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So the opening to this until we cut back to the arena has identical production values to a Series 3 episode of Red Dwarf.
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I think there is a place for a character analogous to a "magical girl" type in western wrestling, you'd just have to be really careful about how you pitch it to avoid it seeming, not to be blunt, weird and creepy. For some reason where my mind lands is with a sort of Anne Of Green Gables / Pippi Longstocking character. Pure heart, lots of moxie and gumption, kind of easily tricked by people. I might have just reinvented NXT Bayley.
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Apr 12, 2021 09:53
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when did Jay White join Cameo?
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Apr 14, 2021 15:02
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Rarity posted:KUSHIDA looks dead inside He's making money for his family. He's done his art, now he's doing his work.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:37
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Barry Bluejeans posted:imagine four hunters on the edge of a cliff Time works the same WWE
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Apr 14, 2021 21:06
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Honestly if I were a wrestler unless a company was actively dangerous to myself and others I'd say very little negative about people who I might one day have to work with again. The problem is that WWE is actively dangerous to its talent.
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Apr 16, 2021 11:08
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BGrifter posted:It’s kinda crazy that Batista ended up being a bigger star outside of wrestling than Stone Cold Steve Austin. Weirdly in his case I think it helps him that he was only ever a big star in wrestling rather than a megastar. I know a lot of people who love Dave Bautista and neither know nor care anything about wrestling, who might have been put off by him if he was just The Wrestling Guy. It also helps that he is genuinely a very good actor and seems committed to working on his craft.
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Apr 16, 2021 12:14
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BGrifter posted:Yeah, that sounds right. Cena has started having some mainstream acting success but I suspect he was held back a little at first by being so strongly associated with WWE. And in both cases having James Gunn in their corner to let them successfully be really funny has helped.
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Apr 16, 2021 12:29
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the fact that The Rock played a gay cowboy singer/actor in an Elmore Leonard film with John Travolta and Uma Thurman is always going to weird me out. He does a cover of "You Ain't Woman Enough To Steal My Man".
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Apr 16, 2021 12:40
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beggar posted:I don't think this is the case. I'd argue the expendables is comparable to guardians, and Stone Cold has plenty of Stubers in his filmography. I don't see Batista with multiple cable TV shows in syndication, on commercials selling me tide pods with Ice-T. Guardians Of The Galaxy by itself had a comparable box office to the entire Expendables trilogy. And that's the highest profile project Austin has done as an actor. While Stone Cold has plenty of Stubers in his filmography he doesn't have a Dune. (and honestly he doesn't have that many Stubers either. Pretty much every Austin vehicle where he's had a leading role has been straight to video) Lamuella fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Apr 16, 2021 13:11
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IcePhoenix posted:I was promised nxt cuts when are they every one and a half seconds, and abrupt enough to cause significant nausea.
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Apr 16, 2021 21:04
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Ganso Bomb posted:It just looks so bizarre. Almost makes me want to watch a Fast movie to see how weird they are, a thing I've never done. Fast Five is a genuinely fun and silly heist movie that requires essentially no knowledge of the series to work. There's a scene where they rob a safe from a police station and drive down a street dragging it behind their cars, it's loving idiotic.
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Apr 16, 2021 21:14
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I'm enjoying the fact that people in this thread are talking about literally anything else rather than WWE.
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Apr 16, 2021 21:21
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BGrifter posted:I’m the sicko who likes Tokyo Drift best. Probably the dumbest Fast and the Furious movie. Tokyo Drift also has the most blatantly homoerotic line in the whole franchise, and that's a crowded field "I didn't know he was into American muscle." "He was when he was rollin' with me."
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Apr 16, 2021 21:25
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Barry Bluejeans posted:He's been trying for years to land a role as Black Adam (and it's paid off, movie's slated to come out in summer 2022), presumably so much so that he's rebuffed any offers Disney may have made in that vein If it weren't for the fact that the rights sit with Sony, I think, and the fact that Aquaman already stole its thunder, The Rock would be an absolutely perfect Namor. Quantum of Phallus posted:Birds of Prey was decent. I really liked Birds Of Prey. Largely because of how absolutely and absurdly extra Chris Messina and Ewan MacGregor were.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Now I'm imagining Vin Diesel sending the script back for rewriting because that ending doesn't work for him, brother. I'm entirely certain this happened. kitten emergency posted:i remember reading an article in variety i think a year or two back about how rock or vin or someone actually has a rep watching each fight scene and literally counting how much offense he gets in vs. the other dude and if it gets unbalanced then they force them to reshoot so he can go over Reminds me of the 1974 film of The Towering Inferno, where both Steve McQueen and Paul Newman had a clause in their contract guaranteeing them top billing in the film. So how the producers got round this was to have their names appear on the same card in the titles sequence, arranged diagonally with McQueen's name bottom left and Newman's name top right.
