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01-26-2018, 04:23 PM | #1 |
Trickster Demon
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HBO presents 'Andre The Giant'
Looks good
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01-26-2018, 04:34 PM | #2 |
King K Cool
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Looks good.
I wouldn't mind watching that but I'll most likely have to wait for it to appear somewhere online. I really doubt it'll be shown on TV over here. |
01-26-2018, 04:35 PM | #3 |
King K Cool
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Mostly because we don't get HBO, but I also doubt any channel over here would want to pick it up anyway.
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01-27-2018, 12:20 PM | #4 |
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01-27-2018, 12:22 PM | #5 |
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01-27-2018, 02:51 PM | #6 |
King K Cool
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Yeah, I've just this second discovered that Sky Atlantic shows HBO stuff.
I would say that there could be a chance for me to watch it after all but my cable provider doesn't provide Sky Atlantic. |
01-26-2018, 05:12 PM | #7 |
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Excited for this. I'll be watching as soon as it's up on HBO now.
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01-26-2018, 07:37 PM | #8 |
Loque Ja
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Sweet. Looks cool.
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01-26-2018, 08:56 PM | #9 |
b/c 5 is better than 4
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Love it. Can't wait.
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01-27-2018, 07:40 AM | #10 |
WOOOOOOOOO!
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Saw a teaser a while back and started getting excited. Really want to see this.
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01-27-2018, 12:18 PM | #11 |
dirty irani
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Hopefully they show it on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
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01-29-2018, 01:07 AM | #12 |
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Looks great. Better than any actual wrestling product that WWE or anyone else has put out in the last 12+ years. As a result, I'm excited and I'd actually pay more than $12 to watch that. HBO wrestling > WWE wrestling
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01-30-2018, 01:33 PM | #13 |
Tongue my Fartbox
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Yet they're still bound to peddle the "Andre was 7 feet 4" wwe mantra. I'd seriously doubt Andre was ever anything over 6 feet 10 absolute tops, he just looked bigger than he was due to the way the disease affected his features and limbs, huge head, huge hands, huge torso but actually pretty short legs if you compare them in proportion to the rest of him.
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01-30-2018, 01:47 PM | #14 |
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Fascinating man from history. I wonder if/how WWE interacts with HBO on this matter?
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04-11-2018, 01:27 AM | #15 |
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So this is on HBO now...anyone else catch it?
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04-11-2018, 01:28 AM | #16 |
Loque Ja
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Yeah, watched it..... enjoyed it..... was cool to see all that early footage.....
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04-11-2018, 08:05 PM | #17 |
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04-11-2018, 02:43 AM | #18 |
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I enjoyed it except for the 10 minute break they took to jerk off Hogan.
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04-11-2018, 07:26 PM | #19 |
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04-11-2018, 08:21 PM | #20 |
Loque Ja
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If you get The Movie Network it is on their "Go App"/On Demand.
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04-11-2018, 09:31 PM | #21 |
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nah nvm found it on watchwrestling. Was awesome.
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04-11-2018, 10:08 PM | #22 |
Loque Ja
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Glad I could help
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04-11-2018, 11:03 PM | #23 |
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Just finished watching the documentary and it was really great overall.
at the fart stories involving Andre. Kind of depressing to know Andre's giant condition was actually very treatable at the time and he could have had a better life in his later years if he retired a lot earlier. Instead he picked entertaining the fans over his own well being and paid for it big time in the end. |
04-12-2018, 11:38 AM | #24 |
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I don't know if I even found out "that much" new about Andre, but it was nice seeing a wrestling doc that isn't WWE produced therefore is actually good.
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04-12-2018, 11:41 AM | #25 |
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04-12-2018, 03:18 PM | #26 |
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Watched it last night, really enjoyed it, showed what a legend he was and how important he is in the wrestling industry, was really sad at the end, worth a watch if any of you havent seen it
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04-12-2018, 06:30 PM | #27 |
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You're welcome
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04-12-2018, 11:11 PM | #28 |
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Pretty damn good.
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04-14-2018, 03:05 PM | #29 |
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Those Timmy white feels at the end tho
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04-15-2018, 07:34 AM | #30 |
WOOOOOOOOO!
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Downloaded and watched it last night. It was really good, there wasn't much I didn't already know, but if I wasn't into wrestling it would've been really cool.
Ya, pretty much. And it looks like he's been through some stuff lately. |
04-15-2018, 12:04 PM | #31 |
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04-15-2018, 08:49 PM | #32 |
WOOOOOOOOO!
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04-18-2018, 12:15 AM | #33 |
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I liked it, the only thing I kinda... groaned (if that's the right word) at, was when they kinda talked about him beating the crap out of people he didn't like in the ring. They're saying "he would batter them, throw them all over the place, it was scary" .... and it shows him doing basic body slams and overhand chops to the chest. I get that they did it to add more of a mystique to the character of Andre, but it just seemed kinda meh to me
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04-15-2018, 07:52 AM | #34 |
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Weird part in the middle where they focused completely on Hogan for a bit. Like, I know Hogan is integral to Andre's story, but at one point I was thinking "Can we go back to talking about Andre anytime soon?"
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04-15-2018, 09:34 AM | #35 |
It's a blood match!
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04-15-2018, 09:11 AM | #36 |
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Definitely killed the flow a bit.
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04-15-2018, 11:34 AM | #37 |
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I was amazed to hear Vince say Andre was "billed" at 7'4" but he wasn't sure of his actual height.
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04-15-2018, 08:22 PM | #38 |
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Just finished it. Really great. My only complaint is that I wish there were more Hulk Hogan
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04-18-2018, 12:36 AM | #39 |
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Regardless of the footage they showed, they weren't lying. Well documented that if Andre didn't like you, you were in for a rough night.
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04-18-2018, 02:29 AM | #40 |
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Andre the Giant was a legendary wrestler, but in good faith, I cannot say that he was a good human being. When he used to stay in hotels when visiting various cities for wrestling shows, if he was dissatisfied with the service in any way, he would apparently go to the bathroom on the bed sheets (not to produce urine), and would then wipe his lower extremities with the curtain sheets. In a lot of ways, Andre the Giant had some serious mental problems in my opinion. Dave Meltzer and Percy Pringle have also commented on this.
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