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Lorne Malvo

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  1. 4 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

    Brodie King is a star.

    At Wembley he absolutely pissed physical charisma close up. He's big, intimidating and looks like he'd tear your head off. He should get a proper run.

    Brody King is a weird one for me. At first glance he's imposing but despite the size, the tattoos and the massive beard, he's got these big puppy dog eyes which just make him look like a gentle giant. I don't buy into him as a physical force the way I should.

  2. 35 minutes ago, no user name said:

    I remember a match years ago between the best friends and kip sabien and miro.  I think it was called an arcade match or something. I think I thought it sounded a bit dumb. But it was brilliant. Probably in my top ten favourite matches ever. I remember one of them getting  thrown onto lego instead of thumbtacks. (Which must of hurt) kris statlander returned. It was brilliant 

    I loved this match. Orange Cassidy battering Sabian with the whack-a-mole mallet and Statlander returning in a claw machine were two highlights, but the whole thing was brilliant.

  3. I love Ruby and Ang together.

    I'm no fan of the Knight family by any means (Saraya bragging about her brothers doing people over with snooker cues on the Austin podcast is still an all-time 'what?!' moment for me) but I've actually liked Zak's appearances on ROH and I feel he could be decent in a mid-card bully type role. 

    I enjoy a mad multi-man opener as much as the next Rampager, but found this one quite boring. I don't want to go all Bully Ray 'whats the story??'  but at least give me any reason why a team as odd-looking as Bounty Hunter and Luchas or Sydal & Private Party exist. 

    Mariah May is very good and I love Roddy Strong matches so the rest of the card got a thumbs up. 

  4. Really enjoyed the Athena vs Nyla Rose main event on this weeks show. Athena is always great and Nyla is one of the most underrated on the roster for me (funny as fuck too). Not sure what the womens title match will be at Supercard of Honor now though. 

    The rest of the show was standard ROH nothingness, unfortunately. 

    Very intrigued to see what a Mercedes Martinez vs Abadon match will look like.

    This weeks show marked a year of 'ROH on HonorClub' being a weekly show. It's not been great, has it? I've watched every episode because it's easy to have on in the background while doing my tea/on the treadmill/whatever (plus I'm a sad bastard), and the only things I can really remember about the show looking back are Athena's title reign and brilliant match against Willow, The Kingdom having a really fun match against Andretti/Martin, and... that's about it. The rest has just all blended into one blob of 'this isn't important'.

    At least the PPVs are always good.

  5. Another very good show. 

    - FTR & BCC wasn't smooth but it looked like a real fight at times and the PPV rematch should be tremendous. I'm all for this carrying on after the PPV - maybe Wheeler Yuta gets involved then Garcia can even the odds, revisiting the underrated Garcia/Wheeler feud but with the roles reversed.

    - Trent isn't physically cleared to compete but OC who has been going through wars and wrestling non-stop is? More fuel to add to the inevitable Trent heel turn. Decent match with Mike Bennett, I'm slowly being won over to the Undisputed Kingdom through this OC feud.

    - Ang and Ruby is one of my low-key favourite storylines at the moment. I just want the best for them.

    - Christian Cage is a massive prick. What a guy. Daniel Garcia looks increasingly confident out there week on week too. Loving this feud.

    - Not a great show for the Womens division, but if you will insist on booking Madison Rayne what do you expect. Her nearly breaking her neck getting the 'move of the night!!' video package was a bit harsh!

    - Great Sting promo, loving all this business with Sting/Darby vs the Bucks so obviously Flair has to get involved to cast a shadow of shite over it all. 

    - Okay, I'm back on the Wardlow love train. Surely his best promo since AEW started? Now all he has to do is grow his hair back and we're set. Stupid sexy Wardlow.

    - Very good main event with everyone playing their parts well. Hook still isn't quite there to hang with the top lads but it'll come. I've no idea if Hangman is legitimately injured or not but I'm interested to see where it goes. 

  6. This Is Me... Now - Bit of an oddity, this. An hour long film to accompany Jennifer Lopez's new album, it's massively self-indulgent but there's enough weirdness here to make it stand out from other 'video-albums'. Ben Affleck plays an incredible part.

    The Iron Claw - It's really good. There's a few parts which didn't work for me (are world title matches a shoot or not?) and some of it could've been fleshed out more, but I think those criticisms only stem from me being a wrestling fan who knows the story. On a broader level, it works really well. Made me cry twice, thanks Sean Durkin.

    Madame Web - Really boring and horribly miscast. Shite.

