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RVD and Sabu will be fired by Tuesday. End of Story.

Didn't Austin take the title to WCW/ECW during the Invasion? So either the WWE title didn't technically exist until 2002, and thus the 1963 line is a lie, or we can assume it did exist, which means that it is not the first time the belt has been with another "promotion," which just happenes to be ECW, again. I love WWE revisionist history.

This PPV will mean nothing in a week, like every other WWE show. It was WWE booked with WWE talent in typical WWE main event style. That is not a good thing.

Basically have to reboot the machine everytime to play one DVD on this POS program called WinDVD. Need a new one. Any thoughts? I've been told to stay away from WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player, etc. Might be the hardware too. It is a Sony DVD-Rom after all.

Well since X3 had the second highest opening say EVER (After Revenge Of The Sith) then I guess that the mentality they have is fine. And I quite liked The Punisher. Very underrated and one of the better Marvel movies. Read bob barron's post. X3 will be lucky to make back it 210 million dollar budget. Hulk had the same problem. Once word got out that the movie blew, it finished at 120 million, which is exactly how much it cost to make the movie in the first place. This is not good news in the least. And Batman and Robin had an awesome opening weekend too. And they never made their money back. Even more embarrasing was that it was destroyed in the third week by a chick flick (My Best Friend's Wedding).

Looks like WB's sabotage job was a complete success. Most of the glaring problems of this movie (music, dialogue, pacing, story) would not have happened if Singer and crew were there. We'll see it in Superman Returns, maybe. Only things I see staying the same with Singer is that Cyclops means nothing and Xavier gets taken out right away. But in X2, it had a purpose. This movie was complete fluff and a slap in the face to everyone who saw X2 and liked it. X-Men 1 was bad, but forgivable because it was the most heavily hyped comic book movie in ages (Blade had a cult following at best) and no one knew what to do, and even then the movie was tolerable. But there was a can't miss formula in X2 (tell a compelling story and let the action supplement it), and the ball was completely dropped. Phoenix, Xavier, Cyclops, Mystique, Angel, Rogue, and Beast were completely useless. Marvel needs to stop thinking that the name can sell a movie. At this time last here, many were saying that the only Marvel movies to care about were Spider-Man and X-Men, because Daredevil, Elektra, Punisher, and Hulk were all hit-or-miss. Now it's down to one.

I'll give you a prime example. The Smackdown taping in San Diego last month. Most people there were only going to see Rey Mysterio, as he was the only advertised guy for the event when tickets went on sale. When was the last time Smackdown in the US had a sellout crowd, anyway? They could have cared less about the rest of the card. They wanted see a good showing of their hometown boy. Which explains the less than "markish" response when the hometown guy (who is supposed to be the champion and top face) was made to tlook like a total joke. Yeah, they could have booed Umaga out of the building, it certainly would have been a welcome response for WWE to see that he's getting over, but the people were silent, not in disbelief, but because they were watching shit. People on the West Coast are fickle if anything. One week they will go crazy for something, only to be watching it while sitting on their hands the whole time. They definately are not "sheep." Less than markish response? The hell are you talking about? That crowd didn't sit on their hands when Mysterio got beat and then JBL cut a promo on Mysterio. The crowd boo'ed. The crowd wasn't silent and didn't get up start leaving. That example you just used is really a load of crap. Besides Umaga and Mysterio aren't even on the same show. Also what your talking about is something differant from what we're talking about. Your talking about a wrestler getting no reaction at all because the fans just don't care. We're talking about the crowds not knowing how to react to a certain angle. Your talking about the California crowds not giving a shit about the product while we're discussing why Cena is being cheered so much now. I meant Khali. Doesn't really matter in the end because they are both getting the same monster push. At least Umaga hasn't buried Cena, yet. And I responded to the why the West Coast doesn't mark out for ECW, and why RVD has no heat as a result. As far as I can remember, Cena had nothing to do with this. But I can already see that I'm going to lose this argument, because I'm not a wrestling fan and I just "don't understand it."

