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  3. Posted

    Having just been made aware of this. It HAS to be done.

     

    Best part is, the full movie is on Youtube, and it's insane.

     

    For starters, the opening credits last for over three minutes, and it's just the exact same thing, over and over again. You also have a "God Fight" between Hulk Hogan and The Big Show, rekindling their rivalry from WCW in 1995.

     

    Do it, or face my wrath! Which is merely me going on about it for years like Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Ready To Rumble.

  6. Posted

    I have to be a dick, and bring up a minor throw away comment.

     

    I think it was Paul, when talking about Gerard Butler and his brother, said "One is from Scotland, the other is from the UK", Scotland is in the UK (for now). It would be like if I was to say "He's from Texas, but his brother is from America", it makes no sense.

     

    So, I'm gonna go further into it, because I see it too many times.

     

    - The United Kingdom is England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

    - Great Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales.

    - The British Isles is the Island Group of Great Britain, Ireland (not to be confused with The Republic of Ireland, it's the whole island with the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland), and the surrounding crown dependencies The Isle on Man, and the Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey (Paul, if you read this in the mini-episode, it's pronounced GURN-ZEE, just to avoid another Sarky/Sarsy situation.)

     

    Just a douchey, nitpicky, geography lesson.

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  7. Posted

    John Cena got me pretty excited. I get why wrestling smarks may dislike him but I feel like people don't appreciate him enough. I'd love to hear Cena defend The Marine which is HDTGM on its own but I can't imagine Cena would nite the hand that feeds him that much.

     

    And speaking of people not appreciated enough: RIP Isao Takahata

     

    That's why Ready To Rumble is perfect for a Cena episode.

     

    1) Cena makes a "before he was famous" appearance

    2) It's just a pile of shit of a movie

    3) It's a WCW produced movie, so not only would he not bite the hand that feeds him, WWE will just promote the episode under the guise of "Hey, you think OUR movies suck... which they don't, I mean, Condemned 2? Fucking great. I mean, hey, WCW made a movie, and it REALLY sucked, hear John Cena talk shit about it... by the way, WCW sucked"

    4) I can just go "Rockstar" crazy with corrections and omissions, only for someone to call in 619-PAULSASS and just do my C&Os almost word for word.

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  8. Posted

    i got very excited when paul started to describe next weeks movie ... i forgot they announced geostorm a while back and for a few seconds thought taylor was finally after getting her the day after tomorrow episode ... maybe next time

     

     

     

     

     

    and did paul say john cena is a possible future guest???? mini game ... which movie should they cover with him??

     

    Ready To Rumble, considering he's in it.

  9. Posted

     

    I'm a huge Third Eye Blind fan, in fact I saw them in concert only a few months ago. "Semi-Charmed Life" aside, their first album is really great and people probably know more songs off of it than they think. It took me until my 2nd viewing of this movie to realize it was Stephan Jenkins. He looks so tall compared to Marky Mark! Anyhow, here's the first track off that album.

     

    I just looked, and I learned that it's not Third Eye Blind who did "Closing Time"

     

     

    And, I can't be the only one who think's Semisonic's singer looks like the Angry Video Game Nerd.

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  17. Posted

    Honestly that whole scene doesn't make a lot of sense anyway cause wasn't the scene directly before it the one where she says she is leaving? So if in one scene she says she's gone and then the next she's driving up to the hotel it's not a great reveal that it's actually been a while and he forgot he was in Seattle.

     

    (Unless I'm already starting to block this movie out and she didn't say she was leaving in the scene right before)

     

    I think there was a poorly edited montage of him following the drummer's advice and "living the life", in various cities and it ended up in Seattle.

     

    But it goes to show you how stupid Chris is, considering the guy telling him to "live the life" is laid on a bed, attached to a drip, because "living the life" has fucked with his health.

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  18. Posted

    Also, according to her, they had made plans to meet in Seattle. Whether he’s fucked up or jet lagged or whatever, it doesn’t change the fact that he obviously wasn’t looking forward to seeing her. He yells at Mats for not reminding him, but really, if he cared at all, he would have been looking forward to and anticipating seeing her again.

     

    So forgetting what city you’re in due to a grueling schedule, sure. But if you care about something, regardless of whatever else is goin on, you make a point to remember and don’t have to rely on your broken-ass road manager to remind you of it.

     

    So, no, I don’t give him a pass.

     

    I think that was supposed to establish Steel Dragon as the villains, as it was the drummer saying "You've got to live the life properly, because everyone else wants to do this, and you get to! It's a part of the job"

     

    Which flies in the face of when Bobby Beers was kicked out of the band, because he says "You think it's all Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll... Well, the sex? You got that wrong! Drugs?! Never touch them, nobody does a show like me half cut, even at your age! The Rock & Roll? It's in bed by 11 the day of the show!"

     

    So, which is it? If he's supposedly missing rehearsals and gigs and generally being a fuck up, then what about the spiel of him never touching drugs, and being in bed at a reasonable time and making sure he was prepared? Was Bobby lying about it? Or was it a case of "I'm sick of these assholes not taking the job seriously, so if they're not going to, I'm not going to" and just fucked them off.

     

    But yeah. Chris is still clearly a dick to Emily when she turns up, I can excuse him not remembering he's in Seattle, but the rest of it, that's on him.

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  19. Posted

    And, reaching even further into the notes.

     

    The scene where Chris and Emily meet in Seattle, and Chris forgets that he's in Seattle. That can't be attributed directly to Chris getting shitfaced, as performers who are on the road constantly forget where they are.

