There will never be another Nature Boy

On Sunday night at Wrestlemania, it marked the end of an illustrious career that will never be matched in terms of worldwide popularity and accomplishments.

If you are a wrestling fan, you know that I am talking about the one and only 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair.

Now it was the worst kept secret as everyone knew Flair was going to retire judging by all his interviews building up to Wrestlemania.
Yet despite all that, people still watched and I was one of them. I like most knew it would be an emotional affair as it was the curtain call on a career that spanned 35 years.

The match itself was a classic match, and I know that word 'classic' gets tossed around, but this was in every sense of the word.
It wasn't a typical match in which two wrestlers faced each other and tried to get the win, this one told a story. This of course is the mark of an great match when it comes to pro wrestling.

Yet despite 99.9% of all wrestling fans thinking and ultimately knowing it would be Flair's swan song, we still got behind him like he could pull it off. When he had Shawn Michaels locked in the figure four in the middle of the ring, we collectively thought, 'Could he actually win this thing?'
Because that's what Ric Flair could do better than any other pro wrestler. He could make you think no matter how much the deck was stacked against him and there was no way he could be victorious, he seemingly always came away a winner.
So here we were all watching this match with certainty he would retire, yet when he had Michaels in this figure-four we second guessed our predictions of a Flair loss.
Classic Flair...

When Michaels mouthed the words "I'm sorry...I love you" and dropped sweet chin music on Flair for the final time, it was almost a surreal moment. It was the end of the 'Nature Boy', it was the end of the limousine ridin', jet flyin', kiss-stealing, wheeling-dealing, son of a gun, it was the end of an era...

Seeing Flair in the middle of the ring, the flash bulbs going off, and the tears flowing from his eyes everyone knew this was a truly historic, yet very sad moment.
As for myself, I felt a small lump in my throat but managed to fight back any actual tears. Yet for some fans they simply couldn't, and I don't blame them because Ric Flair, despite his character of the guy who lived high society, was and still is the most genuine and emotional wrestler we have ever seen.
That is why I think so many fans were emotionally vested in this match. When Ric Flair was ringing off entertaining and hilarious promos we were happy, when Ric Flair cheated his way to a win back when he was 'the dirtiest player in the game' we hated him, and when Ric Flair cried so did we. As a pro wrestler that's what you have to do be successful, and Flair did it better than anyone else.

Very few people are able to transcend their respective industry, whether it be entertainment, business, medicine, or any other industry that exists today.
Yet I think it's safe to say that without a shadow of a doubt, Flair transcended pro wrestling.
If you don't believe me check out the response he got here

Thanks for the memories Ric, you truly are in a class of your own.

To do list with movie characters

Here is just a random list of shit I would want to do with certain movie characters:

-Get really messed up on copius amounts of acid and play Space Harrier with Raoul Duke

-Play Super Bases Loaded 2 with Pedro Cerrano. Unbeknownst to Cerrano, I would put in a code where he couldn't hit a curveball in the game and I would try and get him to say "Fuck you Jobu....I do it myself"

-Go to a zoo with John McClane and challenge a family of bengal tigers to a fight.
(note-John McClane would do all the fighting)

-Train for the UFC with John Kreese

-Challenge Egon Spengler to an ice tea drinking contest. Then when we both have to take a massive piss I would ask Egon if we can "cross the streams."

-Take David Wooderson to a high school dance and se how long it takes before he gets arrested or maced.

-Have Trent Walker play my good buddy J.E. Skeets in a game of NHL '94

-Walk into a burger chain in suburban Pennsylvania 'sans' shirt with Jeff Spicolli and see how long we can last before we get kicked out.

-Participate in an easter egg hunt with Marshal Samuel Gerard

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Wow...that's a shitty way to go out

It's sad when people pass away. It's really sad though when people pass away at a young age with so much promise ahead of them.

Today though, I want to take a look at some of Hollywood's worst "unexpected exits".

