Last film you watched?

[Soda Jerk]

20 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

Captain America Civil War - This was okay. I feel like it would have been better if I hadn't read the comics. There were so many avenues they should have went down - how the Sokovia Accords would essentially "unmask" them all, or how inhumane the raft was that certain heroes were sent to for not signing the accords. But no, it's all about bucky. There were some simply epic moments though. Cap grabbing the helicopter and the 3-way fight at the end were just fantastic.

Agreed. The story is a bit naff compared to the comic, I thought. Why did they omit The Punisher being a total shithouse? That would have been great on the big screen.

Visually, it's just stupid good though. Makes me wish I saw it at the cinema.

[Jaaakkkeee]

5 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

Agreed. The story is a bit naff compared to the comic, I thought. Why did they omit The Punisher being a total shithouse? That would have been great on the big screen.

Visually, it's just stupid good though. Makes me wish I saw it at the cinema.

Yeah exactly. Visually it's amazing. The fight scenes are choreographed perfectly. But the story let it down. I haven't read Infinity War so I should be able to enjoy the new one a lot more.

[Soda Jerk]

Just watched that doc on Jake The Snake. I'm sure Lemonade has mentioned it before.

It's difficult to watch at times. Just when you think Jake is a wreck, Razor Ramon rocks up in a wheel chair looking closer to death than Jake does. When they do the crowdfund for Jake's medical bills for his shoulder, and he realises how many people are rooting for him, man, I think had something in my eye. 

 

Spoiler alert... At the end, Jake looks about 10 years younger, and they lived happily ever after. Good watch. DDP is a good egg.

[ca_gere]

I might give that one a watch tonight - I assumed this was Beyond the Mat when folks talked about a JTSR documentary - didn't realize there was a new one. I watched the Andre the Giant HBO doc the other night. I pretty much knew his entire story but it was good seeing a bunch of footage I hadn't seen before.

[Lemonade]

Take the shape Jake was in in Beyond The Mat, add another 15 years of drinking and smoking crack and you get to the start of the new one. This one charts his rehabilitation, warts and all. It's rough. Yeah, pretty much what Soda Jerk said. 

[Lemonade]

I watched this the other day. Its on YouTube. Yikes. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_Wrestling

 

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However, Roberts suffered a relapse prior to the show and consumed a significant amount of alcohol before arriving. Prior to his match with Neidhart, Roberts had been scheduled to cut a promo in which he would taunt Neidhart. Due to his level of intoxication, Roberts' promo instead consisted of a slurred, incoherent rant consisting largely of wordplay based on the event's casino setting. One particular segment of the rant would go viral after it was posted on WrestleCrap:

You don't want to play cards with me because I'll cheat. Okay? I cheat. You wanna play 21? I've got 22. You want to play blackjack? I've got two of those, too! You wanna play...Aces and eights, baby? I got too many of those, too!"^[7]

After the interview, Roberts staggered to the ring with his trademark snake. However, upon reaching the ring, Roberts put the snake down and attempted to return backstage; he then reversed course, returned to ringside, and began greeting fans. Before entering the ring, Roberts grabbed a female fan and had her rub her hands on his bare chest. Later, Roberts removed the snake from its bag and simulated masturbation with it. The event's producers cut to wide-shots of the crowd during the incident, so that at-home viewers were unaware what was happening in the ring. Roberts eventually collapsed in the middle of the ring with the snake draped over his body; the prone Roberts then began to attempt to kiss the snake.

 

In an effort to salvage the match, promoter Bill Stone decided on the fly to combine the main events into one tag team event and sent Bundy to team with Neidhart and Yokozuna to team with Roberts. Stone then sent a member of the production crew, Michael Henry, to ringside to consult with the wrestlers. Bundy pinned Roberts by hitting him with a splash after Roberts had staggered and fallen around the ring several times, despite Roberts not being the legal man in the ring.[8] Yokozuna and Henry attempted to salvage the event and Roberts' reputation by trying to goad Roberts into attacking Henry, making his behavior appear scripted. Roberts was too inebriated to realize what was happening and remained oblivious to Yokozuna and Henry's attacks. Yokozuna then hit a Samoan drop on Henry to make the entire series of events appear scripted; while Yokozuna attacked Henry, Roberts began to disrobe in the middle of the ring and the producers cut the feed immediately thereafter.

[Lemonade]

^^^^Also Yokozuna's last match before he died I think. His weight was out of control at the time. Reportedly he was about 500lbs when he was in WWF and was tipping the scales at 700+ by this point. He was dead at age 34 a year later. I'm sure these two things are unconnected. So a 50 stone guy vs a drunk Jake Roberts. If that sounds like something you'd like to watch, then... 

