DVDathon
So, my DVD player's busted, and I'm sick of VHS. So, I do the sensible thing, run to Wallyworld, and score a DVD adapter for my XBox. First thing out of the starting gate I try to watch my newly acquired DVD of Troma's latest schlockorama "Tales from the Crapper". I'm three quarters of the way through one of the absolute worst greatest movies of all time, when the DVD goes to crap on me. At first I think my XBox has joined my DVD player in the scrapheap, but after a careful examination of the "Tales" DVD, I notice a big, nasty scratch running across it. Once again, I swear I will never buy a Used DVD ever again. Onward.
I pop in "CZW: Scarred". CZW, or Combat Zone Wrestling, is the bastard love child of ECW, the Japanese Death Matches, and Backyard Wrestling. The only wrestler on the DVD that I had heard of before was Mad Man Pondo, a wrestler who originally hailed from Flora, IL (fifteen minutes up the road) and used to work in the McDonalds and Pizza Hut in said town. His ex-wife and Pizza Hut manager, Lady Vendetta, still works the local wrestling circuit. CZW's thing is that it tries to be the most violent work of wrestling ever. Every match on the DVD involved lightbulbs. Lots of lightbulbs. Being smashed over people's heads and backs. Then there other extra touches like barbed wire and a weed whacker (yep, an actual, working weed whacker). Whereas the WWE currently suffers from too much of a focus on Drama and not enough on Wrestling and Hardcore Brawling, CZW focuses too much on Hardcore Brawling and not enough on Drama and Wrestling. As a result, after the initial shock value wears off, the DVD quickly becomes intensely boring. Frankly, there are only so many times you can see a guy break lightbulbs across another guys back before you just wish someone would hit someone else with a damn wrestling move. Ugh.
So, after two disappointments, I pop in "Carnivale", which I borrowed off Tate (word up to my homie). Carnivale is one of them there HBO series everyone's talking about, and for good reason. I've only watched the first two episodes, and I'm already hooked. It's not enough that the series damn well drips with mystery, entrigue, enigma, and pathos, but in addition it's got The Man From Another Place, the Know it All Lesbo from the Faculty, and the fucking KURGAN in the cast. Great show. I've gotta save up some money and purchase this one sometime.
I pop in "CZW: Scarred". CZW, or Combat Zone Wrestling, is the bastard love child of ECW, the Japanese Death Matches, and Backyard Wrestling. The only wrestler on the DVD that I had heard of before was Mad Man Pondo, a wrestler who originally hailed from Flora, IL (fifteen minutes up the road) and used to work in the McDonalds and Pizza Hut in said town. His ex-wife and Pizza Hut manager, Lady Vendetta, still works the local wrestling circuit. CZW's thing is that it tries to be the most violent work of wrestling ever. Every match on the DVD involved lightbulbs. Lots of lightbulbs. Being smashed over people's heads and backs. Then there other extra touches like barbed wire and a weed whacker (yep, an actual, working weed whacker). Whereas the WWE currently suffers from too much of a focus on Drama and not enough on Wrestling and Hardcore Brawling, CZW focuses too much on Hardcore Brawling and not enough on Drama and Wrestling. As a result, after the initial shock value wears off, the DVD quickly becomes intensely boring. Frankly, there are only so many times you can see a guy break lightbulbs across another guys back before you just wish someone would hit someone else with a damn wrestling move. Ugh.
So, after two disappointments, I pop in "Carnivale", which I borrowed off Tate (word up to my homie). Carnivale is one of them there HBO series everyone's talking about, and for good reason. I've only watched the first two episodes, and I'm already hooked. It's not enough that the series damn well drips with mystery, entrigue, enigma, and pathos, but in addition it's got The Man From Another Place, the Know it All Lesbo from the Faculty, and the fucking KURGAN in the cast. Great show. I've gotta save up some money and purchase this one sometime.
2 Comments:
As I mentioned briefly in my email this morning, I got hooked on Battlestar Galactica this weekend doin a favor for a friend. Now, being a Sci Fi series, the dialogue can at times get bad, specially where Gay Ass and the hottie blonde are concerned. But somehow, the acting helps to block that punch and smooth it out a bit. And, is Battlestar Galactica, the third jab at a series from the late 70's and again in the mid 80's. How can that possibly be bad?
I love Carnivale. I've been watching it on HBO since the beginning and the second season just ended. If you like the first season you'll love the second season it is even better. Another really good HBO series is Deadwood. If you like gritty westerns (which I gather from your blog you do) you'll love Deadwood.
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