Big F'n deal...
Vince's "big announcement"? That the "Taboo Tuesday" PPV was going to feature an interactive element. Too bad that as an internet fan, I've already known that for a month. And we know how well WWE does with interactive material. The Diva Search currently running is "interactive", but if you read the rules that they provided at the start of the contest, you would see that there's a clause that basically says that WWE reserves the right to change the contest at their whim.
Anywho, the first match that they announced is Bischoff vs. Eugene, with the stip to be voted on by the fans. Can you say trainwreck?
Raw is in progress as I write this. They just had a bizarre interview with the jobber that caused the possible "miscarriage". Now Kane is being interviewed and says that the baby has a 50/50 shot of making it. This storyline sucks. Period.
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Watched the Criterion Videodrome finally. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it concerns Max Renn(James Woods), a Toronto cable TV operator who specializes in running spicy material on his cable station(this is 1983, mind you) and is somewhat of a dicey operator. He discovers a program called "Videodrome" which is far and above anything that he's showing on his network. But when he tries to find it, what he finds is far, far worse.
Videodrome is an audacious and unusual piece of filmmaking by David Cronenberg, and Criterion has given it a nice 2-disc deluxe edition. There are two new documentaries about the effects, a vintage making of documentary, a collection of trailers (which includes possibly the worst trailer ever made for a motion picture), and an amusing 1982 interview with Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter which finds Cronenberg expounding on how hard it is to make his movies without getting an X. There are also two commentaries, one with James Woods and Deborah Harry(which I have not listened to yet), and one with Cronenberg and director of photography Mark Irwin. The Cronenberg commentary is very interesting, as he talks a lot about how not to get your movie made, and also about how he wasn't trying to be prophetic when making the movie. At the end of the commentary, he also makes an amusing comment about wanting to have that #1 box office, $200 million blockbuster. No offense, David, but you're not really trying. (Actually, I just finished reading Joe Bob Briggs' "Profoundly Disturbing", and in the chapter on Cronenberg's Crash, there's a list of some of the mainstream projects that Cronenberg turned down. Top Gun. Witness. Total Recall. Beverly Hills Cop. The Truman Show. Alien 4. Flashdance. Can you imagine Cronenberg's Flashdance? No, neither can i.)
Next on the list is the 4-disc extra-special edition of Dawn Of The Dead. I watched some of it, but there's more to be watched. Review forthcoming at some point.
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Evidently Lita just lost her "baby", as Kane was just heard shrieking from the hospital room. Did I mention this storyline sucks?
Oh, and apparently the Hurricane's a heel now. Weird.
More tomorrow.
Anywho, the first match that they announced is Bischoff vs. Eugene, with the stip to be voted on by the fans. Can you say trainwreck?
Raw is in progress as I write this. They just had a bizarre interview with the jobber that caused the possible "miscarriage". Now Kane is being interviewed and says that the baby has a 50/50 shot of making it. This storyline sucks. Period.
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Watched the Criterion Videodrome finally. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it concerns Max Renn(James Woods), a Toronto cable TV operator who specializes in running spicy material on his cable station(this is 1983, mind you) and is somewhat of a dicey operator. He discovers a program called "Videodrome" which is far and above anything that he's showing on his network. But when he tries to find it, what he finds is far, far worse.
Videodrome is an audacious and unusual piece of filmmaking by David Cronenberg, and Criterion has given it a nice 2-disc deluxe edition. There are two new documentaries about the effects, a vintage making of documentary, a collection of trailers (which includes possibly the worst trailer ever made for a motion picture), and an amusing 1982 interview with Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter which finds Cronenberg expounding on how hard it is to make his movies without getting an X. There are also two commentaries, one with James Woods and Deborah Harry(which I have not listened to yet), and one with Cronenberg and director of photography Mark Irwin. The Cronenberg commentary is very interesting, as he talks a lot about how not to get your movie made, and also about how he wasn't trying to be prophetic when making the movie. At the end of the commentary, he also makes an amusing comment about wanting to have that #1 box office, $200 million blockbuster. No offense, David, but you're not really trying. (Actually, I just finished reading Joe Bob Briggs' "Profoundly Disturbing", and in the chapter on Cronenberg's Crash, there's a list of some of the mainstream projects that Cronenberg turned down. Top Gun. Witness. Total Recall. Beverly Hills Cop. The Truman Show. Alien 4. Flashdance. Can you imagine Cronenberg's Flashdance? No, neither can i.)
Next on the list is the 4-disc extra-special edition of Dawn Of The Dead. I watched some of it, but there's more to be watched. Review forthcoming at some point.
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Evidently Lita just lost her "baby", as Kane was just heard shrieking from the hospital room. Did I mention this storyline sucks?
Oh, and apparently the Hurricane's a heel now. Weird.
More tomorrow.
posted by Jon M. at
9:31 PM
2 Comments:
Hey, I actually saw Raw!
It was very, very weird.
Now I wish I hadn't.
Muggs, there be an HBO replay of DLH/Nard this coming weekend, if you're interested.
Oh yeah, you know I'm gonna watch Bernard whup that ass.
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