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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.

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.