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5 hours ago, Eivion said:
This is purely on HHH. He sucks at adapting. Its clear he wanted to continue the Liv/Vaquer feud post Mania and Vaquer's injury put a stop to that. We saw similar bs when Jade was supposed to defend against Mia before Mia got hurt.
I do also wonder if Liv maybe got hurt a bit in the run-up to Mania when she had that huge knot on her head. She maybe worked through it for the Mania match (Which was VERY short) and they're letting her kind of rest up on the fly. She's still on TB, still "involved" but not wrestling and sort-of healing?
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2 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
I thought Shawn had some really good matches during his comeback (including the first ever EC match with the doo doo brown trunks and the terrible haircut...MSG went beserk when he won). Also, his comeback run was technically longer than his run from the superkick to Marty on the Barbershop segment to WrestleMania 14. He was around for a good while. IMO because it's a much different era of wrestling with much better workers, I thought that allowed him to do more. Like when he went against Shelton Benjamin for example, that's probably one of the few matches where Shawn wasn't the "athlete" in the match. I am also partial the SummerSlam 2002 match with Hunter.
Re: The Taker/Shawn HiaC
They clearly had a template for that trilogy (Ground Zero, Badd Blood, and Royal Rumble 98). Taker absolutely squashes Shawn for 95% of the match to the point where it looks like something from WWF Superstars back in the day except 20 minutes longer. Like if there was a cell match like the one in 1997 where one guy bleeds like a stuck pig and gets beat from here to there, you would swear Paul and WWE are trying to bury the guy. The finishes as well would lead you to believe that too. The Ground Zero one was a schmoz and the other two matches were fluke wins. He never beats Taker clean. They weren't really matches including the cell match. They were just devices to (1) get DX Shawn over as a chickenshit heel and (2) establish the Kane gimmick. The cell match specifically, if it wasn't the first HiaC, Shawn didn't almost cut his face in his half blading during the slingshot, and didn't fall through the commentary table along with the absolutely horrific chairshot Shawn takes at the end, would you remember the match and not just Kane's debut?
Those matches were more slasher movie than actual wrestling matches.
In that vein, the Ground Zero "match" is actually my favourite Michaels-Undertaker encounter. The actual match is barely 15 minutes and has no finish. But when you watch the whole 30+ minute spectacle, it's great. Michaels is just starting to lean into the DX thing so 95% of the crowd just DETESTS him (The only cheers he gets...appear to be women...especially when his tights come down!). Undertaker comes out like Michael Myers and just destroys him all over the place, throws him into the house, the flower bed then an insane gorilla press onto the steel ramp. Every once in a while Michaels gets a little momentum, then Taker just kills him dead (My favourite being when Michaels keeps punching him, then Undertaker lifts him up, puts him down, and just clothelines him down hard). Rude comes out and gives him brass knux, Taker comes back. A billion referee get beat up. Triple H nearly gets killed when Undertaker gets him up for a tombstone that i think Michaels was supposed to break up and doesn't so an exhausted Undertaker kinda crumples to his knees and barely keeps from dropping HHH on his head. The ref throws the match out. There's more fighting, the lockeroom empties (Something you didnt see very often back then) and the Undertaker dives over the ropes and wipes everyone out. It's tremendous theater: basically 'Halloween' but Michael Myers is the good guy beating the life out of the arrogant frat guy and his friend.
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4 hours ago, elizium said:
Didn't watch the show but did check out Speedball's outfit. I don't know what people were expecting but that is exactly the kind of outfit I'd expect Speedball Mike Bailey to wear when he needs to be serious
I feel like he probably got married in that outfit. (I Googled to see if he was married and he is! To Veda Scott! I mean...well done Speedball!)
5 hours ago, Technico Support said:Taz getting increasingly heated at Davis crossing his arms, thus “stealing his gimmick,” was hilarious. Add that to “wearing orange” and “possessing a towel” to the list of things Taz owns the rights to.
It was amazing. He started off grumbling about it and gradually lead to him yelling at him from the table.