    This week's re-release was Les Miserables. Sorry to let you all down but I like it. Well, the first half of it, anyway. Eddie Redmayne is rubbish.

  7. 1 hour ago, no user name said:

    Personally I feel like aew has got better since the turn of the year. Do you think the attendances will start to go back up again if the product is better or are there other factors involved? 

     

    I think attendances definitely will rise if they carry on putting on an entertaining show. The issue is that it will take time. Just from first-hand experience, I've got a few mates who used to watch AEW religiously who stopped watching last year saying it just wasn't for them anymore. Some of them have started watching WWE again, some have just stopped watching wrestling altogether. I've been telling them since the start of the year AEW is getting its shit together and a few of them arn't arsed, and the others have said they might check it out. I feel like it's going to take months and months of AEW putting on good shows to get people interested again.

    Somewhat related, I do feel that the '2023 was a bad year for AEW' narrative is a tad overblown. It seem like the Devil storyline and the shite Worlds End PPV has overshadowed a lot of other good stuff. It was only 6 months back that the company put on one of the biggest shows of all time.

    I also think that a company as in-ring/'workrate' heavy as AEW will always have a ceiling long-term, but I'm not sure where the ceiling is.

  8. 9 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

    id AEW continue with providing quiet areas for neurodiverse fans at their events after he and Brandi left? That was their idea, wasn't it?

    AEW still has a sensory room set up at PPVs, and has sensory bags for people who may need them. It's a partnership with KultureCity but I do think Cody and Brandi were responsible for setting it up.

    There was also a period where a few LGBT wrestlers from the Nightmare Factory were getting booked on Dark/Elevation etc, which I assume was Cody putting in a good word, as once he left they stopped appearing.

    He's a gem.

  9. I have been rewatching all the Kung Fu Pandas, Ghostbusters and MonsterVerse movies in anticipation for their new installments next month;

    Kung Fu Panda might be the most consistently 'good' trilogy ever. None of them are excellent, none of them are bad, they're just good. All of them have the exact same storyline of 'Po must master his teachings to defeat an enemy' but they're fun and don't overstay their welcome.

    I might lose a lot of forum cred (yeah right) here but I've never been a massive fan of Ghostbusters. It's okay but I'm baffled as to why it gets it's classic status, and Venkman annoys the fuck out of me. I actually prefer Ghostbusters II - Venkman is fine in this one and a painting that turns people evil is a better story than the original. I don't mind the panned 2016 version even if it does lose its way in the last act. Afterlife does the Force Awakens thing of just running on nostalgia and hitting the same beats as the first one but gets away with it due to a game cast and genuinely moving finale.

    MonsterVerse is a weird franchise. Godzilla is boring as fuck and suffers from killing it's best character off and turning the military dullard into the lead. Kong:Skull Island is great and has a real idiosyncratic style all the way through which makes it stand out from the crowd.

    Spoiler

    Shea Whigham going for the heroic sacrifice just to be swatted away like an insignificant fly is a highlight.

    I hated Godzilla: King Of The Monsters on first watch but actually quite enjoyed it second time around, although by the end of it I was sick of the sight of rain. Can they not do a fight sequence in a desert or something? Lastly, I had the reverse feeling with Godzilla v Kong. According to Letterboxd I liked it first time round, but it's dogshit. A terrible script that makes good actors look incompetent, a load of shite about an axe that gets charged by the core of the earth and MechaGodzilla getting involved, a side story featuring Millie Bobby Brown that is a massive waste of time. It's just bad. Also, I don't want to come across too 'clutching pearls' here as it's just a dumb blockbuster movie, but I do wonder if it was such a good idea to make the 'don't drink the tap water!' conspiracy theorists the heroes in a film that came out in 2021? Strikes me as an odd decision, anyway.

    Lastly, I rewatched Dune. I still don't think its the Film of the year contender many had it down as, but it is very good. Rebecca Ferguson is incredible, I need to check out Silo asap.

  10. Mox saying 'what am I thinking?', Claudio getting lost in his promo and rambling an absolute load of old bollocks that didn't make sense, then Mox going 'yeah, that is what I was thinking' was the highlight this week. It was a perfectly Rampage episode of Rampage, otherwise!

  11. My personal preference; Cody fights off Jimmy, Solo and The Rock to pin Reigns clean as a whistle. Nothing else will do! The Rock costing Roman would take the shine off Cody a little too much for me. 

    The next Raw/Smackdown Reigns bollocks the Bloodline for failing to help him. Jimmy and Solo take their bollockings like the lapdogs they are but The Rock tells Reigns to get fucked jabroni and hits him with the Rock Bottom. Rock/Reigns for Summerslam. 

