bob_barron

New York sucks when it comes to fast food

Punk's pretty straightforward so if you catch him on a bad day, he's going to be an asshole. I've had experiences where he was cool, and other times where he was a dick

I'm going to a Nixon screening + Q-n-A with Oliver Stone tomorrow at my local arts theatre. Has anyone seen the movie?

Kennedy's made of glass

But the midcard matches are usually so short. Yuji-Dean was awesome though, I loved that

The new Kevin Smith movie Zach and Miri got an R rating on appeal. on appeal for strong crude sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity and pervasive language That's a lot of naughty things in one movie

It's a drama. The "sequel" to Havoc wasn't really a sequel. Amber did a movie called Normal Adolescent Behaviour that played some festivals and ended up appearing on Lifetime completely recut and then was released straight to DVD as Havoc 2: Normal Adolescent Behaviour. She wrote a really angry post at her message board. The Return got a wide release, it's just that no one saw it. Not every film is on here. Postal, I know had a PSA of under $1,000 but I think the movie just wasn't tracked. Ditto another film called Felon with Val Kilmer.

Because putting out a movie is so expensive now. Not just with the bottom line but the marketing and advertising that's required of it. With DVD exploding for several years, producers could make enough money selling the film internationally and recoup the rest on DVD. Guys like Wesley Snipes, Segal and Van Damme can still sell enough overseas, that their movies can be dumped to DVD in the states without having to spend out the ass promoting it. Edison Force has probably the most high profile straight to DVD cast, though I think that went straight to DVD because it was so terrible that they didn't want to kill Justin Timberlake's film career out of the gate and embarass Spacey and Freeman. Robin Williams also had a film go straight to DVD recently as well. That would be a fun project- find straight to DVD movies with name casts. More on Zyzzx Road, from a Time magazine article- Daily Variety mentioned the dismal box-office in a story last month, and since then the web has been abuzz with news, gossip and (mostly) bad jokes about the film. Produced for an estimated $1.2 million — about one-eighth the budget of Little Miss Sunshine — Zyzzyx Road played in a single, solitary Texas theater late last year. What happened? The answer is actually simple: the brief release in an inaccessible spot was deliberately chosen by the filmmakers to validate the Screen Actors Guild pay scales for films under $2.5 million. The picture needed to be shown in at least one theater for at least one week to qualify for the special wages paid to actors who are involved with a low-budget film. This is to ensure that producers don't fast-talk eager actors into accepting lower pay for what they are told is a legitimate feature, but is actually a direct-to-video project. Although Zyzzyx's filmmakers had always planned to seek a distributor for a large, domestic release, they first rented out the small Texas theater in order to fulfill the SAG requirements.

I wonder why the Jets didn't get him, that would've made this story even bigger

I don't know if Kane is better than him, since Kane has not done much. Ever. I like the series with Eddy, though I think the Judgment Day match is overrated. The Benoit cage match is good, don't remember the Rey match that much. I loved the Cena match, found the JD 08 match to be slow, and I don't remember the Armageddon 4-way.

Ignore it, then. You crying about the name calling to distract people from the fact that you don't have a clue. Did not say that at all, and has no relevance to the argument. God, I sure hope not, then you would have to accept that you're wrong. I did say that the pops and boos that Cena gets on RAW and PPVs are not piped in but is genuniely how the crowd feels about him, since he is the most over person on the roster, and the face of the company.

The British Bulldog is my favourite wrestler of all time. I love watching heel Bulldog in his WWF run from 95-97. He just seemed to be having so much fun out there. I wish he had never left the WWF post-Montreal I didn't like him turning heel in 1999, but I think they realised he just could not sustain a main event push in his condition.

Really? Will you satify my nosyness please?

People have been debating with you. It's just that some of your points are so outrageous and just flat out wrong, that it is hard for people to not think of you as an idiot. And you pulling a Jingus with your "you guys, I'm in the business" stuff, does not help matters. Shut up. Many people have debated with you point by point, every argument that you have raised. Don't start crying just because many of your posts have been easily refuted. Not to worry, the general consensus is that the WWE folder has always been pretty terrible! So, how about those piped in pops for Cena on Monday. Well played, Vince.

When was JBL great? He had one fun brawl with Cena and that's it. I know anklelock will take back what he said about me in another thread, but JBL is someone whose ring work has always bored me

I've heard that a lethal injection can be pretty messed up as well. The firing squad does sound pretty badass, I'd love to see that brought back. I don't think Jingus is from Texas, I think he just lives there.

Magnolia is owned by Mark Cuban, which is why their trailers are on HD-Net.

Don't forget about Sisterhood. Fantasy moguls has TDK barely edging out Pineapple Express to remain at #1. And Tropic Thunder has been expected to be the late hit of the summer for a long time. With the starpower, it is considered a major release by far.

Its only a SAG technicality that certain films have to come out in theatres, no matter how badly they're going do, isn't it? I remember hearing about Katherine Heigl being in one of the lowest grossing films ever, but contractually, they had to release it in cinemas, even if it was just for a week or so before it went straight to dvd. With Zzyx Road, there was some rule regarding residuals that made it cheaper to be released in theatres, so they just rented a screen in Texas to establish that. The Katherine Heigl movie is the lowest grossing film of all time, making $30. I think with other movies, it's in the contract that they have to give it a theatrical release. Direct to DVD also has a certain stigma, so often releasing a movie briefly in theatres is a glorified advertisement for DVD.

I don't know if I agree. Nitro has some decent short matches, but most of the main events on RAW usually deliver. The Nitro main events are just brutal.

Kennedy defeated the U.S. Champion, Shelton Benjamin on SD! last week, thus setting up a program with Benjamin... Try to keep up. I watched Smackdown EHME, so I am keeping up. We'll see where this goes, before calling it a programme. Still makes no sense to just job him out to Umag like they did

Yes it is. Dark Knight's weekend grosses will be cut in half by 40 percent each week, and then they will lose weekday numbers as August rolls on and people start going back to school

All of these movies usually end up being released on DVD

Sadly, most of the promos are 100% scripted these days. Kennedy's really good on the mic, but he's just lost in the shuffle right now. I thought it was odd they would send him to Smackdown! and then job him out to Umaga. I do laugh at Meltzer and Alvarez's fixation on hating him b/c he keeps putting his foot in his mouth

TDK hit $400 million yesterday, in 18 days. That's insane