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#1441 Re: The Sunset Strip » L.A. Noir Show Coming To TNT » 718 weeks ago
Haha, I just knew Rockstar was gonna step in and say something about that title.
#1442 Re: The Sunset Strip » Soundgarden Discussion (King Animal out NOW!) » 718 weeks ago
WHOA Saikin... what a show!
#1443 Re: The Garden » Volkswagen Super Bowl Ad...Racist? » 718 weeks ago
But if it were a black dude using a "White" voice it would be funny and acceptable. I hate society more and more every day.
Pretty much this. It's only racist, until it offends whites, and then it's okay.
Fuck the media. The same ones beating this gun death shit into the ground, simply trying to grab ratings.
#1444 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Vs. The Beatles » 719 weeks ago
I prefer GN'R, but you can't deny the influence of the Fab Four. They're easily the biggest rock band in the history of rock bands.
#1445 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 719 weeks ago
I agree with D wholeheartedly. Without Austin -- it would be called WCW today.
WWF had Taker, HBK, HHH, all of the above before Austin and they were fucking tanking. And fast. Austin's gimmick with Vince was probably the biggest work in the history of the business and changed the entire landscape. WWF: Attitude Era was born with DX, but Austin's gimmick is what put it over. DX was considered lesser to nWo but anyone and everyone I knew, including the ratings, because nWo on WCW had established stars like Nash, Hogan & Hall that everyone already identified with.
Alot of people forget this, but the Attitude Era WAS NOT POPULAR AT ALL when it first started. It in fact sent the wrestling fans into a fury who were livid that Vince was letting every one of their beloved stars go, and especially peaked when Bret Hart, who was enormously popular, was let go to WCW.
"Vince Russo tried to get HBK for WCW"
Ding ding for him. Means jack fucking shit. HBK was a hardcore Corey Haim-level drug addict at that point popping Vicodin, Soma, Valium, Xanax and anything he could stick down his throat at the time. He was a train wreck, and HBK's "find my smile" and "fake injury" after WM14 were all covers for his out of control drug abuse. Vince couldn't do anything because HBK was his biggest superstar at the time, Austin was rising like a rocket, but he needed HBK to put him over (something HBK H-A-T-E-D at the time).
All parties later admitted that HBK's return for that match with Austin & Tyson, they had to basically slap duct-tape on HBK, shove some uppers and downers down his throat and throw him into a ring to make that legendary match happen. HBK later admitted he barely got through it.
So we can't turn around and credit HBK for the rise of the Attitude Era, when HBK was done and gone by early 1998. Granted I DO credit DX, but I still think without Austin, WCW tramples WWF.
Even in 2002 during the WCW/ECW invasion storyline, Vince turning Austin from a heel back into a face, and the fact in the storyline it changed the landscape of those fights was an intentional work on McMahon's part to basically say -- "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is what put WWF over WCW. Without Austin, WWF gets it's ass kicked. That was intentional on their part. Once again, HBK was just before his comeback at that point, while Austin was nearing the end.
To credit it as a group effort is just ludicrous. You could've put Val Venis in that Rock-Corporation angle with Austin 3:16 Stone Cold, and you still have a LEGENDARY work.
Taker had already been working his gimmick for a damn decade and was getting NO traction.
If Stone Cold doesn't show up at WWF, and Stone Cold doesn't become "Stone Cold" and Steve doesn't find that character and doesn't do his gimmick.... WWE would not exist today.
Everyone I knew ran to WCW because they had Hogan & Hart back in the day. It took people like me on the streets wearing Stone Cold camo hats, and laying stunners on 14-year old shit talkers, and people like me getting up in front of teachers and busting into Stone Cold works in class, and getting thrown into suspension and doing all of this grassroots stuff, where kids starting tuning in more to WWF because it was "taboo". Then suddenly their parents flipped over, and once that Austin/McMahon, the working man vs. his millionaire boss angle happened -- it fucking exploded.
I've never seen or been apart of anything like it. It was like being an original fan of The Beatles in the early-to-mid 60's. Even when you lived it, you had no idea what you were witnessing would become legend one day.
