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Hardcore Sometime in the late '90s, the WWF
was losing fans to more graphically violent and
extreme wrestling companies. Fans, it seemed,
preferred seeing guys beat the hell out of each
other legally with foreign objects. Never
above pandering to their fans, the WWF finally
created their Hardcore division (and a Hardcore
Championship, to be defended 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, no less). This awkwardly
produced, hourlong compilation tries to give
historical perspective to the mutant,
controversial wing of pro wrestling, while
highlighting some of the more famous matches that
took place over the past couple of years. You
could argue that the strength of the WWF over the
years has been the writing, the ongoing soap
operas, and that Hardcore matches simply opt for
easy sensationalism... but that's another essay.
If you want to see men (and, in one instance,
women) beat each other with broomsticks, pipes,
beer mugs, and boxes of tampons, or choke one
another with garden hoses, this is the tape for
you. The appeal of this stuff is it usually ends
up outside of the ring. For example, the funniest
match has Al Snow battling the Big Boss Man in a
bar across the street from the arena (talk about
bar room brawls!). As one wrestler says,
"Hardcore is like watching a car crash: you
don't want to look, but once you do, you can't
look away." --Dave McCoy from Amazon.com
Release Date:
February 27, 2001
Rating: TV-14 LVD
Approximately
running time: 60 minutes
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