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What can you even say? He's probably just a notch below Stan Lee as far as creators who changed pop culture forever. Rest in power, George.

They should have had the handicap match as a lead-in to a singles Mania match. The crowd popped huge for Steamboat getting his shit in almost perfectly after the sad old man stuff from the Superfly and Piper.

My first guess was that they moved the events of the other movies back so there's considerably less time between Iron Man and The Avengers, but that still messes up the time frame for everything that followed so I'm not sure where they got 8 years from.

It's a really intriguing match because at that time Flair is moving to garbage wrestling because of his limitations and Sabu is trying to prove he can make it in WWE beyond the stuff normally in his wheelhouse. Ric is pulling from the Funk playbook while Sabu is doing the things you'd expect from him but also having pretty good non-gimmick matches with guys like Angle.

Spoilers for size I knew there was a guy working under a hood as Batman 66 at its peak, but for some reason I always thought he looked a bit more...fit. I wouldn't mess with that Robin though. I'm also curious about the articles with Prince Iaukea and Mildred Burke. Might have to track this down.

I imagine it's like any professional setting where even people that agree with Cass's politics know an agitator when they see one and get that it's bad for overall morale.

This was around the time Bagwell got a clean pinfall victory over Flair in a tag match on Nitro, and it felt like a big deal and the beginning of a huge Buff push that didn't materialize.

NYC worked themselves into a shoot: NEW YORK Penal Law 240.35 (4): Being masked or in any manner disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration, loiters, remains or congregates in a public place with other persons so masked or disguised, or knowingly permits or aids persons so masked or disguised to congregate in a public place; except that such conduct is not unlawful when it occurs in connection with a masquerade party or like entertainment if, when such entertainment is held in a city which has promulgated regulations in connection with such affairs, permission is first obtained from the police or other appropriate authorities. I'm pretty sure this is still on the books, they just relaxed it for wrestling, which wasn't "entertainment" yet.

WWECW was probably my favorite show/promotion for its last couple of years. Even the early run has stuff I enjoyed, like Flair going full Onita in the Big Show match. It was definitely a link in the evolutionary chain of what's become modern NXT.

RDJ looked like he showed up, was given his sides right before they shot, and only gave them one take. It didn't ruin the movie or anything, but he's on autopilot. I liked the more realistic take of Peter, Flash, Liz, and Ned all sort of being in the same social stratosphere with bullying and pecking order angst amongst them. That's much more what high school is like. Keaton is dynamite. He's always been an actor that knows how to show a character thinking, processing information, and adjusting. That car ride...whoa. I thought outside of the Stones/Ramones most of the music was more deep cut 80s stuff so it wasn't too jarring, but needle drops are here to stay I guess.

They'll retcon it out in The Dark Tower:The Renegade Cut.

I just watched the docudrama about the Stanford Prison Experiment last week, and Nelson Ellis was tremendous as the ex-con brought in to give the test legitimacy. His performance delicately balances a disgust with the process of the study and a resentment towards the kids who fold so quickly in a simulation of what he went through for years.

I think I threw this out there when Deadpool came out, but I think the next Bond should be Ed Skrein. Frankly, I've been disappointed with every film since Casino Royale and would be fine with a semi-reboot. Craig's great, but the tone of the movies has been scattershot between Nolanesque earnestness and cramming in as many references to the legacy films as possible.

Rocca died pretty young, so I imagine he was already not doing well there. That hair is something else.

No, selling exhaustion to the point of being unable to keep a chair over his head is genius. That's what I think he was going for and I'm sticking to it.

I thought Foxx was really excellent, but he's definitely been miscast in a lot of stuff over the years. He can be very good, he's just had the misfortune of being put in a lot of situations where his weaknesses are exposed. Though, I never got the impression he was supposed to be dumb at the beginning of Django. The whole film's a deconstruction of how white exceptionalism worked as a cocoon for the perpetuation of the slave system, so he was an intelligent slave playing dumb to appease his captors' intellectual vanity. As far as Baby Driver, whenever Foxx veers off towards caricature he reaches for genuine notes that ground it again. But I think you could say that for everyone in the film. Frankly, Elgort is a dynamo. He creates a whole-cloth character using his entire body. In those tracking shot scenes, he's motherfucking Fred Astaire.

I loved Baby Driver. Just pure joy the entire time. The chemistry between Elgort and Lily James was intense. It had a quality that kind of reminded me (probably intentionally) of Clarence and Alabama in True Romance. Oh, and I was listening to the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack on the way to the theater, so I popped for Paul Williams showing up.

Yeah, for whatever criticisms one can level at Nolan's films, they were positive films about civic responsibility. In fairness to Snyder (on Bats, not Superman) I think he relied on a collective understanding of the character's mythos to tell a story about Batman at his lowest point. The problem is that twenty years of reboots/reimaginings have conditioned audiences to accept new interpretations with a clean slate.

I always thought Duggan without the beard kind of looked like William Forsythe.

Saw the live action Disney Beauty and the Beast last night. I was pretty turned off for the first half. It has a very synthetic quality whenever they attempt to closely approximate the animated film, but it sort of finds its footing with the stuff they added or translated over from the Broadway show. It has the problems that plague a lot of Condon films, but I'm still glad I watched it.

That bums me out. I really love Penn's two films with Nicholson and always wished he directed more, but that looks like a broad parody of the kind of film someone would expect him to make based on his self seriousness. But hey, Jean Reno sighting.

I voted for Sasuke, but when we get to the Heenan/Perfect towel catch gif I'm voting for it everyday.

I went to a HoH show in December. Got a picture with Broken Matt before the show. That was the highlight. I'll give Tommy credit for it mostly showcasing young talent with a few veteran former WWE guys, and there's usually only one gimmick match per show so it's not really an ECW nostalgia deal. The South Philly crowd is full of the most despicable people I've ever been around, so watching it at the Arena wasn't a treat. Plus, the main was a cage match using the Arena's cage that takes twice as long as the match to be put together. The biggest pop of the night may have been for the guy that got the door screwed on after failing to do so for twenty minutes.

Hogan saw where the money was going and had the power to latch onto it. I actually had a similar question because I remembered the Wolfpac being crazy over, but I was a kid and thought maybe I imagined it.

There's never been a point where they took Dolph seriously as a top guy. Remember in like 08-09 when they took forever just to pull the trigger on giving him the intercontinental title? They're wishywashy on him at best and always have been. The best he's ever been booked was probably in that Survivor Series match with the Authority, and him being the lone survivor was both a swerve because it'd normally be Cena and only a setup to debut Sting.