I want to take each disc separately on this occasion.
I grew up watching WWF (when it was named that) wrestling for most of my childhood on Saturday mornings and on Saturday Night Main Event. I've always had a fascination with the sport. I don't spend time now watching it on TV, but anytime I get a chance to watch a documentary on some part of the subject, I usually take the opportunity.
This one interested me primarily because I'd spent a lot of time reading about it in various publications, most notably Mick Foley's first autobiography. The quality and pace of the documentary were really good. The intersection of personal stories and wrestling highlights was great. On the extras, I really enjoyed hearing Chris Jericho talk about huge Ron Simmons getting a discounted plane ticket with the name Seymour Goldstein or something like that. Pretty funny. I was overall interested to see the differing opinions from various personalities as to why ECW crashed and burned. It helped that there was no overlying narrator to tell the story.
The second disc was very interesting for me because I did get a chance to see some of the matches. I thought it was fun to watch, although I now have a much better understanding of why the sport had such a cult following, but not as much of a national one. While it's cool in concept and clips to see most of the highlights, I found most of the matches to get tiring after a while. To me, the fun of using a chair was that it was part of the climax of the match. It's not nearly as much fun to watch a guy get hit by a chair 20 times during a match (at least for me).
Overall, a great 2-disc set. I welcome your opinions.
I grew up watching WWF (when it was named that) wrestling for most of my childhood on Saturday mornings and on Saturday Night Main Event. I've always had a fascination with the sport. I don't spend time now watching it on TV, but anytime I get a chance to watch a documentary on some part of the subject, I usually take the opportunity.
This one interested me primarily because I'd spent a lot of time reading about it in various publications, most notably Mick Foley's first autobiography. The quality and pace of the documentary were really good. The intersection of personal stories and wrestling highlights was great. On the extras, I really enjoyed hearing Chris Jericho talk about huge Ron Simmons getting a discounted plane ticket with the name Seymour Goldstein or something like that. Pretty funny. I was overall interested to see the differing opinions from various personalities as to why ECW crashed and burned. It helped that there was no overlying narrator to tell the story.
The second disc was very interesting for me because I did get a chance to see some of the matches. I thought it was fun to watch, although I now have a much better understanding of why the sport had such a cult following, but not as much of a national one. While it's cool in concept and clips to see most of the highlights, I found most of the matches to get tiring after a while. To me, the fun of using a chair was that it was part of the climax of the match. It's not nearly as much fun to watch a guy get hit by a chair 20 times during a match (at least for me).
Overall, a great 2-disc set. I welcome your opinions.