None of that happens without Stone Cold. None. I can remember laying stunners on every fucking Goldberg shirt I saw. Just boom, done. Carted off.
Fun times
#1446 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 719 weeks ago
Maximum Conviction (2012)
I saw "Maximum Conviction" over the holiday break back in December. Didn't mention it, because I thought it was pretty lame. For a new film to have both Steven Seagal and Stone Cold Steve Austin as the main leads, I thought it would've been better. Despite the fact that Seagal & Austin have obvious on-screen chemistry, RARELY in the entire film do they ever share the screen. I don't know if this was a shooting schedule thing with Seagal's "True Justice" TV series or just a 'too many egos at the table' thing of neither wanting to totally put the other over or what. Either way -- wasted opportunity.
The script is terrible, and the dialogue is dreadful. The action is okay for a DTV action film, but come across more as 'filmed for a TV series'. Which the film came across as. More as a pilot for a syndicated action show, rather than a film trying to be it's own thing.
Austin hams it up and of course plays himself as always, but remains as entertaining as ever, and seems to obviously just improv his lines rather than doing anything that was actually written. At least he tries.
Seagal on the other hand barely registers on the richter scale , and I can very sadly say IS NOT DRUNK OR HIGH. Because if he had been, it might've given an excuse to his embarassingly phoned-in performance. Several times during the film you can barely even understand what he's saying because he's murmering his lines. It gets frustrating after awhile, but the bad guys are even worse. You can almost predict what they're going to say next, so you cringe ahead of time.
A very disappointing film, that blantantly sets itself up for a sequel (so much so that it includes Austin's personal Broken Skull Ranch gimmick of his Texas property as the logo of he and Seagal's Special Forces team).
Maybe the sequel can be better if it features more of Seagal & Austin working together, but I had kinda looked forward to this because it seemed interesting to team the two Steven's up in an Expendables-style film. Unfortunately we just get two older, fatter, men doing parodies of themselves. The only difference is Austin is consciously tongue-in-cheek and tries to poke fun at himself, whereas Seagal takes himself seriously and just embarasses himself.
*1/2 stars -- 1.5/4 - Fairly poor
#1447 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 719 weeks ago
Forgot to mention that I saw The Last Stand with some friends on Friday evening. It was a really fun film. ARNOLD'S BACK..MOTHER FUCKERS!!! Don't expect anything ground breaking in terms of film. An entertaining way to kill an hour & a half. Worth checking out if you are a fan of his work. I was a tad worried about Knoxville's performance and thought he would be overused since I'm not a fan of his acting; but he was used appropriately used and in the right amounts..thank God!! xD Blasted Austrian Death Machine songs in the car on the way to the theater!
Yeah I thought it looked really good, despite Arnold being out of it for awhile. But I heard that it TOTALLY BOMBED at the Box Office. BARELY cracked the Top-10 with only a measley $6mil for MLK weekend. With all of the money and promo tied up into it, that was embarassing that it got only that much money.
It'll be interesting to see how Stallone's new action flick that opens in a couple of weeks, like Bruce Willis in Die Hard 5 does, and whether it's a "Arnold is a sleazeball" thing, or it's a "we don't want to see these old dude in new action flicks unless it's an ensemble or a sequel to their earlier works". I still think Stallone did well with The Expendables franchise because he had SO many names to back him up in the film. I also think Rocky VI and Rambo IV did well because they were sequels, no different than Willis with Die Hard 4.
I don't remember any of them having too many big hits in the modern day that weren't sequels to their most popular films. I think Arnold is supposed to do Conan III next year, reprising his original role after the Conan reboot was a total bomb.
#1448 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Following » 719 weeks ago
I decided to watch it, and honestly in the first act I thought "where is this going?". It felt like ANOTHER Criminal Minds-type Unsub show where generic FBI profiler chases evil serial killer.
ALL and I mean ALL of the Psychlogy doctors I know ADORE Criminal Minds, and it's because it's a pretty accurate show to psych profiles, and alot of the stories are ripped from actual FBI cases.
