Category: Musings

The TNA DVD BOARD GAME?!! WHAT THE FUCK?!!!

(2024 Update: I’d link you to the page, but said link no longer works.)

Here’s some of the awesome praise that this game is getting on ShopTNA.com

Chris from the United Kingdom declares:

I LOVE this game! You can play out all your wrestling dreams that TNA would never bother with in real life! You can hire a bunch of old, broken down WWE rejects if you want! Then, you can completely bury all your young, promising talent in favour of using these guys 15 years past their prime who can’t wrestle anymore! You can turn everyone heel for no reason and make your faces look incompetent and pathetic! You can even reform the nWo and recreate the death of WCW, in a board game! Watch as your PPV buyrates hit rock bottom and your pointless swerves and horrible booking lead you to slowly spiral out of business, taking with you a whole bunch of really talented wrestlers. I would love it if TNA did all of these things, but sadly, I don’t think they would do any of them… 😦

Joe from England comments:

Not content to merely market their poorly booked “wrestling” and completely ludicrous storylines. The fine former coma patients behind TNA are now offering a completely moronic board game, complete with DVD. Relive all those exciting moments like the time Abyss tried to brutally murder a man with a nail covered bat, without being arrested! Or the time Surge valiantly ran into the ring to, get his ass kicked. Or the shocking moment where Abyss began kidnapping paying audience members. This game will make all your TNA dreams come true, with a proper fire source.

And a couple others apparently wish Noah “Spoony One” Antwiler would get his hands on the game and make a review out of it… or something. Spoony reviewing a TNA board game and being completely driven insane? Yeah, I’d watch that.

It’s a good thing WWE doesn’t have a DVD Board game… oh wait. They do.

Jeff Hardy’s the new DIVAS champion now?

From a taping of TNA Impact comes Jeff Hardy’s new World title… shortly after the one one was thrown in the trash. I don’t know if this is suppose to cause an emotional reaction, because it’s not working… especially since it looks more like a DIVAS championship than a world title. If the title is supposed to be menacing, then it failed miserably… especially with the pinkish color scheme.

Hey, Uncle Eric. Pot Called To Tell The Kettle It's Black

Eric Bischoff was recently asked on his Facebook what he thought of WWE’s recent Nexus angle. Here’s his short and simple reply:

Boring as hell.

Yes, Eric. Nexus is getting rather stale, but that’s okay, because I’ll just tune into TNA and watch you rehash the same shit you did in WCW shortly before that company went out of business… because THAT’S funny.

Bite me, Uncle Eric.

By the way, I lied about tuning in to TNA. I’m not that desperate for entertainment… unless it’s Xplosion.

Stand Up For WWE? No, Thanks. I’ll Stay Seated

No RAW rant this week… I did catch it, but there’s nothing really notable to bring up and truth be told, it wasn’t anything really great. No, I just want to touch on the Stand Up For WWE campaign that WWE is throwing around – essentially a public relations tool to encourage WWE fans and sheep to defend the company by stating all the positive that the company has done. It’s essentially something that was thought up after WWE has been getting blasted by media or political rivals to Linda McMahon’s Senate run.

The campaign is a gigantic waste of time and money. And I’m not talking about Linda’s Senate run.

I understand the intention. I might even applaud it, but any campaign that WWE attempts in order to bolster their image from what is perceived by the media is going to simply add more fuel to the fire. This Stand Up For WWE campaign is already being attacked by Democrats because it’s seems almost similar to Linda McMahon’s own campaign. And when you consider that McMahon is a former WWE CEO, who happens to be running for the Senate seat, it’s hard to believe that these two aren’t the least bit related. No matter what WWE does to eliminate the negative stigma and beliefs that plague it like the elephant in the corner, it will never truly go away.

But if they go forward with this, best of luck to them. I just hope it doesn’t result in their main product’s quality deteriorating further down.

For anyone who cares… YOUR Bound For Glory 2010 Notes

Let’s just get this out of the way… THEY are Abyss, Hulk Hogan (fresh out of back surgery and moving slower than he usually does… which was SLOW ENOUGH), Eric Bischoff, Jeff Hardy, Jeff Jarrett, and Abyss.

Anyone surprised by this turn of events – and you better pay close attention –

IS A FUCKING MORON!

