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Post by ayumidah on Apr 2, 2024 3:50:42 GMT -5
I kind of always felt the same way HHH and Seth have-- in denial, like it wasn't real, we just haven't seen him in awhile, and this kind of made me sit and face it though, I guess. Interesting watch, but very, very sad, as well. Taylor's scenes hit me the hardest, I think, and if he's ready to return and uphold his brother's legacy, I'm fine with it.
Did get me to reflecting on some good times I had over the years
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Post by Gunhaver on Apr 2, 2024 9:57:23 GMT -5
What was Hogan's contribution to this?
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Apr 2, 2024 10:54:27 GMT -5
A fantastic documentary, WWE always knocks it out of the park with these. Bray was such a creative genius and I'm glad they touched on things like how difficult some of his stuff could be to translate to the ring itself. It's a gut-wrenching watch though and I don't think I can sit through it again, especially once they get to the loss of Brodie and Bray's passing.
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Post by Legion on Apr 2, 2024 16:28:39 GMT -5
Left me a blubbering mess, so a job well done by WWE
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Apr 2, 2024 17:06:37 GMT -5
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Apr 2, 2024 18:14:45 GMT -5
2 hours just flew by, incredible documentary and the final shot being a teaser for an Uncle Howdy return (RAW after Mania would be awesome) is just a really fitting ending.
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Post by Watch AEW Magnitude on Apr 2, 2024 18:15:47 GMT -5
The last 30ish minutes of this destroyed me. Weeping my eyes out over here. I felt so bad for Bo every time he talked because he constantly sounded like he was about to cry. Same with Braun honestly.
I think it’s a real measure of the kind of person Bray was that they were able to get his ex-wife for this. People genuinely seemed to love this man.
Oh and if Bo comes back, I’m all in, man. I want him to succeed so badly.
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Post by agent817 on Apr 2, 2024 19:03:18 GMT -5
My friend and I watched this last night. While it was a good documentary on Bray's life and career, right when it got to the final half hour, there was no way my eyes were going to be dry for much longer. When JoJo was talking and she paused and slowed down a bit, I just knew what she was feeling at that point. I felt a lot for her, as well as Bo, Mika (the sister), and their parents.
It was also nice to see Bray's ex-wife in it. I am not sure what happened in their marriage, but it didn't seem like it was a bad divorce because one, there were signs that seemed like she never really stopped loving him. Two, while they were in contact because of their kids, it could have been an amicable divorce.
I also thought it was touching to see all four kids together in that one part. The oldest daughter looks just like her dad.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 2, 2024 19:07:29 GMT -5
Damn good documentary, and yeah emotional as f***. I'd just like to echo a few things said in it. Becky's line about hugging the ones you love, that's important. You never know when you won't be able to, so take the chance to do it. Along with the line about not knowing you're in the nightmare till you're in the nightmare. You can think you're prepared for the death of a close loved one, but you really aren't, so don't think you're doing something wrong with whatever your reaction is. What was Hogan's contribution to this? Talking about how great the Bray character was, and that he had everything to be big.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 2, 2024 20:45:34 GMT -5
I have to say that last Fiend outfit they came up with is absolutely incredible.
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Post by agent817 on Apr 3, 2024 0:03:31 GMT -5
I have to say that last Fiend outfit they came up with is absolutely incredible. I thought it was sweet that there were references to his kids and JoJo.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 3, 2024 0:56:27 GMT -5
This f***ed me up. Bray being a year younger than me and having watched him from the FCW/NXT days through his death and always enjoying his work (Husky Harris got play in my WWE '12 PS3 Game) it really hit me watching this just how much of a part of my life for so long that he was.
Those original NXT Bray vignettes and his early Firefly Funhouse stuff got the interest of a lot of my not-at-all-fans friends to watch, one of which in Baltimore was going to attend his debut Raw off the strength of those first main roster vignettes.
I'm still in the afterglow of it, as much as something with that sad of an ending can have an afterglow, so I don't feel up to sharing my slight criticisms of it, but overall I'd encourage everyone to watch it as it's as good of a WWE Peacock-era documentary as you're ever going to see and really feels like if Bray were directing it himself that he would have authentically done it this way.
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Post by mountaindew on Apr 3, 2024 3:31:40 GMT -5
What was Hogan's contribution to this? It was odd that Hogan did commentary for this. He didn't seem to know Bray personally, aside from him hanging out backstage when he was a kid.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Apr 3, 2024 5:08:57 GMT -5
One thing I was hoping, since they showed so much never before seen footage, was a mention of Axl Mulligan.
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Post by salz4life on Apr 3, 2024 9:49:30 GMT -5
I want to watch this... but after seeing the responses, I'm not sure if I want to watch it. If that makes any sense....
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Apr 3, 2024 9:58:14 GMT -5
As a massive fan of the character and the person, I was struggling though it. I did OK until they started going into the day he passed and became a blubbering mess when JoJo described being behind him on the gurney, begging him to come back to her.
It's so damn sad on so many levels. He was so universally beloved as a person. As a performer, there was SO much meat on the bone. I don't think we ever saw what he was truly capable of.
As for Bo? Yeah. Bring back Uncle Howdy and let him do whatever he can do honor Windham's legacy.
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Post by Instant Classic on Apr 3, 2024 11:23:15 GMT -5
Loved the repackage of becoming Wyatt from Husky Harris. A true genius of his craft, RIP.
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Apr 3, 2024 12:13:04 GMT -5
If only he was wearing that f***ing vest It sounds like his in ring days were over either way but he had so much more life to live.
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Post by Ozman on Apr 5, 2024 18:16:27 GMT -5
Great documentary. Definitely took me on an emotional roller coaster. The part that hit me the most was when I realized that I was in attendance for his last match ever against LA Knight. I had no idea that a random live event in Rockford Illinois would feature the final match of Bray Wyatt. R.I.P.
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