The Undertake said “There will never be another Andre (The Giant), but this guy is as close as we’ve come, and that’s a big statement…Omos is special” has the Undertake ever heard of Braun Strowman? I could argue that Strowman is the best big man since The Big Show, who when the Big Show was starting out he was compared to Andrea The Giant.
Omos is ok to me. I think him teaming with AJ Styles has resulted in Styles looking weaker as of late. The pairing seems more like a comedy gimmick rather than a team that will dominate. If they want to put Omos in that top tier of wrestlers than maybe a feud with Styles would be best. Have them win the tag titles, lose them as a result of Styles. Maybe a miscommunication where he hits Omos and then simply have him turn on Styles. Not the most original idea, but it would be effective.
Then have them fight at WrestleMania, make Omos the winner and keep his momentum going from there. I do agree with the Undertaker where if there was someone to eventually be in that Andrea Class then it can be Omos, but you have to book him as the face of the company. Maybe a feud with Roman Reigns would be interesting to see.
But what do you guys think of Omos so far and what would be the best way to make him a superstar?
The best kinds of movies show adversity in the face of failure. That putting in hard work is the best way to get success and the easy way out is never the answer. Writer Dan Gilroy decided to go in the complete opposite direction with this movie.
Two For The Money is about a man named Brandon, played by Matthew McConaughey, who makes money advising people on sports betting. After growing success, Brandon is approached by Walter, played by Al Pacino, who operates one of the biggest sports advising firms in the world.
Quickly Brandon is taken under Walter’s wing and experiences the high life of being a celebrity and making more money than he knows what to do with. Brandon’s ego soars to new heights and eventually starts making picks at random and asking his employees “So who do you like this weekend” to simply prove that whatever he writes down will happen.
Then, something very odd happens, Brandon starts losing. And losing. And losing. Until Brandon reputation is in jeopardy and Walter’s company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Brandon decides to go back to the old him. The guy who would study up on games, call coaches and medical staff to get some inside info, and spending every waking hour on his job. But keeps losing worse than ever. Clients call Brandon after losing all their money, desperate for advice or just to tell him off.
With a massive upcoming football game, Brandon does the unthinkable, he flips a coin. After telling Walter of this, Walter doubles down and “guarantees” victory. Which means, “you tell us how much you’re betting. You lose. We cover. That’s risk-free sports betting,” a move that would surely lead to Walter’s demise.
Brandon desperately tries to get Walter to reverse this, but Walter refuses. I don’t know if at this point Walter even believes in Brandon or just loves the drama. The movie’s climax is simply Brandon leaving. He writes a goodbye note to Walter, heads to the airport where he watches the end of the game and leaves. Somehow Brandon’s coin flip was correct, Walter’s company is saved and that’s it.
So, we had a movie whose message is “if the going gets tough, run”. Imagine if Brandon was wrong. He would be running out on Walter, who is now finished. Having to pay back millions he doesn’t have to sports betters. This gamble could’ve easily gone South. And what about all the people who Brandon got into debt? Not a good message. Not a good movie.
Sometimes I’m really glad my wife doesn’t read my posts, because John Walker is a topic we argue about a lot. Falcon and The Winter Soldier was a race baiting, pandering, poorly executed show, but it did do one thing right and that’s John Walker.
Lets look at where the main characters were before the show:
-Bucky was rehabilitated
-Sam took on the mantle of Captain America
-Zemo was in prison
And as the show ended
-Bucky went back to be rehabilitated
-Sam took on the mantle of Captain America
-Zemo is back in prison
Having the characters take a 360 degrees character arch isn’t good story telling. But Walker was different. He might be one of the most well-developed characters the MCU ever produced. A character who had the mantle of Captain America thrusted on him. A guy who is a military hero, a superior athlete and someone who most importantly gets the job done.
Walker’s suit is the best one yet and I love the scene where Walker makes his own shield. A great homage to the comics where Walker made his own shields and outfitted them with medals he earned and names of soldiers who died in battle.
I find the “How it Should’ve Ended” video weird because it shows Steve Rogers taking the shield from Walker with no problem. Let me start a fight here. Walker would utterly destroy Rogers. The first reason is the serum, this one is much more powerful than the one Rogers got. When Rogers took it, he was a small, wimpy kid. Walker was an athlete when he took it. He was at the peak of his physical abilities. And then takes a serum that amplifies that. I mean it made tiny Carlie into a threat. Imagine what it did to a high trained, physically gifted soldier like Walker.
