Post by theryno665 on Mar 28, 2010 12:12:46 GMT -5
...this weekend. (Damn you long topic title)
First off was End Game, the straight-to-video movie starring Kurt Angle and Jenna Morasca. And holy shit was this movie terrible! I'm not even talking about "Movies starring professional wrestlers"-terrible but "Movies that shouldn't exist"-terrible. No one knew how to act, the director didn't know how to direct and the writer didn't know how to write. It was like watching an awkward school play. I'd say that Kurt Angle was the best thing about this movie but that'd only be by default as he didn't do so well himself. Plus it didn't help that the movie started off with him BUTT-f***ING A GIRL TO DEATH!! Ok, so he suffocated her during sex but still, not something I wanted to see from Your Olympic Hero.
Then I watched Blood and Bone, a straight-to-video flick starring Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite) that was pretty good and reminded me of '90s beat-em-ups starring Jean Claude Van Damme. Much of the movie takes place in underground fighting rings and there are cameos from various MMA stars throughout (Kimbo, Bob Sapp, Gina Carano *drool*) but there's one cameo right at the beginning that threw me off guard: Ernest "The Cat" Miller playing a homosexual fighter named "Mommie Dearest" wearing overalls and a wig with hair curlers in it. Even more surreal was the fact that the ring announcer who ever-so-affectionately hyped him up with gay slurs was none other than RUFIO from Hook! He ended up being White's sidekick in the movie and basically played his role as Fabian Kaelin from WSX, so he kinda got annoying but still... it's RU-FI-OOOOOOOOOOOO(hey!).
Finally, I watched Slammed!, which I'm sure has been reviewed on Wrestlecrap before. Basically the whole movie was like a TV actors reunion (the kid from Home Improvement, Jimmy Olsen from Lois and Clark, Cody from Step By Step, the super hot short-haired chick from VIP and even more) but it did have some wrestlers in it. Since it was undoubtedly filmed in LA, there was some SoCal talent in there like the Hardkore Kidd (aka Jesus Aguilera), Sylvester Terkay and an unrecognizable Brian Kendrick right at the beginning of the movie. It's not good by any means but since my tolerance for crappy movies is pretty high, I will say I wasn't offended or insulted by watching it. It's a lot better than Backyard Dogz (another horrible move I've seen) and looks like Titanic compared to End Game.
So yeah, I don't know what the point of all this is. I just thought it was odd that I ended up seeing so many wrestling related things in movies lately.
First off was End Game, the straight-to-video movie starring Kurt Angle and Jenna Morasca. And holy shit was this movie terrible! I'm not even talking about "Movies starring professional wrestlers"-terrible but "Movies that shouldn't exist"-terrible. No one knew how to act, the director didn't know how to direct and the writer didn't know how to write. It was like watching an awkward school play. I'd say that Kurt Angle was the best thing about this movie but that'd only be by default as he didn't do so well himself. Plus it didn't help that the movie started off with him BUTT-f***ING A GIRL TO DEATH!! Ok, so he suffocated her during sex but still, not something I wanted to see from Your Olympic Hero.
Then I watched Blood and Bone, a straight-to-video flick starring Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite) that was pretty good and reminded me of '90s beat-em-ups starring Jean Claude Van Damme. Much of the movie takes place in underground fighting rings and there are cameos from various MMA stars throughout (Kimbo, Bob Sapp, Gina Carano *drool*) but there's one cameo right at the beginning that threw me off guard: Ernest "The Cat" Miller playing a homosexual fighter named "Mommie Dearest" wearing overalls and a wig with hair curlers in it. Even more surreal was the fact that the ring announcer who ever-so-affectionately hyped him up with gay slurs was none other than RUFIO from Hook! He ended up being White's sidekick in the movie and basically played his role as Fabian Kaelin from WSX, so he kinda got annoying but still... it's RU-FI-OOOOOOOOOOOO(hey!).
Finally, I watched Slammed!, which I'm sure has been reviewed on Wrestlecrap before. Basically the whole movie was like a TV actors reunion (the kid from Home Improvement, Jimmy Olsen from Lois and Clark, Cody from Step By Step, the super hot short-haired chick from VIP and even more) but it did have some wrestlers in it. Since it was undoubtedly filmed in LA, there was some SoCal talent in there like the Hardkore Kidd (aka Jesus Aguilera), Sylvester Terkay and an unrecognizable Brian Kendrick right at the beginning of the movie. It's not good by any means but since my tolerance for crappy movies is pretty high, I will say I wasn't offended or insulted by watching it. It's a lot better than Backyard Dogz (another horrible move I've seen) and looks like Titanic compared to End Game.
So yeah, I don't know what the point of all this is. I just thought it was odd that I ended up seeing so many wrestling related things in movies lately.
