The Calamari Wrestler(2005) NR
The title alone should give clear indication that viewers are in for one eccentric ride with Minoru Kawasaki's hilarious directorial effort. A gargantuan squid (Osamu Nishimura) who's captured the hearts of wrestling fans everywhere by winning the championship becomes the object of a sweet young woman's (Kana Ishida) affection. But when other sea creatures start gunning for his throne, he must defend his supremacy without losing his love.
No Its actually a boxing Japanese squid
larpi: The Calamari Wrestler(2005) NR The title alone should give clear indication that viewers are in for one eccentric ride with Minoru Kawasaki's hilarious directorial effort. A gargantuan squid (Osamu Nishimura) who's captured the hearts of wrestling fans everywhere by winning the championship becomes the object of a sweet young woman's (Kana Ishida) affection. But when other sea creatures start gunning for his throne, he must defend his supremacy without losing his love. Available on DVD * Actual movie from Netflix * - I thought about getting it a few times but passed.
Most things i've seen with tentacled creatures and young women...just don't end well.
(quietly adds to his Netflix list...)
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larpi: No Its actually a boxing Japanese squid
The Deadliest Warrior is a Octopus who knows Karate, think about it- was referencing this post.
i saw pirate v knight i looked at the matchup and i knew the pirate would own good because he was who i was rooting for
ninja v spartan simply outraged a stealthy agile ninja would have easily won against a slow muscle-bound giant but spartan is good to jus like ninja better
appache v gladiator also correct rooting for the cool appache underdog and he became the victor
\I made my xbox live avatar to look like Sean Connery
I love how the expert for ninja had no answer for the spartan best he could do was say he would run away and kill the spartan in his sleep. what a puss
bdf385: ninja v spartan simply outraged a stealthy agile ninja would have easily won against a slow muscle-bound giant but spartan is good to jus like ninja better
Honestly bdf the Ninja vs. Spartan was correct , the Spartan has so much armor that the ninja had no room to make a good strike. The only ninja weapon that did any real damage was the Black Egg.
samurai262: bdf385: ninja v spartan simply outraged a stealthy agile ninja would have easily won against a slow muscle-bound giant but spartan is good to jus like ninja better Honestly bdf the Ninja vs. Spartan was correct , the Spartan has so much armor that the ninja had no room to make a good strike. The only ninja weapon that did any real damage was the Black Egg.
What annoys me about that is, yes the Spartan was so well armoured that the ninja couldn't do any real damage, what about pirate vs knight? I don't get why they completely discounted the knight's shield and the fact that only 1 of the pirate's weapons was able to effectively penetrate the knight's platemail.
The following week after each episode they air "The Aftermath" on spiketv.com where two of the guys from the show respond to some comments left by viewers. One big things they mentioned about Spatan vs Ninja was that "this is the deadliest warrior, not the deadliest assassin". Yes the Ninja could kill the Spartan in his sleep and from behind in the dark, but that was not what they were testing.
im almost always wrong on who will be the Deadlies Warrior but still love the show.
i just dont like the matchups should have been
ninja vs. pirate
spartan vs. samurai
gladiator vs. knight
apache vs. viking
bdf385:appache v gladiator also correct rooting for the cool appache underdog and he became the victor
Caught the replay of Vikings vs. Samurai tonight and again realized how awesome this series is. Did a little digging around during commercial and found at least a little loose confirmation that the series will be back for Season 2.
http://www.wushukicks.com/chinese-martial-arts/tag/deadliest-warrior-season-2/
Since the list looks to have been taken down, i'm wondering who they have left for season 2 (unless they wanted to pit season 1 winner vs. winner). Mac vs. PC? Napoleon vs. Hitler? Transformers vs. GoBots? 360 Fanboy vs. Genesis Fanboy?
EDIT: Wikipedia also lists a new Season beginning Spring 2010.
Mechazawa005: Since the list looks to have been taken down, i'm wondering who they have left for season 2 (unless they wanted to pit season 1 winner vs. winner). Mac vs. PC? Napoleon vs. Hitler? Transformers vs. GoBots? 360 Fanboy vs. Genesis Fanboy?
Dear Higher Power,
Though I denounce you regularly, I just wanted to say thinks for bringing this show back for a second season. The Jesse James gang vs. the Al Capone gang may have been the best episode i've seen so far. If nothing else, old retired mafioso trash talking trick-shooting cowboys is pure awesome. Please keep up the good work.
Mechazawa005:Dear Higher Power, Though I denounce you regularly, I just wanted to say thinks for bringing this show back for a second season. The Jesse James gang vs. the Al Capone gang may have been the best episode i've seen so far. If nothing else, old retired mafioso trash talking trick-shooting cowboys is pure awesome. Please keep up the good work.
