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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.

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

Ditto. I'd love to play around with my roster.

Back when I was 13 or so- some old dude (who for some reason sticks out in my memory as a dead ringer for Leonard Maltin) waited a half hour after a screening of Reign of Fire to yell at my friend's dad who was picking us up because we were quietly making fun of the movie from time to time. The old dude sat next to us during the movie- even though there were only like six people in theatre. Creeped the hell out of me. I still hate Reign of Fire and Leonard Maltin because of this.

I've had way too many dreams involving wrestling over the years (for incquiring minds, none of them were wet dreams) and in this thread, I'll share some of the most notable ones. My favorite one was one I had about five or six years ago. In the dream, I was attending an indy show at the armory up the street where the local indy fed ran monthly at the time.For some reason, the crowd was incredibly small, even by local indy standards and I was sitting by myself for some reason. Besides myself, there were only about a dozen fans there. Anyways, I was sitting in the front row watching the main event which was The Road Warriors (this was shortly before Hawk's death) against a pair of faceless, scrawny jobbers. The match only lasted about ninety seconds with The Road Warriors getting the decisive win. Incensed at the disappointing main event and performance by the tag team legends- I began to loudly heckle The Road Warriors as they made their way to the back. This raised the ire of the tag team legends- who began lumbering after me. They managed to chase me out of the building into the parking lot. Just as it seemed like I was going to get hit with a Doomsday Device to the concrete- Hulk Hogan pulled in the parking lot in a red and yellow convertible and demanded that "I jump in the Hulkmobile brother!". I hopped into the Hulkmobile and we raced out of the parking lot. The dream ended just as the Road Warrior started giving chase on matching red and black motorcycles. This may be the geekiest thread I've started in my history at TSM. Anybody else got any wrestling related dreams (or nightmares) that they want to share?

Reading at movies BAD! BAD!

Oddly enough, both times I went to captioned screenings of a movie, there were several angry filmgoers demanding refundseven though it was pretty clearly advertised as a captioned screening. And it's not like they have to read the subtitles. Speaking of bad movie crowds, one of these captioned screenings was a showing of King Kong. And the majority of the audience was inexplicably laughing for 10-15 minutes because of the subtitles before they got used to them or became inexplicably angry at them.

Don't get what you're trying to go for, bro.

I mentioned this before but I'm in total agreement with my man Bobby B about old people being as bad as teenagers at movie theaters. A group of old biddies sitting behind me's unneccessary comments ruined I Heart Huckabees for me. All through out the movie they kept commenting how weird and/or silly the movie was before walking out two-thirds of the way through (And really, if you're going to walk out of a movie, what's the point of doing it that late into it?). I had a similar experience during Big Fish, two old biddies talking about how odd the movie it was. No shit. It's Tim Burton! I've got to say the worst movie experience I've had in a while was Michael Clayton. There were a couple of 13/14 year olds running up and doing the aisles and horsing off all through out the movie. First off, they shouldn't have let them in! Second, why would a bunch of 13/14 year olds be at a showing of Michael Clayton? Cause it's cool to sneak in an R-rate movie no matter what the movie is? This kind of shit only seems to happen to me at good movies. Why can't it just happen to me at Halloween or Click?

I like most jelly beans and licorice isn't totally revolting but I just hate Good & Plenty. Back when I used to trick or treat, I preferred getting raisins and pennies over Good & Plenty. I do like its less heralded counterpart, Good & Fruity however. I also love me some candy corn.

I regret not taking The Brainbusters with my second pick as I'm almost absolutely certain that Kerry Von Erich would have been there for my third pick. I love the hell out of my roster right now but having three out of four of the original Horseman would have made it sweeter.