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Dude, your joke bombed and no one got it, just accept it. And oh yeah, too much damn gore. It fit when Manhattan was vaporizing motherfuckers or when dude got his arms sawed off, but otherwise during the fight scenes I started wondering why Zack Snyder photographs an Alan Moore fight scene the exact same way he photographs a Frank Miller fight scene.

FAIL I was surprised by actually liking Constantine, being that I'm a fan of both Moore and Ennis's runs in the original comics. It was sort of the exact opposite of Watchmen; while the movie was ragingly unfaithful to the details of the Hellblazer comics and Constantine's character, it still got the original spirit of the book surprisingly well. (Until the ending anyway, when Constantine decides he's gonna stop smoking and enjoy life, bull-sheeyit.) Once I accepted that Reeves wasn't even trying to really emulate the original blonde British self-described "nasty piece of work", I thought the new character he was playing actually wasn't too bad. For me, the FAIL would be A Scanner Darkly. Oh good lord that movie annoyed the piss out of me, not a single sympathetic or likable character in the whole film.

C'MON MAN, it wasn't a terribly good joke. Nowhere in there did you even imply that you were referring to Real Life Nixon and not Watchmen Nixon, nor does his sweaty shift-eyed performance in the '60 debate immediately spring to mind for all these folks here who were born long decades after that happened. Someone would have to meet you more than halfway to even realize what you were talking about there without further explanation. Back on subject: man the action style in this movie was poorly chosen. Watchmen shouldn't have anything resembling wire-fu, or a 98-pound girl being able to twist a guy's head all the way around.

There's a difference between "I'm in a debate on television" makeup and "I have a fake nose which is bigger than most penises" makeup. Combined with the actor's cartoonish impression, it was less than perfect. Gugino's makeup was worse in that it simply did not make her look anything close to a convincing elderly person. Neither did her performance, where she wasn't even trying to change her voice to sound like an older woman. Why all the hate on Akerman? I thought she had easily the most thankless part as the weakest character in the story. Even in the book Laurie never had much personality, she was defined almost entirely by her reactions to other people. So I don't think it's fair to blame a fairly inexperienced, unknown actress for not breathing extra life into a character that was never interesting in the first place. Especially when Goode is standing right there. He's too young, too skinny, too effeminate, and he practically never showed any emotion whatsoever. And that weird German accent was a terribly bad decision. It's like he was playing a Nazi mad scientist on tranquilizers. This was the one character who was played completely different than he was portrayed in the book. In the comic, Veidt was a warm and humane guy, a fellow who affected a sort of "aw shucks guys, I'm not THAT special" humility while spinning his schemes. In the movie, it had to be obvious to everyone who hadn't read the book that this guy was the villain, because he was played exactly like he was indeed a villain.

The first one that comes to mind was that RVD/Holly match where Bob's back got carved open by a piece of table. Bob ludicrously continuing the match, even taking bumps on the cut, was so masochistic that it brought the whole thing to another level. How many freaking Hardcore Holly matches have gotten the audience to chant his name and applaud him after it's over?

You guys can't tell Funky's being a wee bit facetious? The list is their real list they really came up with, representing who they like to watch wrestle. His many goofy comments in this thread, are not quite so real. I mean, c'mon man, the Goldberg line wasn't a giveaway?

If by "warmly welcomed" you mean "flamed incessantly", then yeah. We don't want him either.

Another vote here for movie-style camera angles and editing. One of the most uniquely appealling things about wrestling is that it's all happening live in front of you. (Okay, maybe they taped it on Tuesday and you're seeing it on Friday, but you get what I mean.) Everything you see is what actually happened, with no special effects. The show is presented in that manner, like a real sports show, for about 98% of the time. But then you have all the kayfabe-breaking examples people have already named: people discussing "secrets" in front of millions of people watching live television, physically impossible things like a midget running through a solid wall, camera shots from places where there shouldn't be cameras. I hate it so much that it makes me do something I never do: give props to TNA. At least they try to keep things within the realm of plausibility, like usually having the interviewer people hanging around to explain why a camera just happens to be filming this moment.

Boogeyman was kind of an Ultimate Warrior type. Had a weird and unique gimmick that he totally threw himself into, had an exciting entrance that grabbed the crowd's attention, got real over with the kids and casual fans. Unfortunately, his wrestling skills were about the same as Warrior's, if not even worse.

The list was made up by about a dozen guys who all voted their top 100 favorites for the year. For each list, the guy at #1 got 100 points, #2 got 99, #100 got 1, and so on. The point totals were all added up and that's where the final list came from. They asked me to participate, but I just don't have that kind of concentration to come up with a list of a hundred guys in order of how much I like their work. They do certainly tend to have a different mindset than most smark boards, including a love of lucha libre, big hosses, Southern old-school, and anything remotely related to the word "Battlearts". He's still wrestling? Not anymore, was just forced to retire a couple months ago due to spinal damage.

Chris Klein wishes he could be as intellectually mature as Tom & Jerry, let alone Tom Waits.

