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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
Ah. The old Vince Russo “People are talking” take.
You could actually make a coherent product and tell stories that people wanna pay money to see the culmination of... but nah. Let’s go for remarkably bad.
I’m sure that’s what they were going for. That doesn’t really make it better though.
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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
There’s a reason average sports teams don’t just tank every game just to make sure they’re so bad that people talk about it.
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LOL what? Sports teams do this shit all the time. The Philadelphia 76ers intentionally tanked for almost a decade before finally making another run in the last couple years. And why do they do it? For an inevitable payoff down the line, #1 draft picks in the 76ers case, a potential high profile Batista match for WWE in this case (not to mention whatever they were paid for the spot).
Come on man. WWE isn't trying to make people take zombies seriously here. It's a stupid one off promotional spot with the sole goal of placating one of their guys by hyping his other project. There are a whole lot more people talking about Batistas new movie now than there was before. Working as intended.
Is it what I wanna see from wrestling? No, not really. Did it do what WWE wanted it to do? Absolutely.