Calling It Out of: The Entire Mismanagement of Sol Ruca and/or Zaria in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Calling It Out of: The Entire Mismanagement of Sol Ruca and/or Zaria in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references in one way or another.

So this was clearly so, incredibly fudgin' stupid!: So on NXT episode first airing Tuesday 21/04/2026: brief description were Sol Ruca took a terrible bump by being pushed off a state high up by Zaria; in theory I should imagine because I am not a wrestler Ruca was meant to land flat on between two tables; but in reality something must have gone wrong, because she caught it way too short and predominately went through the first table banging her head on the floor: where this is speculation/my opinion that if she isn't currently in concussion protocol, I would be surprised.

This was absolutely a pointless and completely unnecessary spot, considering on Monday 20/05/2026 she was being positioned to take on Liv Morgan at some point for her WWE Women's World Championship in fact they had a match on this program as well, okay now I am annoyed, you see whilst dictating this content I have done a little bit of research; on Tuesday 21/05/2026 on NXT: I now understand it was these two female wrestlers in any Last Woman Standing Match I didn't want the match just the closing section and what has now infuriated me is these two points; you see originally I was on the impression that maybe a little bit of the second table was touched, on closer inspection I was so wrong; Ruca went straight down and got a heavy dose of probably whiplash as the second table wasn't even touched and consequently am not joking here if she doesn't have concussion, I want to know how that is medically possible?

Secondly I don't know this referee but he is so stupid... I know I have been around wrestling long enough to know sometimes you just have to keep things going, but at the same time I have seen referees using a little thing called common sense and just either calling it or just putting up the X [for the people that don't know: the X using both hands/arms is to signify: something real has gone wrong/real injury:] but like a dork he performs the 10 count, I mean he doesn't even go in close to see if she is relatively okay after taking this bump... come on people... I don't care what gender you are... you take a spot like that from that height, at least have the referee yet again regardless of gender... you know check on the situation a little... you know be pro-active, there are three people doing this dance, so there needs to be a line of communication.

Bishop Dyer [formerly known as: Baron Corbin:] in a nutshell and paraphrasing here; he was absolutely correct when he said something to the effect of; this spot is/was pointless, because it could completely derail her now on the main roster, so you have a choice between becoming an Internet meme or getting onto the main roster, where if you on the main roster you take these kind of bumps to keep your spot and is she going to be looking back at this point, going that is where things went wrong for me.

I really couldn't disagree with any of this; because I can't overstress this; this was completely pointless, unnecessary and 110% avoidable.

Moving on to a week later Tuesday 28/04/2026: I mean I know they were going to do something bad, because that is how the WWE has conditioned its audience, but even I couldn't see this coming: we have this video package from Zaria: indicating that Ruca is done and essentially been Thanos clicked out of existence with this AI garbage, this kind of manure without a shadow of doubt will just hurt Zaria in the long run: because it is one of those kinds of things where wrestling fans will never forget this video package, I mean I have no idea why they just didn't have her walking around somewhere with a bridge or water or even a burning barrel where she could throw pictures of her and Ruca into the river or burn the pictures and say: now that is done with; I am going to go through everybody until I get my hands on the NXT Women's Championship, so get out of my way or I am running through you, because if I can do this to my best friend, just imagine what I can do to everyone else... So make your choice? [the closing angle is of the final picture of this friendship either sinking or burning as Zaria turns around and walks away; slightly blurring her walking away to focus on the item in question as it sinks or burns.]

The sad thing is; I'm not being arrogant here, but this concept idea took me all of maybe two minutes to think about and once again without sounding arrogant this idea would have stood her in a better position than this really expensive looking manure of a video package, it just shows be it WWE or internally NXT they really don't have any strong creative ideas and it has been that way for a little while now, but it is starting to really show and consequently suck, so I do hope individually both ladies will be fine in every way possible.

