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AxB

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  1. It's a one-upmanship thing. If someone went through fifty light tubes, someone else has to go through fifty-one. And then the first guy has to go through fifty-two, only they have to be on fire. And someone else has to do it while on fire, and wrapped in barbed wire... And it all eventuates as something that, viewed in isolation, looks nonsensical, idiotic, pointless, and people watch it and wonder "How does any of this stuff have anything to do with Wrestling? How did cage matches and chairshots evolve into... that?".
  2. I think I'm the only person on the PS side who actually went and got the Platinum, last September. Don't know if anyone on the XBox side bothered with it.
  3. You know if you want a gold in a mission, you can do that one mission over and over again, meeting one objective each time? You don't have to get one perfect run. Some of those would be next to impossible, like chasing Lazlow at a constant close distance without unhooking the trailer and that.
  4. Usher does facially look a bit more like Leonard than Boseman does, but at the same time Boseman seems tough in a way that Usher doesn't. Having said that, from Duran's point of view, Leonard would be a dancing pretty boy who doesn't stand a chance in a real fight, so casting someone who you don't buy as a tough guy fits pretty well. Hopefully Hands of Stone makes a shitload of money, so we get sequels called Motor City Cobra and Marvellous Marvin.
  5. Well, you can murder people by sabotaging their plane. Kind of overkill, but that's a villainous trait, so it fits anyway.
  6. No, he wanted them back, but ATM Eric wanted them more.
  7. The best thing about Super Sam Bionic Man* as England manager, is the Premier League season is 38 games, plus there's the cup competitions. Whereas England only play 12 times a year. So if you hate the style he makes his teams play, rejoice! You'll be seeing a lot less of it. * Yes, Bolton fans actually called him that, in his playing days. When he looked like this: Harry Styles with a moustache.
  8. UFC 201 isn't for a bit, but they've already put Lawler vs McDonald 2 on their youtube as a UFC 201 Free Fight. How in the hell did Rory split Robbie's lip like that? It was gruesome as hell. And was far from the worst facial injury in the match.
  9. How's this for an idea: The World title* lives on whatever show the person holding it works, BUT he has to defend it on every PPV, so if the champ's on WWE Red, he defends on WWE Blue PPVs (against blue opponents) every sixty-or-so days. So the onus is on the GM of the brand without the title to pick the best possible challenger to send at him, so they can try to steal the belt and have the champ on their show instead of the other one. Whilst the GM of the show that has the champ can send a bunch of lame ducks to give him easy defences and keep him fresh (or alternatively a series of unstoppable super legends to strengthen their hold on the belt by having a stronger champion holding it). Makes it more of a team game, then. * And possibly other titles as well. Women's and Tag Team, IC and US can stay brand exclusive.
  10. There's this info screen at work, that occasionally shows news headlines, in between the adverts and traffic reports. I caught a bit of a headline this afternoon that just said New England Manager something something something. And I thought bloody hell, whatever Belichick's done now, it must be really serious if the British press is paying attention to it. And then I realised they meant the New Manager of England, not the Manager of New England.
  11. The IOC has called for all Olympic Sports to avoid holding any events in Russia. Football is an Olympic sport. Pull yer fingers out, FIFA.
  12. Had a look at the imdb page for that xXX, because I didn't really recognise anyone in the trailer (except Vin and Samuel L), and it said Mike Bisping is in this movie. So I figured, I didn't know he did acting, let's see what else he's done. And it lists him as being in the new Twin Peaks, 2017. Lucky bastard.
  13. This is a thing now: https://www.youtube.com/user/therock
  14. Well, Jones was trying to block Estrogen, whereas Brock was taking something that's used when cycling off Steroids to make your body start making it's own testosterone again. Which kind of implies he took a shitload of roids at some point, but timed it so they'd be out of his system by the time he'd be eligible for testing.
  15. I did that spoiler mission on PS3, so you should be able to get it on 360 as well, if you 100% it. Have you seen the final parachute jump one as well? That nearly glitched for me, I had to jump to online & back to trigger it... for a while I was missing a Strangers & Freaks because Franklin (me) forgot to phone the repo girl back very early on, and the repo mission doesn't trigger until you call her.
  16. Oh, that would be cool - if you join a mission and its stealth style,so everyone picks infiltrators with cloaks, and then you do another one (or the same one again) a day later and it's Assault so you all pick Tank characters. That would be an improvement over the 'ten waves and extract' one way combat (that's still really good) in ME3.
  17. So, it says that you can go and do multiplayer missions as part of your own single-player campaign, or as part of other people's campaign's (obviously). But does this mean, if the host is sending a crew of 4 (or maybe more?) Krogans, and you join, you get to/ have to play as a Krogan, even if you haven't unlocked any Krogan classes in your own campaign?
  18. For some reason. I watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It doesn't really work.The concept is a novel idea, but not enough to sustain a whole movie. It would have worked as a series of skits on a comedy show, but not something long-form like this. And the style of the action scenes doesn't fit at all with the period it's set in or anything, all this kung fu movie wirefighting stuff - it's acceptable in kung fu movies, it works in things like the Matrix, but this film wants to eat it's cake and still have it. I'm guessing that the plot contrivances are to fit in with actual life events that happened to the real Lincoln, but I know next to nothing of his life (I don't think many schools outside America do much American history, and I've never wanted to read the history of some far-away nation when there's so much interesting English history that's actually relevant to me), so that's a wasted effort in my particular case. There's a few decent bits, some of the action sequences are really good in and of themselves, and it's actually got a great cast*. But if they'd just made a 19th century Vampire Hunter movie without shoehorning in the Lincoln stuff, that might make it feel less pointless. * Although it's weird. Abraham Lincoln ages (wears old make-up) throughout the film, whilst Dominic Cooper doesn't because he's immortal. But Anthony Mackie doesn't seem to age at all, even though he's supposed to be the exact same age as Lincoln, and isn't immortal. Unless it's some sort of Black Never Fades** thing. ** Apparently Americans say Black Never Cracks, instead of Black Never Fades. Never knew that.
  19. He's not a guy who's known for being totally honest about things, is he? He's kind of a Hogan on matters of truth. Either he's a massive liar, or he lives in a fantastical dreamworld where reality is whatever you think it should be, at that moment.
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