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SHOOTEMBER Wrasslin 2016 |OT| - Can Punks Catch as Catch Can Too?
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Serpentine
Banned
NXT California shows go on sale tomorrow but the presale is up. Gonna try to make plans to go to the LA show, been waiting for NXT to come to CA for a long time.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Preach it!
Fave Five BP winners of the 2000s:
Return of the King
No Country
12 Years a Slave
Spotlight
The Hurt Locker
And the Fuck-off Five:
Birdman
Crash
A Beautiful Mind
Slumdog Millionaire
Chicago
I'm still immensely heated about this.
slightconfuse
Banned
Birdman was fantastic
I think Ember Moon has mega potential at least in terms of an Asuka vs Ember Moon match. That's clearly where they are going but they need to make a few important changes:
- Less face pandering in her entrance. People don't like her because she cares about the audience, they like her because she is cool
- Less selling in her matches, she needs to be more dominant
- Get those vampire contact lenses back in. I don't like the current trend of normal match / special match LIMIT BREAK mode attire that seems to be started with Finn. People should be in character at all times or you lose something.
- I realise this is probably set but I don't think he theme fully fits here either and although I do like the attire, I'd make it darker blue/black.
What I think you've got here is potentially an extremely over cool anti-hero babyface supernatural gimmick which they are fucking up every little detail of while still just barely getting the core idea across.
I really hope they tweak this and get it where it needs to be because I like the way she moves around.
And one final point, but this is a lost cause - the hair extensions. Jesus christ get rid of them. Can't a woman just have normal women's hair instead of this anime nonsense? Sasha looks WORSE with the dumb all pink. Naomi looks worse with the green extensions. Becky looks worse with the orange peel dye.. Ember Moon looks worse with these bloinde extension for no reason .And worst of all, they look DUMB. I really wish they'd ditch that.
Stop trying to differentiate the women by their colour pallettes. They aren't just alternative costumes on Player 3: Woman. Give them more solid gimmicks and follow through on them through storylines. The options shouldn't be a) blonde b) anime.
- Less face pandering in her entrance. People don't like her because she cares about the audience, they like her because she is cool
- Less selling in her matches, she needs to be more dominant
- Get those vampire contact lenses back in. I don't like the current trend of normal match / special match LIMIT BREAK mode attire that seems to be started with Finn. People should be in character at all times or you lose something.
- I realise this is probably set but I don't think he theme fully fits here either and although I do like the attire, I'd make it darker blue/black.
What I think you've got here is potentially an extremely over cool anti-hero babyface supernatural gimmick which they are fucking up every little detail of while still just barely getting the core idea across.
I really hope they tweak this and get it where it needs to be because I like the way she moves around.
And one final point, but this is a lost cause - the hair extensions. Jesus christ get rid of them. Can't a woman just have normal women's hair instead of this anime nonsense? Sasha looks WORSE with the dumb all pink. Naomi looks worse with the green extensions. Becky looks worse with the orange peel dye.. Ember Moon looks worse with these bloinde extension for no reason .And worst of all, they look DUMB. I really wish they'd ditch that.
Stop trying to differentiate the women by their colour pallettes. They aren't just alternative costumes on Player 3: Woman. Give them more solid gimmicks and follow through on them through storylines. The options shouldn't be a) blonde b) anime.
UrbanDandy
Member
No lies detected. Also, what you think of The Departed for BP? Personally, I think Gangs of New York should have won.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
You ARE the table if you don't like Whiplash.
I'm fine with The Departed. I don't think it's really a great movie, but it was Marty's time, and there have been far worse legacy wins.
And really, I was going to be fine with anything winning that year as long as it wasn't fucking Babel. HORSESHIT MOVIE THAT WAS.
There's something we can agree on pal
Gangs is such an amazing fucking movie.
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Deleted member 47027
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I really loved Magnolia. It's in my personal Fave Five. Same with Amadeus. If you haven't seen either of these for any reason, Zach, fix it - it's just so good. Amadeus in particular is so much MORE than what you'd imagine. It's so good.
Yeah she should have a seconary finisher for minor matches. Like, the way Leah Von was just hanging around waiting for it looked stupid. I guess you can blame that on Leah Von but still, top rope finishers are pretty convoluted and she should have a good quick set up move that is built to end matches too.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
"Winter Sleep" was a far superior movie to any nominated for the Oscar that year (including the aight but overrated Whiplash), but genuine artistic merit never gets its due at The Oscars.
