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Can't forget Bruno Sammartino! And The Powers of Pain and Captain Lou Albano as the bad guys. Everybody's favorite little person Billy Barty also shows up. Why oh why isn't this movie on DVD?

Megabucks: The Early Years (WWWF MSG Promo April '79) Curt Hennig Vs "Wild Cat" Chris Harris (from an episode of Worldwide circa May '00) Vince Torrelli (a pre UFC Ken Shamrock) Vs Johnny Z (some guy)

Goldberg was gone in the spring/early Summer of '99 because he was filming his part in whatever Universal Soldier sequel he was in.

Aw man! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES!

I hate to toot my own horn but I feel like I'm getting another huge steal here. Perhaps the biggest steal of the draft. This team simply doesn't deserve to be left on the board at this stage. They left an indelible mark on tag team wrestling in the 90s. They were one of the hottest tag teams to ever come out of the Land of Extreme and they even managed to capture brief success in WCW (which is about as far as you can get from the Land of Extreme). They're another team that would work just as well as babyfaces as they would heels. I'll be using them as the former. I think they're a natural fit against The Nasty Boys or The Headshrinkers. Both matches would result in wildly entertaining brawls. In fact, I think they'd put on entertaining matches against any team on my roster. These men are four time former ECW Tag Team Champions, former NWA World Tag Team Champions, and former WCW Tag Team Champions... With my 22nd pick and the 390th pick overall in the All Time Wrestling Roster Draft, I'm proud to select... "Flyboy" Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge....Public Enemy!

I can't believe I forgot to mention Body Slam when I mentioned wrestling movies. That was one of my favorites as a kid. Roddy Piper! Faceman! Captain Lou Albano! Charles Nelson Reilly! How could I forget? How could I forget?

I'll share two more, both related to mid '90s WWF. A long time ago, I had a really brief dream where my dad and Vader got into a fistfight at some bar. Surprisingly, my dad held his own and gave Vader a bloody nose. The dream ended shortly after Vader tackled my dad through the bar counter. The other one I had a couple years back where I went to a WWF house show in a giant barn. No joke, it was a 3,000 seat barn with hay stacks behind the bleachers. Unfortunately, I don't remember any animals running amok in the dream. Anyways, the oddest part was even though I had this dream two or three years ago, the roster was from '96. The only matches I remember specifically were Jake Roberts Vs Owen Hart and Savio Vega Vs Sid for the WWF World title was the main event. Another weird aspect, the main event was a really good, borderline **** match with both men juicing and a Dusty finish.

Yeah, The Wrestler. I saw that reletively recently. Not that terrible. There are one or two really cool scenes and there are a shitton of awesome camoes but it's mostly just boringly mediocre. Sadly, it's probably the "best" wrestling movie. At least, it doesn't aggresively suck like the others. I've got a lot of hope for the Darren Aronofsky wrestling movie coming out next year (incidentally also titled The Wrestler). If that one manages to suck than there is no hope for a decent movie about pro wrestling. I always thought Altman could have done a decent movie about wrestling but that's not happening now... I just saw Night and The City like a month or so ago and it is indeed awesome but calling it a wrestling movie is kind of pigeonholing it. It's a film noir with wrestling. I may have to include it though to counteract the suck.

Yep, it also has Frankie Kazarian and Hayabusa in it. Somehow I've managed to avoid it. There was a time when it was the only movie on IMDb to have a 1.0 rating. Oh and apparently the heroes are trying to get into FMW out of all wrestling organizations. After writing that post on Slammed, I'm considering doing a bad wrestling movies mini-festival at my house. Slammed, Backyard Dogs, Ready To Rumble, and No Holds Barred! What a craptacular evening of entertainment.

Come on, just because it's old doesn't mean it's any better than the rest of the schlock in this thread. The song is the definition of saccahrin!

I hated this song before it was cool to hate it. Easily one of my least favorite songs of all time and I like Stevie.

Larry Nelson did in fact have a drug problem back in the 80s and wrote a tell all book about his crazy times in the AWA that I hear is quite entertaining.

WCW really didn't seem to hype it all that much. At least not to the extent WWE has with their shitty movies At least I mean they gave David Arquette the World title but I don't remember them promoting the actual movie that much. Sad thing is, it's way more entertaining than any of the WWE Films. It's probably technically worse but all of the WWE Films are just boring bad, Ready To Rumble has a certain trainwreck quality to it. There's a truly awful semi-recent wrestling comedy that no one else except me has seem to have seen called Slammed. It makes Ready To Rumble look like a brilliant piece of social satire. The oldest brother from Home Improvement teams up with the guy from the Dungeons and Dragons movie and Cody from Step By Step to conquer the world of bar room wrestling. Oh and somewhere along the line, Tiny Lister jerks off. John O'Hurley's in it too for some reason. Easily the worst wrestling movie I've seen but at the same time, oddly entertaining!

