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  1. 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.
  2. Ugh, again. Very uninspiring.
  3. 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).
  4. Laurence Taylor won in the main event of Wrestlemania XI and then couldn’t even get on the card the next year!
  5. Missed this post and just discovered the BBC coverage. Nice!
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Her character is an absolute wet drip though and Rayland has hotter prospects, not least Amy Smart.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 😎 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!
  13. 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.
  14. Loki

    CM Punk chat

    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.
  15. You should check out some of Hitler's watercolours, they're pretty good.
  16. Let's say it's $10 million over 4 years or something like that, it doesn't sound insane to me if you compare it outside the wrestling bubble. Top athletes in other sports get sponsorship contracts worth that even without a salary or fight purse. UFC and pro wrestlers have historically been underpaid outside of the WCW Turner contract era. If AEW is willing to shift the needle on this I'm all for it as it will force TKO to do the same over time. For AEW she's going to get eyes on the product, shift a ton of merchandise and put on some good matches. She also has had some Hollywood success and connections into that industry that they'll appreciate. I honestly think she's their biggest signing since Moxley. With the possible exception of Edge but he's come in more as a "legend" than a full time wrestler seemingly.
  17. Gable obviously got the shoosh gimmick over, but for absolutely YEARS he's also been one of those guys who the crowd really watch the matches of, and get into the second by second of. He's like Benoit in that sense (and only that sense) - even when he's in a no-story throwaway match he gets the crowd invested and anticipating his moves. He's one of the best pure wrestlers and athletes they've had in the last 10 years in WWE, and clearly can promo, so it's only been I guess his size that's held him back from anything more. He absolutely deserves a really good Wrestlemania match one of these years.
  18. He’s playing a character, why not exaggerate the voice? It’s getting him over, I like it. Not sure Macho Man would have been as big a star as he was without the oooh yeahhhh.
  19. On that topic the current Private Eye cover is magnificent
  20. Doing what most people do after a serious operation, stay at home. Something like a hysterectomy can take a long time to recover from. It is rather curious, but I think the Wales' are just genuinely shit at PR. They felt they didn't need to justify her absence (and they're right) but then succumbed to the pressure and put out a badly touched up photo which just made things worse. A 30 second video clip would put all this to bed, and failure to clear things up really does fuel the conspiracy nonsense. Conversely, Buck Palace has been incredibly open about Charles' cancer diagnosis and treatment and it's made it almost a non-issue.
  21. I'm thinking we should start a GoFundMe to raise that billion for you @SuperBacon...
  22. Loki

    Pride

    You're better placed than the rest of us, I'd argue! There seems to be a lot of fallacious "slippery slope" arguments around the subject, where if you discuss a theoretical you can have one opinion but reality is more complex. Asking the (cis) women in my life about the impact of trans women is interesting because when pushed there's definitely an opinion that some of the victories of feminism over the years might be under threat, by the theoretical incursion of those they consider "men" into female spaces. But it's not actually something any of them have ever experienced in real life so outside of the conversation it's not like trans women have any actual impact on their rights. Similarly with sports, if you could show that a particular sport was being changed noticeably by the participation of trans women then that might be an argument to exclude trans women from those sports on the basis of fairness. But that really hasn't happened yet at a high level. I've read some things about college sports in the US but not seen any actual concrete examples. We are still somewhat at the beginning of this change to be fair - identifying as trans seems a lot more common amongst the current teenage population than it was even 10 years ago so maybe those people will mature and go into sports in enough numbers to make the argument less theoretical. I doubt it though.
  23. Wade Barrett is a good shout. He always felt one major win away from being cemented as a main eventer and it never came. Odd to think of him as a has-been when he's only 43 now and in perfect health. I understand the long-term thinking behind being a commentator but Samoa Joe has made the transition back into being a wrestler and I kind of hope Barrett does too.
  24. So often in AEW and WWE they bring in someone who's "big in Japan" and it falls flat for me. AEW in particular with its strong connections with the Japanese scene tends to endlessly parade Japanese stars or gaijin stars and they don't really connect in the same way. I was fully primed to hate Will Ospreay, particularly as the clips I'd seen of him were some of the most egregious spot fests. But he's been an absolute delight every time he's appeared in AEW. And what a tremendous promo that completely sold me on the upcoming match with Danielson. Everything about him screams Superstar, he has the charisma that a lot of the homegrown AEW talent struggle to show. Rest of the show was a lot better than the card suggested. Moné looks good and is a fantastic addition to the roster (is she a bigger signing than Paige? She's a better long-term prospect for sure). I see she's brought Mia with her though 🙄 Joe v Wardlow felt it didn't get out of second gear and I agree with @LaGoosh that Wardlow just doesn't seem to have the extra step or gear to go any further. Some fun meat spots though, and Joe kicking the security guard is what I watch for. A surprisingly convincing win for the champ.
  25. There was a match once where Big Show and Kane were teaming, I forget against who, on Raw and at the start of the match Big Show tagged himself in and said quite distinctly "let's get this shit over with", which was exactly what I was thinking at the same moment. Nowadays I'd be so happy with a big man team where no flips or dives to the outside were likely.
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