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April Wrasslin' |OT| Porsha! Get my damn shoe!
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I'm only 23 and can say I've enjoyed the TOS that I've seen.
23? They got computers at the home, gramps?
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I'm making my posts using GAF's mail-in program. Really convenient since I can just dictate my posts to the nurse to write for me rather than trying to type with my arthritic hands.
I'll go see it. Like 3 weeks after it comes out and on a weekday afternoon, but I'll actually go out of my way to see it.
That's more than I can say for any Marvel movies. Mad Max will be way better though.
FallingEdge
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Can't wait for Mad Max. That movie will be fun.
FallingEdge
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they have done that multiple times
The Silver
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You know I still can't wrap my head around Reigns still feuding with Show, this is Bryan post-Mania booking.
Realistically, who else could he feud with?
Big Show pretty much does all the talking for the feud anyway.
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Fast 7, avengers, mad max, star wars.
ANT-man looks,fun
Good year for movies
ANT-man looks,fun
Good year for movies
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could never
I haven't bothered to drag my ass out to the cinema in years, but these two are making me do so.
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4-way tag, eh? Hmm, we'll see how it goes. Expecting an entertaining car crash...and BJ Whitmer.
The Silver
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Could've given him Sheamus or Bray.(I wouldn't like Bray all that much either but I'll take anything but Show)
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Who's in Decade? Genuinely never heard of this team before.
post WM they should have put some fresh faces in the Authority for new matchups and voices but no, we are stuck Show and Kane
Jason Jordan's new theme is horrific and I hope they change it!
Roland_Gunner
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It started out as a group with Whitmer, Jimmy Jacobs, and Roderick Strong who had all been with ROH for 10 years and were tired of not being respected by the young uns. Then Strong broke off and feuded with Whitmer in a match no one cared about and Jacobs left to go write for WWE. So now its Whitmer and Adam Page, who was their 'young boy' trainee.
You know what pisses me off more than that? Teachers who teach those required courses who act like their class is a high and mighty class that is super important, when in fact nobody would be there if it wasn't required.
That's Big Show and Kane in 2015 to a tee.
Just face it , Revenge of the sith is just the better movie.
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Oh, Bo saying that Episode 1 was the best was priceless. Sad that the audience didn't react all too much to it, but wow. Glad that Bo is back.
Weird thing is I could actually see the logic behind someone saying that episode 1 is the best prequel. Part of what trips up the other 2 prequel movies are that Lucas keeps trying to fix his mistakes. I wouldn't say Episode 1 is the best prequel, but it does have the best lightsaber fight.
This is me being a full on nerd, but Yoda even using a lightsaber feels completely contradictory to his character.
I guarantee that a large part audience like Episode 1.
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A large part of the audience is young enough that the only Star Wars they know is that Rebels cartoon.
But a large part of audience doesn't watch disney xd.
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So then they just don't know what Star Wars is period.
Since we're on Star Wars/Trek talk, I want to shoot for a moment
Trekkies have the thickest nostalgia goggles of any fandom I've personally seen and they make Star Wars fans look like nothing. Trekkies hate on JJ Abrams for having the audacity to make Star Trek movies entertaining again, after a solid fun of 10 straight Trek movies where over half of them were bad.
Trekkies have the thickest nostalgia goggles of any fandom I've personally seen and they make Star Wars fans look like nothing. Trekkies hate on JJ Abrams for having the audacity to make Star Trek movies entertaining again, after a solid fun of 10 straight Trek movies where over half of them were bad.
Eh some kids might have watched the clone wars show on cartoon network. and , I think is fuckin cool that there is going to be a new era of star wars for kids, while people hate the prequels It has made to of people fan of star wars.
He probably can't read if his math skills is anything to go by
Agreed on this, I hope a lot of young kids have the same fun experience I had the first time I watched Star Wars.
Disney is going to make so much fucking money this year it's insane.
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I'll say it once and I'll say it again: Trekkies have convinced themselves that Star Trek is some deep, cerebral SF with a bunch of social commentary, moralizing and other such crap when in reality the only series that even kinda approaches this is TNG. TOS is just dumb pulp SF most of the time and it made total sense to see it evolve into what we saw in the Abrams films.
It was on like 8 AM on Saturdays with little to no advertisement after the first season or so, so I'd say they didn't.
It was on like 8 AM on Saturdays with little to no advertisement after the first season or so, so I'd say they didn't.
In terms of social commentary and relevance TOS was pretty good about this for its time. TOS is pulp sci-fi now because a lot of the social issues that show touched upon aren't really relevant in this era. TNG and the later seasons of Deep Space 9 are respectable on the cerebral front. It's really the movies and Voyager that brought the franchise way down.
British Monsoon
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They hate on Abrahms because he had zero respect for the universe or for Roddenberry's vision of what Star Trek should be. The producers wanted a flashy sci-fi action film that would simultaneously tug at people's nostalgia while never being daring enough to do anything that might potentially alienate certain demographics. They were safe, insipid and, ultimately, very, very dumb movies. Abrahms is a fucking hack, but that's not to say Trek was perfect before he got his hands on it - it wasn't and you aren't likely to find any fan who's so diehard obsessive that they love steaming turds like Star Trek Insurrection, Enterprise or the majority of Voyager.
Nah, fuck that. The reason TOS was "pulp" sci-fi was because many of the scripts were written by notable science fiction writers of the time, many of whom got noticed because of their stories being published in pulp magazines. They may have been trashy, over-simplified and, at times, entirely obtuse, but the recurring theme was one of speculative science fiction, which the Abrahms movies have NOTHING in common with.
I've face-to-face talked to people who said they thought Generations, Insurrection, and Nemesis were more entertaining movies than Trek 09 or Into Darkness, and kept a straight face the entire time. There are people are that die hard obsessed. And lets be real, the respect for Roddenberry's vision died way before JJ touched the franchise. DS9 really shattered the optimistic & progressive Roddenberry vision of the future but was an entertaining as fuck show despite this. Voyager shit on the dead corpse of Roddenberry's vision while seasons 3 and 4 of Enterprise tried in vain to revive a dead corpse.
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that and professors that put books that they have written into the syllabus and of course you have to buy it because you need to do a paper on it. smh
lovely ladies
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I agree with Bootaaay that Abrams is pretty mediocre. I haven't watched his ST films but MI3 and Super 8 weren't anything to write home about which is why I don't have very high hopes for his Star Wars movie. It will probably be very serviceable but nothing beyond that.
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I like,both abhrams films but into,darkness is pretty bad.
Clone Wars did fantastic ratings actually.