THE IRON CLAW (2023) TWIN BROTHERS FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION!
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There's not a reality in the universe where "We'll be your brothers, dad" doesn't break me
I was tearing up in the theater. And to see Kevin persevere, to see his sons go on to wrestle and have their own moment in the sun, to triumph through all that adversity…what a strong will and heart. ♥️
Kevin's actual quote was "I used to have five brothers. Now I'm not even a brother anymore."
I guess it was changed for the movie, because the youngest brother Chris did not make to in the final script.
@@LeviAckerman-cb5ji yeah. The director excluded Chris because he felt the film was already so emotional…
Plus they didn't have enough time to include chris. I wish it was 3hr movie
Not even a wrestling fan and this movie brought me to tears. "I used to be brother..."
Wrestling is nothing like how it was back then. For better and for worse
@pleaseshutup7053 Im not a wrestling fan but yeah it seemed like a double edged sword. Back in the day wrestling looked legitimately cool and entertaining with lots of good characters. But the downside is many of those guys suffered from a lot of physical and mental issues to keep going and that's why many of them died relatively young
Efron was robbed. This was a masterclass performance. Glad this movie continues to get the attention it deserves.
Right!?
I was never really a fan of Zach Effron…but this performance is on another level…so good!
Efron should've been nominated for an Oscar but Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer was the right choice to win.
I felt like efron was miscast he should have been Kerry
@@pleaseshutup7053he looks nothing like Kerry did tho
Zac Efron and Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers) gave the best performances of 2023. The awards season this year was a big disappointment.
Now Kevin's sons are wrestlers. I wish them long and happy lives. Seems the real curse was living with Fritz
Kevin actually said his father was a kindhearted and genuinely nice person, and said due to civil liberties Hollywood and The Iron Claw did him dirty.
oh god no. not a tragic brothers story with the most wholesome brothers…..*grabs popcorn*
😂😂😂😂
"I used to be a brother and now I'm not a brother." Major gut punch!!
A story he told I feel they should've kept in the movie. Was that shortly after Kerry's death his dad got drunk one night and lost his mind. He came to to calm him down and his father pulled out a gun and said, "If you had any guts you'd end it right now and join your brothers." He looked his dad right in the eye and he told his dad, "No dad it takes guts to live and keep going despite everything"
The Iron Claw was a metaphor for how tightly the dad controlled the lives of his sons, to all of their detriment.
Kerry is my favorite
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That dad was the damn curse on the family, not the name.
It is also a real move so I’m not so sure that it is intended as a metaphor
@@SirHattyHattington Yes, but when you put it front and center as the title of the story, it means something more.
It’s pretty awesome that you guys are watching a movie about professional wrestling. Chavo Guerrero is in this, people might remember him as the nephew of wrestling legend Eddie Guerrero
This movie surpassed the wrestler
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He was the perfect choice, not only is he very accomplished but he too has dealt with a lot of tragedy and could relate to Kevin in someway and he's part of a historic family, not just Eddie. He's in the film too, he's the first wrestler that you see Kevin face. He did a great job!
I appreciate this movie so much because I grew up in a household where we were all wrestling fans.
Me too! My older siblings loved wrestling and we would watch it together, good times!
This movie actually left out a 5th brother named Chris that passed away unfortunately from suicide as well so sad
Yeah it’s unfortunate , they did take parts of him and put him into the younger brother but it’s not the same.
I read that the writer thought that 1 more dead VonErich brother was just too much for a movie.
The saddest thing is, a part of the reason he would have done it is because he didn't get enough attention and always felt left out. The the film makers look at his story and say "nah"
@@Knightowl1980he should have included Chris
@@gregclarke2183 yeah and I understand that from a pacing standpoint which is also my one criticism of the film is there’s not enough story between each death. They come so rapidly and successively u don’t see the family deal with each.
As a wrestling fan this movie was perfect, Zac Efron was great as Kevin Von Erich
I'm so happy Ross and Marshall Von Erich are able to continue the family legacy, becoming 1 of the best tag teams in MLW and appearing in AEW with their dad.
