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Akeem is a better story , a black man doesn’t realize his ethnicity until he is a grown adult and a preaching pimp guides him through his journey, heart warming story
They need to make a movie about Kurt Angle: From Foxcatcher to the Olympics (on a broken freakin' neck!) to the WWE and Perc Angle. That movie would have it all!
Start it with Angle vs Shane McMahon KOTR 2001, go through all the spots of that match and all the injuries that happened in it including the glass spot, then near the end before the Angle Slam off the board in the corner and after Angle says to Shane before he jumps: "I think I broke my collarbone" Angle jumps. Cuts to white, to a young Kurt Angle waking up to a normal wrestling day at college. The story just starts....
Agreed. Honestly it’s the only part of the movie I really didn’t like. They would have been better off playing flairs original promos and then having the actor focus solely on ring work because he certainly needed more practice
They could have made this a six-part miniseries, with Episode 1 called “Fritz”, Episode 2 called “David”, and then “Mike”, then “Chris”, then “Kerry”, and the finale would be “Kevin”. There’s only so much you can do in two hours. But the actors did an amazing job. Looking forward to seeing more of those guys
The story is too depressing... Especially to people who have had those thoughts and depression. No way anyone would be able to get through it.... When I heard when Chris death would have been.... I instantly thought.... Oh ok. That would have been too much for me and I would have HAD to stop watching. And a lot of people I talked with felt the same way. There's only some much hurt we can take
Bruce brings an incredible perspective and the fact he literally grew up in the wrestling business and is still in it, is amazing. He has seen so much and is a fantastic storyteller, which makes this podcast so great. That said, while I would watch a Bruce movie, the general population would not be interested.
@@GameTime-yj6qv I'm not saying he doesn't have an unique perspective, interesting life, and that it couldn't be a good movie, but let other people say that
I'm glad Bruce went out of his way to shout out Holt McCallany's performance as Fritz. I've wanted to see more of him since watching Mindhunter on Netflix, and he absolutely did not disappoint. AWESOME actor. (Bonus fact: he played the guy who originally came up with the "his name is Robert Paulson" line in Fight Club)
He’s also in Creepshow 2! He’s the native American in the “Old chief wooden head” portion of the film. You have to look really closely lol, and he looks completely different..He’s the main antagonist who loves his hair.. Check it out. Classic!
Imagine being the runt of all your brothers, only standing 5’4” with brittle bone disease and wanting to be a professional wrestler and follow in your family’s foot steps so bad. You push yourself as hard as you can but can’t get past constant injury and physical hurdles. When you’re 22 you shoot yourself in the head, being the 4th out of 5 of your brothers to die. Then 30 years later a movie comes out about your family’s legacy and tragedy within the wrestling business. They cut you out “for time” and highlight all the other suicides. Now the general public of non wrestling fans that became exposed to your family’s story STILL won’t know your name. Even in death he’ll always be in his brothers shadow, RIP Chris Von Erich
It was inexcusable that they left him out. Thank you for your comment. I could not say it better. That was the main thing that wrecked the movie for me.
Just saw the movie tonight. The acting is superb but don’t expect to leave the theater feeling good. Only issue i had was Jeremy allen white physically just wasn’t believable if you’re a big wrestling fan. Kerry was a foot taller and much more physically built. He looked like a movie star with a rare muscular/chiseled frame. Dude could stand next to the ultimate warrior and not look small…. Zac Efron knocks it out of the park though. An absolute home run of a performance that frankly has changed the way I view him as a serious dramatic actor.
I felt Jeremy Allen White would've been perfect if he'd been given the juice Efron obviously was on. But I disagree with you about Efron's portrayal, unless maybe being stiff and wooden was the point (the whole "men can't cry" thing?). Having said that, while Kerry was far bigger than Kevin (which was the opposite in the movie), I don't think he was that much bigger than most of the guys of the time. He didn't dwarf Ric Flair, he was just better built. He wasn't that much taller, if he was taller, than Baron Von Raschke, just bigger muscles.
somethings just don’t really matter but so much especially to non wrestling fans (which lets face it if they tap that market itll do better than just wrestling dans as ratings of recent have shown) and they went for talent instead of looks. i also had to say a couple times “wellllll thats not exactly how was” but it what is was a good movie like you said
I want to thank Bruce for suggesting " Walking Tall " from 1973. Never saw it before, but right after watching this video I went and watched it. Great great great movie. I only knew Joe Don Baker as sort of the joke he became as he got older in some truly awful movies, but this was an outstanding performance. I am 50 years old and I can't believe I never took the time to watch this classic. Thanks again Bruce.
