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I finally watched She Will after having it on my to-watch list for about 18 months. Wish I hadn't bothered. I'm so bored of these horror films where fuck all happens. 

If you're going to have a horror film where nothing happens, at least make the characters strong so that I might feel the slightest bit of emotional involvement. This current trend of horror films playing its cards close to its chest and keeping the viewer at a distance is so frustrating. It doesn't make the film any creepier or scary, it just makes it boring and vague. 

It's crap.

The Menu is a laugh. Not as batshit-mental as I'd heard but it's fun. 

Matt Hardy is shite now but the Side Effect is still a thing of beauty.

I also loved that weird thing Brodie Lee used to do where he'd pick somebody up for a suplex, drop them back onto their feet then immediately hit them with an uppercut. Looked disorientating as fuck. 

Oh, and the humble snap powerslam might be the greatest move of all time. Whether it's Samoa Joe, Dustin Rhodes or Randy Orton, it always looks brilliant.

I don't watch New Japan either but it makes sense to me. CHAOS have been mentioned tons of times on AEW TV and OC having a long-running issue with the BCC and getting his stable-mate who has previous with Danielson in as back-up seems like one of the more basic storylines they could do. 

1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

If it's shit then it will be the fault of Roman Reigns apparently. 

Charlotte Flair and Jeremy Corbyn breathing a sigh of relief they're no longer in the crosshairs.

1 hour ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Dan Head 

Bloody hell, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I'm sure I had a DVD of the FWA Academy - Best of 2005 or something and they were hyping Dan Head up to be one of the biggest stars in the country. What happened to him?

51 minutes ago, FelatioLips said:

Paddy Dingle.

😄😄Fucking hell that's uncanny.

On 10/17/2023 at 8:22 AM, Devon Malcolm said:

The TV version of Halloween ran 12 minutes longer than the version everyone has seen.

And somebody uploaded it on YouTube a couple of days ago.

 

This might be some Mandela Effect situation but I'm absolutely certain I've seen this before. Even reading that, I could picture the scene with Loomis talking to young Michael somewhere in the depths of my memory. But I have no idea how I'd have seen it!

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

No doubt I’m confusing you with someone else but I thought you stopped watching WWE after the Ashley Massaro stuff? Apologies if that’s the case. 

People commenting on On-Topic despite not watching wrestling? It'll never catch on.

Great thread idea!

Jeff Hardy is up there for me. Although more people are finally coming around to the idea that he's a useless liability due to his tragic AEW run, I've never liked the knob. Some of the worst looking offense in wrestling history coming from a lad dressed in a teenage goth girls wardrobe. The idea of him beating a Triple H or Randy Orton was laughable. Makes Darby Allin look like Roddy Piper on the mic. 

Also I'm very much aware there's not many of us banging this drum anymore but John Cena is shite. Everything he does looks uncoordinated and awkward - there was a clip of him and Punk teaming up doing the rounds on Twitter a few months back and they did that spot where they use each others moves, and Cena doing the high knee in the corner was painful. Also see that rotten leg drop he used to do off the top. Beating him didn't mean anything because with the exception of the fantastic Lesnar squash, he never sold the loss - the next night on Raw he'd be out there business as usual, like he wasn't arsed he'd just lost his title. Look at his reaction to LA Knight signing his tag team contract last week - just the most unnatural forced shit like he's doing a Youtube reaction video. Lastly he does that thing where he cuts people to shreds during promos to the point it actually makes me lose interest in the match - his promo to Reigns in 2017 about him not doing Cena's job was a stand out, but more recently that promo where he called out Austin Theory being a failed experiment just made me feel sympathy for the mid-card heel instead of anything else. 

Oh, the Attitude Adjustment is crap too.

(I should point out that I love Cena as an actor too and think he's really gifted comedically - it's just as soon as he puts his jorts on I lose interest.)

"Me, lager. HBK, lager. Regal, lager, sometimes cider."

I'm more than happy with AEW's booking right now. It's not perfect and I don't think it ever will be, some stories are dragged out and others rushed, but theres always good stuff happening across the 3 shows. And as 'workrate pervert' as it sounds, the in-ring stuff is enough to satisfy me even when the angles and feuds arn't red hot.

I religiously watched WWE from the 90s through to 2019 without a break and I think part of why I like AEW's storytelling so much is how different it is to the model that WWE has followed for years. The matches are part of the story - somebody can pick up an injury in a match that factors into the finish 3 matches down the line, or there are callbacks to previous matches that make me feel rewarded for paying attention. I never felt this with WWE, it often seemed like the matches were there in spite of the story. And the amount of 15 minute matches that would end in a DQ solely to set up a rematch didn't feel rewarding as a viewer at all. (I feel like I've worded this horribly but @BomberPat has touched on similar points before much more eloquently).

I can't deny WWE right now is hot. I catch a few clips every few weeks and their fanbase are loving it, so fair play to them. I just find the whole presentation and overly scripted story beats really off-putting, and the in-ring stuff doesn't hold a candle to AEW. It's just not for me anymore. And LA Knight and Cena being all over the shows at the moment is a big turn-off (I'm well aware I'm the only person left who doesn't like Cena as a wrestler but it is what it is). Cody is still fucking class though, and I'll be keeping an eye on how Jade Cargill gets on.