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I don't think I enjoyed anything over the three hours as much as Taz's sudden trashing of Atlantic City
Taz (on this being Ace Austin's biggest win): Yeah, no, Ace Austin, very talented guy. Gonna have his hands full with Andrade. But Ace is talented. [slight pause] Maybe he should move out of that dump he lives in called Atlantic City. I hate that place! It's right near here by the way...
[complete silence]
Taz: Well sorry I stumped you guys.
Excalibur: Sorry Taz I was trying to do my job.
Taz: Oh, stop.
You don't hear Tony once over this rant, so you know he's probably got his mic muted and laughing his ass off as it just came out of nowhere.
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Tribute to a Bad Man: Weird little western with Jimmy Cagney (1 of 3 or 4 that he was in!). Cagney plays a rancher named Jeremy Rodock who takes in a kid looking for work after the kid helps him fend off some cattle rustlers. It's odd because Cagney is sort-of a fatherly figure who supports all his employees and has a romantic-ish relationship with Jocasta (Irene Papas) and, oh, he also really likes hanging bad guys. No, seriously. One of his ranchhands even tells the kid "He has hanging fever" because whenever someone robs/steals or wrongs him, he wants to hang them. And he does that. And it's treated kind of like a character flaw, rather than something rather...homicidal. Anyways the kid and Jocasta eventually become upset with his all-consuming vengeance and begin to contemplate leaving. Then the last stretch is real weird:
SpoilerThe kid decides to leave but before he can, realizes a group of bandits (including the kid from the next farm over whose dad was hanged by Rodock for helping bandits) have stolen his mares and foals so he goes back to him. They track the bandits down and after Rodock sees that they have cut all the mare's feet to keep them from moving, he is so upset by their inhumane treatment of the horses that he decides to march them a great distance to the next police outpost. But instead of this being a good thing (Rodock not hanging them, letting the law handle things for a change and making them suffer the way they made the horses suffer), the movie treats it as the most horrible thing he's done (Seriously the tone for this is harsher than when he hung that farmer!). Eventually he feels bad, and transports the kid back to his farm and offers them some of his horses, I guess as repayment for killing his dad. Jocasta and the kid ride away and Rodock is sad, but then he rides out to give Jocasta her earrings and she realizes she'd rather stay with him after all in a happy (?) ending.
Grizzly: (Rifftrax version) This is your typical 1970s vicious creature kills people movie. The Rifftrax guys are very adamant that is an almost lawsuit-worthy rip-off of 'Jaws'. I'm not really familiar enough with Jaws to back that up (I HAVE seen it but it didn't really have an impact on me...I should probably give it another shot at some point!) but it's a rather violent version of the 70s deadly animal trope. Limbs go flying, people get savaged, it even mutilates a kid. Then gets blown up with a rocket launcher. I'm sorry if that's a spoiler, but I don't feel like the movie is adequate enough to warrent a spoiler alert.
Second Chance: Linda Darnell is a mobster's girlfriend on the run in Mexico from said mobster's gunman Cappy (Played with crazy-eyed menace by the incomparable Jack Palance) who meets and falls in love with a disgraced American boxer played by Robert Mitchum. You would think these three in a Noir-ish love triangle would be a lot of fun but it's pretty mediocre. Also, it's WEIRD. Like the little subplot of some city celebration where a woman dances with a man who isn't her husband and brings shame to her family until her husband shows up and knocks both of them around. Then, overnight, he strangles her to death and, somehow, is treated as a sympathetic character over the last thirty minutes where they all end up in a distressed cable car standoff. Apparently, looking it up, and it was originally in 3-D which actually probably would have made the cable car stuff more tense and interesting and also probably explains why this film largely looks like something you'd find badly transferred onto a DVD back in the early 2000s. Still Palance is great fun.
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Hidden Fear: Strange little noir filmed in Denmark. John Payne is an American who travels to Denmark after his sister is arrested for killing her boyfriend. He's quickly involved in a counterfeiting ring. There's an interminably long car chase that is quite obviously not-that-fast but sped up on film to try to make it exciting. About the only things that set this movie apart is the Copenhagen setting the villain's wife who is battling depression and their way of depicting this is to put her in very white makeup and dark eye makeup so she just looks like a put-upon Cure fan.
