This documentary was well produced and great cinematography. The hook and plot was so so.
Disappointed in this as it had the makings to be great. Instead it's more choreographed than Pro-Wrestling. The broken childhood, past relationships, addictions and current mental health issues should have been the core focus of why david returned to wrestling. Then it should have shown his self abusive treatment of himself doing the same. And in the end, the real heroes were his family that loved and accepted him! The documentary hinted at these things but never engaged them fully.
He is around the past superstars of wrestling, knows all the marquee names. But yet, he gets trained by gloried back yarders and wannabes of pro-wrestling! The bottom feeders. Why? If I want to be an actor, do I go to my local drama group that impersonates scenes from their favourite movies all day long? Also, he hasn't had and acting gig in 10 years, but in the credits he is on the set of a movie acting!! The producers and directors forgot to include, Kayfabe, lol.
From around 40+ mins in this documentary picks up and ends short about 10 mins before it finishes.
The lightubes in the beginning are laughed off as stunts in a backyard. But much later in the documentary he gets seriously injured by one. This was legit, but hard to take as such. Due to the earlier tomfoolery with Back Yard guys. This should have been a big drama piece, but was meh!
Then they aim to make you believe the wrestler in the black and white promo, shown at the beginning and end, really wants to hurt David etc etc. But when it's over, you see a shot of the said wrestler (Ken Anderson) slapping him in congratulations with a dozen other people!!! Why not have a piece where he shakes David's hand saying "I respect you now. Your one of us." ??
His wife dresses up as Miss Elizabeth and goes to the ring with him. This came across as a fetish cosplay gimmick. Why didn't they communicate David being unsure of himself and his wife tells him, "You're my Macho Man and I'm gonna support you out there" then she goes gets dressed as Elizabeth and briefly explains shes a symbol of women supporting their men in hard times etc. When you can show and not tell, its masterful. But this set up fell flat.
I'll stop. This was a decent watch, but fell short of the finish line while dropping all its valuables along the way. Check it out anyway.
Disappointed in this as it had the makings to be great. Instead it's more choreographed than Pro-Wrestling. The broken childhood, past relationships, addictions and current mental health issues should have been the core focus of why david returned to wrestling. Then it should have shown his self abusive treatment of himself doing the same. And in the end, the real heroes were his family that loved and accepted him! The documentary hinted at these things but never engaged them fully.
He is around the past superstars of wrestling, knows all the marquee names. But yet, he gets trained by gloried back yarders and wannabes of pro-wrestling! The bottom feeders. Why? If I want to be an actor, do I go to my local drama group that impersonates scenes from their favourite movies all day long? Also, he hasn't had and acting gig in 10 years, but in the credits he is on the set of a movie acting!! The producers and directors forgot to include, Kayfabe, lol.
From around 40+ mins in this documentary picks up and ends short about 10 mins before it finishes.
The lightubes in the beginning are laughed off as stunts in a backyard. But much later in the documentary he gets seriously injured by one. This was legit, but hard to take as such. Due to the earlier tomfoolery with Back Yard guys. This should have been a big drama piece, but was meh!
Then they aim to make you believe the wrestler in the black and white promo, shown at the beginning and end, really wants to hurt David etc etc. But when it's over, you see a shot of the said wrestler (Ken Anderson) slapping him in congratulations with a dozen other people!!! Why not have a piece where he shakes David's hand saying "I respect you now. Your one of us." ??
His wife dresses up as Miss Elizabeth and goes to the ring with him. This came across as a fetish cosplay gimmick. Why didn't they communicate David being unsure of himself and his wife tells him, "You're my Macho Man and I'm gonna support you out there" then she goes gets dressed as Elizabeth and briefly explains shes a symbol of women supporting their men in hard times etc. When you can show and not tell, its masterful. But this set up fell flat.
I'll stop. This was a decent watch, but fell short of the finish line while dropping all its valuables along the way. Check it out anyway.