 

 

[ca_gere]

5 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

Just watched that doc on Jake The Snake. I'm sure Lemonade has mentioned it before.

It's difficult to watch at times. Just when you think Jake is a wreck, Razor Ramon rocks up in a wheel chair looking closer to death than Jake does. When they do the crowdfund for Jake's medical bills for his shoulder, and he realises how many people are rooting for him, man, I think had something in my eye. 

 

Spoiler alert... At the end, Jake looks about 10 years younger, and they lived happily ever after. Good watch. DDP is a good egg.

Fuck sake that was good! Misty eyed through the whole thing.

Its cool to see all these guys later in life. Back in the day their stories just ended after they were off TV. Easy to forget how big a part of the average 80s/90s kid’s life wrestlers were. 

DDP = GBOL

[Soda Jerk]

I never really cared for DDP when I watched wrestling. He just seemed like one of those kind of forgettable mid-tier characters. I guess he was, to some extent, but I do have a lot of time for him now. The patience he has with Jake throughout is saintly. I didn't know about Hall and Nash being the ones behind DDP having a pop at NWO, for the sake of doing a favour for a mate, as WCW didn't seem to fully believe in him. That was cool, and how it all came full circle with Hall coming to DDP's house and getting cleaned up. YOU'RE CRYING! I'M NOT CRYING!

 

I'm sure Chris Jericho is a talking head on just about every documentary I watch, even non-wrestling ones. Guy pops up everywhere. I watched a low-budget doc on Youtube on the birth of Thrash Metal in California in the early 80's. Who pops up? Chris Jericho, with probably more screen time than anyone else. I quite like him, but come on man, let someone else have a go.

[Lemonade]

We should have a wrestling thread.

I donated £10 a few years ago to help Hacksaw Jim Duggan pay for shoulder surgery. 80s wrestlers are the boys. Shame so many of them are dead. Thanks steroids. 

[Soda Jerk]

There is one. The last post was in 2016.

I'm right back on it though. Hooked on NXT right now. I dig the indie promotion vibe it kind of gives off, small arenas, passionate crowds, but backed by Triple H's chequebook. Raw and Smackdown I find harder to keep up with properly. They're way longer than they used to be, and there's a ton of filler. I tend to just watch the highlights recaps on Youtube before they get taken down.

Is there any other docs you'd recommend on WWE Network? There's so much content, but quite a lot of it does sound like it'd be terrible. I finished Monday Night Wars. Really good, but a bit repetitive, seems like it wasn't put together to be watched one after the other, as they recap on the same things quite a lot. But what is there was pretty great. So much I didn't know about, like WCW spoiling taped RAW episodes. Proper dirty, that.

[Lemonade]

1 hour ago, Soda Jerk said:

There is one. The last post was in 2016.

I'm right back on it though. Hooked on NXT right now. I dig the indie promotion vibe it kind of gives off, small arenas, passionate crowds, but backed by Triple H's chequebook. Raw and Smackdown I find harder to keep up with properly. They're way longer than they used to be, and there's a ton of filler. I tend to just watch the highlights recaps on Youtube before they get taken down.

Is there any other docs you'd recommend on WWE Network? There's so much content, but quite a lot of it does sound like it'd be terrible. I finished Monday Night Wars. Really good, but a bit repetitive, seems like it wasn't put together to be watched one after the other, as they recap on the same things quite a lot. But what is there was pretty great. So much I didn't know about, like WCW spoiling taped RAW episodes. Proper dirty, that.

I'm not sure about any other docs, I haven't watched many though if you like NXT and Indy-style wrestling, check out Ring Of Honor. It's pretty much the standard for indy wrestling, it's where most of the NXT roster is poached from and it's the same style. NXT is pretty much WWE's version of ROH. The TV show is only an hour a week and it's free on their website. The PPVs are much much better than the TV but of course you have pay €9.99 a month to watch them. 

Monday Night Wars was great but it did kind of feel like it was just an exercise in gloating. 

[Soda Jerk]

51 minutes ago, Lemonade said:

I'm not sure about any other docs, I haven't watched many though if you like NXT and Indy-style wrestling, check out Ring Of Honor. It's pretty much the standard for indy wrestling, it's where most of the NXT roster is poached from and it's the same style. NXT is pretty much WWE's version of ROH. The TV show is only an hour a week and it's free on their website. The PPVs are much much better than the TV but of course you have pay €9.99 a month to watch them. 

Monday Night Wars was great but it did kind of feel like it was just an exercise in gloating. 

