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23 hours ago, Andrew POE! said:
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Quite honestly, this is Angel Studios' best movie they've ever done.
I Was A Stranger should serve as a 'launching point' for people. If you want movies about the Middle East that are depicted with humanity at its core, No Other Land, From Ground Zero, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Palestine 36, and All That's Left Of You exist. I Was A Stranger will not take the place of those and it can be argued that the characters in I Was A Stranger are almost non-existent. What seem to be the strongest character wise were Amira (Yasmine Al Massri), Marwan (Omar Sy) and Stavros (Constantine Markoulakis). The rest seem to be almost nameless, faceless people from Syria with barely a defining characteristic.
Mustafa (Yahya Mahayni) has a crisis of conscious due to his dad being on a list and meeting some bald headed bad guy from a Jason Statham movie. While his conflict renders the more exciting moments of the movie, it's somewhat empty as it cuts to the next section. Mustafa is incidentally the border guard that finds Amira and her daughter Rasha (Massa Daoud). Then he shows up to be a refugee too.
The thing that's remarkable about I Was A Stranger is how the director Brandt Andersen filmed it. There's elements of the Italian Neorealism of Visconti/Di Sica/Rosselini as handheld cameras are used and follow the actors through the scenes. I especially loved the onsie following Amira at the start of the movie and then following her in a Syrian hospital.
The stories for I Was A Stranger interlock and characters for one story appear in another story; it's similar to Crash in some ways, but I also thought about Traffic as I was watching this (although this isn't as stylish as Traffic was). Amira and Rasha are smuggled out of the country after a bombing where their family was killed. They go to a border crossing where the camera shows them in the car boot. Mustafa is a soldier in the Syrian army who witnesses a child being executed and then (conveniently) is assigned as a border guard; he meets Amira and Rasha, expecting to execute them too. A smuggler Marwan cares for his child before 'going to work' where he barks orders at people to appear at 5 am to go into Greece. A family of five from the camp journey to the beach; what's interesting is some of the same scenes from the smuggler's POV are shown as they arrive and ask for life jackets.
Stavros goes about his day as a member of the coast guard. The scene I liked that addresses the bias of privilege is Stavros' family asking him how many were rescued. "I quit counting," he said. How many died? "I stopped counting at 1,000," he says. The refugees from the smuggler's story are shown being rescued. The story returns to Amira in Chicago as she cleans the trash and puts a note on the doctor's desk about treatment.
To be honest, Amira's story in America is the most tragic; the medical degree she obtained in Syria matters not in America. Yet in America, the arbitrary immigration system would require her to spend money she doesn't have to be a citizen in the United States and then spend money she further doesn't have to be licensed to practice medicine in the US too. Meanwhile, the namesake of the Trump Tower at the start of the movie wants to send people like her to Nigeria or El Salvador for the 'crime' of not being US citizens and for 'being here illegally' while the ICE officers shoot and kill unarmed civilians because they 'perceive' they will get hit by a SUV.
There is no solution other than just open the US border and if you are skilled enough to get a medical degree in Syria, you should be allowed to practice medicine here too (after learning to read and write English of course).
Of course, this movie isn't a typical "Angel Studios movie" and those that voted to put the above immigration crisis into place in the US will probably be angry at how 'woke' Angel Studios is for this movie.
They won't watch No Other Land, From Ground Zero, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Palestine 36, or All That's Left Of You either.
You Can Count On Me (Criterion Channel, leaving on 1/31) - 4.5/5 sta
I have such a soft spot for this movie. It was one of the first I watched largely because of reviews that was outside the mainstream (This, 'Far From Heaven' and 'Punch Drunk Love', really) and went "Huh, there's this whole group of really good movies that are just out there and nobody really talks about them." I remember watching it with a girl who was just NOT into it and I was sorta playing along with her but still enrapt. I remember being so SAD at the ending
Spoiler[spoiler]I just wanted Ruffalo's character to STAY and be a part of their lives but knew he wasn't going to[/spoiler]
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5 hours ago, Tabe said:
My hill to die on here is Will Ferrell in Elf. He was incredible in that movie.
I don't think there is another, living or dead, who could have pulled off that role with the same effect as Ferrell.