UrbanDandy
Member
It's quite good; from a technical aspect, the entire 5 points neighborhood was built on an Italian studio. Acting was great.
I saw it in music class a long time ago. I thought it was great.
Look if we're just gonna gab about fucking movies here then I'm gonna make it legitimate and say I just re-watched The Wrestler, after seeing it when it came out initially when I was a fully lapsed fan of a good 8 years at that point.
Seeing it through the lens of an active wrestling fan, and someone who has been backstage/worked on shows, meet n greets etc - I've gotta say, it's pretty damn good. Sure it's a bit bleaker than is realistic - they could've toned that down a bit. These guys don't have to live in trailers and work at the deli - but the actual wrestler oriented stuff was cool. And fuck, Marisa Tomei. She might be the most beautiful woman who has ever lived, in my opinion, and is beautiful well into her 40's and to hell with it, 50's as well.
Seeing it through the lens of an active wrestling fan, and someone who has been backstage/worked on shows, meet n greets etc - I've gotta say, it's pretty damn good. Sure it's a bit bleaker than is realistic - they could've toned that down a bit. These guys don't have to live in trailers and work at the deli - but the actual wrestler oriented stuff was cool. And fuck, Marisa Tomei. She might be the most beautiful woman who has ever lived, in my opinion, and is beautiful well into her 40's and to hell with it, 50's as well.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Definitely. I wonder how people would take her just using the stone cold stunner as her normal finisher.
UrbanDandy
Member
Gun Haver, I like your style.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
That movie suffers from the same flaws as most experimental short films - much masturbatory opaqueness, no real substance.
British Monsoon
Member
Possibly the earliest footage of Andre getting slammed;
That was against Strong Kobayashi from 1972. A very un-Andre match, with the giant doing a cowardly heel bit, taking off turnbuckle pads, distracting the ref, feigning injury and begging off, etc.
That was against Strong Kobayashi from 1972. A very un-Andre match, with the giant doing a cowardly heel bit, taking off turnbuckle pads, distracting the ref, feigning injury and begging off, etc.
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Deleted member 47027
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God, THAT was an amazing short film. I remember wanting to see it so badly when the back of a Godflesh album had an image from it, back in the early 90s. It looked so cool. Did not disappoint.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
I'm still waiting on The Wrestler 2, where Randy the Ram beats Brock Lesnar in the main event of Wrestlemania. ;_;
UrbanDandy
Member
Stone Cold Heat.
By god, Molly Holly was gorgeous. Dare I say looks better than most of the Women's Division now.
I can read between the lines, you minx.
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Deleted member 47027
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There's not much better for fans who grew up on Hulk/Andre than digging through the past and seeing how fucking great Andre was before WWF. It really is amazing, and he wasn't just giant, he was born to be in this kind of business. He was goddamned fantastic, fun to watch, and he had fun doing it. Quite the different (and better!) picture than the one that WWF paints. I watched Canek beat the shit out of him a couple times. Really good.Possibly the earliest footage of Andre getting slammed;
That was against Strong Kobayashi from 1972. A very un-Andre match, with the giant doing a cowardly heel bit, taking off turnbuckle pads, distracting the ref, feigning injury and begging off, etc.
UrbanDandy
Member
The Wrestler should be recommended watching for all Wrasslegaffers.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
The Wrestler is just a great, realistic screenplay.
One must cleanse the palate, my love.
Hey, you know what I should maybe watch. Escape from New York. Aaah yeeeah!
newdayrocks
Member
Better: The Green Room
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Last movie I watched was Fatal Attraction, aka the most influential movie of all time.
Weird the crowd isn't dead
The crowd is more fired up than 99.9% of today's WWE matches.
So I guess I'm a terrible person for pointing out the fact the guy making an article about how he'll never day a feminist looks like one of Heath Slater's many illegitimate children.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1275993&page=100000
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1275993&page=100000
UrbanDandy
Member
Talk about shooting (Shawn Michaels' MacMillan River Adventures)
Nah. Fuck that guy. I can accept the fact it kinda makes me a bad person. I know it's the not so mature way to go.
And some say Austin's heel turn wasn't effective. They just gave up on it too fast.
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