Are we counting stuff like tubes in the ears and dental procedures as "surgery"? A root canal is a painful and sucky thing to go through, but it's not very invasive. I've had deep cuts stitched up, broken bones set, and a camera on the end of a giant tube shoved down my throat to have a look when they thought I might have an ulcer, but I wouldn't count any of those as official surgery. The only time I ever went under the knife was to repair a hernia when I was a baby, I was far too young to remember. Well, that and circumcision, but I doubt we're counting that either. Same here, my brother, same here. I've had a few hospital stays for various weird illnesses, and have come to hate and fear the words "we're going to put you on an I.V." like no others. Sometimes it seemed like they were playing a rib on me by sending in nothing but the most incompetent interns to make me into a pincushion. Worst of all were those times when they'd finally get the needle in... only for the vein to collapse a few hours later, causing this big painful bubble of fluid to quickly build up under the injection point.

No I would not. That's really the only reason I keep watching. "Well, Joss's shows always tend to start out kinda sucky and then get better." Problem is, this one doesn't seem to have time to get better, and it's definitely suckier than the last time he was in this predicament, with Firefly. (Four episodes in, and we still haven't seen anything as good as either the original pilot "Serenity" or the second episode "Bushwhacked".) The show has its moments here and there, but it has more moments where I sigh and wonder what they were thinking.

Any line can work if it's spoken well. "I walk between the raindrops" is a line from Tom Waits' song "And the Earth Died Screaming", and it doesn't sound quite so goofy there.

Really more of a film/tv media thing where they're usually just terrified of taking risks on new ideas and prefer going with established properties. Why else do you think we have so damn many sequels and remakes of American movies too? That, and the theory that foreign (for these purposes, they usually count British as "foreign") films simply will not do as well at the box office as an American movie, so they'd rather remake it into their own version than take a chance by distributing the original in a similar fashion.

Oh yeah, I get that part. I just think it's interesting to look at the origins of terms and see the attitudes which created them. The British insult "common" traces back to a mindset where many of the aristocracy literally believed themselves to be a superior form of life as compared to the peasantry. Not saying that same belief is still prevalent now, but it was so strongly held for such a long time that we still have lingering echoes such as this. Actually, "white trash" is another good example. An American term which is passively racist, implying that it's necessary to note that this particular trash is caucasian. There aren't any identical euphemisms for other races, no "black trash" or "yellow trash"; the inference is that you normally wouldn't expect a white person to be this trashy. As for the chick in question, she's basically like Paris Hilton, except old, fat, not rich, and presumably even more lacking in any talent or redeeming features which would excuse her celebrity? Wow. The UK has even worse reality television stars than we do.

Apparently the old aristocratic mindset has lingered on in the UK to the point where "common", i.e. not of noble blood, is still considered an insult.

All the rest of us should hang our heads in shame for not mentioning this already. Also, come to think of it, weird that Douglas Adams and Hitchiker's Guide hasn't been named yet either; it revolutionized the entire modern version of the "whimsical sci-fi satire" genre. Anyone here read A Canticle for Lebowitz? Is it as good as its reputation suggests? I've checked it out from the library at least twice, but never got around to reading it before taking it back.

I get along with them well enough I suppose. Better than they did with each other, since they got divorced when I was 12. But there's just a fundamental lack of understanding between us, since our personalities are all so different. Dad's a Limbaugh-listening Jesus freak who devotes all his spare time to sports, Mom's a paranoid germaphobe who seems afraid of everything in the world. So basically I've learned to just avoid their push-buttons so as not to get into arguments.

Huh. Weird, I remember the commercials for the original Death at a Funeral playing a lot on television. So it's odd to go look it up, and find that the movie was a limited release which only played on 324 screens. Why did it get buried like that? They had a wide-release marketing campaign, plus the think was directed by Frank Oz and starring Alan Tudyck so it's not like it was made by a bunch of nobodies. As for the remake? Wow this sounds like a bad idea. Firstly, the cast seems like a who's who of people who specialize in mediocre comedies. And, fucking Neil Labute as director? Aside from the fact that I'm amazed anyone would let him make another movie again after Wicker Man, can you seriously see this guy making a light-hearted comedic romp? He's known for making really grim and polarizing movies about the battle of the sexes, where if there is any humor it's either really dark or unintentional. This is not dissimilar to hiring Michael Bay to direct a Jane Austen adaptation.

The best part of tonight's episode was the preview for next week's episode. And where the hell's my goddamn Amy Acker?

Most theaters I attended as a young guy did card. The movie theaters I worked at, the management was always real strict about not letting unattended minors into R-rated flicks.

Everything but the poop. Although pissing is rare (as mentioned, the toilet is right there) and jerking is even more rare. Agreed that there's just something about the sensation of being in the shower which makes sexual activity much more difficult than all those pornos would have you believe.

So you're in better shape now? Good, you're supposed to be the svelte attractive guy, in that pic you looked about as fat as I am.

...touche, sir. (Seriously, I saw more creativity and entertainment in that one post than I did in anything this two-hour show had to offer.)