 

Fight Club 1999 by AverageMansReviews

Fight Club 1999 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/mental health/cancer/domestic terrorism/shooting/drugs/attempted suicide/disintegrating/disfigurement/medical

I won't be talking about Fight Club: but I will give you the 8 Rules of Fight Club: 1st Rule: You do not talk about Fight Club, 2nd Rule: YOU DO NOT. TALK. ABOUT FIGHT CLUB, 3rd Rule: Fighter yells "stop," goes limp, taps out, the fight's over, 4th Rule: Two fighters to a fight, 5th Rule: One fight at a time, fellas. 6th Rule: No shirt, no shoes, 7th Rule Fights go as long as they have to, 8th Rule If this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight. The unnamed individual and narrator/other names [Edward Norton:] that suffers with insomnia, he works for Blinds Insurance  [apologies if I have gotten is wrong it quickly gets referenced once in this film;] basically a Federal Motor Company that goes around looking at vehicle accidents; in his free time he goes to these group session therapies, we also meet Tyler Durden [Brad Pitt:] he works in the wonderful world of soap: Paper Street Soap Company and between them they come up with this thing I can't speak of and we have Marla Singer [Marla Singer:] we eventually first meet her in these group therapy sessions.

Generally speaking: character developments, action, comedy framework and pacing of this 139 minutes film very much embodies watch this movie is all about really and art; we have unnamed individual/other names/Norton providing us with narration consistently throughout the movie, which provides three-dimensional character developments on some of the characters we meet obviously including himself, including but not limited to some dark comedy references such as kicking his own butt; to make sure that it sounds like and looks like someone else was handing his butt to him; so as you can imagine the framework or/and the pacing just has to keep things mobile as it will just smoothly move throughout this movie, without interrupting the dark tone of this project; either by a combined effort scene construction and consequently lighting or not or the all round the attention to detail; but one thing is for certain all of these aspects combined to make this very real, dark, gritty, slightly comical and obedient to society norms project to life.

Character developments and performances; now I don't understand why this film has negative awards accredited to its name on any level, because without giving too much away, but clearly enough to make my point; these characters are a product of their surroundings, which gives these characters a layer of authenticity amongst clearly being in-depth, because this is normal for them, which I will tell later some of the negative accredited awards; but as I have already indicated I don't understand why?... In a nutshell main cast and some of the supporting cast are three-dimensional characters and individuals.

So based on these character developments these performances are spot on incarnations/reflections of these character types; their chemistry is free-flowing masterpieces of cinematic history; everyone owned and made their characters regardless of the size the role in question.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; this is absolutely represents the late, very late 90's and very early 2000's very best of filmmaking and cinema, I very recently had the pleasure of seeing this film with the person I watch some of this content with at the cinema on the big screen, so if you have the time and it is on at your local cinema, I can't recommend this enough, you must go and see it or if you don't have this option; it must be seen on a big screen that is for sure or if you can't do that either whatever happens you must see this film once in a lifetime. This film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 12 Winners Positive: which includes but not limited to Empire Awards, UK 2000 Empire Award Best British Actress Helena Bonham Carter and Jupiter Award 2000 Jupiter Award Best International Actor Edward Norton. 38 Nominees Positives: Academy Awards, USA 2000 Oscar Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing Ren Klyce Richard Hymn and Awards Circuit Community Awards 1999 ACCA Best Cast Ensemble Edward Norton Brad Pitt Helena Bonham Carter Meat Loaf Zach Grenier. Negative Winners which includes but not limited to Yoga Awards 2000 Yoga Award Worst Foreign Actor Brad Pitt Shared with: Meet Joe Black and from the same award ceremony/event Worst Foreign Actress Helena Bonham Carter Shared with: A Merry War · The Theory of Flight. Negative Nominees which include but not limited to The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1999 Stinker Award Worst Supporting Actress Helena Bonham Carter and from the same award ceremony/event Most Intrusive Musical Score Dust Brothers

 

 

Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy [Season 3,] Episode 71: Hola El Niño by AverageMansReviews

Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy [Season 3,] Episode 71: Hola El Niño by AverageMansReviews

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5 things about this episode

Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/bodily functions/transformation/dismemberment/machinery/burning/medical/references to Russia and Soviet Union

Fallout continues: Storyline, Character [Character developments] and Comedy; so the final of The Chojin Crown has been for 2 weeks time, but one person that will not be in Kidd's corner will be Meat because of previous events, the crowd recognised this bravery, but stupidity with a chant of stupid, stupid, stupid!; This is all good fun.

Kidd starts training: Action; later on he starts training on his own; this is good.

