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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:
Finished watching The Drop this morning. Tom Hardy plays Bob, a bartender at the place of his cousin Marv, played in his last role by James Gandolfini. Bob is seemingly a simple kinda character, the guy who never gets the joke and acts kinda slow. Marv is a ten time loser at gambling so his bar is owned by Chechens now and is used as a floating money drop in Brooklyn. It gets robbed by some doofuses under Marv's direction and you can guess where things go from there. In the meantime, Bob finds a dog in a trash can, takes it home and the lady whos trash it was in forms a friendship with him.
Pretty good movie that's really dependent on its acting, and Tom is such a good fucking actor who can do so much with so little. The big reveal for his character and the dialogue before, during, and after it feels like a moment where you could drop a dime in a crowded room and hear it hit the floor. It may be kinda obvious, but the way they pull it off is *chef's kiss*. Noomi Rapace as the tough but vulnerable love interest and Matthias Schoenaerts as her psycho ex are also great. But the final leg on this table is Gandolfini who like in the prior year's Killing Them Softly feels like a man who's ran out of time, bitter at his choices and the results, done with caring and ready for -- if you'll pardon the pun -- the other shoe to drop. It makes you wonder about his passing not long after.
I'm up and down on Dennis Lehane stuff (love Gone Baby Gone, meh on Mystic River) but this was one where the book (or was it a short story? I forget...) actually added some much needed context for the peripheral characters like how the ex=boyfriend had been so badly abused that you could at least comprehend -while not condoning= what an awful person he was. Hardy was amazing though
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On 2/17/2024 at 1:53 PM, Mike Campbell said:
A guy I'm friendly with made the proclamation that "Hereditary" is the scariest film made in the last ten years. So, since it was streaming on Max, I fired it up on Thursday night after the rest of the family had gone to bed. It's not a half bad film, and I've always been high on Toni Colette, but at no point did I think it was scary. It had a few scenes that definitely grab your attention, but that's pretty much it.
This is really a 'Hate It or Love It' movie, I think. I watched it and kind of loved it and was unnerved by it and thought it was a particularly effective scary movie (Maybe not 'greatest director of our times' good but...). My friend and his wife saw it and HATED it, didn't find it entertaining, scary, upsetting or anything. My mom (HUGE fan of Halloween movies (not the franchise, I mean, more like Halloween-season movies: Christine, Addams Family, The Shining, Silver Bullet etc.) but not necessarily gory/horror films was completely non-plussed by it.
On 2/18/2024 at 4:33 AM, Mike Campbell said:I fired up Mission Impossible III last night, since I've had the Blu Ray box set for close to four years and have only ever seen the first two. And holy shit, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to do it. Easily my favorite of the first three films so far. Philip Seymour Hoffman is the best antagonist of the first three films by a freaking kilometer. And I'm seriously sad that his character wound up dying, because of how great he'd have been as a Blofeld sort of recurring villain for future movies. And the scene where Hunt is making his escape through the elevator shaft and takes over the radio frequency and plays a loop of "We Are Family" over the Walkie Talkie had me laughing my ass off.
My sister was a HUGE Felicity fan at the time this came out and went to see it with her now-husband and the scene where they
[spoiler]set off a bomb in Keri Russell's head[/spoiler]
came and went and she whispered to him "Do you think she's ok?" and he went "Considering her eyes are pointing in two completely different directions...I don't think so." ad THAT is the onlly thing I can remember about the movie.
I watched
[b]Borderline[/b]: I thought this was going to be a semi-gritty smuggler Film Noir with Claire Trevor and Fred MacMurray, but it was more like a drug-smuggling 'It Happened One Night'. This was rather innocuous and somewhat dull but it does feature the single WORST musical number I've ever seen with Trevor trying to seduce Raymond Burr which should be funny but the dancing women are completely out of rythym and sound like squawking chickens. So it's worth a watch for that alone!
