The Film Thugs Movie Show

Creed 3

I can't think of a film series that we have had a more interesting experience with than the Creed movies.

From dismissive, to excited, to completely won over... these three movies did the unimaginable. They made Rocky relevant again.

Three movies...

Creed was perfect.

Creed 2 was amazing.

Now, lets see how we fell about the first Rocky movie, without Rocky.

Beyond The Mat

We end our look at the world of wrestling with an actual documentary, made by an actual documentary filmmaker.

"Beyond The Mat," well produced, well financed documentary that not only had unprecedented access to the WWF (still a Federation at the time), but had an actual theatrical release (yes, Jim actually saw this in the theater).

So, lets close out this chapter in style.

Wrestling With Shadows

As a filmmaker, what do you do when you are making a rather run of the mill, straight forward vanity profile of a well known figure and, in the middle of making this profile, one of the most epic, insane, and legendary events in the history of that person's field occurs?

Do you:

A- Switch the focus of your documentary to this insane event and become the first person to fully report on it, thus giving you orignial control of the broader narrative and create a document that would be referenced in everything ever made about this defining moment.

B- Use it as a build up to a second documentary that then becomes the original version of the story.

C- Just kinda treat it like a thing that happened, kinda tack it on at the end, and then just roll credits.

 

If you answered "A" or "B," you are not the makers of this movie.

Join us as we discuss the most absurd waste of material ever published.

The Iron Claw

This week, a bizarre tag team combo...

 

In this corner we have a lifelong wrestling fanatic. A Texas born and raised, bonafide expert in the subject with years of watching, rewatching, reading, rereading, discussing, debating, arguing, fighting, and getting locked in the very same finishing move this movie takes its name from but his big(?) brother.

And his partner in crime...

A guy who spent from the age of 8 to the age of 12 on a military base in latin America with little access to popular culture, and what access he did have was months later and... shall we say "sporadic," and has almost no knowledge of the sport.

And in this corner...

A goddamned near impossible to adapt, and absolutely impossible to comprehend tragedy of the most successful Texas wrestling family. A story so dark and tragic, Richard III is telling it to take a knee.

That's right... The Iron Claw.

Let's has out the good, the bad, and the "WHERE THE FUCK IS CHRIS?" of the whole affair. 

Fast X

That's right folks... it's time to fasTEN your seatbelts and drive, full throttle into the mouth of familia as we take another spin with Dom and the family. 

I could try to explain what happens, but...