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I think there's an argument to be made that even though Star Wars still has an enormous audience willing to buy tickets, it's not a traditional four quadrant family franchise anymore.

That sentiment could apply to nearly everyone who's played a villain in a franchise movie in the last decade.

My only recollection of any Leprechaun movie is in the second(?) one where he makes a guy hallucinate that the female lead is topless and inviting him to put his face in her breasts but it's really an industrial fan. So as long as I don't ever have to see the rap one or the space one, Leprechaun is pretty rad. Did Wishmaster ever make it to space? I feel like that should have happened.

The last one from 2011, Revelations, was far and away the worst. It's the first one without Bradley, and it's a found footage movie made for a few hundred grand over the course of like a week. They were on a deadline to have a new one in the can or lose the rights. Really only the first two don't mischaracterize Pinhead. After that he's either portrayed as a Freddy Kruegeresque super villain or a supernatural vigilante. I cant remember clearly, but I feel like the cowboys serviced part of the plot in Inferno. I'm not going to rewatch it to find out though.

This reminds me of the We Hate Movies podcast and they're argument that a bad movie is doubly so if it's longer than A New Hope.

I liked Morley a lot. If they hadn't immediately gone wild with the Venis premise they could have hit the brakes on it a little and made him more of a Rude type of character. Maybe he'd have gotten further with it. Although I suppose he's in that camp of good mechanics that were outclassed by the elite talent coming in from WCW and always had a ceiling.

So much going on here. The Steph Smile. Her Small Wonder dress. Her unsuccessfully giving Xavier the bunny ears while he seems to be doing a Robert DeNiro mugging face. Hunter still wearing leather with twenty seven zippers. That incredible Brain shirt that Kofi's rocking. Big E's the most inconspicuous one and his eyes are bulging out of his skull.

Dimension has been attempting to get a reboot involving Barker off the ground for years, but they have to keep making garbage low-budget sequels to maintain the rights. This new one looks bad, but it at least looks like a Hellraiser movie. I am a minor apologist for some of the early 2000s ones where they just took a horror script laying around and threw Pinhead into them. They were at least fun.

Not if Papa Shango's there too.

I would conservatively watch 7 seasons of a show where Hogan tries to teach Stone how to cycle on and off the gas in exchange for Stone dressing Hogan up for special occasions in steampunk grandpa suits.

That's not even episodic television length. It's like one of those Sopranos where afterwards I'm sitting watching fifteen minutes of programming ads with Bryant Gumbel before goddam Six Feet Under starts.

Aces and Eights was an NWO redux by way of mimicking an FX show after its popularity had peaked. It sucked, but more importantly it became the central focal point of the promotion right after Aries and Roode had made it relevant again. From a booking perspective it's one of the biggest examples of TNA not being able to get out of their own way.

If Paige keeps it together after her retirement, she could be a good counselor or teacher at the PC in one of the non-wrestling courses they were supposed to be drumming up to help the wrestlers learn to manage the lifestyle. Her experience and advice on being very young and on the road in that environment could be very valuable.

That segment didn't age well for me, but that match is fantastic, and the video package with In Time might be my favorite one they've ever put together.

I didn't know this was a thing. I'm only vaguely aware of Conrad from a few episodes of Flair's pod that I've listened to.

Come on Chester, they communicated so much just by pointing at a sign and their dicks. It would normally take the average performer several semesters of Movements courses in a community arts program to pull that off.

Bring up as many of the guys that jobbed to build the streak as they can at once and have them all read the same short intro speech in unison.

I'm trying to read the room here: disregarding any kind of criminal charges or career ramifications (which I doubt are even in question), what this woman did was warn other women so that they didn't put themselves in a similar situation with him. Perhaps she felt more of a responsibility to do that than presume Aziz learned a lesson from their encounter and let it go. Is that okay?

This is a good reminder that everyone looks like Batman in the goddam suit and they should just recast the part with Will Arnett.

There was a three or four year period where their singles were ubiquitous in movies and television shows, and it's one of the singular memorable things for me about that portion of the 90s. She had an absolutely lovely voice. It's not a remarkable movie in most regards, but the scene in Click where Dolores appears in the far future performing Linger but remains ageless was unique and a little haunting.

But if you're alone with someone pestering you for money and you ultimately give it to them because your safety is not guaranteed?

It's interesting that it was such a fun year for movies, but it was also the beginning of the end for traditional cinema.

They used much older tapes of Roode for awhile after he was gone and the commentary just danced around that he was already in NXT.

Looking at the level of talent and marquee names on this card, it's astounding that the only one who repeatedly told Russo to fuck off instead of collecting a check was Hogan. Of course, he may have been the only one who could afford to at the time.

Condolences, guys. My Grandmother (and only remaining Grandparent) went into the hospital last Friday for a heart valve replacement and suffered a stroke during the procedure. She's fortunately regained the ability to speak rather quickly, but she's been physically weakened a great deal. She was a spry, independent, and relatively healthy 85 until now, but she sounds and looks about twenty years older essentially overnight. I'm hoping she's able to rehab and this isn't the beginning of a rapid physical decline.