ColinBollocks

1 hour ago, King Pitcos said:

This is probably the only year they could still have had Hogan do another match. He could hobble off the ropes, and they could cut to a closeup of someone else wearing his leggings doing the legdrop. He never did get his win back from Goldberg, did he?

It's a shame David Bellamy died a few months ago.

The Last Jedi gets better with repeat viewings, which is the opposite of The Force Awakens. Luke's battle at the end is quite possibly the high point of Star Wars - certainly few things as thrilling. I know Mark Hamill thinks bitter Luke is a goal kick, but he did his best to make it work. Watching A New Hope a few days ago, I forgot how funny Hamill is in it playing off Fisher and Ford.

The minor criticism of The Last Jedi is it feels exactly like another director has come on board and has a vision for it which is somewhat jarring to what JJ did. It's why it's annoying Rian Johnson never got the trilogy to play with - it would have meant the story would have been far more cohesive and, like discussed, him trying to figure out where to take all the mystery JJ set up.

It's just Dana now trying to prove the folk that call him a fat that he can get this done. Hopefully Vince McMahon is leaving him voice messages taunting him about his tits and not getting this done.

While I'm not against watching some fresh fights, it does seem a tad ridiculous to keep this going when the whole point of trying to get it done (Tony v Khabib, finally) is off.

4 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

What you call intrigue I call JJ Abrams presenting vague questions which he never bothered coming up with explanations for. It's his speciality. 

Perhaps, but some of the threads left dangling were interesting. Some of the conclusions to them were not.

Looking back, it's a shame they never gave the whole trilogy to Rian Johnson. Sadly, he's busy being above this shit.

I remember when I watched it at the cinema enjoying Ren with his mask on because there was a lot of mystery to him. All the rumours of him actually being a dark side Luke or some super powerful Sith - he was a proper engrossing character. Only he turns out to be just some skinny dude (well, made from the might of Han Solo's cock). I guess the reveal was supposed to be underwhelming, as they story is Ren is some angst-ridden knob that is trying to get some respect.

Force Awakens goodwill has sadly diminished with each passing visit. Undeniably satisfying when it first got released, but clearly just a (well made) film with "remember this" thrown together. It doesn't help The Last Jedi (for all it's positives as a standalone film) did a lot to wipeout some of the intrigue Force Awakens set up.

I came on here to post just that. I saw the video on twitter this morning and it had me howling. "RELEASE THE HOUNDS" followed by half a dozen wee dugs on the charge is genuinely great.

As discussed, the Broken stuff works better if the people involved know it's a comedy gimmick. Hopefully this is just mostly Jericho and Vanguard.

I doubt they'll have Conor fight on this. Something like Tony v Justin is more realistic. However if that was to happen I'd imagine it would be more a Dana ego move or something done for ESPN's sake - either to keep them happy or a push by ESPN itself while it has no real sports to air.

The terms of the ESPN+ deal are still kind of up in the air. All we know is the UFC get a good level of guaranteed income per show. I've read some claim they get a split of the PPV income (so if a show does well they notice), while more reliable sources, at the the time, mentioned it's more an upfront licensing fee - the idea being it evens out, when you consider how badly some shows were tanking when Rousey left and Conor was busy being a prick.

If you ever had a wank over Chyna taking it up the Hunter, then you all know Triple H is one of the great bastards.

Apparently Gate-cheese has been offered the fight if Khabib can't make it. Bet Tony loses too.

The Broken stuff will only really work if it exists in it's own little bubble away from the likes of Jericho at the top of the card. It immediately gets exposed as lame the second it leaves it's daft self-contained world and we're all supposed to pretend it's nothing more than a dumb laugh. It's a comedy gimmick.

The fight is doomed forever and a day. Like the time my brother caught me wanking, we should all just silently agree never to speak of this again; let Dana do Khabib v Conor 5 for the foreseeable future (4-0 Khabib).

I wonder how much good training has been done by both men in the lead up to this? Khabib probably had tiramisu while having his Sunday morning shit.

BT Sport have such a good team. They do a great job with the boxing too but that's the best thing Drew may ever be involved in.

Still cool though.

Revenge of the Sith is shite, so much so I can't be arsed with the original trilogy now. The turn into Darth Vader is so unsatisfying clunky and tediously melodramatic; like the sort of rubbish I'd come up as a kid playing with my Stretch Armstrong and Superman toys. All the set up and when it came down to it of course Uncle George fumbles the ball. Even Yoda's work rate can't sprinkle some magic on this.

4 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

The Yoda lightsabre fight is FUCKING SHITE. Completely against his character and unbelievably stupid. 

It's Star Wars. Daftness is one of it's joys.

