Corey_Lazarus

Personally, I think the ultimate movie like this is Ghostbusters. I'm 3, and I'm amazed by the special effects and the slapstick stuff. I'm 18, and I'm choking on my pizza because of all of the innuendo's Venkman spouts off, and Murray's excellent delivery. That, and I finally understood Stantz's dream sequence in the middle of the film after having not seen it for years.

Well, considering The Spirits Within just had the Final Fantasy moniker thrown on for marketing purposes, I don't see why people are in a fuss over it. Pretty good movie, in my eyes.

The X-Division has gone from an amazing display of athleticism and interesting spots with a basis on solid wrestling to two guys doing nothing but meaningless spots every other minute because the bookers don't like spotfests and refuse to let them tell a story in the ring. As for the well-known wrestlers? The most money-making wrestler in the company is Raven, as he was on top during ECW's most successful years in business and actually DREW money for his company (unlike JJ, who was on top of WCW and pushed fans away), and Raven isn't worth watching anymore, at least not in TNA. Eh...not really. More like a step above the local indy feds. Because you guys get the old, good shows, am I correct? I do remember my friend Tom over there telling me he was watching the four-team X-Division tag match from April '03 (my favorite TNA match to date; XXX vs. Lynn/Red vs. Cross/Sharky vs. Jonny Storm/Sabin) for the first time a few weeks ago. True, but that doesn't mean TNA should focus on overseas fans, since they still haven't found out how to make their HOMETOWN FANS happy. This is because you guys over there don't have the abundance of wrestling we do in the States. We could, literally, drive to one of the larger towns in our area and probably find a flyer for an indy wrestling show. We could channel surf and find two indy promotions on TV. So having a ratings success in the UK doesn't really mean much, wrestling-wise, in the States.

I only have the album with "Bound for the Floor" on it, and I don't know how many came before that, but that album is a solid piece of rock n' roll. It's varied enough to find a song anybody will like on it. Like profanity and humorous lyrics? "High-Fiving Motherfucker" is your song!

...do you mean panned by the TNA Marks, the kind found at TNS, or by the fans of the company that actually know what a good product is? Because I've panned plenty of TNA shows, even during their heyday of 2002/first half 2003. But no, I've never seen a TNA show without a TNA Mark saying "hey, it was a good show."

The reasons why come down to two possible choices of categories: the "conspiracy based in fact" theories, and the "sugar-coated" theories. CBIF: -Mantell doesn't agree at all with the way wrestling has gone from simple storylines and simple matches to complex angles, inter-feuding wrestlers (meaning one wrestler can feud with many others at a single time), and movesets that are larger than anything Flair, Hogan, and Steamboat had COMBINED for one wrestler. Because of this, he has purposefully dumbed down the product and limited the wrestlers on the roster in a futile attempt to hold onto what he thinks wrestling should be, even though the past 10 years has proved otherwise. -Jarrett tells everybody else to limit themselves so that he, himself, looks to be the most varied and best wrestler on the roster. He purposefully puts more over, more talented workers into bad feuds and poor matches due to shoddy booking so that he can feel he is the best part of the show. This is called "Kevin Nash Syndrome," named after Nash's run as WCW's head booker. SC: -Mantell is an old-school booker and is presenting an old-school product, modernized a little bit for the current fan. -Jarrett is, was, and always will be the most well-known name on the roster, and thus deserves to be in the top spot, regardless of who is World champion or not. ...now which theories make more sense to you?

Realized Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny weren't real when I was 7. I just looked at my mom and said "Santa's not real" and went back to playing Street Fighter II.

I'm into Local H a bit. Refreshing taste with the overly emo and overly "hey, we're garage!" sounds of most alternative rock bands.

...I'm not saying the music's the same. I'm saying if I wanted to hear an entire album filled with somebody pissing and moaning, like every Smiths song I've heard (except for the Lost Boys song, I'll admit that song is good), then I'd go find an emo band.

