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Considering the bookies inexplicably had 10/1 odds of Bryan entering and winning, I'm going to guess anything short of that is going to get shit on.

Considering McFarlane's Spawn movie is going to be a Blumhouse-budget horror movie, it's apples and oranges to compare it with other recent comic book adaptations.

I believe this is what they call a win-win.

I remember when Spawn came out I misheard the name of the actor playing him and my first thought was, "Wow, Urkel got jacked."

I couldn't begin to count the number of people over the years we've seen in behind the scenes clips or press material be 100% more charismatic than they appear on television and someone says, "If only ______ was allowed to be like that on the actual shows." Enzo made the most of his spot and got it over, but it only seemed novel because of the way most of the roster is presented now. Disregarding that he's not good in the ring and is apparently a wretched person, I'm still not convinced that this was a lightning in a bottle scenario.

Hahahaha holy shit. Drew's stock just rose for me.

I guess a part of it is that Enzo was one of the most over wrestlers to come out of NXT/performance center that wasn't a name somewhere else first. He was an affirmation that the new feeder system was working. But he wasn't special. They have a team of writers and dozens of wrestlers. Just give any one of them some shit to say in repetition to the crowd and they'll get it over. It's like they don't remember in their beloved Attitude Era when everyone got their shit in on the mics before matches and even if they're matches were shit they were way over.

They're a huge improvement over the ones from the 90s. The Bret Hart one was always the most terrifying mask in the Halloween store. He looked like a transient murderer from an Unsolved Mysteries reenactment.

The big deviation I can remember is Silence of the Lambs being realeased in mid February of 91 and sweeping the 92 Oscars over a year later.

For some reason I thought there had been a Leslie Vernon sequel years ago and I'd missed it, but I guess it's just in development hell. Everyone involved in Behind the Mask should be working a lot more.

This investigation is certainly complicated by everyone involved being insufferable to listen to.

They really wasted the opportunity to tell an interesting story by just having Taker come back in a wig and cryptically saying he may or may not be done. It should have been Cena demanding that he finally get his Taker match at Mania, only for Mark to come out in street clothes to say he's done. Cena won't let it go and eggs him on for a few weeks before Taker loses his patience and comes back. I know it's just nerdy fantasy booking, but at least I took thirty seconds to think about it, which seems to be more than they did. I'm in the camp that Taker should have just walked away after WM 30, but if they're going to keep this shit up I'd like some of the storytelling from the streak series to come back.

I did enjoy Hunter's promo at the end of the night because I'm cognitively reframing it to be a tribute to all of his Raw talking segments over the years that went twice as long as necessary.

When the globes nominations came out, my wife didn't know what The Shape of Water was and when I described it she screamed, "What are you saying to me?!" I don't know if she ever watched a trailer, so she might still think I'm pulling her leg. She adores Pan's Labyrinth, so I'll probably be able to get her to check it out.

There's a listing on Waititi's IMDb for a show called Wellington Paranormal and another for a future WWDITS television movie. I think the Wellington show might be a New Zealand original program and the TV movie is the FX pilot. I thought they were making a spinoff film about the werewolves, but maybe that evolved into the tv shows. I'm stoked for Peele and Kaluuya. The supporting cast did some excellent work as well, but those categories are incredibly stacked this year so I'm not surprised they didn't make it in.

I haven't seen most of the nominees, but the majority of them look very intriguing and I look forward to seeing them. It was a low key strong year for movies.

At least the material allows for a lot of possible different directions to take it in than the first Clue. That reminds me I haven't played the Golden Girls Clue board game I got for Christmas. I can't wait to say, "It was Sophia who ate the last slice of cheesecake on the lenai."

I'm just going to go out on a limb and guess that the replies to WWE's tweet are going to be truly awful and disgusting.

It probably has less to do with Steph and more to do with celebrating the anniversary without reminding everyone it's for a show that's had multiple instances of people being thrown into kiddie pools full of sewage.

It's hard to believe Braun's been up there twice and hasn't gone outside and deadlifted the bull statue to terrorize tourists.

I like that, but I don't think they care about celebrities that did business with WCW, and if they did it would probably be Leno.

That was his first paycheck movie after Die Hard, but he couldn't help but elevate the movie by adlibbing the shit out of the character. I think every memorable quote from that movie can be personally attributed to him. Also, this made me take a look at the original trailer, and they were for sure very self conscious about Costner's non-accent because no one says a word in the entire thing.

I have a feeling that teaser is the entire movie. Just Pacino pensively looking around, never actually taking a position on his guilt or innocence. People can draw their own conclusions from the actual story. Making a movie about it without a point of view is gutless and exploitive.

Everyone but Alexa looks like they're co-starring in a straight-to-VOD sequel to American Hustle.

That reminds me of when Jared Leto and Salma Hayek played the Lonely Hearts Killers.