I'm disappointed that the excuse for David Arquette's ill fated heel turn in WCW wasn't related to DDP's being a dick to Jimmy King. Heck, I'm disapointed Oliver Platt didn't show up as Jimmy King on Nitro and try to battle The New Blood. The only part of the movie that stuck out to me as being (very very mildly) amusing when I watched it the other day was him telling Mean Gene that he was sexy. Another good thing that I think came out of that movie was the all too short lived sleazy pervert Mean Gene angle.

Wild Wild West and Ready To Rumble are probably the two worst movies I liked when I was 13. Fuck, I own the latter. For some reason, it's been playing on HBO a lot lately and I watched it a week or so back and I couldn't comprehend why I liked it so much back in the day. Sure, you had the wrestling stuff but I also saw No Holds Barred when I was a kid and knew it wasn't that good so it couldn't have been just that. Hmm, the director of Ready To Rumble also directed Norbit, The Shaggy Dog, and Good Burger. Clearly, the man must be stopped. Wild Wild West has some mildly amusing stuff in it but it's definitely terrible. Not something I'd proudly boast of enjoying. Though I've proclaimed my love for Pootie Tang numerous times here so I may not be one to talk. I bet Clooney's really glad he narrowly avoided playing Kevin Kline's part. IIRC, he was actually cast and they advertised the Smith/Clooney team up briefly in the trade papers. If he had done Batman and Robin and that, he'd probably be stuck doing TNT original movies like the rest of his former ER castmates

Prepare to be (slightly) underwhelmed. For how legendary it is, Caddyshack really isn't that great. They spend too much time on the actual caddies when you just want to see Chevy and Rodney and them acting a fool. Yeah, Happy Gilmore is a better golf movie. I've heard that but I still think it's one of those movies you're sort of obligated to see if you're a comedy fan. I'll probably just watch it next time, it comes on HBO. Oddly enough, I have seen about a half hour of Caddyshack 2 and that's probably why I've waited so long to see the first one. Poor poor Dan Aykroyd. He's easily my favorite original SNL castmember and he's probably been in even more shitty movies than Chevy Chase. And I went nuts when I saw Jim Downey in There Will Be Blood. So random. And checking his wikipedia, he's Robert Downey Jr's uncle. What a life.

Abbott and Costello>You guys

Man, Screwed. I'm one of the six people who saw that movie! I used to like that one just as much as Dirty Work. I haven't seen it since it first came out on DVD and I really doubt it'd hold up. The only specific thing I remember was Danny DeVito with the weird wig and goatee he had yelling "I'M SCREWED!" a lot. Oh and a gay Sherman Helmsley. Isn't Norm going to be a panelist on the new Match Game? That's a perfect fit.

Completely had a brainfart on Caddyshack (and The Three Amigos). I know it's comedy blasphemy but I've never seen Caddyshack. I should get on that shit yesterday. And Dirty Work came to mind because I watched part of it yesterday on The Movie Channel. Bob will hate me for this- but it didn't hold up quite as well as I remembered. It's still sort of funny but you can kind of see why we haven't seen an abundance of Norm MacDonald movies. Chevy Chase is still hillarious in it though. Easily the funniest thing he's done in the past twenty years. "What I don't understand is...when you owe a bookie a lot of money, and he, say, blows off one of your toes, you still owe him the money. That doesn't seem fair to me. Especially when he's going to kill you in four days anyway."

Funny Farm is probably the best non-Vacation Chevy Chase movie. Except maybe Dirty Work, but that really wasn't a Chevy Chase movie persay.

I think it was the Glenn Beck fandom that pushed Marvin from lovable oddball to one of TSM's most hated poster.

ZZ Top- "Got Me Under Pressure" My dad would hate me but I think synthesizer driven blues rock ZZ Top better than 70s just plain blues rock ZZ Top. You wouldn't think it work but it does. I don't think it would have worked with just any old 70s journeymen hard rockers (who'd want to hear a synthesizer driven Foghat record?) but those beards and fuzzy guitars made it work. Sure, it only worked for one album but that album was one of the biggest rock albums of the 80s. And I'm a big fan of any song that mentions cocaine. Bonus points if it's a non hip-hop song that mentions cocaine.

Well Chicago WGN is, at least in this market, the Canadian HD feed for CW. So here's to ALF! Chicagoland/Canadian icon.