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any documentary is better than a wwe documentary... jesus
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any documentary is better than a wwe documentary... jesus
Beyond The Mat is a legit amazing documentary.
I disagree.
Fried Food
Banned
No surprise there, Brad hates Dan
funkystudent
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Thats a wrestling documentary with some WWE in it but its not a WWE documentary.
I havent had my soul crushed recently. I should rewatch Beyond the Mat.
Watch Beyond the Mat then watch The Resurrection of Jake the Snake. It'll make you feel better.
Keyser Soze
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WWE are pretty good at behind the scenes stuff.
Thie "WWE 24" series they are doing in recent months (following talent before and after a big event) is some great stuff.
ThreePiMatt
Member
Is that not basically an admission by Dan that wrestling is anime?
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Nobody saw it coming.
Yah. I'd rather watch a documentary on drying paint.
Breaking Ground was really good, too. Even if they were just kinda taking the ESPN NXT thing and making a series out of it.
Piston Hyundai
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Well, Jeff actually talks to Brad seriously about it as opposed to Dan, who does it almost exclusively to annoy him. There's always a veneer of malice when Dan talks about it to Brad.
Doesn't hurt that Brad outright asked about it as opposed to him being fed it against his will.
Breaking Ground is straaaaaaaaange show.
William Shatner as a narrator talking about Baron Corbin (and others) in matches and trying to keep it suspenseful even tho it happened 2 months ago. And then says stuff like "Baron tried his best and did well but its wasn't enough to win" while Baron is outside catching a breath. Like he didn't know how the match would end.
Really strange.
funkystudent
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Right!
WWE got William F'n Shatner to narrate their weird documentary / reality show thing.
WWE got William F'n Shatner to narrate their weird documentary / reality show thing.
Yeah, it's odd because they didn't really maintain kayfabe for any other aspect of it. It was a really interesting look behind the curtain, but it was like the one thing WWE wanted to keep sacred, the planning and execution of the match, would have been the most compelling thing to see from the performer's perspective. Like, I wanna see the moment where Sasha and Bayley are planning out their Brooklyn match and one says "Hey, what about a reverse Frankensteiner off the top rope?"
Piston Hyundai
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"Let's bring this over!" -Abject Moron
Glitchesarecool
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TurboButts
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I really enjoy Breaking Ground, but this is definitely my feeling on the show as well. Has WWE ever produced anything that's full-on shoot like that? I don't remember much of Beyond the Mat
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Because sword art online ruined anime.
CM Punk's documentary was really open and honest, but that's probably because he really was hands-on with it.
I don't think Beyond the Mat was a WWE production.
Oh please let this anime be about a dude getting trapped in an MMO who also ends up being gaming Jesus, because we so need more of those.
Glitchesarecool
Member
I'm mad that you're probably right on the money.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Is this Bioware's new game?
Twin Tails
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I think I watched the first episode. I can't remember.
funkystudent
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Great.
Now the bombcast threads are going to be anime themed
Now the bombcast threads are going to be anime themed
They kinda did that in the last ep with Triple H coming to NXT and discussing a new finisher with Apollo Crews.
It would be nice to be wrong.
Good luck and godspeed. You'll need it.
Twin Tails
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They should just create a separate podcast to vent out all the anime talk.
Piston Hyundai
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At what point did you decide that your time wasn't valuable anymore?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
That is ultimately neither of those things because it doesn't choose to either engage with its themes or leave them deliberately ambiguous. But basically yeah
It is a very beautiful anime, but I agree that the conversation I listed isn't that good of one, at least in the context of the original anime film and that keeps it from being a so called masterpiece in relation to other films. SAC is a bit better at actually covering that conversation, but it's density can be a fairly big barrier to pulling it out.
Just dump a bunch of salt on some breaded chicken and put a pickle on top.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Jeff should really watch serial experiments lain if he wants to get his existential cyberpunk on.
I don't know if it's a new thing or not, but I occasionally browse the Kindle store looking for interesting lesser-known new releases and I've noticed that there have been A LOT of self-published ebooks on Amazon in this genre lately. Like, a lot lot. I believe they're called...LitRPGs?
jeff + austin content would be too good for this world, too pure
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Rpgs where you get lit?
broncobuster
Banned
Caught up on the past four Beastcasts. Gosh, everything is tough! It's tough.
Boy, this GitS game is really damn soulless. How can you take something with so much style and make this?
Mushi-Shi Season 2 saved anime again. Then it ended, because we weren't worthy.
Mushi-Shi Season 2 saved anime again. Then it ended, because we weren't worthy.
LurkerPrime
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It gets even worse because the back half of the QL devolves into wrestling talk.
I'm curious if the reason Jeff took such a shine to it--IIRC this is the second time he's highlighted it on-site--was the vague hope of more Syndicate.
CoolBatteryCharge
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i wanna c ur anime
Twin Tails
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