So you mean the art team fucked Whedon's vision? Meh. He still fucked over the fans of the series by bringing in a retarded cloning storyline (sorry, but that shit was TOO farfetched, even for the Aliens series), changing Ripley's character from a mother that lost her daughter due to the aliens to a wise-cracking heroine with super strength, and the best character - Ron Pearlman's character, I forget his name right now - was just your run-of-the-mill tough guy. None of the major secondary characters had any development, whereas O'Bannon created strong characters in Alien and Cameron even had secondary characters like Hudson and Vasquez mean something to the plot (the scene that still irks me in Aliens is when Vasquez and Gorman bite it, as I wanted Vasquez to make it out alive because she was so damn cool), and even Alien 3 had Morris and the doctor mean something to the overall plot. Resurrection? None of the characters but Ripley and Call mattered, and you don't feel a damn thing when they're killed off. Blame this on Weaver, who practically fought tooth-and-nail to make sure that the Aliens never reached Earth (despite the vast majority of the series' fans wanting them to reach Earth, and all of the Aliens comics having the Aliens either invading Earth or being wiped out during raids by extermination squads). Meh. Movie was going to be shit anyway, and I'd imagine the characters were excised because they didn't mean anything to the plot (like a lot of Whedon's characters, it seems, they have no depth). Funny, because the direction of A:R was its only redeemable quality.

Well...when you use "St. Anger" for ANYTHING...yeah. Even Linkin Park is an upgrade. And I'm waiting for WWE to use the new Kittie single, "Into the Darkness." It's actually (**GASP!**) a good song.

Jeff isn't so much the problem as Dutch is. Yes, Jeff decides who wins/loses, but the slow-as-all-hell pacing of the show is my big problem with it. Also, Jeff didn't seem to care too much for about a year and a half that the X-Division guys were flying all around and putting on spectacular, fast-paced, long spotfests. Now they're reduced to generic flying, the stuff Ricky Steamboat did that worked in 1989 (15 years ago, if you suck at math), only none of them are as good as Steamboat (with Styles and Daniels being the only two near as good).

They should've realized squash matches haven't gotten wrestlers over since the early 90's. Monte Brown is getting over because of his promo's and his attitude, and not so much his "I'LL HIT THE POUNCE [period] ON SOME JOBBA TONIGHT!" matches. Impact should be extended to two hours, and have roughly an hour's worth of wrestling, and hour's worth of commercials, interviews, and video packages. I like the overall setup of the show, with the general design of it and the way the screen looks (makes it seem very professional, and almost like a real sport), but the thing that's lacking is the PRODUCT. Change the product, and the show will be good.

Rebuttal: Depends. Nobody's really too over in TNA, and that's because Jarrett and Dutch don't book anybody but JJ as anything special, and the fans don't want to even watch JJ anymore. So they'd never even let him do his full entrance, and they'd give him a generic theme as well (as I'm assuming you mean the "Teenage Dirtbag" song by Wheatus). Rebuttal: Only if they realize that the current plan has not been working for a year, as live attendance has dwindled, live reaction has plummeted, and positive internet review (and yes, TNA's core fanbase IS the 'net, because nobody else knows who the fuck they are) has come to an all-time low to any "big" promotion not named WCW. Statement: If the shows were booked with a more "Sports Entertainment" style, although writers were hired to make sure the angles made sense, then TNA would be more popular than it is now.

It'll feature a meaningless X-Division match with terrific spot wrestlers forced to work a generic "high-flyer" style of armdrags, moonsaults, and crossbodies, some tag match featuring the champions and a challenging team that is either Daniels/Storm or a jobber team with no chance of winning, and Truth being buried by people he should be murdering with his eyes closed. So don't order unless TNA suddenly decides to GET THE FUCK RID OF DUTCH MANTEL.

