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...what? You have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about, do you? You think stunt people just work a couple weeks per year, and are otherwise paid to sit around at home all day? Wow. About the same as they are in wrestling. Yes, really. I had a conversation about this with Trinity once, and her perspective was that just like in wrestling, doing "fake movie fights" hurts a hell of a lot more than most people realize. Yeah.

That's not the point. The point is that the ban is retarded and there's no good reason for wrestling to be treated different from othre programming. What? Are you including the stunt performers in your statement? Cuz that's dead wrong, those girls get the shit beaten out of them on a regular basis, same as wrestlers. Hell, remember that Lita broke her neck doing stunts for a TV series, not in the ring. Accidents happen all the time on the set of movies and TV, refer to all the shit which has been happening on the shoot of the new Bond movie for example. Jackie Chan's list of injuries would probably beat any wrestler short of Terry Funk, and even then it would be a fight. And those women's characters are portrayed as being beaten, maimed, raped, tortured, murdered, and so on. Way worse than anything which ever happens in wrestling, which despite its unique nature is still a staged fictional entertainment program. Yeah, wrestling is different since it happens more or less in real time in front of a live crowd, but I still don't see how a man hitting a woman on Impact is worse than a man hitting a woman on CSI or Star Trek.

But like I said, with some of the women they've got, it wouldn't just be some heman abusing some helpless little girl. Like booking Sharkboy vs. ODB or Eric Young vs. Awesome Kong, for example. Clearly the standards & practices people at Spike don't understand what TNA is trying to do in presenting their female competitors as being actual fighters and not just victimized eye-candy. And as always, why does wrestling have special extra rules and restrictions placed on it that other programs never get? What about all those episodes of The Shield or all those Bond movies that Spike plays? No man-on-woman violence in those, nosiree.

So how did TNA get around the no man-on-woman violence ban there, regarding Salinas? I'm guessing Miss Jackie probably grabbed her ir something, but the spoilahz don't say. That ban is pretty nonsensical when you think about it. According to their own rules on Spike, showing a (male) human getting dropped onto thousands of thumbtacks: fine. Showing one woman disgustingly beat another woman half to death: fine. Showing Jeremy Borash girly-slap Awesome Kong: not fine.

Joke or not, it sadly describes most of my school days. I grew up in an uptight family, going to an uptight school, in an uptight town, and literally never had the chance to ever do anything bad. To the kids who say "you're pathetic if you don't get laid in high school", I say, how exactly are you supposed to do that when you don't have a car and your parents never let you hang out with other kids? And as for skipping school, forget it. You were punished if you were absent more than three days per semester, and this includes having a note from your parents AND they called your folks to confirm it. (If you didn't have a live parent on the phone to confirm the note, you were punished on the first absence.) So when I read stuff like this: it makes me want to weep big fat tears for my raped and wasted childhood. Especially since being so repressed and stifled as a kid played a part in doing way too much partying once I got into my twenties.

well there's your problem

Admittedly, I'm not nearly as well-viewed on the New Wave auteurs as I should be. Only seen those 2.5 by Godard, only one by Truffaut, one Clouzot, one Demy, and none at all from Rivette, Chabrol, Resnais, or Rohmer. Such is the price you pay for preferring to spend your time watching horror flicks and playing video games.

But you don't mind a man doing it? What's the difference? It's just a shallow little cut. Taking one bump does more negative impact to your health than blading.

That's very true, but TNA is rushing things. The first time Roode and Storm ever team up, they pin the tag champs? I know it got reversed, but it still happened, and now they're instantly in a title feud having not one previous win as a team. And this comes so rapidly on the heels of the Super Eric & title tournament shenanigans, the tag belts don't have a lot of cred at the moment. Weren't these guys shaking hands and all friendly at the end of the PPV? How long have they stretched out this arguing now? So when is Roxxi gonna get her big revenge for getting her head shaved? Because in every match she's had since then against the Beautiful People, she's never even pinned them once. Yet every time Love or Sky get in the ring against Kim or ODB, they get jobbed out. Everyone can beat them except the one person who should be beating them?

Probably something involving a step pyramid, a knife made out of obsidian, and a heart torn out of the living chest in a sacrifice to appease Quetzalcoatl.

Don't like the idea of what? Women blading in TNA? Accidental hardway blood in TNA? Women blading on the indies? Mickie Knuckles specifically bleeding? Female deathmatch tournaments? The idea of anything that bleeds for five days straight and doesn't die? And whichever one it is, why do you feel that way? Put a little detail into it, don't just say DO NOT WANT and leave it at that.

