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Post by Quazimoto on Apr 3, 2015 4:38:28 GMT -5
I've got to say... Hideo Itami is really hitting his stride in NXT. Was really shaky when he first arrived... Of course, we may have been spoiled with Balor and Owens, who both showed up main event ready ...but it's nice to see him adapting to the new surroundings better. Might take him a while longer than the other two, but Itami's a star in the making.
Oh, and Tyler Breeze is awesome. Does m heart good to see someone who knows their gimmick so totally well.
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Post by Quazimoto on Apr 3, 2015 4:34:27 GMT -5
I really liked COACH as a show. However, I can't say that I'm a big fan of all these re-launches and remakes of old shows being done (apparently they're doing a re-launch of FULL HOUSE now too). I mean, sure, sometimes it's cool to catch up with your favorite characters and see them in all new adventures and such. But ultimately, there hasn't been one that's been able to recapture the same magic as the original series. I'll watch the new COACH and I'll hope it's worthy of the original series (really wish they'd get the rest of that on DVD soon), but a part of me kind of wishes they would just let things be as they are.
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Post by Quazimoto on Apr 1, 2015 3:48:00 GMT -5
1)Eddie Guerrero (actually kinda sad to eliminate Kane so early - I've always thought he's highly underrated as a performer)
2)Mr Perfect (Never saw more than a high spot artist in Hardy while Perfect was phenomenal)
3)Stone Cold Steve Austin (Sorry AJ, you might be King of the indies, but Austin ruled the world for a while)
4)Rob Van Dam (actually a tough call for me - Cena can put on a helluva match, but RVD is a slightly more versatile performer)
5)Undertaker (mad respect to Nash for his contributions to the business, but this was a really easy choice in my mind)
6)HHH (This was hella tough, but it came down to the fact that I could never believe Steamboat as a heel)
7)Kurt Angle (again. so tough, but Angle was so good right from the start, so he gets the nod)
8)Macho Man Randy Savage (GAH!!! How the hell do I choose between Savage and HBK!?! - Can we do a tie? If not, I've got to got with Savage for the simple fact that anytime he was performing, I was interested, whereas HBK had some kinda down years before finding his stride)
9)Rowdy Roddy Piper (Really easy for me. Hulk Hogan might get the credit, but Roddy Piper was the guy who made WrestleMania. Fans didn't come to see Hogan. The came to see Hogan beat-up Piper).
10)Ric Flair (Owen was never going to achieve better than an upper mid-card role IMO. Great wrestler, but Flair was just better).
11)Edge (Jeeze! Another amazingly tough choice. CM Punk is one of my all-time favorites, but he walked away (for good reason IMO, but still) and I have no doubt that Edge would still be there week in and week out if he hadn't gotten hurt and been forced to retire, so he gets the nod)
12)Chris Jericho (really easy choice for me. Brock is a guilty pleasure, but he's not even close to be half the wrestler that Jericho is)
13)DDP (Probably gonna get hated on for this, but I don't get what people see in the Rock. He's a great stick-man and has some good facial expressions, but he's an average wrestler at best.)
14)Ravishing Rick Rude (Gutted to have to ax Sting in the first round, but I truly think Rick Rude was one of the most underrated performers of all time. Should have been World Champion a few times over, but was always just sort of in the wrong place at the wrong time)
15)Bret Hitman Hart (sorry Bryan. You're probably the best there is right now, but IMO, Bret Hart truly is the best there ever will be)
16)Mick Foley/Cactus Jack/Mankind (If Hall could have stayed sober, this might have been a closer match. Or maybe not. Mick Foley never fails to entertain me whenever he's around)
Gotta say, this was really tough. Kinda wish we could have gone with 64 for the first round so guys like Bruno Sammartino, Jake Roberts, Ted Diabiase, Barry Windham, and Vader could at least get a mention.
And tag teams... Gotta do a tag team tourney when this is done, right?