Raul Julia
I remember as a kid I enjoyed the Addams family movies. The pride of Puerto Rico enjoyed a storied career in film and television. He landed himself a golden globe, emmy and SAG Award for his role in "The Burning Season" in 1994.
Julia passed away as a result of a cancer related stroke in October of 1994. While Julia does have a solid resume as an actor his last film ever made was Street Fighter: The Movie where he played M.Bison.
I f'ing loved this movie because it was so bad it was good, plus when Van Damme (played Chuile) busted out the sonic boom kick in the final fight on M.Bison I just about shit my pants.
So I guess when Guile beat Bison...he beat him for good.....ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

Rob Pilatus (member of Milli Vanilli)
What can you really say about these guys at this point in time. I respect them for having the balls for going out there and actually lip synching and dancing like idiots knowlingly they weren't the actual singers.
It's funny because they had their grammy revoked as a result of the admission they don't actually sing, yet every time I see Britney Spears "perform" she doesn't do much singing either yet her grammy still stands...
Anyways as embarrassing as that was for Milli and Vanilli they never really got much of a shot at redemption. Pilatus was found dead at age 32 in a hotel room of an apparent drug overdose.

Dana Plato
Dana Plato's story can be seen as tragic by some. I think it's tragic because she was a young mother, but the circumstances leading up to it I don't find tragic.
Anyways, Plato was a star of the hit 80s tv show "Diff'rent Strokes". She had a string of bad luck after I guess, and ended up robbing a video store.
Desperate to get back into Hollywood she made a porno flick called "Different Strokes". Nice little play on words I suppose. Anyways, she passed away in her sleep in May of 1999. Some may say that having your last movie being of a pornographic nature is sad and wrong. I say it's amazing and right and I would play it during the memorial service.

John Candy
Oh man! John Candy is just an awesome dude. Well, was an awesome dude. Uncle Buck is a great movie for those guys who are about to become uncles, and even I get a bit misty when I still see Cool Runnings.
He kicked ass on SCTV and every time I puke I always am reminded of Spaceballs where he played Barfolemew Barf. But I don't throw up a lot anymore so those times are few and far between.
While Candy has a pretty solid lineup of kick ass movies, his last one was 'Wagons East'. He actually died on location filming this movie.I saw a bit of this and it was shit, and what's even worse is in the IMDB trivia about this movie it says:

John Candy did not want to make the film, but was contractually obligated to do so.

Ah nothing adds to the artistic element of the movie by forcing an actor to be in it.

So how close are we on those back to the future 2 predictions?

Back To The Future 2 was made in 1989 I believe.
Robert Zemeckis' idea of how the future would look like at 2015 was honestly amazing. But how accurate were his predictions?
Well it's 2008 and I think it's safe to say Zemeckis was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off!
But how off is he?

Flying cars
Last time I checked all cars were still running on the ground. Having flying cars would be awesome and certainly help with traffic congestion in major urban areas such as Chicago or New York City. But I think Al Qaeda killed any dream of flying cars. Thanks Al Qaeda.....ya dicks

Will it or won't it?
It won't


Jaws 19
I guess this was supposed to be a parody of the ongoing Jaws sequels they were making at the time. However I think they stopped shortly after BTTF II was made.
If any movie franchise has a shot at making 19 films one would think the frontrunner is Friday The 13th, Halloween, or Nightmare on Elm Street. Wait, the American Pie franchise makes a new movie once every like three weeks now.

Will it or won't it?
It won't

Hoverboards
Fuck man, if there was anything I wanted from BTTF II it was a hoverboard. I remember reading years later that there actually was a hoverboard.
Alas though, this was not true at all. I bet that a company can make one today but they won't...mind you we still have 7 more years to see a hoverboard come out, but dont bet on it.

Will it or won't it?
......ahhh I say it won't, but I hope it will

Cubs win the world series
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sure these is another 7 seasons of baseball for this to happen, but who are we kidding? It's the Cubs...I mean they might get close and maybe even get to a world series, but they are not going to win shit. If a guy came up to me and said he was from the future, and all I had to do was put down 5 bucks on the Cubbies at the beginning of say like the 2011 season and that I could turn it into 500, I would say no thanks I don't believe you, I'd rather use that 5 bucks to get a combo number three from Taco Hell..errr Bell.

