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Heh, I just had a former WCW employee tell me about this today. His take on Hardbody: "An idiot. A really thorough, complete idiot."

I wasn't. I was watching some really bad home movies me and some friends made in high school, in between episodes of MST3K.

Why has it taken three years for these kinds of fairly important details to get out, anyway? I'm still confused as to how four or five men armed only with small knives could take over an entire plane filled with dozens if not hundreds of people, but hearing they claimed they had a bomb does help clear it up a little.

Topic already here. Long story short, Court Bauer pulled out and so did the investors, so H2's dead.

Jesus Christ, how can Ian even afford to run these shows? I'm not exactly working the big-time shows myself, but damn, it's been a while since I've worked in front of a crowd THAT small.

Well, since about a thousand guys have asked for a description since the last time AoO typed one... count me in too. NO SLEEP FOR YOU.

You LIKED the narration? You are officially the first person I've ever heard say that, and I've had a lot of discussions and debates about this movie in my time. It just sounds awful and tacked-on, Ford clearly had no interest in doing it, and the lines themselves were stinkers. Also, the original ending? Why? It was a forced "happy ending" that the studio made them slap on at the last second.

An afternoon show... at an armory... featuring nobody I've ever heard of... ...yet they're charging $10? Come on, guys. TNA charges that much for floor seats to see AJ Styles and Dusty Rhodes, and even they always have a bunch of empty chairs in the arena. $7 or $8 is the most you can realistically charge for an indy show and expect to draw (outside of places like California or the Northeast in general because of the higher cost of living).

I don't blame Dames's arachnophobia, I too go a bit weak in the knees when confronted with any sort of large hairy spider, even if it's just the ones in a Resident Evil game or a picture on a message board. (Heh, that just reminded me of the time he had me look at EQ's sig to make sure the offending bugger was removed, and he was so upset that it took me a minute to explain the pic had been replaced by Spider-Man.)

About DKSA, I always felt that it had a lot in common plotwise with Kingdom Come, almost as if Miller had written it as a remake or rebuke to that book. (Can't you see it: "Hey, I started this whole "superheroes getting old in the future" crap!") There's just too many little plot points that both stories share: like Superman and Wonder Woman being lovers and having a kid together, Lex Luthor being basically the main villain, a relatively obscure character like Captain Marvel playing a key part in the story, a new generation of rogue young superheroes who are seen as public menaces by the government, etc etc etc. That's a whole lotta copied ideas for them to all be coincedental. And even though I'm one of the few admitted fans of the series, even I will say that the artwork sucked. My god, but this was an so-ugly-it's-hard-to-read monstrosity.

Well, he is a former Army Ranger after all. Those boys don't fuck around when it comes to heroics.

How is this any worse than the shit that made up the first film? It had NOTHING to do with any of the various game plots, invented a whole new set of characters and ignored the ones Capcom had already created, changed the rules about how the monsters worked, and in general just told gamers to go fuck themselves. A relatively minor character like Leon being dead (and he was never Jill's partner in the games, either) won't change a thing.

And one of my best friends works for Pro Wrestling Iron, and I've got the NWA president's home number on my cell phone. So? If you replaced the word "backyard" with "professional", then I think that statement would be correct. Simply put, any kind of worked wrestling is way too dangerous for nontrained amateurs to be trying. Anyone remember Bruno Sammartino? He was a 30-year veteran and one of the strongest wrestlers on the planet, yet his worst injury was a broken neck that came from a botched body slam. He got dropped on his head, and BOOM he was never the same. (And the guy who dropped him was Stan Hansen, who was a stiff worker but never known as an unsafe one.) If you're gonna do pro wrestling moves, get trained. Period. Anything else is simply begging for accidents. I don't care if you're "just doing it for fun", there have been legions of trained pros who get fucked up by tiny mistakes on simple moves.

Oh yeah, headdrops definitely take their toll over the years. Watch Misawa take a german suplex or something similar now: he usually puts his hands down to block part of the bump, something he didn't used to do all the time. Concussions and brain damage are an inescapable part of wrestling; the workers simply take way too many shots to the head than can possibly be healthy, and I've known more than one wrestler who got concussed and was never quite the same since then.

