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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Aug 7, 2018 19:12:30 GMT -5
Apparently he liked There's Something about Mary and they stole a lot of their toilet humor from that movie. For the most part Vince is in a bubble isolated from everything else that's not wwe, though Bruce Prichard said that for a time, Linda's favorite show was ER and Vince watched a couple episodes. If y'all remember on the attitude era, they did a lot of segments on hospitals, it was because of ER lol. Trying to discuss pop culture or anything that's not wwe related with Vince can be very taxing. Colt Cabana's career died because of that. Colt pitched to be stand up comic as his character based on Seth Rogen and the Apatow movies that were a hit at the time, Vince had no idea who he was talking about because the last comedian he saw was Jackie Gleason. Freddie Prinze Jr one time was watching a comedy set by Richard Pryor and Vince walked by and asked him what he was watching, he had no idea who Richard f***ing Pryor was. Vince also thought that Scott Hall invented the Razor Ramon character because he had no idea what Scarface was, despite being one of the most important movies of all time. McMahon also had no idea that the razors are for cocaine lines and that's why he let Hall use the razors on his outfit. Vince also had no idea what The Godfather was saying when he talked about weed. Vince let RVD and Mysterio use the name 420 for a move because he had no idea what it meant. For the XFL, Vince approved the nickname "Tea Bagger" because he thought it meant something else. I buy a lot of things at face value, but my ASS Vince didn't know you use razor blades for cocaine. Lol he probably used something else Prichard said Vince didn't know what the razors meant and that's why Hall used it as a logo. Apparently Vince learned too late what they were used for. Another bubble story, once chopsuey became a hit, Paul Heyman pitched System of a Down to play on wrestlemania, of course Vince didn't know what Heyman was talking about, Vince also didn't know what Metallica was even when they were hot. Stephanie is the same, that time the wwe stars did that game show, Stephanie got all the pop culture questions wrong. It's gotta be weird hanging out with that family, talking about wwe all the day and if you want to talk about a show or a movie they just stare at you like you're crazy.
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Post by PKO on Aug 7, 2018 19:39:43 GMT -5
It's fun to guess what he's into in real life, and watching the show gives the best insight into his personal tastes. In 2000, Vince made Big Show work a match pretending to be Fat Bastard and in 2001, Blackman and Trish did the silhouette gag. With that in mind, I think that between 1999 and 2001, Austin Powers was Vince's favorite movie. I just watched Wrestlemania 2000 and they did the “nudity conveniently avoided by objects and camera angles” from Austin Powers too:
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 7, 2018 19:46:07 GMT -5
Roman's last couple years makes me think he recently discovered Groundhog Day
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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Aug 7, 2018 19:56:53 GMT -5
Vince has seen Sam Raimi's Spider-Man anyway, since Jericho said in his book that him and HHH were discussing a logical way of getting on top of the HIAC during their match and Vince suggested web swinging up to the roof.
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Post by dav on Aug 7, 2018 20:31:30 GMT -5
Vince has seen Sam Raimi's Spider-Man anyway, since Jericho said in his book that him and HHH were discussing a logical way of getting on top of the HIAC during their match and Vince suggested web swinging up to the roof. I'm honestly wondering how that would work...
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Squirrel Master
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Post by Squirrel Master on Aug 7, 2018 20:47:12 GMT -5
I bet he has all the Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen titles
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Post by mrtuesday on Aug 7, 2018 20:51:19 GMT -5
One thing I heard that one of his favorite films was 1953's "Shane". Afilms about a cowboy who saves some settlers from someone trying to take their land.
Vince, supposably saw himself as Shane. The badass hero that fights the good fight. This is how he got the name for his son.
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Post by Thunderbolt on Aug 7, 2018 21:32:26 GMT -5
One Night In Chyna
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Aug 7, 2018 21:37:22 GMT -5
Roman's last couple years makes me think he recently discovered Groundhog Day I came to say this haha
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Post by sportatorium on Aug 7, 2018 22:54:34 GMT -5
I love the story about Scott Hall bringing them the Razor Ramon character based on Scarface & Vince having no idea what the movie was, he just liked the character. The movie was 10 years old at the time.
