Technico Support
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Jason Hervey meets Kendall Windham backstage at Clash of the Champions 2.
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They need to turn the MITB ladder match into the "BRASS RING" ladder match. Dudes can fight over precious and he who possesses it can pull the brass ring from their trunks and wallop dudes to victory.
Replacing the briefcase with a HUGE brass ring would be fucking amazing and if WWE doesn't do it, some other company should rip off that idea.
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Vince purchased all the RobTerry matches for his "personal" collection. The tapes are stored in a vault with vasoline, an old t shirt,and a life sized HHH standee.
YOU TALK ABOUT BEEFCAKE OOOH BAYBAAAYYYY
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Dave is a national treasure. I fear for the day when he quits and all we'll have is Alvarez.
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I know that. But we're talking about Vince McMahon's tastes and what he wants put forward for his company. He's tone deaf to what's going out out there. John Cena looks like a wrestler, to him. Punk does not.
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It's also pretty obvious Punk simply did not have a look they wanted as a face of the company. Forget that he would never be the guy; they didn't want him representing the company anywhere, even as a third or fourth guy. The Wizard World thing, the Ink Master thing, the movie thing, the video game cover thing...every time Punk was set to represent the company, they tried to plug in someone different. Every single time. From the company's perspective, he was "skinny fat," smaller than Vince's superman ideal, greasy and grimy looking, not very pretty, all tatted up and just not what a sports entertainer is supposed to look like. He was not, nor ever would be, the guy they wanted representing them. You think Nash was the only one who said he looked like the cook at Waffle House?
In WWE's eyes, Punk was always going to be a cult hero there to placate one small portion of the audience. He was a fool, and just as delusional as every other wrestler, to think things would ever be otherwise.
Punk thinking that WM main event was just around the corner was no less foolish than Dennis Stamp on his trampoline anticipating that next big booking.
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If that ring were any smaller I'd put my WWF LJN figures in it,
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Damian O'Connor.
Wow. It's like Michael Elgin. Only with charisma!
It's like Brian Cage, only fat and more indy-looking
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Yeah, the Broncos clearly needed those crooked refs' help beating the Bills.
Who paid for the plastic surgery, brother???
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Wow, I've never seen that one. That's up there with the WWF New Generation commercials about the baseball strike and they were insufferable.
Yes, wrestlers have no strikes and no offseason. When your labor practices have more in common with circus animals than athletes, that's actually not a good thing.
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Going to chikara tomorrow night. Anyone else heading to philadelphia? Will be my wife's first non-WWE PPV card. Expect her to be thoroughly confused and my explanation regarding the Ants and the Eye of Tyr to make me question my fandom again.
If it's anything like the time I took my wife to an ROH show (oh man) years ago, have her put some Vapo-rub under her nose like an autopsy technician. She'll thank you later.
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Well if you want goofy old school Bond, you can't get more wacky than Skyfall's "Home Alone" sequence.
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Awesome Steen vignette. Never thought I'd see a screengrab from a PWG show on WWE TV.
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Punk dong truthers
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He looks like a guy I'd see working shitty Baltimore area indies in the early 90s.
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So is Steen going to take Bull Dempsey's "chubby guy who just wants to kick people's asses" spot?
Because I really, really hope so.
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Good point. Also, that and many of the other silly Bond tropes were mercilessly parodied in Austin Powers so you probably can't come back from that.
Holy shit I was right dudes
Daniel Craig: Bond movies had to go darker because "Mike Myers fucked us"
http://io9.com/the-james-bond-movies-had-to-go-darker-because-mike-my-1667143453
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Noticed that on the preview image, which Im assuming was the event poster for the second Uncensored, they don't have Jeep Swenson as the Ultimate Solution on there - it's his head as Bane from Batman & Robin
oh shit that is hilarious wtf
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I remember working for Suncoast at a mall in Baltimore County in the late 90s and having to explain letterbox vs pan and scan CONSTANTLY. Nobody got it.
Making sure kids didn't con their parents into buying the dirty anime and trying to explain to customers why we were more expensive than Best Buy. Good times.
The one in White Marsh is still there and I stop in from time to time to look at used stuff and laugh at their new releases priced at $27.99
Seriously? Dude, I'm surprised White Marsh Mall is still there, let alone Suncoast.
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I really had my doubts as to whether he could ever be as good without the mask. I'm glad I was wrong, though I'm hoping he gets to do one Midnight Rider style angle sometime in NXT/WWE.
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"Licensed characters!"
"Yeah, what could go wrong?"
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All this talk about IT and brass rings and, especially, hair, makes me realize that when Vince and company use a worker's "conditioning" as criteria, they mean this:
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Sorry but I need to see the hoodie's hair before I can commit to its ability to grab the brass ring.
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Good point. Also, that and many of the other silly Bond tropes were mercilessly parodied in Austin Powers so you probably can't come back from that.
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2014 MOVIE OMNIBUS THREAD
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Aside from the truly awful PowerPoints is the confirmation of what we already knew but didn't want to admit: that movies, which people love and revere as art and can be a huge part of our lives, are just another investment to be focus-grouped, merchandised and micromanaged until they become nothing but lowest-common-denominator revenue generators, no different from Big Macs or 4-ply toilet paper. . Sure we all knew it was true but god damn, reading some of those slides and analyses was just disheartening. "Film" and "art" don't mean shit to these guys. It's all about how we can make our most risk-averse investment and still separate the marks from their money.
Some gems:
Calculating the "risks" of the "Annie" remake, they actually list "casting apprehension." OH SHIT THE NEW ANNIE IS BLACK. HOW IS THAT GOING TO PLAY IN GREEN BAY???
Stressing the need to keep focus off America-centric topics while promoting "White House Down." White. House. Down.
Urging the people making commercials for Elysium to downplay the sociopolitical subtext. The guy's previous film was a sci-fi retelling of Apartheid. I think we all knew what we were getting.