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    Marvel TV & Movies - 2026

    in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Matt D said:

    My gut still says that the pandemic is what did Marvel in. It created delays on everything and killed momentum at the worst time for them. Phase... what? IV? was about the grief and trauma over the blip (that's what it was called right?) and the events of Endgame and that could have possibly hit and resonated with people thinking about the pandemic, but the movies weren't quite aimed that way and no one wanted that in the early days of the pandemic. Everything just took too long. Thunderbolts came together but not as well as if it came out a year or two earlier. 

    They had a rebuilding phase introducing new and legacy characters and it took twice as long as it needed to without enough "Avengers" at the end. 

    We're four years off of Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel now with no Young Avengers movie. 

    Obviously Kang was a huge misstep but everything about Doomsday feels like a panic hotshot. Like reforming the NWO in January 1999. 

    I think it's a mix of, as you mentioned, timing, along with overkill, films that were not great, and too many new characters introduced that nobody cared about as much as the original three.  The volume of shows on Disney+ was untenable.  I don't even have the service anymore and couldn't give a shit about whatever twee bullshit Wonder Man is going to be -- when a genre starts satirizing itself, it's in trouble.  For films that were just average to actively bad and/or featuring characters nobody cared about, we got Shang Chi, Eternals, Ant Man 3, that last Thor movie, Black Panther 2, The Marvels, Captain America: Brave New World, probably more I'm not thinking about.  Just entirely too much content and not enough of it was must-see.  I really enjoyed Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four, but that just feels like somebody at Disney said "we have to fix this shit."

    Speaking of timing, Iron Heart should have been timed to release shortly after Black Panther 2, not three years later.

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    Basically DVDVR LiveJournal

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

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    I ran into an old coworker in the grocery store maybe a month or two ago and he told me, "I thought that was you.  You have a very distinctive walk."  That shit has been in my head off and on since then.  It's not like I'm Stone Cold Steve Austin, strutting and talking shit through the ice cream aisle.  So yeah, no idea what this meant.

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    2026 TV & Streaming Shows Discussion

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted · Edited by Technico Support

    16 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    CBS staff are having big problems with their apparatchik new boss apparently. She wanted to shitcan a 60 Minutes piece about the prisons in El Salvador and their conditions, and a big deal was made of it, now apparently its going back on the air sometime soon. Apparently. You can read about all of it here. (I know this is skirting the political line but hey.) 

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/05/bari-weiss-cbs-news

    I didn't read the full story because everything is too depressing nowadays, but didn't CBS news issue a mission statement type thing saying that news has been dominated by "academics" and "elites" (LOL dogwhistle much?) for too long, essentially signalling that they're going full-on Fox News/Newsmax/OAN?

    The slippery slope from "news organizations are kid-gloving this administration because they're owned by corporations who don't want any trouble" straight to "fuck it, let's just do propaganda to curry favor" is distressing.

    January 2026 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    18 hours ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:

    I think if you take the phrase “[wrestler name here] is the GOAT” and mentally autocorrect “the GOAT” to “my favorite wrestler”, then I think a lot of the problems here could be solved, as we’re getting far too deep into unnecessary threshold-setting to be able to justify using a term that is increasingly losing value day by day.

    I was thinking about this yesterday.  "my GOAT" instead of "the GOAT" (so like you're saying, it's just "my favorite wrestler") and this whole things is solved.

    17 hours ago, supremebve said:

    All my guys are guys who weren't necessarily the handpicked guys, but the guys who couldn't be denied.  

    I really like this point.

    10 hours ago, username said:

    This is interesting because if you talk to people who wrestled in WWE during the past twenty or so years now and ask them who the best is Orton's name always comes up. As a viewer I don't personally see it but enough wrestlers I have respect for talk him up as a best in the world type that I assume there has to be something to it.

    See point above.  I can't get behind Orton as even in the top 20 of all time.  Just a bland company man who stuck around forever because he was WWE's platonic ideal of what a wrestler should be and they were more than willing to keep plugging him in at or near the top.  

    2 hours ago, The Natural said:

    More people will see this NJPW news here which has made me very happy.

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    Yota Tsuji said if he won the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship from Konosuke Takeshita at Wrestle Kingdom 20, he wanted to bring back the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for good. At a press conference today, it was confirmed the IWGP Heavyweight Championship is back and the lineage of the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship has been added to it. Well done NJPW, better late than never. Man, I hate everything about the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship replacing the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: a new title with new lineage, how fucking ugly the fucking thing is, the small main plate, the too big side plates and the too long strap. Never hated a belt as much as that. Fuck the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. Feel bad Ospreay, Takagi, Sanada, Moxley, Sabre Jr and Takeshita were stuck with it. Thank fuck it's gone. The IWGP Heavyweight Championship V4 is in my top three wrestling belts ever with the WWF Winged Eagle and Big Gold.

     

    Awful-ass Cody tattoo looking belt.

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    NFL OFF FIELD ISSUES

    in FOOTBALL

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    On 12/29/2025 at 4:45 PM, supremebve said:

    There are so many valid reasons to grab some asshole like DK grabbed that asshole.  We live in a society with an idea of justifiable homicide.  We should definitely extend this idea to justifiable punching people in the face.  I'm just saying, if someone chooses to behave in a way that would get you punched in the face, you should probably be allowed to punch that person in the face.  Sometimes enough is enough, and you either need to shut up or face the consequences.  This dude is clearly a habitual line stepper who doesn't want to face the consequences for his actions.

    I 100% agree with this and need to add that argument #1 for the canonization of Saint Charlie Murphy is his introduction of "habitual line stepper" into the lexicon.