I'll give you a prime example. The Smackdown taping in San Diego last month. Most people there were only going to see Rey Mysterio, as he was the only advertised guy for the event when tickets went on sale. When was the last time Smackdown in the US had a sellout crowd, anyway? They could have cared less about the rest of the card. They wanted see a good showing of their hometown boy. Which explains the less than "markish" response when the hometown guy (who is supposed to be the champion and top face) was made to tlook like a total joke. Yeah, they could have booed Umaga out of the building, it certainly would have been a welcome response for WWE to see that he's getting over, but the people were silent, not in disbelief, but because they were watching shit. People on the West Coast are fickle if anything. One week they will go crazy for something, only to be watching it while sitting on their hands the whole time. They definately are not "sheep."

Well, I had never seen this clip, so thanks for putting it up. On a side note, it wasn't funny to me. Just means it's another stupid fanboy moment in a movie.

West Coast crowds understand exactly what is going on. They just don't care because they don't find it entertaining.

The whole thing sounds like an angle right out of wrestling anyway, so it's probably going to be on TV when Batista comes back.

Good game, but way too short. Unlocked everything in less than three days. Definately missed the flying, but otherwise, it's not bad. Thumbs up.

So anyone know how Vince is going to get back at the critics for panning the movie on Raw? I mean, he'd just look dumb bashing the Da Vinci Code, since the critics ripped that one apart too.

The headline was enough. I'm never having kids.

Hope she gets better. As for her "star power," there is big difference in being a hit on cable TV (Sable, Chyna, etc.) and being a hit on network television (Stacy). Then there's the whole image thing. Being in Playboy means nothing, in fact, I think it does more harm than good. Stacy on network TV dancing in hot dresses is a classy image. Being on a lowbrow wrestling show posing for nude magazines to appease 14-year-olds...not so much. I seriously hope Trish never does it. Well, the nude thing, anyway. Stacy never really needed McMahon, either. She was brought to WWE because of her popularity in WCW, and because Vince has a blond fetish. And what did she get out of it, anyway, besides a job?

DX in 2006 will fail the same way the NWO failed in 2002. - It's a group of over the hill wrestlers trying to be cool again. Mid-life crisis, anyone? - Strong backstage power almost guarantee someone's getting buried.

They exploited everyone's death for Confidential, just to get a rating out of it. What a shitty company. And the ECW thing is in no way unpredictable. It's going to fail. In less than eight months. Or at the very least be completely irrelevant.

I hated that Styles shoot promo, because it once again shows how much of an ego WWE has over its highly overrated superiority. HHH did a similar thing two months ago to Cena, basically exposing every valid shortcoming of the character, which only made Cena look like a fool and get more heavily booed. This promo, while awesome, did something weird. The people in that arena booed the stuff out of the building, proving that they really are a bunch of tools who just don't know any better. WWE brainwashing has led them to believe that WWE = real wrestling, when it is nowhere near it. The reaction to the valid critics of the product showed that most WWE fans are just as shortsighted as McMahon, and why nothing has changed in years.

Yes. After all, this ECW thing is just The Invasion, Bomb #2.

Last Order isn't on the American DVD. Stay away from it.

WB Network stupidity cancels DC shows, not Timm. As far as I remember, Superman was the only DC cartoon that was actually cancelled. Actually, Justice League was supposed to end with that Cadmus arc thing. This season is more of a bonus.

Diva Search 3?! Heaven help us all. I actually can't believe WWE is giving me valid reasons to get sterilized.

Sounds like the double turn then. The chop gets a pop. If Triple H becomes face, it won't even make it to the next PPV.

The Invasion was already one of the biggest flops in pro wrestling history before September 2001. Angle has been a joke (character-wise) from day one. And mid-carders don't matter anyway. At least now Vince is smart enough to no longer use war as a gimmick for the main event at a Wrestlemania (Slaughter-Hogan).

Shawn probably wasn't required to go until AFTER Bret said he'd walk out if he saw him. That reeks of Vince stirring the pot to get more heat on his angles. Why else cut out 22 minutes of one of the most anticipated 30 minute speeches in a while? Because McMahon didn't want to have Bret talk on TV, he wanted Bret and Shawn to have a fight on camera. Shawn's losing tomorrow as punishment.