Posts Tagged ‘SmarK Rants’
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The SmarK Retro Rant for WWF Wrestlemania X-7
- Live from Houston, TX
- Your hosts are Jim Ross & Paul Heyman
- So this is it, the peak of North American wrestling and the point from which you can draw a clear line downwards again, quality-wise. This is the start of the current "Stadium show Wrestlemania" format, as well as the four hour format. After the show myself and many others called it the greatest PPV of all-time, but does it hold up 8 years later? Note for those wondering: This show is coming up on 24/7 next week, but I'd rather watch the unedited DVD version.
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Attitude, Bobby Heenan, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, DVD, Edge, heel turn, HHH, Intercontinental title, Iron Sheik, Jeff Hardy, Jim Cornette, Kamala, Lita, Lost, MMA, NWA, Raven, RAW, Retro Rant, Royal Rumble, RVD, Shane McMahon, Shawn Michaels, SmarK Rants, Steve Austin, The Rock, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWE, WWF
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Monday Night RAW - December 15 1997
- Taped from Durham, New Hampshire.
- HOUR #1!
- Your hosts are Jim Ross, Kevin Kelly and Michael Cole.
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Attitude, D-Generation X, HHH, Iron Sheik, Jim Cornette, Lita, Locke, Michael Cole, Monday Night RAW, RAW, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, SmarK Rants, Steve Austin, The Rock, UFC, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for World Championship Wrestling - October 4 1986
- Your hosts are Tony & David. This is likely taped before the Omni show with the US tag title tournament they've been hyping for weeks, so no mention of the results or even the show here.
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Dusty Rhodes, Four Horsemen, Jimmy Garvin, Magnum TA, Midnight Express, NWA, Ric Flair, Rock N Roll Express, SmarK Rants, The Rock, Tully Blanchard, TV, WCW, World Championship Wrestling
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
The SmarK DVD Rant - Based On a True Story!
I've always found "based on a true story" to be an odd phrase, as normally things are either true or false, whereas it is a uniquely Hollywood proposition to proclaim something as factual while still fudging details to make it more entertaining. Even stranger to do so when the true stories in question are sometimes more unlikely than anything that the overworked screenwriters could have thought of.
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Tags: 24, Angelina Jolie, Attitude, Changeling, DVD, DVD on TV Reviews, Flash of Genius, Greg Kinnear, SmarK Rants, Sting
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The SmarK DVD Rant for the Back to the Future Trilogy
[Note from time-traveling Scott in 2009: This is a repost and update of my original rant on the trilogy from 2002, which has been recently re-released by Universal in single-disc sets. I'm assuming that since it was written 7 years ago, a good chunk of my readership won't have read the original anyway]
Time travel stories give me a headache.
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Tags: Back to the Future, DVD, DVD on TV Reviews, House, MMA, Pop Culture, SmarK Rants, Sting, The Others, TV
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Monday Night RAW - December 8 1997
- So it's the night after the DeGeneration X PPV and big stuff is afoot…
- Live from Portland, Maine.
- Hour 1 is hosted by Jim Ross & Michael Cole & Kevin Kelly. My dream team! Actually they're not so bad here because their entire role is to read pre-scripted bits of the conversation in between JR's actual points. Like they're going over the Shamrock-Michaels title match and Kelly's bit will be "Indeed the match was a mixture of speed and technique" and you won't hear him again. I can deal with that.
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Attitude, Dream Team, HHH, Intercontinental title, Jeff Jarrett, Jim Cornette, Locke, Michael Cole, Monday Night RAW, RAW, Shawn Michaels, SmarK Rants, Steve Austin, Sting, The Rock, Tito Santana, Vader, Vince McMahon, Vince Russo, WWE, WWF
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
The SmarK DVD Rant for The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
I have been waiting anxiously for this one for a while now.
Disc One
- Hosted by Mean Gene
- So let us take you back to the Rock N Wrestling era in 1985, as SNME replaces SNL reruns once every few weeks…
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Andre the Giant, Batista, Bobby Heenan, Bret Hart, British Bulldogs, Dusty Rhodes, DVD, DVD on TV Reviews, Edge, George Steele, Greg Valentine, Hart Foundation, heel turn, HHH, House, Hulk Hogan, Intercontinental title, Iron Sheik, Jake Roberts, Jim Duggan, John Cena, Lita, Locke, Lost, Macho Man, Matt Hardy, Montreal, Mr. Perfect, Randy Savage, RAW, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Saturday Night's Main Event, Shane McMahon, Shawn Michaels, Slick, SmarK Rants, SNME, Terry Funk, The Rock, The Wrestler, Tito Santana, TV, Ultimate Warrior, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania III, WWE, WWF
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
The SmarK DVD Rant for Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Poor Bryan Fuller, every project he launches is just too far ahead of the curve for the world and dies before its time. The most spectacular example of that was Pushing Daisies, which had the best pilot I've ever seen and strong ratings to match, but died out in the wake of the writer's strike and a long hiatus. Before that, however, his most celebrated cause was Dead Like Me, which only ran for two seasons on Showtime before getting axed for reasons that are still kind of mysterious today. Ratings were fine, the show wasn't hugely expensive to produce and the network was generally happy with the product despite constant tinkering and notes from Day 1. In fact, Fuller left after the pilot, but his whimsical touch could be seen all through the run of the show. But now, as though revived by the Piemaker, Dead Like Me has been touched and brought back to life!
They probably shouldn't have bothered, though.
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Tags: 24, Bryan Fuller, Cinema, Dead Like Me, Desmond, DVD, DVD on TV Reviews, Edge, Ellen Muth, Lost, Pushing Daisies, SmarK Rants, TV
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for World Championship Wrestling - September 27 1986
- Another short show this week. Luckily the Braves sucked ass in the 80s, so things will pick up again once we get to the post-season.
- Your hosts are Tony & David.
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Dusty Rhodes, DVD, Jim Cornette, Jimmy Garvin, Midnight Express, Nikita Koloff, NWA, RAW, SmarK Rants, Starrcade, WCW, World Championship Wrestling, WWE
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
The SmarK Rant for WWE No Way Out 2009
- Live from Seattle, WA
- Your hosts are JR, King, Tazz, Striker, Grisham and Cole.
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Tags: Chris Jericho, ECW, Edge, Elimination Chamber, heel turn, HHH, House, Impact, JBL, Jeff Hardy, John Cena, Locke, No Way Out, Randy Orton, RAW, RVD, Shane McMahon, Shawn Michaels, Smackdown, SmarK Rants, Sting, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE
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