LaGoosh

1 hour ago, no user name said:

Aew may end up in to much debt. Also it is nice to have some big stars. If aew isn't making enough money it won't be able to afford them

Sometimes people forget how much money the Khan's have. They don't have debt! He pays for everything that the company income doesn't cover out of his own insanely massive pockets. 

The educated assumption is that they're going to probably score a big TV rights increase this year which will likely make the company profitable finally.

Season 3 of True Detective is very good, highly underrated mainly due to how much season 2 sucked.

I gave up on Night Country two and a half episodes in. Awful.

Listening to the podcast I get the sense that Rob is a natural leader and someone who likes vigorous challenge and debate. People like that naturally piss other people off on occasion. 

My main takeaway though is that I bloody love them and wish they were my mates.

On 2/16/2024 at 12:54 PM, BomberPat said:

Dolph Ziggler didn't become a tedious time-filler just because he'd been there for so long, but because he'd been doing the exact same schtick the entire time.

Well that's not entirely true. There was that time he cut his hair, dyed it black and was the new super serious black trunks Ziggler. But then a couple weeks later he dyed it back to blonde, got his sparkly pants back out of the cupboard and pretended that never happened.

2 hours ago, BomberPat said:

I'm all for protecting the referee's credibility, but not at the expense of heat.

"Don't bury the ref" seems to be a weird sticking point with the higher ups at WWE. Even recently that prick Bruce Pritchard on his podcast in reference to the 3D (one of the most popular and coolest wrestling moves ever) said he never really liked tag team finishes because they broke the rules and "buried the ref". It's absolutely ridiculous. Who gives a fuck about the ref? Really, the rules of any match are just another story telling device and should be bent and used according to whatever story you want to tell. That's what the fans will remember, no one will come out upset the ref doesn't appear to have the required authority.

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

and really bought into the "keys" to making sense of it, and had that tedious personality trait that half the internet seems to have these days of treating a film like a puzzle to be solved

A lot of people react like that to Lynch. I used to too, but eventually I realised that his work isn't meant to be deciphered into plot/story. In the simplest way to describe it, the only thing that matters when watching his work is how it makes you feel. The what and why is basically irrelevant. 

10 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Mulholland Drive 

Watched this ill on the sofa and might as well have done 10 tabs of acid. I couldn't make head nor tail of it, and the way Lynch shoots didn't help as I thought I was inside my own dream (Naomi Watts often appears in my dreams naked on another woman) Great film, but one I probably shouldn't have watched ill and feverish.

That alleyway scene though.

I don't think any artists in any medium has ever really captured what it feels like to be inside a dream except for David Lynch. He's a genius.

I'm assuming and hoping that Kingston will likely be on commentary losing his shit for the match.

So this is happening on Saturday. Yes fucking please. The "wHeReS ThE sToRy" pervs on social media are saying the same old shit but this is actually some pretty genius have your cake and eat it too booking. On the surface it looks like the typical dream match booking AEW does...except Jun Akiyama is Eddie Kingston's hero, so Danielson is no doubt going to do some absolutely despicable shit here to send Kingston into a meltdown ahead of their big PPV rematch. It's gonna' be great!

7 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

If there's one thing that the history of film adaptations of literature has taught us it's that the original novelist never gets it right when giving their opinion.

And it's usually even worse when they are involved in the production of the film adaption itself. 

12 hours ago, Chili said:

Ugh sorry mate, I was meant to tag you and not LaGoosh. Brain fade 

Yeah I was bit confused.

I watched the first episode of Mr & Mrs Smith and found it insanely boring. I couldn't work out what they were going for at all with it. Does it pick up in later episodes or does it maintain the same pace/tone?

I'm enjoying Masters of the Air, although it's not as emotionally engaging or good as Band of Brothers or The Pacific and some of the CG stuff is pretty ropey. Turner is great in it. It's my first time seeing Austin Butler and he has proper old school movie star looks and screen presence which I haven't seen in Hollywood for what feels like forever. 

