I gotta say that William Regal as a commentator is just fantastic. He doesn't have the excitement or passion in his voice that color guys like JBL or even King have, but the way he dissects the match and what each wrestler is doing just seems to carry more credibility than anyone else I've ever heard. Everything he says makes me nod and think, "Okay, that makes sense to me."
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Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
I don't think the story is necessarily boring, there is only so much you can do story wise in a film like that. I think it is par for the course for a Zack Snyder film. I'll watch the sequel when it comes out later this year. I don't always need something that is intellectually stimulating or an emotional roller coaster. Sometimes I just want mindless bloody action, no matter how historically inaccurate it may be.
And yes, Regal is great behind the booth. I'd hope that one day he is brought up to work Raw or Smackdown.
And yes, Regal is great behind the booth. I'd hope that one day he is brought up to work Raw or Smackdown.
Not lingering on shots for an eternity and a half would be a start. Yes, I get it, this is emotional, now can we move on please?
It seems to me that 300 is a poor man's Sin City.
And yes, Regal is great behind the booth. I'd hope that one day he is brought up to work Raw or Smackdown.[/QUOTE]
Oh, the spoilers are pretty damn good. Juicy, in fact.
Unfortunately he's often let down by his PBP guy... as well as his tendency to repeat his material. Tony Darsow (the current NXT guy) is shit. What a manoeuvre for the win? No, shut the fuck up. Byron Saxton was awful with all but one colour guy (who isn't Regal) and Chris Russo (who's now a ring announcer) sucked too.
Regal's best partner was Matt Martlaro (an FCW pairing) who was a good enough talker to carry Regal when he stuttered, smart enough to know when to shut the fuck up and had a personality that set up some nice lines for Regal.
The other great combination I heard in FCW was Wade Barrett and Byron Saxton. Wade was damn good at putting people over on commentary and was entertaining while he did it. He also gets props for lampshading post production effects ("Saxton, everything's gone sparkly!")
Every time I see Mason Ryan I imagine that he is actually wearing a body suit that he has stuffed some balloons under to look like huge muscles.
Edit: Holy crap, William Regal just put over all of Wales. Every Welshman was just put over by William Regal.
All the more reason to watch NXT!
Yeah, that dude didn't even know what a headlock was last week and then when Regal called him out on it all he could do was laugh like an idiot. I have no idea how he got to be the announcer on NXT and I have no idea how he's managed to keep his job, though I imagine it has something to do with pursing his lips and Triple H's butt.
I wish they'd stick Josh Matthews in with him as I'm a big Matthews advocate. He did a dynamite job with obnoxious heel Cole on NXT and I think having his fairly excitable personality along Regal's cooler demeanor would work out great. I could even see Matt Striker working out well because he's such a wrestling nerd that he might be able to set Regal up for some of his deeper analysis. The only drawback is that Matt Striker is so fucking annoying that he makes me want to bash in my screen. If he toned it down quite a bit he'd be fine, though.
Edit: Holy crap, William Regal just put over all of Wales. Every Welshman was just put over by William Regal.
All the more reason to watch NXT!
Yeah, that dude didn't even know what a headlock was last week and then when Regal called him out on it all he could do was laugh like an idiot. I have no idea how he got to be the announcer on NXT and I have no idea how he's managed to keep his job, though I imagine it has something to do with pursing his lips and Triple H's butt.
I wish they'd stick Josh Matthews in with him as I'm a big Matthews advocate. He did a dynamite job with obnoxious heel Cole on NXT and I think having his fairly excitable personality along Regal's cooler demeanor would work out great. I could even see Matt Striker working out well because he's such a wrestling nerd that he might be able to set Regal up for some of his deeper analysis. The only drawback is that Matt Striker is so fucking annoying that he makes me want to bash in my screen. If he toned it down quite a bit he'd be fine, though.
That would be in character. Of course, he's just as likely to slip in a sheep shagging joke.
Yeah, I remember Martlaro and Regal having a short argument about MM calling a cravatte, with Matt saying he has to call it because it's the only hold he knows. He sold it with just the right amount of pathetic to make it work. He got moved to Connecticut to feed HHH info on developmental guys more directly, which is a shame.
But I'd take him over Bret DiBiase (imagine Ted, but less personality) as a colour guy and Abraham Washington doing anything in the booth. Awful, awful commentators.
I suspect someone likes his voice which is why he has the job and it's cheaper to keep him than can him.
I didn't really enjoy that combination. After a while it just became those two snarking about everything and being a distraction from the show. I think they did work together on NXT Redemption though.