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Post by Quazimoto on Apr 1, 2015 3:18:42 GMT -5
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Halloween (was surprisingly hard to choose between this and Aliens)
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 28, 2015 19:50:40 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan, Booker T, Ricky Steamboat. Easy choices for me.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 25, 2015 3:21:12 GMT -5
It's like the WWE has become too afraid to let anybody get the upper hand on their opponent going into Wrestlemania now. Usually it's just one feud, but apart from Cena vs Rusev, virtually every other important Match the two haven't laid a finger on each other. I can't believe they've had 2 whole months since Roman Reigns won the Rumble and left it until the last Raw before Wrestlemania to even have them in the same ring together. I just cannot buy into Reigns beating Lesnar. I don't understand why he would have what it takes to do it. It makes more sense for an ultimate underdog to do so, but they are billing him almost as parallel as Lesnar himself. He literally comes across as the WWE's puppet right now, doing everything they ask, the way they say it. He just seems to add nothing himself, he's like their personal actor. It's a shame that there was no physical interaction between the two, but I guess that's just the WWE being scared of one guy looking stronger than the other. The lack of trust put into Roman Reigns by only giving him 1.5 minutes of air time on the last Raw before he Main Events Wrestlemania just about sums it up.
I've been trying to put into words why I dislike Roman Reigns' WrestleMania push so much, but this kind of sums it up. I've been watching wrestling in some form or another pretty much every day for more than thirty years. I've seen a lot of guys come and go from the main event scene in that time. However, I don't honestly recall ever seeing any one of them appear to be so forced and so clearly not at that level as Roman Reigns does now. Every time he goes out there, he seems (as you say) like little more than a puppet. He has no presence. No IT factor to him. It's so painfully obvious to so many of the fans that Roman Reigns does not belong in the main event of WrestleMania. He's not ready. Not yet at least.
That said, I kind of feel bad for the guy. He didn't choose to be put in that position. He's just trying to make the best he can out of an opportunity. So far he's failing IMO, but he was pretty well doomed to failure I think. I don't hate the guy any and I really hope this whole situation doesn't destroy his career. Pushing Sheamus too hard and too soon set his career back years and I fear there could be a worse fate for Roman Reigns if they don't dial back on him a bit. Sadly, it might already be too late to do that.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 25, 2015 3:07:34 GMT -5
So? I'm sure WWE will love the slight buzz that comes from that for a few days, but it doesn't help the product at all. Will anyone who wasn't already planning on watching WrestleMania now do so via a new network subscription or buying the PPV solely because they heard Brock Lesnar talking on ESPN about how he resigned with WWE? History says that it won't make a difference as Brock Lesnar hasn't made a big enough impact on network or PPV buys to justify the massive amount of money they pay him and level they put him at on the card.
I'm not trying to sound like I'm hating on the guy any. In all honesty, I don't care for the fact that he's a part-time champion and in the main event of all the major shows while other people who work ten times as hard and twenty times as often don't get that same opportunity, but at least he's honest about his intentions, never claiming to be there for the love of the business and never promising that he'd be around all the time. He's said all along it's only really about the money. I'm just disappointed in WWE. So many times you hear how WWE brass is getting their undies in a bundle about not having many legitimate main event stars and how the roster is so thin, yet they don't really allow anyone new into the main event scene and when they do it's only because John Cena or Brock Lesnar weren't around. Well, either that or the guy they pick to be the new it guy is so completely and obviously not ready for that position.
Bottom line is that I don't see how re-signing Brock Lesnar (presumably to a very similar or even more lucrative deal than he had before) helps your company grow. He hasn't proven to be a big enough draw to warrant that kind of treatment. Of course, who really knows what the deal is at this point... All he really said was that it was too good to pass up. Maybe he'll be around more. Maybe he'll have some different feuds and storylines that will actually draw interest and bring in more viewers and paying network subscribers. That would be wonderful for WWE and wonderful for WWE fans. But if the Brock Lesnar we get for the next few years is the same one we got the past few years, then I think WWE made a really big mistake. They're kind of gambling a lot on Lesnar. I hope it pays off, but I'm not very optimistic about it.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 25, 2015 2:45:34 GMT -5
I'm actually much more in favor of a limited return than a full season or more. Something to give a nice little cap to the series as a whole. It doesn't need to return full-time. The X-Files is a really stellar show as it is and our entertainment industry really needs to learn that not everything needs to be rehashed and rebooted a billion times. That said, it's hard not to be excited to anything new X-Files related as it is one of my all time favorite TV shows.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 25, 2015 2:30:02 GMT -5
Really WWE? Really? So, you have a roster full of guys who bust their ass night in and night out, yet, instead of giving them a little raise or letting them have a chance at the main event scene, you drive a ANOTHER truckload of money up to the house of a guy who has done NOTHING to help your product and can only be bothered to show up a dozen times a year, most of which he just stands there looking like a puffed up ten year old while Paul Heyman does his best to make him at least a little interesting.
