• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Soooooooo, after watching the whole thing, I’m not sure who the audience is for this?

    It’s nothing new that hasn’t been said over the years. So wrestling fans will have nothing new gained here. It’s nothing that non-wrestling fans would ever watch. So it’s not for wrestling fans. It’s not for non-wrestling fans…who is it for?

    I don’t get why everyone was saying this will be damning to WWE. And how it’s going to paint them in a bad light. I don’t see that. It painted Vince exactly how he’s been known for years to be.

    It’s using old, known facts, and nothing more.

    It uses an editing style that kind of bothers me. They’ll take someone talking about a real life event, and showcase it with footage from a storyline that vaugely matches up with what’s being said.

    It’s almost as if the directors of the documentary was finding out all of this stuff as he was producing the documentary, and thought it would be shocking stuff, not knowing his main audience is watching and saying to themselves things like “Actually, Stephanies introduction to WWE wasn’t the Test storyline, it was the Undertaker abduction angle…” because wrestling fans are lifelong and have dedicated memories for this stuff.

    The only thing I learned is that Vince the human is legitimately a psychopath with no ability to feel empathy, probably has ADHD, and has no ability to view things from the other side.

    Overall, I’m not going to say it’s bad…but it’s far from the must see documentary that will change the industry I thought it was supposed to be. It feels more like a retrospective of the WWF/WWE, as told through the eyes of Vince. Honestly, the WWE produced dvd “McMahon” back in 2006 revealed more shocking stuff (for the time) that we didn’t know than this did.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipOPM
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      12 hours ago

      It’s nothing new that hasn’t been said over the years. So wrestling fans will have nothing new gained here. It’s nothing that non-wrestling fans would ever watch. So it’s not for wrestling fans. It’s not for non-wrestling fans…who is it for?

      Not every wrestling fan knows the stories, nor has been watching WWE and listening to WWE news uninterrupted for 30 years. It’s for those people.