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Hangman! Fuck yeah.
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On 5/24/2025 at 1:02 AM, Curt McGirt said:
There's an actual -- get this -- vacuum repair store here on a corner downtown, right down from the police department! It's had the same sign in the window for 20+ years. As soon as I saw that episode of The Wire where they identify the convenience store with the bank-grade glass and no stock as a drug front, I immediately thought of that place. That probably isn't one, but we have so many goddamn smoke shops and casinos that've cropped up around town in the last ten or so that I presume some have to be.
EDIT: Actually, it wasn't that spot in The Wire that made me think that, it's Joe's shop where it's just a junk store where he tinkers and fixes toasters. Now, who needs a vacuum cleaner fixed anymore?
“I need a dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro Model 60“
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3 hours ago, colonial said:
I took my daughter out to dinner last night to celebrate her last day of seventh grade. While waiting for our meals, she apologized to me for "forcing the family to watch awful movies with her in the theater." I had an idea of the timeline, but noted that she was 6-8 years old at the time and probably "didn't know better" -- you saw a cartoon that would be in theaters and wanted to see it, and that was OK. But she revisited these films while streaming and was embarrassed by what she liked back then.
They grow up fast, don’t they? I mention Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig to my now 10 year old and she embarrassingly tells me “that’s baby stuff!” I’m like kid it was only like 5-6 years ago and you had ALL the toys! Years are much shorter for adults.
21 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:I thought back and realized that Pulp Fiction was probably the film that as a kid got me into filmmaking that wasn't just horror. It was a sea-change in my life.
Donnie Darko didn't make any sense and sucked.
It was Reservoir Dogs for me, then Pulp took it up a notch. Gotta watch both again soon.
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Sky Blue…she needed the money! Ohhh!
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Either those beers were warm, or Hangman and Ospreay did an embarrassingly bad job with their first sips, as both beers overflowed as soon as they put them down. You don’t suck the beer out of the bottle, lads.
@RazorbladeKiss87 yeah man, Swerve slipping on that whatever it was and totally eating shit was scary.
Willow’s top worked harder than anyone on the show.
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2 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
As someone who loves Popeyes (sorry Craig), I am sorry they had to catch that stray.
As someone who loves Popeye’s, I feel like I should probably get to New Orleans sometime.
Also, I’m still kind of pissed Popeye’s stopped selling chicken nuggets, because they were really good.
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Popeye's reading this thread like "what he say fuck me for?"
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8 minutes ago, stuntmanc said:
Do you mean the Velveeta Voldemort? lol. I heard that the other day and have been cracking up at it ever since.
Reminds me of the latest two terms I've heard for the Cybertruck, "IncEl Camino" and "Deplorean."
28 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:So yeah, the actual venue is what was before and is now still called (Jim Whelan) Boardwalk Hall. It just doubled as the convention center for Atlantic City, which is kinda weird but whatever. Current unified welterweight champ Jaron "Boots" Ennis just fought there last month so it's still around. In four years, it would be 100 years old. I think it would probably be the 2nd oldest venue still actively hosting live events because there have been like at least 3 or 4 different iterations of Madison Square Garden. I think the oldest would be a stone's throw away in the Asbury Park Convention Hall, which is itself a century old. Both have hosted major wrestling events.
AEW did Dynamite there twice, as well. The first time, they used the standard layout so it was really obvious it was the Mania 4 & 5 building. The last time (3 weeks ago, maybe?), they used a different layout and it was unrecognizable.
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22 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Might not have to worry about any therapist if I lose my Molina insurance via Medicaid, which is going to be cut by millions. Or my psychiatrist. Or the five medications I'm on, two for blood pressure. Or my parents' medications. Or their retirement, since they might have to go back to work. Or my work aid.
I'm so sorry to hear about the Medicaid, man. All this shit is so fucked up.
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1 hour ago, The Natural said:
If WrestleMania 42 is in the same location, it'll be the first back to back since WrestleMania IV-V at Mango Mussolini Plaza.
True to form, 4 & 5 weren't even at his casino, it was just a con and branding. They were held at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
I saw both of these on closed circuit as a kid and just assumed they were held on the casino floor, and they'd just moved all the gaming tables and slots for the event. You're dumb and gullible at 13 & 14.
Watching Mania 4 on closed circuit at the college I would later attend is pretty funny. I remember running laps in the gymnasium thinking, "I saw Demolition beat Strikeforce for the belts here!"
