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He was more interesting before he was Bond, in the late 90s. When he was making Our Friends in the North and Love is the Devil. But when you look at his career, there's really no reason he should have succeeded as Bond. His only real blockbuster prior to it was Tomb Raider, and he made next to no impression during that. Layer Cake was a bigger hit than it was supposed to be, but it wasn't big big, was it?

At Fast and Furious, they showed the Justice League trailer before the Wonder Woman one. Immediately before it, I mean. It feels really clunky when the Wonder Woman theme kicks in at the end. Like, it's a good theme, but it really doesn't fit in with anything else in the trailer at all. The whole thing is "Hey look everyone, we're in 1914! It's all old fashioned and retro!" and then suddenly extreme Johnny Marr shows up with his reverb pedal.

See how the WWE put a strap on Randy Orton when he was 24, so Brock wouldn't be the youngest WWF/WWE champ in history? Who was the youngest one prior to Brock? Was it Undertaker in '91?

So, the second show back on British telly, and it still doesn't make sense. Who are all these Champions? It's good to have every every Wrestler on the roster involved in a meaningful storyline, but that doesn't mean you should make every wrestler on the roster holding some title belt or other? And seriously lads, get Grado booked.

Cool kids never have the time.

Monday Night Wars. You don't fire someone you've been pushing (in any way) because the opposition will hire them immediately and use them as a weapon against you. Unless it's X-Pac. Both sides thought he was expendable.

@The Natural Kazuchida Okada, Samoa Joe's sidekick:

See Grind by Alice in Chains? Did they ever explain why the vocal mix in the video version is so different from the album version? Is it just because Layne was so strung out he couldn't lipsync an entire line of vocals, just the odd word or two? Also, why don't MMA fighters use it as entrance music? Number one, it's called 'Grind' which is something they like to embrace. Number two, it has a lyric about your body breaking as I take you down. Which is exactly what grinders want to do.

What would a Smashing Pumpkins cover of Fuck Tha Police sound like?

Other people who became big deals on the main roster having done not much in NXT: Big E and Xavier Woods. You know how in ECW in '94, Tommy Dreamer was trying to get over as a babyface by getting beaten up a lot? He was in the feud with Sandman where he was doing the whole "Thank you sir may I have another" and the fans just wanted to see Sandman cane his prettyboy ass some more? Even after the blinding angle where he was on the fan's side, they cheered Sandman for turning on him. That's Roman Reigns for the last two and a half years, that is.

Is there something about the WWE performance centre that makes them turn out people who are cool or impressive in NXT, but totally unimpressive on the main roster? Because a lot of people who came up with buzz have seen it dissipate. And the best performance centre to main roster workers now (like Roman, and...was Braun actually in NXT at all?) are the ones who weren't much of a thing in their NXT days.

Saw it yesterday. The five post-credits scenes is correct. Some of which are just jokes, some are presumably building for Guardians 3. Nothing about Infinity War though. It's good, yeah. I can't be bothered to post spoilery thoughts yet though.

How to y'know sorta y'know talk for y'know sorta as long as y'know possible without y'know sorta actually y'know saying anything sorta at all, you know what I mean?

I can't believe they got through a whole Russo segment without anyone turning on anyone else. As soon as they started helping him, it was so obvious the Harris Twins were going to boot Roddy's head in before the segment ended, and then they just... didn't.

It also exposes the misconception at the heart of the 'Bret refused to drop the title on his way out' concept. He wasn't supposed to be on his way out for another month.

Vince screwed Bret out of the title on November 9th, so Bret couldn't appear on Nitro on November 10th.But Bret's WWF contract meant he couldn't appear on WCW TV until the second week of December anyway. After Montreal, with Bret's WWF deal obviously over, he still didn't show up on Nitro until December 15th. EDIT to add: Bret's WWF contract stated he had 'creative control ' over his character. So he absolutely had the right to to refuse to lose one match... especially considering all the matches Michaels had refused to lose (the Euro to Bulldog being the obvious example).

You have been badly misinformed.

So, this was the first Impact on British telly since last year. The last time I watched TNA, The Hardys were tag champs, Eddie Edwards was World Champ, Moose had just won the Grand Championship, DJ Zee was X Champion and was also part of the Team X gold flag wavers, with Braxton Sutter and Mandrews (who turned heel on them) and Rosemary had just taken the Knockouts belt off Jade. So now I watch this, and the new LAX (who?) are defending the Tag titles against some jobbers, and we're told Lashley is going to defend the World title against James Storm (who isn't in DCC any more apparently). I mean, if ever there was a time to do a 'Previously, on Impact Wrestling' this would be it, yeah? At least they've finally realised Josh Matthews is an annoying shit. Having Borash double up as Commentator and Ring Announcer is a little clunky though.

So to anyone who's already seen GotG2 (I'm going on Saturday), how many post-credits scenes are there?

Colossal starring Anne Hathaway. AKA Pacific Riff.

It's snowed in April the last two years (in England). Prince died last April. Prince's most death-related song is called "Sometimes it Snows in April".Coincidence? Or something more....?

He hasn't even specified which Vince he means. If in doubt, blame Russo.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

So for some reason, I'd never gotten around to watching The Talented Mr Ripley before now. And it's one of those things where, in the context of now, and what Matt Damon and Jude Law have done since, it doesn't work the way it probably originally did. Because Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, he's a badass tough guy, he's resourceful and ruthless. And Jude Law, he's the guy who didn't manage to become a proper A-List movie star and the tabloids hate him because he cheated on his girlfriends. But here Damon's playing the Beta male to Law's alpha, who's all geekily in awe of his charisma and self-possession. And it looks a little off now. I mean, it's still a decent movie, and the performances are good in it, although the plot twists and deceptions seem a little too convenient at times. Also, the story suffers greatly from no likeable character syndrome. When you're telling the story of a bunch of idle rich overindulged dickheads, and a manipulative sociopath who will stop at nothing to join their lifestyle, you aren't really rooting for any of them. At one point, Dickie Greenleaf even tells Ripley off for being too much of a leech and not paying his own way, even though Greenleaf himself is living off his father's money and is refusing to do any actual work or make an actual money himself. So it is one of those plague on all your houses deals. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's good in it. His character is horrible,but he plays him well.