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  1. 22 minutes ago, Go2Sleep said:

    WWE would be stupid to change the names of Raw and SD. Both are very well-established brand names that have reach beyond the wrestling bubble. Look how long it took outsiders to catch on to the name WWE and that's only one letter, yet you still hear people say WWF 14 years later. You wouldn't tell the NFL "you know 'super bowl' is a pretty dated sounding name, you should really freshen that up." The names have stuck.

    They may need to change the presentation, set design, production, lighting, announcing, and probably a bunch of other things, but the show names are fine.

    You're right about the name WWE.  I have a Washington Post magazine in front of me that references a trophy given in an office as "a WWF-style belt" so, after all this time, it still hasn't caught on 14 years later because wrestling is still considered lowest common denominator entertainment for retards, rednecks and children.

  2. 17 minutes ago, Liam said:

    I always couldn't stand Joe's powerbomb into pin into boston crab. So contrived.

    LOL I was going to mention that as well but felt I would be picking on Joe too much!  It's actually worse than you said:

    Powerbomb-->pin-->kick out-->Boston Crab-->opponent breaks hold slightly-->STF or crossface

    Seriously, just scout your opponent and figure out a combo breaker.

    Same goes for any contrived signature combo, like AJ Styles' drop down, leapfrog, dropkick.  For fuck's sake, you know it's coming!

  3. 1 hour ago, nofuture said:

    Current worst finisher is Jay Lethal's Lethal Injection/ any cutter move that involves the person who's taking have their head magically move right into the other guy's arms. 

    Holy shit.  Yeah, I hate that move, especially Lethal's execution of it.  Guy stands there frozen, maybe swaying from side to side waiting for it like a character in MK waiting for a fatality while Jay signals for it and goes into the convoluted setup.  It is only cool if a flippy dude  uses it as a counter once in a while.  As a finisher it's awful.  Doubly so because the guy doing it is a heel and, as such, shouldn't be doing flashy shit.

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  4. Not finishers per se, but I can't stand "signature counters" because they're just too business exposing in their need for obvious cooperation.  For example, women who never ever did top rope moves would suddenly think they're Superfly Snuka against Trish Stratus so she could do the Stratusphere.  Ditto Samoa Joe's corner Uranage.  See also: You Can't Powerbomb Kidman!

     

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  5. They should rebrand both shows but they won't.  "Smackdown" is a dated reference, named after the catchphrase of a guy who barely works for them.  Shouldn't they be looking forward, not backward?  And there's nothing "Raw" anymore about their canned, overproduced, overscripted Monday show.  The show started as a food truck, now it's an Applebee's.  Neither name fits anymore and they're so far past due to freshen things up it's ridiculous.  They need change it up and get  away from how homogeneous everything is.  They've been using the same sets for eight years.  Fuck.

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  6. 27 minutes ago, zev said:

    Was that the album with the 10 minute long song where he included "I feel your pain" and "Bang bang" in the lyrics? I think he showed up at an ECW taping and smashed someone with a guitar soon after that.

    Ha!  Nope, that was their big album from 1993, which predated ECW by about a year.

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Smelly McUgly said:

    They'd never pop face-of-the-company Cena for PEDs and that dude clearly eats them for breakfast, so what I take from this is that Reigns ain't the future face of the company anymore, at least for now.

     

    That was my read on it, too.  They wouldn't suspend him unless the bloom was off the rose and the push was over.  I haven't heard the podcast yet but apparently Meltzer said the B-shows with Ambrose on top were drawing the same or better than the A shows with Reigns, so money talks.

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  8. I read that article and it just felt so desperate to me, like the producers locked the writers in a  room and made them watch Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool on a loop for a week.  "GODDAMMIT MAKE IT FUNNY." 

    When we see Batman cruising the city in the Batmobile listening to the 70s pop compilation that Martha Wayne left for him, we'll know.

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