With Striker you have to tread carefully because the fact that he's a wrestling nerd makes him a better colour commentator rather than PBP. He also tended to analyse things deeply himself, being wordy when explaining why a move works. It could be an ugly combination.
Well obviously; it's my understanding that nobody from the UK likes anybody not from their country.
After a while, yes, but Josh Matthews was really the first person to call Cole on his shit during season one, and he did it beautifully.
I think Striker's biggest flaw is that he models himself off of one of the worst commentators in the history of professional wrestling, Joey Styles.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
I truly dislike Styles. His Oh My God call sounds like a woman in a bad horror movie.
Eh, it's like people from NY taking the piss out of NJ. Except for the Irish and Scots who want out of the UK.
But Season 1 Cole was way more toned down than he eventually became. He bashed Bryan, but that's about the extent of it.
Definitely doesn't help. But honestly, I think he's not so much modeling himself after Styles as he is trying to say as much as he's a massive nerd who doesn't know how to shut his pie hole.
On the subject of Martlaro, he is the gift that keeps on giving. This playlist is GOLD.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaOq4c2rzPizkcQJBuDk2BnIanHX1cDp0
He also has the tendency to just call moves without really adding anything of consequence to the match. That's my big complaint about him.
Yeah, I figure most of it is in good spirit.
He was still obnoxious and Josh Matthews played a great foil.
Yeah, Striker will go on about a rest hold to the point of ridiculousness too. I cn see why that would be annoying.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
300 is a fucking abomination. That is all.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Funny enough, its actually one of the most historically accurate hollywood depictions there is(er, of the chain of events that is, not necessarily how they were depicted. Persians are not demon-monster-guy-peoples). Many of the lines from the movie come straight from greek historians.
Maybe the military strategy and a few lines from it, but Xerxes I was not a ridiculous megalomaniac (nor was he a 7 feet tall black man) and the Spartans were not noble defenders of Greece. Plus the Persians were Zoroastrians, which forbade slavery, as opposed to the Greeks, who loved slavery. The Persians also let most conquered kingdoms practice their faith.
It's extremely historically biased basically.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
I've heard the sequel, well prequel, that is due out late this year is trying to be more historically accurate.
Dowdsy McDowds
Sally was here
Where's the fun in that!? 300 is a visual treat, but did anyone really see it to study how the Greeks and Persians really behaved? It's a typical weekend action film where you don't really need to engage your brain.
I get that it's not without its flaws, but it didn't pretend like it was going to be like Battle of Algiers or anything.
I get that it's not without its flaws, but it didn't pretend like it was going to be like Battle of Algiers or anything.
I went off Spartans when I learned that the males were raised from a young age around other males with no female contact, and spent so much time having compulsary sex with their male mentors that when the time came to do it with a woman they had to be taught all over again because they were either unwilling or unable. Reminded me too much of senior school.
The Spartan constitution actually made pederasty illegal and they were fairly big on heterosexual marriage (by which I mean there's archaeological evidence that Spartans knew "neither ****es nor adultery"). Also, Spartan girls went to the same schools as boys so they weren't exactly isolated from the opposite sex.
Pretty much everything I've ever read or watched about the Spartans (a documentary on channel 4) confirms what I said, especially during the time period mentioned, obviously they were big on being hetero + physically fit cos they needed soldiers. I always understood it that especially during warrior training taking it up the arse was mandatory.
I think most of the men in the Greek city-states enjoyed homosexual relationships should they have been in a high enough class to engage in one. This made the line where Leonidas calls the Athenians "boy lovers" particularly humorous to me.
Except it was still pretty boring apart from the battles.
Apparently it's a metafilm, though. Pictures that reflect the nature of pictures. It's weird and I don't really understand why it's philosophically important, but it is.
Except it was still pretty boring apart from the battles.
Apparently it's a metafilm, though. Pictures that reflect the nature of pictures. It's weird and I don't really understand why it's philosophically important, but it is.
The one chronicler who would actually know what went down in the barracks (on account that his sons went there) flatly contradicts that. Aristotle blamed a lack of homosexuality and pederasty for the "poor" culture of Sparta compared to Athens and Corinth. There's also psychological backing for Sparta not enforcing mandatory "spear practice" after dark. Their culture was about as non-misogynistic as it's possible to be in ancient times. Women could do what they wanted, inherit from their parents, were economically more important than men (because ya know they were in the barracks so often their wife had to take care of the estate) and didn't married until they were old enough to "enjoy sex" (that was actually a law). Athens, which was filled with pederasty and child molestation was at the opposite end of the spectrum, to the point that if a woman got raped her husband legally had to divorce her.
The kicker? Modern psychological research indicates that men who were sexually abused as children are more likely to be misogynous when they grow up.
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