With Walker siding with Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, who at some point becomes Madame Hydra, it’s obvious that he will be a big character moving forward. We are seeing Fontaine align herself with a few other MCU characters looking to start The Dark Avengers, a team I imagine will have Walker front and center.
So what do you think of John Walker? Do you like his role in the TV show and his fate moving forward?
Probably one of the most overused types of mobile games, but still an extremely fun game for Marvel Fans. Strike Force has you assemble your team of 5 Marvel heroes and villain to take on enemies in turn-based battle.
The Campaign isn’t really important to me. This is a farming type of game, so the story isn’t that impactful to me. There are (right now) 7 different campaigns you have to get your team through. Very challenging and most important necessary to get all the gear and shards you need to make the strongest team possible.
To unlock new characters, you have to acquire their shards. Some characters like Jean Grey are 510 shards while simpler characters like Hydra Grenadier are only 15 shards. You can find shards through boss battles, Events, loot boxes or with special giveaways for signing in continuously.
You start the game with a certain amount of Energy, which depletes as you do battles, but can gain more by simply waiting for it to replenish or use your Power Cores, which you get through doing tasks.
To make your characters stronger you need to spend Gold and XP, but to upgrade their Gear you need to find Item shards. Certain battles and bosses randomly give you the chance to get what you need to make your characters stronger.
Each character has 2-3 moves and some characters have an extra ability to unlock. Again, through battles you gain the Ability Materials that you can use to level up those skills.
The game does a great job to make you want to level up all your characters by having Daily Challenges. Each character has specific Classes they are put into. Hand Blademaster is part of the Villain, City, Skill, Brawler, Hand and Minion classes. Thor is under the Hero, Cosmic, Mystic, Blaster, Asgardian and Wave 1 Avenger class. Some days there will be special events that need you to use only Blaster types, which make you want you have upgraded Blaster types to take on your enemies.
There are Daily Objectives you can chose to do, but if you do them you get a massive number of materials for your team. Other game modes are Blitz battles where you gain Blitz points so you can open up loot boxes or buy the materials or shards you want. Arena battles, Alliance Battles, the list goes on and on for things to do in this game.
The roster is ever expanding with new Marvel movies and shows coming out. The character Shang-Chi came out to coincide with the movie in theaters. With the Eternals movie soon to come out I imagine all the Eternals will be playable characters.
Marvel Strike Force is a free to play game that gives you a lot to do and always makes things interesting. I give it a 10/10. There isn’t much I would add to this game. The creators give you a ton of things to do, a massive roster, reasons to play every day, visually beautiful and lets you have your favorite Marvel characters fight together.
I think this is how Duncan Jones wrote this movie. He had an idea about a mute bartender looking for his girlfriend and another idea about military medics interrogating people for the mafia and decided to combine them.
Mute feels like an incomplete idea. Its very interesting. Great style, fun characters, action and looks esthetically pleasing, but like most Netflix products it falls apart the longer the story goes on. Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd were incredible as usual, but like I said before these two could’ve led their own separate movies.
The movie is mainly about Leo, a mute man, looking for his “girlfriend” Naadirah I say in quotes because I don’t really know if they are exclusive. It seems like Leo is constantly friend zoned. So Naadirah goes missing and Leo goes on a journey to find her and digs up more of her troubled past. Its interesting, but not as good as Rudd’s story as Cactus Bill. Bill is a military medic deserter who now lives in Europe, making money doing jobs for the mafia. His best friend Duck a pedophile who is a pediatrician just so he can spy on children. Creepy, but I like these twos story a lot better than Leo’s.
Eventually you learn that Bill and Naadirah had a daughter and Bill killed his ex because she was going to take his kid away. The relationship reveal kinda came out of nowhere and seemed like a random way to connect the two stories. A lot of this movie scenes are “cool” ideas, but ultimately didn’t need to happen or lead anywhere logically.
In the end, Leo kills Bill and Duck knocks out Leo just to fix his voice box granting him the ability to talk, because Duck wants Leo to apologize to him for killing Bill…..yea….Netflix am I right?
