King Kamala

I really liked both actually but you got to admit, they weren't very good movies. If that makes any sense.

Whoops, pressed quote when I meant to press edit.

Seven if you count Batman: Mask of Phantasm which was released theatrically IIRC Or maybe you were counting that and you forgot Batman: The Movie with Adam West!

I don't think he's that broke with all of the standup gigs he does unless he has a drug problem. Actually that's probably it.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a Triple H/Regal placeholder feud but that's probably just wishful thinking

She did it for Rodman!

It's odd that Garlic Bread is getting overwhelming support by the people who vote in this thread but is getting drubbed in the voting.

I knew it was that popular due to the fact that my dad bought that album. That's one of maybe a dozen albums he's bought that've been released in the past decade.

Speaking of which, why does Zack Galifnakis only appear in movies that look/are absolutely terrible? At this point, I'm guessing it's solely so he can have fodder for his standup act.

I'll agree with you there, cabbageboy. A lot of people point to Goldberg's streak ending and The Finger Poke of Doom but WCW was still doing fine in the first two or three months of '99. In fact, St. Valentine's Day Massacre's buyrate was only a hair bigger than SuperBrawl's and WCW was drawing record house show attendance with Hogan Vs Flair. Speaking of which, I can imagine that first blood cage match they had at Uncensored turned a lot of people off WCW Back to DDP, I didn't have much of a problem with how he won the title (at least it was something different) but more with the way he was booked afterwards. Almost immediately after he turned heel and IMHO DDP absolutely sucks as a heel. He is the definition of a cliched wrestling heel. And then around that same time- Goldberg took a hiatus to film the Universal Soldier sequel and Hogan took a hiatus. And David Flair started wrestling regularly, we got another Kevin Nash world title run and Sid showed up. Just as WCW seemed to be picking up a little momentum with Spring Stampede, everything seemed to go wrong in a relatively short period of time. That's really the story of WCW. Just as things start to look like they'll work out OK, a bunch of bad shit happens. Summer of '99 WCW is just unbearable to watch. Even the cruiserweight matches at that period weren't particularly memorable. Hell, I can't even remember who had the title. Yet somehow I own Slamboree '99 and Great American Bash '99 on VHS...go figure.

Eh, I honestly just did it because everybody else was doing it.

Feel free to use that as The Let's Talk About...topic next week. The only thing very mildly amusing about that whole angle was how it was abandoned once Bischoff got canned and I think on the first or second Nitro after he came back, they revealed it was him in a very lazy manner. It was like an hour before the Nitro they realized they had forgotten that angle for months and decided to come up with the most half-assed way to end it.

Pretty much my thoughts as well. Though The Deal or No Deal and Japanese Office sketches as well as McCain's appearences make this one of the better ones of the season.

Someone must like it if they keep bringin' it back. Then again SNL has seemed to be lowering their standard lately for what sketches deserve to be recurring.

I think the worst attribute of Russo's booking is not his love for worked shoot angles or his pubescent ideas for mid carders' gimmicks (HUGH G. RECTION!? HAW!) but his complete lack of patience. Since The Powers That Be angle wasn't capturing the wrestling fans imaginations (except cabbageboy's apparently...), he immediately became desparate with those dumbshit nWo and Montreal retreads. As he became more and more desparate in WCW, his ideas got worse and worse.

I kind of liked the first MacGruber then the next two or three I wasn't so hot on but I thought last week's was the best yet.

Saw Dylan again tonight. Really good show hampered by me standing near a bunch of weirdos.Most notably an incredibly high twenty something girl who kept dryhumping the 60 year old white guy with dreadlocks next to her and groaning. Her boobs fell out twice! And there was a group of like eight fifteen year old girls wearing matching bandanas who charged together down the floor and knocked me out of my spot. After the show, I stopped at a Burger King and they were there and recognizing me, they decided to take a picture. I'm probably now in some 15 year old girl's MySpace profile picture... Anyways, a good time was had by all. Since he had no opening act, the show was over by like 9:20. It was good to go to a show for once and be home in time for the eleven o'clock news. Here's the setlist for anyone curious 1. Watching The River Flow 2. Lay Lady Lay 3. The Levee's Gonna Break 4. Shelter From The Storm 5. Rollin' and Tumblin' 6. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 7. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum 8. Mississippi 9. Highway 61 Revisited 10. Workingman's Blues #2 11. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 12. Spirit On The Water 13. The Ballad of Hollis Brown 14. Summer Days 15. Ain't Talkin' Encore 16. Thunder On The Mountain 17. Blowin' In The Wind

I don't think JBL is a ring general but I think he's a capable one and is certainly carryable. Honestly, I've had a small soft spot for the guy since the Justin Hawk Bradshaw days. As for Big Show/Mark Henry, I think Show wins a relatively short match. It seems like they're building him up for 'Taker or Edge. Mark Henry, like he has been in 11 1/2 of his 12 years in wrestling, is really going nowhere.

I feel like the biggest problem with this stint has kind of been understated by all of us. Good, bad, mediocre- whatever you think of his direction, it was the exact opposite of what WCW fans wanted at that time. The WCW fans still left picked Nitro over RAW for a reason and the WWF fans would never switch over because it was basically a watered down version of WWF. IIRC, right after Bischoff got canned in August '99, WCW sent out a survey at live events asking fans what they wanted to see. And the result basically was they wanted more in-ring action and less backstage segments and promos and whatnot. That was WCW for ya. I know I bagged Summer of '99 WCW a bit in this thread and rightfully so. But the short one-month or so period after Bischoff got canned and before Russo and Ferrera came in wasn't all that bad. At least not as bad as what came before and after (that's becoming a theme in this thread...). I still maintain that Sting's heel turn was fairly well done, from a booking standpoint. It bombed because WCW fans would never ever accept Sting as a heel and Hogan's act was tired at that point that it was hard to muster any enthusiasm for him. Actually I remember the Nitro before Russo came in (the one highlighted by the Owen Hart tribute match between Bret Hart and Chris Benoit) was one of the best Nitros they did in months.

I was never particularly bad or good at dodgeball but my favorite mundane sports achievement happened at the sport. So one day in 7th grade, we were playing and my team was stinking on ice that day. I was employing the strategy of hanging in the back and chucking any ball that came way. Eventually, everybody on my team is eliminated except me and there's still about 12 kids left on the other team and they have all of the balls. Somehow I manage to dodge three or four of 'em and then manage to catch one to let the rest of my team back in the game and we proceed to kick ass and take names. I also ripped my shirt off on a dare in middle school P.E. I was an odd kid.

Plus Mama Mia is opening that same day!!!

Yeah but the Undertaker's already dead really...

I did that Hogan picture 2nd, HTQ you hack! What if Hogan never jumped from the AWA to WWF? (Hogan Vs Inoki at WrestleRock?) Who could have saved WCW? Carlos Zambrano Vs Goldberg= Money, I guess.

How could anyone forget the time when Curt Hennig lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Buff Bagwell at Mayhem only to wrestle the next night. I'm trying to remember the Powers That Be. I can remember the members (Curt Hennig, Creative Control, Jeff Jarrett, La Parka, the mysterious shadowed Russo) but I can't remember any of the specifics of that angle.

As bad as it got at times, Russo's first stint was a hell of a lot better than what came before it (Summer of '99 crap) and what came after it (Kevin Sullivan's downright horrible stint which IMHO is the worst television WCW ever produced). Given that, maybe it's understandable why WCW brought Russo back.