cabbageboy

Chill, Cena isn't being put in the midcard. Right now he is just getting used to Raw until this PPV is over and the draft is done with. I'm fairly sure he will be the main champ on Raw when it's all said and done. Edge using his title shot tonight would be brilliant but I think anyone who watched that would find it incredibly lame....two guys kill each other in a HIAC match only to have Edge use his Money in the Bank shot at that point? It has such a WM 9 vibe to it.

Why Griffey anyway? It'd just be getting another high priced, broken down veteran guy who has seen his best days. Don't the Yankees have their quota filled of those guys? Long term I think the solution would be to focus more on developing some minor league talent for the future. I doubt Steinbrenner wants to hear that sort of thing though, so he'll keep the cupboard bare and keep signing over the hill stars because they have name value. The Yankees are kinda like mid 90s WCW in that regard.

Just wondering but why the hell would you leave before Offspring? God, they're the only band there that I'd actually pay money to see. In fact I did just 2 weeks ago when they did a show here in Louisville as part of this Mt. Dew BMX/Skater fest thing. Some bums called Acceptance opened and they sucked ass, bunch of this goth emo whiny shit that is on the radio nowdays. Their set showed one thing: Louisville is NOT a town for whiny emo crap. We like people who can rock it out. Taking a look at that Warped lineup and it seems like "Offspring and a bunch of whiny emo fuckheads." I hate this tuneless emo crap, I really do. It's like a bunch of guys doing soft singing and then yelling and screaming out of nowhere, despite the song not really being hard enough to call for it.

Kidman does a lot of movies people just flat out wouldn't think of paying money to see. Stuff like Birth, Dogville, The Hours....art pictures, not really commercial. Some of her movies have done fairly well, like The Others (which did 96 million in the US), Cold Mountain made 95 million, The Interpretor made 71 million. Interesting that she hasn't been the star of a single movie to make 100 million in North America though.

I thought it was real good, in fact I liked it better than the Dawn remake. I'm not a big fan of the fast moving zombies however, and besides if you don't have a biker gang, it ain't Dawn of the Dead. In this it seemed like the biker/mercenaries from Dawn were our heroes, which I found amusing. I think people tend to like Day of the Dead simply because it completed the original trilogy. It has some decent stuff in it but there are some VERY boring stretches of rambling talk that make it weaker than this film.

Land of the Dead will turn a nice little profit though, budget was only 15 million or so. It is cool in its own right but I don't think it is shall we say...mainstream. Dawn of the Dead followed the new trends of fast zombies and also had little competition (wasn't it released after Passion of the Christ, hardly the same audience). LOTD would have been better served to come out around Halloween.

I never cared anything about Brock Lesnar, I really didn't. The guy just never did it for me at all, and frankly they pushed him way too hard too fast. I still think the single lamest booking decision of a match was Brock beating RVD for the 2002 KOTR. Not only did Brock quit and leave them high and dry, but this match is one that really hurt Van Dam's momentum. The angle above isn't a bad one, though I kind of shudder at the thought of Brock as ECW world champ. If they do that I'd kinda like to see that Brock/RVD feud get a real blowoff, since the last match was essentially a DQ win for RVD.

I do agree that basketball was probably better in the 80s than it was in the 90s, if nothing else because both conferences were doing well back then. Lakers dominated out west, though the Rockets got to the finals a couple of times too. Celtics were ruling the east but the Sixers also were really good and then the Pistons by the end of the decade. During the 90s Jordan era the west was fairly bleh. I mean yeah the Rockets won two titles but since Jordan was playing baseball no one really cares. The Rockets were also the recipients of a couple of Phoenix chokejobs that frustrated me big time back then since I liked the Suns. That's sort of how I view the Spurs to be honest...champs in between the really important eras.

To me it was pretty much the 1-2 punch of Jordan's real retirement from the Bulls and the lockout. My NBA interest is far down from what it was in say 1998. The NBA of late shows why college basketball is more exciting. The Pistons are like Pitt or someone, the sort of boring team that relies on D and can't score for shit. Thing is, in a 1 and done format someone like Pitt can't go that far because that style isn't something you can really DOMINATE people with. In 2003 Pitt lost to Marquette in the Sweet 16 despite really being the better team...if they had a best of 7 it'd have been a different story. It'd be hard to beat a team with that style over 7 games, which is why the Pistons are tough. As far as the Lakers go, I'd say it was over for them when the Pistons just killed them in 89. After that I think Kareem retired, Riley left soon after. Basically in the late 80s/early90s the Pistons were just the assholes of all time: They killed off the Bird Celtics (Celtics have never done shit since), they finally crushed the Lakers and retired Kareem, and they held down Jordan and the Bulls. Seriously, people just HATED the Pistons.

Canseco was so useless for the Yankees that year that I don't really recall him even being there. When I read it I was like "Holy shit, Canseco played for the Yankees?" Did anyone think that the reason Larry Brown doesn't play Darko is because he sucks? Whenever I see the dude get in a game in garbage time he dribbles off his own feet, shoots airballs, etc. LeBron...Melo...and Darko?

A crap game that I used to love playing was this Major League Baseball game for the old Game Gear. I used to be able to pick the Braves on that game, put in an ultra fast lineup with Deion Sanders and some other guys, and just KILL the computer like 25-3.

