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Watch this folks, at worst, it's a beautifully shot and interesting story. At best, and this mainly classes if you have a brother, it's an absolute guy punch.
Beautifully acted, beautifully directed, absolute stone cold bummer. It's more than worth the watch.
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It's embarrassing how they are advertising for it now vs their efforts on the theatrical release and awards season.
Imo Zac Efron gave an Oscar worthy performance in this movie, the acting overall in this movie was phenomenal.
Loved the movie, I wonder how it goes for people
That don't know the story though? I felt some of it would be confusing to people, a lot of you have to read between the lines stuff and a lot of people are horrible about that lol. I had to explain the bike wreck to my wife because it went over her head what had happen. I do wish they would have included the other brother, I get there reasoning that it would have just become way to dark, but it was never going to not be a dark story. Hats off in real life to Kevin, dude seems happy and at peace in his life with his family. He is truly a strong human being to have to go through so much in life and not give up.
That don't know the story though? I felt some of it would be confusing to people, a lot of you have to read between the lines stuff and a lot of people are horrible about that lol. I had to explain the bike wreck to my wife because it went over her head what had happen. I do wish they would have included the other brother, I get there reasoning that it would have just become way to dark, but it was never going to not be a dark story. Hats off in real life to Kevin, dude seems happy and at peace in his life with his family. He is truly a strong human being to have to go through so much in life and not give up.
That 'Dark Side of the Ring' episode on the family was enough for me. I'll probably never be able to watch this but it's good to hear they did a good job with it.
i know this film isnt fully accurate, but its still a hell of a movie
some of the performances are next level
some of the performances are next level
so like a brick hitting my chest
I saw this at the cinema, it's great. I had already seen the Dark Side of the Ring episode on the Von Erich family so I knew what was coming, but it still hit pretty hard. Easily Zac Efron's best performance, and Jeremy Allen White is fantastic as always. The script and direction are not subtle, but it works.
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I still am in the boat that it should've been a mini-series, so much was cut and compressed for of course creative reasons and just not having enough time.
And that was easily the weakest, most sanitized documentary on the Von Erichs because they wanted Kevin's cooperation so they handled Fritz with kid gloves compared to what he deserved and like the movie, try to make Kevin out like he was a saint among his brothers.
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Yeah, cutting Chris out almost entirely and merging part of him into Mike was bullshit.
Also, I gotta be honest that a lot of the casting for the movie kinda sucked between a lot of people just looking wrong and the performances being off. Kerry has a great actor to be clear, but that performance wasn't great and it is even worse when he just looks completely wrong for the role.
Yeah I understand the reasoning but cutting Chris will never not be shitty. It was funny they included Kerry's IC title match with Perfect at Summerslam though they did what they could to clearly show him clearly, I don't think they were super concerned about accuracy in casting and I wouldn't be surprised if they were casting around Zac Efron's height, especially for the brothers, the guy they had for Flair had to be a rib. It wasn't Kerry's story but did they speed run through it without getting into why things that happened happened. Part of me thinks the director/writer saw the Dark Side of the Ring episode and that's pretty much it in terms of research. They didn't go nearly as hard on Fritz as they could though Kevin disagrees with the weird loyalty he still when it comes to his father, they white washed Kevin a good deal too by making him, like the DotR episode did, in making him look like he was the good son.
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It's well made, but it's more for people who don't know all the details of the real story. Fritz got off EXTREMELY easy in the film, and the omission of Chris honestly is pretty gross (and basically ruined the film for me}.