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I can't help but notice Cruise is still really, really rich and successful though, even with the revelations.

The chap creeps me out but I still pay to see his movies. Can't deny his screen presence and Jack Reacher actually was a really, really good movie...

I'm thinking The Lord of Light is always a good bet. Stannis named Rob Stark, Baylon Greyjoy and Joffrey Baratheon when he burned those leeches. We've lost one of those already and I can't see the other two making it out of next season. I'm also hoping this means we get to see more of Stannis next season too, the mad bastard.Just a theory mind, I haven't read the books and if I had wouldn't be discussing them here anyway.I agree with the underwhelming ending but it does end halfway through a novel as opposed to the others, so the ending wasn't going to be as punchy. Besides they seem to have a pattern in episode 9 being the shit goes down episode with 10 being the episode that sets up each characters' story for the next season.

It was poorly received in general. You could say everyone HATES it.Eh? Ehhhh?

Anyone watched those V/H/S films? I've read a couple of reviews of the second one and they've made me quite keen to see it, but I've got no interest in the first and I'm wondering if there's any important overarching mythology or if I can just watch the new one.

Place To Be podcast is great. They do year reviews and PPV reviews dating back from the first WWF PPV onwards and have figures from the time doing timelines. Pretty great stuff. Kevin Kelly is doing 1999. Halfway through he goes off on Bob Ryder paying wrestlers to let him fuck them. When quizzed about these "rumours" he says "What rumours? Its a pretty famous story in the wrestling business. Abyss walked into that deal. No wonder he wore a mask for years". WOAH! I'm lumping James Storm and Chris Harris in there as well. I guess all those stories are true.

 

http://placetobe.podbean.com/

Cheers for informing me of this Ian, been looking for another wrestling podcast and these are pretty great so far!

Fantastic thread and the absence of one villain in particular dragged me out of lurking...

I didn't get around to watching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest until I was finishing up at school and I couldn't get over just how much of an ice-cold bitch Nurse Ratched was. One of the few times a fictional villain has made me feel so angry.

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I thought that match was OK, but was struck by how believable Summer Rae is as a heel. Her walk down the ramp, gestures to the crowd, referee, and opponent between moves and her intensity doing the moves - I can see her fitting in to the current WWE roster nicely.

 

Then again, Aksana shows those same qualities on NXT every other week but hasn't managed to translate it to SmackDown.

 

As we're on the subject of NXT Diva matches, Naomi's firey performance last week was tremendous. Hopefully she gets more stuff to do this year than the shite she currently does on Raw/SmackDown.

Summer Rae will surely go far, she's like McCool and Maryse thrown into a blender.

I watched one like those when I was up about 2am watching Sky Movies one time. "Fantastic Planet". It was actually quite good. Very French and very weird. Very old too, made in 1973.

Fucking hell Baz, that's some really abstract stuff right there. I've seen some weird stuff in my time but that film just about ranks as one of the most surreal thing I've seen. For the firs 5 or 10 minutes I was contemplating giving up with it and finding something else to view, but within the half hour I found myself totally absorbed into and memorised by the worlds presented to me in the film. The art style was pretty unique, and somewhat creepy, and the musical score and overall audio tone seemed to echo the surreal and distant imagery.

 

Some of the strange visuals reminded me of Salvador Dali's artwork

 

Really good stuff, thank you very much for pointing me in the direction of something which I would have probably never seen otherwise. I was pretty blown away by that.

I absolutely adore this movie. The imagery is just insane.

This poll is always difficult as I have a perpetual hard-on for the heels, however I really enjoyed Ryback all year. I love squash matches and those big monster characters and he's really exceeded at both. Yeah he's only JUST got some real momentum but, aside from Park, I can't think of another face I was solidly behind all year.

Mr. Anderson.

Shitty tattoo. Shitty wrestler. Shitty person.

Had to go for The Shield vs. Ryback and Hell No TLC. I've never immediately downloaded a match to watch again before but this one was just such an awesome brawl. So many great spots and I was shocked that The Shield actually went over.

I went for Joseph Park's performance against Bully Ray, although like HG am happy if any of those win it. I was just shocked that Abyss COULD actually be entertaining and, not just that, but one of the highlights of the year for me.

Both Kaz and Daniels and the Prime Time Players have really impressed me this year. Before then I couldn't stand any of the four men but as a team they've managed to really work well together and win me over. I'm going with PTP purely because I saw absolutely nothing in either of them and now they're a constant highlight, even if they alternate between getting loads of air-time and being totally absent from television.

