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  1. Arn's double fist pump after a spinebuster was always choice too. There's one in the Starrcade 86 cage match with the RnR that is just glorious because Arn thinks he's got the win after hitting it James
  2. I wish I could finish reading the caption ot the Magnum pic but all I can think about is how well conditioned his super fluffy mullet is. Its like Mr. Whipple should be yelling at me for squeezing the Charmin James
  3. Of all the fuckin songs to get stuck in my head... James
  4. Ah Richard Benjamin, just the name makes me want ot watch Love at First Bite but then I'd actually be watching Love At First Bite and no man, woman not child should subject themselves to that James
  5. The Outlaw Josey Wales remains my favorite Western by far. It is insanely quotable, has Chief Dan George being Yoda before Yoda was cool and Clint Eastwood? Jesus Clint Eastwood is even more epic here than he is in the Man With No Name series. The fact that he has a name actually makes him more badass in fact, because when Josey Wales name is spoken people either run for cover or try to draw iron on him. "Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy" sums up his character. Its not Josey Wales being cocky, its just a man who knows his ability to read an opponent (a conversation that he and Lone Watie have about one gunfight in fact). Josey Wales is probably one of the best examples of understanding the body language and psychology of an actual gunfight.. The scene where Wales and Ten-Bears negotiate truce is amazing as well. Both men respect each other by reputation and out of hatred of the Union but aren't afraid to let the other know that mutual hatred will only get their peace so far. Josey: You be Ten Bears? Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears. Josey: I'm Josey Wales. Ten Bears: I have heard. You're the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace. Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go. Ten Bears: Then you will die. Josey: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me, it's living that's hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. With governments you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I've come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That's my word of life. Ten Bears: And your word of death? Josey: It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one. Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have. Josey: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another. Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life. So shall it be. So fucking awesome, so fucking epic. Its easily one of my top 5 movies ever! James
  6. His Carnegie Hall performance from the 80s is one of 2 measuring sticks for a comedian at Carnegie Hall (the other being Groucho's). His film work, to me at least, seems to be up and down. For every great movie like Dead Poets Society or Good Morning Vietnam there are equally mediocre to bad movies like Toys and Patch Adams. I also seem to be the only person in my circle of friends that thinks Hook is just awful. He never got ot the point of say, Sam Jackson or Christopher Walken, where he'd just do anything but I could never see Bicentennial Man or What Dreams May Come again and be quite content. Someone mentioned Moscow On The Hudson earlier. I think it is one of his best all around performances because given the natur of the movie you'd expect him to be just a character with a goofy accent but he takes it ot the next level by making character real. The scene where he actually defects is quite awesome James
  7. What wrestling needs is actual managers again with genuine stables. Wrestling needs mid-card blood feuds where it is one man against that stable, going through heart ache and betrayal time and again until he finally gets that one pivotal win that has substance. What wrestling needs is a modern take on Jimmy Valiant v. The Paul Jones Army! James