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This year I have watched
'Breaking News in Yuba County': (Tubi) and boy what a terrible decision it was to start the year with it. And I LIKE most of these actors (Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr, Matthew Modine, Awkwafina, Wanda Sykes, Jimmi Simpson, Regina Hall!) but this was just a dreadful film. An unerdappreciated wife surprises her cheating husband, who dies, and she, incomprehensibly, buries his body and reports him missing. And this is the leit motif of this film, characters behaving in incomprehensible ways in order to serve the plot, such as it is. Anyways, her reporter half-sister (Kunis) interviews her on TV and she becomes a pseudo-celebrity (The movie wants to say SOMETHING about Nancy Grace-style crime shows and celebrity-dom but I don't think it knows what that something is!) and this brings her into contact with talk show hosts, disapproving police officers, angry mobsters, etc. etc. It's a particularly ugly little movie that is neither funny enough, nor clever enough to justify its existence and has a rather nasty streak of enjoying to show women get brutalized.
'High Tide': (TCM) Don Castle is a PI hired to both protect a newspaper editor and investigate his murder once it happens because he's going after a criminal racket who will surely rub him out. It's all right, I like Castle. The opening and closing scenes are both set in the present with the rest of the film presented in the middle which while interesting for the time period, pretty much gives away the plot.
'Captain America: Brave New World': (Disney+) I...liked this, I guess. It wasn't anything really special, just your basic hero versus monster of the week. And it's hamfisted attempt at delivering a message of unity for a divided nation was real bad. Maybe I didn't like it..I like Anthony Mackie.
'Copycat':(Netflix) Ehhh, it was okay. The premise is interesting enough with Holly Hunter (I LOVE Holly Hunter) as a cop investigating a serial killer who enlists Sigourney Weaver an agoraphobic, near-serial-killer victim/serial killer expert to help with the hunt of a killer who is replicating murders of famous serial killers. Now if you dislike cops, THIS is the movie for you because I'm not sure there has ever been an assembly of a less-competent police force than this one: angry sexist chief who doesn't trust the female cop to complete the investigation, a cop tasked with bodyguard duty who wanders off to use the bathroom, a lecherous ex-boyfriend cop, a guard who wanders away to help someone turn off their car alarm. But even the two likable cops in the lead tend to ignore Weaver's advice and investigations, dismissing her with terse "Now's not a good time" as she's trying to help them solve a case. Probably the most interesting character is Harry Connick Jr's locked-up serial killer (Yes THAT Harry Connick Jr!) who is probably not onscreen enough.
'Teenagers Battle The Thing': (Tubi) Woof. I have a soft spot for these 50s/60s evil monster attacks teens movies and they're usually good for a laugh. But this thing was an hour and felt like four. The first 35-40 minutes is basically ARCHEAOLOGY! A teacher taking kids out, explaining stuff, talking about stuff. And nothing happens. Then they find a mummy-esque tomb, disturb it and he comes after them...sort of. The lack of any budget means that the climax of the movie basically happens offscreen while the characters watch. DREADFUL
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On 1/3/2026 at 6:53 PM, SirSmUgly said:
This is a very good match, as is their rematch on KotR '93. I don't understand why, if Vince was so hellbent on building around a not-Bret babyface on top, he didn't do it with Razor instead of Diesel.
I sometimes genuinely wonder if Vince forgot that Razor wasn't genuinely Cuban and kept from going all the way with him because he didn't want a latin wrestler on top. I still think Hall aping Scarface for Vince and him having no idea who it is and thinking he made it up on the spot is one of my favourite crazy Vince stories that may or may not be true but I love to death, either way.
On 1/3/2026 at 6:53 PM, SirSmUgly said:I don't know if pre-teen me had the word "homoerotic" in his vocabulary yet, but I understood the essence of homoeroticism because this segment was it. Heenan sounds like he's going to empty his balls in his pants as he sings Lex's praises.
It's so weird because it sounds NOTHING like Heenan. Like Heenan singing Flair's praises in the previous year's Rumble is COMPLETELY different than Heenan here and it JUST dawned on me that this was clearly something Vince wrote about Luger and then farmed out to Heenan. I can just imagine Heenan going "Uhh, can I change some of this?" and Vince being aghast: "But it's perfect."
