The Rock. Triple H. Undertaker. Summer Slam. Folding Chairs. The People’s Eyebrow!
Dammit!!! How can people watch this crap??? Why??? My GF and her kids are watching it right now. They are showing a scene where a guy slams a girl on her back and they think it’s cool!!! Bah!
They think the worse-than-soap-opera-acting is fan-fucking-tastic! They’re laughing and cheering and ooohing and ahhing!!! WHY GOD???
They think they Jenny-Jones-Wanna-Be-drama is fascinating! They think it’s the best thing since sliced bread! WTF? Do they put subliminal messages in this crap???
I watched a couple minutes of wrasslin’ the other night. What a freakin’ crack-up. I was in stitches. It’s the between the matches story-breaks that are the best. The acting skills displayed are on a par with the kids in the high-school play who had a choice between drama club and reform school.
I use it as a tongue-in-cheek threat to my wife. If she wants to watch Ally McBeal, I have to argue for Vince McMahon and the crew.
BUT . . . It should absolutely be prohibited from being watched by anyone who thinks it’s real. I’ve met a few of these winners. Listening in on a conversation between two wrasslin’ fans is almost as fun as watching the a Texas-Hacksaw-Gator-Pit-Cage-Match with no referee.
The “Big Show” comes into my gun range a lot. Pretty much all those bastards either live here in Tampa, or they are from here.
Let me tell you, that bitch is HUGE!! His fingers barely fit through the trigger gaurd of large frame pistols. In fact only the tip of his finger fits in there. That is gigantic. The bottom of his hand hangs off the handle of a 50 cal Desert Eagle while the top of his hand is so big it gets cut by the slide everytime!! He holds it like I hole a Glock 26. (For you non-gun people or you Brits, just trust me when I say he is very large)
I think he is like 7’4" (metric= 1.5 km, I think)!
As far as the OP, I know what you mean. So many people flock aroung this guy like he road in on the IPU or something!! I just treat him like everyone else. Well, like anyone 7’4" with hands bigger than my head anyway.
I DO NOT think the wrestling or anything else in the show for that matter is real. I do, however, have a twisted sense of humor. Kinda why I keep coming here, too.
::shaking head:: Demo, Demo, Demo, what are we going to do with you ?
I like wrestling, always have, I grew up watching it. It’s like I explained to my doctor when I was bitching about being kept in the hospital and having to miss wrestling, there is nothing else that lets you cheer the good guys jeer at and insult the bad guys (and girls too). See a good fight and nobody dies ( well, very seldom anyway) all in the comfort of your own home.
I know it’s not “real” , but I doubt that you could take the punishment those guys put their bodies through to earn a living.
Ayesha, how do you feel about all the kids on the playground “clotheslining” and “backbreaking” their fellow students? And thinking that nobody’s going to get hurt? Pssshht!
The actors and other celebrities, what they do is fake, and they perform about 90 days a year, as opposed to a 300-days a year schedule the average wrestler performs. If you don’t like to watch, turn the channel, or go two out of three falls with your girlfriend for the remote. Go back to watching Friends, whose cast get $2 million to whine for 30 minutes while poorly imitating life in New York. I’ll watch Smackdown, where the wrestlers earn their money the hard way.
Well, I think that the kids parents need to let them know not to do those things Demo. I know the wrestlers have spots on the televised shows saying that they have been hurt and that kids shouldn’t do this. That they are trained professionals.
Of course kids will do things they see, they always have, and always will. But you can’t blame it on wrestling, I never clotheslined anyone when I was a kid.
I like wrestling. I try to watch it when I can. Tonight was a very great episode of Smackdown.
I do not think it is real. I do not think most of the acting is particularly great. HOWEVER…you are a liar and ignorant if you say that the wrestlers don’t get injured or that the ‘fake’ moves don’t hurt. The only reason the moves are fake is because they are performed in such a way as to reduce injury as much as possible. After all, ratings wouldn’t be so high if the wrestlers weren’t able to perform as often if they broke their arms, legs, and back every match.
I gotta go with Ayesha there. I was raised on wrestling and Hulk Hogan teaching all us Hulkamaniacs to take their vitamins and say their prayers. Of course now I’m a Taoist, but that’s beside the point. It’s still fun.