Will it or won't it?
I think you will see a hoverboard before you see a "Cubs World Series Champs" t shirt.

Baseball in Miami
Amazingly they got this one right??? Well kinda...
See Marty sees a bulletin that says Chicago defeats Miami. Now we all know Miami has had a team for quite some time now and they have won two championships, but it remains to be seen if they will win one in 2015. If they do does this mean Robert Zemeckis can actually see the future?
I would say no because if he did then he wouldnt have sunk money into a movie project called "Bordello Of Blood".
ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

Will it or won't it?
It has already happened...someone ask Zemeckis the numbers for this years powerball lottery asap.

Power Laces and Self Drying/Fitting coats
I am willing to bet somewhere in Japan they have these items. I really think they do...
Self fitting coats would just be convenient as hell as would power laces. When you think about it, power laces dont actually look like they take a lot effort to make. I can see Lebron James wearing a pair of these by 2015. But if he didn't have the plastic pastel blended hat then he would just look "un-cool".

Will it or won't it?

It so will happen by 2013

Biffco Enterprises becomes the richest company in America
Seiously any guy who can incorporate his first name into his company title is a guy who has balls. Plus Biffco just sounds fucking awesome!
I think this could be a stretch as Microsoft from what I hear is a company that has done pretty good over the past few years.
Now I am not a "wall street" kind of guy, but from all accounts Microsoft seems to have this locked up...
Unless Biffco invents and sells the hoverboard!

BOOYAH!

Will it or won't it?
I hope to god it does happen....


So yeah, the "future" as it looked in 1989 is very much not like what it was supposed to be in Zemeckis' mind. But it's always good to dream and believe...

Cubs win the world series....oh shit that's priceless

"The Day Oscar Tomorrow...."

Just some random thoughts from the 80th annual Academy Awards from last night.

-Jon Stewart is a wicked host. Best line of the night when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won for best song (Once). After a wicked speech, Jon Stewart "He's so arrogant"

-Solid moment was when they brought back Marketa Irglova to say her thank you, because they cut her off and her speech was solid.

-Best thank you speech may have been a tie between those two and Javier Bardem. The last part in Spanish was a nice touch.

-I liked how there was no front runner this year. It made for much more exciting results, although I think Daniel Day Lewis was a lock for best actor even though I have not seen the film, I had heard enough about his performance I took him in my Oscar Pool.

-Best presenters clearly was Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. But when Steve Carel asked "is this being broadcast in Belgium?" I lost it!

-The whole bit about the secrecy of the envelopes and results was beyond lame, but Stewart saved it after a nice ad lib joke.


-Viggo Mortgensen sporting a Montreal Canadiens wristband.

-It was awesome seeing an ex-stripper winning an Academy Award...'nuff said.

-I'm pumped that No Country came away with best film. It was one of the few I had a chance to see this year. I can't say it was better than the other ones nominated, but it was better than Juno. I still am baffled as to why that was nominated for best film...

-Overall a solid show, but nothing really memorable sticks out.

Movies I instantly want to see as a result of the Academy Awards:

There Will Be Blood (tried seeing it before but didn't have time)
Eastern Promises
Away From Her
In The Valley Of Elah

Like asking my penis to divide 34 by 19...

My dad always loved the show Married...With Children. I actually enjoyed it a lot to when I was younger. However, a lot of the jokes did go over my head at the time, but every time Ed O'Neal grabbed a newspaper, went offscreen and I heard the toilet flush I cackled with youthful glee.

Anyways, I remember being somewhat torn and confused about some of the females on the show. Of course, I am talking about Peg and Kelly. Now as a young boy, instinctively I was attracted towards Kelly. She was closer to my age, had that bleach blonde hair,was clearly a trick, and just seemed like a fun girl to "expirement" with.

That being said, I was also very partial towards Peggy. Now this defied logic for me at the time, but thinking about it today it makes sense.