Overall, the movie wasn’t terrible, its just a few tweeks here and there could’ve made this movie stand out. I don’t think Rudd was the best choice for Bill. Yea, Rudd is an incredible actor, but Bill is a ruthless killer who can turn from smile to fits of rage in a second. I didn’t think it was a great idea having him crack jokes throughout the movie.
Obviously, the ending was a terrible choice, but just the overall story wasn’t that interesting. The big twist was to sudden and didn’t have any buildup to it. They could’ve built an entire movie around Bill solely, but chose to try to combine two ideas that didn’t mesh together well. A better idea would be if Naadirah, in her secret life, somehow was involved with the mafia Bill was working for and that’s why she was taken in the first place.
Overall, this is a very forgetful Netflix movie that had a lot of potential and incredibly acting by Skarsgard and Rudd. 5/10
I’ve watched every single 007 movie to date and with Daniel Craig hanging it up forever, I can definitely say he was the best of the James Bonds. Mainly, because Craig’s Bond was a series and the others were just separate movies with no ties to each other. Craig’s Bond carries the heartache he experienced in Casino Royale and into No Time To Die.
The previous series were fun, but I never felt like I was on a journey. You can put on a Bond movie at random and not be confused at all of what’s going on. They aren’t the most complicated of movies. Villain with an over-the-top plan, cool gadgets, hot woman and happily ever after. Not saying they’re bad in any sense, just copy and paste. I never felt the emotional toll of Bond and what he did previously carry over into the other movies.
Pierce Brosnan’s version of Bond showed him having to kill a woman he was falling for in Elektra King. Bond had no choice but to kill her and before Bond left the room he kissed her hard on the cheek feeling the weight of what he just did. And then the next movie he was cracking jokes and sleeping with Halle Berry like nothing happened.
In Craig’s version, Bond felt the emotion weight of seeing Vesper die well into the sequels. And when Bond falls for Madeleine, he is scared to lose her. When Bond meets his ultimate end he does it because he wants to save Madeleine and his daughter. I wouldn’t have felt that Brosnan, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and others making the same sacrifice. Yes, they all put their lives on the line for God and country in every movie, but Craig’s was an emotional sacrifice that couldn’t have been replicated with the other Bond’s because their sequels never felt like they were connected.
Craig’s Bond was probably the least cool early on. He didn’t crack as many jokes as he predecessors. This Bond was more of a stone-cold killer who once in a while said something that made audiences smile. In No Time To Die the writers really made up for that. In one of my favorite scenes, Bond guns down bad guy after bad guy, then pours himself a drink and casually clinks glasses with another agent, walks outside and continues to mow bad guys down.
This Bond wasn’t perfect, but he was real. The stories that were told in his universe weren’t too outrageous. There was no outrunning a heat laser and then a massive tidal wave. His stories were more grounded and seemed more realistic.
It reminds me of the Christian Bale Batman movies. Before Bale, the Batman villains were
Mr. Freeze, who was a man in suit keeping his body at freezing temperatures, powered by diamonds, who wanted to freeze the whole world.
Poison Ivy, who can communicate with plants and wanted to cover the world in man eating plants.
The Riddler, who wanted to put a cable box in every home in America so he can suck the secrets from their minds.
The Penguin who was a small man who…..yea he was just weird.
Craig main storylines were
Winning a game of poker to stop international terrorism
Stopping a guy from controlling the water supply overseas.
Stopping a rogue agent on quest for revenge
Stopping a group of terrorists
And finally stopping a madman from killing millions with a virus.
The final movie had the most world ending stakes and felt like a homage to the previous Bonds, but still remained in the realm of realism. And that’s why I love Daniel Craig as James Bond. He was a real person, dealing with trauma that stayed with him throughout the franchise, you cans see the age with the wear and tear on his body after so many years of doing this. And his ultimate end was the most poetic of the Bonds.
So let me know what you think of my favorite James Bond series.
After the WWE Network was bought up by Peacock, there was oddly a lot of negative comments about the deal and that really confused me. The WWE Network cost about $10 and now for the same amount I can have the WWE Network and a ton of movies and shows on Peacock. Peacock already has a massive library of popular shows and movie. The Hunger Games, The Godfather, Harry Potter, Bourne and American Pie franchises were front in center. Also Brooklyn 99, Two and a Half Men and The Office were all great. Every week they add new movies and franchises as their contracts with other services expire.
