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I think he's just too lovable. Saw a clip a few weeks back where he was at some convention and went "I'm here with Chris Bey!" and Bey went "Oh wow, is Chris Bey here?!" and started looking around and the way Bailey's face just fell like "Oh god, this clip is gonna end up everywhere..." followed by Bey laughing and going "Nah man I'm Chris Bey!" and Bailey looking the most relieved I have ever seen someone before laughing going "I thought I was in trouble...:

Two bad creature features and one kinda awesome crime/noir pic Beast From Haunted Cave: This is one CHEAP movie. Seriously, seriously cheap. A group of crooks hire a guide to take them over a skihill who is unaware that he is part of their getaway, meanwhile they're all pursued by a...spider...kind of...thing... Seriously, the monster in this is so bad that you almost always see glimpses of it because it's just basically a mask and two sticks with webbing on them. Apparently this movie is so cheap that there's another film with most of the same actors seemingly playing the same-ish characters so that they could get two movies for the price of one. It's pretty bad but there is one saving grace: Frank Wolff as the head of the crooks. I'm not sure I've ever seen a character played so believable fed up with everything. I mean, I'm not sure if that's what they were going for, but he spends the majority of the film, scowling, looking annoyed, yelling at people. I'm not sure I've ever seen a character look so constantly annoyed, as if he wished the camera would just turn off. I enjoyed it greatly. The Flying Serpent: This one is rather nonsensical. An archaeologist finds Monte Zuma's treasure and a way to control Aztec bird god Quetzacoatl and uses it to kill anyone who might get in his way. His reasonably oblivious daughter and a mystery investigator attempt to get to the bottom of what's going on. The titular creature actually looks not that bad when it flies, but the attack scenes are laughably bad as it appears to be the same side as a poodle. This is pretty much garbage, really. And if you read up on it, apparently they just borrowed the plot from another movie. So as bad as it is, it's also a ripoff. Big House, U.S.A. : A sickly little boy gets lost in the wilderness while out at summer camp when a seeming-samaritan (Ralph Meeker) helps him, gets him to wait inside a ranger station while he hikes back down to find a phone. It's at this point that you find out he's actually holding him ransom from his rich father. Anyways, the kidnapping goes bad...real bad...and the Iceman, as the media dubs him, ends up in prison while the FBI continues to investigate the boy's whereabouts as well as the location of the ransom money. In prison, he gets mixed up with a gang of bad dudes lead by the always awesome Broderick Crawford and including a young (and ridiculously ripped!) Charles Bronson, who plan to use him to escape from jail. It's part crime flick, part jailhouse flick, and part wilderness adventure. It's pretty dark, the actors are all pretty awesome. I genuinely really enjoyed it even if the last segment gets a little laughable.

I've got to ask: Does someone have it out for Statlander? She has been the most horribly-booked over wrestler on the show in a while. This whole sad Stat who doesn't talk much, gets somehow roped into being Shida's partner after turning down being Harley's partner, CONTINUES to tag with Shida after Shida keeps threatening to turn on her is just kinda dippy. It makes Statlander seem like a dumbass (she keeps tagging with Shida despite her: sneaking up at her with the kendo stick, tagging herself in to win, suplexing her that one time) who can't speak for herself (There's been a promo or two when Mina and Harley confront her and Shida and she stands there looking annoyed but doesn't actually say anything). I think she's popular enough and would work better as a face (More heels to take on: Divine Dominion, Triangle of Terror) but I also think it'd be more fun of they turned her full-on heel and really committed to it. She'd actually be amazing allying herself with Thekla (they could kick Skye Blue out of the group (I think she'd more way more over as a face again to keep it a Triangle) who acts as Thekla's heater, only to turn face again down the line when she tires of Thekla's shit-talk. But this whole thing she's been doing since she dropped the title is not working at all. I say this with all due respect to someone who seems like a fine person, but is Mina Shirakawa the worst dancing wrestler to have a dancing gimmick/into since, what, Fandango?! I was expecting the Juice Robinson loss to lead to the return of Jay White but...no?! Knight-Darby was all kinds of crazy. Line of the night had to be Joe getting after Shibata for trying to correct the cameraman: "Let the man do his job. Besides, he's union, they get weird."

Just saw a clip and they DID use the chant!

I really want the NXT...sigh...universe to pick up the chant they were doing back in the UK matches: "He's big! He's bad! He'll bodyslam your dad!" It's literally the only thing I know about him, haha. Honestly he looks like a lot of fun, he ALMOST made me break my 8 month WWE strike! Almost.

