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The inhalor lady was the best idiot patient in a while. Not as good as the Jelly Lady, but still damn funny.

What the hell is the point of having a negatively titled movie section in a store? Isn't the point to SELL things?

Movie: TIE - The Wrestler/The Dark Knight TV Show: House

Hell, I didn't even know Scott Walker did "Black Sheep Boy." I have Okkervil River's version, but I didn't know it was a cover.

This, plus his performance was outstanding.

Hadn't heard of him until I heard "30 Century Man" in the first Futurama movie. Afterwards I got all the stuff I could find from him. I think I listen to "Scott Walker sings Jaques Brel" more than any of his other albums.

Good on 'em for the Colin Farrell nomination. The guy was outstanding in "In Bruges." But I really think Aronofsky deserved a nomination for "The Wrestler."

They've been telegraphing Black on Bi makeouts for weeks. I'm interested to see how exactly it'll play out, but not as interested as other things on the show. And Kutner is still better than Thirteen anyways.

Damn, she was one of my favorites.

Hell yes.

Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, and Martin Scorsese say fuck those three guys.

"In Bruges" was amazing.

No, it's not the best movie ever, but I do think it's one of the two best movies this year (it's damn close between this and The Wrestler).

Hell, he gave "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" zero stars and I loved that movie. But most of his complaints were pretty valid. The guy's right, ignore the star ratings and read the reviews.

Yeah, I, too, remember when popular consensus was "fuck that fat fuck!"

Was at the St. Louis show. Had fun, stayed after to help tear down the ring. Not the best ROH show I've seen, I wouldn't get the DVD if it were in a different city, but I got a front row ticket to the next show they're having in town, and I got some shirts.

I know, I'm just saying, their "genre picture" argument would be full of balognia.

Chicago was a women in prison movie with singing and dancing, and it won Best Picture.

I'm not sure if I'd make such a sweeping statement, but thinking about it I'm also not sure what I'd say was a better vamp flick than LTROI, it's one hell of a movie. BTW Hawky, thanks for the recommendation a while back, it got me to see it sooner and I'm glad for it. Yeah, I thought through all the vampire movies I've seen and I can't think of one I liked better aside from the Murnau and Herzog versions of "Nosferatu." I'd have to rewatch stuff like "Salem's Lot," but at the moment I can't think of any I'd say are better.

"Let The Right One In" is the best vampire movie I've seen not named "Nosferatu."

Good stuff.