This episode receives: 8/10, this episode is excellent; in one way or another; a lot gets covered and sets things up nicely for the following episode.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Third Assassination Attempt on a WWE Hall of Fame in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Third Assassination Attempt on a WWE Hall of Fame in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Attempted Assassination of a WWE Hall of Famer in 2024: Part 5 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/08/attempted-assassination-of-wwe-hall-of.html and then 2nd Attempted Assassination of a WWE Hall of Fame in 2024 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/09/2nd-attempted-assassination-of-wwe-hall.html

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references and one dark comedy reference

So this happened again; again; again: I am just putting out this content because I have broadly speaking followed the other two attempts, so if you don't know this third assassination attempt took place at the White House Correspondence Dinner at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday 25/04/2026. Where this individual opened fire at this location and in one way or another was heavily armed. This is just days before the King and Camilla are scheduled to land in the USA and meet with President Donald Trump.

I am just reporting this; but there is now a conspiracy going on around that this incident was staged... me personally I couldn't give two dumps if it is real or not, this is just another sad reminder that this is where we are in the Western world, where instead of having a civil landscape we have a conspiracy going around that this was all for show, whilst the average person in America, the UK, Ukraine, the Middle East are all struggling or/and dying I mean it perfectly sums up everything really, when someone can make more money on Only Fans sleeping with 1000 people and retiring way before 35 years old, thinking they have the audacity to think they have actually earn their money the hard way which entitles them to give themselves the title of entrepreneurs, whilst they have profited off the loneliness and increased mental health epidemic on those that thanks to this new way of life has no to very little opportunity of having a fulfilling relationship with anyone myself included, whilst doctors and nurses who risked their lives not to get a sexually transmitted disease, but to save us all from a global pandemic by the name of Covld-19, that the mid range doctors and nurses and lower down in the medical landscape of things are broadly speaking struggling to make ends meet then we have a fudgin' problem really... But if you want to continue in indulging this absolute manure that is your choice, I will leave this content on a joke; I have to say I find it amusing that one person with not a complete pair of legs; an ex-Paralympian can actually use a gun properly compare to three people with three pairs of legs.

 

Michael 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Michael 2026 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/child-abuse/cancer/burning/disfigurement/shooting/drugs/medical/references to racism and a sexual predator; Pepé Le Pew and for an rare occasion there will be some censored adult language references at some point or another in this content.

This film should have been called Jacksons instead of Michael: briefly; this film covers the early stages of Michael Jackson's life until he is 30 years old; Michael Jackson [Young: Juliano Krue Valdi/Older: Jaafar Jackson: the real-life nephew of Michael Jackson:] the front boy/man of the Jackson 5 and goes on to have a generational singles career as the King of Pop.

Generally speaking: well we have a lot to discuss such as to begin with; the first thing that got up my nose was the fraudulent title of this movie; clearly to begin with you can't have Michael Jackson without bringing up the Jackson 5, I know this; I have no problem with this matter of fact, but to call this film Michael straight off the bat is... I will be nice first... is disrespectful to the Jackson 5 legacy on their own merits, misleading because we clearly just don't get Michael Jackson and finally exploitative; as his name still sells and makes money, but we move on; this movie moves like a pebble stone skipping off water in a pond; at one point missing a chunk of his life and think a roundabout 10 years [basically when Jaafar Jackson gets introduced into the film:] so what is the point of making biopic about someone's life if you are just going to skip through it essentially creating a greatest hits CD? I mean hell I will tell you about the script; it cherry picks or whitewashes anything negative about Michael, because if you don't know I am sure some of you know, but if you don't know for legal reasons, they had to completely re-write a part of this movie and when I say legal reasons I mean we are real courtroom documents so it had to be scrapped and re-written and obviously re-shot.

Which swiftly brings me on to my second point; so far I have not seen one person talk about this gigantic elephant in the room and now I can see why; firstly can I just say the people defending this film and highlighting its positives; you really are a bunch of cowards, because you know and quite clearly I know now there is one big point you have forgotten to mention... now shall I tell the class or are you going to tell the class?... Okay I will do it, this film leaves on the phrase "To Be Continued." Which of what I understand at this point in time there is no sequel scheduled but in a nutshell they would like to continue the story [ I will discuss this more later on in this content;] but back to here and now; because of all of this so far; on reflection it does feel and look like a greatest hits CD compilation, don't get me wrong when we are in these sections of time and moments; the film blitz framework and pacing of this 127 minute film settle down and smoothly gets on with it purpose, but I am not going to lie this film is greatly helped by its visual representation and Jaafar as Michael and the entire assembled cast.