All 3 original Walking Tall movies, were filmed in the tri-county area of Southwest Tennessee, where I live. McNairy County, where Buford Pusser was actually Sheriff, would not allow them to film the movie there. So they filmed in the counties around McNairy. I live about 8 miles from the McNairy county line. They filmed all the scenes in Madison, Hardeman and Chester counties. Some of the car chase scenes were filmed about 5 minutes down the road from my house. The Pine Ridge Club, which is the first bar you see on Part 1, is where i used to hang out. Its still open today. Other than being painted different colors, it basically looks the exact same as it did in the movie.
I was allowed the Bruce Prichard experience of selling programs and setting up merch tables and bringing ice cream to Rufus R jones etc in Central States Wrestling as a child in the early 1980's. There's enough for 10 movies there but I have to think that so many people who are now gone would be dissappointed if I were to expose the business in movie form. Maybe someday I'll spill the beans about Harley Race's hilarious shoot beat down of young Vinnie Valentino.
@@SartorialisticSavage65 I should. Between myself Bob Geigel, Bulldog Brown, Buck Robley, Sonny Meyers and Rudy Negrete I'm the only person on the event staff still alive to tell the stories. I just now realized that. No matter how cool anybody is they aren't "partying with Marty Jannety in the seventh grade" cool.
The Iron Claw will lead people to watch the documentaries. I'm at an age where I watch the movie with a Peoples Eyebrow and critique the twist on reality and what elements of the reality the movie is trying to bring light to educate viewers
@@Rjensen2 So people won't give a DAMN after watching this and watch the WWE Tragedy and Triumph of WCCW and other such documentaries as FADED GLORY and the last interview before Fritz died
@@Rjensen2 Okkkk....why all this shittin' on The Iron Claw then? On the bright side; a movie "based" on Von Erich is made but it sounds like blunder wonder city. I personally rather stick with documentaries. Whomever plays Kerry Von Erich looks way too small. How is Kevin more buff than Kerry??? So the bullshit Von Erich (MJF) makes the cut but Chris doesn't.
Do a movie about the Montreal Screwjob but from 3 different perspectives. Bret’s, Shawn’s and Vince. Like Kurasawa’s Rashomon and we audience get to interpret the events as to who is right and who is wrong
That confusion that a kid has about the business when he finds out what it is, that was my experience when I read the sports illustrated in 1991 with Vince McMahon and they said that he owned WWF 🤯 the announcer???
Andre the Giant should have movie made, hes the greatest attraction in wrestling history, worked every territory and was in biggest match in history against Hogan in Wrestlemania 3.
The original Walking Tall was awesome, as a kid I saw grownups crying their eyes out over realism and personal loss Buford Pusser suffered throughout his life. Shown it to my kids too, a moving film.
Iron Claw is an excellent movie. My only critique is the actor who played Rick Flair was not very Flair-like. But that was a tiny scene in the film and did not ruin the overall movie. I would say Iron Claw is a must-see for any wrestling fan.
Other than a few creative liberties (like, the timelines of different event and the obvious of them all, which was leaving Chris out of the movie) I thought the movie was pretty accurate.
I am still looking forward to it regardless . But another wrestling movie they wouldn't have to embellish AT ALL on , is the rise and fall of FMW .From the one of a kind crazy death matches to how the Japanese Mafia The Yakuza owned it/funded it and new owner Arai was taking out loans left right and center to pay the other while the Yakuza finally had enough of the BS and he eventually hanged himself then came after his family . But there is way more to it than that . Look up the documentary if your interested on the whole story . Also the Life and Death of Bruiser Brody would be an interesting movie . All that went down and then the trial that got Invader 1 acquitted because the American wrestlers who were gonna testify did not receive their order to appear in court till one day after the trial ! Hmmmmm.
That would be great but to hard to do in a feature there's twelve children all tied to wrestling you'd either have to do a single time in their lives like the time in stampede or you could make three movies or a series to wrap up everything
@@doctormalleycat do you know how many boring episodes would be produced? Keith hart is a school teacher. Not exactly riveting stuff for a pro wrestling fan. Bruce hart, that guy is comedy gold
It would be centered around Bret, Owen, and Stu with lots of minor characters like Smith, Bruce, Bulldog, Dynamite, Anvil, and the big names who came through Calgary.
I've seen clips and the only thing I would say is Zac Efron should have worked more on the voice, Kevin has one of the most distinctive deep voices you'll ever hear, even if Zac had just lowered the pitch/tone of it a small bit, doesn't really make a difference to the film but just some added authenticity, if you're going to work on the accent you may as well work on the voice as well
He should. Teaching people how to wrestle even just for a movie is hard as fuck. There's so much little detail that most people never think of, he deserves to be proud of his work.
