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1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

The Exorcist is probably the best film ever made.

Finally, confirmation that Mark Kermode is a 'keffer.

I'm gutted about this one. Friedkin was a top notch filmmaker and storyteller. As mentioned, even during recent appearances he still seemed so full of life. A huge loss to cinema.

I rewatched a bunch of Foley stuff earlier in the year and it made me massively reassess my opinion of him. He was class. I think 15 years of us taking the piss out of him for being a tight-arse, along with his shite self-parody 2nd GM run and the weird Melina stuff made me forget just how terrific he was. Just a top-class wrestler who played his role perfectly.

This was the first WWE show I've watched (in full) since the Rumble I think. Unfortunately I just don't think this company is for me anymore. It's a massive shame as I watched WWE consistently from the mid 90s to 2019. The overly slick production and OTT graphics which accompany everything are just so off-putting, and as someone who couldn't wait for a Reigns heel run I find his whole big-match formula really disapointing. It's just the same match everytime. A long, plodding, drawn-out saga with Roman pausing after every move to verbally explain the story instead of letting the action tell the story. I'm aware I'm very much on my own here, but I think the Bloodline could be the most overrated storyline in WWE history too. Just an endless series of promos with people doing there best conflicted faces with no endgame in sight.

Sorry to be such a downer. It wasn't all bad, Cody Rhodes is still a ridiculously entertaining pro wrestler and the only choice to carry the company going forwards. Logan Paul is tremendous considering he's not been doing this long. And the crowd was great, it was mentioned in another thread recently but they seem to boo the heels and cheer the faces which is so refreshing after 20 years of Cena/Reigns getting negative reactions.

Sing Street are the best. I genuinely love this song:

In recent years, 4*Town from Turning Red are a great boyband pastiche;

Lastly, it's not a band but Llewyn Davis is miles better than that hack Bob Dylan.

2 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

I don't think any wrestler has ever been "only as good as his last match" in the eyes of the fans as Chris Jericho. 

 

This is very true. Everyone was Team Jericho again after the recent cracker he had against Roddy Strong, then the week after he stunk the joint out against Adam Cole and we all remembered it's not cool to like him anymore.

21 minutes ago, WeeAl said:

I haven't seen anywhere near enough of him to know if he can do it, but should Raul Jimenez get even half of his best form back, then he will be an utter steal for Fulham at £5M. 

I doubt it. He hasnt looked anywhere near the same player since the head injury. Although even before the head injury, he didn't look as good a player without Jota putting it on a plate for him every week.

Incredible song. RIP.

Yeah, saying you've not seen evidence of the cost of living crisis followed by 'we've had to cut down on basics' is odd. You ARE the evidence.

It's not that hard to rack up that many films watched if its your main hobby, and if you don't go out much (and why would you, it's shite out there).

I always find it incredible that people can watch 8 seasons of Game Of Thrones in a month, or complete Zelda the week it comes out, but I'll think nothing of watching 50 films in a month. It just comes down to time management and prioritising your hobbies.

(I say this as someone who is currently single and has massively cut down on socialising/drinking, so obviously YMMV).

It's a decent-looking card but the whole brand just feels so weird at the moment. It's never been more obvious that Khan hasn't got a clue what to do with it. The PPVs are basically extensions of AEW weekly TV while the weekly ROH TV show seems to exist as it's own thing where nothing ever happens. None of the ROH champions other than Joe and Athena ever appear on the ROH weekly show (I don't think Lucha Bros have teamed up once on it) which just leads to the whole thing feeling kind of pointless.

I can't see them doing it, but this is as perfect an opportunity Khan has ever had for the Womens title match to headline a PPV.

49 minutes ago, 2Xtreme_lives said:

They announced on Dynamite the title shot will be on Collision on 29th July. So whatever happens in that match I guess we'll see what then happens at Wembley

Ah, I thought the tournament finals were on the 29th. Nevermind then.

I'm more than likely way off on this, but I can see them doing Adam Cole & MJF vs FTR (or Bullet Club Gold) on this show, with Cole vs MJF for the belt coming the week after at All Out. That just makes more sense to me than MJF feuding with two different guys in the build-up to these shows, or repeating the All In title match one week later. 

1 hour ago, Loki said:

 

 What I really want to see again is Millennium, Carter’s other series that appears to have gone to tv purgatory.  That was excellent.

I'd love to see this and The Lone Gunmen again. I've never watched either of them properly (same with The X Files) but have good albeit vague fuzzy memories of watching them when I was younger and knowing they were too grown-up and scary for me at the time. 

It's always annoying when a streaming service has a show but doesn't have any of its spin-offs. Really hurts the completionist in me. 

48 minutes ago, Loki said:

This was my impression of him when he arrived in AEW.  I thought that the comedy "everyone in on the joke" routine was extremely indyriffic and would never pass muster on tv.

 

I don't remember this ever happening in AEW, to be honest. I know a couple of times on the indies the opponent has sold and gone along with his slo-mo stuff but I don't think that's ever happened in AEW.