True, it was very boastful, but probably to be expected given the people involved. I started off really disliking Bischoff, but at the end started to like him again. Probably because even though he was a bit of an arse, he was totally out-done by Vince Russo, who became an even bigger arse. Imagine being a writer, and writing yourself in as a character, just to be an arse on camera? How did he think that was a good idea?

I'll give some of the ROH shows a watch. Are the TV shows and PPVs on demand?

[Lemonade]

46 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said:

True, it was very boastful, but probably to be expected given the people involved. I started off really disliking Bischoff, but at the end started to like him again. Probably because even though he was a bit of an arse, he was totally out-done by Vince Russo, who became an even bigger arse. Imagine being a writer, and writing yourself in as a character, just to be an arse on camera? How did he think that was a good idea?

I'll give some of the ROH shows a watch. Are the TV shows and PPVs on demand?

Exact same set-up as the WWE Network except the TV show is up to date. I'll send you my log-in details for Honor Club, you should watch the PPV Supercard of Honor from earlier this month. It was a fucking amazing PPV and would be a great point to jump in from. It was on the same weekend as Wrestlemania (same city too) and like everything over Wrestlemania weekend it's way too long, but unlike WM it doesn't drag. Cody Rhodes is the actual best guy ever. 

[Soda Jerk]

If you get me hooked on more wrestling, I'm gonna be so pissed.

[Lemonade]

30 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said:

If you get me hooked on more wrestling, I'm gonna be so pissed.

All I really watch myself is ROH and NXT. Raw and Smackdown I have to download or stream because I don't have Sky Sports and it's a hassle. Also they're kind of boring.

Although I'm also trying to watch the Monday Night Wars from the start. Not the documentary. Actually every episode of Raw and Nitro plus PPVs from 1995-2001. I'm 5 weeks in so far. Nitro is good. Raw is terrible. Raw's main event genuinely can be a stock car driver and a dentist vs a pirate and a pig farmer. 

[James Broonbreed]

Annihilation was fantastic. Portman was fucking ace in it, and the end was fucking nuts.

[scottyboy]

Children of Men. Bit late to the party but amazing, like a visceral commentary on Western (well, Anglo-Saxon, in the movie, ironically - the French and Germans are right next to all the Easterners) and the Syrian civil war, a decade early.

Bit ambivalent about the Christian/Messianic weirdness, which I gather was more the original idea; but I've forgotten how to put in spoiler tags, so I'll just leave that.

[Jaaakkkeee]

 Thor Ragnarok - This was great. Definitely took a page out of the Guardian's book. One of the better Marvel movies. Looking forward to Infinity War.

[Jaaakkkeee]

Avengers Infinity War - Holy fucking shit. Best Marvel film ever. Perhaps the best superhero film. I can't say anything without it being a massive spoiler, but let's just say it lives up to the hype. I want to see it again. It's gonna be a long year till Avengers 4.

[James Broonbreed]

I'm going to Google the spoilers later on to save me the hassle of watching it.

 

[MattJimF]

Don't bother with Google, just head to the Wiki page.

[James Broonbreed]

I watched Commando last night, so there's nowt wrong with that.

[Lemonade]

Guardians of the Galaxy - Don't get the hype with this one at all. I liked the characters and there were some funny lines but overall I found it really boring and difficult to follow. 

2/5

 

Deadpool 2 - My favourite film since the last Deadpool. Pretty much every line is funny, the action is awesome and it's full of heart. Must-watch. Must stay and watch the scenes during the credits, which a bunch of people in the cinema walked out and missed. 

5/5

[Soda Jerk]

12 minutes ago, Lemonade said:

Guardians of the Galaxy - Don't get the hype with this one at all. I liked the characters and there were some funny lines but overall I found it really boring and difficult to follow. 

2/5

 

Deadpool 2 - My favourite film since the last Deadpool. Pretty much every line is funny, the action is awesome and it's full of heart. Must-watch. Must stay and watch the scenes during the credits, which a bunch of people in the cinema walked out and missed. 

5/5

Same. Did they not wonder they the lights hadn't come back on, or why 90% of people weren't leaving?

It was great fun though. I preferred it slightly to the first. Loved the parachute scene.

 

I hate the cinema though. It reminds me why I usually wait for a film to come out on Bluray (last film I saw at a cinema was the first Deadpool). Film started at 2:45, and two lads come in late at 3:30! And obviously they sit two seats away from me, rustling of jackets, popcorn, bags, TALKING TO EACH OTHER. Die. Once the trailers are done, that should be it, you've missed it and you're not coming in, rather than disturb everyone else who has paid £12-odd to be there.