  8. Mando was fucking AWESOME in the AWA ~! Probably one of the highlights of the dying days of the Gagne legacy James
  9. J.H.

    2014 G1 Climax

    If by TNM style you mean I can press my spacebar to get to the finish of the match then sure James
  10. The answer is Sazae-san, 7000+ episodes and counting http://thug-geek.com/2012/12/04/sazae-san-the-longest-running-anime-youve-never-heard-of/ James
  11. But... But FLIK there is so much Toku... James
  12. I love Silverado so much. John Cleese is so fucking KING SIZED in the brief part he is in. This and Best Seller were the 2 movies that got me exposed to the awesomeness og Brian Dennehey! James
  13. How much Zaruba we get is dependent on Hironobu Kageyama's touring schedule and this has been a pretty big touring year for JAM Project James
  14. The thing that sucked was that they had already announced the Blayze/Kong match for Royal Rumble via WWF Magazine. After Aja destroyed everyone at Survivor Series I wanted to see her and Medusa/Alundra have a violent singles match James
  15. Nosebleed? No no sir Aja broke Asari's nose. The match was the night after Survivor Series and they were planning on running Aja/Alundr at th Rumble but after Aja/Asari hey got a little squeamish
  16. I get this sinking feeling they are going to kill Gonza given how much they are focusing on him this time James
  17. God Magnum's fluffy mullet... its like it was made from the softest, cushiest clouds in heaven James
  18. an animation studio associated with Yasuhiro Imagawa went out of business? THE HELL YOU SAY! James
  19. Oh there was that crazy ass Mazinger by Yasuhiro Imagawa! I watched the first 5 episodes and adored but then forgot to finish it! James
  20. I'll bite and say Unicorn, though I did love Star Driver quite a bit for its sheer insanity James
  21. I think Cy's fatal flaw is that he want to be Al , in terms of power and respect inside the camp but lacks Al's ability to see the bigger picture. Cy wants everything all at once. The power, money and respect Al has came from building the camp and Cy sees himself as a mover and a shaker but can't take a step back and lacks that ability to play the long game. Everything with Al IS the long game. Even when he is recuperating from the stroke Al sees the bigger picture. The contrast between the 2 is incredible. To put in terms of spy characters, Cy wants to be Bond while Al is already George Smiley James
  22. Ironically, if you beat her i na cage you get to keep Tully for 30 days James
  23. I think the walk is intentional of the character. He is kinda holier than thou so his representative of him trying not to dirty himself (which is why his brawl with Al was great, it brought Bullock hated going in the mud). The problem in Deadwood is everything is covered in muck and shit so Bullock's walk is futile thing but he has to give still try to avoid it because he doesn't want to be Al (who knows he is in the muck and shit but doesn't give a fuck as long he continues to rule Deadwood and wet his beak). James
  24. For the longest time my 2 favorites were Tito Santana and Harley Race I loved Tito because he was the most believable Babyface. I loved how he moved in the ring, he put fire and emotion into everything he did. His comebacks always got the crowd hot and he always made his opponent look good. I was a big fan of his counter to the atomic drop being the figure four leglock. The first time I saw him do that I lost my shit. I thought it was so fucking innovative and clever (yeah I'm guessing he wasn't the first one to do it, but when I saw Tito do it, it was slick as hell). Harley Race, on the other hand, just gave off the vibe. He was the guy that would sit on his porch with no shirt on and tell kids only once to get off his lawn. After that first warning he'd get off his porch and kick someone's ass. His offense was realistic, nothing flashy and that is why he gave off that aura of toughness. He kept it simple because he would leave being flashy to the other guy. He kept it simple because it worked for the role he played in his matches. Harley would eat the other guy's offense so he could land that one good blow, or hit that one sweet suplex that would knock the wind out of the other guys sails. If the other guy has to land 7 blows to equal 1 of Harley's then Harley was truly the better man. That's how I viewed him. Recently both Tito and Harley have been deposed. I'm in awe of Nick Bockwinkel, the James Bond Villain of wrestlers. My buddy Mike had never seen Bock wrestle until we started hanging out. After watching a bunch of Bock Mike's reaction summed up a fictional version of Bock perfectly. "He jogs 5 miles a day, does some light calisthenics, sits in his living room and reads some Proust and then has a scotch or 2 before bed all to get up the next day to do it again, only he skips the calisthenics to wrestle Jim Brunzell for 30 minutes. Maybe he'll have an extra scotch that night before bed". What I like about Bock in the ring is he always has gameplan and sticks to it. Its basic psychology but its effective. He really gives off that vibe that he is outthinking his opponent and if that opponent is in control he is trying to get the superior position back so he can get back to his gameplan. Sure, there are times when he looks like he is just having fun (the match with Martel where the crowd turns on both of them and start to chant "Boring" only for Bock to talk smack at Martel with "You hear that Martel? you should give up now! These people think you're boring!") that's some brilliant psychology to raw both the crowd and the TV viewer back into the match. Its for reasons like that, combined with his arrogant rich boy character, that Verne Gagne kept the AWA title on Bock for 5 years. Yeah, you wanted to see your favorite babyface whip Bock from ringpost to ringpost but when Bock would come out the winner the fans would pay to see him again in the hopes that the next guy would actually beat him. Bockwinkel had already tricked people to come to the next show and they didn't even know it! James
  25. I watched episode 1 of Season 3 when I woke up. Jane Canary's account of her time with Custer was gripping storytelling, the likes I've seldom come across James
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