Bhaal came back after the second sundering. So maybe they can do something with that. 

The idea that we got Akira’s themes in a mainstream Hollywood movie makes me insane with joy.

Eh, at least G’14 wasn’t a total character assassination like Man of Steel was, so there is that.

The 2014 movie lost it’s human angle when they killed off Bryan Cranston’s character, as he was bringing something to that role and would have made an excellent vehicle for the human perspective. Instead they went with Lt. Meathead who couldn’t act and was boring as hell.

Shin Godzilla: A satire of ineffectual bureaucracy

Lucas had a peculiar genius for synthesizing a wide variety of influences into something new and weird. Edwards has considerably fewer interests and it shows.

I’m already sold on this movie by how well the soundtrack is done. Bear McCreary did an excellent job on it.

WWF/WWE (or more to the point, Vince) has always had a spiteful streak. As the last of the Harts in the company, Owen was getting all the blowback for his family members wrestling in WCW. Especially Bret. All the more tragic, in that Owen seems to have been one of those who just soldiered on.

IIRC, they had actually done that bit a couple of weeks prior to the show, where Blazer rappelled into the ring, but got stuck in his safety harness and just hung helplessly while his opponent beat him like a pinata.

Jim Ross basically says as much in the podcast he released today.  He didn’t want to do it, and he really didn’t want to do it with Max Mini, so he hoped that by delaying it, they’d eventually decide it wasn’t worth the hassle and cancel it. The delay meant they planned to probably do the Max Mini bit the next night…

POST Wrestling has a podcast episode this week detailing this final day. It’s a great listen. It seemed as if Owen was avoiding the practices to force Vince’s hand and cancel the stunt. Unfortunately it forced his hand to say he had to be there in 15 minutes or find another job. Owen having just bought a house and…

The idea, IIRC, was that Owen was supposed to trigger it a few feet above the ring and fall on his face like a dumbass. 

The gag was that he would descend from the rafters like Sting, but get stuck four feet above the ring. The quick release was so he could then drop from the short height and pratfall.

For real, wtf is the point of the quick release. There are twist lock carabineers that are far safer than this quick release referenced in the article (DIVING equipment McMahon? Are you fucking serious?), but you can still exit in less than a second. 

“I’m not an expert in rigging; I guess you are.”

I think its clear from the context of the article that he, at minimum, showed up late so he wouldn’t have to practice his descent with a dwarf strapped to him, or more likely hoping they would cancel the stunt altogether.

I enjoyed the article but it seems like it ended abruptly.

am i understanding this right:

The first:

Pretty much anything from Miyazaki (he doesn’t even like computer animation), but especially Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke.