Jingus

Huh. Only major thing that happened here was Charlotte dying. As usual, on Lost when a man dies, it tends to be because he either pissed off the gods of The Island somehow, or he nobly sacrificed himself to save the others. When a woman dies, she just drops dead in a manner which makes all the men real sad.

You might not be wrong. Has anyone seen any commercials or any marketing for this show at all? I sure haven't.

Please more details, how the hell would you even get into a bet like that, and with whom?

I haven't seen either of those movies, so I don't know why somebody nominated them under those categories. Knock 'em out in round 1 and it'll all be clean. I couldn't have possibly been the only one who noticed that Agent loaded up his ballot with a bunch of obscure disgusting cult flicks which had nothing to do with the genres mentioned, could I? Huh. Maybe so. Action & Adventure: Indiana Jones: The last Crusade Die Hard Hard-Boiled Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark Aliens The Seven Samurai The Dark Knight Predator Comedy: Ghostbusters What About Bob? UHF National Lampoons Vacation Chasing Amy The Big Lebowski Clerks The 40 Year Old Virgin Crime & Gangster: Goodfellas Carlito's Way The Godfather II Reservior Dogs LA Confidential Dirty Harry The Godfather Vertigo Drama: The Shawshank Redemption Taxi Driver Fight Club American History X Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Memento Casablanca The Dark Knight Epics & Historical: Malcolm X Casablanca Schindler's List Jurassic Park Gangs of New York Titanic Lawrence of Arabia The Seventh Seal Horror Silence of the Lambs Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Friday the 13th Child's Play Psycho A Nightmare on Elm Street Texas Chainsaw Massacre Night of the Living Dead Sci-Fi: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Children of Men ET: the Textaterrerstrial Blade Runner Independence Day Aliens Star Wars Alien War & Westerns: Saving Private Ryan Lawrence of Arabia Black Hawk Down Apocalypse Now Good, Bad, and the Ugly Full Metal Jacket Fistful of Dollars I Spit on your Grave

Heads up, season premier's this Friday, 9:00 EST.

But then it turns into the wrong number of nominees... ah, hell with it. Action & Adventure: Hard-Boiled Comedy: Clerks Crime & Gangster: The Godfather Drama: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Epics & Historical: Lawrence of Arabia Horror: Night of the Living Dead Sci-Fi: Aliens War & Westerns: Apocalypse Now

Bam Bam seems to have been a complicated dude. On the one hand, I had Matt Bourne once tell me a story about how Bigelow supposedly snitched on him for smoking the reefer and getting him fired because BBB wasn't happy about jobbing to Doink on all the house shows. On the other, there's the documented story about him running into a burning house a few years ago to save some children, getting badly burned himself in the process. As for matches, I always thought his November 2 Remember match against Shane Douglas was underrated. It was a hell of a David vs Goliath type affair, especially memorable for getting the Franchise, in storyline the biggest piece of shit in the business, to turn into a cheered babyface for one night. Yeah it was his hometown and everything, but still, getting ECW fans to cheer for the guy who yanked Pitbull #1 around by his skull-halo just a year beforehand is still a pretty big deal.

For what it's worth, her IP address at the Pit comes in from all kinds of wacky places, it's currently bouncing off a proxy in Virginia. Not like she's ever had a problem manipulating that kind of thing. Then again, Leena's not necessarily that hard to impersonate. Watch, I'll do it: "Meh. Blah. [five pages of tennis talk] Whatever. Get a job, Jingus. N*gger. [webcam pic]" Uncanny, ain't it?

I'm in. I don't know about the genres though. Like, my list would definitely include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but would it go under comedy, drama, or scifi? Would Aliens be action, horror, scifi, or war? And yeah, how does Jurassic Park count as "epic/historical"? Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind just doing a horror movie tournament. I've seen a larger percentage of those than any other genre I can think of, and it'd be fun. Especially for all the people cussing at me when I vote against Dario Argento in every round regardless of who his opponent is.

I never watch real sports. Well, "never" is a strong word, I sometimes click on some MMA, usually watch some Olympics when they roll around, and every once in a long while will catch a baseball game. Point is, I watch wrestling at least a hundred times more often than I ever watch real sports. I have some wrestler and ex-wrestler buddies who are the same way, just never gave much of a damn about competitive sports, usually they were the types who weren't athletes back in school and got into wrestling just because they were that much of a mark for it. (Except for MMA, which damn near everyone in wrestling seems to be at least a casual fan of.) However, I think we were in the minority. Most of the other guys in the locker room were usually dudes who'd been real athletes at some point or another, and they were always talking about whatever game happened the night before.