1 hour ago, The Gaffer said:

This is shit. 

Are lazy outdated homophobic insults ok on here now then?

I think it needs to be more Hangman's hate for Swerve causes him to lose focus and make a massive mistake rather than him deliberately losing just to cost Swerve the title. 

27 minutes ago, Panhead said:

Thanks for the suggestions. Is there a lack of speech marks in all his work or is that just in No Country For Old Men? Not that it puts me off, I'm just curious. 

Yeah all his stuff is like that. McCarthy saw speechmarks as pointless and never used them. 

Many thanks Frankie for the work you put into this.

Starship Troopers is so good. It manages to be a fucking kickass war film while also brilliantly parodying kickass war films at the same time. Genius.

There's lots of great fascism stuff throughout the film such as Neil Patrick Harris turning up in an SS uniform or that the aliens initial attack on Earth is actually in self defence, but my favourite small touch is that the small town perfect white American teenagers all live in Buenos Aries, Argentina. Brilliant world building. 

3 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Like I say, I’m probably reading too much into it, I just don’t feel like Takeshita should be the fodder for Osprey

I feel the same. I understand the logic behind it as the match will be tremendous and a perfect fit for both men but yeah Takeshita is incredible and needs to be protected at this point in his career. The inconsistent booking around him is very frustrating and as you say, he's beaten Omega twice and it's all felt inconsequential. Hopefully they've got a good angle/story for it and this is just the jumping off point but I don't have high hopes.

28 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

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.

 Statlander heel turn would be devastating for me. Her and Willow are the most believable and likeable mates and babyfaces I can think of in wrestling, I love them and would be heartbroken with a heel turn from either. 

That's one of the fun things about AEW, they can schedule a match on paper that looks like absolutely nothing and then it turns out to be an absolute surprise banger.

On 2/15/2024 at 9:25 AM, Panhead said:

Does anyone have any recommendations for which one I should pick up next? 

He's my favourite author, literally any of them are fantastic. Blood Meridian is probably his best book, though it's a brutal read. The Road is probably his easiest and most accessible book (though also a brutal read...they are all pretty brutal). Child of God and Outer Dark are on the shorter side so might be worth a go.

Overall though Suttree is my favourite and is often overlooked. It's a long book, significantly less violent than most of his stuff, incredibly funny and sad.

It blows my mind that anyone would even want to keep working at that age, let alone probably one of the hardest jobs in the entire fucking world. I'm not even 40 and I would retire immediately if I could.

So yeah Revolution is exciting and all that shite, but they've also announced that Dynamite is getting a new entrance set after the PPV and I'm weirdly more excited for that than Sting's retirement match. I hate the current setup. I hope they go for something big, mad and colourful and not just a bunch of LED screens. 

31 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

People just seem so willing to accept The Miz or Rey Mysterio having their 87th go around the horn. Different times.

Outside of the rare big match I haven't watched WWE for years so I'm always amazed/confused when I see people getting excited about the product and being like "looks like we're getting Orton vs McIntyre", "can't wait for Owens vs Reigns", "Sheamus is having a great run" or "great build to Rollins vs Balor!" and it sounds identical to what I remember watching from what felt like forever ago. Looking from the outside in it seems like the same few blokes just rotating around each other for years and years now.

I've always felt like outside of a few guys rosters should change pretty drastically every 5 years or so. I suppose it's a symptom of bringing guys in through a development system at a young age so that they will basically end up spending a decade plus in WWE now and that's considered normal and the shows start feeling pretty stagnant as a result. Seth Rollins has been stinking up WWE for almost 12 years and may still have another 10 left in him. Imagine that! A wrestler having a run longer than 5 years in a company should be the exception not the norm in my book. 

Revolution is his final match and presumably final appearance. 

14 minutes ago, Supremo said:

Surely not another three way at the pay per view?

I'm guessing Garcia vs Christian at Revolution (which will be a fucking banger) and save Copeland/Cage 3 for TV. Revolution doesn't really need it, the card is already insane.