On 1/3/2026 at 6:53 PM, SirSmUgly said:The last third of the '89 Rumble match was worse than any run of the '93 Rumble match
It was like they sketched up until Hogan got eliminated and went "Eh we'll come up with the rest before the show" and completely forgot and went "Who's left? John Studd? Great, I guess."
On 1/5/2026 at 3:45 AM, zendragon said:Kamala w Slick (lets get all the racial insensitivity together) squahes Brooklyn Brawler.
Racially insensitive or not, I still genuinely think Kamala's WWF theme was legit some of the scariest music I ever heard as a kid. And all these years later...still kind unsettling and scary!
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12 hours ago, Steventon said:
I don't think Darby was heel -ish at all. If anything, he came across as a badass. He was wronged by PAC who cheated to beat him then tried to avoid a rematch, and wants his revenge. It's not as if the DR's haven't earned getting their asses kicked.
I laughed at this angle.
"I want a match."
"No."
"I'm going to break your ankle if I can't get my match."
"Okay, have your match."
[Darby walks away]Now seeing as there is no title or anything else at stake, Pac could just not show up for the match and Darby loses out again. Pac never got anything (like a title shot) for beating Darby. Pac never got in trouble for setting Darby on fire. So there's no real reason for Pac to even show up for the match. He could just go back to England and be like "Nah, not feeling it." and nothing would happen to him or benefit Darby in any way (Aside from the winner's purse, I suppose).
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The only thing I remember about tonight was when the camera seemed to catch Shafir spitting at Strong. And I imagined them afterwards: "Did you just spit at me?!" "Haha, did you see it?"
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That opening segment was sure a mess.
MJF's promo sounded like every MJF promo. Remember when he was going away to "find himself" or some such nonsense?! Then he comes back and the only thing different about the presentation is that he now has CM Punk's hair?! Kenny's challenge was interesting (I said he'd be back in the title scene! You guys doubted me!) but him delivering it remotely, along with MJF pointing it out kinda neutered the reaction. Page and Swerve storming in made them look like badasses, but, you know, DUMB badasses who stand there staring him down and letting their music play giving him a chance to run away (And I'm SO tired of nameless security guards getting beat up...what is this?! 2000 WCW?!). And Samoa Joe only showing up in a promo AFTER MJF ran away made him look like a weakling. And Bandido was an afterthought for the whole segment, so they somehow created a segment that kind of made every one of MJF's challengers look bad.
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On 12/22/2025 at 7:28 AM, The Natural said:
Driving Home for Christmas singer Chris Rea passes away aged 74. Poignant timing.
My mom killed him. Sorry, all!
(Not really but a few weeks ago I put this song on and my mom loves it but didn't seem happy and I asked why and she said "Well he's on his way home and it's so happy, and now he's dead." and I said "Chris Rea didn't die." Then...well...)
42 minutes ago, Zimbra said:Isaiah Whitlock Jr has passed away at age 71.
all together now: sheeeeiiiiiittt
Super sad about this one. Obviously he was great in The Wire and, of course, The 25th Hour but he was also super-great in comedies like 'Veep' and, especially, 'Cedar Rapids' where he plays a dorky insurance salesman who channels Omar at a party in order to save his friends.
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2 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Was there anyone in wrestling history who had less in-ring talent but got more out of it than The Ultimate Warrior? Before these fuckers take everything down I fired up the 1991 Royal Rumble and I'm still amazed at how awesome this Warrior vs. Slaughter match is. The crowd is fucking nuclear the ENTIRE TIME. There was smoke and mirrors with Macho but so what.
The Ultimate Warrior had a habit of delivering entertaining/nuclear matches in all of his big title/title defenses. The matches with Rick Rude. The Macho matches. The match with Hogan. This match with Slaughter. I can't think of a "big match" of his that stunk. Also, Gorilla and Piper are going apeshit on commentary really selling the moment. It's not nostalgia, WWE used to do this shit better. Big match Jim.