I thought Not Another Teen Movie was at least passable, but everything after that has been terrible. Those guys, Seltzer and Friedberg, had nothing to do with Not Another Teen Movie. (What's with this common assumption that all the parody movies are made by the same people? Everyone seemed to think that Superhero Movie was made by the same guys too.) They worked as part of large writing teams on Spy Hard and the first Scary Movie, and then somehow turned that into a directing career with Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie. And I just saw MtS recently myself. Good lord, these guys are the most consistently incompetent fuckers working in Hollywood today.

That's a whole lot of venom over some woman having some kids. So what? She obviously didn't deliberately plan for octoplets, it was a freak accident that she ended up with double the number of kids she was shooting for. Lots of weird judging going on here about a woman whose actual character is essentially unknown. She might be a raging nutbag, but she might also be the greatest mom on the planet, the story as I've seen it doesn't give much indication either way. You condemn her just for wanting to have a bunch of kids? Sure, when you already have six children it's rather odd to be trying for a seventh, but I don't see what the harm is, not like she's breaking any laws here. Weird bit in that AP article: I know that standards in journalism are at an infamous low point right now, but, c'mon. So she was depressed in 1999 because she thought her injury could lead to her miscarrying the embryo... and then she was relieved in 2001 when it was born? The writer here ("Shaya Tayfee Mohajer", dear lord, what continent is that name supposed to originate from?) either failed kindergarten math, or is just really awful in her phrasing about two separate pregnancies.

What, "Does anybody speak French?", followed by a whole bunch of talking in French, side trip to a reminder about the numbers radio broadcast, and finishing up with a "I'm Danielle Rousseau" was too subtle? So yeah, I'm gonna be arrogantly I-told-ya-soing about Jin for a while. "There's no way he can be alive, Jingus! He was too close to the explosion, Jingus!" I totally laid out the fact that we never actually saw him die nor saw his body, and we always see at least one if not both whenever a main character eats it; and still all this whiny naysaing. So in the words of Chuck Taylor: "Suck on it, blackie!" Okay, those were not entirely the words I was really thinking of. Yeah. Told you Jin was alive. Me doing the Dance Of Capitalistic Superiorty over here 'n stuff. In seriousness, I do appreciate that we're getting at least a brief look back at Rousseau, since that was a storyline which was dropped without much closure or explanation of her backstory.

Absolutely. I'd vaguely heard how this was supposed to be a good horror flick... then again I keep hearing that about every Saw sequel too. After having watched AtBLML, I wish I'd gone for a Saw sequel instead. Partly due to this right here: it was essentially a bunch of incredibly stupid and annoying kids doing dumb shit and being irritating for an hour, occasionally interrupted by pedestrian slasher stuff. Oh god yeah. When , it was a pretty easy guess that meant that we were getting another extra twist for the ending. And the most obvious one seemed to be , especially since we had no other explanation why the hell the local innocent virgin was partying with all the drug-addled nymphos in the first place. Completely predicting a film's "twist" ending ahead of time is something which doesn't make me feel smart, it makes me feel like the filmmakers were dumb. I also wasn't a fan of how they seemed to be trying to remind us of Columbine in a goddamn teen-slasher flick, that was pretty repugnant. As you mentioned, the acting was alright with those two chicks; I wish they'd just made an entire movie along the lines of the weird little scene in the bathroom, rather than the half-baked leftovers we ended up getting.

Yeah, completely different guy. He was at his worst when stuck with the nightmare combo of Lawler and Coach, but even his ECW run was unmemorable. Shows you how much Working WWE Style can zap the originality of a guy who's used to doing it differently.

Sid didn't book himself to beat Goldberg, so, yeah. And at least Sid will do what the company tells him to and not try to figure out some sneaky way to get himself over and subtly bury everyone else. Nash's worse in the ring too, imho.

What, no Bam Bam Bigelow? Dude main-evented WM XI. Carried Laurence Taylor to one of the best matches ever involving a non-wrestler. Then was not so much "pushed down the card" as "shoved off a cliff", got fired shortly thereafter, and never worked for the company again.

Really, that's all that needs be said.