It was Myles Borne! https://wrestletalk.com/news/myles-borne-oba-femi-pizza-toss-wwe-move-hates-taking/ "

I'm trying to remember who it was who was complaining about how painful that move is to take. He said something to the effect of: "Everyone should have to take their own move once so they can see what it feels like, of course there's not really anyone who could do it to Oba" and how when he complained to him Femi was like "Oh it's not THAT bad!"

I had recently been watching some episodes of 'The Soup' that were uploaded to Youtube from around this time period. And the Mel Gibson tapes were so much WORSE than I remember. But the part that got a HUGE laugh out of me was one of those infotainment shows (Hard Copy? Access Hollywood? ET? I can't remember) talking about Gibson selling his home and highlighting all the features like "The famous rose garden" then playing an audio clip of Gibson threatening to put his then-wife in said rose garden, as if that was a selling point for the sale of the place: "You mean this is THE rose garden where he threatened to bury his wife?! What a deal!"

That last match kinda veered into snuff film territory. I honestly couldn't fathom how Darby could believable beat Brody, save for a flash pin. Was not expecting a powerbomb/coffin drop on the concrete. That was nuts. The Will Ospreay "Well they did try to cripple me" but...aligning with the Death Riders is still weird to me. Anthony Bowens with the Ops is off to a good start because he stopped smiling all the time. I think if he tries to look and act meaner, it will improve his presentation 60-80%! Is The Demand beating up Jericho going to lead to a reformation of The Learning Tree. Or is Jericho going to keep getting beat up every week like his form of penance to win back the fans?!

The Big Shot: Humphrey Bogart plays a twice (or was it thrice?)-convicted criminal who finds life on the straight and narrow difficult, until a shady lawyer who has taken up with his ex, offers him a shot to rob an armored car. His ex talks him out of going, the robbery goes sideways and a witness fingers Bogart anyways. He goes to the lawyer to defend him, who reluctantly agrees, until he learns his wife is back with Bogart and double-crosses him. It's classic Bogart: all steely-eyed and cool and tough yet surprisingly vulnerable and ends with a great chase sequence and it made me wonder why this isn't in the regular rotation on TCM. Well, that is until the jailbreak sequence, where Bogart teams up with a fellow inmate who performs (and attempts to escape) in blackface. Yeah. If you're able to tolerate that as byproduct of its time, the movie is totally worthwhile and worth a watch. If just reading it rankles you, probably stay away. Bad Blonde: This is basically 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' just moved to the English boxing scene. A young boxer and his trainers hook up with a fight promoter whose wife immediately sets up manipulating the naive boxer. Eddie Muller of TCM thought it was interesting in that the movie is basically an excuse to showcase young star Tony Wright in the same way films of this era usually showed off female ingenues. Also if you're from the UK or into the Carry On series, Sid James is one of the main actors (I was not so that was mostly meaningless to me!). I thought the whole thing was fairly mediocre myself, and could not understand Frederick Valk's dialogue to save my life! Winterhawk: I will confess, I watched this movie because the write-up, cast list and screenshot of a shirtless Woody Strode on Prime made me think it was basically Woody Strode senselessly playing a Blackfoot chief and kicking ass on white folks which I was very into. But Strode is barely in this, has maybe four lines of dialogue and the shirtless pic they use is actually him getting tortured. Alas! Also, had I known it was directed by Charles B. Pierce of 'Boggy Creek' and 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown' fame...eh I would probably still have watched it but probably expected a little less. Anyways, there's 70/80s character/"Hey isn't that?!" actors all over the place (Denver Pyle, LQ Jones, Dawn Wells, Sacheen Littlefeather) but for all the talking up of his character: Winterhawk doesn't really DO anything. He comes to trade with white folk for a smallpox cure, gets doublecrossed by bandits, kidnaps two young(ish) people and spends the rest of the movie riding away from them as they try to get their kidnapped kin back. Despite all that, I thought "Well at least they got an actual Native American to play Winterhawk!" only to look him up and see that, by all accounts, he seems to be just a white guy. The Capture: This was WEIRD. Lew Ayres plays an oil company worker whose company has their payroll robbed. He decides, egged on by his wife, to track the thief down, finds him, shoots him when the bandit won't raise both hands (because he has a broken arm), turns him over anyways to his bosses who say he confessed, and then the bandit dies and Ayres feels bad. So his wife dumps him when he suggests he won't take the reward, so he decides to make a new life in Mexico, finds the deceased's wife and son, get a job with them and just basically decides to make them his new family. The widow figures out who he is, he's seemingly surprised that she's upset and then they fall in love. But he decides for the sake of his new adopted son, he has to clear the name of his deceased father. And the last stretch seems like a completely different character in the decisions he makes with a completely ambiguous ending. Seriously weird. Baby Ghost: I watched a Mystery Science Theater 3000 behind-the-scenes feature once where one of the guys talked about how people come up to him and say "Wow, you guys watch the WORST movies" and he laughed and said "No these are far from the worst." and how they see so many dreadful movies that are just too bad to even try to make watchable. Well, sometimes I feel like Rifftrax movies forget that fact. This is seriously one of the worst things I have ever seen. Ostensibly a family film, Joe Estevez plays a children's photographer and a family visiting him for photographs wanders away in their seemingly empty office building and the little girl finds a chest with a lock on it and opens the lock by going "I know! Mom's measurements!" It is NEVER explained WHY the child knows her mom's measurements or HOW said measurements are the numbers required to unlock the box. Anyways, this sets Baby Ghost free on the building. As Mike Nelson puts it, Baby Ghost looks like "a smear on the camera lens" and flies around giggling and locking doors. It's basically a movie of seemingly inconceivable ideas: a family movie with a lengthy sequence where Estevez makes a phonecall to his favourite psychic who just happens to live in the building; two robbers robbing a seemingly empty building talking like extras from a Sopranos ripoff; not one, but two, "comic relief" characters who run around bringing mayhem. Like, I cannot fathom what child would ever have this hold their attention span for more than two minutes, but I cant imagine any adult watching it without the Rifftrax commentary. So, who is this made for?!