General Interest Questions 1. Who are you and what's your business here? I joined sometime late into the Rantsylvania board's existance. Mostly just to ask the odd question here and there. 2. When did you discover an interest in wrestling? I can't remember when I first became aware of it, but I remember back before I could be bothered to keep track of when things were on outside of right before and right after school I caught the episode of Raw where Razor Ramon and Goldust had a backstage fight. That wasn't the spark to my interest since I specifically left it on because it was the wrestling show, but it's the earliest bit of wrestling I can think of aside from getting the action figures. 3. The Company Line: A. Which companies have you actively followed in your tenure as a wrestling fan? WWF/E, WCW for a couple of months, ECW, ROH, TNA for a bit, and GCW. B. What have some of your favourite companies been? Your least favourite? (In theory, your answer can be the same - if you were growing up a fan of the technical wrestling WCW brought to the table but thought the end of the line for them was some of the worst television this side of My Mother The Car, that's cool). Favorite? I guess the easy answer would be WWF/E. But I had the most fun watching in the short amount of time ECW had their show on TNN. And since I started watching, I'd say ROH has been the best in terms of wrestling, though I haven't flat-out marked at anything like I did, say, Punk winning the world title. Least favorite by default I guess is WCW. I didn't get into them during their high point and never liked watching them as much as other promotions. C. What is your favourite company right now? Any reason why? Tough to say. I'm way behind on ROH, I don't know that I've watched a single show from 2008. So by that standard it's WWE by default. 4. (Not So) Favourites: A. Who were your favourite wrestlers (or gimmicks) growing up / when you first started watching wrestling? The Undertaker and Jake "The Snake" Roberts. I took my Jake Roberts Hasbro figure around everywhere for a while. When I first started really watching I dug The Brood. B. Who were some guys you couldn't stand? I started watching for good right before Survivor Series '98, so at the height of my markdom The Rock was the main bad guy, so I really didn't like him. C. Who are your current favourites (if applicable / different from A.) CM Punk, Matt Sydal/Evan Bourne, Christopher Daniels, Edge, Delirious. Specific Questions about your Interest 5. How would you gauge your current interest level in the product? Do you still get butterflies of excitement that make you look forward to upcoming PPVs? Did you ever? Do you watch every televsied wrestling program live, or just a few - and FF'd via DVR at that? If you consider right now to be the most interested in wrestling you've ever been, the rest of the questions in this section can be skipped over. I don't really get excited about things for very long. I marked huge for Punk's title win but after a couple weeks I figured they'd never do anything with him as champ. I used to get really really excited that the wrestling show was coming on, but right now it's background and for a while wasn't on at all. 6. At what point in wrestling history (if it's not now) would you consider your interest to have been at it's peak? When were you compelled to watch every second of televised wrestling AND shell out money on PPVs, get excited about the release of video games, have TV/PPV parties with friends, etc. In late '98/early '99. 7. At what point could you tell your interest was dipping and why do you think this happened, or what specific event(s) triggered the decrease? Was there anything even specific? Just a gradual interest loss of interest? Retirement (or death) of a favourite? A boring title reign on SmackDown in the Summer of 2004? There wasn't a specific thing on the show that made me stop watching the first time. I just forgot to put it on one night, saw I'd missed the first 20 minutes, ran up to turn it on, but realized I didn't really care that I wasn't watching it. The second time was after December To Dismember. 8. Have you ALWAYS stuck with wrestling even during times of low interest, or are there any lengths of time you stopped watching for a period only to come back at a later date? I stopped watching for a while twice. 9. If applicable, at what point did you decide to pack in the wrestling fandom? n/a Interesting Questions of a Somewhat Random Nature 10. What style of pro wrestling best resonates with your personal tastes? Has it always been this way, or have your tastes changed over time? Mat based with a bit of aerial stuff as well. For a while I was into the deathmatch stuff, though, getting the BJPW tapes from RF Video. 11. Where do you "draw the line" with the whole "suspended disbelief" deal? Do you tell critics to "relax because it's just wrestling and you should enjoy the matches" (aka TNA fans about everything that happens on Impact!), do you come up with solutions that the writing team didn't bother to think about but you figure "it's there if you read between the lines" (aka "WWE Apologists"), somewhere inbetween, or do you take your greatest joy in watching wrestling to deconstruct everything that makes no sense? I cling to the stuff that does make sense. 12. Do you attend live events? And more specifically, do you get a thrill out of big arena shows, do you prefer the smaller 'intimate' settings of the local indy show, or would you rather forget the whole thing and watch everything unfold on your HDTV without dealing with 'the marks'? I'm going to my second live show tomorrow. The first was a local promotion's show a few years ago, and tomorrow I'm going to an ROH show. 13. If applicable, what are the best and worst experiences you've had going to a show live? not really applicable 14. What are your favourite matches, moments, or events? Punk's title win, Mankind's title win, and ECW's initial joining of the invasion in 01. These were what got me the most excited while watching wrestling. And I didn't get Mankind's win spoiled by WCW, didn't even know it wasn't live, so it was a complete surprise to me. 15. Freestyle No.

There is a sense of "credibility" to the short trunks. Look at all the world champions who wore short trunks compared to the ones who wore long ones. Some just look better in the long though. Jericho, IMO, did. And don't say that too much, or Edge will be the next to lose the long trunks. Given the state of his legs during his Ric Flair impersonation, I'd say that that's a terrible, terrible idea.