I maintain that from an entertainment perspective, there are few better matches than Ulimate Warrior-Honky Tonk Man. That short segment has some of the most nuclear pops in WWF history. They ran the Beefcake injury angle to take him out of the match (I THINK it was Beefcake!) and Honky dances and brags and tells them to send out anyone. And the POP for Warrior's music is unbelievable. Then he gets in and destroys Honky and every move gets a huge pop. And then there's an enormous pop when he wins and you can see the crowd kinda looking around to see if there is going to be some sort of "Title not officially on the line" scam and when they announce it, the place goes crazy again. It's just thousands of people having the best time of their lives over and over
1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:BTW, shenanigans is a word that doesn't get used enough, so I make sure to when I get the opportunity.
Example: I like the House of Pain song, "Shamrocks and Shenanigans".
But now the question, which one is better?
The original?
or the Butch Vig one?
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14 hours ago, twiztor said:
yeah, i'm with @Casey. i have a lot of love for the dX theme, i would definitely consider it a banger. the X-Pac version not as much, but the OG slaps. When he first debuted it, i thought the "My Time" theme was awful, but it won me over pretty quick and anytime i revisit the era I am always pleasantly surprised when i hear it.
My brother and I initially convinced ourselves that the singer guy on "My Time" opened the theme by going "Montel, is this on?" which lead to my brother coming deciding that the video should start with "Montel, is this on?" followed by Montell Williams going "Yessss!" before the song kicks in.
9 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:one random thing from watching parts of the February 92 SNME is Vince referring to the date of Wrestlemania 8 as "April Five, 1992" instead of April Fifth... like, is that just a bad script or a lesser known Vince thing
He's SO weird.
I just read a clip from a Todd Grisham interview where he talked about how Vince passed him as he was leaving the gym and referred to him by name and he was all happy, then after the weekend he was preparing to interview Edge and Christian and Vince comes in and just SCREAMS at him about how Vince must be "his BOY!" because he forgot to take the weights off the bar when he was done (It wasn't even him) and after he left Edge went "That's pretty cool, Vince is your boy!"
Anyways, the story gets crazier because a producer told Grisham that Vince had spent the whole weekend figuring out how to broach the topic including discussing whether he could call Grisham the N-WORD?!Read the whole thing here, it's just nuts. Especially cuz Grisham also kinda tosses it off like "Oh well you know!" which makes you wonder how many incredibly insane things McMahon must have said and done within earshot of people who are sworn to secrecy.
10 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:I really like X-Pac's DX theme. WWF the Music, Vol 3 got a lot of play at my house.
Edit: As did Volume 4. Nothing like being an idiot kid shooting baskets in the driveway blasting "Ass Man."
It was even more fun to drive around in a minivan blasting it. Also Chavo's theme with the "Oooooh Chavo" opening was a lot of fun to drive around to.
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13 hours ago, Craig H said:
I really do think weed and then the heart attack and then the mental breakdown have progressively broken him to the point where he doesn’t have “it” anymore, which sucks.
I fell out on Smith around 'Clerks 2' (Did not find it funny at all) and saw his standup (?) special from right before or right after he had his heart attack and was stunned at how he no longer sounded like Kevin Smith. He sounded like a guy who comes up to you on the bus to bitch about the fare increases ("And fuck man, they fuckin' charge so much now...like..fuck"). Not just physically his voice had changed (Which, you know, I get!) but he rambled and swore every second word and genuinely sounded like someone you didn't really wanna listen to.
I actually think the third funniest (After 'Clerks' and the 'Clerks' animated series which kind of stands as an insane relic of early 2000s that is so stupid, so insensitive and so funny) thing that Smith ever did was the 'Roadside Attractions' series on Jay Leno. He was always trying to sneak in filthy jokes, poked fun at people but also made himself the butt of jokes, but also seemed genuinely fascinated and interested in the bizarre roadside attractions. I'm pretty sure they collected them all on the Jersey Girl DVD that I somehow own.
I know movies were probably his biggest passion and moneymaker, but I lament that with the endless early 2000s reality series that were made that someone didn't turn this into a weekly series because I could watch Smith try to make dirty jokes with old ladies and make MST3K-style commentary over Christmast light displays all day long.
