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The whole point of ripping off old movies is that if you know the movie you go "oh they're doing the thing" and if you don't know the movie you think it's a cool idea they came up with
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Gumball Gumption posted:The whole point of ripping off old movies is that if you know the movie you go "oh they're doing the thing" and if you don't know the movie you think it's a cool idea they came up with People still don't get Rodrick strong is doing Streetcar (or more the Simpsons spoofs of it) even with Nigel directly making a 'Stella!' joke.
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Nov 9, 2023 20:42
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Shard posted:these folks in 1996 how old do you think the crow was?
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:how old do you think the crow was? The star was dead by the time WCW did the storyline so probably pretty old.
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Gumball Gumption posted:The whole point of ripping off old movies is that if you know the movie you go "oh they're doing the thing" and if you don't know the movie you think it's a cool idea they came up with I though they were doing Mickie James debuting as being obsessed with Trish, but yeah without any reference to anything else it's a fine angle.
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Nov 9, 2023 20:56
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i haven't seen any of these old movies and i wasn't watching wrestling during whenever mickie james debuted and i understand the story they're telling just fine
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Nov 9, 2023 21:01
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MassRafTer posted:The star was dead by the time WCW did the storyline so probably pretty old. 
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See I didn't know they were doing a movie with Mickie James/Trish - I just thought it was a psycho fan kind of storyline.
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Nov 9, 2023 21:07
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I thought All About Eve was that show with Sandra Oh 
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Guillermus posted:https://twitter.com/alanbarcoff/status/1722359701537534017?t=faU_vhQeMgtxA9LVfMiWzg&s=19 https://twitter.com/alanbarcoff/status/1717825225658605969?t=1wDx1VAQspTTtzkD6wqfVQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/alanbarcoff/status/1722149993643986948?t=fMN8YHqwCGlGef_pP6kFoA&s=19 This man confounds me.
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I learned about Sunset Boulevard because Tiny Toon Advetures did an entire episode that was just a parody of that movie. Same thing with Citizen Kane.
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Nov 9, 2023 22:45
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:It's not the movie stuff that gets me. If I hadn't watched Sunset Blvd recently I wouldn't have picked up on the parallels. It's the fact that RJ City and Mariah May turned to the camera and said "this is Mariah May, who wrestled in STARDOM in Japan, and she's a huge fan of Toni Storm, who wrestled for STARDOM in Japan, and she's in AEW because she wants to wrestle the same place Toni Storm wrestles". Like that wasn't even subtext. They said this. It was probably the most blatant debut they've had in terms of immediately making the audience understand who a new signing is. Should have flashed a QR code to the IMDB page
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bartok posted:I learned about Sunset Boulevard because Tiny Toon Advetures did an entire episode that was just a parody of that movie. Same thing with Citizen Kane. He was saying "Acne," you see
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bartok posted:I learned about Sunset Boulevard because Tiny Toon Advetures did an entire episode that was just a parody of that movie. Same thing with Citizen Kane. The only reason I knew anything about adult pop culture or current events as a kid was mad magazine and the Simpsons.
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bartok posted:I learned about Sunset Boulevard because Tiny Toon Advetures did an entire episode that was just a parody of that movie. Same thing with Citizen Kane.
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Bonk posted:I feel like most kids learned about classic movie tropes from Warner cartoons before they ever saw the movies they were referencing. I mostly knew who Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart were because the original Looney Tunes would parody them all the time. And some references in those cartoons are to things that have been entirely forgotten. Senator Beauregard Claghorn lives in obscurity but Foghorn Leghorn is still somewhere in the zeitgeist.
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1glitch0 posted:I though they were doing Mickie James debuting as being obsessed with Trish, but yeah without any reference to anything else it's a fine angle. Mickie James and Trish was pretty much a riff on Single White Female.
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The_Rob posted:Mickie James and Trish was pretty much a riff on Single White Female. more like a whiff because booking didn't get the movie at all.
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Ibexaz posted:a movie about an aging Hollywood starlet???? Whos keeping track of all thijis  aging Broadway starlet
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Power Windows posted:
But Norma Desmond was a Hollywood starlet, not Broadway and Toni is playing her, right down to Luther being Max the butler. Or am I missing something here?
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Coolness Averted posted:But Norma Desmond was a Hollywood starlet, not Broadway and Toni is playing her, right down to Luther being Max the butler. Or am I missing something here? I was referring to All About Eve
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MassRafTer posted:The star was dead by the time WCW did the storyline so probably pretty old. Good post
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Power Windows posted:I was referring to All About Eve Ah! Knew I'd mixed something up, thanks.
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You can play football on that astroturf
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1glitch0 posted:I though they were doing Mickie James debuting as being obsessed with Trish, but yeah without any reference to anything else it's a fine angle. No reason it can't be references to both. I mean... https://twitter.com/femalelroom/status/1722456955132793332?s=20 (Probably a coincidence they're both in low cut red outfits, but I want to believe it's a deliberate reference.)
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All About Eve is good. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter are great in it. Recommend.
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apophenium posted:I thought All About Eve was that show with Sandra Oh no, that's Invincible, gawd
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No, guys, All About Eve are the band who did Martha's Harbour.
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I though all about eve was the movie where Sandra bullock played someone who made crossword puzzles
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coconono posted:You can play football on that astroturf 
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Just to get it out of the way: Who are you to doubt El Dandy?!?
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Citing Silver King as a guy who didn't have a gimmick is a great gimmick to help this post stand out.
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Old news, the biggest clue that the Montreal Screwjob is a work is the fact that it happen in 'Canada'. You know, the fact country invented by Marvel Comics to be the place Wolverine lives,just like what they did with Black Panther and Wakanda.
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  Some, very observant fans are posting spoilers in the comments of AEW's latest clip of the devil. CM Punk getting fired was all a work!
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It could be a work, it'd just be an extremely idiotic work.
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