Lacey the daughter of Kerry wrestled in TNA in 2009-10.
And it probably won't be long before Kevin's grandkids follow in his footsteps too
Where do they wrestle
@@pleaseshutup7053Ross & Marshall wrestle for mlw but i wouldn't be surprised if aew picks them up
huge wrestling fan growing up, back in the Von Erich era. Jeremy Allen White successfully convinced everyone he was over 6 feet tall in this movie (or at least nobody cares lol) they really did an excellent job embodying the Von Erichs
You lucky to have seen this era
I didn't have an issue with it but I know a lot of people did. Kerry was a tall guy, the tallest of the Von Erich's and it is noticeable sometimes when they are in the ring but it doesn't bother me, his performance completely saves it. And it's not like he was known for his size or part of his character. Now if they made a Andre The Giant movie and casted a very short person then yeah that would anger me, lol.
After seeing this movie both Kevin and Kerry's oldest daughter both said that the thing they didn't like about the movie was how they depicted Fritz. Kevin says that his father was a "decent and honorable man" and Kerry's daughter said that he was "a very loving man." Kevin blames accidents, illnesses and substance abuse for the deaths of his brothers and not Fritz. Now I'm not saying that Fritz was a saint by any means. I mean his wife did blame him for the deaths of the sons and divorced him after all the tragedy. I just think that the movie probably portrayed him worse than he was, and Kevin is probably deciding to remember better than Fritz deserves. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Completely agreed. And even in the film I saw a man that was crumbling with grief ever since he lost Jack Jr. and he had been bottling it up ever since by using wrestling a crutch to hide it, he couldn't comfort it and that's really sad to me.
Iron Claw is one of my favorite films of 2023!!! Zac Efron did such an amazing job, and I agree he got snubbed from award season! This performance of his was worthy of an Oscar nod!!
That last scene with the sons comforting Zac was such an emotional moment, I burst into tears after hearing them say they would be his brothers. 😭😭
The guy who played the father was so good too!! He sure knew how to make him seem like an a-hole dad. That is not how a father should parent their kids! Putting the pressures of wrestling onto his sons because he didn’t get to do it should never have happened.
I feel sorry for the brothers who died in the family. It sure feels like they really were cursed.
That scene where Zac Efron is chocking the father you really feel the anger in him to the point where it felt like he really was going to kill him.
After watching their Dark Side Of The Ring episode I see that scene very differently. Because in real life it was Chris, the youngest brother that Kevin found, not Kerry. He was with him and right before leaving Kevin told him not to do it and he said okay and after he left he realized he needed to go back but sadly it was too late and Chris took his own life. I see that as Kevin talking to himself about him not taking care of him and blaming his father. He shouldn't blame himself but I understand why he would feel that way. Maybe I'm reading why too much into it or maybe Kevin doesn't but that's what I get from it now.
@@Adrianne519 you are correct they changed the details for the movie
In Fort Worth, TX during the 70's and 80's, the Von Erich Family were wrestling royalty. Kerry was my childhood hero. Such a tragic family story. Love this movie so much.
The movie tragically leaves out the youngest brother, Chris, who also killed himself young, because the writers and producers didn't think audiences would believe the sheer scope of the misfortune this family went through.
There’s a heartbreaking story that Kevin tells about leaving the ring for good. He and his brothers used to write little messages to each other on the turnbuckle pads all over the territory like “Hi Kev” and such. After his brother’s died he couldn’t bear to get into those rings and see those messages.
I remember watching the Von Erichs wrestle on TV when I was a boy. Kerry was my favorite. I remember the day when I was a teenager I heard the news that he had shot himself. I cried then. When I watched this movie and it got to that point in the movie when Kerry died, I literally lost it in the movie theater.