Now Peggy was a very attractive woman for her age. Plus she always wore those gaudy outfits, yet they were skin tight and showed off quite an impressive figure. Plus she never walked around, she always bounced and that hair....that huge haven of red curls.
But I think what clinched it for me was that she just always wanted to get waxed and taxed by Al. She was permanently horny...

At the time none of this made a lot of sense, but after all of these years, now it makes perfect sense and my johnson is no longer confused.

It can think clearly now and enjoy things such as lemonparty.

What you can find in matthew mcconaughey's house

I am almost sure matthew mcconaughey now officially has a vagina.
Don't believe me?
I'm 89% positive this is true that matthew mcconaughey owns:

A dusty Tae-Bo vhs tape which hasn't been used since 1996
A Venus Razor (triple bladed)
A scented lilac candle
A Huge Bag Of Doritos
A copy of "Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul"
Sex In the City season 3 on DVD
A Persian throw rug with archaic designs related to birds
3 Industrial size jars of Nair
An autographed photo of Ricky Schroeder circa 1984 Silver Spoon days
Raspberry Chapstick
Pink I-Pod Nano
Jagged Little Pill CD
An abundance of Diet Pepsi
A Jamie Oliver kitchen set
Crest Whitening Strips

And this clip never gets old.......

Celibacy Watch:2 weeks

It's been two weeks since I self imposed a vow of Hollywood celibacy.
To be honest, I have never felt better! Three months will be a breeze!
Since I have entered into this, to be honest, I have not had a lot of time to watch much of anything, but I have rented several Japanese movies and a Singaporian film.

For the most part it's been much more hit than miss, and even the "misses" I still find entertaining, and can take something from them. I have also started getting back to watching documentaries which is something I have neglected the past little while.

Some great ones are available for free on www.66stage.com

I recommend checking out the Senegalese wrestling one.

Hope to have a podcast up soon.

When Mexicans point out movie mistakes...

I was searching for something completely different when I stumbled across this little diamond in the rough.

Seriously, I laughed and I learned.

"It took me like 1...2...Forever...."

The Superbowl certainly lacked "celebrities" this year

I like many last night witnessed one of the greatest second halves of a Superbowl ever. (I'll give you a hint which one it was, not the first one)
As a Raiders fan, it was good to see karma come back and kick the shit out of the Patriots. I still have an axe to grind about the fumble back in '02, but I digress.

But while the game was not short on theatrics and great moments, it was really lacking "star power".

Usually in important games, FOX scans the crowd for celebrities and Joe Buck makes some useless comment, and the hapless sidekick (IE Tim McCarver or in this case Troy Aikman) usually makes a feeble attempt at something witty as well, but it falls flat.
When FOX did their "celebrity" scan last night, they turned up some duds. They showed Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy, and Pamela Anderson.

Sure we had Gisele, but she is holding Brady's "sausage hostage", so of course she was going to be there. (It was great watching her drink a glass of red wine while the game was going on)
No Denzel,no Seinfeld, no Chris Rock, even no Matt Damon. (he might be fucking Sarah Silverman, but Eli and the rest of the Giants fucked every Bostonian including Damon last night)

If those are the best "celebrities" FOX can find in the crowd, they need to hire a new celebrity scanner ASAP.
Jim Carey is still trying to figure out the symbolic meanings of "23", (albeit on a screen in an empty theatre) I forgot why Jenny McCarthy is even "famous" in the first place, and Pamela Anderson is just a glorified slutwagon.
Come on FOX! You can give us better than that!

At least we got multiple shots of bigger brother Peyton, who incidentally was dressed as though the Superbowl was going to be played on the deck of a yacht.

So with the lack of starpower at the game, I figured maybe some of them took in the pregame festivities.
Nope.....

Ok, Mary J Blige and Alicia Keyes I can understand...

But the rest?
Pete Wentz? I didnt think this guy could like any more of a douchebag...I was wrong.
Doug Flutie? He was named Direct TV's celebrity bowl MVP. He plays to win!
David Spade?
Kendra Wilkinson?
Stacy Kiebler?