[b]Black Widow[/b]: This one the other hand was a great little murder mystery. Van Heflin is Broadway writer who strikes up a friendship with a young female writer and offers her support (All the while keeping his wife in the loop about it) and even letting her write at his place during the day. Of course, she ends up dying and, of course, he ends up being the suspect and gradually all his friends (Reginald Gardiner and a scenery-destroying Ginger Rogers) and his wife ( Gene Tierney) start to suspect him as he runs around NYC trying to stay ahead of the police (George Raft) and clear his name. I was genuinely surprised at the murderer's identity (But maybe I'm just easily misled) and thought it was fun little flick that I haven't seen discussed much.
[b]Abraxas[/b]: The Jesse Ventura as a space cop one with (thankfully) Rifftrax commentary. This movie was SO full of made-up sci-fi terms and legends and the like, that 60% of the movie was like reading installation instructions in another language. On the IMDB trivia page it says that the lead role was offered to Arnold Schwarzenegger before he opted to do 'Terminator 2' instead as if that was any sort of choice. Like if someone came up to you and offered you dog poop on a stick and instead you went out and bought ice cream I guess it's technically a choice. but not really.
[b]The Super Mario Bros Movie[/b]: This was okay, as a "Hey there's one of those things" nostalgia movies but as an actual story it didn't really have any weight to it. All the crises last about 2 minutes (He's going to have to fight DK, done. They crashed off the track, done. She's gonna have to marry Bowser, done.) even the big final showdown was like "Eh" (He doubts he can beat Bowser, he hears one of his commercials, he gets inspired to beat Bowser). I'm not sure I've ever seen a big blockbuster movie that was so...light?
[b]Smiley Face[/b]: I'm not sure I've hated another movie as much as this one in a while. Anna Faris is a pothead who ingestsa lot of marijuana, then seeks out to make money to replaceit, then just meanders from one thing to another. I'm not a pot-smoker, but not against stoner comedies/movies- heck- my favourite movie is The Big Lebowski!- but this was basically pointless. The big climax was stupid, the denouement was pointless. Anna Faris was reasonably funny in the lead, and you can tell someone saw John Krasinski as Jim playing Dwight and said "Do that but for a whole movie" and that's fine, but if you don't see this, you're really not missing anything. Actually, hate is really not the right word because there's really not enough to hate. It's just kind of fluff. Pointless fluff. Pointless, unfunny meandering fluff. Maybe hated is right.
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7 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
I remember Cornette saying for some reason he ended up driving with Mo, and Mo said very little the entire time they were in car.
I mean he's fat, Jim. Just bring up Wendy's or any related fast food and there is your common ground right here. I mean you can kill three hours talking about who has the best fries alone.
I just have to mention here how much I an enjoying you going thru the 95 WWF stuff because it's mostly what I grew up with and I want to rewatch but your reviews scratch that itch and make me, you know, not have to rewatch it!
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19 hours ago, BloodyChamp said:
Legit scary midcard WCW stables were always a thing
So I had no idea who Blackblood was and checked the YT comments and learned, but also learned that there are a handful of VERY passionate Kenny Kendall fans (and that's not including a number of comments that seem to be deleted praising him!)
15 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:To be fair, I would add the caveat of Men on a Mission started out over when they came in and then progressively got not as over. Then their "solution" was just phase out the sole purpose of why they are over in the first place. It doesn't help Oscar can only do G rated raps while Max Caster can talk about literally anything unless it's too controversial. They can't change it up and more importantly, WWF never took the steps to change it up other than to fire Oscar.
Bret Hart Oscar/MOM stories from his book. So very Bret ("New rap sound")
"One of [Owen's] latesst victims was Oscar, the fat rapper manager of a new black tag team called Men On a Mission,or M.O.M. Three hunderd pound Mo was cool and mellow with a dyed-white buzz cut and carried the team. Mabel was a 450-pound mass with a white mohawks, who didn't do much but stand there in hideous, baggy purple silk pants. But their gimmick capitalized on the new rap sound,and when Oscar came out shouting on the live mic,"Get your hands up in the air!" he really pumped up the crowd. Owen egged on the 1-2-3 Kid until he tried to seize the heavy, out-of-shape Oscar in close quarters. Kid expected to manhandl Oscar and jumped right on his back but Oscar panicked, charged back and forth into the walls and knocking Kid silly!"
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"After the show that night, I asked one of the locals where there was a good rock 'n' roll bar and he suggested a place called Lizard Lounge. I told Oscar, the manager from Men On a Mission, to meet me there, but when I showed up with Kid, my faithful sidekick of late, it turned out ot be a heavy metal hangout with neo-Nazi skinheads guarding the door.
