Really, you wish to God someone would throw a chair at someone for a little light relief.
As a non-wrestling fan I was surprised when I bought this, to tell you the truth. What the hell am I doing holding this here DVD what is about the wrestlers when I couldn't give a shit, I was thinking. I went with it anyway, and wouldn't you know, I loved it dearly.
The scenes with Mick Foley's daughter screaming and crying as her daddy is beat asunder by, yep, those damn chairs again, is especially touching. Seeing old Mick getting a fucking valley-sized gash stitched up on his forehead soon afterwards isn't much of a laugh-riot either.
This is brilliantly funny, and two seconds later it hits you square in the poignancy-glands, sometimes with a toaster or a speaker system.
Around the time this came out, other wrestlers decided they also had a bit of the old humanity in there someplace, and as a result we got things like Brett The Hitman Hart - Wrestling With Shadows, a film I have yet to see in its entirety, but from what I could tell, it looked like another winner. In fact, I'm gonna sit my ass down this very night and watch it.
Good for you, wrestlers.
I'm still not gonna watch Rumble In The Jungle 2004 though. They can fuck right the hell off if they had that idea in their pulverised skulls.
The Duke Resides At Mondo Irlando
Article comments
1 - Ricky Vandal
Let's make one thing clear, Buster, there is only one Duke. OK. I thought this segment was about John Wayne. It isn't. You should be ashamed of yourself.
2 - Stately Wayne Manor
RV, You must've forgot about The Duke Of Earl...
3 - Eric Olsen
And Duke Kahanamoku
4 - Stately Wayne Manor
Kahanamoku was the surfing champ,right?
5 - Eric Olsen
right, haole
6 - HW Saxton Jr.
Haole??? OUCH!
7 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
What about the grand ol duke of york, man, he marched ten thousand motherfuckers up a hill and then marched them straight back down again. Doesn't that count for somethin? Certainly more than John Wayne ever done, apart from, y'know, be all right-wing and call folks "hippy faggots" and so on.
8 - Jim Carruthers
Well, there's also Raoul Duke and Duke Nukem, but je digress.
How could you not mention "Barton Fink", all he had to do was write a wrasslin' movie, but no, wound up with a John Goodman on a rampage and possibly a head in a box.
And of course, there is also "Ready to Rumble" which improbably stars Oliver Platt as a wrestler.
9 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Jim, obviously if The Duke were to do an article with regards the wrestle films, then Baton Finks About Wrestling would be in there. And Man On The Moon, where Jim Carrey starred as Charlie Kaufman or something. Good for you Jim.
Wrestling films don't get no better than No Holds Barred though, according to the decree of wrestelised pictures of 1897. Hulk Hogan didn't have no truck with the "acting" or the "humanity", brother, hell no. Hulk gon' beat up a big bald fella for a couple hours, is what, brother!