godthedog

indeed i did, and i still stand by that claim. that thread is the only reason this one isn't number one. this discussion is dangerously elevating the thread. i must stop.

one of my favorite films of the 90s. so many great moments, especially the siren scene in the desert. i have great high school memories of watching it with my best friend till 2 in the morning, then trying to figure out what it meant till 3:30. and now i'm going to be the best man at his wedding in two weeks. god damn i feel old. just watched 'the station agent'. very good movie up until the last 15 minutes or so when it tries too hard to be dramatic, but the rest of it was nice. especially the first half hour or so, which was pitch-perfect.

wow. i knew fischer was in seclusion on the other side of the world, but i thought he was just being weird, not hiding from the government.

i disagree, the lunch thread was ever so slightly more entertaining. it had a 'plan 9' train wreck appeal to it. this one is equally stupid, but much too boring to have any kind of redeeming value.

the nearest steak-and-shake is in atlanta. and the one time i've been inside one, the wait was an hour.

i think this might be the second-worst thread ever.

i've had this experience many times. i can't tell you how many incidents i've had of calling people to meet with them at waffle house, asking them which one, them telling me the road it's on, and me calling from the OTHER waffle house on the same road wondering where they are. there's the waffle house on belair BEFORE the interstate, then there's the waffle house on belair AFTER the interstate (you can actually SEE one waffle house from the other one), then there's the waffle house on washington by evans 12, then there's the waffle house on washington by burger king, and many others.

i was unaware that my uncle went to vietnam to kill children. thank you for enlightening me.

now that i think about it, that looks more like a still from "love will find you." the michael martin murphey edition: 1. "carolina in the pines" 2. "disenchanted" 3. "geronimo's cadillac" 4. "wildfire" 5. "cherokee fiddle"

what i remember seeing in the last month, not including 'triumph of the will': salesman shadow of a doubt passion to have and to have not through a glass darkly kwaidan stolen kisses stagecoach seconds as tears go by anchorman fahrenheit 9/11 grey gardens roger and me land without bread film a streetcar named desire good morning happy times

it is. god damn you.

thank you jesus. of those left in the tournament? de niro. ever? jimmy stewart.

"Even when Brando didn't give a shit and wasn't feeling it, he'd make it interesting." like 'the island of dr moreau'?

the one i hear far most often on the radio is "lay lady lay." after that, probably "i want you." don't think i've ever heard anything else of his.

he was, and he did. his iron man match with flair reads like a straight-up 1989 NWA match. offense is very grounded (and pretty dated, even for 1993), old school heel tactics, and bret mixes in some theatrical old school no-selling (and even does it in a way that's plausible). it ebbed & flowed exactly like a typical flair match, nothing like what bret normally did.

no, there's others. you just see his name attached to every other post in the thread, so he's the one that really stays dominant in the mind. hell in a cell had a novel "anything can happen" aspect to it and had strokes of sheer brilliance, but bret's 'one night only' match holds up way better. hell in a cell had a strange, dragging, stop-start pace that kept me from being enthralled for the entire 40 minutes. they did big, crazy spots, but there was a lot of walking around & waiting inbetween those spots, throughout the match. and shawn's selling is REALLY goofy. there's a point where they're brawling outside, undertaker punches shawn in the face once, and shawn flies back four feet, lands on his back, rolls through, and ends up on his stomach, like he's the rock selling a stunner. his selling of the fall off the cage and such was fine, but little stuff like that is bothersome.

this is the thread that doesn't end. yes, it goes on and on, my friend. some people started posting here, not knowing what it was. and they'll continue posting here forever, just because this is the thread that doesn't end. yes, it goes on and on, my friend. oh yeah, points relevant to the discussion: i think it might help to pin a "rules of debate" page to kind of guide certain people to the magical world of rational thought. it really is a wonderful place to be, where everyone is smart and well-spoken and civil, and nobody has to repeat himself.

yes, that was him. townshend was a victim of abuse in his childhood, and from what i understand, regularly donates to charities of that sort.

for the purposes of the review, i had no interest in how ethical moore was being. how well-done the film is and how ethical it is are two markedly different discussions. i find 'sweetback' morally repugnant, but that doesn't change how well melvin van peebles puts sounds and images together. the ethics of the whole thing would've eaten up another 3,000 words that i wasn't prepared to write, and would be better housed in another column unto itself. i was familiar with the infamous "fact sheet" before i posted the article, and i'm sure i'll get around to reading it sometime soon. i've been on a moore/mayleses/riefenstahl kick lately and the "responsibility" that goes into the way images and sounds are put together, so i may be motivated to do a separate column on those issues in the near future.

actually, the first half of his iron match with shawn was spent lying on the ground holding a chinlock. there's a chinlock spot in his iron match with owen, about halfway into the match, that lasts for SEVEN MINUTES. that's SEVEN. MINUTES. OF. PURE. CHINLOCK. bret's only 60-minute match that remained compelling almost all the way through was with flair. the rest holds are kept fluid with the match, are kept interesting, & don't grind the match to a halt. an iron man match pretty much dictates that a third of the match will be spent in an armbar (or doing sloppy brawling on the outside, if you're triple h). and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you know how to do it. flair knew how to do it better than bret did. bret had a habit of taking a hold or working a body part and dwelling in it for too long. flair was always doing something in a rest hold, and had a good sense of when to temporarily break it up with a little spot of escape or reversal or trying to work in a pin. bret would grab an armbar, and basically sit on it for 2-4 minutes. it's not how much you use a given hold, it's what you do with it. i LIKE the 15 minutes of headlockery in flair/steamboat, because they knew how to make it dramatic. bret didn't usually build that sense of drama or urgency in a rest hold. his strategy seemed to just hold on to it idly to retain control of the match. even in his classic summerslam match with davey, they'll do a couple cool spots & bret will abruptly cut it off with a 2-minute headlock where neither guy really does anything. then they'll go to another cool spot, and back to the headlock of not doing anything.

never thought i'd see the day when a michael moore thread ended up in the music folder. now if we can just find a way to get him into "wrestling polls and lists," the spreading will almost be complete. this sounds exactly like something moore would do. fair enough, but what the hell was so compelling about 'CSI miami' that convinced him to let THEM use the exact same song? dylan's song about the hurricane didn't help get the hurricane acquitted. 'the thin blue line' did get the case reopened for a man on death row, who was acquitted thereafter.

only if the "dvd collections" thread gets unpinned. don't want this to be like the DVDR board where you have to scroll down a page just to get past the pinned threads. always been curious about 'triumph of the will', so i finally took the time to watch it all the way through last night. i was ready to be all challenged & morally repulsed and shit, but instead i got about 15 minutes of fascinating stuff and 90 minutes of boredom. confirms my theory, formed after watching 'the blue light' a couple years ago, that beyond getting great shots, leni riefenstahl had no clue how to put a movie together. i will have a LOT more to say about this interminable piece of crap later.

Was a total mark for himself. how so? i can think of maybe one ocassion of patting himself of the back a bit too much, in referring to his 96 match with shawn michaels as one of the greatest bouts of all time. he knows he has a way of tying a match together without being a sound technician, but that's almost always about as far as his self-praise goes. he's not one to say "i am one of the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!"

mick foley.

and once again, the topic gets de-railed after everyone chooses to pay attention to the most dumbfuck comment possible on the subject.