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42 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said:
Oh, let me clarify: Joe on top again rules. For a guy who has a clear upper limit on how long he can work singles matches these days, he still oozes presence. One of the all time great guys who can be slotted in credibly at the top at any given moment no matter how oddly he’s been booked prior. The true DNA of TNA. One promo and you’re good to go for anything. And my god that juice.
Opps vs the Elite will at least feel fresh regardless of where you stand on the latter.
Sorry didn't mean to imply my post was in reply to yours, it was actually a couple previous posts in-thread!
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I'm of the opposite here, I am super excited to watch Samoa Joe in the World Title role again. My favourite run of AEW was the previous time he was champ. I was even excited when he beat Swerve the first time (Again putting me in the contrarian camp!). I think when you have guys having MOTYC all over the show, I think there's value in a big, mean world champion who maybe can't GO in the ring but is an endlessly compelling character holding the belt. Sort of like Taz in ECW, Vader in WCW, even Yokozuna in early 90s WWF. He's big, he's mean, he has a presence and you're going to have to do everything to dethrone him and it's still not enough. Now add in a team of, for lack of a better term, "lackeys" to help him. I mean it IS a little like going from Jon Moxley cheating to win in every match as champ to Samoan Joe Moxley cheating to win in every match as world champ but Joe's such a fun character that it works for me.
I have a funny feeling that before long we're gonna an Elite reunion on top (Bucks dethroning FTR and Omega taking the top title), which is not something I'm looking forward to at all, so I'm going to enjoy shit-talking, over-the-hill asshole Samoa Joe World Champion while we have it.
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9 hours ago, Technico Support said:
I don't understand Fletcher's catchphrase and I'm glad you brought it up.
It really is baffling.
Fletcher: "Mark Briscoe, after I defeat you, you will say my full name!"
(seconds later)Briscoe: "Kyle Fletcher [unintelligible noise]"
Me: "Oh I guess no need for the match then..."-
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1 hour ago, Shartnado said:
I was a bit surprised that Thekla won against Mina, but I guess that one loss to Hayter didn't derail her push!
i LOVE Thekla. She's got this crazy physical charisma with the way she walks out, the way she moves, even the way she sells that makes her a lot of fun to watch.
That said, I don't think the Triangle of Madness/spider stuff QUITE fits her. I saw a photo of her online in a bikini with a cigar (Settle down Caleynetico, I know I know!) and I think that kinda fits her better as a sorta cigar-smoking, beer-hammering badass. I think you could split the Sisters/Triangle off with another wrestler not up to much (Serena Deeb? Thunder Rosa?) and play up the spooky, evil aspects. Then push Thekla as a mean, badass type (play off the Stardom expulsion etc.), she can still be the spider, do the spider taunt (but make it more of a thing she does to show up her opponents and less "evil"), even give her a pair of lackeys whom she pushes around/corrupts.
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The highlight of the show for me was Ace Austin climbing into the ring while some fan loudly said (Not quite yelled...There's a difference!): "I like your hair." and Austin, stopped, poked his head through the ropes and said "Thanks." before resuming the match. Austin has never really connected for me as a face. He's got that Sammy Guevara-esque look (and the card tricks don't help) that makes you want to see him get beat up.
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I think they need to keep the "Lights out" surprise for debuts and not mess with the lights for other things. When Clon (Clone? Clown? Clune?) debuted and they tried to do some weird lighting effects, everyone seemed to be waiting for someone to come out and join and/or attack them. When Toni Storm faded to black there was as sudden excited murmur followed by silence.
What a weird crowd. Completely silent and uninterested in anything Tay did, including booing her promo, only making any sort of noise when Toni was on offence, then immediately "What"-ing her promo. I half-expected Toni to say "You people are idiots" and the crowd to respond "She's right, give us hell, Toni!"
I think Ricochet deserves a lot of credit for channeling his fandom of The Rock into a completely new and much entertaining character for him. He's so much more watchable as annoying guy who is genuinely talented and knows it but is also kind of a coward.
We don't get the ICE ads up in Canada (Well I do sometimes during football games, especially on Fox and they left me feeling icky) but we DO get Tim Horton's ads that are almost as offensive in a completely different way.
