is "nobody ever gets over on me and i crush everybody", then i'd say maybe you should learn to work.
    2 points
  18. I am a god damn moron So I still haven't completed a strike without dying. Since I have the Phogoth bounty I go back to the Summoning Pits Me and the two other dudes are wrecking shit They die a few times but I make it through the whole thing alive. During the 30 second mission end phase - one of the guys motions to me and I realize he wants me to follow him. He runs over to the ledge and jumps off. I then see that there is a treasure chest down there that he was showing me. What I didn't see was the fucking gap between platforms. So yup - I died with 3 seconds away from finishing without dying
    2 points
  19. Ok...pics or it didn't happen. Here be the pics and other nonsense to demonstrate the insane push I'm getting from my current employer. (Pics spoilered for size)
    2 points
  20. Every time I hear Bob Ryder's name, the only phrase my mind associates with it is "beefy, Ecstasy-addicted Abyss"
    2 points
  21. 2 points
  22. If Meng/Barbarian collision was so disastrous, I don't even want to imagine what happend after this:
    2 points
  23. http://www.gerweck.net/2014/09/28/928-wwe-house-show-results-from-youngstown-oh/ There we go, thanks! You can tell the only two wrestling sites I ever visit are WON and DVDVR, or else I probably would've found it without having to ask.
    1 point
  24. I'm already so sick of this Connor McGregor BS. The guy is the new Nick Diaz where he's got all this internet hype and nothing to back it up. Aldo, Edgar, or Mendes starch him. The guy already has two losses for fuck sake, he's not some undefeated phenom. Let's see how he does against a wrestler before we anoint him as the future.
    1 point
  25. http://www.gerweck.net/2014/09/28/928-wwe-house-show-results-from-youngstown-oh/
    1 point
  26. look at you guys over there on the Playstation getting all friendly killing shit together. #amillionbazillionlikesforyou
    1 point
  27. Unless someone is in your fireteam there's no way to hear them.
    1 point
  28. Okay - maybe they should keep targeting Louis Murphy
    1 point
  29. Aww.... you know at least the Braves won a WS during all their pennant run....
    1 point
  30. If you are on Carolina's offensive line and your name isn't Ryan Kalil, please come see me in my office. Bring your playbook. - Riverboat Ron
    1 point
  31. I get he is a promoter and some would argue doing his job, but shouldn't it at least be partially grounded in reality? In promotion, you don't have to be. Anyways, Rousey has already far surpassed the women's fighting ceiling. Laila Ali vs. Jackie Frazier-Lyde, with all the media coverage it got, only did 100,000 buys. That's why that had to shoehorn her (Laila) onto Oscar De La Hoya cards and the like. Eventually HBO put the kabosh on that. Rousey came in the post Lesnar era so there wasn't anyone really to siphon popularity off of other than GSP and Anderson. But UFC already had some confidence she could draw by herself. However, there is a ceiling still there just because it's women's fighting. She has the potential to do over 500k with Cyborg and Carano, but I am not sure what you can do with her past that. There isn't really a whole bunch of stars on the horizon. Maybe Julianna Pena can become someone down the road, but I am not betting on that. They also have to be really careful about booking her every 2-3 months. I know she has a weird schedule just because of her movie career, but booking her like that can take some of the the luster away. Why do I have to pay 60 dollars to see her fight when she already has a more important fight line up 2 months later? McGregor is already the biggest name in his division and has the potential to sell PPVs down the road. The Poirier fight worked because Dustin was willing to trash talk back. However, the division is at a point where the UFC is going to have to eat it on PPV before he starts doing real solid numbers if McGregor does become champ. Personally, I would put the fight where Conor challenges for the title on Fox and in a venue in Boston, Chicago, and any other place with a large Irish-American population. He has been around for only a handful of UFC fights and already has a larger ticket buying fanbase than the John Duddys of the world had.
    1 point
  32. Well that play makes me glad I started Steve Smith in my fantasy league. I may hate that the guy isn't on our team anymore but if you didn't think he was going to have a big day, you're just fooling yourself.
    1 point
  33. I think as long as Brock is doing these awesome interview segments it doesn't devalue the title. I enjoy having a champion who only shows up when it's time to kick some ass. It's weird though that they would do a DQ finish if the plan is not to have one more match..
    1 point
  34. This game really does need an auction house. I've been sitting at 20,000 glimmer for awhile now and never use it unless it's on upgrades.
    1 point
  35. Charlie Weis is gone again. . . http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11605447/kansas-jayhawks-fire-charlie-weis-lack-field-progress
    1 point
  36. As a black person, I am not allowed to hate Scarface. But I basically view Scarface in the same light as Carlito's Way. Pacino was hacky in both, but it's something about the goofiness in those films that is endearing to me. Like the scene with Viggo in the wheelchair trying to be Hispanic is one of the funniest things ever. If you can't laugh at that, you have no soul in my eyes. With something like the remake/prequel of Carlito's Way (one of the worst movies of all time) and Savages, they're trying to be dead fucking serious. Salma Hayek was showing her titties in bad B movies at one point and that was all she was known for. She ain't fucking Griselda Blanco reincarnated. But Oliver Stone believes she is. Since ID4 was brought up, someone needs to round up Roland Emmerich, Oliver Stone, and Michael Mann and take them back to the 90s where their hack premises and substandard scripts were tolerated.
    1 point
  37. 1 point
  38. I joined the party and clan! I have done the first 3 story missions and didn't grow to level four after beating the Wizard boss for god knows how many times between the Alpha, Beta, and now this. This is also my first time playing as a Warlock. The armor and ease of death is more noticeable here
    1 point
  39. Watched most of the show with my mom in the hospital. She is a 59 year old woman who likes being honest and her thoughts were amusing: She thought the stuff with Dean, Seth and Kane was stupid. She was bummed to see Kane not tossing people around. She kept calling everyone a foo. Didn't understand the battle royal concept until I said it was kind like the Rumble. She loves the Rumble but thought it was a stupid match. She laughed when Bo bite Kofi's hand. She said Nattie was cross eyed. She didn't catch her name and kept calling her 'the old one.' That was it. She got tired of watching it.
    1 point
  40. I can't decide whether this looks awesome or whether it looks like a cliche-riddled mess. If it was awesome they wouldn't have delayed for nine months. . .
    1 point
  41. Of course, Meng no sells that sledge to the top of his head.
    1 point
  42. This I can see. This, I cannot. William Marshall was a very handsome man, Michael PS Hayes always looked like a gross sleazebag. And here is something I found attached to the Blacula photos to keep any of you, male or female, from ever thinking about Dok Hendrix tonight. Fuck the off-topic and damn the torpedoes, it's Pam Grier
    1 point
  43. Wouldn't carrying around a box of doughnuts be Steen's gimmick?
    1 point
  44. Friends sucks and Married..with Children is by far a better sitcom. Fresh Prince is much better also.
    1 point
  45. The pinnacle of my love for garbage wrestling. A magic time indeed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoh9ZNuu70
    1 point
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