Jumping ahead to 2008 and… well… this show is a total blank to me.
So we’re reaching the point with these Rumble shows where I barely remember anything on them. It’s this weird nebulous period where it’s neither particularly good nor was it notably awful. Mind you, this was after a year with a rather serious incident taking place that threatened to curtail the entire wrestling industry, so naturally, you blank out on the stuff that came afterwards… but, um, yeah… let’s give this another look and see if there’s anything worth remembering.
Every year, WWE likes to do a tribute video to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day festivities. It’s usually a touching tribute and this year’s video is no exception. I bring up this point because following this wonderfully-crafted tribute to one of the most influential figures in human history, we would get one of the worst editions of Monday Night RAW ever conceived.
Live from Madison Square Garden in New York City… which means that we’re not going to have a hugely elaborate set because MSG is unique enough in its set-up that trying to turn this into a typical WWF set would be pretty darn stupid.
Anyway, we’ve got a packed show of sorts. HHH defends the WWF Title against Cactus Jack in a no-holds-barred match, Hardys and Dudleyz are in a tables match, two Intercontinental Co-Champions will enter and only one Champ will emerge… and let’s toss Bob Holly in there for good measure… and then there’s… yeah, we’ll get to that.
Since I’m forgoing the 100-Post Challenge, there’s nothing to stop me from posting a video review early on. So here you go. Still planning on the “Review A Day” format in February and I’ve got enough going that I might reach 800 in that time span.
It’s 1991. There’s a war in the Gulf. And we’re headlining our annual Royal Rumble PPV extravaganza with the reigning WWF Champion The ULTIMATE WARRIOR defending his title against former American hero turned Iraqi sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter… and we also have the Royal Rumble.
So, I made mention of this on the DTM-Cast a couple weeks ago, but for those who missed the news, Netflix is going to be shitcanning most of the Power Rangers seasons from its service come February 1st, with only Mighty Morphin, Beast Morphers, Ninja Steel, and some of the holiday specials will still be up there… Oh yeah, Legendary Farce’s extended edition is also going to be sticking around. Excellent; I need to give that thing a piece of my mind.
Obviously, this sucks. Mind you, I’ve got most of the old seasons on DVD, but when it comes to stuff like Samurai or Dino Charge, I’m going to be shit out of luck in that regard. Honestly, I don’t get the thinking behind this. Maybe it’s rights issues. Maybe Hasbro has their own shitty streaming service nobody is going to buy… or maybe they’ll lose their minds and put this shit on Youtube for free and that will probably cause Haim Saban to go nuts and buy back the franchise. The man wants his money, after all.
Either way, it sucks that most of the series is going to be off a service that is used by millions and we’re all stuck with whatever shitty Netflix original series or Adam Sandler film is posted every once in a while. Fuck me, can we turn back the clock ten years to back when we had Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on this fucking service?
It’s about that time again. The build towards the Royal Rumble, which kicks off the “road to Wrestlemania” or whatever the marketing bollocks happens to be this year. And every year, I do a few musings on past Rumble events and as I’m looking at my checklist, I come to discover that there isn’t much left to look at.
So we might as well clear out the remaining Royal Rumbles this year and with my big attempt to watch this year’s Rumble, I’d figure it’d be a good time to get it done and hopefully remind myself of the days when the Royal Rumble was a great event and not just some soulless thing to kick off some road or something.
I thought that I could’ve done it, but as it turns out, poor timing ruins everything… so that’s that. Another aborted 100-Post Challenge… though honestly, that’s probably for the best.
As for all those unpublished posts? Welp, I’ve got enough wrestling PPV musings to cover a couple months worth of weekly posts starting in February. And those long-form posts might mean a little more when they’re not buried in the sand. So let’s roll that shit out slowly instead. That’ll be better off.
Besides, gives me more time to focus on the video stuff. I want February to have that “review a day” thing and now clearing this backlog out gives me more than enough focus to do just that. In fact, there’s a video come up later at noon. Stay tuned.
No Time To Die, the 25th James Bond feature film and rumored to be the final film featuring Daniel Craig as the title character, is apparently going to be delayed for the umpteenth time from an Easter release to later this fall, because apparently the studio really want people to come to theatres to see this really, totally awesome movie, you blokes you.
Okay, so the saga of No Time To Die is one best told by others and I will direct you to this fellow here, who is more of a Bond aficionado than I. But apparently, the movie is done. They’re just waiting for this pandemic to over with so people will flock to cinemas and catch this awesome movie with this new girl agent that might be the new 007 or something. Or maybe we’re doing the codename thing for realz.
At this point, does anyone really care?
The Daniel Craig era hasn’t been a huge runaway hit. Casino and Skyfall are probably the only two really good ones and the other two are just… there. For the diehard fans, I’m sure they just want to watch the movie and they don’t care how. As long as it’s out and over with. This compulsive need to debut this film in theatres is just sad. Does it suck for the movie houses? Sure, but at this point, best option would be to stay home and wait for the movie to show up there.
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