Same. I live far from Texas, but USWA and then GCW used to air on ESPN at 4 every day.
you guys should watch the american version of Shameless since Curtis has never watched it before he'll love it! Great funny raunchy moments/Series :) tough watch for this movie but soooo good RIP to the other Von Erich brothers their history of wrestling still lives on today
These 2 reactors kept dissing the haircuts and hair styles. I think they kept forgetting most of this movie took place in the 70s and 80s.
It's so crazy that this is a true story. I don't think anyone could actually write something like this story because it's just too much on one family.
I've never quite experienced a movie theater reaction like the one for this movie: I went alone, surrounded by strangers. Everyone audibly gasped when they revealed Kerry's missing foot. I heard two women behind me sobbing when Mikey's note was read. Kerry meeting his brothers in the afterlife was what started the tears for me and I didn't stop for the next 20 minutes. When the movie ended and the lights came up, 100 people wiped their faces, stood up and stumbled out of the theater. I was outside and a couple were still crying a little and they saw my face and kind of laughed and said, "You saw it too, huh".
"I use to be a brother...and now I'm not a brother anymore."
That line completely broke me when I saw this film on opening night. I'm right there with u guys about Zac Efron, he deserved a Best Actor nomination at the very least!
Good god…haven’t seen them fight that much back since paddington 2. That was rough seeing the boys watch a heart wrenching story with them being bros. I demand you two to hug it out!
I lost my brother a month ago and made the mistake of watching this a few days ago. The "I'm not a brother anymore" fkn destroyed me. Great performances but sad as hell
I'm very sorry to hear about your brother's death. My condolences to you and your family
I remember when this came out to theaters and a lot of people were talking about it. I didn’t have time to see it at the theaters. I didn’t know much about this movie at all. It’s like Curtis said he knows it is about wrestling. I was the same way. I watched it a few weeks ago and couldn’t believe this story and the curse of their family
The story is even crazier then in the movie I’d advise watch a documentary on them there is a 3 hr documentary online about the fathers promotion the family wasn’t the only one cursed
@@pleaseshutup7053 cool I’ll have to check it out and thanks for letting me know
Christ, the way how kevin yells "you didn't take care of him, you didn't take care of them!!!" The pain in his voice is so convincing, they were pushed too hard. Kevin tried so hard....
I lost it with the afterlife scene, and then again with Kevin and his sons. Also, the dad blaming Kevin pissed me off to no end!!
That last scene with Kevin and his sons is so beautiful, I still think about it so often.
@@OctoKrool *hug I can only imagine how it must have felt watching that scene as an actual brother.
I've only had skate "brothers." Two of my skate buddies were twin brothers. And 1 of them actually passed away and it made me bawl my eyes out for months. But I couldn't even imagine what his twin was going through.
he was worse in real life. before he died from a brain tumor, he pointed a gun at Kevin and said "you'd kill yourself too, if you had the guts"
Man, this movie brought me to tears, never even knew anything about these guys or much of wrestling in general.
Wrestling is a crazy world there are a lot more sad and crazy stories. There is a series called dark side of the ring that covers a lot of the history
I knew most of the real story before watching this one, and it still broke me
I remember seeing that press conference when Mike had recovered from his coma. Fritz actually aired it on an episode of WCCW’s weekly show. You could tell that Mike had suffered brain damage.
Oh yeah! They did a great job of recapturing it.
Zac Efron and the rest of the cast really did wonderfully in this film! I saw this in theatres some few months after my younger brother had passed and I found this movie to be very cathartic..
Grief is proof that love was here.
They need to need to Iron Claw the hell out of the Oscar’s. Need to see Jeremy and Zac in more dramas.
I WATCHED THIS 4 TIMES IN THEATER AND WILL GLADLY WATCH A REACTION TO THIS AMAZING FILM
Me Too
4 times? Lol
@@buddry538 Yeah I took my brother the first then my mom and then my dad. Then seen it a 4th time bc fuck it
@@BIG_BULIAN awesome!! Lol
@@BIG_BULIAN you like seeing people cry realizing what the story was about
I was hoping you guys would do this one. I met Kevin in Hawaii back in 2016. Such a great guy.