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Apr 16, 2021 21:48
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This just reminds me of what an absolutely great show Beyond Americanrana 2019 was. (maybe stop before the last match which has an absolute loving creep in it) quote:
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Apr 16, 2021 21:55
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Gavok posted:He'd be a better Namor. And the mutant power of "sleeping with Reed Richards' wife"
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Apr 16, 2021 22:28
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flatluigi posted:they literally renamed the next ppv to Wrestlemania Backlash, it's all just repeating the wrestlemania stuff gently caress it, go whole hog and have 12-14 Wrestlemanias a year. Just bolt the name onto the front of everything.
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Apr 17, 2021 15:59
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Rarity posted:Maybe Ricochet will finally get his own series in the WWECU It will be a cooking show. He won't even have to go to a new location.
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Apr 19, 2021 14:23
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Quantum of Phallus posted:the dumb idiot fucker show depending on the parsing of that statement I doubt anyone could get it on TV. Probably depends how explicit they were with him loving the dumb idiots.
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Apr 19, 2021 14:43
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OK, I'll bite, what the gently caress is "music"?
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Apr 20, 2021 15:09
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https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/status/1384598312045539334
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Apr 20, 2021 21:11
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NXT: 841k, 0.23 in 18-49, ranked 27th.
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Apr 21, 2021 21:19
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At least we can be pretty sure he got his vaccinations.
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Apr 21, 2021 22:03
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Well, I'm just glad they got rid of the one awful guy in the company and now Talent Relations is run by the dynamic dude who once told AJ Lee "Our male fans want to hang out and play video games with you. But no one wants to have sex with you. Do you see how that’s a problem for us?"
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Apr 23, 2021 09:56
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Watching the start of that video just made me think the director had seen a lot of PAC's AEW video spots but not got the point.
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njsykora posted:Yeah PAC's videos were shot with him looking dirty as gently caress under a bridge so they fit his character. I was thinking more of his return video. https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1324176954573131776
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Took a shot at this: https://streamable.com/u8wqsx
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Apr 24, 2021 14:30
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Lid posted:Well that was perfect Aleister talking about Zelina Vega: "She was like a candle in the wind. Unreliable."
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Apr 24, 2021 15:48
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You need to be much cooler to pull those glasses off
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Miching Mallecho posted:Butcher being a Nine Inch Nails fan makes me like him even more. If I remember correctly Every Time I Die have gigged with them before now.
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MassRafTer posted:Yeah but he really hates Every Time I Die. I hate every time you die too.
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Apr 24, 2021 22:55
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The sheer speed with which Matt Stryker jumped on the opportunity to make Morrissey puns was halfway between admirable and embarrassing. Wasn't there an episode of RAW at some point where he referenced, like, ten Smiths songs across two hours? The only one I remember is him saying that William Regal was from "The coastal town that they forgot to close down"
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Rarity posted:Look that's just silly, we all know Tony Nese got fired a couple of years ago He went on to be a big name in North Carolina breakfast foods
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The way in which WWE is bad is industrially interesting, at least. It's a good example of what happens to entertainment in capitalism at the point where the reward for a creative venture is largely or utterly divorced from what people thought of that creative venture. Vince McMahon, a man who has lost most of his creative skills but retained all of his creative twitchiness, is constantly rewriting a show to less and less response when it would receive about the same rating and he would get about the same amount of money no matter what he did. A podcast I listen to once described the endstage of Hollywood as being one movie that takes a week to watch and features all the characters owned by the studio. The endstage of WWE is three hours of constant robotic noise where none of the matches start or finish, it's just things happening as the bright lights flash on and off.
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Apr 27, 2021 12:06
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He got Drake Older but he never got Drake Wiser.
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mooseinfants posted:When does Hatsune Miku perform at Wrestlemania Won the title in the main event in 2004.
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CobiWann posted:So AEW is New Vegas. Got it. The truth is, the match was rigged from the start
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One of the many frustrations with the way WWE is put together is how hard they make things for themselves. And one of those ways is how much they second guess the writers and switch things round. I've heard countless stories of Vince tearing up runsheets for shows while they were live on TV, and the only thing that reliably produces is stomach ulcers. I've obviously never written a wrestling show, but from watching them it seems obvious that the big advantage a booker has is that they can script by segment rather than by second. If you tell Randy Orton and Shelton Benjamin "12 minute singles match, Randy goes over after Cedric's interference backfires" they'll work out the details. This SHOULD mean that if you've got good talent and you keep it simple you should have a good - or at least watchable - show. But by writing then rewriting then overwriting they end up with these terrible micromanaged confections that are moment to moment overbooked and hour to hour absolutely nonsensical. And it doesn't have to be this way. At all.
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