Anything Spike TV advertises as "celebrity", you know you're going to get a steady stream of 2002 Maxim Models, a few decent athletes, on subpar teams, and some semi-popular action or comedy stars.

Next year Direct TV should change the name to the "B" Celebrity Bowl. Because if I paid money for tickets to go watch that expecting to see celebrties, I would have been super pissed.

Great game though.

Willie Mays Hayes can steal home...but can't steal from the government

Some news headlines today as Wesley "Straight To DVD" Snipes was acquitted of tax evasion. He faces some misdemeanor charges, but there should only be a light sentence for those.
Anyways, I am going to look into my crystal ball..and IMDB and predict some different headlines relating to this story.

Prisoner 57

To My accountant thanks for nothing, Julie Newmar

The art of tax evasion

Money Pain

Paid-Trinity

The first edition of Ghostbusters was a cultural melting pot...the second one, the pot exploded I guess?

When I returned my movies today I decided to browse around a bit before I left. I noticed something a bit different.

I saw the covers of Ghostbusters 1 and 2. But on the cover of Ghostbusters 2, there was a glaring omission...no Winston Zeddemore aka The Black Ghostbuster.
I can't figure why this is as he is in Ghostbusters 2, and well ONE OF THE GHOSTBUSTERS.

Shit, even Rick Moranis gets mentioned on the cover and he has a smaller part in it.

Why can't Winston get any love?

My vow of celibacy

This weekend I rented 4 foreign films.
Not a big deal?
Well it hit me like a Mike Tyson's NES uppercut...
So to you I make this vow...
I am going three months without renting any Hollywood movies.
I have no problem watching them illegally online, because any way to fuck over Hollywood I am all for...like seriously.

So for three months, it's all foreign, indie flicks, docs, and probably a shitload of internet porn...but why should things change.

*If they make a "Perfect Strangers" movie I am allowed to "indulge"...I'm only human.

See you at the movies (maybe) in May 2008

If violence is your thing.......

I had to work all weekend so I decided to check out some films. I rented two foreign films, one was called "Perth" which was a Singaporean film. I won't get into that one because I want to write about the other one I saw called "Ichi the Killer".

"Ichi" is a Japanese film that by far and away is the most violent film I have ever seen...ever. Believe me, I am a huge horror fan to and what you and I think is violent here pales in comparison to the violence and gore used in eastern Asian films.

Basically, a Yakuza boss (yakuza is the Japanese Mafia) goes missing, and his top man who is a sadomasochist believes he is still alive, so he sets out to find him.
We find out very early on, that his search will be fruitless as unbeknownst to Akihara (top underling to Yakuza boss) his boss is already dead.

Ichi is a very shy young mam, who has been brainwashed by an older man who basically manipulates him. Ichi killed his parents but cannot remember so his "evil mentor" so to speak has created these false memories of Ichi to prey on his insecurities. When Ichi gets scared or sad he turns into a homicidal maniac and kills people with no emotion at all. Oh, and he does all of it with only a razor blade in his boot. Very evident throughout the film, is the use of "dark humour" as Ichi who is a homicidal killer wears a ridiculous looking costume with a neon "1" emblazoned on the back("ichi" in one in Japanese).

The story itself is somewhat interesting, albeit slow and confusing at times, but what it lacks in story, it makes up for in over the top, ridiculous, nonsensical violence. It's not so much the violence I am into, it's the innovation, and the director's willingness to push the boundaries to see how far he can go.

The director of this film Takashi Miike sounds like an "interesting" director. I got this off wikipedia about "Ichi"

Director Takashi Miike reveals on the US TokyoShock DVD release that the semen used in the close-up during the intro sequence, when the film's title raises out of a puddle of semen, is real. It was supplied by Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto (Iron Man Tetsuo) who plays the muscle bound mastermind that controls Ichi. Miike gave a bucket to Tsukamoto to fill but was unable to provide enough material for the shot. He passed the bucket to three other crew members to add the remaining amount.

