I will add it's better to watch the Dark Side episode of the Von Erich's after the movie. The movie does take a lot of liberties with the story. I mean to omit Chris because Durkin felt the deaths were repetitive and similar and it threw off the flow is idiotic. It happened. These deaths happen because of other situations, Kerry for example wanted to join his brothers and when you take out that other suicide, it minimizes his pain and hurt even more than what is shown. It's about the family and the "curse" Kevin believed was real because of the tragedies. The time lines are also off for how things happen. Some happen right after big events when in actuality they don't.
It's not to say it isn't a good movie. It is. But only if you aren't familiar with the real story and watched any of them wrestle on TV at some point. Also if you saw the Dark Side episode first it'll make you say ok but why did they leave so much shit out?
I feel like this would have been an amazing HBO Mini Series. 4 episodes 1hr long would cover this properly and do it more justice than the movie did.
I see blokes rated it highly (7.9/10) I would say it's 6/10 at best. Enjoyable but another movie that should have been a mini series or show.
The casting choices were fantastic. Efron I know had some facial injury but to have his face change that much is bizarre. It's hard not to wonder wtf really happened other than what's been reported.
I haven't seen this or the doc about it yet (plan to watch both) but these kinds of movies are tough. Doing a real story but leaving out important parts sucks, but making the real story work as a movie is also tough. But if you're going for perfect accuracy, at what point should you just be making a doc instead?
I have no answers to any of that btw. I think sometimes the best answer is just that some stories aren't meant to be movies. Or else they should focus on a smaller chunk of time that does make a better movie instead of sprawling over so much time that you have to make big cuts. But it seems like movies that present themselves as accurate but aren't can do pretty well financially but always have a sort of ceiling of how well people remember them.
And you can obviously get away with it being less realistic the less seriously you treat it, such as Cool Runnings, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or even 300. Those never present themselves seriously enough to be upsetting when you find out they aren't really accurate. Then you get to something like The Blindside which is legitimately insulting to the real person. And then the middle ground of something like Braveheart, which is a pretty good movie but also complete nonsense. It has to be one of the more generally well thought of movies like this right?
@Ogrezilla finished fargo season 4 last night, and, CYE (curb) season 11. Larry had me laughing the final 2 or three episodes. Some were kind of meh. I miss the original run... with the seinfeld inside a cye season was brilliant. He is like a vampire or something no? Larry David has been old, bald, blind (corrective), skinny to the point he's nearly identical to himself 40 years ago. WHO DOES THAT!?
It interests me honestly.... I find it unnatural. It's like halting change. Life is nothing if not constant motion.... forward... cycles...
How was season 4? I actually haven't watched 4.
I really need to watch CYE. I've seen some random bits and saw a handful of episodes back in freaking high school, but have never actually watched most of it.
