Welcome to Hammy Reviews! Read my views on various TV shows, films, and the WWE (don’t let the latter put you off!). A list of my favourite TV shows would include Doctor Who, The X Files, Battlestar Galactica (the modern one), and 24. Film-wise, the only genres that don’t do much for me are muscials and rom-coms. A list of my top ten films would include Gladiator, Black Swan, The Fly, Robocop, The Raid, The Empire Strikes Back, Spider-Man (2002), The Terminator, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
I could go on, but I won’t. Please bear with me, even if you are put off by wrestling! Yes, wrestling is not the most popular of things. Any time I mention my affection for wrestling the usual reaction is ‘it’s fake.’ Well, of course it is! Isn’t Game Of Thrones? Isn’t the latest blockbuster? There’s a disdain for wrestling that I find strange. It’s a relaxing distraction, like most things on TV! It’s larger-than-life, often ridiculous, but sometimes it can grab you like the best TV show. But I digress…
This is simply a space for my views on films, TV Shows, and WWE. My reviews of the WWE Network’s 100 Best Matches to See Before You Die will be a regular occurrence, until I finally see all 100! I’ll also be reviewing WWE NXT every week and the monthly PPV/Special/Whatever it’s called now. I’m always up for discussion and debate, so feel free to add your comments to reviews. Whether you agree or disagree with me, it’s always good to talk. Or so 02 keep telling me.
The picture of the arena of the Colosseum is my own, by the way. I visited Rome with my fiancée in 2014 (I want to go back; so much I didn’t see! Like the Pantheon…). The TV screen/cinema screen is the modern Colosseum, where the people gather round to distract themselves from reality. As Promixo said in Gladiator, ‘We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust!’ But we become part of something when watching a film, the TV, or reading a book. We are entertained. Reality becomes an abstraction. And if you are not entertained, what is the point?
So enjoy my thoughts…or at least be entertained by them!
(Also, I’ve been nominated a few times for the Liebster Award…click on picture for link!)
And here’s a nomination for the Sunshine Blogger Award (again, click on picture for link!):
And here’s a nomination for the Mystery Blogger Award (click on the picture for the link!):
And here’s a sappy blog about hammyreviews Second Birthday… Happy Second Birthday To…My Blog!
Great blog, thanks for checking out Geek Blogger UK!
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No worries! Cheers for the follow!
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Thanks for the follow! I’m really enjoying your blog. I’m sad we can’t discuss The Flash and Arrow though.😒
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Those are on the ‘to watch’ list!
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Thank you for following my blog. Your site is really neat.
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Thank you!
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My pleasure, you’ve got really good taste in movies and television.
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I like to think so!!!
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Vinnieh, will you stop being so rude to everyone!? 🙂
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What do you mean? I’m always charming. I haven’t done something to annoy you have I?
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No, I was being sarcastic – because you’re always so encouraging to the authors of the blog sites. lol.
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I understand. How are you doing? It’s been a while since I last spoke to you.
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I’m good. You? You can always drop a note on my MISC. discussion board. That’s what it’s there for, to keep in touch.
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I’m doing well, I’m full of great energy and inspiration. I actually wrote a post on it. Feel free to check my blog out.
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Looks like V is taking over your blog!
Thanks for the follow, and good luck with your reviews. I don’t watch any of the programmes you mention, and I hate wrestling, so I can’t think why you want to follow the blog of a grumpy old guy in Norfolk. But thanks again, anyway.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m just spreading the great word about blogs Pete.
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Thank you for the follow! Good luck with your site. 🙂
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Thank you!
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Thanks for the follow! Added you on twitter 🙂
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Thank you! I will do the same!
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Great introduction 🙂 Neat list of your top 10 favorite films of all-time: I totally agree with you on David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop (1987), which are both great films and I also thought that The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Terminator (1984) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) were very good 🙂 Glad to see you love WWE cause I do too 🙂 Anyway, keep up the great work as always 🙂
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Thank you! However, I have just taken a look through your list of favourite director films and realised I still have a lot to learn and watch!!!
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Hey, I nominated you for a Liebster Award – details at
https://plainsimpletomreviews.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/third-liebster-award/ 😀
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Thank you!!!
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I’m liking this blog. I also like a lot of the movies you list, and coincidently, “Notes from the Underground,” which I’ve been reading lately. I do like the rom-coms though, at least a few of them.
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Thank you! Glad you are reading Notes From Underground, a classic.
And there’s nothing wrong with a rom com, as long as it surprises me!
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Hey Hammy! Have a nomination: https://themarckoguy.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/another-sunshine-blogger-award/
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Thank you very much!!!
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Loving your reviews! ☺️
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Thank you!
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Hi Hammy, Thank you for following my movie review site. Much appreciated!
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Hey, I nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award! Check it out 🙂
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Thank you! I will do!
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Am not a fan of wrestling either, but the fact you love it, won’t put me off!! 🙂
Glad to have come across your BLOG!!
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Thank you!
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Thanks for following my blog! I’ll check your blog out asap. I’d appreciate if you showed mine some love too!
-TheOriginalChatman
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I like the theme you’re going for. Check out my site if you’re interested.
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Cheers! Will do!
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