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    The All Things HORROR thread~!

    in MOVIES & TV

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    On 2/4/2017 at 3:19 AM, J.T. said:

    31 is a very polarizing movie.  It is obviously trying to build on the Firefly family universe, but Devil's Rejects is a hard act to follow and it is a far divergence from Zombie's most recent movie, Lords of Salem.

    Lords of Salem was no Citizen Kane, but Ienjoyed it because it looked like a sign that Rob Zombie was trying to do something different thematically while still retaining the retro 70's exploitation movie vibe he seems to love.

    Surprisingly, my main criticism of 31 is that while there is plenty of blood, there is precious little gore.  I am no gore hound, but if ever there was a movie that had the feel that gore would actually be contextual instead of exploitative, it's this one.  I was a little disappointed by the lack of visceral scenes.

    If you a lover of bizarre cameos, this is the movie for you.  The cast includes everyone from EG Daily (Pee Wee's Big Adventure and The Rugrats cartoon) to Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (Welcome Back, Kotter) to former porn star, Ginger Lynn.

    I thought it was an acceptable addition to the Zombie Firefly-verse, but that's not saying much and this movie is nothing I'd feel like revisiting for a while.

     

    Cool, thanks a lot for the info.  I'll probably check it out next time I'm in a strange city for work with nothing else to do.  I really enjoyed Lords of Salem as well.  The plot was pretty thin but it was heavy enough on style that it didn't feel like I wasted my time.  Rob's gotta stop casting Sheri Moon in his films, though, unless in a minor role.  She's just not an actress and can't carry a lead.

    REBOOTED Feb 2017 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    7 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    If he didn't learn after the Snake Canyon Jump and then the bodybuilding league and then XFL and then WWE Films (which is the biggest success out of all of them and even that's meager), he'll never learn. 

    I feel like he keeps trying other things because he's really insecure and desperate to be seen as more than just a wrestling promoter.  Somewhere deep down, he really hates pro wrestling and hates that it's the only thing he's good at.  That's just my Sidney M. Basil armchair analysis.

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    Life Events Thread

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    19 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:

    McCain being actively anti-Trump is amusing. I guess he remembers Trump calling him a coward for being captured, not all things are easily forgiven and I am sure he feels very comfortable in his position.

    I'll wait until McCain actually does something before I pat him on the back.  W dragged his war record through the mud when he ran against him in 2000 and McCain still fell in line like a good little Republican after Bush was elected.  This is also the guy who held down MMA back in the Zuffa days (testifying that it was "human cockfighting") because he was in the pocket of boxing promoters.  The dude has no integrity and has lived off his POW stories longer than Ricky Martin lived off "Livin' La Vida Loca."

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    The All Things HORROR thread~!

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    19 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    I think that Baskin director got translated wrong because that movie is damn sure an homage to Fulci and Argento in several ways.

    Me and a friend tried to watch 31 by Rob Zombie (apparently for the third time, for him -- he works ten hour shifts and him and his gal drop any time they put on a movie) the other night but fell asleep after trying to polish off a bottle of Jim Beam Bonded. I will say, the intro is awesome, and I dug the carnies (Meg Foster! Even though she looks like she's 90). We crashed right when the carnage started so maybe that's for best?

     

    18 hours ago, FluffSnackwell said:

    The killers or "heads" (as they were called) seemed to only serve the purpose of being silly ass jokes (including chainsaw clown brothers one of whom a buddy and me jokingly kept trying to guess if he was actually played by anybody notable....I guessed Dustin Diamond and my buddy Daniel Stern; it was actually the guy who got an ATM dropped on his head on Breaking Bad). That is up until the final boss who may be Zombie's most iconic creation yet; even if his motif was totally cribbed from and supposed to evoke The Joker. I will say that the early preliminary joke round villains did provide one pretty gruesome moment....

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    .....which was by far more gruesome and mean-spirited than any of the chainsaw kills in the recent TCM remakes/reboots. I also totally bought the Hitler midget jumping from around the corner the way he did (perched off something) being able to ambush somebody that way and it reminded me of those ugly little bastards from The Brood and how they pounced on their victims.  