Art, character developments and performances; if I get this off my chest at the very beginning of this section we can move on; I may be partly brain-dead, but even I can see what they've done or at minimum how it looks... they have very much painted over the cracks or diverted their audience/viewer's attention away from anything negative with these spectacular visual spectacles which either became the Jacksons or/and specifically Michael's raison d'être which conveniently sums up the entirety of Michael's life, but for now I will park that and say... the visual representations are fantastic and by far are a bit positive to this project has the Jacksons or Michael was a showman.

But if you listen or/pay attention closely it does drop some what I perceive to be real big clangers or reminders that this film is walking a tightrope of being fraudulent but in this case very much by design meaning we hear Michael make reference to or something to the effect of I want to be mysterious on the basis of not doing anything media related or/and he doesn't want any drugs.

If you can't read between the lines allow me to explain; this whole mysterious persona as you will see stems from possibly his incredibly strict upbringing, but also behind this persona he goes on to have allegedly bizarre goings-on and incidents and at some point as a history of drug abuse in the future; this film drops these clangers/things to remind you that we are being fed could just be on some level smoke and mirrors, so as it relates to the character developments usually I would say something to the effect of they are good; but in this case I think I will have to go with something a bit more in-depth; such as it is an excellent version of character types of how they want us to see them; so they may or may not be true. But what I can tell you is this... on my limited knowledge of the Jackson family; they did is father and mother justice; Colman Domingo as Joseph Jackson: the manager of the Jacksons and a complete posterior hole and Nia Long as Katherine Scruse-Jackson: she always knew that there was something special about Michael; which comes across in this movie and as I have body referenced this cast of performers does an excellent job of bringing this film to life.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; based on the positives of this match I have even decided to award another mark to reflect the positives, but having said that or done that, I can't help but feel or/and think essentially this is a puff piece; which for those people that broadly speaking don't know what this is; basically in this context it means to make someone or something look better than what they are or what they were in the most positive light and if possible to disregard the negatives or at the very worst shrink them down, so it is damage limitation at best.

Now we come on to the massive problem faced with this movie and like I said earlier I would discuss more about the script; I don't know the ins and outs, so I'm just talking from an outsider's perspective; I honestly don't know how the hell they are going to get the next 20 years of his life in a sequel project... because it is clearly going to cover the downfall of Michael and I am not a legal genius, if they had legal issues with this film, speaking with common sense in mind you are going to clearly have multiple upon multiple issues when it comes to his allegations and bizarre incidents and if by some miracle you get the legal go-ahead on some legal go-aheads but not on others which hopefully they won't... are they even going to join the dots and make it up as they go along or are they just going to make the whole thing up if they don't get the legal go-ahead? As the person I watch some of this content with reminded me that there is a lot you can still do, but it's difficult because of legal issues, because it would be a giant elephant in the background of this sequel and not forgetting protecting those individuals that allegedly may or may not have been going through the situations to potentially relive these moments again on the big screen may be too much and if I am being brutally honest with you, I think if this sequel did come out that would be a complete manure show. So the person and I came up with the conclusion that they should really just leave it at this movie and leave him on top and how he should be remembered for the King of Pop.

Yes, this film does have some awards accredited to its name such as 2 Winners which include but not limited to California on Location Awards 2024 COLA Location Manager of the Year - Studio Feature Film Chris Baugh and 1 Nominee from the same award ceremony/event Location Team of the Year - Studio Feature Film Chris Baugh (supervising location manager) Erce Deli Cantu (key assistant location manager) Kim Jordan (assistant location manager) Ted Kim (key assistant location manager) Sofia Ochoa (key assistant location manager) Jeanie Farnam (key assistant location manager) Michael Soleau (key assistant location manager) Marie Healy (key assistant location manager) Santino Salamon (key assistant location manager)

 

Along Came a Spider 2001 by AverageMansReviews

Along Came a Spider 2001 by AverageMansReviews

Previous instalment: Kiss The Girl 1997: Starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/04/kiss-girls-1997-by-averagemansreviews.html

