For the last time - things The Curmudgeon actually LIKES - Part Five!
If any of you are familiar with The Curmudgeon's other reviews, you may well be scratching your heads at this one. A FIVE star review?! That can't be right. And usually, YOU would be right. The Curmudgeon has dedicated 95 of his 100 reviews to bringing you the very worst things out there. To celebrate the 50 review milestone I reviewed 5 GREAT things that are available on Amazon, and so, now I've reached 100, I thought I'd do the same again. So, from reviews 100 - 105, it's going to be nothing but good, great and awesome stuff.
Now, like the four previous positive reviews, this is more a review of the general subject, not just this DVD in particular. Like, reviewing Season Seven of The Simpsons was an excuse to talk about the Simpsons in general and.. well, you get the idea.
Wrestling, then. An unfair stereotype is that of the knuckle-dragging, mouthbreathing wrestling fan. True, that type does exist (and the girls are always pig-ugly) but with the internet and discussion groups etc, I've discovered that some of the cleverest and funniest people on the net are wrestling fans. Hey, a bit like your old pal The Curmudgeon.
OK, so wrestling is the ultimate in lowbrow, no brainer entertainment. The more I think of it the weirder it is that I've enjoyed watching WWE for so many years. The WWE expects you to be entertained by..
Big flashy lights and loud explosions
Woeful acting
Laughable plots
Some utterly dire wrestlers
Shameless female exploitation
Not that there's anything wrong with the last one, but for every idiotic angle and storyline the WWE throws at us, they counter it with some superb matches, wrestlers and enjoyable, interesting feuds. When it's good, it's good, and when it's great - it is quite simply some of the best entertainment on television.
Wrestlemania has always been the granddaddy of main events, even if its appeal has waned over the years with countless main events throughout the year now instead of the traditional four. Nevertheless, this boxset contains some unmissable, classic stuff. And Wrestlemania IX, which deserves to be destroyed post haste.
To many, wrestling will always be "fat guys rolling around in leotards", but to the educated, wrestling (and for me, WWE) is grade A entertainment; ultra skilled athletes, hot women and 100% escapism every single week. Honestly, what's not to love?
And that's that, folks. Five "nice" reviews before the rot of the world sets in again and I begin to attack all the other crud available on Amazon for you to buy. Hope you've enjoyed this limited series of things that makes The Curmudgeons' world happy, smiley and bouncy. Now, I have to counteract all this nice guy stuff with something utterly, utterly loathsome. Whatever could THAT be? Only one way to find out, true believers...
2 comments:
I used to live for this stuff. Back in the glory days of Rowdy Roddy Piper,The Ultimate Warrior, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake I never missed a show. But t one point it became so dumb I just got sick of it. The last straw was probably Doink the Clown and his mini-me, Dink. So dumb. Since then I've never really watched the stuff, though I still love the video games and I enjoy the catch phrases ("CAN YOU SMMMEEEL-EL-EL-ELLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN?" now that's entertainment!). And who doesn't love hot girls ripping each others' clothes off and then kissing and making up? Still, I've just never gotten back into the fake westling thing, I'm more into the UFC and mixed martial arts these days. But I don't really look down on pro wrestling fans either because it is just entertainment; like a soap opera with muscle-bound freaks of nature/steroids whoopin' ass instead of dull people struggling with amnesia/rape/infidelity and other such boring plot devices. So by all means, enjoy wrestling for what it is and if anyone wants to talk trash about it, just lay 'em on a table and bust a Superfly on their ass!
I actually walked away from WWF(E) for a good few years as well, spookily enough almost the same time as you. Doink was awesome at first as a bad guy, but when they had Dink and a feud with Lawler and his midgets... uggggh.
The UFC is some awesome shit, I like watching anything like that. Boxing, kick boxing - if it's on I can happily watch all that stuff. But it's never the same when they can't whack each other with chairs...
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