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Post by Happy Pizza on Jan 3, 2015 23:14:54 GMT -5
No. Two compleyely different storytelling mediums. I don't get why people get so hung up on this with animation. You don't see anybody clamoring for an anime version of Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy, but we always want live action adaptations of animated material. Why? There are a lot of elements and storytelling devices common to animation that just don't exist or won't translate to live action. I'm a huge Dragon Ball fan, but the subject matter just doesn't naturally lend itself to a live action adaptation.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Jan 1, 2015 16:58:34 GMT -5
Their lazy writing recently leaves some sizable logic holes to deal with. Now, following in Seth Rollins' footsteps, anybody who wants a title shot (or anything for that matter) should just run up on Hunter or Steph backstage and threaten them at knifepoint instead of wrestling to earn it. And if you aren't happy about the way something happened, rather than settling it in the ring, just "sue" the company like Edge and Christian. Since they've opened this can of worms and brought the legal system into play, then at the very least Rollins has to be suspended, no? He threatened, then attempted, to kill a man on live television. Just dumb storytelling and totally unnecessary to begin with. Every offense ever committed during a WWE storyline has ultimately been paid for or avenged via a wrestling match. They have their own built-in system of justice.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Dec 29, 2014 22:21:20 GMT -5
So his point is what, exactly? Popular opinions and tastes change with time? Nothing stays in style forever? That the current writing staff would stifle his creativity and prevent him from succeeding? Let's be honest, even if he were allowed to do all the same things, would today's smark audience even like him?
I don't think anybody would get the same reaction in today's environment. Hogan would get booed for always going over, Ricky Steamboat would get run out of the arena with "What?" and "boring" chants, and people would root for heels just to be contrarians and try to get themselves over.
You can even go the other way with the argument if you want to. For example, had he been around in the 1980s, Ryback would be a ten-time world champion.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Dec 17, 2014 17:39:35 GMT -5
They're all the same. That's the joke. The commentators even laughed about it, so it seems pretty obvious they expected the fans to understand what was going on.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Dec 16, 2014 17:45:54 GMT -5
Most likely not 275, but they're not made of pillows either. I can remember CM Punk reeeaallly struggling to get them over his head during a match. Punk isn't a very strong guy and the steps are really wide. Yes, that's what I said. While they are most likely not as heavy as WWE would have you believe, they are, in fact, heavy. Most WWE guys are insanely strong so you may not notice it, but every now and again you will be reminded that it takes a bit of effort to lift them if you don't have the power of somebody like Cena or Mark Henry.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Dec 15, 2014 22:49:32 GMT -5
Most likely not 275, but they're not made of pillows either. I can remember CM Punk reeeaallly struggling to get them over his head during a match.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Dec 6, 2014 8:38:14 GMT -5
It never ceases to amaze me that a guy who spent almost his entire career under a mask and speaking broken Spanish can have that much charisma. He's just naturally an insanely likeable dude and you want to see him succeed. He's always had that charisma. Mask or no mask. Right, that's my point. He was still able to connect with the crowd while his face was covered and he was cutting intentionally bad promos. Something about him makes him inexplicably easy to root for. That's just a God-given talent.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Dec 6, 2014 2:09:32 GMT -5
It never ceases to amaze me that a guy who spent almost his entire career under a mask and speaking broken Spanish can have that much charisma. He's just naturally an insanely likeable dude and you want to see him succeed.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Nov 30, 2014 20:08:18 GMT -5
As far as he is capable of going. They're gonna try to set him up as best they can, and we'll see how it goes from there. I can't remember the last time they protected somebody to this degree. Even when Rock came out to beat him up, he only tossed him out of the ring. Didn't hit any signature moves on Rusev. It's like a reverse Daniel Bryan scenario, where they're pushing him with everything they got, but I have no idea how far he can go with it. I like the guy though, so I'm rooting for him.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Nov 23, 2014 16:20:13 GMT -5
Is there a coach in sports less clutch than Mike Smith? That game gave me flashbacks to Andy Reid in the Superbowl. Yikes.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Nov 17, 2014 9:50:42 GMT -5
