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Watched The Creator finally. In terms of how to film scifi it feels like a generational step forward. Just fantastically shot, great locations and the way the cgi is added to the world feels more natural than anything I’ve seen before. Great world-building too, a really interesting backstory and concept. The actual plot is a bit bobbins though, a paper thin excuse for some bang bang. Still it doesn’t get in the way of the spectacle too much. Casting was nuts - CJ from the West Wing as the main baddie! She pulls it off but that’s nuts. Best sci-fi film I’ve seen in a while but I’ve not seen Dune 2 yet.
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Ugh, again. Very uninspiring.
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Bit of a "what if", I remember DiBiase Jr being pretty good. Am I right in thinking he more or less decided he didn't want to be a wrestler and left the business? (and then became a scammer, natch).
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Laurence Taylor won in the main event of Wrestlemania XI and then couldn’t even get on the card the next year!
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Missed this post and just discovered the BBC coverage. Nice!
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It’s Ronda Rousey though, isn’t it? Wrestling debut, at Wrestlemania, with Kurt Angle and HHH, and she looked like a million dollars ( and indeed she was for a year or two there). How exactly the wheels came off I can only speculate but this first run has to stand as one of the great unexpected runs in wrestling history. I saw her at the O2 and she blew the roof off the place. By far the WWE’s biggest star for about 12 months. Edit: I went and watched the match back, and it's even better than I remember. HHH and Angle start out and both look pretty rusty and obviously well past their prime, but from the moment Rousey gets in against Stephanie, the whole thing just takes off. It's not about how well she adapted to doing the movezz... she flubs a couple early on in fact, but Rousey just gets the important things - timing, selling, facial expressions... storytelling. She hits every mark perfectly. The story of the match is great too - everyone thought the climax would be Rousey getting her hands on Stephanie, but no, what it really builds to is her getting her hands on HHH at which point the rulebook (and the crowd's expectations) go out the window and it's just one long pop to the finish. HHH and Angle manage to roll back the years, Stephanie looks hot af in her leather jumpsuit, and Rousey has the best wrestling debut of all time. What a match.
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Speaking to an American friend of mine yesterday, a journalist, and they said they believed that the US was about to put boots on the ground in Gaza and that the Biden administration was gearing up to be a wartime government. They believe that the building of the supply dock is effectively the start of the Americans trying to insert themselves between the IDF and Hamas, to effectively take over the campaign against Hamas but try and protect the civilian population. They're not someone given to hyperbole and they have good connections so it'll be interesting to see if this takes place.
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England have lost two games in the dying seconds, so the tournament could have turned out even better for them! Great tournament, though not for the Welsh (what DID happen to all the Welsh members of the forum?). A belting match to finish the whole thing off, no complaints.
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[NSFW] Less commercial or conventional hotties
Loki replied to The Sparkmeister's topic in Off Topic
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We’re seeing the potential shape of an opposition Tory party - QAnon, anti abortion, anti trans, hard right taking direction and money from the US right. Truss doesn’t expect this or want this to pass. She wants it to fail and give her supporters the victim mentality they need, and something to talk about on US alt right tv. I just hope there are enough moderates left after the election to pull the party back towards the centre and Truss et al can fuck off to Reform and political oblivion.
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I'm quietly hoping that LA Knight v AJ Styles will end up being great, if given enough time. Always interesting to see two former TNA/Impact champions facing each other at Wrestlemania, from two different eras as well. Both are guys who seem to excel on a big stage. Outside of The Rock's match, it's the one I'm most looking forward to on the card right now. If AJ is up for it, it could be the making of Knight in WWE.
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The Wrestling Channel is 20 years so the internet tells me.
Loki replied to IANdrewDiceClay's topic in UK Fan Forum
😎 You're WELCOME Herbie 😜 It's sad that there's not been a proper home for World Of Sport since the demise of TWC. I know various efforts have been made to winkle those tapes away from ITV but there is just SO MUCH good material that has a huge potential audience. Imagine all that captured in HD and properly cleaned! -
The Wrestling Channel is 20 years so the internet tells me.
Loki replied to IANdrewDiceClay's topic in UK Fan Forum
I maintain that the largest impact of TWC was introducing travelling US wrestlers like Bryan Danielson, over here for indy shows, to the delights of World Of Sport and British wrestling in general. There was definitely some cross fertilization back into the US indy scene, with people suddenly doing a lot of upper cuts, wristlocks and balancing on their head to escape a head scissors. -
To be fair, nowadays all you'd need to do to beat Booker T would be to stand a couple of steps up a flight of stairs. His knees are absolutely shot, he'd be stuck like a Dalek.
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You should check out some of Hitler's watercolours, they're pretty good.