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This might be a little deep for this thread, but every time I see Dustin, it reminds me of parenting and actually being active in your kids' lives. Contrasting Dustin and Cody...Dustin was born and grew up during his father's heyday. By all accounts, Dusty wasn't around much and wasn't active in his life. He essentially had a famous father who had no time for him. That shit fucks you up. The majority of people will likely internalize that kind of thing and wonder why they weren't good enough for their dad. So Dustin had a life with periods of estrangement from his father, and well-documented issues with substance abuse that he has thankfully, commendably pulled himself out of. Cody, on the other hand, was born and grew up as Dusty's career was winding down, with far less time on the road. Dusty raised him and it sounds like he filled his head with big fish stories of his legend. Cody had a standout amateur career in high school, had the confidence to go to acting school, had no issues with substances, and has had a far more successful career in pro wrestling. Dustin's relationship to his father was complicated, to put it nicely. Cody thinks Dusty hung the moon. Dustin has had a tough life where success was fleeting, trials were constant, and he never lived up to his potential. Cody built a hall of fame career where he struck out to build something instead of being happy with a midcard gimmick, in large part due to the confidence he had from his upbringing. I'm sure Cody never has imposter syndrome or feels like he doesn't deserve what he had. Two guys with the same father, raised entirely differently, and they couldn't be more different. Thanks for letting me get these thoughts out, and take care of your kids, friends.
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Shady's back. Tell a friend.
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8 hours ago, Andrew POE! said:
Movies today....
The Grapes of Wrath (Criterion Channel, leaving on 5/31) - 5/5 stars
For a director like John Ford, this is probably his most progressive leaning and Socialist leaning movie. Even then, compared to the book and what John Steinbeck wrote about the plights of the working poor, the grueling cruelty of capitalism, and poverty, The Grapes of Wrath as a movie doesn't quite bear its fangs as much as it should.
The fault for that is several things: the Hays Code and the fear of producer Darryl Zanuck of agitating the audience for the pro-socialism message of the book.
Even then, this is one of the most beautifully photographed and shot movies I've ever seen. The cinematography in this alone is ahead of its time by decades. Some of the shots recall the beauty of Italian neorealism in addition to that film style's focus on the common people and the way of life for them.
The movie has one of the most beautiful and naturalistic openings I've ever seen - Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) simply walking to a store along an opening road. He takes a ride with someone, after appealing to their sense of humanity. "Just because you have a sticker doesn't mean you have to listen." The shot of Joad being dropped off stuck with me. "It was for homicide!"
Joad gets to his parents' house (with a wonderful shot of the mailbox) and finds the house empty. He runs into Muley Graves (John Quanlan) who is on the run (with again a tremendous shot using a lantern as a light source). Tom eventually finds his family after hiding out from the law.
As we learn more about the Joads and others like them, they are at the mercy of land deedholders; capitalism rewards the deedholders, who by virtually having more money can remove families from lands that have been theirs for decades. Quanlan had a great line in flashback recounting what happened: "There ain't nobody gonna push me of my land! My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago, my pa was born here, we were all born on it. And some of of us was killed on it! ...and some of us died on it. That's what make it our'n, bein' born on it,...and workin' on it,...and and dying' on it! And not no piece of paper with the writin' on it!"
The Joads go to California with a promise of work based on a flyer. The movie resembles a road trip, like what later movies like National Lampoon's Vacation and Little Miss Sunshine would do. The Joads meet a person who tells them to turn back around since he just came back from there himself. There's a sense that the Joads cannot do anything but keep going.
Throughout the movie, various family members and friends leave the Joads. Jim Casy (John Carradine), who is the socialistic heart of the movie, gets wised to what is really going on and the working conditions for everyone. He wants to organize a strike and he doesn't live after the law finds him and others. As Tom Joad said, "That Casy. He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear." In some ways, the movie is almost making the statement that socialism doesn't pay (but yet doesn't speak out against capitalism either). Tom Joad doesn't understand what those in power say about those for socialism: "Listen, what is these reds? Every time ya turn around, somebody's callin' somebody else a red! What IS these reds, anyway?" This also happened earlier in the movie when the guy talked about what he lost and saw in California too and gets accused of having socialistic tendencies too.
Towards the end, Tom Joad has a revelation about the way the world (and the United States) works. He sees himself as almost a revolutionary figure, even if he doesn't fully understand the length and breadth of it. "Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad." Like his entrance into the movie, Joad's exit has him walking albeit further in the distance.
