Nighthawk

Skinhead doesn't only mean Nazi, you psycho.

Whenever they subtley or not so subtely rip on Patterson for being gay, such as this: King: Pat Patterson had a lot of guys behind him, but he always came out on top. JR: I find that hard to swallow.

That was Wild Cherry, not KC and the Sunshine Band.

Pfft, whateva, Taker. Anyway, I may not agree with all of Brock's opinions, but he's a grown man, I don't hold it against him.

I've seen two commercials (one for Little Debbys, one for cheese) featuring little kids and Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On". I really don't think those kids should be "getting it on". And there's a song being used in some car commercials and in the Walking Tall trailers now... I don't know what song it is, but it sounds like it's saying "You hit me with a hardon." I laugh when it comes on. My favorite song in a commercial is a recent one though, that I've only seen once. Chris Jericho singing "Don't You Wish You Were Me" with modified lyrics about YJ Stinger. It had me on the floor.

Good for him. I've known some vintage erotica collectors, it's no big deal. I am also surprised he's 51, though. He's older than my father.

I've got tickets to a Smackdown house show next Sunday and Eddie and Show are advertised as being there. So I guess that means they're staying.

I love that one too. I agree about his short work. I've got 1408 on tape. King reads it himself, and really takes advantage of the book on tape format in a way I've never seen. Music plays the reading in and out, and the way it comes in to close out the story, it makes you jump out of your fucking skin. I've listened to it a couple time, it gets me a little even when I know it's there. It was on a collection of three short stories loosely connected to smoking... at least one of them was exclusive to the tapes at the time, but they've all been in print by now. The other two stories were ok, but hindered because he tried to do an accent in both and didn't manage it too well. 1408 though... that's a great story.

Overall, Looney Tunes. I really like the HBO Spawn series, which never seems to get any credit.

Well, I suppose it's not directly related, but you should know that's why funk music is called that. It describes the kind of nasty sweat you can build up doing one of two things; fucking, or dancing to that kind of music. Oh yeah, I've worn a stocking on my head before. When I worked at Taco Bell and you had to keep all your hair under the hat. I had too much to do that otherwise.

Go to church, square.

I like to wash down a peanut butter and crack sammich with it.

Straight Outta Compton

This Island Earth was a good movie. MST3K didn't only show terrible movies. I've seen people bash Joe Don Baker for no reason at all because of that. I like every movie listed in this thread with the exception of From Justin to Kelly, which I haven't seen, but don't intend to.

I cannot believe you spent $85 on a Lita sign.

Fair point, but consider this, also from IT: "[...]he felt a brief hot flare as the thing's sucker poked through his eyelid and began to suck the fluid out of his eyeball. Patrick felt his eye collapse in it's socket and he screamed again. A leech flew into his mouth when he did and roosted on his tongue. [...] Some of them drank to capacity and burst like balloons; when this happened to the bigger ones, they drenched Patrick with almost half a pint of his own hot blood. [...] Patrick ejected a huge spray of blood and leech flesh like vomit." Sure, maybe you can say that was essential to the integrity of the plot. Maybe you can say that Patrick was a character who felt no fear, only disgust, so it was necessary to convey disgust in that scene. And maybe it's true in a way, but we still have a nasty description of being drained of blood by leeches (which King is apparently afraid of himself, them playing a pivotal role in The Body as well). Take for example, the movie Body Double or the book American Psycho as an example of something else where violence is both exploitative and necessary. Jaws (the book and movie) is another example. So, Stephen King is taking the high road in a way, but I wouldn't cut him too much slack. The gangbang scene for example, you might be able to justify it's presence in the book, but a more honest explanation is he's just getting carried away in his own fantasies. Same thing with the gore. Just because it's placed well doesn't mean it isn't there.

Taker is fine as long as his hair isn't the Beatle-esque mop it was at Wrestlemania. So that bandanna was a welcome addition.

unless you are John Cena, then you can rhyme MAN with MAN~! and get away with it...but yeah...Rappers have bigger vocabularies then Rock Singers, no question... On the man with man commerical, if you listen closely, he rhymes the 2nd to last words. I don't know why he adds man. Why do you have to listen closely? Just listen. He adds man because it improves the cadence. It's done.

The first time I really noticed Martin Lawrence was when I watched You So Crazy, and I admit I was interested in it because it was rated NC-17. I wanted to see a stand up act strong enough to warrant that. I tell you, I have never seen a guy sweat and strain so much on stage, it was like he blurred the line between telling jokes and fucking. And after all his effort and gesticulation, the punchlines really weren't much of a payoff. I've seen worse, though. I liked Runteldat ok, mostly because he would talk about his personal problems. I got a kick out of it. I also like two of his movies (Blue Streak and Nothing to Lose), so he's safe from my shitlist, but... yeah, he puts too much physical exertion into his standup.