     

    So is 31 any good?  I'm a fan of Zombie and most of his movies, though Halloween 2 can eat a dick, but his white trash aesthetic can be grating when he pushes it too far.

    FEBRUARY 2017 WRESTLING DISCUSSION

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    11 hours ago, Thibs said:

    Joe vs. Triple H makes the most sense. There's multiple ways to build it, it would have a big time feel, and if Trips does the honors it would really make Joe. 

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    Also the expectation is that Cena is proposing to Nikki after their Mania match

    Poor poor pressured guy

     

    He'll tear a quad carrying the prenup to the ring

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    New Member

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    Some of the other ones I remember:

    A "Battle of the Network Stars" type thing with WWF vs NWA in various non-wrestling competitions like the 100 yard dash.

    A tag team tournament where the gimmick was that (in the story), members of teams were thrown in and drawn at random.  I believe the final was Eaton & Morton vs Lane & Gibson.

    Hogan vs Tyson

    [MOVIE] 2017 UPCOMING MOVIE DISCUSSION

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    10 hours ago, Kuetsar said:

    I liked Oceans 13 enough, but oceans 12 was such a flaming pile of shit. . . .

    I liked Ocean's 11.  Never saw 13 because 12 was so bad it killed my interest.  One reason 12 sucked so bad was that it wasn't even an "Ocean's" movie.  It started life as a completely different movie and was rewritten to shoehorn all the Ocean shit into it.

    RAW IS JOE'S GONNA KILL YOU - 1/30/17

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    8 minutes ago, The Z said:

    Let's be fair, they book heels like shit, too (see Owens, Kevin).

    Ah, you're right.  I also forgot they also did a Dusty Finish last week where the heels were the ones screwed.  Un-fucking-believable.

    I guess booking the way wrestling has always been effectively booked is to rasslin' for Vince.

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    2017 ROYAL RUMBLE POST SHOW DISCUSSION

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    12 minutes ago, Horton Hears a Wooo!!! said:

    So Meltzer says Goldberg is likely to be Owens' opponent at Fastane.

    Meltzer has also said the plan is for Owens to drop the belt before WrestleMania.

    So... Goldberg vs. Lesnar for the Universal Title?  In 2017?  At their biggest PPV of the year?

    Oy vey.  Guys like the Miz and Ambrose are in trouble when Vince's black ops boys perfect cloning and Vince simply grows 20 clones of each guy who was slightly over during the Attitude Era.

    Again, "take the belt off the up and comers and put it on a name before Mania" is WWE's thing.  We just saw it with Styles.

    I'd rather have Owens beat Goldberg via Brock interference.  Have Owens beat him with his old F-Cinq finisher just for fun.

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    JANUARY 2017 WRESTLING DISCUSSION

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    1 hour ago, Wyld Samurai said:

    Using this criteria it's amazing the WWE is able to get away with it. Going over the roster, only guys like Samoa Joe and AJ Styles best fit the mold in the loosest sense of an Independent Contractor since they own their IP that's being used by the WWE. 

    Here's a longer questionnaire.  It's from a localized entity and not the federal government, but guidelines are typically similar everywhere, from what I gather.  It's amazing, allright.  The only criteria where WWE workers qualify as independent contractors instead of employees are the ones that benefit WWE financially (job-related expenses, ability to quit without liability, taxes, insurance).  They get away with it because nobody gives a shit about fake fighting, and the only people in a position to fight it are active wrestlers who don't want to be blackballed.  For retired guys, the statute of limitations often runs out because they are hesitant to sue because "New York might call me for one last run, brother."

    [MOVIE] 2017 UPCOMING MOVIE DISCUSSION

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    Random shit in no particular order:

    Somebody didn't learn from the Ghostbusters "reimagining," I guess.  

    I had no idea what an "Awkwafina" was and had to Google.

    Did nobody consider the layout of this promo shot, where the white ladies are placed prominently in front and the minorities are in the background?

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