We were assigned to sit next to each other in third grade, and I found out he liked wrestling too. We went to Wrestlemania together fifteen years later.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Nov 13, 2014 4:30:19 GMT -5
This is the buggiest game I've ever played. Achievements won't unlock, it crashes all the time, and I have to jump through hoops just to join a party with a friend, even though it'll most likely boot me out right after one match. Some of the options are missing and the menus can be confusing, too. How can a game that came out ten years ago be more user-friendly than its own remake? I've been waiting for this game forever and for it to be almost broken entirely feels really bad.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Nov 9, 2014 7:09:35 GMT -5
There should always be room on the roster for guys like Shelton Benjamin. Not saying he should he pushed over Cena, but if we're going to keep getting matches with the same four guys on the midcard just shuffled around in different matchups with little-to-no build and virtually no reason to care about the outcome, why not at least have it with guys who are entertaining in the ring? You gotta fill that time somehow, and I'd take a Shelton match with no stakes over another generic Miz feud.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Oct 27, 2014 15:33:33 GMT -5
I call this "Big Match TNA syndrome". I first noticed TNA doing it a few years ago in matches with Joe and AJ. They have people eat finishers left and right and kick out, which can be a cool thing if utilized correctly, but they'll botch it and have somebody kick out of a finisher four times just to make the match seem special. And now WWE does it too, most egregiously in the Cena/Rock matches.
If you're only ten minutes into a big match and Cena has already taken the rope DDT, a few backbreakers, the powerslam, and kicked out of two RKOs, what can Randy possibly do to win?
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Post by Happy Pizza on Oct 21, 2014 10:24:40 GMT -5
Kinda sad yet expected that Shawn "didn't remember" so many things from that period in his life. To be honest I expected them to completely gloss over his drug abuse and bad attitude, so I was kinda surprised Triple H mentioned it at all.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Oct 12, 2014 2:58:15 GMT -5
Honestly what gets me more than nightmares these days are the good dreams. Like the ones that are too good to be true. The other day I had a dream about spending a day with a girl I never had the stones to ask out back in the day. Nothing dirty or even very exciting, literally just an average day sitting around the house and doing stuff I normally do. Except I was acting as if this girl was a normal part of my life and had been forever. It was hyper-real and at no point did I consider it might have been a dream. When I woke up I suddenly felt hollow and alone. Real bad man.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Oct 6, 2014 7:55:42 GMT -5
My best friend and I will be front row camera-side, right by the steps. We'll have a big Russian Federation flag and probably be acting like total idiots.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Oct 2, 2014 21:29:50 GMT -5
I don't consider it pandering when his gimmick is that of a cult leader. The fans don't need to boo him because he brainwashes your fans into booing you instead. Psychological warfare could easily be considered a form of cheating, and it plays right into the modern wrestling fan. It's hard to have easily defined good guys and bad guys when half the audience will boo the faces just because it's the cool thing to do.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Sept 30, 2014 20:55:50 GMT -5
"What the ![](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/wfcensored.gif) , WWF? Super Austin wins again??? Are you serious? When are they ever gonna push the young guys like Triple H?? I swear I'm never watching again. ![](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/wfcensored.gif) this company."
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Post by Happy Pizza on Sept 28, 2014 10:31:09 GMT -5
You clearly didn't watch Smackdown or NOC then and see the guy gassed halfway through the match. He may not be as fat as Rikishi but the guy isnt exactly in shape either. I don't watch Smackdown because it's just a replay of already-bloated Raw, but I have seen all his PPV matches to date. He didn't seem too blown up to me in the last one. Maybe a little, but that was probably the longest match of his career, and most likely the first time with an opponent bigger and stronger than himself. He's still green and to be honest his style probably only works if he has a size advantage and can slow down the pace. Generally speaking, though, athletes that large don't typically possess great cardiovascular endurance. As a UFC fighter, Lesnar was usually gassed after five minutes, and he trained months for those fights. If anything, I would hope that WWE writes that in as a weakness for if and when he ultimately loses. You can't match his physicality, so you have to use the timeless strategy of wearing him out in a war of attrition.
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