DrVenkman PhD

That Raven promo on ECW was interesting, with Dreamer attacking him in the middle of it and Raven finishing it, but not before knocking the backdrop down and revealing what appeared to be a hotel room. I assume that's PE's last TV appearance for now too before having some epic matches with The Smoking Gunns.

It's real to me, damnit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lESoBg1FZzc UnAmericans vs Jeff Hardy and Tommy Dreamer... but ignore that, just go to around 1:20.

A lot of people told me Hot Fuzz was really dull. The most positive thing a friend told me was "they shouldn't have marketed it as a comedy", which I guess was his way of saying "it was a good movie but not funny".

I've never played any of it, just saw some of the anime.

I'm waiting for MMO's to evolve into an all encompassing deal as presented in the .hack series.

I heard a story that early TNA couldn't pay lower card guys like Jason Cross so they just had Trinity change in their dressing room.

Apparently Matt Hardy is a visible crowd member (with a crewcut) during SuperBrawl III.

Hulkamania Forever! A MSG show from 1990! Don't f this month up, WWE/Cogeco (still waiting for NWO 07 and SBIII, don't think they're coming at this point). I thought that the ME from Survivor Series 93 would end up as a Shortie, but I'm glad to see the entire event is getting played (yeah it's not the best, but I'm a mark for SurSer's and I don't have this one on tape. Love that opening match and SMW tag title bout). BUNKHOUSE STAMPEDE! Which I think I already saw on 24/7 before, it wasn't as dumb as the description sounded, but still pretty dumb.

I didn't bother pointing out the post Hardcorps games because my "isn't this 4?" point was already made (and again, I think it will be moot when they retitle the game "Contra: Deadly Skies"). On that note, the whole numbering rule was already broken with Contra III anyway (Contra -> Super C -> Contra Force -> Contra III).

No offense to anyone but I often feel like I'm repeating myself in these threads. I think I said twice in the June thread that Thursday Raw Thursday was being shown in July. July begins on June 27th and, as far as I can tell, is a 5 week cycle. I assume this is the only reason that a MNW is being held off for 3 weeks (I recall this happening last fall when the programming department didn't realize doing one MNW every other week worked out better than making 2 available for 3 or 4 weeks). 3 NWA shows in July would seem to indicate a 5 week schedule (June 27th, July 11th, and July 25th being the NWA dates, I would assume). I'm looking forward to that 6 man tag. I wonder what the other 5 shorties will be? Here's hoping for Vader vs. Sting from GAB 92, though that is probably not likely.

I figure Kane either quietly left for that knee problem that was brought about around Mania, or creative had big plans for the Kane/Boogeyman team and now has nothing for him at the moment.

This is why I hate it when a series swaps numbers for sub-titles, then revert back. Wouldn't Hardcorps be Contra IV? Or was it just a harder version of CIII? All moot anyway, it's just a tentative title. Could be good.

I've never had any interaction with this person, but since he insisted on saying "if it has breasts and a vagina, don't trust it" when just "vagina" would by itself denote he was making a not subtle commentary about women, he comes across as someone that says unnecessary things. I've wanted to make that point for a long time and this seemed like the outlet.

Wikipedia has episode synopsi for I think the first 6 episodes of the season. I'm sure there from an official source like HBO or something but even the brief blurbs are somewhat spoilerish.

