Lord of The Curry

Thanks for that. A winner is you.

I hated Singer for leaving but now I can't say I blame him. A really bad X3 and Superman movie could signal the downfall of the current trend of comic book/hero flicks.

Bitch please. You don't even want to know the type of shit Rudo would do if he was given the book. I've seen the madness firsthand. I like how the WWE has all-but-forgotten the fact that Hassan is an Arab-AMERICAN.

I'm pretty scared here. Wow. If you're reading this thread then you're pretty much allowing yourself to have the entire thing revealed to yourself. First and last warning: IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR A SINGLE SPOILER ABOUT X3, STAY THE FUCK OUT. Spoiler tags will not be used in this one. For real, I'm gonna start talking about shit so don't scroll down. - Ratner is the worst possible choice to direct this one. After reading about all the shit Fox did w/ Singer and contract negotiations I don't blame him for peacing out. - So, Cyclops is dead. Uh........ok. I never gave two shits about Marsden in the first place but it seems a little out of the blue. I'm not sure how the fans will react to this new Jean Grey. - Wolverine bangs Storm? Gimme a fucking break. Halle Berry was mis-cast from the get go and for some reason she's still around. The article also alludes to the fact that she was re-signed on the contigency that her character gets a much bigger role. I wonder if killing Cyclops off is her payback for re-signing. - Beast sounds very on the fence at this point. Like Moriarty said, if they don't get his CGI right it'll be a disaster. I'm not too worried about Grammer nailing his persona and mannerisms, thank God. - A glowing blue serum is the lead heel in this? The fuck? - Gambit being written off as a Magneto lackey doesn't work for me. - 4 major characters get written off by getting injected with the aforementioned blue serum. - This is not confirmed by any means but it seems like they're going to kill Professor X off. Moriarty only reveals that Cyclops dies but edits out the names of the other mutants set to kick it in the article. The following line was a huge clue for me: "but [THE SECOND CHARACTER TO DIE] went out with almost nothing but a whimper. His character in this film is severely underdeveloped, and what’s worse is that they add Cain Marko just as [sOMEONE] is killed off?". Cain Marko is Juggernaut, aka Proffesor X's half-brother. Moriarty seems to be lamenting the fact that they introduce 'Naut right when they kill X off instead of running with the built-in storyline between the two. I'm really, really afraid for this movie now. A far cry from my "They cannot fuck this one up" attitude I had after leaving the theatre when I saw X2.

I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this. There is something a tad bit disturbing about a 12 year old boy being influenced to the point where he brings race-baiting signs to live events and yells racial slurs at somebody he doesn't even know. Funny, the way I can see this ending is a Billy and Chuck scenario, with Hassan eventually breaking character and saying that it was Davari who set him up like an Arab and told him to act like one when he's really just an Italian-American guy named Mark Magnus.

Uh.......ok. Sometimes I think that SJ is really JJ Abrams and is just fucking with us all. I'm not talking about any re-infection. I'm talking about The Island punishing Locke. But, knowing you, I'm sure the two are related in some way.

I laughed, not so much at the comment but at the fact that Austin actually got away with saying it. The WWE is slowly converting their fans into racists due to this whole Hassan angle and I'm not really enjoying it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would say Vince is acknowledging that a decent portion of his fans already are/were racists. The JBL character basically acted like anyone of color could only be seen as a servant of his, and you could even go back as far as the DiBiase/Virgil pairing with the black man serving as a rich white man's butler. The fact is that I'm sure a good portion of the crowd last night wasn't the least bit offended by what Austin said. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's only going to be a matter of time before this angle and gimmick warrant some seriously bad press for WWE. What if an Arab-American was attending a RAW show and saw somebody with a sign that said "Davari loves NY" or "Muhammed parked my camel" or something like that? More to the point, if they complained would the WWE take the sign away from the fan? This entire storyline has built up to the point that fans are EXPECTED to showcase racist tendancies towards Hassan and Davari. Vince and Co. enjoy priding themself on their whole "The fans make the decisons for us" mentality. I'm not seeing it here. If somebody brought an "OJ loves fried chicken and watermelon" sign to Smackdown they'd at least have it get taken away, maybe get their asses kicked by others fans or security.