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8 hours ago, zendragon said:
Cody had Arn as his "coach" in AEW (and gave us Armed Anderson) but I think Magnum coming to a drunked Hangman as ghost of Christmas future saying "son, you need to get off the sauce and get your head in the game" would have been a cool angle
"But Magnum, you're not dead?!"
"See, son...that's how drunk you are, you're imagining me as a ghost even while I'm still alive!"4 hours ago, twiztor said:even if not the weekly BodyStars show, i do hope that they upload the two Championship PPVs sometime.
even more than that, i wish they would add the 2001 XFL season.
i see where you're coming from, and you're not wrong, but a lot of those instances were just repackaging guys into a previously-used character that didn't fit them and came across as a ripoff, rather than a continuation. Having the OG guys there to "pass on" the gimmick (a couple vignettes showing the two characters interacting, maybe some training sessions, and then the old-timer being a manager for a couple months) would have done wonders.
Actually, and maybe this is a 'me' thing, but i would like to see more training sessions overall, like the scenario that @Cobra Commander pointed out regarding the Tazzmission. Or, especially in AEW's big-move counter house style, seeing guys talk to past opponents on how to avoid the big moves (i'm looking at you, Don Callis Family, for the current storyline feud with Hangman!!!!)
I guess there's also the problem of most of the OG guys hanging on and using the gimmicks for YEARS and hanging around for "one more shot" and being reluctant to be seen as figures of the past.
My other thing I would do if I ran WWE is absolutely use all these things you own and run them right into the ground from a merchandise standpoint. I'd bring back the NWO (maybe even just an NXT version!) and retro-style NWO shirts. I'd run a new DX (Heck you could have them annoying Hunter much the way he did back in the day) and sell updated shirts. I'd bring back ECW (Run somewhere that was big to ECW, tape a month's worth of episodes in one night), put it on ECW emphasizing the EXTREME nature of it (have it locked out for anyone under the age of 18) while also emphasizing that the meaning of the word Extreme has changed (i.e. no chairshots) and sell retro-style ECW shirts. Nexus, Evolution, Straight Edge Society, Four Horsemen (not sure if they own that last one or not), I would absolutely bring them all back (not all at once, maybe even for like a six month run) and sell t-shirts. It's not like modern WWE is reinventing the wheel from storyline perspective, everything is about Moments. So give them Moments and recycle stuff that was popular in a very cynical, merchandising way.
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6 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Currently pitching 1993 WCW on the idea of Ice Train being JYD’s nephew and Ice Train being sent to his uncle JYD in WCW after getting into a fight in his hometown
I swear JYD was in WCW in the summer of 1993. And overlapped with Ice Train for like 3 weeks
I'm surprised that American pro wrestling, in general, doesn't do more stories of modern wrestlers being mentored or trained by older wrestlers ("Cody Rhodes on the comeback trail goes to Magnum TA for guidance") or even just like "Lyra Valkyria leans the secret of the Diamond Cutter from DDP".
I'm not sure if it would be a huge deal, but I think it would give younger wrestlers a bit of added credibility and allow you to recycle some simpler moves to be seen as finishers (Like if a big guy started using a chokeslam for a finisher, the crowd wouldn't be buy it, but if you had a taped segment where Kane teaches him the "hidden technique" of the chokeslam, you could maybe pass it off again as a finish) and would be some easy, taped segments to fill time. Like when AEW brought in Jake Roberts, he just talked for Lance Archer (and later...LFI for about five minutes), but Archer's wrestling and moveset didn't change, even if he'd just adopted Jake's short-arm clothesline it would've been kinda neat. Maybe it's just me.
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On 9/4/2025 at 2:44 PM, JLowe said:
Speaking of Briscoe, Don Callis and wrestlers I don’t much care for, Lance Archer wrestled.
I LIKE Archer. Was watching him this week tower over everyone and wonder why he doesn't get a bigger push (He's in the Mark Henry mold where the crowd reacts to his appearances like it's a big deal but he ALWAYS loses) and was SHOCKED to find out he's 48 years old!
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On 9/1/2025 at 8:03 PM, Peck said:
Man, Paris loves AJ Styles. That was insanely impressive.