Then Oscar strolled through the front doors, oblivious to the slack jaws and scowls of the doormen. When he said "Wassup Bret?" I told him to stay real close. Only then did he check out the place and realize he might as well have come to a Klan rally. But Oscar was a man, and he wasn't going anywhere. So we had a few beers and Oscar confided that he was afraid that something was going to off between him and Shawn, Razor, and Diesel, who'd made it clear that they didn't like M.O.M. I told Oscar it it got serious to tell me and I'd keep an eye on things. Then Oscar shuffled out, nodding politely to the skinheads at the door, who nodded back dumb-founded, no doubt wondering whether he had brass balls or no brains!"
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I only caught a couple minutes of Jericho-Takeshita and laughed really hard when Jericho got dropped on the top rope, layed there with his head down, practically dead, then reached down and pulled up his pants.
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1 hour ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
Damage CTRL was seen talking shit about Bailey in Japanese and she saw/heard it. During her promo she revealed that she actually speaks Japanese and knows what they have been saying. Dave said he thought that was a storyline from Seinfeld, leading to the 15 years ago thing. I don't remember if that was on Seinfeld or not because I am only a casual fan of it.
Thanks!
1 hour ago, odessasteps said:It was the women in the Korean nail salon.
I guess it would be poor form to follow it up with an angle where someone "stops short", especially in light of recent news
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I didn't watch Smackdown last week, can someone explain this Damage CTRL-Seinfeld connection he's talking about?!
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5 hours ago, JLowe said:
I never expected John Cena to be a talented comic actor but he’s incredibly funny.
I think it was director James Gunn who said Cena was the best ad-libber he had ever worked with; that in Suicide Squad when Idris Elba refers to Cena being in his "tightie-whities" and Cena responded "That's racist!" it was completely unscripted and broke them all up.
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I was coming in here to see if anyone had posted the Drew tweet and -even better- I got it twice!
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5 hours ago, MKERyan said:
Either way, dude rules, hopefully they don’t just stick him with that dork Abrahantes like they do every other masked lucha guy.
It could be worse, it could be mid-90s WWF where every luchadore they bring in has a theme song that you know would fit well on a "Soft Acoustic Guitar for an Empty Room" playlist playing in the background at Michael's.
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2 hours ago, AxB said:
Sabu was in WCW for a while. They had the actually good idea of having him wrestle Jerry Lynn, who designed a masked gimmick for his run. But he didn't have a name for it right away. He was making suggestions like The Phantasm or whatever, but then Dusty said "Fuck it, we'll call him Mr JL".
Oh, I was referring to the 2000-signing (that was actually on WCW's website IIRC) before Heyman quashed it by saying he was under contract to WCW that effectively ended his impending WCW tenure before it started, as well as his ECW tenure (I remember Lance Storm and Justin Credible beating up someone backstage and Storm saying something like "That's one more foreigner out of this company" which was seen as a thinly-veiled, slightly obscure (I mean, he was billed as being from Bombay...Michigan) and final reference to Sabu!).
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44 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
I know who you mean but that's just funny. Vampire with a concussion, he couldn't find my neck
If he had a mullet and you didn't like it then why not have him CUT THE MULLET. It's asking to make too much sense of course. Didn't Mike have a crew cut once? That looked good on him. Make him an Ivan Drago type with a mouthpiece, keeps him from talking.
i think he did, finally cut it during the Team Canada phase.
It was just so WCW: "We can sign away their world champion and change everything about him!" I still wonder what have happened if their signing of Sabu had gone through at about this time, as well: a mute guy who specializedin the type of violent matches WCW couldn't show...he might well have ended up a wrestling mime under Russo.
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2 hours ago, Gorman said:
From King of Atlanta, Page 210 (WCW Sin PPV)
5. Canadian Penalty Box match: The Filthy Animals (Rey Misterio Jr., Billy Kidman & Konnan with Tygress) vs. Team Canada (Lance Storm, Elix Skipper & Mike Awesome with Major Gunns)
I didn't remember Mike Awesome joining Team Canada. Was he really Canadian? (Checks Google) No? Maybe Awesome just needed a new gimmick every three months like a car needs gas.