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/Russia/ terrorism/strangling/drugs/transformation/stabbing/vehicle crash/burning/medical/references to the Soviet Union and underage

Where Spider-Man when you need him?: Briefly; when this young girl in daughter of a Senator gets kidnapped, incomes Dr. Alex Cross [Morgan Freeman:] it has been a while since we have seen him and as you will see things went extremely south on his last case, but he is still a forensic psychologist and alongside Secret Service Agent Jezzie Flannigan [Monica Potter:] she is good at her job, but this happened on her watch and hopefully they can resolve this case before it gets much worse, but very rarely go straightforward.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script and character developments are disappointing, because without giving too much away; but at the same time to make a point; it points to one individual straight away and a throwaway comment, but predominantly focuses on one individual right? Because we don't actually see any other possibility [Character building or any whiff of suggestion] before its time to do so and that is all I can say about it really without saying too much or giving anything away, yes we get the exposition on Dr. Cross at the beginning of this movie; so at the very least that is solid character developments. The framework and pacing as a stand-alone outlay for this 104 minutes film is good

Action and comedy; we have the standard do as I say tasks, chased down and guns being used, now I did find it funny when we had Dr. Cross heading into this hotel and go into reception he asks for this package or something to that effect; with this really dramatic background music we have this person behind this front desk looking for this mail, nice and slowly at this is a normal day at work and eventually this package rings; I know it doesn't come from authentic comedy, just as this scene is perceived by me.

Character developments and performances; as yet again stand-alone character developments and performances they are all solidly good; in particular the two performers I have all you mentioned in the storyline section and now including the performer; Michael Wincott; this trio do a lot for this film, yes usually I would have awarded another mark, but then again I had to take off the mark because of what I referenced earlier without giving too much away.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good; I am just disappointed that it couldn't somewhat as a viewer solve-a-long, or have multiple suspects regardless of false or true; it doesn't matter, as long as you have suspects to a certain extent that is what matters, so you don't end up with in essence this really dry film which if you haven't seen it like myself until now; it in its entirety is very deserving of this mark, could have been a bit more better than what it is, there is an ongoing sequence underneath the ending credits This film has some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner BMI Film & TV Awards 2002 BMI Film Music Award Jerry Goldsmith and 1 Nominee Image Awards (NAACP) 2002  Image Award Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Morgan Freeman

 

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960/1961 [alternative name House of Flight] by AverageMansReviews

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960/1961 [alternative name House of Flight] by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is transformation/domestic violence/man on woman violence/strangling/stabbing/shooting/animal cruelty/animal biting/suicide/medical

One brain, two people: briefly; Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde [Paul Massie:] Dr. Jekyll is a scientist, but is working on removing elements of our personality traits would hopefully create higher functioning beings, but by doing so he creates Mr. Hyde and this is their story.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script, the framework and pacing of this 88 minute film is extremely hard work, because on all counts it feels like it is drifting along with not a lot happening coinciding with things clearly happening and then on top of that we have the framework and pacing which mirrors that approach; this was hardly fun to watch or even I would take good to watch.

Art and action; this set designs, costumes and the cultural dancing with and I do stress with the snake was good; I should clarify there is a moment where the snake is a moment where the snake is on the floor and she is dancing around the snake like women used to dance around their handbags in decades past which I have to say this was weird; yes there was some other dancing and let's just say the person I watch some of this contend with after some time just pressed the fast-forward button and other previous bits and pieces as well; which I can't blame them because after some time, it was just insufferably boring, we don't get much in the way of action; action but when we do it serves its purpose and it does the jobs at that those times in the movie; so they are solid.

Character developments and performances; okay the what I perceive to be the status quo for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; as I have seen quite a few incarnations throughout my life; this was an interesting take on these two characters and their dynamics; but like a referenced in the previous section at least we get one face-to-face conversation via a mirror, but other than that these character developments were solid and has the same can be said for these performances; as I said I it is felt like there wasn't really much happening, even though it came in fits and starts.

This film receives: 2/10, this film is poor; this was actually really difficult to watch; it never really grabbed me or I couldn't settle down with it and you should know by now I gave old films a little bit more credit with what they had to use at their disposal at that time making the film, but when there is a much to talk about, I can't really be held responsible for that and to be reasonable to myself/to you I am never made stuff up on things that were just not there.