There is also a lot of original content. Dr. Death was a series I was very excited for and they even made a documentary about the real-life events surrounding the show. There is also a lot of sport and even the Olympics on the streaming service. It really does seem like a win/win for wrestling fans and streaming fans alike.
The only thing I wished they did, and I know it’s kind of a first world problem, is if they have a full chronological order all the WWE events. As I was watching old episodes of Raw and Smackdown, I was lost sometimes because I forget about shows like Heat and Velocity existed. Both of those shows were very important to the overall story.
But, overall, Peacock seems to be doing the WWE fans justice with the streaming service. Every now and then I see fans online that the app crashes on them and they can’t watch live events sometimes, but that’s just something that happens with streaming services, especially live ones. You can expect it to all work perfectly every time.
Maybe fans are just choosing to be negative about the deal or there is some other meaning that I cant figure out yet. Ether way, Peacock is a win for everyone and I would highly recommend it for WWE fans or to people who are looking for a new streaming service to try.
I don’t think I’ll have to pay for another videogame again because I have the Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now. Both services offer a ton of videogames at a reasonable subscription price, but which one is the better buy? I broke this argument into 7 categories to make it easier.
Price
Both services are $10 a month, but the Xbox one comes with the EA Game Pass. It’s not the super-premium one, but still gives you the Mass Effect series, Crysis series, Maddens, a lot of Star Wars and also a ton of other great games. PlayStation Now doesn’t come with anything else.
Point Xbox
Compatibility
The best part of these services is that I can play them on my computer. I have an Xbox One, but I do not PlayStation and haven’t had one since the PS2. It makes a lot more sense to just spend your money on an updated gaming computer, rather than fight off Black Friday shoppers for the last console in the mall.
Point Both
Controllers
The Xbox Game Pass can be played with an Xbox or PlayStation controller. However, certain PlayStation games require a newer PlayStation controller. Until Dawn at times require you to hold the controller steady during certain moments. But annoyingly enough I needed to buy a controller to play The Avengers game. For some reason needed this newer controller with the pressable top button. I wasn’t able to go into the skill tree without it. So, I had to buy a $25 dollar controller to play all the games.
Point Xbox
DLC
Xbox you can buy the DLC for the games on the app, but PlayStation comes up with an error message. I’ve tried this with multiple games and the same message comes up. I don’t know if it’s a console exclusive thing, but either way it’s something PlayStation needs to fix.
Point Xbox
Storage
Xbox you have to download the games on to your hard drive, but PlayStation streams the games directly to my computer. Sometimes that adds to the load times, but it does beat having to delete games for space and spend hours waiting for them to download.
Point PlayStation
Games
This is a toss-up. I love them both. PlayStation you get series like God of War, Rachet and Clank, Infamous series, The Last of Us, The Witcher and others. The only hang-up is that my favorite series Jak and Daxter isn’t on it and Rachet and Clank is incomplete, but I imagine one day they will be on there. They even have most of the Resident Evil series and ALL the Lego games on it.
With Xbox you get all the Gears of War, Halo, Yakuza series and having the EA games also adds a lot more games to play. They also have some Game Pass Exclusives. I’ve been waiting for Crackdown 3 for years and it was finally released on the Game Pass. Xbox doesn’t have as many iconic series as PlayStation, but still a lot of games.
Also, a ton of Indie Developers are there too. It’s good to see companies that aren’t Triple A companies have a chance to get their games out there and build their audiences.
Point Both
Presentation
The Xbox Game Pass seems like a more complete product. Xbox has an Upcoming games section with the arrival dates and a Leaving Soon section where you can play the games included for the last time. It has some cool pined sections like Zombie Month and others, just to keeping things fresh and showcasing some games that might get lost among others. Xbox gives you release dates on games months away. It even has a Surprise Me button which gives you a random game to play. While PlayStation doesn’t.
PlayStation just has a What’s Hot and New Arrivals tabs. It’s not really a pretty looking layout. All the games are lumped together by a few sections and alphabetically. It doesn’t give you any upcoming games to get excited about. Xbox even has trailers and screenshots of the games you click on. PlayStation just has a simple written description and that’s it.
Point Xbox
Winner
I have to give it to the Xbox Game Pass. It feels like a more complete product with a plan. Having the added Triple A games from the EA games is a nice touch. I have to buy less things to play Xbox games and yea the storage is a problem but it isn’t the biggest problem in the end. Overall, I love both services and will be keeping both of them, but if there is a clear winner, even if it’s by a sliver, it’s the Xbox Game Pass.
