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    Documentary Thread #2

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    Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade (2007)

    A companion piece to the ‘King of Kong’ documentary.  Back in 1982, at the height of video arcades, Life Magazine did a piece bringing together the best video game players in the country, this documentary catches up with some of these men roughly twenty five years later.  Twin Galaxies and Walter Day, just like in King of Kong, are the backbone, Twin Galaxies having hosted the 1982 Video Game World Championships.  Naturally, Billy Mitchell features, and while still a tad arrogant he surprisingly doesn’t come off anywhere near as bad here as he did in King of Kong,  the accolade of prize prat belonging to ‘Mr. Awesome’ Roy Shildt.  Less than two years after the shoot, arcades started shutting up shop, the fame of the likes of Ben Gold, Darren Olsen etc. fleeting.  All have moved on in their lives, bar Leo Daniels who is still living like a teenager, although with one of them still living with his parents but having spent $300K on erotic art, another having a mail order bride in Mexico who doesn’t even speak English and another sleeping on the floor surrounded by vintage arcade machines and sharing his house with all manner of tarantulas, there is a sense of them being made fun of.  Tons of old, vintage footage and a fascinating look at this period of time.

    VHS and Betamax You Have Recently Rented

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    April Fool's Day (1986)

    Watched this last night via nefarious means.  An 80s horror flick that sees a group of college students go to stay with their friend who lives in a mansion on a remote island.  Quite a few times it made me jump and there is a great twist right at the end, even if it does mean you have to suspend disbelief a fair bit.  The acting is nothing special, although Deborah Foreman is pretty good.  To be honest, if it wasn't for the ending I would have probably been disappointed to have spent ninety minutes watching this. but the last ten/fifteen made it worth sticking with.  Thomas F. Wilson also stars.

    The Bret Hart scoring system

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    Just now, PowerButchi said:

    Oh god, thanks for reminding me of that.

     

    And him. 

    I was reminded of something on PWO so just checked that out; he's reinvented himself as 'The Academic Agent' on YouTube and has over 50K subscribers (I wouldn't recommend trying to make sense of anything he talks about on his channel).  Is also offering online courses in Economics, which completely surprised me as I thought English Literature and Shakespeare was what he specialized in.

    Where's Rodney?

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    Funnily enough I was reading the Slinger's Day write up last night, as that was one I've never heard of before, like this Dream Stuffing.

    I don't know why I've completely missed your blog until fairly recently (it was the Byker Grove link that was posted the other week that got me checking it out) but I've been thoroughly enjoying diving into the various articles.  Heck, I even ended up watching Copy Cats on YouTube after reading that one.  Davro's complete inability to do impressions was something that had bypassed me as a youngster, a personal highlight was his "Mike Baldwin" from Coronation Street where he doesn't even try to impersonate him, just speaks in his usual voice!  Whatever Gary Wilmot must think looking back on that show I'll never know. 

    UKFF Questions Thread v3

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    Central was the region I lived in and I don't recall us ever getting shows from the AWA/World Class/Memphis partnership (not to say we didn't).

    I can remember the Rhodes PWF from '89, Global with the likes of Dr. Red Roberts, Death Row and the Soul Patrol, ICW with Kevin Sullivan, Mark Lewin, Bruiser Brody and Blackjack Mulligan, even old Mid-Atlantic, just not that.

    Documentary Thread #2

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    Whores Glory (2011) 

    A depressing and at times upsetting look at prostitution in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico.  We start off in Thailand at a place called ‘The Fishtank’, where the girls sit behind a giant glass screen being ogled at and waiting to be picked by the men, or “johns” as they call them.  The men are quite open talking about their wives, happy to cheat on them, but making it clear they would not be best pleased if they were the ones being cheated on.  The girls talk about not having much money, looking at taking on a second job, but then they go and blow their money on local “bar boys”, it’s like a constant cycle for them.  An uncomfortable moment sees this foreign tourist choose the youngest looking girl there because he believed she was "15 or 16".  We then move to Bangladesh, the upsetting part of the documentary.  Unlike the clean, almost professional way things are done in Thailand, here it is anything but.  Dark, dirty stone buildings, poverty stricken, cramped, animals roaming around, children in close proximity sleeping on the floors.  It’s like something out of a nightmare.  Then you hear from the “johns”.  This one guy visits the Red Light District daily, sometime twice a day, and says how it is a good thing they have it because otherwise women would be constantly getting raped and men would be having sex with cows or goats!  What looks very much like underage girls are interviewed and the most distressing scene is a completely broken girl being sold to a madam and told that she will have to work there for a year in order to make back the money back the madam borrowed to buy her.  Last of all we head to ‘The Zone’ in Mexico where drug taking is rife by the prostitutes.  A pretty flat section, though my highlight is this misogynistic chap cruising the area in his car looking for a ho and claiming all the women are scared of him because of his “big rod”.  At another point they focus on one of the prostitutes performing a sex act with a client which seemed gratuitous and unnecessary.

    UKFF Porn and General Filth Discussion

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    Just now, Keith Houchen said:

    For a tenner she will tell you to fuck off home. 

    Still amazes me how she seemingly got off scott free when she was every bit as bad, if not worse than Jade Goody, and was far more hideous than Jo O'Meara (who's career pretty much ended at that point). 

    Random Thoughts III.

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    Just now, gmoney said:

    I've been getting into a fair bit of 90s Japanese stuff after years of ignoring it. Now, there's quite a bit of stuff about NJPW out there, the Lion's Pride book etc, but I'm struggling to find much out there about AJPW. Are there any books or resources out there about All Japan, or even the Japanese industry that isn't so focused on New Japan?  

    These are over five years old now, but a couple of guys from the Place to be Network did an All Japan Excite Series podcast.

    They're no longer up on Soundcloud but the following link has working episodes:

    https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3030204

    Documentary Thread #2

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    I watched Nature Boy from the ESPN 30 for 30 series the other night.  I'm not sure how much would be new information to posters of this board but it was an easy watch (outside of one thing which I'll get to later), plus you get both the Undertaker and Sting, out of character, as talking heads, which is pretty unique.  The episode is basically a sit-down interview with Ric cut with lots of archive footage, some animated cartoons and interviews with contemporaries (such as Ricky Steamboat, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Triple H and Greg Gagne).  Flair talks about giving his life to wrestling and that from 1972 onwards he was always Ric Flair, never Richard Fliehr.  He admits to being a lousy husband (he claims to have bedded over 10,000 women) and father, especially when it came to his oldest children as he was always on the road as travelling World champion and never home.  There is definitely some animosity from David in that regard.  The tough stuff is the final twenty minutes or so dealing with Reid's death, Flair breaking down and understandably still deeply troubled by the whole situation.  Triple H is really good, he even brings up about how they were looking at bringing Reid in but he failed a drugs test and saying how Ric was almost in denial of what his son was doing and that can't have been correct.  He goes on to say that because he is Ric's son they will test him a second time, pretty much telling him without telling him, that we will test him on this date so make sure he is clean.  Even knowing all that Reid failed the second test.  It closes with Ashley/Charlotte talking about how she never really wanted to become a wrestler but did so to carry out Reid's dream, and you have Ric living vicariously through her, everyone knowing that he will never be able to leave the business behind.

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