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Nice! I never thought I'd actually win this thing one time, I even nailed the the breaker. Completely seconded. I don't even post that much on the board anymore, but this is still one of my favorite things. Thanks, S.K.o.S.!

I certainly didn't expect to still be in the lead at this point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnt1EdUZ1E8 Well, I'm sold on the new Ninja Turtles movie! This is going to be great.

The reviews for Oppenheimer are coming in now, it's at 97% with 63 reviews at the moment. I have Barbie at #2 on my RT list and left Oppenheimer completely off the list, because Tenet made me cautious. Seems like I bet on the wrong horse.

Oh wow, Mission: Impossible could actually take the top spot from Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse on the RT list. It's at 97% with 74 reviews so far already. I have it very high on my list, but not quite that high.

This'll be the week I'll gain lots of points. I have Indiana Jones at #1 on my BO list and #3 on my RT list. I still hope it's going to be a success at the box office despite the middling reviews. I certainly already bought my IMAX tickets.

Is Strays really premiering tomorrow? I'm seeing August 18th on some websites.

For anyone who banked on Pixar making a big comeback to form with Elemental, it already has 14 reviews on RT and it's only at 64% so far.

This sucks so much. RIP DEAN. This is a place with a lot of well-connected people, does anyone have connections to Brett Lauderdale? Would be great and well-deserved, if we could get DEAN inducted into the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame.

I probably would have "grown out" out of being a wrestling fan at some point, if I didn't discover DEAN and DVDVR... so I have DEAN to blame for a lot. But anyways, he's the best and I hope he gets well soon!

Well, someone has to make the start. This is my favorite DVDVR tradition and I will always be back for it. Rotten Tomatoes: 1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Jun 2) 2. Barbie (Jul 21) 3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Jun 30) 4. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Jul 14) 5. Asteroid City (Jun 23) 6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Aug 4) 7. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (May 5) 8. Blue Beetle (Aug 18) 9. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Jun 30) 10. The Flash (Jun 16) 11. Gran Turismo (Aug 11) 12. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Jun 9) 13. Haunted Mansion (Jul 28) 14. The Meg 2: The Trench (Aug 4) 15. Fast X (May 19) Box Office: 1. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Jun 30) 2. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (May 5) 3. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Jul 14) 4. Fast X (May 19) 5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Jun 2) 6. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Jun 9) 7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Aug 4) 8. Blue Beetle (Aug 18) 9. Gran Turismo (Aug 11) 10. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Jun 30) 11. The Meg 2: The Trench (Aug 4) 12. Insidious: The Red Door (Jul 7) 13. Strays (Jun 9) 14. Asteroid City (Jun 23) 15. Haunted Mansion (Jul 28) Tie Breaker: Guardians of the Galaxy 3 ($325 Million)

Well, they also have VOD, it's just being released at a much later time, six months after the show happened. That would be strange, if they were allowed to show his matches on the DVD/BluRay release, but not on the VOD. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Ridiculous, especially if they informed the promotions of this only after they already booked him. As good as he is, I hope PWG gets a replacement for him for BOLA. What's the point of having him there, when you can't show the matches?

Meanwhile they have announced absolutely nothing for the GCW show that's happening the same day, except for this show graphic. It seems clear that JCW will be the A-Show that day, but I wonder, if they'll put on an intentionally shitty show for IWTV.

It's not looking good:

Alex Zayne! Awesome!

I mean Timothy Thatcher and Biff Busick are both freelancers now, so...

Rumor has it lately that WWE only cut out the Anthony Ogogo match from Ch. 127, but it was PROGRESS' own decision to cut out the Gresham matches from Ch. 128 and 129 to give people an incentive to buy PROGRESS' own streaming service. Of course since then Gresham competed for and won the PROGRESS World Championship at Ch. 130 and of course he also competed in and won the entire wXw 16 Carat Gold 2022 tournament. None of those shows aired on the WWE network yet, but obviously it would be utterly insane to release any of those shows without the Gresham matches.

Joey Janela vs. Barry Horowitz

They were able to get Ninja Mack as a last minute replacement for Biff. Holy Shit!

Yeah, that's a real bummer. Even with Busick the line-up was already pretty weak this year. I'm crossing my fingers that Jonathan Gresham vs. Fuminori Abe will happen at some point during the tournament. That would make up for a lot. ?

He really is:

The second MDRN NMD TNG show from last weekend. I would highly recommend watching Chris Ridgeway vs. Kid Lykos and Dean Allmark vs. Martin Kirby, but you can also just watch the whole show. Yesterday Hard Hit aired their entire show from December on YouTube, which had a 40-minute main event between Minoru Suzuki and Hikaru Sato. I thought I could watch it later, but they apparently deleted the whole thing after the initial airing. Damn. ?

I would actually prefer a middle way between live iPPV and waiting half a year. The impatience of my fellow wrestling fans annoys me a lot more than the slow-as-hell schedule of PWG. Everything has to be live live live for most people nowadays. I've never watched anything life in my entire life, outside of the shows I've attended myself. I'm old enough to remember a time, when you had to wait months for some tape trader to have the show you wanted and then you waited months more for the VHS to arrive at your house. Obviously we don't want to go back to that, but the quality of the majority of the live Indy shows sucks ass. Of all the GCW shows at least half of them have terrible audio and or video issues. Everything would be so much better, if people were just willing to wait a day or two (or even a week) for the VOD to be released. That's my rant for today.