I’m 54. I used to watch these brothers wrestle in the early 80s. Even then I could tell there was something different about Kevin. More at peace than his brothers. So sad for me to see what was going on behind the scenes from something that brought 12-yr-old me so much entertainment.
I'm not really a wrestling fan I went to go see it with a family member and honestly their story really sticks with you its like how much tragedy could a family endure
Are used to watch the Von Erich’s EVERY Friday when I was growing up in the 80s! They were always in San Antonio with the free birds. So much so that I thought they lived in San Antonio for the longest time!
My first wrestling match was the von Erich’s vs the original four horsemen. The free birds ran to the ring and started helping the horsemen beat up the von Erich’s . Junk yard dog was red hot at the time and came in and whipped on everybody to help the von Erich’s . This was right before David died . Kerry was my favorite one of them all.
I just finished the movie 20 minutes ago, on the bonus material now. Amazing story and amazing film.
Real life is even more tragic than the movie itself. In real life they had another brother, Chris. But the people making the movie thought that there was enough tragedy already with their family.
Awesome reaction of my favorite Zac Efron movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I hope you watched at the end where they show the brothers and information about Kevin and Pam are still married over 40 years and kids they have and 13 grandchildren all living together like he wanted. Kevin liked the movie and Zac Efron portraying him. Kevin helped them too making the movie.
I saw this movie on MAX app and absolutely loved it! The brothers in this movie made you feel their great sibling chemistry!!
They were my heros growing up watching them wrestle every Saturday night. Me and brother use to pretend wrestle watching them🤣❤️
Honestly, while I somewhat enjoyed the movie it also managed to completely tick me off. There weren't 5 Von Erich Brothers, there were 6. They completely ignored Chris Von Erich who honestly may have had the most tragic story of them all. Chris didn't have the build of his brothers and was tiny in comparison. His dad was said to have looked down on him even worse than he looked down on Mike. Like Kerry and Mike, Chris took his own life. Chris may not have had the height or size to be a wrestler back then but on the mic he was great. He could've easily become an announcer or manager in the business and got over big but from everything that was said at the time of his death it seemed more about knowing that those things would never please his dad.
LOVE this film Zac efron and Jeremy Allen did amazing
Ps
Please react to civil war, the fighter (2011) or the way way back plssssss
This movie really piles it on, but keep in mind these things happened years apart. Some of the best years of Kerry Von Eric's career were after he lost his foot. It was years of pain killers that did him in. Kerry died almost ten years after David did.
Their episode on The Dark Side of The Ring broke me. Plus, there was one other brother who took his life. They couldn't fit it in the move. Watch their story being told from Kevin directly. It goes into so much more horrible detail and gives you the full story. If you can take it. Lol. It broke me.
A few things to know since like all biopics this one took liberties
1) there were no actual belts yet for the 6-man tag titles. Those were made until 1986 or after 1986 when World Class broke from the NWA to go national
2) Kerry’s motorcycle accident happened like 3 years after he won the world heavyweight title. He was the champ for like a month before dropping it back to Flair in Japan (he was unreliable and Fritz hardly let him travel outside the territory so he could defend it there.)
3) the part where Kevin is on the apron watching his partner glory hog is Lance Von Erich. The “cousin” of the brothers and son of Waldo the “brother” of Fritz. Problem was fans in Dallas knew who “Lance” was cause he was a high school football star and they saw through it. Plus Lance was a problem backstage. Fritz was forced to come clean and end the gimmick. Pretty throwing “Lance” under the bus and cutting him loose
4) Fritz handled the promotion badly once he took it national. Stuff that would happen had fans stop going to shows. Like Mike’s passing, the “Lance Von Erich” thing, and Fritz’s storyline heart attack that was sometime after Mike passed. Plus stars were leaving for the WWF, AWA, NWA, or the UWF which went national too
5) also submissions were verbal or nodding the head. Wrestling didn’t have tapouts until 1997 once MMA started off. All wrestling promotions would include tapouts instead of verbal submissions or nodding
Not only was this one of the ABSOLUTE best film of 2024 (with Past Lives), but Efron was literally robbed.
BTW, crazy that there's one major omission in the movie vs real life : they actually had ANOTHER brother that also committed suicide (!!!). When they wrote the script they figured there's a limit to where the audience will be able to take so much misery. What an incredible dramatic life.
RIP Jack Kerry David Michael and Chris Von Erich ✝️ gone from this world but never forgotten
3:22 I was watching this in theaters and when he said this I giggled “Yeah about that”.
Growing up in 80s, as a kid, The Von Erichs were my all time favorite. I'm glad you liked it.
Chavo Guerrero Sr. did a great job as wrestling consultant for this film. Another family tragedy with what happened to his uncle Eddie decades previously.
Believe it not, the movie left out of the brothers, Chris Von Erich, who wanted to wrestle but he was too small and sickly, and sadly he also took his own life in 1991.
I'd wanted to see this since I first heard about it. I had my mom drive me to drop me off as I prepped for the movie w a few beers. She was a hulk hogan fan but otherwise not much of a wrestling fan. She decided she'd watch it with me even though she didnt know about the story. At the end she said she was happy she watched it. She thought it was very good. Great movie!
There's a reason Kevin lives on his own little piece of heaven. On his ranch in Hawai'i with his wife, kids, and entire family.
he moved back to Texas in the past year
The ending is the greatest example of "bittersweet" that I've ever seen in a movie. Used to be American Beauty's ending for me before this
Saw this movie on my birthday when I turned 21 on the holidays it’s one of top favorite movies of all time.
I was hoping the two of you would eventually react to this movie. You seem to have a positive and genuine connection as brothers so I figured this story would be relatable.
There were actually six boys. For some reason, they left out Chris who killed himself. And only briefly touched on the first Von Erich son who was electrocuted when he was about five or six years old.
I get the reasons for it but I wish Chris had been left in. In case you guys didn’t know there’s another brother. Chris like Mike & Kerry took his own life. Elements of Chris were missed with Mike, like Chris injuring himself in a match (he was brittle boned). Even the real photo of Fritz with Kerry, Kevin, Mike, & David didn’t include Chris. They could’ve mentioned him a few times in the movie or mention him in the epilogue like “Due to the nature of what happened with the Von Erich family Chris was left out…” and mention about him self checking out in life
A lot of people can relate to this movie.
So happy this dropped.
Please review the Movie "Dangal" Seems right up yalls alley
the afterlife scene such a beautiful way for the family to remember their uncle's and great uncles
Being a brother, that last scene kills me.
I looked forward to this movie ever since it was announced and It DID NOT disappoint! 10/10 5* for me. The story of The Von Erichs is such a hard one to hear and listen to.
The true story is even sadder there was a sixth brother Chris. He was the youngest he died after after Mike and before Kerry. The movie does deal with Kerry's divorce or 2 kids. You should see Beyond the Ring on the Brothers. One of Kerry's daughters and Kevin's two sons went into the ring.
Long comment alert. This is an amazing movie with some great performances but with many movies based on true events they omitted some things including the youngest brother, changed some of the history and compressed events to make it flow better. Here are some that I know of:
1) Kevin, David and Kerry had all had world title matches before. In fact, it was interference by the Freebirds during a world title match between Kerry and Ric Flair that kicked off the Von Erich Freebird rivalry.
2) While Kevin did start wrestling first, he initially only did it part time while he was in college. He had a division one football scholarship and was hopeful for turning pro in that sport. Wrestling during the offseason. David had a basketball scholarship but when he realized he didn't have a future in that he turned his focus to wrestling full time. Kevin injured his knee playing football and that's when he turned to Pro wrestling full time when his playing career was over. So, David was the more seasoned pro wrestler.
3) Fritz was almost an Olympic discus thrower as well. According to Kevin if Fritz had gone to the Olympics and matched his best recorded throw up to that point, he would've won gold. Fritz was unable to afford his travel to the Olympics and the AAU refused to help pay for the trip as Fritz had gotten married. Fritz also had the Texas High School record for longest discus throw. A record he held until his son Kerry broke it.
4) David was married to his second wife at the time of his death. His first marriage ended after their 13-week-old daughter died of SIDS. Kerry also had two daughters at the time of his death, he and his wife had separated due to his drug use and legal trouble.
5) Kerry did not lose his foot the night he won the world title. It was roughly two years after winning it that he got the accident that took his foot. He only held the title for 18 days before losing it back to Flair. The NWA didn't trust Kerry as he had missed shows for them previously due to his drug problems. They only gave him the title as a favor to the family.
6) Mike was wrestling before David's death. He even wrestled with Kevin and Fritz in a tag match in an earlier bout on the same card that Kerry won the title from Flair. He was also a much better athlete than what was shown in the movie, but he wasn't as committed to wrestling as his older brothers.
7) The boy's mother was not watching Kerry win the world title on TV at home. She was at the event and celebrated with the family when Kerry won it.
8) Fritz and his business partner were the ones to sell the promotion to Jerry Jarrett not Kevin. Kevin tried to block the sale with a lawsuit but since he and Kerry only owned 40% of the business, he wasn't successful.
9) Kevin and his wife had two daughters before they had their two sons.
10) Kevin's sons are Pro wrestlers currently and Kerry's youngest daughter was in Pro wrestling for a few years before retiring. They all use/used the name Von Erich for their wrestling names.
11) Kevin did have a world title match with Ric Flair where he ended up getting disqualified at the end. That match happened about a year after David's death. It was however the planned finish to the match, and he didn't flip out for real. In fact, had he flipped out and beat up Flair for real, Flair would've been pissed. You put your health in the hands of the wrestler you're in the ring with, so you have to trust them. If they violate that trust by taking liberties and risking their opponent's health and livelihood, no one would probably ever want to do business with them again. Especially if they did that to the world champion.
12) Fritz actually spent the morning with Kerry on the day that he died. He had no indication that Kerry was contemplating taking his own life. Fritz went to do some work on the ranch and Kerry said he was going to do some target shooting on the property. When Kerry didn't return after a number of hours Fritz went to look for him and found his body sitting in a tree that the boys used to climb as kids.
You should have left in the part where when Kerry got to the afterlife he met his older brother that got me be cause I hope to do the same but my brother was younger when he was murdered
You Bro's about to cry.
As a huge wrestling fan, this movie was perfect. I've seen it 3 times and I cry every time.
It surpassed the wrestler in my eyes
Sweet I just watched this movie today. Excited to see your reaction.
Soul crushing movie
Great reaction. Zac efron is great 👏🏾👏🏾
Way on everything
Given how gritty and realistic this movie was its sort of strange how it side stepped rehearsals and the actual politics of who wins a match. Like they say "you got a shot at the title" where in reality it would have been its your time to win or you don't have the draw to be champion yet but see how you do on the big stage. I guess they didn't want to alienate die hard fans who want to believe its all true. But I would have been really interested in seeing the real behind the scenes stuff because no one has ever really been clear on the process of how these things work
That’s not what this movie is about
I don't think there are any die hard fans that want to believe it's all true outside of, like, kids.
@@12thLevelSithLord Right and they never make it out to be true or real. There's literally a scene of them going over what they are going to do in the match. Kevin explains the business perfectly. And like the person above said that's not what the film is about. It's about the bond between the brothers.