Interesting that RVD called Vince "God" like that. Could he perhaps be trying to play some politics himself while saying he hates it? I wonder if RVD misunderstood the Landsberg quip about Edge "bringing the action." I took a whole different meaning from that, haha.

In regards to Double Dragon, I think the NES version is a little eh but the old Sega Master version rules. I remember getting a free game of that from the company for whatever reason and I was just thrilled. There is one game that no one has mentioned (because it isn't bad for one): Shinobi. The original Shinobi in the arcade and on Sega is one of my favorite games ever. It owns everything. As far as a guilty pleasure goes, it doesn't get much campier and silly than Renegade. Fun game, but it's cheese galore.

I think they were still working some gray area with the one guy being executed with no trial. The guy was a murderer after all, so it plays into the theme of Ducard/Ra's seeing justice one way...Bruce Wayne seeing it another. The idea of Bruce leading the League of Shadows in Gotham didn't seem all that bizarre at that point.

The ECW show (if there is one) would at first be about marking out and nostalgia, that's true. Thing is, several of these guys are old and would likely be around for maybe a year or so before they start having to put over some new talent. The main problem Heyman had with this strategy initially is that he had newer talent that people didn't accept in that role (Justin Credible, Rhino, even Corino to some extent). I mean hell Justin at various points went over Sandman, Dreamer, Sabu, etc. and instead of getting him over it just pissed people off. This is the only main problem I think ECW would have, the segue from the original stars to the newer guys.

The last 3 games weren't shockingly great. Game 5 is the closest this series got to what I'd consider watchable basketball, but don't mistake a fairly close game for a GOOD game. Games 6 and 7 were the same plodding snoozers that you'd get watching a Pitt college game. I dunno, I have a hard time accepting the Spurs as equals with people like the Bulls, Lakers, Celtics, etc. The Spurs are essentially the sort of reasonably decent Western Conf. team that the Bulls would have taken in a 5 or 6 game series. I mean hell if you take the Malone/Stockton Utah Jazz and let them play the friggin Nets and this Pistons team they'd have some rings too. It also doesn't help when the Spurs just get destroyed in a couple games. An all time team wouldn't get beat down by 30 against anyone.

Well, thing is Begins is more on a track to do Hulk type business than Spidey type business. I'd expect more out a Batman movie than I ever would that god awful Hulk movie. That said I think word of mouth will be a lot better, whereas it killed Hulk.

One thing not mentioned that the first 4 movies did a lot better: The Batmobile. It was really awesome in those movies. In Begins I didn't like it very much, but it was I guess meant to be a beginner's version of the Batmobile. Neeson is almost totally different than Nicholson was as the Joker. For about 2/3 of the film we don't really view Ducard/Ra's as a villain, he is Bruce Wayne's trainer and mentor, but he has VERY different views on how to distribute justice. It's not until Ra's veers into the whole "burn Wayne Manor and try to destroy Gotham" schtick that he goes into full blown heel mode.

The Spurs aren't really a dynasty. They are more like a perennial contender that wins the title at times, kinda like the Washington Redskins from 1982-92 or so. It doesn't help that the Lakers won 3 titles in between their 1st and 2nd titles, and that the 1st title was in a "that doesn't totally count" lockout year. Anyway, at least Detroit didn't win it all. There's just some teams I instictively dislike and the Pistons are one of them. My mom was actually for the Pistons due to Tayshaun Prince (local boy from UK) but I countered by mentioning the Spurs have Nazr Mohammed, also from UK. I can't believe Mohammed has a title ring, hell he has 3 if you count the 2 others from UK (1996, 98).

Dawn of the Dead was a remake of sorts, Land of the Dead is a part of the series Romero directed that the original Dawn was a part of. The Dead movies are kinda confusing in that regard, I thought for years Return of the Living Dead counted in the series but it really doesn't.

You don't end a major feud like this after a pointless TV match. There has to be a buildup in terms of a PPV blowoff. The goofy thing about this feud is that they've set it up to where the payoff almost has to be Eddie finally getting the win.

I actually do agree with RRR on Eddie/Rey. I don't get the point of constantly putting Rey over here, since Eddie can be a believable main eventer and Rey due to his size really can't get much further than US title level. What was the last match that Eddie even WON anyway? Of any kind? It's almost made me want to see a no DQ type match where Eddie just kills Rey with all sorts of sick shit like "Here it is, motherfucker!"

I actually have to disagree with this. I think what is needed is a totally different show. SMDN with a bunch of ECW guys on it will simply be Smackdown anyway. If they incorporate some ECW type stuff it'll simply be something that echoes ECW rather than ECW itself. There needs to be an illusion of real competition even if there isn't competition itself. Imagine the shitstorm if Heyman took over Smackdown, said fuck it and made the show into ECW, told Raw to fuck off (storyline speaking anyway), and we had two totally different shows. WWE Raw and ECW.

Well, Duff and Lohan are both no great shakes. You could probably go down to the nearby mall and find girls just as hot (or hotter) that could do the same roles. Lohan has been in a bit better movies though, but really needs to go back to the redhead look. I don't mind discussing Herbie because it might at least vye for #1 at the box office this week, but can we please drop this Perfect Man thing?

Did I just read HBK/Angle II could be the biggest match in history? Ha, it's barely even been mentioned on the shows, it's literally there so Angle can return the job to Shawn. If they wanted to do some really ballsy booking they could just have Kurt win it again, and then Shawn can keep coming after him. Not like either of these guys has anything to do after this.