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That's my issue. If it's a thread about that specific movie, then of course you'd expect some spoilers running around, maybe getting drunk and hooking up and having little spoiler kids. My problem comes when people spoil shit in any OTHER threads, where you're not expecting it. That's where the black-bar rule ought to be enforced.

Shhh! Don't remind people that there's no way to objectively prove if a work of art is good in a concrete manner, then they get mad! But it is subjective, because there's always dissenting opinions. I liked Death Proof, it was my favorite part of the whole Grindhouse experience which didn't involve hot Nazi werewolves. I didn't mind the acting, and I liked the dialogue and inane chatter, it genuinely entertained me just sitting and watching these chicks babble. Anyway, that sort of thing really isn't so much a tribute to old grindhouse flicks as it is another example of Tarantino's career-long homage to Jean-Luc Godard, who pioneered the "an entire hour of people sitting around talking about nothing" genre.

I could link the disparate conversational points here together by noting that Texas barely acknowledges MLK day. The kids don't get out of school for it, and I don't think any businesses are closed.

Oh yeah, that was some surprisingly good shit. Hogan's outside signing autographs, and Sting sneaks up behind him, saying "Hey Hulkster, can I get your autograph too?" in this creepy kid's voice. He bludgeons Hogan, but of course because it's fucking Hogan he's no-selling it later on. So Sting does another interview, in this dark room, where he's gently tapping his bat against a table. "(tap... tap...) Looks like I didn't get the job done... (tap... tap...) maybe I should do something about that." Bizarrely effective, even though it was a fucking stupid idea in the first place. When Austin turned heel in 2001. Either time. In theory they could've made sense, but the execution was fucking horrible. Trying to turn Stone Cold Steve Austin heel IN TEXAS had about the same guaranteed success rate as the XFL.

Thank Popick for that one, he made & brought the sign.

It has nothing to do with Lance Storm. It has everything to do with your peculiar insistence that no woman could ever, no way, nuh-uh, EVER have a match with a guy without that guy looking like bitch. Which Awesome Kong have you been watching? She's way bigger than Angle, and makes two X Division guys. With devastating offense which makes her look like Big Vagina Vader. Why is it not credible to believe that, if she hits you, it would hurt?

And a few more pieces come together in the 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that is Milky.

I once got put in the hospital by a double-lung dose of that shit. Not fun. Get well. That's an order.

Why do people always bring up that specific part of the whole DDP debacle? I don't see how the part where Sara pinned him was supposed to be humiliating. Taker dragged DDP out of the ring and chokeslammed him on the floor, then tossed him back in. In kayfabe terms, he would've been completely unconcious. A newborn kitten could've pinned him at that point. Yeah, but it doesn't draw money. Not anymore. As the Hassan controversy proved, that kind of angle causes more negative than positive attention. What. They always said he was Japanese. Yes, I know he was actually Rodney Anoia. You don't think him wearing a Japanese kimono, waving a Japanese flag, being named after the Japanese name for "grand sumo champion", and having the announcers always talk about how he was from Japan all gave the general impression that this guy was supposed to be Japanese? No, there was actually a lot of Japophobia in the early 90s. See Rising Sun for one excellent example.

What?! No way. I knew Jim personally and hung out with him several times a few years back, and up close, that was not the face of a man under 40. Which is is indeed a story he tells, if you ever see the hilarious ROH shoot he did with Jim Cornette.

Anything shot on film has more resolution than even HD so its possible that they could convert most of their library to HD, although it would be a painstaking process and by the looks of some of their library footage, the picture qualtiy has detoritated to the point where an expensive digital restoration would be required, and in some instances the quality was piss poor to start with but it could still be cleaned up. Practically none of it was shot on film. The vast majority of the WWE library was shot on video. The old stuff would look essentially the same on HD as it does now. The only way to improve it would be to do a huge digital cleanup/remastering project, which would be way, WAY too expensive for the amount of footage they have. Hollywood studios spend months, if not years, painstakingly just getting something like Jaws to look as good as it originally did. No way that thousands upon thousands of hours of TV wrestling footage will get the same treatment. The only stuff on 24/7 that would look different in HD would be new footage shot with HD cameras. And 24/7 doesn't have a massive number of subscribers anyway, iirc it's still well under half a million. So it's not likely to happen for several years.

I agree, Maryland does not constitute a southern city. Especially since it's a state. Quick straw poll: how many people here are actually capable of watching WWE in HD in their debuts? How many people have HD televisions and receive the channels which are carrying the HD feed of the WWE programs? My guess is, not many. While obviously it's going to become the industry standard over the next decade, my feeling is that right now, WWE debuting in HD means damn near nothing.

So why is he suing?

Jesus christ, that's maybe the single worst thing I've ever heard on this board. I wish I could help, but can't think of any way how.

See, this is why you never go to a bar where the bartenders are also getting drunk.

Milky King Not Al because, sadly, he slightly resembles me, and thus my rampant self-loathing makes me despise him by association. Not Czech because anyone who must SHOUT to express their hatred for Tori Amos is truly an alien being, beyond any possibility of fellowship or comprehension. And for a guy who stated that he did not want to win this thing, he's come much too far. Buncha ironic contrarians voting 'round here. And sweet jesus some of the Very Serious Arguments over a frigging message board tournament have been painful to read. I mean, recounts. RECOUNTS.