All this Star Wars talk got me hot under the collar and I decided to watch Attack of the Clones, last night (I'm never making it through Phantom Menace).

I've not watched a second of it since seeing it when it was released. Some of the CGI is much better than I expected and Ewan McGregor seemed to have got the knack of talking to a ball convincingly.

Hayden Christensen is no way near as shit as he's been painted as through the years. Yes, he suffers a bit from being pure early-00s MTV Movie Award Best Kiss nominee, but it would take a really special talent to act their way into making any of that dialogue work. The romance scenes are insufferable; has that Vince McMahon quality to the dialogue where many a word is spoken but all of it jarring and a massive disconnect.

The highlight is without question Christopher Lee being a bad ass. The Yoda battle is maybe the highpoint of 1-3.

Solo is ok. It's big flaw is the lead had no chance matching the charisma of Ford. He's ok in it, but he was pretty charmless throughout.

I've tried a few times over the years to watch all the Star Wars films starting at 1, but I pretty quickly give up once they get off the space ship at the beginning of 1. The CGI has aged so badly and, IIRC, Ewan McGregor looks exactly like an actor told to stare at a ball in a green room.

Delightful. I was worried he was turning into a right boring git.

After The Storm has 5 days left on iPlayer. It's a Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and featuring the hunky Hiroshi Abe.

I rank it quite highly in the best films I saw last decade. Wonderful.

On 3/20/2020 at 5:43 PM, wandshogun09 said:

Yeah that type of talk is shite. I’ve always said the ‘Michael Johnson rocked Khabib’ thing was a load of bollocks. That got way more attention than it warranted and I think that was mostly because of Rogan’s overreaction to it.

And the round Khabib lost against McGregor wasn’t exactly something to worry about if you’re a Khabib fan. I thought that looked more like him taking his foot off the gas after dishing out a thrashing to Conor the previous round. He was never once in trouble in that round. 

It's definitely mostly Rogan this Khabib having some sort of rubbish chin/stand up talk. No better example than the Raging Al fight, where the fight was essentially Khabib boxing the face off Al, only for Rogan to shout "OOOWWWW" when Al eventually landed a single blow that Khabib ate. He's so invested in that narrative he finds it nearly impossible to call a Khabib fight outside that story in his head.

This fight, though. If the current situation around the world wasn't so dire, you'd find a lot more humour in the fact this pandemic happened in the build up to the contest. It's truly cursed.

Warner can't help themselves. Whether that be hiring shite like Zak Snyder to be a major player in their universe building, or forever chopping and changing their movies no matter how jarring it is to the initial direction and the eventual final product.

2 hours ago, Magnum Milano said:

Nightcrawler got recommended to me by someone and boy is it a fucked up dark tale.  Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lewis Bloom, best described as a chancer, who accidentally stumbles across the world of Stringers, people who video tape things (primarily crimes or accidents it seems) and sell the footage to news stations.  Bloom gets drawn more and more into this world, learning that stations will pay a higher premium for more graphic footage.  It's seriously dark and Gyllenhaal is excellent playing Bloom, a man who has no moral compass and will do whatever it takes to further his career.  Great to see Rene Russo in this too as the station's director who ends up finding a kindred spirit in Bloom.  Engrossing stuff.

 

Gyllenhaal should have won all the awards for his turn in this. I'm still a little baffled it doesn't get nearly the plaudits it deserves. Creepy, fragile, menacing, desperate, tragic, driven - usually all in one scene.

Birds of Prey is sadly underwhelming. Margot Robbie turns in her usual good performance but despite some really fun and colourful action scenes, it's a little dull. The story, as it unfolds, isn't all that interesting and a lot of the try hard quirky dialogue isn't good enough so produced a few groans. Shame because it starts well, giving you some false hope.

I genuinely couldn't give a hoot if this does one buy. I'm so invested in this and have been for sometime, I just want to see them square off. If they delay who knows if someone won't break their arse again.

2 hours ago, bAzTNM#1 said:

David Duchovny had such a weird career. Soft-core porn star ("Red Shoe Diaries") to "X-Files" and then movie main-stream.

Via having a crush on Larry Sanders.

Is the series on a streaming service?

1 hour ago, David said:

That's usually a dumb-as-fuck pastime for males with too much testosterone. 

Oh, you salty bitch.

MMA and boxing have sadly numbed me quite a bit to violence; you have to come to terms with the fact that people are doing some terrible things to each other. I realise this when the missus takes an interest and is squirming at the hint of a jab. While I realise to a certain generation women are supposed to be viewed as something that shouldn't have to go through such things as combat sports, I don't think it's backwards to watch it. Some people think "cage fighting" as an overall is beyond the pale, in that regard.