Category: Musings

New Wonder Woman… Meh…

Apparently, this is a real thing. A promotional image of Gal Gadot decked out in what is supposed to be a new Wonder Woman costume in that upcoming Batman movie also featuring Superman, in which she seems to play a rather prominent role in the war against primary colors.

Is it wrong for me to say that I’ve seen women and costumes featured in superheroine fetish films and porn parodies that pull off the Wonder Woman look better than what I’m seeing here? Poor girl looks like she might fall apart picking up a pebble or something.

And people wonder why we never got a live-action Wonder Woman movie.

1998… The Year I Became A Wrestling Fan

Once upon a time, the WWF Rulebook was akin to a bottle of Jack Daniels… there was no rulebook. Shit happened and you just didn’t question it. When you watch this stuff transpire on television, there was no way in hell you could claim that this was a real sport. And when they try to inject “reality” into the mix with backstage politics and things of that nature, the whole thing came off as hokey and unbelievable.

At the same time, however, the ride it offered was a fun one and it had compelling characters and storytelling that made you come back for more, just to see where things would go. Whether it was Austin vs. McMahon on the WWF side of things, or watching Bill Goldberg mow down challenger after challenger to see who would be the first to break the streak, there were enough hooks to keep your interest and make you forgive the horrid stuff that came along for the ride.

1998 was the year I started watching as much wrestling as I could muster and I simply couldn’t get enough of the stuff. And then 2000 came along and we got actual wrestling matches. And they were good! Turns out I not only enjoyed the crazy hijinx, but I also enjoyed the wrestling matches, especially when they featured really talented badasses in the ring.

Real sports didn’t do it for me. The only appeal to hockey or baseball or things like that would be to watch them live in the arena and soak in the experience of sitting in the crowd, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells, and just enjoy the moment. Beyond that, however, it wasn’t anything special. It was a bunch of players in same looking uniforms going through the motions to win a game. Nothing to pique my interest until the final moments of the season when you had a few teams left over to win the championship.

When I thought wrestling was real, I didn’t follow it. But when I got what it was all about, I was able to get into it more. It was the kind of thing that I enjoyed for whatever reason that I can’t explain. I still watch wrestling to this day; even if it’s just the WWE stuff when it’s at its weakest. But it’s nowhere as high a preference as it was decades ago. Only have a couple favorites that I enjoyed watching, but with one fucked off to better things and one on the verge of an extended hiatus due to injury, I find myself struggling to find something that’s worth my while.

Who knows? Maybe something amazing will happen that will re-ignite my love for wrestling, again.

Stranger things have happened.

Good Lord, That Was Worthless…

John Cena overcame the odds, making his match with Brock Lesnar at Summerslam a title affair. Try and act surprised when that gets announced tomorrow.

Miz is IC champion, even though there’s no reason for him to exist anymore. Seriously, is there any appeal to the guy that makes WWE think we should care about him even though his best days have long since evaporated.
Rollins vs Ambrose didn’t happen because this was a “not special enough” special event… although to be fair, it just means a potentially bigger platform for them to feud on.
AJ retains the Divas title in a match so embarrassingly awful that it makes Sharmell vs. Jenna Morasca seem like Flair vs Steamboat in comparison.
Has any considered that the reason the WWE Network isn’t doing so hot (among other reasons I wouldn’t mind touching on in the future) is because nobody gives a rat’s ass about the current product? And as such, it’s not much of an incentive to sign up for?
Why does this show exist again?

AVGN Movie Trailer #2 is out…

The picture pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?

I’m not gonna link it. It’s on YouTube somewhere. I’m sure you’ll find it. You’ll probably like it… which means you probably won’t like what I’m writing here.

You know… my expectations weren’t exactly high when the movie was announced, especially when it would revolve around E.T. for Atari 2600 and the whole landfill thing (that was discovered and excavated in real life, by the way). And when the first trailer for this thing hit, my initial reaction was that it looked decent on a technical level, but I still wasn’t sold on the story being told… or the acting, for that matter… but I’ll reserve final judgment on the finished product.

But after watching this second trailer… how do I put this delicately as to not fray any weak-minded fans of that particular franchise?

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Just To Hammer My Previous Point…

This is the original teaser poster for the Angry Video Game Nerd movie, as featured on the Cinemassacre website. I’ll save you the trouble of clicking on the link to the older posting and just repost my thoughts here, since they’re pretty much the same now as they were back then…

“It’s a nice looking poster. Mostly monochrome, mostly dark, but I rather like it.

“Unfortunately, the poster also does a good job of misleading me into believing that this is going to be something of a dark horror comedy sort of film rather than the schlock that the teaser trailer has been showcasing. In fact, a dark horror comedy film starring the Nerd character has the potential to be the much more interesting film that could potentially give that franchise a worthwhile production. I know Rolfe could pull it off if he wanted to… but he won’t.

“And it’s a shame, because in my mind, that’s probably what he’s best at.”

And after watching some of Rolfe’s older stuff, I still find a Nerd movie done in the same fashion as those older films to be the more potentially interesting film than whatever the fuck that thing is he’s trying to pass off as a movie.

Okay, I’ll shut up about this now. Enjoy the teaser poster, folks.