Not usually one to sing TNA's praises but the entire Bully vs. Park story was one of the highlights of the year. Shame they've got Bully running around with Brooke and Hulk now, he had so much momentum left as a heel.

A really difficult choice here as all of them have been fantastic but I have to go for Daniel Bryan for his tremendous start to the year. I loved his feud with Henry/Show at the beginning of the year and how it lead to the great squash match at Mania. Thought it did wonders for Bryan's heel character.

Speaking of Twilight Zone, there's a great episode called An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge which was originally a short film. There's hardly any dialogue in it and it features, in my opinion, one of the best endings to any Twilight Zone episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7n4LeRB6js

EDIT - Unrelated to Twilight Zone but this creeped me out when I first saw it.

I watched Cabin in the Woods last night. It was great fun, but

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I kept waiting for a twist at the end that never came. The whole sacrifice/protecting the world thing was made obvious early on, and having seen loads of "ZOMGWHATATWIST" stuff around, I thought that another shoe was gonna drop. The bit once they get into the lift was great fun. I think on the whole, it's not as clever as it thinks, and it's not executed as well as it could've been, but I'd definitely recommend it.

 

Why did the girl need to get her tits out? The old fella explained it with "we're not the only ones watching" but that didn't lead anywhere.

 

 

 

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The stoner fella was really good, I thought.

I remember this monstrosity staring at me in the local video shop. It's probably god-awful but as someone who's terrified of the dentist I was always grossed out.

What happened to Denzel anyway? Training Day was like 11 years ago and the only thing he's done of remote interest since then was that runaway train movie...the one that wasn't a remake...

 

Off the top of my head American Gangster, Man On Fire & Inside Man all came out after Training Day and all were awesome.

I tried to get through American Gangster but I found it very bland. Probably wont attempt sitting through it for a while after Ridley Scott's recent attempt at destroying his legacy as a film-maker. Man On Fire, admittedly, I'd forgotten about and it was decent. Inside Man is ridiculously awful though.

Good is a major stretch but there were certainly worse films from that year with better ratings on RT; The Book Of Eli (48%), Alice In Wonderland (51%) and Red (71%) to name a few. 2010 was not a great year overall but there were some flicks that garnered a lot more hatred than they deserved. Repo Men was one of these, along with From Paris With Love and The A-Team. Were they GOOD? Not really but arguably more entertaining than they were given credit for.

 

Personally the incredibly goofy nature of The A-Team movie was what I expected from The Expendables, which unfortunately ended up being quite dull for the most part.

 

What's wrong with The Book Of Eli? Yes there are better post-apocalyptic films, but it's still an entertaining and cool movie.

It's just so painfully dull. I could overlook the unoriginal design and the painful religious undertones in the narrative but when the movie is so dull that even Tom Waits blends into the background, like some disinterested set-dressing, I just tend to give up any hope of enjoying it.

What happened to Denzel anyway? Training Day was like 11 years ago and the only thing he's done of remote interest since then was that runaway train movie...the one that wasn't a remake...

Good is a major stretch but there were certainly worse films from that year with better ratings on RT; The Book Of Eli (48%), Alice In Wonderland (51%) and Red (71%) to name a few. 2010 was not a great year overall but there were some flicks that garnered a lot more hatred than they deserved. Repo Men was one of these, along with From Paris With Love and The A-Team. Were they GOOD? Not really but arguably more entertaining than they were given credit for.

Personally the incredibly goofy nature of The A-Team movie was what I expected from The Expendables, which unfortunately ended up being quite dull for the most part.

I'd really appreciate one Gladders if you would?

He has indeed beome awful, but is there not a case to be made for him as one of horror's great directors?

 

Probably, but his track record over the last fifteen years is just atrocious. I'm talking the Wes Craven of now being unable to do anything with the notion of Scream 4. The Wes Craven of Cursed and My Soul to Take.

 

Ditto with John Carpenter, although he hasn't exactly been churning them out of late, The Ward was so terrible, it blows your mind that that, and Ghosts of Mars, were the same guy who had the run of Dark Star, Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing and so on. Unlike sports, where broke-down athletes have to retire, directors get to show the world just how badly they've lost it.

It is far more depressing to see how far Carpenter's star has fallen than it is Craven's. Did he just lose the touch with age or something?

Anyway, I saw Cabin In The Woods myself and loved it. I agree with some criticisms I've read but for me it just hit all the right buttons.

It kind of looks like you're wearing a t-shirt of yourself

Haha I hadn't even noticed. Being told I look like Hugh Laurie from House at only 20 is a bit worrying though...

 

Kurt Russell hair.

That's more I like it. Kurt's so dreamy