Tried it before, very good stuff. We've actually got a KC's Bar and Grill around here that serves alligator poppers, similar to the popcorn chicken things they've got at KFC.

So, will The Island be bitter at Locke for blowing up the hatch and not nescessarily "earning" his way into it? I'd love it if next season started off with Hurley, Locke, Jack and Kate standing at the hatch, ready to descend and *snap*- Locke's legs go out and he can't climb down. Jack being the one to find out what was inside it the whole time would drive JL up the fuckin wall.

I laughed, not so much at the comment but at the fact that Austin actually got away with saying it. The WWE is slowly converting their fans into racists due to this whole Hassan angle and I'm not really enjoying it.

As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I just went back to eating meat after a 5 year hiatus. I've already gone through the basics of turkey, chicken and burgers but now I need something more. BBQ'd, fried, baked, whateverthefuckever. Gimme.

I didn't like that ending. Benjamin's slingshot-backflip reversal was by far the hawtest thing all night.

True say. I totally forgot about that match, funny because I loved it more then anything on the card when I first saw it. Tajiri wasting Corino with a head kick and blood spattering on the camera lens is still a great visual to this day. By no means, however, does it equal Jerry Lynn writing "D-I-E" on Steve's chest with his own blood. If anybody gets signed after tonight it'll be Awesome or Tanaka.

Hardcore Heaven 2000. Definetly worth getting a tape of, as it's got a good RVD/Lynn bout, a fun tag match w/ Nova/Chetti vs Doring/Roadkill vs The Baldies and a pretty alright ME w/ Storm vs Credible. Does Matt Hardy have issues with saying 'shit'?

Touche. That's actually one of the best ECW matches of the later years, along with Nicho/Tajiri.

Awesome/Credible vs Lynn/Tanaka was good. But I agree for the most part, their best matches (and only memorable matches) have been against each other. Though Awesome did have a killer match with Kobashi in 98(?) but that's neither here nor there.

Benoit and Eddy should cross paths backstage on Smackdown this week, give each other a "What the fuck was that all about?" look and keep on walking.

I'm surprised that Austin didn't take the time to point out that he'd be on RAW tommorow night.

It would obviously only work if the match ruled.

I'm hoping that "This match rules" will catch on as a chant.

The more I think about it, the more I hate the fact that Austin was there. I guess he felt he'd been away too long and needed the rub more then the ECW guys did.

Funny, on the way back from the theatre I turned to Rudo and said "The ending did not feel like ECW." This felt like I was watching WWE trying to recreate the magic of ECW (which it was). "Nicer equipment" = WWE-ized editing and cuts.

The match wasn't really "acceptable" or "passable" or even "decent." It wasn't "good". What does that leave us with? Bad.

For anybody who think's I'm hating, I'm not. It was a really fun show but not even the show it could've/should've been.

So, yeah, thoughts and stuff. The Good - Balcony moonsaults are fun. - TANAKA VS AWESOME. FUCK. I thought Tanaka was dead as dead could be when they did the reverse powerbomb spot off the top rope. *This* close to being impaled on a table leg. I demand that Tanaka be brought in as a part of JBL's Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Relations. - Enter Sandman. - Jericho's Tiger Suplex on Storm. Jerico's vest and tights were choice too. - CATFIGHT~! - Heyman blowing the roof off the place. The Bad - Rey/Nicho was pretty whatever, aside from the dirty guillotine legdrop across the railing and the sweet 'rana at the end. - The aforementioned Benoit/Eddy shittiness. - No Raven. - Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much WWE involvement. The editing was straight out of a WWE show and they were devoting time to the Smackdown guys when THEY HADN'T EVEN SHOWN UP YET. - Austin putting himself over the entire group of WWE guys in the balcony and ordering everybody in the ring around.