Vince McMahon's favorite movies

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

It's fun to guess what he's into in real life, and watching the show gives the best insight into his personal tastes.

In 2000, Vince made Big Show work a match pretending to be Fat Bastard and in 2001, Blackman and Trish did the silhouette gag. With that in mind, I think that between 1999 and 2001, Austin Powers was Vince's favorite movie.

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I picture him enjoying something like Patton or John Wayne movies.

[DiBiase is Good]

Judging by his awareness of modern pop culture, I’d say something with Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. But not that Limey, Chaplin.

[crowley1986]

according to Pritchard its Something About Mary

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apparently he liked There's Something about Mary and they stole a lot of their toilet humor from that movie.

For the most part Vince is in a bubble isolated from everything else that's not wwe, though Bruce Prichard said that for a time, Linda's favorite show was ER and Vince watched a couple episodes. If y'all remember on the attitude era, they did a lot of segments on hospitals, it was because of ER lol.

Trying to discuss pop culture or anything that's not wwe related with Vince can be very taxing. Colt Cabana's career died because of that. Colt pitched to be stand up comic as his character based on Seth Rogen and the Apatow movies that were a hit at the time, Vince had no idea who he was talking about because the last comedian he saw was Jackie Gleason.

Freddie Prinze Jr one time was watching a comedy set by Richard Pryor and Vince walked by and asked him what he was watching, he had no idea who Richard f***ing Pryor was.

Vince also thought that Scott Hall invented the Razor Ramon character because he had no idea what Scarface was, despite being one of the most important movies of all time. McMahon also had no idea that the razors are for cocaine lines and that's why he let Hall use the razors on his outfit.

Vince also had no idea what The Godfather was saying when he talked about weed. Vince let RVD and Mysterio use the name 420 for a move because he had no idea what it meant. For the XFL, Vince approved the nickname "Tea Bagger" because he thought it meant something else.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 7, 2018 16:06:12 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

according to Pritchard its Something About Mary

Yeah, Vince likes crude/toilet humour.









Who'da thunk it?

[Pushed to the Moon]

Aug 7, 2018 16:06:12 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

according to Pritchard its Something About Mary

Yeah I'd imagine he's into gross slapstick things like jizz in the hair and throwing up on people and stuff. I can't imagine him having the patience to sit through thrillers or dramas.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

He has a 5 minute clip of 1996 Shawn Michaels sleeping that he finds himself returning to every few days.

[wildojinx]

On Confidential they had a tour of Vince's private plane, and apparently it played VHS tapes (well, this WAS the early 90s, DVD hadnt taken off in a big way yet). There was a drawer that had movies in them, but the only covers I glimpsed were Frequency and Cruel Intentions (and those could have just been owned by Linda, Shane, or Steph).

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Aug 7, 2018 16:13:16 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Apparently he liked There's Something about Mary and they stole a lot of their toilet humor from that movie.

For the most part Vince is in a bubble isolated from everything else that's not wwe, though Bruce Prichard said that for a time, Linda's favorite show was ER and Vince watched a couple episodes. If y'all remember on the attitude era, they did a lot of segments on hospitals, it was because of ER lol.

Trying to discuss pop culture or anything that's not wwe related with Vince can be very taxing. Colt Cabana's career died because of that. Colt pitched to be stand up comic as his character based on Seth Rogen and the Apatow movies that were a hit at the time, Vince had no idea who he was talking about because the last comedian he saw was Jackie Gleason.

Freddie Prinze Jr one time was watching a comedy set by Richard Pryor and Vince walked by and asked him what he was watching, he had no idea who Richard f***ing Pryor was.

Vince also thought that Scott Hall invented the Razor Ramon character because he had no idea what Scarface was, despite being one of the most important movies of all time. McMahon also had no idea that the razors are for cocaine lines and that's why he let Hall use the razors on his outfit.

Vince also had no idea what The Godfather was saying when he talked about weed. Vince let RVD and Mysterio use the name 420 for a move because he had no idea what it meant. For the XFL, Vince approved the nickname "Tea Bagger" because he thought it meant something else.

I buy a lot of things at face value, but my ASS Vince didn't know you use razor blades for cocaine.

[The Ichi]

Aug 7, 2018 17:16:33 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

On Confidential they had a tour of Vince's private plane, and apparently it played VHS tapes (well, this WAS the early 90s, DVD hadnt taken off in a big way yet). There was a drawer that had movies in them, but the only covers I glimpsed were Frequency and Cruel Intentions (and those could have just been owned by Linda, Shane, or Steph).

Cruel Intentions came out in 1999 though.

[Hit Girl]

A Burns For All Seasons.

[wildojinx]

Aug 7, 2018 17:21:02 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

Aug 7, 2018 17:16:33 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

On Confidential they had a tour of Vince's private plane, and apparently it played VHS tapes (well, this WAS the early 90s, DVD hadnt taken off in a big way yet). There was a drawer that had movies in them, but the only covers I glimpsed were Frequency and Cruel Intentions (and those could have just been owned by Linda, Shane, or Steph).

Cruel Intentions came out in 1999 though.

Meant to say early 2000s.

[Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks]

I feel like it wouldn't be Vince without some eccentric and unexpected choice on his list, so he's probably a huge fan of some obscure cult film like Liquid Sky, Death Bed or Hobo with a Shotgun.

[No Longer a Produceman]

Aug 7, 2018 17:40:18 GMT -5 Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks said:

I feel like it wouldn't be Vince without some eccentric and unexpected choice on his list, so he's probably a huge fan of some obscure cult film like Liquid Sky, Death Bed or Hobo with a Shotgun.

That explains Dean Ambrose

[nickcave]

Aug 7, 2018 16:06:12 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

according to Pritchard its Something About Mary

Yeah writers used to slip in references in pitch meetings to get on his good side, apparently though one meeting they tried to do this and Vince said he preferred Old Dogs (that dumb family movie starring John Travolta and Robin Williams from the mid 2000s) instead so you can throw that in as a movie he likes. There's that anecdote Jericho mentioned in his book when talking about his match with Triple H at Wrestlemania where Vince suggested they web to the top of the cage after Vince had just watched the Sam Rami Spider-Man.

[cjh]

According to Kevin Nash, he and Vince had this conversation around 1995 or 1996 about fans liking cool heels.

Nash: Did you see Heat?

Vince: Yeah.

Nash: Who did you want to see win?

Vince: DeNiro.

Nash: DeNiro was the heel. 

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Cool Hand Luke.

That was Ambrose's entire SDL Kingpin Era character.

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Supposedly one of Vince's all-time favorite movies is Wild Hogs. Forget where I read that but it seems believable since the film has a lot of Vince's favorite writing elements - namely bikers, stereotypes, and godawful jokes.

[blissified]

Someone should show him Movie 43 and i bet it overtakes Something About Mary as his favorite.