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Summary: A 100% must own...
Review: Beyond the Mat is the best "movie" about pro-wrestling ever.If you are a big fan of Mick Foley, Terry Funk, or ECW you will love this DVD.Tons of great baskstage footage of the 1st ECW PPV, watch Mick Foley watch his own kids watch a video of daddy getting hit with a steel chair over ten times. Watch Jake "the Snake" Roberts fall of the wagon. Watch New Jack invade Hollywood.If you are a "smart" wrestling fan you will love this.
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Summary: A Must for all Wrestling fans!
Review: This documentary is wonderful, for all of those wrestling fans out there. This takes a very indepth look at the life, the true life, of a pro wrestler by going behind the scenes. In this you can see how the wrestlers really act outside of the ring.The stories are very touching and humorous as it explores the lives of Terry Funk, Mick Folley, and Jack the Snake Roberts. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves wrestling!
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Summary: Beyond the Mat
Review: While i have not seen this specific item (the DVD Director's Cut) because it has yet to be released, I did see the original in the theatres, and it ideally depicts the sometimes glamorous, sometimes depressing, yet always realistic life of a professional wrestler.
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Summary: Great insight! Get this now and be entertained.
Review: Beyond the Mat was an awsome movie! There was great and very interesting insight into how the lives of pro wrestlers are affected by the sport. By mixing great facts and off beat humor this film is entertaining for wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans as well. The way that the life of Jake the snake Roberts is shown is very intreaging. This film lets the viewer see how the wrestlers' families are affected by the violence in the matches (Mick Foley, with his wife and kids). The movie shows the hardships of wrestlers who are not in WWF and wcw. Beyond the Mat enables you to see a behind the scenes look of their favorite wrestlers without ruining their in ring personalitys too much. This DVD should be great with the extra features.
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Summary: Top of the line Documentary
Review: Great documentary that covers every aspect of the professional wrestling world. You think this stuff is fake? You'll reconsider that believ once you watch Mick Foley's children look on in horror as their dad gets smacked in the head with a very real chair. Fascinating movie! RECOMMENDED TO ALL, INCLUDING NON-WRESTLING FANS!
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Summary: A DROPKICK OF TRUTH
Review: AWESOME! THIS WAS A THRILLING RIDE ON A ROLLERCOASTER OF TRUTH.WRESTLING WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTER YOU SEE THIS.
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Summary: Good DVD
Review: It's really good. I love wrestling and I love watching the behind the scenes of wrestling. I like seeing how people act outside of character and stuff. People should buy it, then they'll see how wrestling is "FAKE", but it's not totally all fake.
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Summary: Beyond the Mat the movie McMahon doesnt want you to see!!!
Review: If you always wanted a peek inside the real world of wrestling, then this movie is for you. It focuses on three Hall of Fame Wrestlers (in my book) Mick Foley, Terry Funk and Jake The Snake. It also shows scenes of up and coming wrestlers like the people's champ "The Rock". This movie is one of the best documentaries on wrestling next to
"Brett Hart: Wrestling with Shadows" and the biography on Owen Hart both available through A&E home video. The movie shows what sacrifices and punishment these guys go through to put a show for us wrestling fans. We see Mick Foley get hit hard with a chair from the Rock when he was a bad guy while his kids and wife look on. His wife is in tears as she sees her husband take a beating. Anyone who says that wrestling is fake, should try out for the WWF and see how fake it really is. After only a couple of minutes getting backdropped, slammed and hit with a chair by these guys , I am sure you'll see it's not fake,as Hulk Hogan says "its choreographed." The biggest controversy of the movie is when Vince McMahon, corporate mogul and CEO of the WWF, decided to have this movie pulled off during commercials of the WWF and to ultimately turn his back on the whole project. Thereby making this film an Independent Film since it would no longer receive any help from the WWF. Nevertheless, Vince, makes several cameos in this movie, trying not to look like the greedy pig he really is.
The timing of this movie is ironic, only a couple of months before this movie came out,Brett Hart would get screwed in his final match in Canada with Shawn Michaels, then in late May his brother Owen would die in a freak accident where he would fall to his death in front of a capacity crowd in a WWF pay per view event (that footage was edited out of the event). Recently (November 2000), the Hart family made a settlement with the WWF for a whopping $18 million dollars for the lawsuit the Hart's filed against the WWF. The Hart's say they will use some of the money for charity. I can just see the smile on Vince McMahon's face go down right now :-) . Now On to the review. The film is excellent and is a must see for all you WWF fans. It is already out on DVD with extra footage not seen in theaters. EBAY currently has several auctions for it starting at $10-20. A bargain for a really emotional,entertaining film. The Director, Barry Blaustein, who did some of the writing for the Nutty Professor, has shown here that he can do drama as well as comedy. If you're kid is foolish enough of thinking of getting into wrestling, you might want to show him this film, it will definitely change their mind. Which is the other theme of this movie, Wrestling is definitely something that is done by professionals. The "extra footage" while great is not necessarily important
as it contains inteviews with "Chyna" and "Tommy Dreamer"
back when Dreamer was in ECW and "Chyna" was just about to
have boob implants and jaw surgery to make her rugged
image more sexy. Pay attention also to the former employees illegaly fired Vince
such as Koko B. Ware and the Great Samoan. They were two
favorites fired illegally by McMahon.
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Summary: Wrestling is Fake!
Review: Yes you can get hurt as a wrestler but it's out come is planned (Fake). It's not a sport as in Baseball or Football. It's fake. Mix Soap Opera with Martial Arts and you get Wrestling. In a Wrestlemania VHS tape you can see Hogan hit the floor on the outside of the ring. Not bleeding he crawls around and a hand reaches under the ring. He wipes his forehead and returns his hand under the ring. Seconds later he stands to unveil a fountain of blood running from his forehead.
I had to show the tape to my Godfather's brother (a former Caribbean Wrestling Champion). He told me exactly what Hogan used to cause the blood flow.
AKA it's fake.
WAIT. Get this video. Excellent look at the underbelly of wrestling. I am a bit sad about Jake the Snake (one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a child)
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Summary: This movie tells the truth of wrestling
Review: This movie is the Ferinheight 9/11 of wrestling. It wails on the then WWF but at the same time tells the process of going to a training camp, working out, finding a trainer, going to Vince and letting him check you out, and then finally getting a match. Then it tells the back stories and life stories of some of the greatest wrestlers ever, Jake the Snake, Terry Funk, Mick Foley, and the Rock. It also shows a look at a day in the life of a wrestler. It also shows what happened before and after The I Quit Match at the Royal Rumble 1999. It also shows the match from Mick's family's point of view. The movie itself is unrated and is an hour and 48 minutes. The commentary and visual commentary is amazing because they tell secrets about the movie like Vince is never that kind to new blood. You learn things that you would have never expected like everything is coreographed before the match and they are told what to say. But believe it or not all the punching, kicking, bleeding, and slamming is real. Overall I really enjoy this film and would definetly recomend this film to anybody who likes wrestling and wants to know the whole truth. This is a no holds barred, breakthrough film that Vince McMahon doesn't want you to see.
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