Well they used to team together in WCW...
(That's a deep cut but I offer no apologies!)
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4 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
Songs for Swingin' Lovers is great. I'm partial to In The Wee Small Hours myself as a favorite.
On a whim I decided to listen to his 'Live from the Sands' a week or two back and there is a 12+ minute track called 'Tea Break' that is just Sinatra talking to the crowd, telling stories about growing up ("My room was a dump, we had rats, but my family was wealthy, they just didn't like me" or something like that), riffing on the crowd (Making fun of a guy headed to the bathroom), talking about drinking, and it's amazing. At the end, the crowd calls for an encore and he says "One more? That's what all be saying at the bar in a couple minutes" before giving in. Oh, and the music is great too (Count Basie accompanying and arranged and conducted by Quincy Davis!)
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I was quite excited for Darby's return but since he came back I'm finding I'm not really enjoying his matches so much anymore, and I think it's because of the way he keeps upping the violence and the bumps that it's almost like watching a snuff film. Like there's an early bump where you go "That's crazy!" followed by another where you go "Oh that might have killed him", then after 3-4 escalatingly dangerous bumps, I kinda stop watching because it's like watching and enabling someone who's trying to kill himself. At the same time, these bumps are so stupidly dangerous, that when he kicks out after being gorilla pressed from the ring through a table then wins with a couple coffin drops, it feels like the bumps are out of proportion with the signature spots. Like Darby taking a life-threatening bump doesn't really mean anything in context of a match when he later loses to a Death Rider or two.
I don't know if I'm explaining it right, but it's basically me getting out while he's still alive/walking so that I won't feel guilty if he escalates the bumps/violence and suffers debilitating injury (Even that suplex he took from Kidd after the match, he basically landed on his orbital bone!). I know he's said he's ok with the pain and the injuries, but it feels like someone (Moxley? Bryan? But they're not the most sensible either) needs to sit him down and say "Cut the stupid bumps on TV down to one or two, you're popular enough that you don't need them anymore to stay over" and save the true carnage for only the biggest shows if he's insisting on it.
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5 hours ago, twiztor said:
all the time i see people posting online about finding deals at their local goodwills. NEVER have i found anything of even remote value. I bet in the 15 years i've lived here, i've seen 10 video games total, 100% of them shitty PS2/OG XBOX sports games. Never seen a vinyl record that wasn't '40s music or the like. Never saw an action figure that wasn't like a Happy Meal bonus. i used to go weekly-ish, but that fell off after some time of constantly leaving empty handed. maybe i just live in a town with a shitty Goodwill.
My brother worked at a Value Village in the 2010s-ish and walked in one day to find a SNES copy of Chrono Trigger for sale, before he could grab it, a little kid came up and asked to buy it, my brother lied and said "Oh that's not actually for sale" and hid it under the counter and bought it for something ridiculous like $5 on his break. He rationailzed it by saying "Ah that kid was too young to know what Chrono Trigger actually was and truly appreciate it." My brother still has his that cartridge, too. I can't fathom what they would charge for it now at VV.
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On 8/13/2025 at 12:27 PM, Dolfan in NYC said:
Yes, the role he passed on was Marky Mark's.
And the movie he did instead? Titanic
The best casting story about Boogie Nights is Paul Thomas Anderson always wanted Burt Reynolds for the role of the porn producer/father figure role but Reynolds was dead-set against being in a movie about pornography. So Anderson interviewed other actors for the role and sat down with Warren Beatty, halfway through their discussion, Anderson looked at Beatty and said "You think you should be playing the Dirk Diggler role, don't you?" and Beatty agreed. He was 60 when the film came out! As much as I love the way, I can't but wonder what could have been, if it had been Beatty at 59 fighting with his mom at the beginning of the film.
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AEW TV - 1/14 - 1/20/2026 - Andrade, I'm In Fear For My Life From The Long Arm Of The Law
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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No one mentioned the highlight of the night? The Toa Liona moonsault to the floor, replete with Ricochet laughing his ASS off after he did it. GOA are my favourite, I'd like to see them take the 6 man titles off the Ops for...reasons.