The ending to the movie is vastly different than the book. Ma Joad (Jane Darwell) and the family ride off with their fates unknown. Yet Ma Joad is insistent that they will survive. "Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people." It seems to be almost a cop-out of an ending; throughout the movie, there was no guarantee of survival for the characters. In all likelihood based on the ending, the family would dwindle down until there was no one left. But got to love Hollywood censorship and producer meddling into a work to avoid any sort of controversy.
Despite the diluted story and characters, The Grapes of Wrath is still an incredible movie just from a purely technical standpoint and holds up well today.
Lilo & Stitch (2025) (saw in the theaters) - 3/5 stars
Lilo & Stitch (2025) doesn't do anything new story-wise compared to the animated 2002 version, but is decent for the most part. The introductory scenes with Lilo (Maia Kealoha) had a bit of The Florida Project mischievousness as well as bad relations with other kids. The movie quickly drops this sub-thread with the introduction of Stitch (Chris Sanders) as Stitch (or Experiment 626) crashes to Earth.
The movie stresses throughout the theme of family togetherness; sometimes it works with Lilo and Stitch but other things not as well with Lilo and her older exasperated sister Nina (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong). Agudong is a bit underwhelming at times and the movie doesn't quite hit the emotional highs it needs to otherwise.
I did like the slightly The Birdcage-esque relationship between Dr. Jumba Jookiba (Zach Galifianakis) and Agent Pleakley (Billy Magnussen) as they try to follow Stitch on Earth and capture him. Also, following Stitch is Cobra Bubbles (Courtney B. Vance) and the movie actually referenced Men In Black with the line "I'm the first, last, and only line of defense." I also dug the reference to Thor: Ragnarok as Jookiba kept falling through the holes while human before reverting back to his alien version. (They go for a different less funny joke payoff instead; I found myself silently saying "I've been falling for 30 minutes" in my seat).
Dean Fleischer Camp did the incredible Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, so a lot of the technical aspects of the movie were great although a bit safe. Compared to the earlier movie, it wasn't as overwhelmingly moving like Marcel was with dealing with emotions that children have to go through sometime. Lilo & Stitch did talk about Nina and Lilo's parents' death and it informed the narrative.
Even then, Lilo & Stitch isn't a bad live action remake.
Donnie Darko (Criterion Channel, leaving on 5/31) - 2/5 stars
This is the first time I watched Donnie Darko all the way through. I had somehow saw the ending while channel surfing premium cable one time and thought, "huh, I wondered what happened."
Having seen it - it's not hard to figure out the movie plot or character wise. It's just so much of the plot is so inconsequential. None of the plot threads introduced early on actually play a role in the story of the movie at all.
This movie feels like it would be what maladjusted teenagers in the early 2000s considered 'deep,' just like watching Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction or American Beauty or The Boondock Saints. I haven't seen Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction so it's probably not fair to lump those movies with this. But everything involved with this movie feels 'in the moment' of 2001 rather than any bit of 1980s nostalgia.
The movie starts and feels very John Hughes like so it lead me to believe that the characters involved would be high school students just trying to make it through high school in 1988. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is found lying down on the highway. How he got there? Who knows, the movie doesn't seem interested in presenting anything that would fill in the blanks or even a character examination for that moment. So is it trying to be like David Lynch? Yes, and maybe too hard.
A lot of the story threads at the movie progresses just aren't that interesting. Why is Frank the Rabbit (James Duval) appearing only to Donnie? The movie lead me to believe that Frank the Rabbit was an ID to Donnie and acts in ways he doesn't wish to (the broken water pipe, burning down Jim Cummings' house, etc). I also thought it would be similar to what Jonathan Glazer did in Sexy Beast and Frank be a personification of the Devil (where Don Logan is buried under a pool and meets him for the first time). Instead, nope, Frank the Rabbit is really a teenager without the mask, he's not a Future Version of Donnie coming back to tell Donnie to do things (a la what happened in the video game Infamous). We later see Frank hit Donnie's 'girlfriend' Gretchen (Jena Malone) with a car and kill her. That moment doesn't even seem earned, it just seemed like "then this happened" like the way a teenager describes events.