The Tehran Incident: Just an insanely bad little Rifftrax movie with Peter Graves as an action hero, trying to stop a rich baron's plot to cause chaos. About the most interesting thing about it is that it was filmed pre-Iranian Revolution, so everything is just 70s-ish but they edit in a line about the Ayatollah being overthrown to cover for why everything is so normal.
A Woman's Secret: I love Nicholas Ray and I love Gloria Grahame but this was just kind of middling. A singer, Susan, gets shot, and her friend Marian, confesses, but her friend and an investigator seek to get to the bottom of it. Most of the story is told in flashback: the friend was a promising singer, initially, but an illness derails her career and she puts her effort into backing Susan's career. There's a lot of fighting and jealousy. And, ultimately, the mystery of what happened and why isn't really that interesting. Grahame was good, though.
Snowbeast: Look, I've seen a lot of terrible movies in my time, it's become somewhat of a hobby of mind, but I'm not sure I've seen one as incompetent at this one! A giant snowbeast terrorizes a skihill during the town's 50 winter carnival. A former gold-medal-winning skier shows up with his wife and is given a job by his friend (who also used to date his wife) of being am ambassador/celebrity/employee and together they investigate the possibility that a string of deaths/sightings might be connected to some sort of feral snowbeast. You know in movies where there's scenes of panic and they never really seem all that panicky (Characters clearly coached which way to run, running at half-speed etc. etc.)?! Well 'Snowbeast' doesn't! There's a scene where the titular monster shows up a carnival celebration and is the townspeople flee in terror you can clearly see them knocking each other down and stampeding over each other, and in another scene an extra races past Sylvia Sidney and appears to knock her down...hard. It's a TV movie so all the attacks are rather tame with a lot of the violence being implied. And it's got a handful of notable 70s staples: Sidney, Bo Svensson, Clint Walker and Yvette Mimieux. But, back to the incompetence: there's a scene where ski rangers mourn the passing of their fellow rangers with a rifle saute! Not sure that's a great idea on a skihill! And the last stretch of the movie is incredible:
SpoilerThe three main characters and the sheriff travel up the hill in a trailer to hunt down the beast. They decide to keep watch in pairs, then immediately seem to abandon that idea. At one point, the sheriff is inside the trailer while the others stand outside chatting. The beast attacks by sending logs rolling down the hill into the trailer, knocking it over. The three "heroes" flee in terror (No idea where they put their rifles!), leaving the sheriff trapped in the trailer. I thought "Oh he must be dead already", then he moves and they just LEAVE HIM THERE. They hole up in a farmhouse before deciding to go back to see if the rifles are still there, finding blood splattered everywhere and traces of blood where the beast apparently killed and dragged the sheriff away and no one really seems to care. The skier stabs the beast with a ski pole, they celebrate this and the sheriff is never mentioned again. I have never seen that before. I legit have never seen a movie where a group of heroes run off and leave one of their group to me MURDERED by the antagonist. You could say he was trapped but when they later get back Mimieux has no trouble getting into the trailer. They just left him to DIE. I was laughing hysterically.
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39 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
I think he'd be a great arrogant full-of-himself heel. Cobra Kai!
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...:
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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.
SpoilerSeriously, how can that many police officers MISS Broderick Crawford?! He's not exactly a small target!
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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."
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2 hours ago, caley said:
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.
Just saw a clip and they DID use the chant!
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1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
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.
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1 hour ago, Eivion said:
Its not so much that there was no one who could do it to Oba in NXT. They just interacted so little. Like DarkState & OTM could all do that to Oba with ease save Shugars.
Thinking about this now I'm wondering if this is why Tony D stopped using the Ron Simmons spinebuster this year since I know its supposed to be a similar level of hell to take.
It was Myles Borne!
https://wrestletalk.com/news/myles-borne-oba-femi-pizza-toss-wwe-move-hates-taking/"
QuoteOba’s pizza toss. I’ll take pretty much anything, there’s nothing on the table that I’m not… I might be a little (grimaces), but we’re gonna do it. Once the cameras are live, I’m game.
