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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, as far as I know Vince barely watches movies. He famously thought Scott Hall doing Tony Montana was an original bit. When Formerly Creative was still a thing one of the writers did talk about how Vince would go to the movies fairly often. His awareness of recent pop culture was basically zero in all regards, he wasn't that into sports(he couldn't name any current football players during the early XFL press), he got into AC/DC in the mid 2000s, etc.
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Shard posted:Going back to food YouTube y'all really should do a deep dive on the cooking with Jack show. He's been doing it since 2009 and my daughter and I have watched almost every episode and it's like watching a man die in real time.   If I remember right he described as "a little under done" Didn't stop the dude from eating it though. My favorite is when he details how he won't win the church chili cookoff not because of the year long frozen brisket he uses but because he's not a cheater
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I don't remember what movie it was but there's a story in The Hardcore Diaries where Mick has to compare an angle he wants to run to an old Western movie just to get Vince to understand the concept of "the heel doesn't immediately accept the face's challenge" or something like that. It was wild.
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Quid posted:He really is a train wreck watch. An example of his "cooking" I don't think I've ever seen Jack cook chicken that didn't come out completely pink and gushing blood, like somehow he never learned that white meat and red meat are different and you can't just have Rare Chicken??? Also he's bragged multiple times about beating the poo poo out of his kid so it's hard to feel bad for all the salmonella he's ingested over the years
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coconono posted:Vince McMahon is a Harvey Weinstein cosplayer
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MassRafTer posted:When Formerly Creative was still a thing one of the writers did talk about how Vince would go to the movies fairly often. His awareness of recent pop culture was basically zero in all regards, he wasn't that into sports(he couldn't name any current football players during the early XFL press), he got into AC/DC in the mid 2000s, etc. 1. Vince McMahon was on set/in the studio for the Rock's Saturday Night Live hosting gig in March 2000 with AC/DC as the musical guest and Mick Foley (also present) talked about Vince McMahon dancing terribly to their soundcheck. 2. AC/DC's Highway to Hell was used incessantly in the run-up to and the actual Summerslam 1998. 3. Jim Ross talks about thinking he was going to die when he was first signing to a WWF contract in the early 1990s and Vince took him out in a car, cranked AC/DC, and drove incredibly recklessly while hotboxing Jim Ross with farts. Not that it is any particular credit to him as a human being, but it seems clear that Vince was aware of/into AC/DC prior to the mid 2000s.
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Edge & Christian posted:This gets brought up a lot, but: Yes he was aware of them and then got into them in the 2000s.
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And the 1900s
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before then it was just his car-fart-hotboxing music
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JethroMcB posted:I take issue with the bolded bit, because I don't think Vince truly understands or appreciates any form of art. I think he simply wanted to self-mythologize himself into something "better" than a multi-millionaire carnie, saw movie producers as the closest analog to what he was doing and ran with that idea. Do that long enough and, brother, you'll work yourself into a shoot. he wanted to be walt disney
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the scooby doo movie taking place in a city themed after the WWE is vince's dream he wants a big city or hell even a planet themed after his product
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the scooby doo movie taking place in a city themed after the WWE is vince's dream he wants a big city or hell even a planet themed after his product The WrestleMania as portrayed in Scooby-Doo is weird. Shaggy and Scooby get their debut match in the industry as the opening match of WrestleMania, which is already weird enough. But then it turns from a tag-team match to open the show into a Last Man Standing match to close the show (and yes, this is the same match) against, of all people, Kane. And then Scooby goes over and wins the belt, because aint no rule that says a dog can't be WWE champion. And yet, it's still a better show than WrestleMania 32.
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TinTower posted:The WrestleMania as portrayed in Scooby-Doo is weird. Granted I have never watched this but to me that doesn't seem weird compared to this: https://twitter.com/5Deuce4Tre7/status/1238069724124196865 All time great Deuce.
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Mm. Yes. Perhaps some sort of... "company town." I will assume without looking at any historical example these work out well.
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quote:I have never seen an AEW match, but from what I understand they are basically just a series of dangerous botches. If you look at this guy's other posts you find out that he's lying because he talks about AEW storylines, but he's very stupid about it. Like the post where he theorizes that The Devil could be William Regal, because "Samoa Joe had a past with him from NXT". 16-bit Butt-Head posted:he wanted to be walt disney This would explain Vince's mustache look.
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i am vince mcmahon and i am here to ask you... is a sports entertainer not entitled to the sweat of my brow?