I feel mostly the same; it's a real good movie, but it wouldn't ever get near my top 20, or hell even my top 100 probably. But the number of people who absolutely worship that movie is fairly staggering.

That's not even close to what he was asking, MVP. Obviously mfn's never seen the movie at all. For the uninitiated, Blade Runner is a somewhat dark tale about a detective (Harrison Ford) hunting down rogue androids in a noir-ish city in the future. It's got a lot of subtext about what it truly means to be human, and some really, really beautiful visuals. And I've never felt that was a Fact in any version of the movie ever. It's hinted at, but the hints are so vague and oblique that you have to meet the movie much more than halfway in order to come to that conclusion.

Truthfully, I'm shocked that one lasted this long. I've seen Shawshank on more people's Favorite Movies Evar list than any other film that comes to mind.

I also liked Deathproof better than Planet Terror, and prefer Dolph Lundgren's Punisher to Thomas Jane's. Nobody gets me, baby, I'm like the wind. Night of the Living Dead Still my favorite entry in the Romero zombie saga, and still one of the more effective horror flicks I've ever seen. Single-handedly invented the modern zombie movie. Marked the point of no return from the earlier style of goofy, unbelievable, "safe" horror films and somehow made the idea of reanimated corpses feel realistic. Plus it was the first genre movie I can think of which had a black hero not for any particular reason but just for the hell of it. And the nihilistic ending really pointed the way for how movies, especially horror films, would get more depressing over the next decade.

OK, I changed my mind. Upon further reflection, I don't know nearly enough about newer games to fill this up if my old favorites get taken, so I'm out.

Clerks About the most quotable movie of all time. Better than every other movie Kevin Smith has ever made combined. The most perfect portrait of 20somethings having a pre-midlife-crisis, and the unique agony of working in shitty retail jobs. Everyone knows the feeling when they're not even supposed to be here today.

I agree that the worst part of Scream was its awful legacy of teenybopper horror flicks over the past dozen years, not to mention replacing the term "horror film" with the sickeningly banal "scary movie" in popular lingo. But I wasn't even a fan of the original film. I haven't liked any Wes Craven movie since, oh, The People Under The Stairs. And that dirty motherfucker Kevin Williamson is the worst goddamned so-called screenwriter in the history of overrated hacks and has never once made anything which I didn't totally hate.

I agree that the complete lack of rules made no sense. That's actually a fairly common theme in J-horror flicks which sometimes bugs me, how the homicidal ghosts of drowned little girls seem to randomly do whatever the screenwriter feels like in terms of their abilities and limitations. (And, seriously, how many fuckin' J-horror movies have used homicidal ghosts of drowned little girls as their focal points? I can think of at least three major ones, not counting their sequels and remakes.) I know, but still, the emotional idea of the girl seeing her mother's body mutilated like that did get to me. You know what I actually felt was really contrived about that scene? Not that Death from Final Destination used its psychokinetic powers to make the glass fall. No, I was confused by the idea that the hospital staff would supposedly leave a jar of insanely powerful acid just sitting on a table, right next to the edge, wide open without even a top on it.

I've had a mixed reaction to him. Saw Weekend a long time ago and vaguely remember liking it, but it was like a decade back so no details spring to mind. Tried to watch Alphaville once and fell asleep. Then saw Band Of Outsiders recently and just hated it, aside from the cute "minute of silence" it felt like the whole movie just went nowhere and did nothing. Apparently that one dance sequence has somehow become legendary and much-imitated, though I couldn't possibly tell you why. Just based on his reputation alone I'd be willing to see more though, always meant to do Breathless and never got around to it.

I guess I can accept that. The parts I was thinking of might not affect someone else so strongly. For various reasons, I found the killer spiders and the bit with the acid to be rather disturbing, but if you didn't, okay.

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I'm not claiming that The Beyond is a great film, by any measure. (Unlike some fans claim about Dario Argento; see the MTV movie awards thread below for a related argument.) But it's got a couple of moments which got even me to say "damn, that's harsh" and it's not even close to being the harshet or worst movie directed by that guy. If The Beyond angered you, I'd hate to see your reaction to New York Ripper or Zombi 3.

What's wrong with The Beyond? ...well, no, that wasn't a serious question. It's not exactly a precisely crafted work of cinematic art. But isn't the whole point of a horror movie to provoke the audience with feelings of shock and awe? And you'd have to be one jaded motherfucker to remain unmoved by a couple of those scenes.

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