You're right they don't make it out to be real either and hint at things, thats what I mean by side stepped the issue. But theres lots of elements where they talk like its a sporting event, like the first non title match and the dads like "you got to pu a whooping on him" . Aragngemnts left off screen. The first viewing I didn't really notice but second time it became more apparent. And they went into a lot of effort not to out right say it. Like I was expecting the best explanation that its not fake its just fixed
I have litterally met guys who believe its real or are in denial and don't want to know its real. Same thing with soap operas even when they can see the actors on the red carpet. Their enjoyment is linked to it being real and they can just ignore the glaring truth
It get worse when you go down the lower divisions (like this film is somewhat based) So fans will know WWE is fake but swear the grass roots level one isn't. Like people get death threats to their personal account for betrayals in the ring, its crazy...... and I don't want to judge but they tend to be people with a lot of guns
This movie is so phenomenal it should have been nominated for oscars - zac effron should have been at least nominated, the other main brother, the dad, the mum, all deserved to be at least nominated, and the script, the director, and deserved to be in the best picture category,
It got nominated for…
Nothing.
absolute travesty.
People out there don't understand wrestling is scripted not necessarily fake because any of them can get injured any time no matter how well trained they are if football basketball baseball and hockey players can get injured so can wrestlers I know the movie isn't about that particularly but it needed to be said awful how those brothers ended up.
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Right! it might be scripted but they are still performing those moves, putting their bodies through pain, working through injuries, travel throughout the entire year, they don't have seasons or breaks and they are amazing athletes. I loved that the film showed the pain, like when Kevin hit the concrete floor, that looked brutal and back then they didn't have padding and the ring was hard, a thin layer.
So glad you guys watched this!!!!
As a wrestling fan… I appreciate this film
What's horrendous, is they left another brother who died by suicide, out of the movie because it would have made it just too sad. Such a tragic story!
Fun fact : this is a movie.🍿
As a professional wrestler this was as real as it gets. The story revolved around the Von Erics except the guy who played Ric flair he was not a Texan and sounded nothing like Ric
I know a lot of people that say the same thing but I thought he sounded like him sometimes but also for me the scene saves it. I really like the music, the back and forth between the promo and Kevin training. And I try not to give them a too hard of a time because it couldn't have been easy to find an actor for him. There's only one Ric Flair, lol. And I do think the writers felt the same way and just casted someone because everyone else that played wrestlers were done very good, like Harley Race and Bruiser Brody were perfect.
This movie is soul crushing. 😭😭😭
Can't imagine how much harder I would have cried if I watched this with my brothers.
One of sports entertainments. Most tragic stories. I knew of the story going in, and recommend watching “dark side of the ring” series to learn more.
I remember this trailer coming out and it was kinda happy in tone and I just thought …oh if people don’t know this story they’re gonna go in feeling one way and completely opposite coming out
Hey guys, it's me the #1 hater AKA the brother eviserator. Today we're back with Curtis AKA make-a-wish-movies AKA (unintelligible Rick Flair noises) and Chris. Some fun trivia about the octopus on Chris' shirt is that it's life sized and was Chris' cellmate before they escaped SeaWorld together. Hope you'll include this series of insults in the podcast at some point, no actual dislike of you guys just hilarious heckling.
I saw it twice at the movies. I tell every guy with brothers to see it.
The only miss in this movie is ric flairs casting. But the scene when flair comes in acting all goofy showing Kevin the business is a joke is one of the best parts of the movie. Bret hart chilling said one of the last times he spoke to Kerry he said his brothers are calling for him
This was the wrestling I grew up with in the 70s up to the mid 80s, before WWF/E started buying out all the indie promotions and stealing the top talent. AWA, WWWF and Stampede were available on regular cable but to get some of the other territories we would have to use UHF antennas (sorta like CB radio which we also had) to get stations from Chicago, Detroit, LA, Atlanta or New York, it's also how I watched Elvira's Movie Macabre on Saturday nights.
26:39 the movie came out too late in the award season at the end of 2023. Agreed that this movie deserved a tone of awards.
The wrestling fan in me is excited for this
the 3 days i still here waiting for you guys to watch “the equalizer 3”
You should watch the documentary on the real family and you can see stuff about the brother Chris too. Efron is excellent in this too I’ll agree.
i had to go by myself to watch this. i knew what was up and no one needed to be there for it