In other news, Jeff Hardy is YOUR TNA World champion… yes, the guy with the criminal charges and court dates is the new champion.

GENIUS!!!

Jeff Jarrett walks out on Samoa Joe, causing him to lose the match. What a great way to foreshadow Double J being part of THEY.

PURE FUCKING GENIUS!!!!!!

Oh, you know what? Don’t get me wrong. There was some good stuff here… that I didn’t watch. But a buddy of mine did and from what I heard, the tag-team match was a solid opener, the main event was actually pretty good before the predictable ending, nice promo from Team 3D announcing their retirement and wanting one last title match before going out. So I guess the show is worth checking out when it comes out on DVD. But the swerve didn’t really surprise me all that much… at all.

So yeah… TNA? Good show (allegedly) – if only this kind of effort was put on your TV show to sell people on your PPVs, especially when the highlight of your go-home show was a brawl between two old guys – but you need to stop pulling swerves that blind men can see. It’s not a good sign.

(2024 Update: There was an earlier version of this post that implied that I had watched the show, but I actually didn’t. Most of my info was from third-hand accounts. Fortunately, I found an updated write-up that corrected this erroneous presumption. My apologies. I’ll watch the show as punishment for this error of perception… although no such apologies will be made if I end up hating the show, which I suspect I will…)

Not feeling too Legendary, aren't we?

From pwpix.net:

Reviews are starting to come out for WWE’s new Legendary movie starring John Cena and things aren’t looking good. Currently on the Rotten Tomatoes website, the movie has a 17% rating with 4 “Fresh” reviews and 19 “Rotten” reviews. Below are some quotes on the movie from top critics:


* Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times: “It’s a feel-good Kleenex™ dispenser of a movie, and there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it’s routine Hallmark Hall of Afterschool Special material.”


* Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: “Legendary is so intent on paying heartfelt tribute to dogged young athletes that it neglects basic story needs.”


* Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: “A well-meaning dud that’ll put you out faster than a sleeper hold.”


* Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: “The script, by actor turned writer John Posey, has structural problems and motivational issues in between the cliches. And Cena, a few movies into his career, is still all presence and no acting.”


* Rex Reed, New York Observer: “Talk about movies that cannot possibly live up to their titles.”

You know what? I’d probably say something witty or snarky, but honestly, I can’t really use the “Cena portrays an ex-cop off to save his girlfriend from terrorists again” gag because Legendary is actually a drama of sorts. And quite honestly, the movie doesn’t look too bad, so I’ll probably wait until the movie’s release on DVD before I lay judgment… but yeah, the critical reaction makes this feel less Legendary than the film implies.

On the other hand, the Wikipedia entry for Legendary implies that “previews suggest a generous response, with praise given to the serious tone of the film compared to many of WWE Studios’ other efforts, and for John Cena’s improved performance over his earlier roles in The Marine and 12 Rounds. Some criticism has been directed towards inaccuracies in the college wrestling system.”

So I can’t really comment much more than that. But I do have to praise WWE Studios for shifting away from making mindless action movies and diversifying themselves with these types of dramas and comedies. Even if the movies end up being like crap, at least it shows that they’re willing to venture into more heavy material. For that alone, I applaud them.

I just hope that they actually come out with a decent picture. Maybe Legendary might be one of them despite the critical response.

New Power Rangers OFFICIAL Site looks pretty cool.

Don’t know when it went up, but the new official Power Rangers site looks pretty spiffy. Simple, basic, but incredibly functional and loads pretty quickly with little to no problem. Most of the info is a carryover from the old Disney layout, and they brought back the Saban-branded logos, but other than that, no real complaints.

Check the site out here.

Pointless Preview, Bores….

I’m not going to start a diatribe on Chris Bores; pretty much everyone has a set opinion on him. So I’ll cut to the chase.

GotGame recently redid their website (a much needed redo, in my opinion, as the previous design was terrible) and of course, Bores has produced an Irate Gamer Neo episode on God of War III. The whole vid lasts roughly a minute and a half and doesn’t really say much as to merit a look.

On his Youtube channel, Bores posted a “preview” video for that new episode, which lasts about 45 seconds… that’s right. A 0:45 preview video for a 1:45 video review… that’s pretty sad, man.