The only thing that is really bothering me is the voice over; it sounds like a 1994 VHS that teaches kids about trains or some shit. As a wrestling fan, this story is fascinating; these kids lived out the dreams of every male who was a kid during the Attitude Era. The interviewees aren't the most dynamic and a few of them are charisma vacuums, but the things they're telling us about are just crazy. I think this easily could have taken another half hour to bring more detail and depth into the narrative (I still have so many questions) but it makes for a very quick 80 minutes. They talk about people who I would very much like to hear from (all the adults that ruin everything, because adults always ruin everything) and I'm not sure if there was any attempt to get them, but it feels like a piece of the story is missing. Not sure if a normal person is going to get much out of this, but the idea of literal children creating a full on company that produced wrestling shows, both live and on air, that stared other literal kids is just amazing and inspiring. The NWF was gone before I was even born and if Wrestling With Wregret hadn't covered this doc, I'd have never even known about it. I remember watching local wrestling on local access (shout out to Gateway Championship Wrestling) as a kid in the mid-90's and being impressed that such a small time company could be putting shows on real TV; I can only imagine how crazy it would have been to have been born a decade earlier and watching kids my age produce, film, and distribute their own wrestling program and even go on to sell out their local arena. This doc could have used a more professional presentation, but the story really carries this one through.
The only thing that is really bothering me is the voice over; it sounds like a 1994 VHS that teaches kids about trains or some shit. As a wrestling fan, this story is fascinating; these kids lived out the dreams of every male who was a kid during the Attitude Era. The interviewees aren't the most dynamic and a few of them are charisma vacuums, but the things they're telling us about are just crazy. I think this easily could have taken another half hour to bring more detail and depth into the narrative (I still have so many questions) but it makes for a very quick 80 minutes. They talk about people who I would very much like to hear from (all the adults that ruin everything, because adults always ruin everything) and I'm not sure if there was any attempt to get them, but it feels like a piece of the story is missing. Not sure if a normal person is going to get much out of this, but the idea of literal children creating a full on company that produced wrestling shows, both live and on air, that stared other literal kids is just amazing and inspiring. The NWF was gone before I was even born and if Wrestling With Wregret hadn't covered this doc, I'd have never even known about it. I remember watching local wrestling on local access (shout out to Gateway Championship Wrestling) as a kid in the mid-90's and being impressed that such a small time company could be putting shows on real TV; I can only imagine how crazy it would have been to have been born a decade earlier and watching kids my age produce, film, and distribute their own wrestling program and even go on to sell out their local arena. This doc could have used a more professional presentation, but the story really carries this one through.
