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May 4, 2020 02:34
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its amazing how quick nWo went from Cool Badasses to Dads With Harleys And Bad Politics.
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May 4, 2020 02:47
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coconono posted:its amazing how quick nWo went from Cool Badasses to Dads With Harleys And Bad Politics. It took one month or six months depending on whether you count Hog Wild or Souled Out as the start of that
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May 4, 2020 03:02
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Yeah that'd be about it. Souled Out was definitely when it was like watching the dudes at the country club wild out. I hope Miss nWo is doing good tho. She's probably some poster's mom at this point.
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May 4, 2020 03:05
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coconono posted:Yeah that'd be about it. Souled Out was definitely when it was like watching the dudes at the country club wild out. she was probably some poster's mom in 1997
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May 4, 2020 04:17
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Isn't Souled Out where the nWo arrived by riding on top of a bunch of garbage trucks? Like for no reason?
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What would you do to satisfy Big Sexy Kevin Nash??
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Isn't Souled Out where the nWo arrived by riding on top of a bunch of garbage trucks? Like for no reason? They don’t play by society’s rules!
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Isn't Souled Out where the nWo arrived by riding on top of a bunch of garbage trucks? Like for no reason? It's random emergency vehicles (ambulances, cop cars with sirens blaring, etc), garbage trucks, and some semi-trucks and it's got a disgusting black and white grainy filter over all of it. Probably a nice idea on paper but just awful to look at. flashy_mcflash fucked around with this message at 14:40 on May 4, 2020 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Isn't Souled Out where the nWo arrived by riding on top of a bunch of garbage trucks? Like for no reason?
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May 4, 2020 14:38
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And Ted Dibiase and Eric Bishoff sitting in the dark
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May 4, 2020 16:09
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I liked the grainy video because it felt like they'd just got done horking a doob, swished out all the smoke and started cutting promos. But I also thought Max Headroom was a great TV show so my aesthetics aren't universal
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May 4, 2020 16:32
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If you watch Souled Out 97, Eric Bischoff is on commentary and he sounds high as gently caress.
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May 4, 2020 16:41
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MrBling posted:If you watch Souled Out 97, Eric Bischoff is on commentary and he sounds high as gently caress. dude rode a dang dumpster to the arena, he was high as gently caress
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May 4, 2020 16:47
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Obligatory posting of Bryan & Vinny's review of Souled Out with added footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fncAyxe1c8E
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May 4, 2020 17:36
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flashy_mcflash posted:It's random emergency vehicles (ambulances, cop cars with sirens blaring, etc), garbage trucks, and some semi-trucks and it's got a disgusting black and white grainy filter over all of it. Probably a nice idea on paper but just awful to look at. You forgot to mention the use of fisheye lenses.
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May 4, 2020 19:15
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I always assumed the garbage trucks were because they were supposed to ride in on harleys or something but it was snowing so they rode in on the vehicles that were safe and allowed.
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May 4, 2020 19:33
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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18maqo The show in question.
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coconono posted:But I also thought Max Headroom was a great TV show so my aesthetics aren't universal I mean, it was a great TV show, so...
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May 4, 2020 21:22
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Numero6 posted:Lmao at Lex Luger. Watching old Nitros, Lex was loving awesome sometimes
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May 4, 2020 22:25
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I've grown fonder of Lex's work over the years. I think he's about the ceiling for what you get with dudes whose only real marketable attribute is JACKED. Which is a shame because the dude's comedic timing is pretty good.
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May 4, 2020 22:38
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Numero6 posted:Lmao at Lex Luger. If there's one thing Lex never lacked it's commitment to the gimmick
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May 4, 2020 22:44
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coconono posted:I've grown fonder of Lex's work over the years. I think he's about the ceiling for what you get with dudes whose only real marketable attribute is JACKED. Which is a shame because the dude's comedic timing is pretty good. Lex wasn't a bad worker until his body started breaking down at the end, as well.
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May 4, 2020 22:52
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The one interesting thing about Souled Out is the weird aesthetic it has.
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the other weird thing about Souled Out was where they did the pay-per-view. think about all the hot markets WCW had at this time. you have Atlanta as a home base, the Carolinas where it's still JCP country, you've expanded to St Louis and Chicago and can run the Dome/United Center, out West there's a few hot cities like the Bay Area, and guess where they had Souled Out? Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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May 4, 2020 23:55
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Troy Queef posted:Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The heart of nWo country
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I believe arenas are booked way in advance so it just happened to work that way, not that WCW was like “yes Cedar Rapids, that’s exactly the place we need for souled out”
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oldpainless posted:I believe arenas are booked way in advance so it just happened to work that way, not that WCW was like “yes Cedar Rapids, that’s exactly the place we need for souled out” I think the first one was on a Saturday. So they may have changed a house show to souled out months after they booked it. If this is the case they probably decided in December the nwo is super hot and there’s no ppv in January. And that arena was probably booked in early fall if not summer. I don’t know much about arena booking other then the main tenant, nhl/nba or college team get the first dates. Then the arena fills the 280-320 open dates. Like I’m sure it’s impossible to book an arena that hosts both nhl and nba teams April through June because you don’t really know if there’s going to be 3 to 6 games a week for 2 to 8 weeks. Remember when wwe had that very petty basketball themed main event on raw 10 years ago and the heel team wore Denver nuggets jerseys?
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Troy Queef posted:the other weird thing about Souled Out was where they did the pay-per-view. WCW's live event business hadn't completely caught fire quite yet, so it's not really weird they were running secondary markets, especially for an experimental show. The company had really struggled to draw live anywhere about 9 months prior when the Savage/Flair feud started doing well at house shows.
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Souled Out wasn't a last minute thing, nor were the garbage trucks. They sat down and planned out the video packages in advance and thought they did a really cool, innovative job. One of the funnier parts of the Nitro book is how the author seems to think the opening was a big hit, and the people he interviewed were really proud of it. It's a book that comes off as if it were written by someone who never actually watched WCW, but somehow was able to interview a bunch of people about it.
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The American Dream posted:I think the first one was on a Saturday. So they may have changed a house show to souled out months after they booked it. It was the Saturday night before that year's Super Bowl, yeah
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DJExile posted:It was the Saturday night before that year's Super Bowl, yeah Souled Out and Road Wild were both Saturday shows.
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May 5, 2020 01:37
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my favorite part of the Souled Out intro wasn't the people riding the garbage trucks, it was Sean Waltman running around between the trucks shouting and too-sweeting constantly
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MassRafTer posted:Souled Out wasn't a last minute thing, nor were the garbage trucks. They sat down and planned out the video packages in advance and thought they did a really cool, innovative job. thinking lame things are cool and innovative is like the definition of the NWO
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Troy Queef posted:the other weird thing about Souled Out was where they did the pay-per-view. In January, no less. There was plenty of snow visible IIRC. I mean, the show didn't do very well and it was (I think?) their first January PPV, so they probably anticipated it being a minor show.
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