     

    Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn talked about it on Jericho's podcast (You can listen to Paul's episode here), when they're going home from a tour, they'd be asked "Where did you come from", they'd say say where they flew in from, then they'd be asked "Did you stay there the entire time", they'd say "No", and when they're asked "Where have you been?" They can't remember.

     

    Jericho's even said that he's gone to hotels, and forgotten which room he's in and had to ask at the front desk, and they'll say "You don't remember which room you're in?" and he'll say "This is the fifth hotel I've been in this week". So, even though Chris (Mark Wahlberg, not talking about Jericho here) is a drunken moron in that scene, he's not entirely at fault for forgetting where he was.

  20. Posted

    Okay, diving back into my notes some more.

     

    The name "Izzy" is an odd name to pick, because Izzy Stradlin was around in Guns N Roses, so Steel Dragon, being in the LA glam metal scene, they'd know who he was. In the movie's universe, there's a chance that GnR would have been a support act on some Steel Dragon shows.

     

    That's without going into the fact that "Izzy" just makes just makes him sound like a lame Ozzy Osbourne knock off. And I think that's the crux of Chris being in the band, he was a lame knock off. They gave him a name that sounds like somebody elses, he wore his predecessor's clothes, and basically sang karaoke. He was set up to fail.

  21. Posted

    Thinking back on this dumb movie I have to say that I still can't actually figure out what the plot is... Is it really just douchebag becomes a bigger douchebag and then suddenly realizes he's a replaceable douchebag so he just decides to stop being a douchebag?

     

    Like honestly what's the fuckin' point of this? What's the conflict? Who's the bad guy?

     

    Oh oh let me rewrite this dumb piece of shit lol. So our hero played by Marky Mark is actually the one who wants to do his own music and is having a hard time breaking in to the scene because people are so oddly fascinated with "tribute" bands. He has an amazing voice that matches Bobby's so he joins that tribute band in the hopes it will get him discovered. He gets kicked out though because he doesn't follow the songs exactly and wants to put his own spin but in that moment he does get discovered by Steel Dragon themselves. Thus we have the rest of the movie and he's all great and fine up until that moment where he presents Dominic West with original songs and they kick him down. In this version he's not a dbag to everyone around him (except his girlfriend I guess still) and we actually have someone to root for and the ending becomes more meaningful, even more so if someone at the end tells him they want to sign him with his original music.

     

    That's the long and short of it.

     

    When you really look at it, Chris is absolutely a spoilt brat. It's almost like it could be based off an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, when you consider that his parents prefer him over his older, much larger brother, who works as a cop. They're basically the Barones.

     

    To be honest, I think they'd have been better making him a more sympathetic version of Jason Newsted from Metallica. I talked earlier about how his story was closer to the movie than Tim Owens, because they could explore the hazing aspect that Jason Newsted had to go through, including having the bass turned down in the mix of the first album he was on (...And Justice For All).

     

    So, you could have him all starstruck that he's become a member of his favourite band, but then have him go through things like:

    - Singing on the album, but when he hears it, they've fucked with it so it barely sounds like his voice

    - The band throwing a party at a hotel bar, and charging it to his hotel room, leaving him with a bar tab in the thousands that he has to pay off, with their rationale being "But you'll earn it back before you know it!"

    - The band leaving him stranded when they go onto the tour bus to go to the next venue, and then him having to spend money on a cab to get him there, again being met with "But you'll earn it back before you know it!"

    - The band changing their sound, and all his suggestions being roundly ignored, not being allowed any creative input in the group.

    - He then starts talking to some friends he's made in other bands, and they talk about doing something together while the band is on hiatus, only to be told "No, you can't do that, this is the only band you're allowed to be a part of, no side projects, solo albums, you're not allowed to do fucking backing vocals for your buddies", only to see his bandmates doing things on the side because it's "their band" after all.

     

    Hell, they could then end it like what happened with John Bush and Anthrax but a bit more brutal, they could basically say "Well, reunion tours are VERY lucrative right now, so... we're going back to the classic line up, so you're out of the band".

     

    But, you can then make it a happier ending, and then you can have him get his moment of redemption when the old hostilities of the "classic line up" causes it to completly self destruct, having them even fighting on stage, and you see that Chris is making MILLIONS penning pop songs for other artists, because he has years of pent up creativity that means he can be prolific in putting out hit songs, tying up the "But you'll earn it back before you know it" from earlier.

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  22. Posted

    In fact, come to think of it, Vince McMahon would absolutely be the kind of guy who would have Rockstar as his favourite movie, there's a story that in the late 90s, he was walking around, pleased as punch, telling everyone who would listen, "I've discovered this new band! They're called AC/DC!"

  23. Posted

    I suffered so much sympathy embarrassment by that final song. It’s not even the tune so much as the stupid lyrics. I’m so sorry you’ve had to sit through that song more than once in your life.

     

    WWE used that fucking song for Shawn Michaels' retirement

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh10p70jD6c

     

    So there has to have been someone from WWE who said "Hey, remember that Mark Wahlberg movie where he joins his favourite band?! Let's use the song at the end of it for one of our greatest ever performers!"

     

    WWE put together some incredible highlight packages, and they use this for him. A twenty year career, and they slap him in the face like that.

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  24. Posted

    There's a bit of inside music drama that she was involved in that has made me side eye both her and her husband. Not saying that she was 100% at fault or even like a monster or anything, and I'm pretty sure they've all moved on, but when you know shitty stories about people they never ever ever leave you.

     

    Yeah, I get exactly what you mean, I've had a couple where I've seen stuff about them, and just thought "Fuck them" and not wanted to have anything to do with any of their work.

     

    One being Graham Linehan, who co-created Father Ted, and later The IT Crowd, I loved those shows, then he revealed himself to be an absolutely vile person, now I can't watch any of them.

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