When and why did Simon Holyfield's Missing Carlito start hatin' on the Milker so vehemently?

::quick glance on IMDB:: Holy shit, you're right. It's probably gonna be a shitty movie, Wong has never done anything great and the screenplay is cowritten by the guy who wrote The Big Hit. But I'm still gonna watch it. Just the very idea of seeing Spike dressed up as Piccolo is enough for me. I read through the past couple pages of this thread, and man my eyes glazed over pretty heavily. I watch a little anime here and there, but I've never even heard of 90% of this stuff. I guess I'll just go back to my Cowboy Bebop and Vampire Hunter D and leave you guys to your more obscure pursuits. Actually, come to think of it, anyone else like Paranoia Agent? It's such a weird and creepy little show that I greatly enjoyed it, but I've never ran into another fan or seen anyone discussing it.

I probably would've liked Slither except for the bizarre tentacle rape shit, which seemed like they wandered in from an Overfiend hentai and seemed terribly out of place for a sort of whimsical Night of the Creeps remake. Really felt like the director was a sick fucker who sort of got off watching that shit. Personally, I don't understand all the Land hate. Yeah, the "don't shoot 'em, they're just like us" part was lame, and they went further than necessary with the Smart Zombie concept. But overall I thought it was a perfectly fine flick. I liked it much better than Day, which I've always thought was terribly overrated and never understood all the fanboy love for.

The Slaughter angle failed just because of society maturing somewhat as a whole, and the Political Correctness craze starting to kick in. People were perfectly fine with German nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, and all kinds of different Communists in previous eras, often when Americans were indeed dying at the hands of such people in the real world. But by the time the 90s rolled around, people weren't quite as willing to buy into evil foreign heels anymore. Thus the Wrestlemania 7 change in venue from the massive arena to the smaller one when ticket sales bombed, with the amusing excuse of an alleged terrorist attack prompting the move. As for Hassan, he failed for exactly one reason: that dumbass terrorist angle that they aired the week of the London bombings. It pissed off UPN and they refused to ever air the Hassan character on their network again. However, Corkscrew is correct in saying that no jingoistic angle has actually drawn money in a long damn time now. The last one that did anything remotely like that was Bret Hart's heel turn, and whenever the WWF had a show in Canada they openly acknowledged that the Hart Foundation were heroes there. Unlike earlier years, where if a top heel was getting cheered they'd try to edit the broadcast, dub in crowd noise, or do whatever possible in order to make sure that the natural fan reaction was squashed in favor of whatever the office's plans were. But after that, stuff like Post 9/11 Hero Kurt Angle and the Un-Americans , La Resistance, Team Canada(s), and Hassan were all just embarassingly old-fashioned and reactionary to anyone but hardline conservatives.

Does it have to be rap? Cuz the only lyrics I can quote are from Coolio, and, well, that just doesn't seem appropriate. Also, I would replace "run away" with "walk away briskly". Every time I've been nauseous and trying to make it to a toilet or some other safe place to hurl, if I panic and actually break into a run it invariably ends in me having to clean much more furniture than I'd hoped for. One time I was about two seconds too late (tm Alanis Morisette, 1996) and somehow Jackson Pollocked the toilet, myself, and all three walls of the bathroom stall with one thunderous projectile blast. It was like I'd stepped on a Bouncing Betty which was loaded with half-digested Skyy vodka instead of shrapnel. I still have no idea how I did it, it just didn't seem physically possible, but one of my similarly inebriated buddies made sure to take a camera phone picture for posterity. I sadly don't have the pic, but it confirmed the ghastly grand guignol scale of the eruption and that it wasn't just a case of drunken Caught A Fish THIS Big auto-retconning. EDIT: upon further reflection, I believe the correct quote from the work of Ms. Alanis is, in fact, "two minutes too late". Incidentally, the image of someone hurling up the entire contents of their guts in one explosive spasm would make a fine metaphor for her musical career, which post-Jagged Little Pill has been seemingly nothing but a series of silent dry heaves.

Possibly the best hour of television TNA has ever aired. The guys just talking out of character about being in Japan was better than any Russo-scripted promo ever could be. Why is Impact such worthless bullshit every week when the company is apparently capable of turning out thoughtful, quality work like this?

Memo to TNA: replace Russo, Mantell, et al with whoever put together the Global Impact special. That was so amazingly tasteful and well-produced that comparing it to regular Impact was a night & day difference.

Balderdash. I wrestled a tag match once with ODB as my partner. Trust me, the action got much better every time I tagged out.

Except for on some indy shows with badasses like Mickie Knuckles or Lufisto kicking the shit out of the top guys, the answer is of course "never". But you load the question by adding that "built correctly and/or made money" part, because nobody's ever seriously floated a female contender for the top title. Chyna is the closest example, and her combination of ego, drugs, general insanity, and lack of talent both in the ring and on the mic kept her from going farther than she did. But she was OVER like no woman ever has been before, and clearly the majority of the audience bought her as a legit tough fighter who could hang with the guys. Wrestling's always been very conservative and behind the times. For years we've had shitloads of successfull action movies and TV shows which featured women beating the shit out of men on an equal footing. I don't think that people will be shocked into never watching wrestling again because it dares to portray a woman as something other than a helpless victim. In a world where both Charlie's Angels flicks made a zillion dollars, I think people are perfectly capable of accepting a violent competition between males and females, as long as they're portrayed as being equals and it's not just "woman-beating".