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    Opening/Closing Themes

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    The Wrestling Challenge theme that @Joel Martin posted is exactly what came to mind when I read the thread title.  Vince fucking loved him some saxophones back in the day.

    Man, the ECW open @PetrolCB posted took me right back.  I remember, when I was in college, some syndicated network ran various wrestling shows at 11 at night and ECW was one of them.  it blew my fucking mind.

    This one takes me back, too:

     

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    [1st Rd] PETE DUNNE vs. SAMI CALLIHAN

    in 2017 MARCH MADNESS (Archive)

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    2 hours ago, RIPPA said:

    And Sami's NXT run wasn't this time period so what is your point? (Sami left NXT Nov 2015)

    Or is this just a "I thought he sucked awhile ago so clearly he must suck now" thing?

    Nothing's as bad as the guy who said last year something to the effect of, "Sami failed in NXT but is thriving on the indies, so that means the indies must suck."  Sami just seems to bring out the dumbest "logic" in people.

    2016 Wrestling Observer Awards

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    7 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

    I have to say it. BOLA just wasn't very good. It was a bunch of 10-minute matches and they were all finishing stretches. No meat. No potatoes. No way for me to get invested in anyone. Just a bunch of "cool" spots.  I thought the six man tag with the Bucks, Ricochet, etc..  that Dave gave 5 stars was okay for what it was..   there were some very impressive spots but that is literally all it was.

    New Japan has always been more interesting to me because they are at least trying to have a beginning, middle and end.

    I think you have something here.  I've been a PWG fan for a long time but I have to admit, I enjoy their standalone shows far more than their tournaments.  

    Also, I seriously doubt Dave is starry-eyed and biased in favor of the Bucks and PWG.

    MARCH 2017 WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, J.T. said:

    I have been to three honbansos in my life and the if he dies he dies stance by the officials is fairly standard.

    They soooo fucking threw too much salt on the wrong side of the ring, though.  Dude on stage left had no problems with traction and if it were thrown for spiritual purity, again, the oni were on the other side of the ring.

    I believe the salt was thrown to purify that dude's spirit as it left his body when he was K'd the F O

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    2017 WHATEVER THE HELL USED TO BE TNA DISCUSSION THREAD

    in FEDS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK

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    5 minutes ago, Stevie Ray Von Erich said:

     

    It's hilarious that this company has lasted longer than WCW.

    When you think about it, it's not shocking.  Wrestling has always been more about finding money marks than about being part of a corporate entity.  TNA just kept finding more gullible people to fund it.  WCW was more like the Peter Principle in action.  It kept failing upward until it became corporate, and then someone in a boardroom who couldn't be swayed by "we'll put ya on teevee" said, "we're paying for WHAT?" and promptly gave it the axe.  Ted Turner was absolutely a money mark.  WCW's days were numbered as soon as he was no longer in charge.

     

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    2017 WHATEVER THE HELL USED TO BE TNA DISCUSSION THREAD

    in FEDS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK

    Posted

    3 hours ago, RIPPA said:

    Just wanted to highlight that point.

    Really - if you are an independent wrestler who signs with TNA, you are a fool

    Wait am I reading that right?  It's not either/or...they are seriously only booking guys on show by show deals AND they still want 10% of all bookings?  So for instance, Eddie Edwards gets no guarantee he'll be back next month but he still has to kick back 10% if he works an indy date?  Fuck, man, there are pimps who treat their people better.

    [MOVIE] 2017 UPCOMING MOVIE DISCUSSION

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Craig H said:

    I like Prometheus, but that movie has major problems. I'm not even sure I care about the xenomorphs. I would have been far more interested in a film that explored these Engineers, the creation of the human race, humans who set out to find this planet to learn about their origins, discovering the Engineers, and learning that the Engineers might now be trying to end the experiment of the human race. You could do all of that without the idiot scientists, without the weird abortion scene, without an Engineer turning into a xenomorph, without running from a giant wheel of doom, etc. For the people that would call that boring, I'll just point out that the Martian and Arrival are both outstanding movies without a great deal of action where much of the intrigue and suspense doesn't have to come from the usual dumb Hollywood things.

    And then do this sequel further exploring whether or not humans were some kind of grand experiment, why the Engineers are trying to end the human race, learn about the origins of the xenomorphs, attempting to discover if we can populate another planet, defying the Engineers, etc. Once again, you can do all of this without all of the dumb Hollywood shit.

    Or maybe I just want boring, sci-fi movies.

    All that sounds awesome.  I'd have much rather watched the movie you're pitching instead of what we got.  Seriously, if you decide that you don't want an Alien prequel, scrub ALL Alien shit out and start over.  Bringing in Lindelof for a last minute rewrite and then editing to clumsily strip out some Alien elements and leaving the ones in that were too hard to remove just meant they left two audiences unfulfilled.

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    [MOVIE] 2017 UPCOMING MOVIE DISCUSSION

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    7 hours ago, CreativeControl said:

    What's the timeline for the Alien films, specifically Prometheus > Covenant > Alien?

    I watched Alien the other night and forgot that the Engineer was fossilized when the Nostromo crew investigate, so I can't see how it all ties together. Unless Paradise is LV 426 and it's made desolate on purpose (through part-terraforming maybe) at the end of the film to encourage people to never visit #speculation

    Prometheus was supposed to come before Alien as an explicit prequel, with the planet the Prometheus crew investigating being LV-426.  Then the whole thing got changed around, by Scott, studio meddling, or both, depending on who is telling the story at any given time.  So LV-426 became LV-223 despite the fact that we see the SAME engineer ("space jockey") wreck as in the original film but we're supposed to accept that it's a different planet.  So stupid.

    The original script for Prometheus ("Alien: Engineers") is online and its not that different, but all the small stuff that got removed in the name of not making it a "prequel" and trying to desperately to reach a larger audience really added up to hurt the film.

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