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Eh I mean WM has always been a pop culture spectacle. It's the superbowl of wrestling, where even people who don't usually watch, watch it. Or at least, that's the idea.

While it's awesome to think it's because of the fans, Dave Meltzer confirmed that after running down the match times, they decided they had room after all for that match. It was sadly nothing to do with people speaking up.

Yeah like, when hasn't WrestleMania been directed right at casual fans? These hard hitting questions and more from the AV Club's 'resident wrestling geeks' (Who no one has heard of).

For all the work that Miz and Maryse have put in, I really hope they get the win.

I think it's his most immediate masterpiece. Like, on first listen you know you're listening to something great. I think PARADE (Released just before this) and LOVESEXY (Released just after) are great albums in their own right, they just take a lot more listening to get there.

I've been slowly writing something that I'll publish one day, going through each album with some historical context to it, and what I found in researching it is that the year this came out was an insanely creative period (86 - 87). During those 12 months I don't know that any artist ever hit that same peak. He was

I think the run of albums start with PRINCE. It's less a cohesive whole, but most of those tracks are pretty great. I think CONTROVERSY is a bit lesser, but only because it's the one time in that whole run that it feels as though he's repeating himself.

We're kind of in the middle so I had to double check. There was nothing wrong with the scene as shot, but when he saw the audience scream during the chumming scene, he admitted he got greedy. So Spielberg reshot the scene in a pool to get a bigger jump scare out of it.

That's the one thing that gave me pause. Verbinski was never really a horror director. He was a director for hire. He made THE RING, but his movies prior to that were MOUSEHUNT and THE MEXICAN. He was basically a director for hire at Dreamworks.

There are a couple of images that have always stuck with me since seeing MUNICH. One is the scene with the female assassin, who pathetically disrobes in an effort to avoid being killed, and the other is the violence. There's something almost too real about it.

Fun Fact: At one point King wrote a draft of POLTERGEIST. And for a long time Spielberg was toying around with making THE TALISMAN.

I'm sure you know this story, but that was added way late into the movie. They were test screening it and the audience lapped it up, so Spielberg got the idea that he would get one more really good scare out of them so quickly shot that scene in a swimming pool.

Yeah I mean the story coming out of the last movie is that even with all the Paul Walker stuff, Diesel was insistent that it be about his central romance with Rodriguez.

No. There actually isn't.

Fuck Chris Brown, but I'm not sure I'll put him on the same level as Affleck and Penn.

Penn didn't actually attack Madonna. That shit about tying her up and beating her with a bat? That came from a British tabloid. Madonna went to court recently and vehemently denied that it ever happened. Hell, like a month later in a Rolling Stone interview she called it bullshit, and then said that it doesn't matter

I mean, part of the suit is that no one involved is allowed to publicly talk about it. Beyond kind of addressing it indirectly, I think Affleck has acknowledged it about as much as he can do.

It all relies on execution. The great thing about PET SEMETARY is that it's a novel of pure dread. It inches towards something horrible happening.

It's insane that King hates it, and tried to stop having it published. His wife also hated it.

I'm a big fan and for some reason that book was one of the last of his I'd read. I'm sorry I slept on it so long because it's fantastic. He does such a good job of portraying that town.