Donnie and Gretchen's relationship is unrealistic and actually pretty unsettling to be honest. Gretchen seems to be drawn to Donnie despite Donnie telling her at the jump to "GTFO and don't see this dude again." Apparently, Donnie telling her that he is 'hearing things too' like her father is a turn-on (Richard Kelly must have never talked to women). Instead, Gretchen and Donnie stay together and are drawn to each other, despite Donnie being absolutely a creep and probably has a lock of her hair in a jar somewhere. I hope this wasn't the writer Richard Kelly's way to be 'cool' because I got creepy serial killer vibes from Donnie Darko throughout the movie. I'm not sure exactly how this was fine in 2001, but in 2025, it hasn't aged well at all. But hey, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone look pretty holding hands.
There's also the story thread with Karen Pomeroy (Drew Barrymore) being fired for teaching about Graham Greene's short story and that apparently being the cause of the water pipe destruction. Kitty Farmer (Beth Grant) basically did "Moms For Liberty" before that was a thing and wants to ban Graham Greene, yet she coaches a group of girls that wouldn't be out of place in Cuties. Not to mention the movie casually mentioning Jim Cunningham (a wasted Patrick Swayze) having child pornography in his house. Richard Kelly seems to want to make a point about the hypocrisy of right wing figures in America, but he never comes out and says it. It's almost like what Sam Mendes did in American Beauty where it was shock for the sake of it being shocking.
The movie then decides towards the end, "you remember everything you saw in about an hour and some change? We're going to undo it all in about five minutes with everything going backwards and have it go back to the beginning of the story but with Donnie Darko having 'new knowledge.'" Donnie Darko decides to stay in the bed as a plane turbine falls through the roof (from the time later in the movie where Donnie's mom and his younger sister were in a plane crash yet the turbine was thrown backwards in time). It's not just nonsensical, it's just bad writing.
After ripping apart Donnie Darko, I can say the positives are Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko has a bit of charisma (although one of the voices he uses at the psychiatrist's office sounds like Chris from Family Guy). Jake and Maggie as his sister Elizabeth have palpable relationship due to the two being related. The music needledrop choices were actually great - I liked the opening with Donnie riding a bicycle to "The Killing Moon," and the montage to "Head Over Heels." Of course, everyone talks about the cover of "Mad World" at the end and it was nice.
But holy crap is the rest of the movie just not that good. It seems to be an exercise in style rather than narratively anything substantial. it tries to meld John Hughes and David Lynch along with other directors and the resulting movie is dull, uninteresting, and shallow. There's no 'deeper meaning' to Donnie Darko that I can tell. (It's also possible my taste in movies is terrible and this movie is actually great, but I'm not seeing the same thing).
Seriously, watch the Tarantino films. Not sure how they’ll hit 30 years later to someone who’s never seen them as the years have been filled with derivative crap and ripoffs, but try not to think about Boondock Saints, Things to do in Denver, 3 Daysvin the Valley, etc.
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On 5/19/2025 at 10:19 PM, Contentious C said:
I bought Ghost of Tsushima as the first PS5 game I really wanted after finally getting the system. But 3 partial playthroughs later, I'd only made it some of the way through Toyotama because the combat felt repetitive. But, I thought I understood the hype for the game even if I wasn't enthusiastic about finishing it.
And, until this playthrough, I hadn't done the Yarikawa quest lines in the second act.
But then I unlocked Ghost Stance.
*Now* I understand the hype.
On 5/20/2025 at 9:51 AM, Casey said:Ghost of Tsushima is so fantastic. I really wish my 100% story save wasn't lost somewhere along the way from the transfer of PS4 to PS5 version, but it's a treat going back to it whenever I *do* go back to it. I'll have to sometime before the next game comes out, because that's likely a Day 1 purchase for me.
I got a new desk and monitor to go along with my laptop, so originally I had put my PS5 beside my monitor but it was getting extremely hot within just like a half hour of using it, so I switched it out with my Xbox which I've rarely touched since 2021. I'm thinking I might need to get a PS5 Pro sometime soon, probably when the PS6 launches since there's almost no danger of any exclusive game launching that's not going to be on PS5 as well lmao.
I tried it and couldn't get into it. I should try it again. The fighting controls felt too complex and I'm sick to death of skill trees.
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Outrunners, Top Flight, Gates of Agony, Sammy and Dustin…we’re one Rusty Brooks jobber match away from Stoke playing Miss Elizabeth and cutting a promo asking why Hurt Syndicate doesn’t wrestle anyone with credibility.