Zoey Stark, if she can avoid further injury, would be a nice AEW pickup. You could tell some people in WWE were behind her but had no idea how to present her besides "I dunno...throw her out there and hope people start cheering...or booing...whatever" If the injuries haven't slowed her too much, she did some really impressively athletic stuff in the ring back in NXT then left your jaw dropped at times.

I only saw the early segment with Jericho-Demand (So I don't know if he comes back later) but I noticed the interviewer (Can't remember if it was Renee) referred to him only as "Jericho" and his graphic also said "Jericho". So is his new iteration that he loves wrestling and doesn't have a first name?!

I'm curious how many people have gone back to watch Hogan-Andre over the years. I saw it when I was 10/11-ish, thought it was kind of boring (I wasn't a big Hogan guy, except for his theme which is/was amazing) and the idea of watching 23+ minutes of Hogan-Andre now sounds like torture to me (That's the listed time when I look it up on YT). I understand its importance, I enjoy the big powerslam moment but thinking about trying to watch it again makes me think I'd get 30 seconds in before looking up something on my phone. By the way, I saw a bit of the Hogan-Andre Rivals show on A&E the other night and I enjoyed where Hogan said he thought it was so important to sell the emotion of the moment when Andre aligned with Heenan that he wanted to cry a single tear during the segment. So he put Vick's on his finger and as Andre tore off his shirt he puts his finger by his eye to try to coax a tear, but Andre just shakes the shit out of him as he tears off Hogan's shirt that Hogan couldn't get his finger close enough to his eye, worried about poking himself, that he wasn't able to pull it off. He also said that between the blood on his chest and the moment itself, the tear wasn't really needed anyways.

You know who I've kinda come around on...Speedball! I thought he was all right in TNA but thought the martial arts schtick was kinda lame when he got to AEW. But he's kinda won me over on that front, but the thing I notice about him: that guy genuinely LOVES being a pro wrestler. Sometimes coming to the ring, he'll look up at the crowd and just break into a grin. He smiles after grueling matches, he celebrates after wins like he's genuinely won something. He just seems like a guy who is thoroughly enjoying almost every minute of his time. It's infectious.

I think Chono was largely a "vibes" guy. Like he looked so cool with his sunglasses and trenchcoats and cigars and he was fairly big (or maybe he wasn't...but he seemed tall). And the Yakuza Kick looked cool when he did it. So I always have fond feelings of him but can't point to a single match where I think he was awesome. He's like Japanese Diesel: looks impressive, seems like a badass but then the match starts.