-Yeah, Joey used the nicknames a lot. Which, uh, pretty much every announcer in recent history have all done. -Yeah, Joey called a lot of moves. But it's not like he was announcing a radio version of what we saw in the ring. Part of his reason for doing that was that the primary announcers at both WWF and WCW didn't ever call a lot of those moves. How many times did we hear various wacky offense get called either "Whattamaneuver!" or "Sidewalk slam!"? ECW's entire gimmick was that they were different from the competition, and one of those differences was that their commentator actually knew what the names of the holds were. -And besides, it's not like all he did was just do nothing but call the moves all night long. Joey was really damned good at getting over the psychology of the matches, or sometimes even just inventing it when the brawling and highspots didn't have much inherent meaning. Part of the reason he used those nicknames was because they were trying to cement the characters of the ECW wrestlers. In this company, a guy's gimmick and his wrestling style were closely linked. Unlike, well, pretty much all the other companies at the time: why did a Nascar driver like Sparky Plugg have the best dropkick in the company? In ECW, even guys who had similar styles would have different character motivations behind those styles. Tommy Dreamer brawled because the fans loved it and he wanted their approval; Sabu brawled because he was crazy like his uncle and liked to hurt people; Terry Funk brawled in a desperate attempt to keep up with the youngsters and stay relevant; Raven brawled because he was a bully who took pleasure out of hurting helpless foes; the New Jack brawled because he was a street thug straight from the hood; Sandman brawled just because he was so fuckin' drunk. Joey Styles was instrumental at getting across the motivation behind these zany gimmicks, at explaining why these guys were acting the way they were. -Also, speaking in my limited experience as an announcer, calling an entire broadcast solo without a color commentator is really hard. I literally can't think of another announcer who could've done it as well as Joey, without going back to the Lance Russells of yesteryear. Styles had great rhythym and timing; he knew when to scream and when to play it straight, when to verbally illustrate the action and when to just shut up and let the product speak for itself. -There seems to be a whole lot of sentiment in here about a whole lot of announcers sucking. So, you say Styles was bad, but all the other announcers were bad too. Bitch about Tenay, bitch about Cole, bitch about JR, bitch about Lawler, etcetera. Um, did you like anyone's commentary, ever? If you think that all the major wrestling announcers have all sucked, it suggests that the problem is not with the announcers, but with the guy hearing them.

::checks it out:: Ooooh, two of the schmucks from The Whitest Kids U Know writing, directing, and starring in their own movie, with THAT plot? We do indeed have a strong early contender here. ...though not quite, y'know, Dragonball strong. My GOD that movie still looks awful to a truly mind-boggling degree.

To join in fashionably late: I haven't seen about half of the movies named here, so I can't comment on the Syrianas and In the Mood For Loves of the world. But off the top of my head, my favorite movies for the past decade: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Children of Men Shaun of the Dead Grizzly Man Wall-E Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World The Descent Brick Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street And depending on my mood, throw either Dogville or The Dark Knight into the tenth spot.

Little-known fact: genital warts are actually incurable. They're usually a fairly minor annoyance, and can lay dormant for years or even decades without showing any symptoms. But there's always a possibility of resurgence. Other than that, aids, hepatitis, and herpes are also permanent. Everything else can be cured, with enough effort.

Shit. Good point. Forgot about R&B. So, any theories on why Widmore would bend over like a bitch for Desmond and just give him the info about Mamaday? Even though he's never given Desmond anything but scorn and pain in the past? Even after Des wouldn't even tell him a single word about Penny? Even though Mamaday is working with Ben, who point blank told Widmore that he was going to murder Penny, and thus you'd think he'd want anyone connected to his daughter to stay far away from anyone connected to Benjamin Linus? I assume it'll probably be cleared up sometime, but at the moment it seems awfully out of character for Widmore, a guy you wouldn't expect to piss on Desmond if he was on fire.

About time someone mentioned Eternal Sunshine finally. Still, Children of Men is glaring very sternly at you all.

Something nobody else mentioned, but I noticed: with the flaming arrows and land mines, every one of the anonymous extras are finally all dead. From everyone who survived the plane crash, we're down to just our main characters now. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks this. I know I did, too. Apparently he just has very thick eyelashes. I read an interview somewhere recently with Cuse & Lindelof where they mentioned that shortly after hiring the actor to play Richard, they told him something along the lines of, "The eyeliner isn't going to work" but were surprised to find out it wasn't eyeliner. Yeah, that actor always looks like that. Check him out as the mayor in The Dark Knight, or Batmanuel in the tragically short-lived The Tick, it always looks like he's just been viciously attacked by a crazed makeup artist. Except the Others didn't build the hatch station, Dharma did.