An Honest To God Reaction To Russo Nitro

So I got to bare witness to Vince Russo’s bold new vision for WCW… and it struck me as oddly familiar.

For those who don’t know, Vince Russo was the former head writer of WWF television. He also wrote some stuff in the WWF Magazines and his articles had the odd habit of GOING BONKO WONKO WITH THE CAPS whenever he FELT LIKE IT!

COME on, BRO!

Anyway, news broke that Vince Russo left WWF and decided to make the jump to WCW. When I first heard this, I already had an idea on what to expect, which was basically to turn WCW into a pale imitation of the WWF Attitude. Now let’s be fair. If you’re going to rip off Attitude, who better than the man who helped to create Attitude?

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a stalwart WWF fan and could care less about Wheel Chair Wrestling with its old guys as main event guys. That has been the big divide between the two companies. WWF had guys like Austin, Rock, HHH, and others banging out hot main events while WCW continues to shove old man Hogan and pals into the World title picture whether we’d want it or not. So a guy like Russo going into WCW, promising to focus on the younger stock is something I was looking forward to. Finally, less old guys and more focus on younger guys… finally, someone like Benoit will get a chance to shine.

Both Russo and the other guy started earlier this month. I sampled one of their shows and a lot of it is stuff that I’ve seen before when it was WWF, but with less known stars and… honestly, I think this shit is even worse than before.

The Phantom Menace… A Misfire?

You know… I’ve only been on the Internet for a little bit. I only get to go on for about half an hour because I don’t want to hold up the phone lines because going online makes lots of weird noises and results in people not able to reach you while you’re online. So I’m going about here and there, looking up stuff… and then I find a page somewhere (2024 Update: Link no longer valid) that talks about how the Phantom Menace is one of the worst things to happen to Star Wars.

I’m reading this page and I’m like “Really? Phantom Menace is bad? I thought it was a good movie. Did I miss something?”

I remember the first time I saw it in theatres with my older brother and we both thought the movie was fine. Seeing the Jedi in action was a bit of a treat, that Darth Maul dude was a wicked fighter, that podrace was a lot of fun, that Padme girl was pretty cute and a nice contrast from the queen with her fancy outfits and monotone voice, that Jar Jar is… well, okay, he was kind of annoying. And Kid Vader is kind of bad, but that’s fine because every kid actor is bad before they eventually get good.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I actually liked the Phantom Menace… or at least, I remember liking the movie. The music was pretty epic; John Williams once again gives Star Wars another great score. And the movie – largely – is still fresh in my mind. That usually happens after I’ve watched a good movie or at least, one that I enjoyed a hell of a lot.

Maybe I’ll change my tune when the home video version is eventually released… but I never realized that you’re supposed to hate this thing. Oh well… maybe one of these days, I’ll get around to doing that. Right now, I’ve got other things to hate at the moment and a new Star Wars movie isn’t one of them.

Welcome To My New Place Online

Hello… and welcome to my new website.

I’m new to this web making thing and I’d like to share some thoughts to anyone who wants to read them. I talk about whatever piques my interest – whether it’d be video games, comics, wrestling, movies, or anything else. Sometimes, I’ll put little stories that I wrote. And I even have a couple games here and there.

So thanks for visiting the site and I hope to see you again.