Big E hasn’t been champion for very long and hasn’t had a REAL feud yet. Kevin Owens is AEW bound after his contract expires. Finn Baylor isn’t written to be a superstar anymore and is probably AEW bound. Edge is older and unless they are making him heel then its not a good fit. Which leads to Seth Rollins being the obvious choice in this. Seth and Big E do have history. Big E beat Rollins for the NXT Championship and that can be a good storytelling point. Seth has the ability to make anyone look incredible in the ring. He has the mic skills to carry any promo. Big E can benefit from having Rollins as an opponent for a few weeks and into a PPV main event, especially if Rollins acquires a tag team to face the New Day.
Raw Women’s Champion
I see Bianca Belair and 3 women who shouldn’t be anywhere near a championship. I have no idea why fans like Liv Morgan. I haven’t seen anything out of Morgan that made me think she has the potential to be in the championship picture. Carmella has never been impressive as a wrestler. Her best work was being the 3rd with Enzo and Big Cass a few years ago. Zelina Vega is weirdly being pushed even though her husband in in AEW which is where she will likelyt go afrter her contract expires. Besides that she doesn’t wrestle well enough to be in the title picutree and shouldn’t have won Queen of the Ring.
Belar has the ability to be in the title picture for the rest of her career. I still see another triple threat match involving Sasha Banks, but if it doesn’t go that way the Beliar is the clear, obvious and only choice to take on Becky Lynch.
United States Champion
Huge fan of Keith Lee. Even bigger fan of Karrion Kross. Apollo Crews is just cannon fodder at this point. But Austin Theory needs this title match. Theory had a great match on NXT with Tommaso Ciampa, then got shot up to the main roster and put in pointless tag matches, then got sent back down to NXT to be Johnny Gargano’s idiot friend and now he’s back on the main roster feuding with Jeff Hardy. WWE Creative hasn’t done a good job with Austin Theory so far. Having him fight against Damien Priest would be the perfect opponent for Theory. Certainly, a chance to get Theory a boost in popularity which could eventually lead him into the main title picture.
Raw Tag Team Champion
Really glad AJ Styles and Omos aren’t on this list. The team of RK-Bro has been oddly entertaining and Randy Orton seems to be having fun with Matt Riddle. I hated the Street Profits. Angelo Dawkins is holding Montez Ford back from a very successful singles run. The Mysterio family isn’t interesting enough to be in this picture. Sure, Orton and Mysterio have history, but Dominik Mysterio isn’t equipped for a match like this. he should’ve been on NXT instead of being shot up to the main roster. Chad Gable and Otis seem to be the only logical choice. Both men have been devoid of a sense of purpose for months, but I like the pairing. Gable has been jumping from tag team to tag team hoping one will stick and Otis’s best days were when he did have a tag partner. Both men have a ying and yang with their abilities, each bringing something unique to the table. I don’t think ant team is deserving, but if I had to chose one then it would be Gable and Otis.
The best kinds of movies teach us a valuable lesson. Sometimes the heroes sacrifice something for the good of others and then realize they never needed that thing in the first place. Triple Frontier doesn’t do that.
The movie is about 5 Delta Force soldiers, Pope, Redfly, Ironhead, Benny and Catfish, all down their luck and assembled to rob a South American drug lord. The heist is mostly a success, the drug lord is killed and the team steals over $250 million dollars in drug money. The only issue is the helicopter can’t lift it all and eventually crashes in a cocaine field.
Redfly shoots an aggressive farmer and the team takes some of their donkeys and continue their journey towards the rondeau point. Well, a pair of farmers didn’t take kindly to that, track down the group and kills Redfly. Lugging Redfly’s body and the money is too much so the team decides to dump the bags in a ravine and take what they can carry.
The final scene is the team with a lawyer discussing the splitting up over 5 million and putting Redfly’s share in a trust for his family. Instead of taking their share, they all decide to put their shares into the trust. As they all say their goodbyes, Ironhead gives Pope the coordinates to the dumped money. Pope smiles and walks off.
What was the lesson here? Pope will end up going back for the money and get to keep the $245 million dollars for himself. If the idea was to show that greed can get your friends killed, then Pope would’ve torn up the paper and lived his life. Terrible message in a terrible movie.
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World War Joe 