Vince Russo is the answer.
WCW brought Awesome in and, suddenly, the guy who looked like such a monster in ECW, didn't look so big next to guys like Nash or even Hogan. Couple that with his dreadful promos, instead of pushing him as a monster, they pivoted and made him 'That 70s Guy' because he had a mullet. I mean, the easier thing to do would be to pair him with smaller wrestlers and give him a mouthpiece but that wasn't Russo's style. Then he became the "Fat Chick Thriller" so that Russo could script segments with obese women. Seeing as all that stuff basically buried Awesome as a comedy-level guy, they needed to rehab him and Lance Storm's Team Canada group (That had almost NO Canadian wrestlers, outside of PCO who was only around for a show or due to some sort of visa reasons) was pretty hot, so they added Awesome to the group in a hilariously ill-designed turn where Awesome turned around to reveal the Canadian flag on his tights but instead just looked like he was pointing at his asshole.
He largely went back to being Mike Awesome once he was back in Storm's group but I honestly can't recall a single good match in his time in WCW. His ECW style wasn't really transferable to WCW (IIRC one of the few times he did that brutal Awesome Bomb over the ropes through a table, Vampire ended up with a concussion) and, really, the only matches through the Russo/Bischoff era that are memorable are weird anomalies like the Funk-Candido brawl that ended up with Funk getting kicked by a horse or the Goldberg-Steiner match which is overbooked to hell but largely memorable because both guys seemingly repeatedly forget that it's not a real fight and beat the life out of each other.
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I remember when Ellering came back in the late 90s and started calling himself "Mr. Dot Com" and it was such a silly, stupid nickname that it became a running joke with me and my siblings. I still have a piece a TV stand where one of them used a labelmaker to make "Mr Dot Com" and stuck it to the stand.
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7 minutes ago, Octopus said:
Oh God. Toni Storm gave Tony Khan a ridiculous hat and sunglasses. He kept it on. Then got a question about harassment allegations and proceeded to answer the question very seriously while looking like a total goof. Lol
osted same time as @Greggulator. Toni was wearing it. No reason other than being silly.
and yes, cocaineNot going to lie. As an unabashed fan of rich guys obliviously doing stupid things, this might be my favourite moment in AEW history.
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What on Earth was the "Big Billy Starks" taunt? Is the entire joke that that is also the name of a female wrestler? Haha, you have the same name as a woman? Is that really it? Or is there something else to it that I'm not aware of?
I haven't watched the last 3-4 weeks of Dynamite (any AEW really), as I'm completely out on the Devil stuff and have no interest in the CC and the shows are basically built around itwith everything else kind of on pause until it ends and I tuned in tonight and only caught the Golden Jets/Bill Starks things and I'm probably not going to watch anymore.
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https://twitter.com/kalynkahler/status/1732557205755383819
I have an idea for a new AEW heel gimmick...or a new WWE face gimmick
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5 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Which is peculiar scheduling because didn’t they run a few Collisions in Canada during the Owen? And weren’t there ticket problems at times in Canada over the summer too? (Which might be more about pricing since they were running every show in Canada for a few weeks)
I guess there isn’t a good pitstop in the US close to Montreal with the classic wrestling venue in Burlington VT closed due to being really old and the next closest good venues probably being in New Hampshire.
They did show the Canadian Collision shows but now are basically holding Collision and the Friday show (I have a headache and can't remember its name) hostage unless you subscribe to their pay service. So if you want to watch all the AEW shows, you have to pay for TSN and TSN+.
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I think the Punk promo was pretty brilliant because it got a lot of people to tune in and he said...well nothing really. But the crowd cheered where they were supposed to cheer and there were a lot of soundbites that will get posted on social media and re-posted and discussed and Punk is really good at saying nothing and making it sound important. And a lot of people (maybe not the ones who wanted him to trash AEW or bury Vince McMahon etc. etc.) will tune in and keep tuning in to see if he says anything else or who his first feud will be with (I was actually thinking tonight how a great first feud for him could be...Logan Paul actually).