“But when he picked me up for that pizza toss, I’ve got no choice, I’m in the air, there’s nothing I can do. And he just lets you go. That bump right there, it’ll knock the breath out of you.
“I took it once and I remember I hit and I just immediately lost my breath, and I just rolled out. It was a live show, I don’t even know where we were, we were on a tour, and I just rolled out and I said, ‘I’m done, that’s it.’
Quote“It’s funny, I always tell the guys who do big moves like that, once I took them, I’d be like, ‘That sucks,’ and they would always be like, ‘Ah, it’s not that bad, you’re fine.’ And I would just say, ‘Well have you ever taken it?’ Of course, who’s gonna throw Oba? No-one’s throwing Oba.
“But I had a rule in my head, I think the rule should be, if you have a move, you have to take it one time.”
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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!"
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57 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Isn't that the norm? Mel Gibson's latest wife he is no longer with was 25 or 26 when they got together and he was 60 at the time.
I am guessing she got too old for him.
Also, the Mel Gibson tapes were 16 years ago and like three wives/girlfriends ago. Goddamn.
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!"
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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?!
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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?!
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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.
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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?!
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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.
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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.
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23 minutes ago, SirSmUgly said:
I don’t really get Chono as a worker either. Of the New Japan guys who I got into when they came into the NWA/WCW as a kid, basically I remember absolutely loving Liger and then thinking Hase and Fujinami were cool. Chono never did anything for me.
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.
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9 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
I thought it was funny that Kenny clearly could not remember the PPV's name. (It's on the screen behind you omg)
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.
8 hours ago, Zimbra said:They should drop the spooky stuff with Thekla and stick to her just being crazy and saying weird shit all the time. She's going to break Hayter's fingers on stage at a strip club?
Aminata/Willow was great, I could have watched them go for an hour.
"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.
5 hours ago, SovietShooter said:The girl at ringside smitten with Andrade this week was Mel Coleman, the artist who does all of Don Callis' fun custom paintings.
https://bsky.app/profile/melcolemanart.bsky.social/post/3mizu3o7nic2b
I thought Don painted those, himself?!
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-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.
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On 4/2/2026 at 7:37 PM, Andrew POE! said:
Mitch & Mickey's story is actually pretty emotionally sincere. Mitch (Eugene Levy) sounds like Christopher Walken when he talks, but his behavior and actions are a bit closer to Ozzy Osbourne too. (His solo albums seem like something that Ozzy would do but with folk music). Mitch seems like one of those people who came out of the 1960s really unable to adjust to the changes around him. Mickey (Catherine O'Hara) moved on and married Leonard (Jim Piddock). The reunion brings Mitch back into Mickey's life and Mitch seems lost - he can't identify the hotel he's staying currently and the night of the concert can't be found as he finds a rose in NYC.
But what's so funny about him is
SpoilerMickey talks about how he put too much into the kiss and how she worries about it rekindling feelings...but Mickey is back playing music (albeit in the saddest way possible), and it's actually Mitch who has moved on, is writing poetry again, and worried that Mickey put too much stock in the stage kiss.
Rewatching this recently I genuinely thought Eugene Levi should have gotten an Academy Award nomination.
On 4/2/2026 at 7:37 PM, Andrew POE! said:So For Your Consideration can be considered a different type of movie from Christopher Guest, not terrible but just slightly above average.
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.
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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.
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AEW NEWS - JUNE 2026
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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Up here in Canada we have a channel called Showcase that used to show ALL manner of arthouse and foreign films (Now it just seems to show FBI, Star Wars movies, Transformers movies etc.). There was all kinds of craziness on there like 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 'Whore', all the Almodovar movies, 'Pretty Baby' (replete with nude 11-year-old Brooke Shields!) all compeletely unucut. And they would periodically show 'Bad Lieutenant'. And I remember watching once in the mid to late 90s and Bad Lieutenant was on and the random, inoffensive Canadian actor (? I presume) who would introduce the movies with a TCM-esque intro went "Here at Showcase we pride ourselves on bringing you these movies uncensored with all scenes in their complete form. But we can't do that for Bad Lieutenant, or we would lose our license!"
Then like two years later it was on and completely uncut and I finally discovered what scene he was talking about!