@@thickerconstrictor9037 you clearly don’t know what a scumbag he is. He’s been out there claiming he created everything Eddie did and the WWE owes him for trademark infringement cause of Dom using some of Eddie’s moves.
I saw the movie - looked pretty accurate to me- the boys were dedicated to their dad, the Von Erich boys were rock stars very sad to have lost them and so many others
I saw it and enjoyed it. However, a few criticisms would be that Kerry could have been featured more, Chris being excluded entirely seems disrespectful (although I understand the filmmaker's reasons) and the brief 'afterlife' scene was a bit much. Otherwise, it was a good movie.
The people who didn't like it so much, like me, don't feel that way because its not accurate to what actually happened. Those in the know were pretty much made aware that the movie wasn't going to be accurate & had been made aware of for months by the family that they had absolutely no involvement in this film whatsoever. So I forgave all that going into the movie & was still very eager to see what they made. While I agree the acting was phenomenal on the part of Efron and McCallany as Kevin and Fritz, I thought the story was pretty cliff note and rushed. Once David died in the film it seemed like the movie put its foot on the gas pedal and just sped through the tragedies to get us to the ending with Kevin and his boys. There was barely anytime to let the deaths of David and Mike resonate as far as I was concerned and Kerry's kind of crossed the line into cheese for me. I did not hate the film but I expected a lot more from it and was disappointed
Cant do a movie about pat patterson, the dude sexually harassed and assaulted dozens of wrestlers, "ring boys" and others. If he was doing that to women, he wouldve been arrested but he got away with it because most of the guys didnt wanna admit it happened and Vince protected him.
Just curious why Bruce keeps saying that it's not a wrestling movie? What about it makes it not one? I get that it is a family drama, but it's totally centered around wrestling.
I liked the movie, but I have 2 gripes. I think they should of had a bigger Kerry Von Erich, and they left out Chris Von Erich unless I missed something.
I take issue with Bruce saying “it’s not a wrestling film, it’s a film about family and tragedy with wrestling as a backdrop” in response to Conrad wondering if the success of this movie could lead to more wrestling films. My issue is that if a film “being about family and tragedy” disqualifies the film from being a “wrestling film”, then there shouldn’t be more “wrestling films”. The best films about wrestling would be films about tragedy, comedy, love, success, failure-real life. This movie should bring about more historical-fictional type films about Wrestling icons not because wrestling is so awesome per se, but because it is such an interesting world in which lots of intense, real life drama occurs. If we just wanted “wrestling films”, we’d just watch matches lol. Even wrestling TV at it’s best isn’t just wrestling-it’s storylines that bring in real personaloties. Basically any good movie is more than its setting. Star Wars isn’t just a film about a war in a galaxy, it’s a story about family and tragedy lol
Most people do not understand what BASED ON A TRUE STORY means but to be fair it is kind of deceiving . ARGO is a good example of that it is like 75 % fiction , Americans were taken prisoner and there was an operation to get them out and agents did pretend to be a film crew but the U . S had nothing to do with it and the only part the guy Affleck played had to do with it was he got a phone call from Canada that there was a mission to get them out but it was still a good movie .
If a movie studio and a director can work together to find a script writer who could tell Pat Patterson’s story in a caring and respectful way, I would definitely be willing to watch a movie in the theater about his life and professional wrestling career.
A "wrestling" movie I would love to see be made would be about Sputnik Monroe. His whole story is just fascinating. I watched Iron Claw last night and I agree 100% with Bruce on the movie.
Could NOT agree more about the Flair, it’s easily the worst part of the movie, other than that I loved it. I agree with another comment, in that The Hart Family story could do well in a similar movie.
Would like to see a film of Jake Roberts, Iron Sheik, Buddy Rogers, Harley Race, Andre the Gaint, Bret Hart, Rowdy Piper, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, DDP, Jimmy Snuka Bam Bam Bigelow, Matt Osborne Doink, New Jack, ECW, Herbert Abrams UFW, Ox Baker, Jessie Venture would all make interesting film dramas
Bruce summed up Walking Tall perfectly... Based on.. Gives the movie maker a little leeway to fudge facts.. As opposed to The Blindside that completley lies about key facts
The only reason im watching this is because it hit my algorithm. Bruce Prichard is such a fucking know it all. You dont need to do anything other than say its a good movie and that its good for the promotion of the wrestling business.
Akeem is a better story , a black man doesn’t realize his ethnicity until he is a grown adult and a preaching pimp guides him through his journey, heart warming story
haha
Akeem was white...
Isn't this just a slight variation of the Navin Johnson story?