My favourite recurring trope in this feud is Kenny Omega saying "The god of pro wrestling, this is not something I called myself..." but in the preceding video package they clearly show Kenny from a few years back going "I am the god of pro wrestling." Also, Kenny's line about how he can't "Tell a story in the ring using just physical action" ventured very deep into "I am a better actor in this fake sport than you, Kenneth!" territory. "You know what I'm gonna do, take you out for a nice seafood dinner!" I definitely thought Thekla was veering into Ron Burgundy territory before the abrupt turn into onstage finger-breaking. Lexi looked pretty scared, too. I thought Don painted those, himself?! *** -United Empire looked cool showing up in suits. Henare also looked someone who had never seen a suit before, never mind looking comfortable in one. I think the Italian guy (I can't remember his name) probably had the biggest break-out of any of them. -Willow-Aminata was pretty good. -Christian/Edge-FTR was pretty stupid. I'm supposed to be sympathetic to the guy who said he had banged both the other guys' moms?! My favourite part was when they were "breaking" Christian's arm and they showed Edge laying on the floor and a ringside fan clearly, loudly said "Get uppppp!" with all the sympathy of an overtired father trying to get his toddler to stop laying on the floor of a Wal-Mart pretending to cry because he won't buy them a new Paw Patrol dinosaur vehicle. -I think Ciampa should win the title because you can write the easiest story around it: play into his thing about obssessing over the title and how he refuses to lose it. Instead of open challenges, he tries to avoid defences as much as possible, making guys win eliminators before he'll put the title up, lots of cheating to win, even walk-outs (countouts) and DQs to get out of losing the title. He keeps it through sheer meanness and cheating when all else fails. Holds it for a couple months and just as he gets up closed to Fletcher's record (You might have to fudge the numbers/defences a bit), Fletcher comes back to take it off him. You could even do a double-turn where Callis sides with Ciampa because he's got more of a killer instinct than the newly-face Fletcher, if you wish.

But what's so funny about him is Rewatching this recently I genuinely thought Eugene Levi should have gotten an Academy Award nomination. I think the biggest problems I had with this one is a) at this point they tried to make room for all the Guest stock actors and there was just too many and none of them had the depth of character of his previous movies and b) the movie they're making within the movie is too terrible and too intentionally bad to ever be believable. *** This week I watched Hot Pursuit: All right, I will concede that I watched this because Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon are two pretty ladies...but I thought maybe it would have some 'Bridesmaids'-esque charm. It did not. I got to the end of the movie and thought "Well, that one scene was kinda funny..." then I tried to remember what the scene was and remembered that there was no such scene. I think I genuinely did not laugh once. There's also something really stupid about Vergara chastisizing Witherspoon with "You don't think the brown girl can read!" and I was wondering what character she was talking about only to realize she was talking about herself, despite and Witherspoon being pretty much the same level of tanned. Also characters repeatedly making jokes about Reese Witherspoon looking like a little boy made me think they had another actress lined up, switched to Witherspoon and just stuck with the "Well if we tell people she's ugly they'll just believe it regardless of whether it's true" script. The Mirror Crack'd: Early 1980s Miss Marple reboot is FULL of stars (Angela Lansbury as Marple, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Kim Novak) aaaaand not very good. Taylor plays a failing movie star whose drinks ends up poisoning a woman at a party and Marple sort of investigates it (Her nephew is the investigator but she stays home and talks about it with him). It's not particularly well-acted, Taylor, in particular, plays some scenes as if she's acting within the scene and playing it up but then it turns out, isn't. I guessed the killer, but not the motive. It's just sorta thoroughly mediocre. Order of Death: I might be crazy, but I LOVED this. Harvey Keitel plays a really bad cop who starts to be followed by a strange young man (John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten) who confesses to being the copkiller they're investigating. And Keitel arrests him and that's it. No, of course not. Keitel, worried that this guy is going to expose all his crooked dealings, takes him prisoner, tortures him, while investigating to figure out who he is, and if he possibly could be the cop killer. Keitel plays his great conflicted drunken bad cop character to a t, while Lydon is actually really entertaining as he's the complete physical antithesis of Keitel's character who bullies and manhandles him, while he psychologically torments Keitel. Some of the reviews I saw were pretty negative but I thought it was completely engrossing. Lake Placid: I also kinda liked this. It's stupid. It's weeeeeeeeeird. But I can't say I wasn't entertained. Bridget Fonda is a paleontologist who gets sent to a small Maine town possibly being menaced by a giant crocodile. All right, I'm going to tell you: it is definitely a giant crocodile. Bill Pullman is a Fish and Wildlife officer, Brendan Gleeson (trying his darndest not to sound Irish but not quite sounding American either) is a sheriff, and Oliver Platt is a billionaire crocodile fan who just shows up and they investigate the possibility of this croc together. The film is so odd because Fonda is completely unlikeable and irritating for the first half or so, neither Pullman nor Gleeson are especially sympathetic and Platt is irritating beyond all get-out and they spend the bulk of the money fighting and making fun of each other, in between crocodile attacks. People get their heads bit off, then they're standing around cracking jokes a minute later. Betty White also turns up as a resident who may know about the croc than she's been letting on. Fonda repeatedly falls out of vehicles to almost get eaten. And the crocodile remarkably looks pretty good. There's some neat jump scares. Roger Ebert panned this one because he said that the tone is all wrong but, to me, that made it kinda memorable. Like they kinda knew they were making a movie about a giant crocodile menacing a small lake and though "Hey, let's not take this too seriously." Plus, I REALLY love Brendan Gleeson and he's endlessly entertaining in this one.