After remembering every movie I saw since my friends started a Tuesday movie night in late February where a group of us (varying from 2 to 14 people) have gone to a movie almost every week, I came up with this list. Some of the position of the movies probably could have gone either way as a lot were even for different reasons. 1. 300 - seem to remember liking it a lot. It's funny that I've gone to the theatre more times in 2007 then maybe the past two years combined but I'm delcaring a movie that probably shouldn't be called MOTY my top movie so far. I guess it means there was a lot out there that I wanted to see (or would accept seeing in a social gathering) that didn't deliver as high as I hoped. 2. Grindhouse - one of 2007s bombs had our biggest TMN turn out (the 14 people mentioned above) though I didn't know at least 5 of them. If the movie had opened with the Hobo with a Shotgun trailer, did the real trailers, then Planet Terror, then more fake trailers, then like, a 40 minute version of "Death Proof", easy #1. I don't mean to rag on Death Proof because it was fine for what it was, but it was just way too slow of a start after seeing Planet Terror. Maybe even if the order of the movies had been reversed, we all would have forgotten how dull the Jungle Julie bit was and been like, "wow awesome car scene followed by awesome Planet Terror!", but it was not to be. Still great, though. 3. Knocked Up - can't go wrong with Katherine Heigl, Marshall from HIMYM, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, appearances by people from The Office, and funny writing. A good time had by all. 4. Blades of Glory - I think the "everyone loves John Heder" fad coming off of Napoleon Dynamite was the worst thing since people in grade 5 taped pictures of Jonathan Taylor Thomas to their desk and Will Ferrell's act in these types of movies isn't exactly fresh, but it was still a pretty funny movie. And Jenna Fischer is in it! In lingere! 5. Disturbia - Never had any intention of seeing this (I had actually suggested Vacancy instead, but that waited for a week later - see how THAT turned out below) but I was convinced to go and quite enjoyed the film. Thumbs up. 6. 28 Weeks Later - Mixed reviews from everyone that went to see this, but on the whole I would say I enjoyed it. Is it the 6th top movie I saw? I don't know, but the movies from 5-9 or so are about even (for different reasons, as stated above). 7. TMNT - Most of the people I saw this with really enjoyed it (though had the same complaints about the human animation everyone who talked about it here mentioned) except for one guy who hated it because it "confusingly mixed canons" (ie Kairi does not exist in the previous movie canon, which this follows based on references to them). I was surprisingly entertained by it overall though. 8. Kickin' It Old School (dead serious) - Maybe when I see it on TV next year I won't like it, but I ended up going with a group of people that really wanted to see this and perhaps their laughter was contageous. This is the kind of movie that I REALLY shouldn't like, but between all the 80s references and lines that made us all laugh (and the fact this was a double bill night and we just sat through The Condemned), we came out of it thinking we just discovered the hidden gem of 2007. 9. Spider-Man 3: Putting this movie any lower would make me sad since in a perfect world, this would have been an EASY #1 for 2007. There was no way this movie could have ever lived up to it's hype, and I was ready to accept that, but it was just a big mess. I still liked it - and as far as Marvel 3quels go, it was better than X-Men 3 as well as Superman Returns, which I can't stand - and although I left the theatre claiming it was still ok and I enjoyed myself, reality (well, the negativity from everyone else I know that saw it) has set in. I hate it when stuff like this happens because I really should own this on DVD to be a completist, but I don't think it deserves my purchase. 10. Ocean's 13 - I haven't seen 11 and have been told to steer clear of 12 (though someone else told me 12 was ok). The person I was with (the one that likes 12) told me this was about on par with 12 and was ok, but I really liked it as, without prior viewings of the series, the "big heist" scheming was really fun to watch and see unfold. I was told if I enjoyed that, I should really watch the original. 11. Meet the Robinsons - Didn't want to go but went with a group anyway (the females in our group thought it "looked cute" and wanted to go, y'all know how that is). Pretty clever little tale with some funny lines. 12. Shrek 3 - Well this was a let down. It wasn't bad but it seemed to just be there, going through the motions. I vaguely recall laughing out loud at some dialogue from the princesses, but I don't recall much else. I'd probably rate the series "2 > 1 > 3", just like Spider-Man. 13. Ghostwriter - I liked this movie. It wasn't a good movie or anything, but as a cheesey spaghetti western about a flaming skull biker, it was tops. 14. Fantastic Four 2: Rise and Fall of the Silver Surfer - The first movie wasn't very good and about the only thing this did to improve on it was to actually film in NYC instead of pretending some guy from CTV, some guy from MuchMusic, and a CityTV micraphone (all obviously from Toronto) were the Big Apple. It was ok, maybe better than Ghostrider, but maybe not. Johnny was really funny in this movie though - the corporate logo uniform was a good gag. 15. The Condemned - how the hell do you make Steve Austin beating the hell out of people in a movie that has an asian guy doing mad flips and kicks so dull and not entertaining? By shaking the camera during every fight, I guess. 16. Vacancy - By the books Hollywood suspense complete with characters that should be dead not being dead. The male friend I was with and I mocked the entire movie all the way through, sometimes annoying our female companions (who got all jumpy at times) but usually amusing them with our spot on wit. There were also annoying teenagers there too (one was on the phone). On the topic of phones, do people not realize that opening their phone - whether it's silent or not - to send a text message or check the time - emits a bright light that's annoying? I thought maybe I was just being sensitive to my surroundings but someone else bitched about this with me. 17. Rise: Blood Hunter - I had never heard of this movie and feel I am worse off for seeing it. No one that saw this movie in our group understands why it was picked over Knocked Up including the person that picked it. I was out of town for Pirates 3 and was told it was good, but I suspect it was another trilogy letdown based on what people are saying.

MNW should have been until June 26th (it was just changed last week). Edit: Hmm, I don't know if this is a recent change or not but the Sunflower cable site does list MNW as lasting until July 3rd. I'll check my menu later. The reason for the delay on the next MNW episode is probably because July will end up being a 5 week schedule (with the August schedule starting on Wednesday, August 1st). That's just a guess though.

That's referring to 24/7 online, not TV.

I have no idea what that means, but it varies by cable provider. For example, my menu (from a cable company that uses the "PreVue" brand digital boxes or something like that... I think an eye is the logo) loads up from channel number 247. It then says "Subscribers" or "Free Trial", then Subscribers have 4 categories. Each available video has a synopsis and expiry date. On the other hand, I've heard some providers just have a big list of what's available with no programming buckets, and others have said they can't see when things expire.

Final Fight / SF animated series crossover: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zGH351kEMbA http://youtube.com/watch?v=MOAcSc81CG8

That was great. And they finally took Debi Mazar out of the credits, that was a long time coming. She was in, what, 2 episodes in the whole third season? I was also surprised to see the episode actually run from 10 to 10:30 after all those 22 minute episodes from 3B.

Val Venis and Jim Duggan can form a tag team.

And ECW gets Johnny Nitro. "With its final selection in the Supplemental Draft, ECW has truly gone Hollywood, and may need to change the brand’s program name to Tuesday Nitro." Do it!

I'm surprised they didn't re-unite the Hardys on Raw or SD. Wonder if they'll drag this out with a WWE.com trade later in the week.

What the hell is this "Final Tally" business? They have until 4pm and so far only Raw made their final pick.