@@bigdaddyroy5382Akeem was a true soul brotha No. 1.
@MattTexas no doubt
The Hart pro wrestling family should get their own feature film.
Won't work. Maybe a multi season tv series. Just Bret alone has too much material to cover
No thanks.
Owen's Widow wouldn't let that fly.
@@meganedwards1039they don't need her permission
They need to make a movie about Kurt Angle: From Foxcatcher to the Olympics (on a broken freakin' neck!) to the WWE and Perc Angle. That movie would have it all!
Kurt wasn’t involved with Foxcatcher. He knew Schulz, and was friendly with him, but according to Kurt that’s about as close as he got to that mess
How about a movie for Jesse Ventura
Start it with Angle vs Shane McMahon KOTR 2001, go through all the spots of that match and all the injuries that happened in it including the glass spot, then near the end before the Angle Slam off the board in the corner and after Angle says to Shane before he jumps: "I think I broke my collarbone" Angle jumps. Cuts to white, to a young Kurt Angle waking up to a normal wrestling day at college. The story just starts....
what about eddie guerrero@@makaveli4205
You do NOT boo an Olympic champion!
Agreed on that Ric Flair part. It felt like a parody or a cosplay. He wasn't really ACTING like Ric, more like a little impression.
Agreed. Honestly it’s the only part of the movie I really didn’t like. They would have been better off playing flairs original promos and then having the actor focus solely on ring work because he certainly needed more practice
There's only one space mountain
They should a gotten Jay lethal
I've known people who have literally never watched wrestling in their lives who can still do a better Flair impression than that guy.
If the actor tried to impersonate Ric he would have failed.
So the actor decided to just act a colourful, loud-mouth, egotistical character
They could have made this a six-part miniseries, with Episode 1 called “Fritz”, Episode 2 called “David”, and then “Mike”, then “Chris”, then “Kerry”, and the finale would be “Kevin”. There’s only so much you can do in two hours. But the actors did an amazing job. Looking forward to seeing more of those guys
That's the idea I had, although it doesn't absolutely have to be that short. I hope somebody now comes forward and wants to make that series.
The story is too depressing... Especially to people who have had those thoughts and depression. No way anyone would be able to get through it....
When I heard when Chris death would have been.... I instantly thought.... Oh ok. That would have been too much for me and I would have HAD to stop watching.
And a lot of people I talked with felt the same way. There's only some much hurt we can take
Conrad asked Bruce what other wrestlers lives does he want to see turned into a movie and the mother fucker said himself 😂
Well who wouldn't want to see themselves as the basis for a movie?
Brother love actually lol
Bruce brings an incredible perspective and the fact he literally grew up in the wrestling business and is still in it, is amazing. He has seen so much and is a fantastic storyteller, which makes this podcast so great. That said, while I would watch a Bruce movie, the general population would not be interested.
A movie about me would have 40 bottles in runway models and that's just the previews 😂
@@GameTime-yj6qv I'm not saying he doesn't have an unique perspective, interesting life, and that it couldn't be a good movie, but let other people say that
Remember Conrad, you're just a fan, Prichard's the star
Conrad is in the wrestling hall of fame
Naw, Conrad is who people come to see #rolltide
Maybe Triple H will sell Pricard an -h. Or Pricard can sell off an -r and fly the Enterprise.
@powder-milk-man
Married? His mom was a groupie who never even made it to Space Mountain.
Conrad, you are definitely a Star, Brother!
I'm glad Bruce went out of his way to shout out Holt McCallany's performance as Fritz. I've wanted to see more of him since watching Mindhunter on Netflix, and he absolutely did not disappoint. AWESOME actor. (Bonus fact: he played the guy who originally came up with the "his name is Robert Paulson" line in Fight Club)
He’s also in Creepshow 2! He’s the native American in the “Old chief wooden head” portion of the film. You have to look really closely lol, and he looks completely different..He’s the main antagonist who loves his hair.. Check it out. Classic!
He’s also Patrick “Lights” Leary in Lights Out and “The beast” in Shot-Caller
@harrygreb3457 shot caller is such a underrated film.
Imagine being the runt of all your brothers, only standing 5’4” with brittle bone disease and wanting to be a professional wrestler and follow in your family’s foot steps so bad. You push yourself as hard as you can but can’t get past constant injury and physical hurdles. When you’re 22 you shoot yourself in the head, being the 4th out of 5 of your brothers to die. Then 30 years later a movie comes out about your family’s legacy and tragedy within the wrestling business. They cut you out “for time” and highlight all the other suicides. Now the general public of non wrestling fans that became exposed to your family’s story STILL won’t know your name. Even in death he’ll always be in his brothers shadow, RIP Chris Von Erich
It’s even worse. He was the 5th out of 6.