On the bright side, this just makes a Roman Reigns win less likely and I think a Seth Rollins cash in more likely at WrestleMania.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 24, 2015 3:16:44 GMT -5
Got my first gray hair at 16. Started to noticeably recede/thin at 18. I'd always had long hair... Kept it about half way down my back for years. When I turned 21, it was really clear that I was going to go bald a lot sooner than most folks, so I decided not to even bother fighting it and shaved it all off. Took some getting used to, but I honestly wish I'd had done it a lot sooner. Would have saved a ton of money not buying shampoo, hairs ties, hair spray, brushes, and combs.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 23, 2015 20:41:45 GMT -5
Can't believe no one's said All-Stars Jake "The Snake" Roberts yet. That was my favorite figure and really kinda hurt when I had to sell it.
SDCC Undertaker would be a really close second though.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 23, 2015 20:36:20 GMT -5
I used to collect records, but just plum ran out of room for them. IMO, you just can't get the same sound on CD. There's something about the softness and smooth tones on vinyl. Like it makes the music sort of come alive. One day, when I have more room and more money, I'll definitely start collecting again.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 23, 2015 20:31:49 GMT -5
The Amityville Horror (1979)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Jeepers Creepers
The Conjuring
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 23, 2015 2:41:37 GMT -5
I know I watched before then, but the earliest, most vivid memory of my life is actually in 1990, watching a Saturday Night's Main Event (or was it The Main Event - don't know for sure) with WWF Champion The Ultimate Warrior defending against "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase. I'm told I watched everything I could obsessively before them, even wearing out some VHS tapes that I had at the time, but that's the first thing I really remember.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 23, 2015 2:21:03 GMT -5
Started pretty much as soon as I was born in 1983. Don't really remember anything as far as being an active fan before 1990, but my parents say I was glued to the TV watching anything wrestling, the Muppets, or Fraggle Rock. Never stopped with any of those three. I will say though, that I do tend not to enjoy every part of wrestling these days, like I had in the past. I still find a lot more good than bad most of the time and have really been enjoying the heck out of Ring Of Honor lately, but there's a good bit of WWE (mostly the main event scene) for the past few years that makes me scratch my head and and get an itchy fast forward finger on the DVR remote.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 21, 2015 16:45:24 GMT -5
Never was much for the Hitman games myself, but did find Ratchet & Clank was about the same difficulty on PS3 vs the PS2 games. Of course, I kinda suck at pretty much everything, video games included, so... LOL.
Seems that a great deal of platform type games these days are a good bit easier than the ones made years ago in the SNES and Genesis era. Probably because video games, in general, are far more popular today than they were then, so game creators have to cater to a wider audience and catering to a wider audience means you can't make a game super hard because that's likely to turn off a large number of gamers who won't buy the next game in the series if they found the last one to be way to hard to complete.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 21, 2015 16:35:52 GMT -5
GROUP A
Evil Dead (1981)
GROUP B
Ringu (The Ring)
GROUP C
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
GROUP D
Trick R Treat
GROUP E
Aliens
GROUP F
Jeepers Creepers
GROUP G
The Thing (1982)
GROUP H
The Shining (1980)
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 21, 2015 7:57:44 GMT -5
The Little Big Planet & Ratchet And Clank series are probably tops. Also can't really go wrong with any of the LEGO games. And if you haven't already played them on PS2, check out the HD collections for Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 18, 2015 3:16:24 GMT -5
Been shaving my head for jus about ten years now and use plain ole Dove bar soap. Works great.
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Post by Quazimoto on Mar 14, 2015 22:38:57 GMT -5
GROUP A
Zombieland Dawn of the Dead (1978)
GROUP B
Ringu (The Ring) The Amityville Horror (1979)
GROUP C
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
GROUP D
30 Days of Night Trick R Treat
GROUP E
Alien Red Dragon
GROUP F
The Mist Tremors
GROUP G
Halloween (1978) The Thing (1982)
GROUP H
Night of the Living Dead (1968) The Shining (1980)
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