i love how riled up you can get
you're like a giant, fiery ball of ginger!
Your whole 'wrestling fans hate things' argument is totally contradicted when you then say they overhyped last years Taker/HBK match.
You say they are wrong for disliking what you like and wrong for liking what you thought wasnt that good.
critiquing and being critical is far different from being cynical and whiney. i'm not saying you can't find fault or take issue with certain things, i'm just noticing how, in general, it seems that you (and many others) find a lot of bad in wrestling; or at least comment on in it a lot. now, before you get all huffy, let me clarify that (1) that doesn't mean you don't talk about good things and (2) that doesn't mean you're not allowed to talk about the bad things. it just seems, to me, that wrestling fans in general (or at least those with internet access) complain with great frequency about what they continue to watch.
the only on-the-level comparison i can think of is comic book fans who bitch and moan, but continually come back for more. see; GL DCMB forum, circa 2002.
You say your friends were impressed with the Cena/Batista match because of who it was, and that it was good for them, but should that be enough? Thats like saying we should be impressed with a post by Snarf if its slightly better than normal, just because it is Snarf.
for the record, if snarf made a good post, i
would be impressed. i keep waiting.
I am not one of these people that thinks that the current WWE product is worse than the old days of the 80s and 90s, as I think thay era for the most part was pretty shoddy. But I will compare it to the late 90s/early 00s, because the effort that was put in back then was far more apparent, and the talent list of big names was far stronger, and far more natural than the forced Batista/Cena era we have today.
that sounds like a fair point. i just don't seem to get that much from your posts on wrestling. it often seems moreso like you're continually watching something you loathe (which, actually, still sounds like what you're doing with TNA)
i know you're also a giant movie fan. and, from what i've seen of your movie reviews, you're actually quite light-hearted or liberal about what you appreciated. you're willing to enjoy films based on what they are. so, when some studio spews out the recent punisher movies, or even the kane movie, to tie the concepts together, you're not holding them to oscar standards, and can actually enjoy them; perhaps on the basis of "what were you expecting?"