@@Technosphile Forgot to count the toddler
It was inexcusable that they left him out. Thank you for your comment. I could not say it better. That was the main thing that wrecked the movie for me.
I see your point but that would have made this movie 3 hours long, and it was already a very very tragic story
Exactly. @@carlomagno3951
Next movie.
BROTHER LOVE
The Bruce Pritchard Story😂
Kamala has a movie type story. From deep in the jungles of Uganda to different wrestling promotions to being VP of the United States
🤣🤣🤣
Nobody will top this comment. Made my day. Thank you!
You've killed me 😂😂
What’s interesting is the filmmakers seemed to have actually toned down the tragedy in the family.
Kind of insane there's a whole other brother that killed himself that's not even in the movie.
I want a movie called " Brody ", its a story that needs to be told
A bully who gets what was coming to him?
A movie about Vince's life 🤩
It's coming soon!!!
You can make a Netflix series about vince
@@michaelriverajr8891Netflix is reportedly doing a vince biopic actually.
Sounds good ,they should make a flim about hart family
it would be the shits pal
The original Walking Tall is AMAZING! The follow up with the actor and director, Framed, even more bad ass.
The guy who played Ric Flair absolutely sucked! Did he even bother to watch any footage of Flair?
Just saw the movie tonight. The acting is superb but don’t expect to leave the theater feeling good. Only issue i had was Jeremy allen white physically just wasn’t believable if you’re a big wrestling fan. Kerry was a foot taller and much more physically built. He looked like a movie star with a rare muscular/chiseled frame. Dude could stand next to the ultimate warrior and not look small….
Zac Efron knocks it out of the park though. An absolute home run of a performance that frankly has changed the way I view him as a serious dramatic actor.
I felt Jeremy Allen White would've been perfect if he'd been given the juice Efron obviously was on. But I disagree with you about Efron's portrayal, unless maybe being stiff and wooden was the point (the whole "men can't cry" thing?). Having said that, while Kerry was far bigger than Kevin (which was the opposite in the movie), I don't think he was that much bigger than most of the guys of the time. He didn't dwarf Ric Flair, he was just better built. He wasn't that much taller, if he was taller, than Baron Von Raschke, just bigger muscles.
@@curtisbrayfield7707 appreciate your feedback my friend and glad you enjoyed the movie too!
Efrons 5'8"... and has a moment hes billed as 6'2", not really sure why yer focusing solely on White
somethings just don’t really matter but so much especially to non wrestling fans (which lets face it if they tap that market itll do better than just wrestling dans as ratings of recent have shown) and they went for talent instead of looks. i also had to say a couple times “wellllll thats not exactly how was” but it what is was a good movie like you said
@@curtisbrayfield7707idk if you sit and watch a kevin interview hes really not so far off..my man got that southern uncle chill about him
Bruce can talk for 10
Minutes straight and not say a damn word LOL
I want to thank Bruce for suggesting " Walking Tall " from 1973. Never saw it before, but right after watching this video I went and watched it. Great great great movie. I only knew Joe Don Baker as sort of the joke he became as he got older in some truly awful movies, but this was an outstanding performance. I am 50 years old and I can't believe I never took the time to watch this classic. Thanks again Bruce.
Joe Don Baker was also in the 90s Bond movies with Pierce Brosnan.
All 3 original Walking Tall movies, were filmed in the tri-county area of Southwest Tennessee, where I live. McNairy County, where Buford Pusser was actually Sheriff, would not allow them to film the movie there. So they filmed in the counties around McNairy. I live about 8 miles from the McNairy county line. They filmed all the scenes in Madison, Hardeman and Chester counties. Some of the car chase scenes were filmed about 5 minutes down the road from my house. The Pine Ridge Club, which is the first bar you see on Part 1, is where i used to hang out. Its still open today. Other than being painted different colors, it basically looks the exact same as it did in the movie.
Having abdullah the butcher play Lance von erich was a nice touch
I was allowed the Bruce Prichard experience of selling programs and setting up merch tables and bringing ice cream to Rufus R jones etc in Central States Wrestling as a child in the early 1980's. There's enough for 10 movies there but I have to think that so many people who are now gone would be dissappointed if I were to expose the business in movie form. Maybe someday I'll spill the beans about Harley Race's hilarious shoot beat down of young Vinnie Valentino.
By all means tell these tales before they are lost.
Central States ain't talked about enough.
@@SartorialisticSavage65 I should. Between myself Bob Geigel, Bulldog Brown, Buck Robley, Sonny Meyers and Rudy Negrete I'm the only person on the event staff still alive to tell the stories. I just now realized that. No matter how cool anybody is they aren't "partying with Marty Jannety in the seventh grade" cool.