::spit take:: I'm sorry, but the words "Sister Streefighter" and "isn't too bad" just should never, never be used in the same sentence. Easily the worst film of the series. And it's been a while since I saw them, but I recall liking Last Revenge more than Return.

One of the late night talkshow hosts (forgot which one, they all sound alike to me) had a good line the other night: "Republicans are now trying to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Yes, they're now defining "marriage" as a sacred lifelong bond between a man and Britney Spears." All the fighting over this is bullshit. If gays want to marry each other, I don't care; just let them do what they want. Constitutional amendments are supposed to be used only for MAJOR problems in the country that need fixing, like giving women the vote, racial equality, enacting/cancelling prohibition, and so on. It shouldn't be used for a petty partisan pissing contest.

Samoa Joe, Low-Ki, and any of the other various puroresu marks who think that way-too-stiff kicks, bullshit overcomplicated submissions, and a ridiculous number headdrops make them "strong style" and sooo kewl.

Except for the Hansen and Muta matches, there's not a whole lot worth watching on there. Killer Khan ain't exactly a workrate machine, if you've seen one Hogan-Andre match you've seen 'em all, and Inoki never really clicked with Hogan in his matches (though if that match is the IWGP Title Tournament Finals, forgot the date, it is interesting to watch an early example of a worked shoot as Hogan "knocks out" Inoki to win the belt). The Hogan/Muta-Hellraisers match is crap, and I haven't seen the Chono match so I can't comment on that. However, the aforementioned Hansen and Muta matches are interesting just to show what Hogan could really do in the 90s when he wanted to actually work, as compared to his WWF stuff from around the same time.

The Stepford Wives (remake): 4/10. Yawn. Not as good as the original, and I wasn't even a fan of that one. Nicole Kidman continues to be about the most boinkable woman on earth, but this was just manipulative crap. Spiderman 2: 8/10. Doc Ock is a HELL of a lot cooler than Green Goblin.

So, can we all agree on two things? 1. The missing $however many,000,000,000 dollars definitely needs to be investigated and accounted for; and 2. There's no way the U.S. government or George W. Bush would steal such a relatively paltry sum from a country they've poured hundreds of times that much money into. So are we done here now?

What was the one line Dre had in that Eminem track... something along the lines of "You're talking 'bout guns, what, do you think I sold all mine?" If he had them in the past, why the hell wouldn't he now? And America sure as hell never sold Geneva-banned nerve gas to any 3rd world countries, including Iraq.

INXS, listen carefully: Saddam. Had. Weapons. Of. Mass. Destruction. That is a FACT. The gas he used to kill thousands of Kurds with back in the 80's is classified as an WMD. And it's been pretty well established that he had programs running to try and develop both nuclear and biological weapons. What has not been found is the evidence of him possessing or being able to build such a weapon... for now. Five years down the line and he might've easily had them.

I personally love Taoism myself, mostly because nobody has any clue what it is or how to pronounce it.

Huh? Yeah he did. In the speech where he coined the term "axis of evil", he specifically named Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Yeah, that bothers me too. For all the talk about WMDs existing in present-day Iraq prior to the invasion, there's been embarassingly little evidence found. That's one thing I don't understand: the assertation that Bush invaded Iraq just for the hell of it. Why in the world would we undertake such a mission if we didn't have some good reason? And do NOT say "It's for the oil!", we've spent far, FAR more money on the invasion and occupation than we could even hope to recover from oils sales until a very long time from now. Yeah, there have been "interactions", but I doubt Saddam and Osama were ever really plotting together against us. Bin Ladin's uber-conservative religious beliefs probably wouldn't let him trust someone like the highly secular Hussein. America (or any country, for that matter) had PLENTY of justification for removing Saddam from power. He was a mass-murdering tyrant who viciously abused his own people (including using WMDs on them), invaded Kuwait, fired missles at Israel, tried to assassinate a US president, and pretty much ignored every single thing the U.N. ever told him to do. He was BEGGING to be taken out. My problem with the whole affair is Bush's lack of PR tact with other countries and his leaning on shady reasoning for the invasion in the first place. (I mean, there's gotta be SOME reason why, even after 9/11, we still came out the most hated country in the world.) Yes, he was TRYING to build nuclear weapons; did you miss the entire article in the first post of this thread?

...so basically an exact copy of the angle they did with Taker, Paul, and Kane in 97-98?