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    Stranger Things

    in MOVIES & TV

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    10 hours ago, Craig H said:

    Do a spinoff with Nancy working for the Herald (I assume the Boston Herald?) investigating, uh, strange things that are happening. Like X-Files, but with an investigative journalist.

    So Kolchak: The Night Stalker?

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    January 2026 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted · Edited by Technico Support

    14 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:

    No need to gatekeep fandom; my work means that I talk to quite a few Gen Z young adults, and when they figure out that I'm a wrestling fan, they always ask me who my favorite wrestler ever was. I tell 'em Bret and Savage - two guys who I loved as a kid, when they were in their heyday - and oftentimes, they say Cena. That's not a sham at all. That's a guy who got over with his target audience and is genuinely beloved.

    The idea that someone might think Cena is the G.O.A.T strains credulity is the actual thing that strains credulity. I get it, the company he works for sucks, and he's more beholden to them than most of us would like, but there's no reason to erase the status he's earned among a significant contingent of fans because of that. 

     

    14 hours ago, Log said:

    I think gatekeeping gets a bad rap. Sure, you shouldn’t scare away new fans. That sort of gatekeeping is bad for whatever form of art or sport or performance or whatever you’re into. The kind that lets people know that maybe they shouldn’t make claims about greatest this or that when they’ve been watching wrestling for only a couple years and maybe only one promotion at that, is good imo. Expand your horizons. Check out some stuff. Then come back with an informed opinion. 
     

    Like, when my kid showed interest in wrestling, it was Cena that drew him in. So, I didn’t tell him, “No! Actually, he sucks!” I showed him the Cena stuff that I’d enjoyed. The Umaga match and some stuff with Punk. Then, I worked in some other stuff. Older WWF, current AEW, and even some Puro and Lucha. Pretty soon, he wasn’t all that interested in Cena. If he had been, I’d encourage him and help him find more of his stuff. He went a different route, though. For him, once he saw that there was other stuff out there, he went for it. 
     

    So, to me I sort of did a little gatekeeping on him, but I also didn’t try to “yuck his yum”.  

    Gah!  I didn't mean to gatekeep fandom when I wrote, "Cena is only the GOAT to fans who were little kids during his heyday."  I should have qualified it better.  I mean that their belief in Cena as better than every wrestler ever was overly colored by nostalgia.  So I'm not saying these people aren't "real fans," just that they're biased by nostalgia.  Like if I said Candyland is the GOAT board game because I really loved it between ages 3 and 4.

    The whole GOAT discussion is tough because what do you base it on?  Work?  Charisma?  Importance to the company?  Innovation?  Money?  12 other categories I'm not thinking of?  Probably a combination of all of them.  But regardless, Cena's not number one in any of them.  

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    January 2026 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Cena’s not even the GOAT in one category.  Work?  Promos?  Charisma?  Money drawn?  Meaning the most to his company?  Pick any category outside “best Turkish hair transplant” and 10 people more knowledgeable than me on this board could come up with at least five wrestlers who were better.  Cena is only the GOAT to fans who were little kids during his heyday and to the carnies who made money off this retirement tour.  It’s a sham; Cena isn’t even in the discussion.

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    Stranger Things

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    On 1/2/2026 at 3:25 PM, Dolfan in NYC said:

    TO WIT...

    The Duffers say the Stranger Things spinoff (??) that's apparently coming next year (???) is going to be focused on the contents of the briefcase and the lore behind it.  

    (oh yeah, the Duffers are definitely out of ideas too)

    Marcellus Wallace’s soul?

    January 2026 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted · Edited by Technico Support

    The whole Cena retirement tour was insane.  Dude was hated as a corporate creation, pushed down our throats, during his run.  And then he was pretty much retired for years already.  Suddenly he’s “the GOAT” and on a retirement tour.  Fucking ridiculous.  A fitting, created from whole cloth corporate retirement tour for a created from whole cloth corporate wrestler.  An absolute disingenuous carny-ass work of an entire career.

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    AEW TV - 12/31/2025 - 1/6/2026 - Moxley New Year

    in ALL ELITE WRESTLING

    Posted · Edited by Technico Support

    5 hours ago, AxB said:

    Tayjay might not be long for AEW, Anna Jay's deal expires this month and she's 'open to hearing offers from other promotions'. 

    Apparently waiting out their contract expiration (in Jan 2026) and seeing if WWE were interested was also Private Party's plan, but they were a bit too open about it and thus haven't been on TV on months.

    Anna and Tay are sadly part of that crop of AEW female wrestlers who were important back when the roster was thin, but have now been lapped by the newer talent.

    5 hours ago, JLSigman said:

    I'm new to watching AEW regularly, but when was the last time that trios title was defended?

    I sort of recall The Opps getting a token defense on Dynamite before the CC maybe?  The continued misuse of the trios title is crazy to me when 1) TK is constantly booking multi man party matches with other people and 2) he has so much talent in the undercard suited to those matches.  He should be booking the trios belts for brief, hot undercard matches every week with guys like Top Flight, Kommander, LFI, The Swirl, Cru (whatever happened to them?), whoever.  Just let dudes go crazy and use the division like the WCW Cruiserweights.

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    January 2026 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted · Edited by Technico Support

    Also, just a discussion topic I’ve been kicking around: is WWE’s practice of seemingly only booking for viral moments and memes instead of actual honest to goodness pro wrestling booking going to ruin the next generation of fans and, in turn, pro wrestling?  Or am I just pearl clutching the way old folks decried Vince’s “cartoon wrestling” back when my generation was starting out, and it’s not a big deal?  Like maybe every generation has their reason WWF/WWE is killing wrestling?

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