@@chriscarpenter1420
Haha that ending line is a fucking fact, brother.
A neat one for me is that Tito Santana was my Spanish Teacher in middle school.
The Iron Claw will lead people to watch the documentaries. I'm at an age where I watch the movie with a Peoples Eyebrow and critique the twist on reality and what elements of the reality the movie is trying to bring light to educate viewers
Lmao, no it won't.
@@Rjensen2 So people won't give a DAMN after watching this and watch the WWE Tragedy and Triumph of WCCW and other such documentaries as FADED GLORY and the last interview before Fritz died
@@dangxdc8348 lol, they won't even know or care they exist. It will definitely not have any effect.
@@Rjensen2 Okkkk....why all this shittin' on The Iron Claw then? On the bright side; a movie "based" on Von Erich is made but it sounds like blunder wonder city. I personally rather stick with documentaries. Whomever plays Kerry Von Erich looks way too small. How is Kevin more buff than Kerry??? So the bullshit Von Erich (MJF) makes the cut but Chris doesn't.
@@dangxdc8348RIP GINO
Do a movie about the Montreal Screwjob but from 3 different perspectives. Bret’s, Shawn’s and Vince. Like Kurasawa’s Rashomon and we audience get to interpret the events as to who is right and who is wrong
Four would be better-- what actually happened.
No, how about never mentioning it ever again.
That confusion that a kid has about the business when he finds out what it is, that was my experience when I read the sports illustrated in 1991 with Vince McMahon and they said that he owned WWF 🤯 the announcer???
Thanks for the review Bruce.
Addicted to Losing:
The Rocky King Story
They still call me Bruce
Leave it to bruce to pitch his screenplay first. Thats why he is where he is lol😂
People forget the shady shit Pat Patterson did.
I’m guessing this was recorded prior to today’s announcement of Marshall, Ross, and Kevin Von Erich will be on AEW new week.
Andre the Giant should have movie made, hes the greatest attraction in wrestling history, worked every territory and was in biggest match in history against Hogan in Wrestlemania 3.
Bruce was very kind about the Ric Flair portrayal there. That was 'not accurate.' It was the drizzling shits.
Should’ve titled it “Bruce says the same thing for 18 mins”
the men who are playing fritz and Harley Race, respectively, look the part.
The original Walking Tall was awesome, as a kid I saw grownups crying their eyes out over realism and personal loss Buford Pusser suffered throughout his life. Shown it to my kids too, a moving film.
Iron Claw is an excellent movie. My only critique is the actor who played Rick Flair was not very Flair-like. But that was a tiny scene in the film and did not ruin the overall movie. I would say Iron Claw is a must-see for any wrestling fan.
Bruno Sammartino's life story would certainly be an interesting movie!
I just learned recently about him and his family in Italy trying to get away from the Germans. You are 100% right Brunis story deserves a movie!!!
This conrad dude needs to stop interrupting. Jesus.
I want an eddie guerrero or a guerrero family movie
Bruce Prichard: The Movie
First movie to make negative dollars
Maybe a film about bruiser brody or eddie graham. A film about pat patterson would be intriguing
Movies about Brody and Gino would be great.
Other than a few creative liberties (like, the timelines of different event and the obvious of them all, which was leaving Chris out of the movie) I thought the movie was pretty accurate.
Hey Conrad we need a movie about Ric Flair WOOO! Can we get Ric on the Hollywood walk of fame! He needs his star the guys an American icon!
Hey Bruce could you do an episode on the Von Erichs please?
I am still looking forward to it regardless .
But another wrestling movie they wouldn't have to embellish AT ALL on , is the rise and fall of FMW .From the one of a kind crazy death matches to how the Japanese Mafia The Yakuza owned it/funded it and new owner Arai was taking out loans left right and center to pay the other while the Yakuza finally had enough of the BS and he eventually hanged himself then came after his family . But there is way more to it than that . Look up the documentary if your interested on the whole story . Also the Life and Death of Bruiser Brody would be an interesting movie . All that went down and then the trial that got Invader 1 acquitted because the American wrestlers who were gonna testify did not receive their order to appear in court till one day after the trial ! Hmmmmm.
A movie on the Hart family would be great
that’s a tv series. Based on Bret’s book alone, it’s a series.
That would be great but to hard to do in a feature there's twelve children all tied to wrestling you'd either have to do a single time in their lives like the time in stampede or you could make three movies or a series to wrap up everything
@@doctormalleycat do you know how many boring episodes would be produced? Keith hart is a school teacher. Not exactly riveting stuff for a pro wrestling fan. Bruce hart, that guy is comedy gold
It would be centered around Bret, Owen, and Stu with lots of minor characters like Smith, Bruce, Bulldog, Dynamite, Anvil, and the big names who came through Calgary.
