Episode 08: “Bending The Rules”

On the eighth episode of On This Very Screen,  the gang sets its sights on WWE Studios’ trainwreck of a buddy-cop movie, the incomprehensible, tangent-filled labyrinth that is Bending The Rules. Even WITH our favorite kazoo-wielding Canadian on the marquee, Edge,  this movie was B-R-utal to get through — so much so, that we get … Continue reading Episode 08: “Bending The Rules” →

On the eighth episode of On This Very Screen,  the gang sets its sights on WWE Studios’ trainwreck of a buddy-cop movie, the incomprehensible, tangent-filled labyrinth that is Bending The Rules. Even WITH our favorite kazoo-wielding Canadian on the marquee, Edge,  this movie was B-R-utal to get through — so much so, that we get one of the realest and most heated rants we’ve ever recorded from the returning Annie on misogyny in WWE Studios films. Furthermore, we explore what a buddy-cop movie is supposed to be when it doesn’t have action or comedy, how not to handle the sensitive subject of police corruption and brutality, and most of all, our potentially game-changing theory on New Orleans’ significance within the WWE Cinematic Universe.

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Did You Know? Adam “Edge” Copeland is one of a handful of wrestlers to play non-wrestling roles in film, basic cable (SyFy’s “Haven”), and a major network show (CW’s “The Flash”). No surprise, he’s been shot at in all three roles — no doubt by an incognito Matt Hardy.