And as for the kids on the playgrounds, the wrestling you’re thinking of (the wrestling of old) is no longer. They now advertise it as “sports entertainment” and don’t say it’s real. There are sites on the web devoted to showing how they do the moves, and most kids know this. But you’ve also got kids immitating Arnold, Sly, Jean-Claude, and all of the other action “actors”. However, most wrestlers have better acting skills than most action stars.
It’s like Ayesha said, it’s the good guys vs. the bad guys. It’s not a wanna-be-drama, it’s just fun. No offence meant, but you could always go and read some Shakespeare while they watch.
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Bear_Nenno mentioned: “The bottom of his hand hangs off the handle of a 50 cal Desert Eagle while the top of his hand is so big it gets cut by the slide everytime!! He holds it like I hole a Glock 26. (For you non-gun people or you Brits, just trust me when I say he is very large).”
What, is this guy a midget or something? I’m a woman with medium hands, and even MY pinky has no place to go with those 26 and 27 tenifered mini-babies.
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WWF is really big business these days and it’s milked like the big rock concerts are. They have running story lines with script writers and everything. Amazing.
Damn, this outpouring of support for fake sports is suprising. Well, I’m with Demo on this one. Wrestling is ridiculous.
If I knew every play of every NFL game was carefully choreographed well in advance of the game and the players spent all week talking shit to each other (the whole time knowing who was going to win), I wouldn’t watch. Not in a million years.
If that was the case, why don’t we ever see any pro wrestlers go on to fabulous movie careers? And before anybody mentions it, that straight-to-video Hulk Hogan flick doesn’t count. :rolleyes: Hell, you never know. Maybe they really are great actors, but they turn down all the multimillion dollar movie deals because grappling with sweaty, muscular men in spandex underwear is too much of an opportunity to pass up.
I still don’t get how people can watch this stuff without getting a headache, either. It’s just constant screaming. It sounds like an hour-long used car commercial!
What, is this guy a midget or something? I’m a woman with medium hands, and even MY pinky has no place to go with those 26 and 27 tenifered mini-babies
A midget? Baglady, I don’t think you heard me right. I understand the way we normal people have to hold a Glock 26 (ie. with our pinkies curled under the bottom because there is no room on the handle). But this is how he has to hold a 50 cal Desert Eagle! I cannot think of a bigger hand gun than that!! The man is monstrous. I don’t think he could even hold and shoot a Glock 26. It would disappear into his hand.
Hate to break it to you, but for better or for worse, “The Rock” is playing the Scorpion King (or something to that effect) in The Mummy 2 (and possibly 3). There’s also talk of him playing the next Conan, though frankly I don’t see that happening…
The Big Show is 7’2", and roughly 500 lbs. Wrestling is fake, But it is emmensley enjoyable. I also grew up watchinmg wrestling, and I never performed a backbreaker, twist of fate etc. (but i know how to ;)).
Easy to explain, they make way more money wrestling. Also, it’s way easier. Don’t think it isn’t the case either, the big wrestlers make millions of dollars for signing for a just a year. It’s more secure than acting (as long as you keep it up, you’re never out of work) and you get treated like royalty. Action actors fall out of favour and are forgotten about faster than wrestlers. I’m not saying they’re great actors, they’re not. I’m just saying that it’s the standard fair in action movies. Oh yeah, and Hogan’s done a lot of movies, many of which were not straight to video. Not that I’m a big fan of any of them, but Rocky 3, Gemlins 2, No Holds Barred, Muppets In Space and Suburban Commando all did fairly well at the box office. Not to mention all of the other movies he’s done, but he’s making a pretty good living. Other wrestlers turned actors: Roddy Piper (many movies, and a marginally successful TV show in Canada), The Rock (already mentioned), if I’m not mistaken Mr. T did some wrestling, and Zeus was the President in The Fifth Element. You don’t need to be a great actor for your stereo-typical action movies: Arnold was a body builder and Sly Stallone was a porn actor. A lot of action movie stars are just fighters who decided to try to make more money.
Yes! Hell Comes to Frogtown is one of my camp favorites. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper stars as Sam Hell, a man whose destiny is to impregnate all the women of the wastelands. Unmissable!
And to add something for this debate (GD material, no doubt)…
I’m not all that familiar with pro wrestling, but recently I saw a documentary about Hitman Hart(?, don’t remember the name), which confirmed my opinion: it’s entertainment!
Like in the “real” sports, the athletes are performers, but there is a script. And I like good scripts. Unfortunately, pro wrestling seems to employ only hack writers.
But it is an interesting peek inside the American psyche.