@@bingeMAFIA I want an episode about Bruce and his chicanery
A lot of heat of the Ric flair character lol
1:23 Uh oh, Bruce. Sounds like a Jerry Jarrett "huh"
Turning into him
It's possible he saw it, they had a world premiere in Dallas November 8.
I loved the part in the movie where they all the brother's combined and became Mecha Von Erich
I've seen clips and the only thing I would say is Zac Efron should have worked more on the voice, Kevin has one of the most distinctive deep voices you'll ever hear, even if Zac had just lowered the pitch/tone of it a small bit, doesn't really make a difference to the film but just some added authenticity, if you're going to work on the accent you may as well work on the voice as well
At least he didn't say made for the modern audience, that's the kiss of death
Chavo hasn’t missed an opportunity to tell everyone how great he was training everyone, and how great he is in the movie.
He should. Teaching people how to wrestle even just for a movie is hard as fuck. There's so much little detail that most people never think of, he deserves to be proud of his work.
@@thickerconstrictor9037 you clearly don’t know what a scumbag he is. He’s been out there claiming he created everything Eddie did and the WWE owes him for trademark infringement cause of Dom using some of Eddie’s moves.
How dare he promote himself. In a business of promotion. The nerve.
@@81ghale it’s not self promotion, he’s not the second coming of DDP. Read my other comment, I’m not rewriting it.
@@SkollFaqHamasandAntifa you think that would’ve been a good match? I don’t see it
Oh, the betrayal! Conrad can't believe it! Bruce got him again.
I saw the movie - looked pretty accurate to me- the boys were dedicated to their dad, the Von Erich boys were rock stars very sad to have lost them and so many others
So Bruce wants a movie now ? Well why not ? Sounds cool.
His travels with Undertaker we would be gold
As for making a film about true events and or persons. As my father often said, :"do it right or dont do it at all"
A movie about Vince McMahon would be awesome
Bruiser Brody life story or incident would be a movie
Where's My Chin: The James Ellsworth Story
A Eddie Guerrero movie would be fantastic (maybe because im a mark for him)
It'll just show what an asshole he was if they tell the truth.
Pedro Pascal as Eddie.
@@rargent35 Danny trejo as Mando Guerrero.
Can you imagine how they would portray a benoit film lol?
@@jaycuthbert245 Is Jesse Eisenberg too old to play Daniel now?
Prichards idea for a wrestling film or better yet a series is genius
CONRAD Bruce is right you have to watch the original walking tall god damn!
Im British telling you that!
I saw it and enjoyed it.
However, a few criticisms would be that Kerry could have been featured more, Chris being excluded entirely seems disrespectful (although I understand the filmmaker's reasons) and the brief 'afterlife' scene was a bit much.
Otherwise, it was a good movie.
There could be so many good movies made out of some of these guys and gals lives.
Pat Patterson ring boy scandal would kill movie
The people who didn't like it so much, like me, don't feel that way because its not accurate to what actually happened. Those in the know were pretty much made aware that the movie wasn't going to be accurate & had been made aware of for months by the family that they had absolutely no involvement in this film whatsoever. So I forgave all that going into the movie & was still very eager to see what they made. While I agree the acting was phenomenal on the part of Efron and McCallany as Kevin and Fritz, I thought the story was pretty cliff note and rushed. Once David died in the film it seemed like the movie put its foot on the gas pedal and just sped through the tragedies to get us to the ending with Kevin and his boys. There was barely anytime to let the deaths of David and Mike resonate as far as I was concerned and Kerry's kind of crossed the line into cheese for me. I did not hate the film but I expected a lot more from it and was disappointed
Cant do a movie about pat patterson, the dude sexually harassed and assaulted dozens of wrestlers, "ring boys" and others. If he was doing that to women, he wouldve been arrested but he got away with it because most of the guys didnt wanna admit it happened and Vince protected him.
Those were very naughty boys!
Alledgedly, he was never convicted or put on trial.
Vince protected Jimmy the Superkilla Snuka from jail!
Really random. The man is dead and this accusation was over 30 years ago. Let it go.
@@earlusmcdivett not random, the guy was a pervert and he should've been in jail.
I watched it. It yanks at the heart!
Was Conrad more upset about not seeing 'the Iron Claw' or missing the all you can eat and drink?
Conrad had an iron claw on a turkey leg at Thanksgiving. He wouldn't break the hold, so he was DQ'd from the table.