His very first appearance in AEW was in the Casino Battle Royale where he did his slo-mo kicks to Tommy Dreamer who was having none of it and lashed him out, whiuch kind of set the tone for how that character would be handled.

9 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Ricky Starks came across as much more of a star this week than the other week's 'I'm in the match to get pinned' role.
 

I feel like this could be the impetus of a CM Punk heel turn. The only blemish on Punk's record since he returned is a tag match where Starks took the fall, and now they're fighting each other in the tournament final. I can see Punk cheating to win it next week.

I didn't find Kevin Kelly as bad this week but Nigel McGuinness is dreadful. He just spits sentences out like he's got a mouth full of wasps.

Something that I thought was very unique to me - namely, needing a poo everytime I'm in a library/bookshop - is actually common enough to have a wikipedia page about the phenomenon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon

I'm absolutely stunned.

3 minutes ago, David said:

Having dived into watching ROH of late, am I the only one who thinks Vincent of The Righteous has a great look and gimmick? I was never a fan of Wyatt, but this guy seems to have that weird, cult-like leader thing down perfectly. He has a definite Charles Manson/Otis B Driftwood vibe going on, and I like it.

The Righteous have got my attention. Even big Dutch sporting the white suit and 70's style glasses ala Jim Jones is a pretty cool touch.

I do like Vincent but (and I know I'm nit-picking here) the gimmick falls down a few notches when he starts talking. I know it's an odd criticism, but he just doesn't sound anything like he looks. I'm sure I'll get used to it in time but at the moment it's quite jarring. 

Just catching up on Saturday's show now, and jesus christ this commentary team is the pits. Like, genuinely terrible. I've lost count of how many times Kevin Kelly gets halfway through a sentence then tails off. No enthusiasm or excitement, talking in boring tired cliches, McGuinness and his heel patter being sub-Corey Graves level. It almost sounds like those Tom Phillip/David Otunga pairings you would get on WWE D-shows a few years back, which is perfectly fine if this is NXT Level Up, but it's meant to be their brand-new exciting fresh show. And these two dullards are just endlessly dragging everything down.

Anyway, it was a solid two hours of wrestling other than that but the show still seems to exist in this weird alternative universe/vacuum setting which makes it hard to care about much of it. 

14 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Would it not be a big blue dot? 

That option is coming later. £12 DLC.

My mate told me at some point there's an option to blur Christian's face. It's Vince McMahon's game of the year.

I think @Fatty Facesitter tapped out at the right time - this weeks show is 2 hours and 35 minutes long! 

I thought ROH being taped before Collision would turn it into a one-hour affair but it looks like it'll go the other direction. 

Another fantastic Dynamite slightly let down by Jeff Hardy looking like he could die at any moment. Please AEW, fuck him off immediately.

Reality - A very effective, strange little film about Reality Winner who was jailed for leaking government information in 2018. All of the dialogue is taken from the real-life transcripts of the arrest, which gives it an awkward unsettling feeling all the way through. Syndey Sweeney is great.

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - A very rare case of a superhero film starting off good and getting better as it goes on. By the end I was absolutely gutted that it had finished and we have to wait another year for part 3. Just a joyous delight which still manages to pack an emotional punch.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - This is just a lovely funny film. I do think it suffers in its pacing towards the end and some scenes lack the emotional heft due to time constraints that were presumably explored more in the novel, but these are minor criticisms. Much recommended.

Fast X - Another fun romp. These films are basically Saturday morning cartoons at this point, there's no point trying to over-analyse them. Just turn your brain off and let the stupidness wash over you. I wasn't as much a fan of Jason Mamoa's character as most seem to be, and John Cena is pretty bad (he's not the same character at all), but it also features Vin Diesel racing a bomb towards the Vatican and Alan Ritchson and Brie Larson fit into proceedings nicely. Basically, if you like the franchise you'll like this and if you don't you'll hate it.

Extraction 2 - It's got one excellent 20+ minute action scene towards the start but other than that, I found it to be pretty bland. A lot of these direct to Netflix/Amazon films just blend into one another now. Worth checking out that early action scene though.

Pretty Red Dress - I loved this. A story about a man recently released from prison who buys his aspiring actress/singer girlfriend a red dress, and the effect it has on both of them and their daughters lives. I don't really want to say more than that as it's a film that I think benefits going in knowing as little as possible. The central trio are all fantastic, including Alexandra Burke from off of the X Factor. One of my films of the year so far.

Beau Is Afraid - It's indescribable, really. I expected to hate this, in the vein of I'm Thinking Of Ending Things and mother! But while I didn't love it, it definitely wasn't the slog I expected. The first hour is one of the most effective terrifying examples of anxiety I can remember seeing on film, and while the film gets weaker the weirder it gets, it always kept my attention. I've no idea what it was about other than vague themes of guilt and anxiety, and I don't think it's funny at all, but it's definitely worth seeing at least once.

Congratulations!

Wasn't everyone sneering and taking the piss when OP was promoting his very first show? He's on his 7th now and by all accounts his past 6 have been perfectly decent BritWres events. I know this place is obsessed with Adam Bowler but lets not tar every UK promoter with the same brush.