    Cody moves into a feud with Kane or whoever. :( 

  12. 1 hour ago, air_raid said:

    That's perfect, isn't it? Nothing screams "Save us, Brock!!!!" like Kofi vs Ziggler for the big belt.

     

    Even moreso when you consider the other big title feud at the time was Seth and Becky vs Corbin and Lacey Evans...

    I think this was roughly the same time WWE was doing the weird '2 out of 3 falls' stuff too. WWE was the fucking pits in 2019, I don't think AEW could've picked a better time to come along.

  13. Another strong Dynamite for me, really enjoyed it.

    Mox vs Dax was right up my street. Great match. Nobody has ever played the tweener role better than BCC, they can flit between face and heel effortlessly depending on the opponent.

    Adam Cole playing it all cool then struggling to take his headset off sums him up. Fucking geek.

    Garcia vs Copeland was another cracker. AEW do DQ finishes so infrequently that it actually works in generating heel heat when it does happen. Christian vs Garcia at Revolution and Christian vs Copeland at Big Business wouldn't be a bad way to go.

    The 3-way promo was excellent. Swerve is slowly becoming a mega-face in my eyes, I was with him every step of the way here. Joe is just the ultimate bad-ass. Hangman is playing the desperate obsessed petty bloke perfectly. All good stuff.

    It was only a few weeks back I mentioned the Succession theme was my pick for heel theme music. Happy to report Young Bucks have shamelessly ripped it off to go with their new EVP characters. I seem to be in the minority of really liking Darby's promo, he never sounds the most polished but always sounds believable. I didn't get much of a 'shoot promo!' vibe from it, more that Young Bucks are EVPs abusing their power and Darby pointing out that's always been the case.

    It took him 2 years, but Stokeley Hathaway is involved in something entertaining! I think this could all lead to a Kris Statlander heel turn somehow.

    Brilliant main event. That table bump was insane. AEW are really good at nailing these gimmick matches, even if 'Texas Death Match everytime they're in Austin' has become the new 'Hell In A Cell every October'. I used to really dislike Matt Taven but the lad has won me over the past year.

    Was really puzzled that Callis was building up to a Takeshita vs Will Hobbs match, then he said 'Ospreay' and I marked out. Completely forgot he was coming in!

  14. 12 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

    Absolutely terrific jacket too, I feel contractually obliged to point out.

    I remember you mentioning on Twitter years back that you were thinking of starting a Letterboxd list of 'nice jackets in movies'. I think at the time I recommended Kathryn Newtons jacket in Freaky. Did you ever get around to this?

  15. Orion And The Dark - I really enjoyed the first 20 minutes of this, then it descends into sub-Inside Out meets 40 Winks on the PS1 and just becomes a bit of a mess. Noticed during the credits it was written by Charlie Kaufman which makes sense as it's overly ambitious and tries to be too clever, like most of his output.

    The Greatest Night In Pop - Pretty much a fluff piece about We Are The World, but it's hard not to enjoy yourself when there's that many iconic personalities on screen. Personal favourite part was all these larger than life cool personalities vibing and having fun then it cuts to Dan Aykroyd who looks as out of place as a nun at an orgy. Good fun.

    American Fiction - I liked this, but was still quite disappointed by it at the same time. I expected a slyly funny satire about white attitudes to black media/literature, but while there is some of that, it's pretty much a backdrop to family drama and budding romance which just didn't interest me as much. It fumbles the ending too. Still quite funny though.

    The End We Start From - Really tense, absorbing naturalistic survival drama. Jodie Comer on top form as always. This really worked for me, but I am a sucker for the survival genre.

    I also caught a screening of It Happened One Night which was just lovely and funny as fuck.

  16. 2 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

    Of course, he's going to turn on Rhodes and cost him the title at Wrestlemania but even so.

    Why would you even say this?!

    This was a very good Raw in highlight form. It's still too long and has too many hokey backstage bits for me to watch the whole show but I'm enjoying WWE more than I have in years. Might even stay up to watch Mania at this rate.

  17. If I'm not on here, I'll either be on the BBC News or BBC Sports/Football websites, or on Youtube. But it has to be something I can watch on mute, so likely a gaming longplay video.

    At the moment I'm watching a lot of mountain biking videos where someone will start at the back of the pack then try to work their way to as high a position as possible.

    I hardly ever play any games at work as it's a guarantee that as soon as I load the game up my phone will ring. The one exception was that Google Cricket game posted on here years ago which I got addicted to for a month.

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