My problem with Criminal Minds is it's not psychological enough. It's not scary enough. It's not a TV show enough. It opts for more shock and awe, and basic U.S. Marshal-style pursuit of suspects with warrants out of them, that just happens to have blood n' guts. Kind of like C.S.I.
I hate that.
Thankfully The Following, once it picked up, really satisfied what i'd like to see in shows like these, and how MY mind actually works in this kind of stuff (i'm going into Forensics, unlike several of my collegues).
The Following is alot creepier, and Kevin Bacon is really good at playing an obsessed FBI agent/crossed with Psych profiler. His reservation and alcoholism, then suddenly out of nowhere he goes all Dr. Loomis by the final act of the pilot was awesome.
The serial killer guy, with the Charles Manson-type "following" (hence the title), is a great story arc, and is deliciously evil.
I don't know how much influence Kevin Williamson had on the show, but I will admit the show had a bit of a dated-feel. The series' look and feel seemed to be a bit more 90's. Simpler film-style, and the tone, music and atmosphere honestly had a real Halloween H2O-kinda feel. At times I felt like I was watching something from 1997-1999.
And because of that, I will also say that the show, with the creepier vibe (and let me assure you--IT IS CREEPY!), has a real "Millennium" feel. Anyone who remembers late 90's Fox TV will remember a nice little run, but not long, 3-seasons and done show called Millennium, which starred Lance Henriksen of Aliens-fame, as an FBI profiler with keen instincts and a psychic ability, and an underlying recurring story arc featuing 'The Millennium Group'. It was a sister-show to The X-Files, and very similar. So much that there was a crossover to wrap up the show on The X-Files after the show ended it's run in 1999.
The Following feels ALOT like that to me. So if you enjoy more horror-like suspense in your Unsub FBI profiler shows, and enjoyed stuff like Millennium or even to an extent The X-Files, and stuff like Criminal Minds is just too simplistic-action show for you... you'll enjoy The Following.
I'll definitely be watching again next week. It's alot better than 2 Broke Whores on See-BS.
#1449 Re: The Sunset Strip » Rock on the Range Reveals 2013 Line-Up » 719 weeks ago
I liked that one hardrock song they did. Can't remember the name of it. Sounded like White Zombie and it was a big hit.
I tried to get into it, and he went all New York, Coffeehouse pussy-ambient in the late 90's and I was like "fuck this". I just retired from listening to rock at that point. Everything sucked.
#1450 Re: The Sunset Strip » Soundgarden Discussion (King Animal out NOW!) » 719 weeks ago
Saikin wrote:Or PJ can get a new drummer and let Matt focus on his original band. And let SG do what they do best.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't see that happening. If for no other reason because I bet the paycheck is still quite a bit bigger in Pearl Jam, but also because he seems super tight with those guys, has songwriting credits in the band, etc. He's accepted as a full on member of Pearl Jam, not just some replacement dude.
I personally wish they'd just let Matt go back to Soundgarden, and either bring back a former PJ drummer or hire someone new. Fans would enjoy not having either band held back, plus they can tour and play festivals together, which despite the loss of pay leaving Pearl Jam, the opportunities to collaborate together, plus the Temple of the Dog angle thrown in, has to add money to the table. A Soundgarden/Pearl Jam double-bill tour once maybe the heat dies down on their albums seems like instant bank, especially with interest in that Seattle scene growing again for the kids now wanting to go back and rediscover the 90's music scene, now that the 80's rebirth has kinda peaked.
I just think there might be more money with Cameron back in SG. But then again like you said, PJ has used Cameron as a full-blown writer, so he's considered a band member, plus Eddie practically went homo about how much he loved having Matt in the band in PJ20.
Either way I would like to see that dynamic worked on, so Soundgarden, nor Pearl Jam has to schedule breaks any longer. It wasn't a problem when SG was inactive... now it's a problem. And calling Sean Kinney or Dave Grohl ain't the answer either. They're both too busy.
