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WWE Crown Jewel (2018)
The Crown Avarice
WWE would rather put the title on a part timer that doesn't care about the business than someone who's been there full time, grafted and got over all on his own. They also rather put four 50+ year old wrestlers in the main event who can barely get into the ring without resulting in a hernia. They rather give the world cup trophy to a non-wrestler thus making him "the best in the world" than any of the active wrestlers that were participating in this tournament, I mean, Seth Rollins can't beat Dolph Ziggler in 15 minutes but Shane McMahon can beat Dolph in 2+ minutes? Are you having a laugh!?
I'm really having a hard time finding some pros, but here goes: The World Cup tournament was solid, everyone did their part and performed well considering they were giving limited time to perform their move-set but is such a shame the finale ruined it all. Shinsuke Nakamura VS Rusev ( I can't believe it was on the pre-show) was a good match, nice back and fourth. AJ Styles VS Somoa Joe was rather good albeit I expected the finish of the match to be a bit more grand, but they did well, considering they had to change the opponents. The crowd seemed more invested in this show than the Greatest Royal Rumble which did make the show more atmospheric. The Tag match between The New Day and The Bar and Big Show was alright but rather forgetful.
Respect to Daniel Bryan and John Cena to sticking to their principles, you also avoided a train-wreck.
I don't think WWE has any right to mock WCW anymore, this was a truly irredeemable show and WWE should apologise to the wrestlers involved in this farce.
Warcraft (2016)
Flawed, but enjoyable. Ignore the Ebertian Inquisitors.
Going into this with no prior knowledge, no reviews and only by my previous experience of playing the games I went in with cautious optimism and what I got was a solid action fantasy, with well defined characters and admittedly simple story, but kept the film grounded, so when I eventually checked out the reviews I was really taken aback by how negative they were and after carefully looking through them, I hate to say it, but there is clear biases, they wanted to hate this movie, I even saw one review compare it to Battlefield Earth, BATTLEFIELD EARTH!?! Really? I concede Warcraft is no masterpiece but its no where near the ineptitude of Battlefield Earth and there are unfair comparisons to Lord of the Rings, this isn't that kind of movie, it actually reminds me a lot of Conan the Barbarian(original). Now like I said, it is flawed, I found some of the scene transitions didn't flow as smoothly as it should, so there are obvious cuts they made to keep the movie confined in its run time, but I can't help but think it could've really done with them scenes in so i expect a directors cut in the near future, also and this is a double edge sword mind, the movie does rely on the audience being familiar with the lore and world, but I think the casual moviegoer would get a kick out of this without prior knowledge. The CGI was impressive and the action scenes were top notch, I even felt like I was in the games and even took a lot of risks and went into surprisingly different directions. I highly recommend it.