Someone posted on here a while back that they noticed a growing corner of wrestling discussion that seemed to believe the pro wrestling was real ("Stone Cold would've kicked this guy's ass!") which I also noticed, but now even more recently I've noticed a growing trend of "wrestling fan" who understands how wrestling works but also seems to think everything is some sort of shoot. Like after the whole McAfee turn, I saw more than one tweet asserting that "Cody has gone off-script!", "Cody is trashing the angle and standing up for us fans!" etc. And it's...no?! Like if Cody gets the microphone and starts trashing WWE off-script, they turn the microphone off. They don't stay with it and promote it on their socials. Like every single thing is a worked shoot, or just a shoot. "You can tell how much they hate each other!" It's really odd. I genuinely think if this forum goes down, I probably just drift away from wrestling, cuz there's nowhere else worthwhile.

Entertaining show but somehow the only thing that stuck with me was the security guys coming into the ring and, seemingly forgetting they were playing security guards, started throwing worked punches at Edge and Christian and it was so hilariously lame and simultaneously just wrong that it really cracked me up. Even one of the announcers kinda chuckled and pointed out they were attacking them instead of, whatever it is that wrestling security guards do.

-Also, that opening Kenny-MJF was promo was pretty hilarious: "Here's the bombshell you're not telling everyone..." Oh, I wonder if Kenny is retiring, maybe he's told his family this is hast last year! "Your intestine is a ticking time bomb." Oh, okay that's not really a bombshell. "Yeah, well I talked to your doctor..." Oh, is MJF battling through an injury too?! "and you have no dick" [well more or less!] Ah! -I enjoyed the 6-man. Ricochet was lots of fun in that. -I understand the story and the idea, but I don't really buy Will Ospreay as blood feud killer guy. Neither his personality nor his moveset really suit angry killer. -It was weird how guys who had nothing to do with Darby or the Callis Family came out to help Darby against the latter, but NO one came to help Ospreay from nearly getting crippled by the Death Riders. Even guys he teamed with! -Thekla is so much fun. I liked when she walked around the ring going "Huh! Huh! Huh!" like Mankind then yelling "Kiss my toxic ass" like Mankind, thankfully, never ever did. -I miss Tazz

I thought the Learning Tree gimmick with Jericho as a clueless vet taking time away from the kids while "mentoring" young wrestlers had some legs to it, but he/AEW played it up all wrong. Jericho was too knowing in the role ("Gotta get my spots in, right?" [chuckles]) when he would've been much funnier using Gen-Z slang wrong ("I'm gonna rizz Kenny Omega up!" "Uh, boss I don't think that's what you mean to say!"), wearing old-style tights and getting made fun of for it, give him a 20-something girlfriend, have him get blown up in a Iron Man match. Then you could have his students turn on him, bring him back later a surprise face to put his students takeover down. But I don't think he wanted to look out of touch or dorky enough. I guess he could just "play the hits" and get cheered for doing his old Jericho routine but I'm not sure how long AEW fans will put up with it. Then again, some fans were still cheering MJF last night so wrestling fans ARE also very stupid.

Moxley's promo seemed to imply they were done, too. He said something like 'Private Party's not doing so good; we won't be seeing them for a while" and I wondered if maybe this was the time PP "owed" AEW and they were leaving. It was weird.

I watched The Bellboy with Jerry Lewis and can say, with all sincerity, that I unabashedly LOVED it. The story, as TCM explains it, is that the studio wanted a Jerry Lewis comedy for the summer and he didn't want to rush 'Cinderfella', so instead in a matter of weeks, he came up with this film which he wrote (such as it were!), produced, starred in and directed in order to get it out for the summer of 1960. Now I'm not the biggest Lewis fan but something about this plotless silly little flick scratched me right where I itch! Lewis plays a mostly-mute bellhop and gets into assorted shenanigans as a bellhop at an exclusive hotel. The movie is quite literally plotless, there's even a short introduction where they explain it as such. Sometimes a segment is as minute as the bellboy being unable to carry a suitcase, sometimes he's flying an airplane, you generally never know where it's going to go next. And the great thing is all the vignettes are really short, so if you're annoyed with one, you don't have to stick it out very long before he's on to some other such madness. I genuinely, genuinely enjoyed the heck out of it.

Do you mean THIS?!