Loved the tag team turmoil for just how little of a shit that crowd gave for the Creeds at the start of the match and for how they completely came alive for them when taller Creed (I can't figure out their names) did his repeated suplexes/kip-ups spot and by the end were chanting and cheering their heads off. That move where taller Creed vaulted to the top rope, missed, then sprang back up was actually more impressive than if he'd hit it clean. I seriously don't know how he got up there so fast after missing the landing. I think once the crowd watches the Creeds some more, they will be into them more. I don't understand why they spent so much time building them up in NXT, only to give them such a tepid, anticlimactic debut on Raw.
Nakamura talking about chaos is kind of a fun deal. I wonder if there's any chance of him leading a Chaos stable in WWE.
Ivar-Reed was pretty good, then got great when they were brawling in the crowd. Is the other Raider hurt? I'm enjoying Ivar's singles run and his moonsault always gets a great reaction but he is going to destroy his knees if he keeps doing it every match.
Zoey-Nia was more competitive than I was expecting. I'm not terribly interested in Nia in 2023. Zoey does some stuff that I don't see too many other wrestlers doing (that flipping vault into the ring thing gets me every time!). I think she works better as a heel because her promos are a little middle-of-the-road but she's so good in the rng, she might just get over that way, as well.
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I think you're all ignoring the obvious highlight of the night which is that while trying to very SERIOUSLY trying to describe the heated rivalry between Swerve and Hangman, Prince Nana's increasingly insane entrance dance routine (Now featuring little hops!) made Tazz and Excalibur laugh, then having to explain said laughing ("I'm not laughing, it's just that's how insane this is!"), then Excalibur completely forgetting what he was trying to say while trying not to laugh.
Runner-up to this was Adam Page talking about stealing Nana's weed which suddenly springs Nana into action: "YOU WILL NOT! YOU WILL NOT!"
The less said about almost everything else, the better.
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3 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
4) Not blaming the performer 100% on this cause Bob probably didn't come up that A level material, but Bob ain't exactly elevating this beyond just being there.
His "maniacal" laughter at the end really puts it over the top .
It's an amazing trainwreck like the part where they promote Sapp as a wrestler by talking about a toughman competition and him going "That's because I'm being trained by [slowly puts on hat] Sam Greco" to absolutely no reaction as Greco was under contract but never appeared beyond a backstage appearance (per wiki) which somehow the interviewer decides is him making a challenge against Greco and Sapp being like 'Yeah sure, maybe'.
It would be like Brock Lesnar debuting in WWE by talking backstage about some amateur wrestling he was going to be doing but not to worry because he was trained by "Shelton Benjamin!" and the interviewer going "Does that mean you're going to wrestle Shelton?" and not just showing up and destroying a bunch of dudes.
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Also, was that a Laura Dern character interviewing him?
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6 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said:
CM Punk! CM Punk!
The responses to it are gold: Punk, Gillberg, Dolph Ziggler, Funaki, 2 (!) for Tyrus and 1 for Charlotte Flair.
By the awkord pronoun-ing, though, it's almost definitely a female wrestler, presumably Sasha Banks (I haven't bothered to learn her new name!)
Smelly watches every Nitro-era Nitro, Thunder, Clash, and PPV while sitting and sometimes maybe standing
in WWE PROGRAMMING
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I genuinely think that they could have broken Scott Norton off from the NWO, given him a mini-Goldberg run of destroying jobbers and mid-carders and ended up with another borderline main-eventer on their hands. I know WCW wasn't interested in that and that, from what littie I've read about Norton, he wouldn't have ever pushed for it. But he had such an undeniable physical presence in the ring. He's got that Mark Henry/Powerhouse Hobbs/Samoa Joe feel of no matter how many times he gets beat, when he comes out the crowd gets a hushed 'oh shit!' reaction. Heck, you could've run an angle where after he destroys Miller repeatedly, The Cat buys him off and becomes his manager, sending Norton after all the guys The Cat has annoyed until Norton finally turns on him and destroys him again. You could've run half a year of him destroying jobbers to build up as a Goldberg opponent ("The one man who might be tougher than Goldberg!"). You could put him in the Horsemen. You could make him Raven's new muscle. But fringe member of the Horsemen with a 50/50 win-loss record was such a complete waste of him.