Elaborate! Let's have some discussion! Ok. It was mostly the film sections I took issue with. The book sections were pretty ok to me. Being a writer, I guess it's only to be expected that he'd be better informed in that area. The main thing I remember disagreeing with is he seems to have a problem with gore in film. He calls it exploitative trash, sometimes in as many words, sometimes not. I could go on about the virtues of gore (and in fact exploitation), but that's another thread. Suffice to say, he's condemning something which he just doesn't 'get'. It's also hypocritical, as he writes more exploitative trash than would ever be allowed to be shown on film, but I suppose he consideres it different because it's in a book. It's not. The difference is he has to pad that out with a (hopefully good) narrative. But gore and sex don't enhance that, there's lots of good horror writers who don't use that sort of thing. And I know King doesn't have to if he chooses not to. It's there cause his readers (and himself) like it. You can watch a gore movie, enjoy yourself for 90 minutes, or read one of his books, which takes much longer, and enjoy the exploitation in it like the weed baked into a batch of brownies. He's in no position the be talking down about gore. He also makes the statement that if you've seen one Wes Craven movie, you can skip them all. All Wes had out at the time was Together (which I haven't seen), Last House On the Left, and The Hills Have Eyes. This is actually a good example of him blasting low budget exploitation. The two of those movies I've seen are good, and Last House On the Left particularly is reminiscent of King's own work. Anyway, obviously in hindsight, his dismissal of Wes Craven seems ridiculous and stupid, and completely undermines the point he was trying to make, about being able to judge a filmmaker. I've got my copy of the book out now, and I'll quote a passage. "There is no such frission in Plan 9 From Outer Space, unfortunately, to which I reluctantly award the booby-prize as the worst horror film ever made. Yet there is nothing funny about this one, no matter how many times it has been laughed at in those mostly witless compendiums which celebrate the worst of everything. There's nothing funny about watching a Bele Lugosi (who may actually have ben a stand-in), wracked with pain, a morphine monkey on his back, creeping around a southern California development with his Dracula cape pulled up over his nose." Sorry Steve... that is funny. But seriously, for one thing here, he has an unnatural love for junkie Bele Lugosi. Reading on, he paints Bela as a hapless victim, visciously exploited (there's that word again) by the Hollywood machine. Wrong. Anyone who's seen the Johhny Depp movie (which, don't worry, is not the sole source of my information) knows that that isn't the way it went down at all. Speaking of Ed Wood, King seems to know nothing about him. Exploitation? Plan 9 was Ed's masterpiece. He did do exploitation later in his career, no doubt, and he was aware of it, but Plan 9 was not it. Ed Wood did not exploit Bela Lugosi (King makes no mention of their other colaborations), and Plan 9 is not an exploitation piece, it's simply a bad movie. I have to question whether King even knows what's supposed to be funny about it. Is he saying that his passion for Bela Lugosi overrides any laughs he might have gotten from the filming mishaps and stilted, Wood dialogue? It must be, there's no other justification for such a harsh condemnation. Besides the fact that as I was just saying, there's no reason to feel sorry for Bela Lugosi, that seems like more of a personal reason to hate the movie. Notice how he indirectly calls someone who laughs at the movie 'witless'. But what if we aren't gay for Dracula like him? Is it then ok to laugh? Anyway, I think I've said enough about that, you get the idea.

STOP MASTURBATING WITH JESUS Damn, man... ain't that the fucking headline of the year.

That's right. It's because you suck. Have a sad birthday.

Every time I see something like that I feel like I'm slacking behind cause I'm just not that evil.

So apparently Coming to America and The first remake of the Nutty Professor weren't funny. Coming to America is a classic Coming to America yes, Nutty Professor, god no. I hate it. But still, my answer to the original question is Chris Rock. He's never made a good movie (besides asking how much for one rib), and his stand up is dull and grating. His one redeeming quality could be his talk show but I never watched it. Mike Myers is equally bad, but a lot of people don't like him, so it's no big deal. I used to hate Robin Williams, but I've taken a liking to his dramatic work, so I can give him a pass. Oh, and by the way, I didn't think Punch Drunk Love was a comedy. I'm not being sarcastic, I haven't seen it. Sandler's fine with me because I like Billy Madison.

I am cooler than anyone else here, and I'd wear the Eddie Guerrero shirt. Maybe its cool not to nitpick about what someone else might deem cool. Just wear what YOU think is cool...and I know you love that shirt. If not, you're lying. You know, if you are cool, then anything you wear is automatically cool, by virtue of the fact that you're wearing it. vivisectvi doesn't want wrestling shirts. He wants regular shirts which may have a superficial connection to wrestling. The kind where you wouldn't know what it was for just by looking. That's fine. But me, I prefer my wrestling shirts bold and brazen. When you're cool you can pull that off. Like a feather boa. But anyway... I don't like the color on the Benoit shirt. Reminds me of a Christian shirt I used to have (the religion, not the wrestler).