The audio at the Texas Theater during the premiere wasn't very good. Update your audio system people !!!
READY TO RUMBLE II here we go!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
absolutely. ...that movie hold a spot in my heart
Just curious why Bruce keeps saying that it's not a wrestling movie? What about it makes it not one? I get that it is a family drama, but it's totally centered around wrestling.
How has Conrad not seen the original Walking Tall?
A movie about McMahon sinking the territories could be good.
I liked the movie, but I have 2 gripes. I think they should of had a bigger Kerry Von Erich, and they left out Chris Von Erich unless I missed something.
Randy Savage’s life…
Just couldn't get past how tiny the actor that played Kerry looked. It was ridiculous.
How is Conrad from Alabama and not seen the original Walking Tall. Sad
I take issue with Bruce saying “it’s not a wrestling film, it’s a film about family and tragedy with wrestling as a backdrop” in response to Conrad wondering if the success of this movie could lead to more wrestling films. My issue is that if a film “being about family and tragedy” disqualifies the film from being a “wrestling film”, then there shouldn’t be more “wrestling films”. The best films about wrestling would be films about tragedy, comedy, love, success, failure-real life. This movie should bring about more historical-fictional type films about Wrestling icons not because wrestling is so awesome per se, but because it is such an interesting world in which lots of intense, real life drama occurs. If we just wanted “wrestling films”, we’d just watch matches lol. Even wrestling TV at it’s best isn’t just wrestling-it’s storylines that bring in real personaloties. Basically any good movie is more than its setting. Star Wars isn’t just a film about a war in a galaxy, it’s a story about family and tragedy lol
Magnum T.A's story would make a good movie...
I wonder what the ring boys would think...
Most people do not understand what BASED ON A TRUE STORY means but to be fair it is kind of deceiving . ARGO is a good example of that it is like 75 % fiction , Americans were taken prisoner and there was an operation to get them out and agents did pretend to be a film crew but the U . S had nothing to do with it and the only part the guy Affleck played had to do with it was he got a phone call from Canada that there was a mission to get them out but it was still a good movie .
I think the only one left to make is the hulk hogan story (which has already been written and was planned to be made????)
i see where bruce is coming from almost famous but wrestling
He’s saying it’s not a documentary.
If a movie studio and a director can work together to find a script writer who could tell Pat Patterson’s story in a caring and respectful way, I would definitely be willing to watch a movie in the theater about his life and professional wrestling career.
Yes the way he buggered all those ring boys will make a compelling story.
I agree with you but you have to mention the cream team.
A "wrestling" movie I would love to see be made would be about Sputnik Monroe. His whole story is just fascinating.
I watched Iron Claw last night and I agree 100% with Bruce on the movie.
Honestly they need a few wrestling biopics. I'd love one of Bruiser Brody
Leave it to bruce to pitch his screenplay first. Thats why he is where he is lol😂
Sputnik’s a shoot civil rights legend.
If they could ever Greenlight a VKM biopic that he personally didn’t exec produce, that’d be appointment cinema.
they kind of made that movie on your life twice ,bruce : Goodfellas and Almost Famous
Could NOT agree more about the Flair, it’s easily the worst part of the movie, other than that I loved it.
I agree with another comment, in that The Hart Family story could do well in a similar movie.
I hope they do an Eddie Guerrero movie one day 🙏
If it draws as well as he did in wrestling (Worst drawing WWE Champion ever), nobody would touch that one, nobody has money to burn 🤣
I could the movie title now
“Latino Heat” 😢
Conrad isn’t a wrestling podcaster he’s a mortgage broker that happens to have wrestling in the background
Original Scarface 1932 is awesome but also is the 1983 Scarface version.
Would like to see a film of Jake Roberts, Iron Sheik, Buddy Rogers, Harley Race, Andre the Gaint, Bret Hart, Rowdy Piper, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, DDP, Jimmy Snuka Bam Bam Bigelow, Matt Osborne Doink, New Jack, ECW, Herbert Abrams UFW, Ox Baker, Jessie Venture would all make interesting film dramas
Wouldn't we all my friend 🤔
18 box office bombs
@@Captain_AAhab_ probably but almost everything hollyweird does these days are unoriginal bombs
Bruce summed up Walking Tall perfectly... Based on.. Gives the movie maker a little leeway to fudge facts.. As opposed to The Blindside that completley lies about key facts
Kinda don't want to see it now. THANKS BRUCE! 😡
Yep. He ruined it. 🤪👹🏳️
The only reason im watching this is because it hit my algorithm. Bruce Prichard is such a fucking know it all. You dont need to do anything other than say its a good movie and that its good for the promotion of the wrestling business.