Director Takashi Miike was supposed to have the pimp beat up a prostitute with three punches. However, in the end, he increased the number to fifteen because he could not stand the actress, Mai Goto.

*credit:wikipedia

Seriously, I recommend watching this movie, but only if you have a strong stomach.
Think Hostel, 300, Kill Bill, any Friday The 13th Movie, mutliply that by about a 100, and you get the violence in this movie.

Dont believe me?
Check out the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, or check the trailer out for yourself.
Warning:The trailer shows a lot of the violence.

Can I see some ID sir?

My apologies for the posts or lack thereof recently. I have just started work again this week and have been somewhat fatigued and went to bed fairly early.
Anyways, I wanted to write about something that has bothered me for some time now. You know how they have a rating system to indicate which movies aren't suitable for children? (IE Kill Bill, Basic Instinct, Peter North's Ukranian gangbang...) This of course makes perfect sense as no young children should see these images at a young age.
But I think there should be an inverse rule to. That unless you are attending with children, adults should not be allowed to watch certain movies. It makes me so angry when people my age (mid 20's) and adults watch things like Harry Potter, Ice Age, or any other bullshit CGI film of the month they make.
Seriously...you're an adult so act like it. I have been subjected to one Harry Potter movie, and by the end I actually considered driving my car into a heavily populated area IE Starbucks where I figured there would be many adult Potter fans.
It's a book written for kids for gods sake! Fuck, I don't go to the library at 26 years old and ask where I can find the newest "Goosebumps" in paperback. I expect that any other self respecting adult would do the same.
When the last Harry Potter movie or book came out, it was all the rage on the news. Anyways, they showed an adult dressed up as one of the characters from Harry Potter waiting in line. This was an adult male who was through his own volition dressed up in a public place as a character from Harry Potter. He didn't lose a bet, it wasn't a costume party, it wasn't Halloween, he wasn't insane, no he actually made a conscious decision to do this. Of course the reporter asked about the costume and he said "I like to dress up like this because it's fun and escape from reality."

WHAT THE FUCK!
Do you know how you escape reality when you're an adult? You drink, you use drugs, you buy a sports car, you change your identity to Michael J Cox, you go to therapy, you wrap your mouth around a shotgun and pull the trigger....that's how you escape reality when you're an adult. You don't dress up as some wizard in public and be proud of it. Seriously, that dude needs to eat a bag of dicks....

Would it kill for you to make an original movie?

The other night I saw CLOVERFIELD at the theatre. As with all movies, they played a series of trailers before the movie started.
It seriously made me cringe......I'm about to give up on Hollywood...I mean it with all sincerity. They couldn't make an original movie that was actually entertaining if their life depended on it. I'm not talking about some gay CGI movie either, because I don't consider those movies. I am not discrediting all of the hard work that goes into making one, but I just don't consider them actual movies.

Now when I say Hollywood, I don't mean independent films. Those are pretty much all I will watch these days because they are actual solid films worth watching. They don't have a huge hype machine behind them because quite frankly they don't need them because the film itself is good enough to stand on its own.
But it's so frustrating with all of the resources, that Hollywood cant turn out a thought provoking, entertaining film that doesn't need to have millions sunk into an advertising campaign, or action figures, or cross promotions with T-Mobile. They are becoming somewhat of a dying breed these days. If you don't believe me, just look at the box office numbers for 2007. Top ten grossing films of 2007 in order:

1.Spiderman 3 336.5 million (part of a series)
2.Shrek 3 322.7 million (part of a series)
3.Transformers 319.2 million (based on an 80s cartoon)
4.Pirates of the Carribbean 3 309.4 million (part of a series)
5.Harry Potter:Order of Phoenix 292 million (part of a series, based on a book)
6.I am legend 248.2 million (based on a book, third remake of this)
7.The Bourne Ultimatum 227.4 million (part of a series, based on a book)
8.300 210.6 million (original screenplay)
9.Ratatouille 206.4 million (original movie...sorry it was CGI...doesn't count)
10.National Treausre 2 199.2 million (sequel)

So for the top ten grossing films, exactly two of them were original ideas. 300 was actually based on a real life event, but I'll give it a pass, and you know how I feel about CGI.