I think he's always had the promo skills and the charisma, but never got to show it in the WWE. And if he's improved in the ring, I haven't seen it yet. Granted, all I've seen of him is in tag matches on Impact, but what I've seen is the same old stuff he was doing on Metal/Velocity with a shitty axe kick as a finisher. Trust me, his ringwork improved drastically once coming to TNA. He pulled a ** match out of an UNTRAINED NASCAR DRIVER (Hermie Sadler) on 7/10/02, and had two consecutive ***3/4 matches with Jerry Lynn in October of '02. His match with LowKi around that time was equally impressive, and his only bad matches in TNA have been with terrible opponents (Ken Shamrock, Gilberti, etc.). Put him with somebody that knows what they're doing, and he puts on a very good match. Whether or not this means he's just easily carried I don't know, but he's better than he was 3 years ago. And the only similarities with Booker that Killings has is some of his moveset (axe kick as a signature move, leaping sidekick as a signature move) and his skin color. That's where it ends.

Hey...Norman Smiley, Lash LeRoux, and Alan Funk (Bruce, KweeWee, The Funkster) rule!

Rebuttal: Doubtful. There is something about him that HHH has and Jericho lacks, and that is a truly marketable look. As great a wrestler as Jericho is, and as more an entertaining one, he doesn't have this "aura" to him that HHH, Rock, Austin, Taker, etc. have/had. Plus, seeing as how HHH is considered one of the best drawing champions ever because he was champion for half of 2000, WWF's most profitable year to date, I doubt Jericho would draw more than him. Statement: New signee "The Promise" Antonio Thomas has more of a chance of getting over on TV than most of the younger stars.

Rebuttal: I'd have to agree. Benoit's best promo to date was his one featured on ECW's "Double Tables" tape about him and Malenko challenging for the Tag Team belts the next event. It was so cryptic and disturbing, and mostly because he was talking about the pleasure in brutally injuring his forthcoming opponents so very calmly. Statement: If HHH had lost to Jericho at Fully Loaded 2000, 100% cleanly, and Jericho's reign as Undisputed Champion wasn't filled with countless run-in's and cheap victories, would ratings and live attendance be better?

First show also had LowKi/AJ Styles/Jerry Lynn vs. Sonny Siaki/Jimmy Yang/Jorge Estrada, which seems better than any match for the past three weeks of TNA.

I don't think they'd be good for WWE, considering they have a bad reputation of dogging it whenever they're told they're going to job. That, and Harris has terrible mic skills, and Storm has a bad look. Both also work rather stiff in the ring, and most of their offense involve head-drops, or moves other workers in WWE use, and I doubt either are at the level where they could modify their moveset on a whim.

I did fuck all, graduated with a decent 2.48 GPA (for all four years) after three years of doing little, if any, homework, and had the most fun of any of my years in school. I got along with all but three of my teachers (luckily, nobody else got along with them, either), and outside of school I was out practically every night doing something. Also lost my virginity at the beginning of senior year, and started growing my hair back to the length it is now (in my sig). So yeah. Senior year will be fun unless the teacher of the one class you ABSOLUTELY need to pass is a complete cunt and doesn't know how to teach.

Well, considering Nile is a band you REALLY need to let grow on you to truly "get," I'd suggest just BUYING In Their Darkened Shrines. There's no way in hell that you can say they're JADMB when they sound like NO OTHER DEATH BAND AROUND. Plus, if you like growlers with enunciation, then why do you hate Barnes? He's the easiest growler to understand, really. And the reason you probably can't understand Karl's vocals is because, well, half of the lyrics are in Egyptian.

Considering the Antichrist act was only for one album...yeah. But yeah. I can't get the Smiths love by anybody. All I hear is some pasty white guy complaining. If I wanted that, I'd listen to Dashboard Confessional. Oh, wait, that guy has a tan!

I hate Whedon's TV work (could never get into Buffy, considering the movie was a fun little spoof on vampire films, and the show was a teen drama that happened to have vampires). I hated the script for Alien: Resurrection (the direction was great, the special effects tolerable, and the acting was good from all involved, but the plot and the story were terrible). Face it, guys: the movie's gonna be reduced to Xavier Hills: 90210. See, Wolverine will reveal he's a homosexual, Rogue will admit she's actually been able to control her powers since the beginning but just didn't because she's scared of human contact, and Storm will shave her head and get into punk rock.