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MassRafTer posted:Granted I have never watched this but to me that doesn't seem weird compared to this: The worst part of living in the WWE arcology is having to fight in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal every year to keep my spot. I've lost 3 roommates that way. 😔
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:he wanted to be walt disney He wanted to be a cult leader. And he did.
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WWE City, the only city where any given day about 1/3rd of the population suddenly disappears without warning
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Quid posted:He really is a train wreck watch. An example of his "cooking" You've heard of spatchcocked chicken, get ready for BOTCHCOCKED CHICKEN!
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https://twitter.com/JulianWks/status/1772754302949564815 Man who almost certainly gets emailed the fast nationals from WWE every Thursday and Sunday to tweet out takes pot-shots at the "stopwatch community".
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Look at all these nerds paying attention to things
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It's even weirder because the length and number of matches on a card (and the talent therein) actually can correlate roughly to someone's enjoyment of a wrestling product. After all, the only reason why women's wrestling in the West is worth half a poo poo in 2024 is because people started getting really pissed off that, between the two major American promotions at the time, the women's divisions had basically become some super-green ex-supermodel being squashed by one of the Bella twins in a two minutes on SmackDown, with an occasional match on Raw if the fed wanted people to watch Total Divas. But who the gently caress gives a gently caress about the detail of the 18–49 demo these days? Even the studios don't obsess over it like they used to.
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I'm a numbers nerd, so I love data collectors, and it's generally nice if there's some facts one can use to make a point, compare how the things have changed, etc. On the other hand throwing numbers around, cherry picking etc. can be used to fuel really stupid arguments.
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/moviemarvin/status/1771592325895979406?s=46 Loaded up Youtube this morning and this crap was front and center on my recommendations...which is weird, since I've never clicked on any of the puppet's videos in this thread.
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This thread got me to click on one of his videos out of morbid curiosity, and I had forgotten just how viscerally sickening bad puppetry is
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Did anyone watch it out of morbid curiosity to see how some of these guys actually sound
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It's three loving hours long. 
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Justin_Brett posted:Did anyone watch it out of morbid curiosity to see how some of these guys actually sound It had a staggering 1.5k views when it was pushed at me so...probably not.
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TinTower posted:It's three loving hours long. Thank you for the mental sacrifice you are about to make
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Justin_Brett posted:Did anyone watch it out of morbid curiosity to see how some of these guys actually sound Someone posted a screenshot of the recording and of course none of them turned their cameras on. Not even the puppet guy!
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MassRafTer posted:Someone posted a screenshot of the recording and of course none of them turned their cameras on. that’s just them being smart given that aew freakazoids are known for doxxing, harassment, and even stealing christmas presents
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https://twitter.com/theantimarkofpw/status/1771723045851336859 man, they get really soft when you point out that smackdown is basically two hours of yapping these days
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/theantimarkofpw/status/1771723045851336859 CINEMA
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TinTower posted:man, they get really soft when you point out that smackdown is basically two hours of yapping these days Pfft, look at the square who wants wrestling on their wrestling show. Worst part about it, ask anybody.* *Who is a weird fedpill.
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/theantimarkofpw/status/1771723045851336859 Funny thing is this goes back to the MNW era too. 38 minutes of wrestling on a WWE show back then would have been considered a lot.
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Like, I get making some allowances because WWE is traditionally light on wrestling and they're building to the biggest show of the year, but even then, you'd still want more than ten minutes of wrestling per television hour, as had happened with one SmackDown a couple of weeks ago (I think the "official figure" was 28 minutes, but a good third of that was behind commercial breaks).
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Funny thing is this goes back to the MNW era too. 38 minutes of wrestling on a WWE show back then would have been considered a lot. oh, dude, matches were under 3 minutes if they weren't the main event, and even then. no one was shoving al snow and mideon out there and expecting a mat classic. I did a watch of 00s wwe a while back, cause I p much dropped out post invasion at the time, thats probably the best era for wwe in ring where it feels like a substantial part of the show, at least smackdown def did for a while. the storylines in that era were...... rough though like... rougher than the attitude era tbh
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shiksa posted:oh, dude, matches were under 3 minutes if they weren't the main event, and even then. no one was shoving al snow and mideon out there and expecting a mat classic. I did a watch of 00s wwe a while back, cause I p much dropped out post invasion at the time, thats probably the best era for wwe in ring where it feels like a substantial part of the show, at least smackdown def did for a while. the storylines in that era were...... rough though like... rougher than the attitude era tbh I just pulled up an old CRZ raw report from this time in 1999 (https://slashwrestling.com/raw/990329.html) and there was 8 matches and 28:24 bell time total.
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