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48 minutes ago, worldcupfever said:
WE'RE ONE DAY GUYS
It was a Freudian slip. They are booked on the main show for one day and then back down to the B show.
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11 hours ago, Peck said:
Did I see a random spider crawl across the top of my television while Mox had Swerve in the resthold or did I just take some REALLY good shit tonight??
It's the tease for Thekla, who's coming in. They've been doing it for maybe three weeks now.
Slowing the hot MJF/Hurt Syndicate angle in favor of a match against a team nobody cares about, promoted by a rambling, stumbling, fumbling Dustin promo, is certainly a choice. Kudos to Dustin for getting himself together and 17 years sober, that's incredible, but his wrestling character is corny as fuck. Surprised he didn't just start quoting "this is my fight song, take back my life song! I got a lot of fight left in meeeee!"
The Bowens situation reminds me of post-Shield babyface Roman, where the over group broke up and the babyface they were hell-bent on pushing got to keep all the over group's iconography in desperate hope that their overness would transfer to him. Bowens gets to keep the scissoring and Billy Gunn but god damn, it's not helping. Also, his entrance gear wins the Ax and Smash award for worst unintentional S&M getup. I lol every time I see the bottoms of his titties and little nips sticking out.
Fun show aside from that dumb shit. Sorry to come off negative...it's been a week.
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13 hours ago, odessasteps said:
I asked Beau about it and he said they ran that deal every year in Foley Beach, Alabama. And it was in the Gulf not a lake. Which might explain why my searching was coming up empty.
You probably couldn't find it because you searched "Gulf of Mexico."
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In a misguided attempt to fit in, MJF shows up dressed like Akeem and is summarily thrashed by the Hurt Syndicate.
Internet wrestling fans who think every group of black wrestlers is just Nation of Domination 2.0 don’t understand what Bob was so mad about.
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10 hours ago, The Natural said:
My Aunty has passed away from Dementia, the fourth of my family to do so. I get a text to find Jodie, my mental health nurse has left her post and won't be coming back. I'm not close on my Dad's side of the family but had time for my Aunty and her husband for seeing my Mum in hospital. I didn't expect the news about Jodie, she's really helped me and I was relying on her to get me through June, my biggest trigger month as it's the anniversary of my Mum's passing. This year has sucked.
Sorry to hear that, Paul. I lost my own grandmother to dementia as well. It really sucks. Best of luck finding new mental health help, and hang in there. Feel free to PM if you’re having difficulty next month, buddy.
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People don't even leave their houses to spend time in their communities, either. Every community is now a "bedroom community." I just got back from running for an hour and a half, mostly through residential areas, late afternoon, and I could count the number of people out and about on one hand.
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On the “loneliness epidemic” thing…I don’t know, man. I think the male loneliness/incel (“male loneliness” taken to its extreme) thing and the apparent rise of mental illness and/or conspiracy culture, both of which are mentioned in this thread, are just things that always existed but were given greater voice and power by the rise of the internet. Like, we always had sad guys angry because they couldn’t get a girlfriend and we always knew that kooky dude who wrote nutty letters to your local paper. But now they have a megaphone and a way to gather, organize, and discuss their gripes, persecution complexes, and general anger at a system they perceive to be against them. So this stuff just spreads because the hardcores infect the more normal but maybe slightly affected people in these circles. And that’s not even taking into consideration the fuel that bad actors throw on the fire just to drive us all apart. So yeah, I blame the Internet. This is kind of a half-baked idea that I’ve been kicking around, so I apologize if it’s a little out there or not fully realized.
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Be careful out there riding, walking, and running, friends. I run a lot and I can definitely say drivers are distracted and oblivious.
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6 hours ago, J.H. said:
Russell Madness - Imagine Air Bud but replace basketball with pro-wrepro-wrestling, add a talking monkey voiced by Will Sasso, John Ratzenberger and way too much melodrama for what is obviously a "family film" and... you get Russell Madness.
You cannot tell me that they had to change the name of this movie from Russell Mania for fear of being sued by WWE. All this and you know the stupidest thing about this movie is that it hot made in 2015!
James
Reminds me of the PWG show Kurt RussellMania, which the had to change the follow year due to similar threats.
May 2025 Wrestling Talk
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Yes, he's much better at just yelling shit, extemporaneously, over people to the detriment of everyone else in the segment. No planning or memorization required, there.