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Randy Barber 4-Life
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Post by Randy Barber 4-Life on Aug 7, 2018 22:59:01 GMT -5
Reign of Fire Roman J Israel, Esq Purple Rain Reservoir Dogs The Longest Yard No Holds Barred
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Post by hashtagdaley/JudasDay on Aug 7, 2018 23:58:23 GMT -5
Roman Holiday probably.
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Post by thegame415 on Aug 8, 2018 1:56:50 GMT -5
Apparently he liked There's Something about Mary and they stole a lot of their toilet humor from that movie. For the most part Vince is in a bubble isolated from everything else that's not wwe, though Bruce Prichard said that for a time, Linda's favorite show was ER and Vince watched a couple episodes. If y'all remember on the attitude era, they did a lot of segments on hospitals, it was because of ER lol. Trying to discuss pop culture or anything that's not wwe related with Vince can be very taxing. Colt Cabana's career died because of that. Colt pitched to be stand up comic as his character based on Seth Rogen and the Apatow movies that were a hit at the time, Vince had no idea who he was talking about because the last comedian he saw was Jackie Gleason. Freddie Prinze Jr one time was watching a comedy set by Richard Pryor and Vince walked by and asked him what he was watching, he had no idea who Richard f***ing Pryor was. Vince also thought that Scott Hall invented the Razor Ramon character because he had no idea what Scarface was, despite being one of the most important movies of all time. McMahon also had no idea that the razors are for cocaine lines and that's why he let Hall use the razors on his outfit. Vince also had no idea what The Godfather was saying when he talked about weed. Vince let RVD and Mysterio use the name 420 for a move because he had no idea what it meant. For the XFL, Vince approved the nickname "Tea Bagger" because he thought it meant something else. The thing that's great about the Freddie Prinze story is apparently, he said something about wanting to laugh and Vince said "Well, we have Santino".
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Post by thetower52 on Aug 8, 2018 2:57:33 GMT -5
Vince has seen Sam Raimi's Spider-Man anyway, since Jericho said in his book that him and HHH were discussing a logical way of getting on top of the HIAC during their match and Vince suggested web swinging up to the roof. I love that that means he watched macho man as bonesaw
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Post by celticjobber on Aug 8, 2018 4:02:07 GMT -5
I could see "Dumb and Dumberer" being one of Vince's all time favorite movies based on the Bob Saget bathroom chocolate scene alone.
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Post by The Barber on Aug 8, 2018 7:03:04 GMT -5
The Garbage Pail Kids movie.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Aug 8, 2018 7:51:43 GMT -5
I could see "Dumb and Dumberer" being one of Vince's all time favorite movies based on the Bob Saget bathroom chocolate scene alone. I buy that. Prichard said that Vince can go hours and hours laughing about bathroom humor, he can laugh all day long if somebody steps on shit. Bruce also said that you gotta be really careful when joking about shit around Vince because he can use it on the show, that's how Bastion Booger was created, Bruce was just f***ing around and McMahon overheard him.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Aug 8, 2018 12:21:51 GMT -5
I could see "Dumb and Dumberer" being one of Vince's all time favorite movies based on the Bob Saget bathroom chocolate scene alone. I buy that. Prichard said that Vince can go hours and hours laughing about bathroom humor, he can laugh all day long if somebody steps on shit. Bruce also said that you gotta be really careful when joking about shit around Vince because he can use it on the show, that's how Bastion Booger was created, Bruce was just f***ing around and McMahon overheard him. No wonder Tony Atlas got such a long second tenure. He would just go sit with Vince and talk about people's pooping habits off the cuff.
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Post by Venti on Aug 8, 2018 12:38:02 GMT -5
Probably The Marine
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Aug 8, 2018 12:56:05 GMT -5
On Confidential they had a tour of Vince's private plane, and apparently it played VHS tapes (well, this WAS the early 90s, DVD hadnt taken off in a big way yet). There was a drawer that had movies in them, but the only covers I glimpsed were Frequency and Cruel Intentions (and those could have just been owned by Linda, Shane, or Steph). Cruel Intentions? That movie about a quasi incestuous releationship? No way Vince would care about that one.
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