I'm not saying that sequels and trilogies shouldn't be made. Hell, the Bourne trilogy in my opinion is the best trilogy in the past 20 years. But why can't Hollywood make something original.
Has this become Hollywood's kryptonite? Originality? Well maybe I am jumping the gun, but from an actual acting perspective the first film to be recognized for an acting achievement is Ruby Dee in American Gangster (18th highest grossing film 2007 at 129.9 million. Ruby Dee was selected as a nominee for best supporting actress-Academy award)
This leads me to believe that the overwhelming general movie viewing public is more concerned with CGI effects, explosions, big name actors and less concerned about actual acting, a good story or originality. Fair enough, to each their own, but at this rate original ideas in Hollywood will become as extinct as the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.....wait how many Jurassic Parks did they make?

In case you forgot......

CLOVERFIELD COMES OUT TOMORROW!
I am totally going to see this movie this coming weekend, possibly tomorrow night. I have honestly not been this excited to see a movie in a theatre for quite some time, but this has me genuinely geeked.
Ever since I saw the trailer during Transformers, I was hooked. I have seen a few extended trailers and such and they even have spoilers online, but I refuse.
So far it received 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I think that should increase in the coming days.
Check the trailer, and do yourself a favor and see this movie, it's meant to be watched on a big screen ya heard.

Takes a licking.......

"....I'm Ad Rock And I Shock And I Tick And I Tock
And I Can't Stop With The Body Rock
See I've Got Heart Like John Starks"

(Excerpt from the track "Get It Together" by the Beastie Boys ft. A Tribe Called Quest)

Sure I would love to post about John Starks, but I won't. Nah, I feel good today as I am fresh off my trip across the pond to England and I need to write as much as possible before I have to start work again.

Anyways, while on vacation I saw a film or two. One of the one's I saw was Home Alone 2. Now I have already seen this movie a few times but I had not seen it for a long while and I forgot most of what happened. Sure I remembered there was unabashed hijinx and tomfoolery, but I didn't realize how much more VIOLENT Home Alone 2 was. In the first one, the traps Kevin set where cute, and besides Joe Pesci grabbing a hot door handle, and Daniel Stern stepping on a nail, it was pretty tame stuff.
But man, in Home Alone 2 Daniel Stern takes the biggest SHIT kicking ever.
Which brings us to today's little question, who has taken some of the most vicious beatings in Hollywood history and come back from it?

Rocky (Rocky 3-Final Fight vs Clubber Lang)
I am sure you could very well pick anyone of the Rocky films and make an argument and that's fine by me. But Rocky 3 is actually my favorite of the lot. Besides his strategy is to actually tire Clubber by letting him kick the shit out of him. I don't know too many fights were one guy just thought "Hey I'll let him get mad and kick the shit out of me, and once that's finished then I'll make my move!"
My sister tried using this strategy on me when we were kids, but she had a glass jaw and went down every time. That's what you get when you steal my "popsicle pete points."
This scene is just great to watch, and made me love Apollo Creed just a little more.


Marv (Home Alone 2)
As I alluded to earlier, the punishment this man takes would have killed the strongest man a hundred times over. Seriously, I don't know how some of these ideas were greenlit considering it was a kids movie.
I will let you be the judge on this hilarious montage complete with lovable background music.
PS-best part of the montage is when Joe Pesci turns into a Chinese gymnast. Great form Joe.

Wiley Coyote
You know my heart goes out to this guy. Poor little fella just can't seem to do anything right. You would think with all his misfortunes, he would just call it a day, but that sumofabitch just won't give up. I got a little misty in this montage of Wiley's attempts. You'd think after all these years that Wiley would have caught him.....he needs to stop buying ACME if he has any chance. I suggest GE, they make quality products.

You could make a case for any of them and it's too close to select one clear winner.
But if we're going strictly based on montages then I totally pick the Wiley Coyote one.