I guess at the end of the day, whether you prefer AEW's in-ring focused product or WWE's glitzy Hollywood version of wrestling, it's a pretty good time to be a fan. It was only 5 years ago WWE were sending Baron Corbin out to apologise for the shows being a load of wank and the landscape has changed so much since then.

Klopp's very likeable when results are going his way, and when they arn't he exposes himself as a massive knob. But the same can be said for 90% of football managers. Not including Pep who is always a prick.

1 hour ago, Daddymagic said:

I want to conclude by offering my sincere apology to the 1PW fans.

What, all four of them?

11 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Small thing but imagine dreaming of becoming a journalist, presumably doing a journalism degree, working your way up and you're reduced to reporting on things like that.

 

Obviously a lot of modern journalism is the worst possible dumbing down ''what colur dress is Princess Kate wearing" but I don't think thats the case here. I think Chris Mason just found it quite funny and wanted to comment on it - he's the BBCs lead politics journalist (and whilst not great, he's a lot better at it than Lauraisatory Kuenssberg was), I doubt he's got anyone shouting down his ear 'Whats Rishi having for tea?'

EDIT - What Keith said!

It's set inbetween Saw 1 and 2. 

2 hours ago, Merzbow said:

"Shocktober"

Is this just a generic catch-all term for watching horror films in October? Or is it an actual list that people are watching along with? 

Only asking as I'd love to catch some unseen horror films this month but I know left to my own devices I'll just end up watching the same ones I watch every year.

13 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

I also couldn’t hold a pencil properly as a small child either and had to have a one of those special grip things on it. Honestly would’ve been better chopping my right hand off in school than go through the embarrassment in front of the class.

I still can't write properly using a pen or pencil. I have the pen pointing away from me as I write. Teachers tried to get me to change my writing posture a few times, but it never took.

Reading this thread is making me realise there's loads of everyday things I'm shite with.

I've always used a razor. Got an electric shaver for Christmas last year and it was like those Youtube videos where teenagers try to operate a rotary phone. I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I sheepishly threw it in the cabinet and haven't looked at it again since.

I also can't brush my teeth without making a massive mess. The water and paste just doesn't stay in my mouth. I end up with it all down my chin dripping into the sink. I've tried using a smaller amount of paste, less water, angling my head back, but everytime I just end up getting it everywhere,

My favourite bit of Bullet Club Gold business so far is the running gag of them not giving Austin a nickname. I can see him getting more and more pissed off about this as it goes on, going to even further lengths to impress the other 3 in the hope they'll bestow a new moniker on him.

I can't pour a drink properly.

If I'm pouring a beer the head will always be massive no matter how much I angle the glass.

If I'm pouring milk or juice from a carton, it seems to come out in blobs and splashes everywhere and half of it ends up going down the outside of the glass.

I think I've got a combination of bad hand-eye coordination and spacial awareness, which probably explains why I'm shite at driving too. 

I've got a mate who isn't a div by any stretch of the imagination, but he can't tell the time from an analogue clock.

57 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

It’s amazing the effect one great angle does for you. Pretty much everyone is cool with Adam Cole winning the AEW World Title now. Can you imagine that being the case a year or two ago? Even six months ago?

I was thinking about this a few weeks back. It wasn't even four months ago that he was involved in that shite Unsanctioned match with Jericho where Sabu randomly showed up. It feels like a lifetime ago.

22 minutes ago, WeeAl said:

Went onto Fite last night to order it. Bang. Main event spoiled with a picture of Moxley there with the belt. 

Fite have got really poor form for doing this. 

When I go on the app Thursday evening to watch Dynamite, the first thing I usually see is a graphic advertising next week's Dynamite which often gives away what's happened the night before. It's really shit.

I really liked Kaitlyn. I'm not sure why it didn't quite work out for her, maybe if she'd came around a few years later she could've been a big part of the womens revolution era.

Also that match reminded me that Kaitlyn was another wrestler to add to the massive list of 'did the Spear better than Edge'.

Probably the most boring episode of AEW TV ever.

Nothing was particularly bad. But we've been given no reason at all to care about Iron Savages, Workhorsemen, Andrade, Scorpio or The Righteous at all. And this is coming from someone who watches ROH.

If I'd paid for tickets to that show I'd feel ripped off, and it's rare I feel like that for an AEW show.

Danielson loses too much in AEW. Starks win was meant to feel like a big upset but just didnt. 

The closing stretch of Statlander/Baker was good though. 

1 hour ago, Joe Blog said:

He also used to spin around on one foot and do a twirl when he farted, he would accompany this by shouting ‘get oot and walk’ he was not ashamed of this either, he would do it in front of senior managers and even guests.

If this bloke met Kwesh it would be akin to UKFF Endgame.

31 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Same goes for any used to the old ways. 

Not really though. Again, everybody else has managed to make the transition between the two locker rooms with little issue. Punk is the only one who has had a major meltdown which again indicates its more a 'Punk is a baby' situation than an AEW locker room issue. 

If anything, somebody like Punk who came up through the indies and ROH should be better suited to dealing with that locker room moreso than a Miro who has only ever really known the WWE system. Yet one handles his grievances like an adult while the other has a muffin meltdown.