Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

40 Men In A Royal Rumble? I Can Barely Sit Through 30!

So the word went out that this year’s Royal Rumble match will bump up the number of participants from the usual thirty to the big fat FORTY Superstars. That means more filler than ever before. Hurray.

I would probably reserve judgment until the actual Rumble match itself and assume that this is just a one-off thing to see if it would work. I don’t really see it taking off, though. Would they have enough talent to fill all the slots?

Look, the Royal Rumble match has worked just fine with thirty guys. And in all honesty, a few of them could be hard to sit through… like the 1999 Royal Rumble, for example. You know, the one that Vince McMahon won. Why bother adding another ten guys who don’t have a fucking chance in hell of winning to the mix?

Note for future reference; don't cameo Angry Joe… ever.

Usually, I like sitting through a Linkara video… when he sticks with the “review” portion and doesn’t go into zany “storyline” bits where he plays a billion characters or whatever. Those are pretty bad, but when it comes to the main review bits, he makes them fairly humorous and enjoyable… and he doesn’t use very naughty words, which is quite refreshing for once.

So recently, I tried watching the Linkara review for the Justice League: Cry For Justice mini-series… the latest video, I think it was. And after the obligatory ad, the first thing I saw was Angry Joe.

Then I pushed the Back button on Chrome.

Make of that as you will.

COMIC REVIEW – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #3 (Marvel)

The first story features the return of Pirantishead, the first Season 2 monster, and a rare underwater fight that brings us our problem; Aisha’s fear of water… which makes no sense because she participated in a triathlon that involved swimming in a prior episode, thus denoting a massive discontinuity between the comics and the books. It’s a nothing story about overcoming your fears, but at least the art is decent and the setting is somewhat unique for Power Rangers.

The second story, Most Valuable Slayer, is about girls being as good as boys in sports and stuff. The girl in question, Kelly, wants to join the baseball team, but her being a girl is a problem until the end of the story when she sticks around to watch the Rangers fight a pink monster thing. Again, a generic nothing story that is hampered by some truly hideous artwork. The Rangers are depicted in an overly muscular fashion that would make Rob Liefeld blush, nobody knows how to draw proper faces… the back-up story of an active burner would’ve been a more appropriate place for this stinker.

Mike Matei Jumps The 1-1 Flagpole… And You Watch Ads

Original link: http://www.cinemassacre.com/2011/01/12/how-to-jump-the-flagpole-on-stage-1-in-super-mario-bros/

Okay, you know what? I have to admit; that’s a rather neat little trick to pull off and it’s probably worth replicating for those with plenty of time and patience on their hands. It was a rather nice waste of ninety seconds. I like that.

What I don’t like is having to sit through a thirty second ad to watch a video that’s only three times as long, and another ad that’s also pretty long after the end of the video. I can understand putting in ads for longer videos and whathaveyou, but for short stuff like, disable the damn ads. What’s being shown here is pretty cool, but not worth the extra minute worth of ads I have to sit through.

Free entertainment holds no weight here – there’s lots of free entertainment out there and chances are there’s probably an equivalent video to what’s featured here without the ads. Even if it’s a lower quality…

But all negativity aside… that’s a neat trick, Mike. Hope you’ll do more of these… without the ads.

RAW (Jan. 10th, 2011) – Ooohhh… John Cena Said @$$! I’m never watching this show again.

Yes, John Cena said ass… because CM Punk’s ass is grass. And of course, for showing a mere SECOND of potential badassery after another one of his trademark stupid promos, he apologizes for it and jokes about it on Twitter. Apparently, John Cena’s testicles have risen and need to drop again.

Not much to say, other than that. Morrison and Sheamus had another solid match, Jerry Lawler is getting more active in matches these days, the Miz is still feuding with Randy Orton for some reason, the new Nexus initiations did nothing for me, and the Bella Twins still haven’t been future endeavored.

HBK in the Hall of Fame? I mean, come on. Who didn’t see that coming?

So yeah, RAW was actually pretty good. No complaints or quibbles

COMIC REVIEW – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2 (Marvel)

Our second Marvel issue of Mighty Morphin contains another two stories of the mighty Marvel fare.

The first story, Playing Dirty, has the Ranger teens helping out at a car wash before Zedd decides to turn a car (occupied by Bulk & Skull… naturally) into a monster. This story reads more like an abridged episode than anything; set up the plot of the day, follow up with the pre-requisite Tenga battle (which feature the Rangers morphing to their usual fare instead of the Ninja suits… I guess we can’t mix and match suits in these two comics), introduce the monster for the Rangers to fight and introduce the Zord battle, which is actually quite unique in the way it disposes of the car monster.

The second story, notable for being illustrated by the legendary Steve Dikto, has Aisha and Kimberly looking after kids while Bulk & Skull attempt to be upstanding citizens or something… aren’t they supposed to be cops at this point? Anyway, Rito Revolto shows up and threatens the kids, but our two teens can’t morph in front of kids. It’s a fairly basic story with some surprisingly mediocre artwork. The humans look bad and the monsters are drawn in a somewhat cartoonish fashion. Not one of Dikto’s better works, but the story itself isn’t too bad, as it’s more of a Bulk & Skull sidestory than anything involving the Rangers.

PPV Predictions – TNA Genesis 2011

Okay, so it’s been a while since I did one of these PPV Prediction things and since there’s a TNA PPV tonight, I’d figure that I throw my two-cents in. I have to admit that I haven’t really been following Impact all that, although I did see a couple shows and checked the recaps, so the picks are based on speculation and personal thought.

So here we go…

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VIDEO COMMENTARY #04 – NC17Productions' Wolverine Review

(2013 Update: Replaced the two-part commentary video with its Extended Edition.)

A video commentary of a review for Wolverine (NES) by NC17Productions. Some followers of this blog might remember I did a written commentary for this review many moons ago and gave up on the video afterwards. I sort of calmed down here and am not as vocal as I was in that written piece.