Bert's rope - the deadliest rope in all of WDW! Great vid and thank u for the shout-out 💚 (15:57)

@SaraGrapes

3 ай бұрын

Can we get an OSW review? Or even a Mr. OOC review?

@AllisonPregler

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Jay!!!! Can of Coke!!!

@effarrjay

3 ай бұрын

We gotta get an OSW Review of this movie in the future. Would love to hear Mr OOC's thoughts on it.

@Skreezilla

3 ай бұрын

Kanyon is looking allot like a Killer BEEEEeeeeee when he drops him off berts rope

@SuperMarioBrosIII

3 ай бұрын

@@AllisonPregler Hey Allison NBC🦚has cancelled Quantum Leap! Oh Boy!📺🙆🤷🕵

somehow Raven doing the Sharpshooter with a look of complete confusion in this version of the "Montreal Screwjob" is the best part of this movie

@jonothanthrace1530

3 ай бұрын

*Whiny yell* What about him?

@Antonicane

3 ай бұрын

IKR. Raven is my boi, but that's just like.... wut? I think the second best thing about this movie would have to be the terrible wig they put on the guy playing Jesse Ventura.

@ComicBookGuy420

3 ай бұрын

Fun fact, raven got the job because Chris Kanyon was choreographing the wrestling scenes

The worst part about all this is that Jesse Ventura has lived one of the most interesting lives in human history. At various points he was a Navy SEAL, an outlaw biker, a pro wrestler, a Hollywood action hero, a mayor, and a governor. Why the hell would you have to distort or exaggerate ANYTHING about a life like that?

That Jay Leno makeup from The Late Shift looks like the Robbie Rotten clone that couldn't show up for "We Are Number One"

@lanceturley7745

3 ай бұрын

He looks like they recycled the Flabber makeup from *Big Bad Beetleborgs* and painted it flesh colored.

Fun fact: Nils Allen Stewart, who played Jesse Ventura, is the real-life dad of Booboo Stewart of Twilight & Disney's Descendants fame

I am shocked and thrilled that my favorite couple of KZreadrs are finally going to expose the Los Angeles Screwjob! The world deserves to know that IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SCHMOZZ!

Fun Fact: The building he walks into at the end is the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, at Queen's Park in Toronto. It was famously used for the cover photo of Rush's 'Moving Pictures' album. Weird coincidence: the real Jesse Ventura once worked security for a Rush concert in Minnesota in the '70s.

@tartrazine5

3 ай бұрын

That's also where Johnny 5 was sworn in as an American citizen in Short Circuit 2.

“I am Jesse the body, Jesse the mind, and Jesse the eternal spirit Ventura.”

That line about “where else but America could you find a guy that started as a wrestler and ended up as a governor” is the first thing I hear from this movie and I already knew something was off, Japan, Antonio Inoki.

It's like the sting biopic where nitro is in tna

It occurs to me that the Montreal Screwjob scene is like Forrest Gump for the wrestling crowd.

Bold casting choice to hire the one person on Earth who doesn't even attempt to do Jesse's voice.

@zachary_attackery

3 ай бұрын

same casting director who picked the Ric Flair guy in Iron Claw

@ComicBookGuy420

3 ай бұрын

The guy the played flair in iron claw was one of the better choices I've seen, I mean Thor is playing Hulk Hogan😂

@ComicBookGuy420

3 ай бұрын

Lulz I think everyone's done a Ventura impression at one point "This stuff will make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus"

@Tareltonlives

2 ай бұрын

"He's called the body, so that means nobody remembers his voice"

The recent Weird Al biopic is not very accurate but that was deliberate. Having a tall guy like Al portrayed by such a short actor was only the beginning!

@almightycinder

3 ай бұрын

Also, he has a really simple, dull story in real life (Al even said that on his Behind the Music episode), so that's about the only way to make a biopic of him. Not a lot to talk about when you're straight edge and have the simplest band history ever.

@JW666

3 ай бұрын

It was ironically a parody, a spoof of the biopic genre. But this movie is a uncoherent, bad joke.

@ComicBookGuy420

3 ай бұрын

Lulz you mean Weird Al never dated Madonna or killed escobar?😂

@Tareltonlives

2 ай бұрын

That's because it was a parody of biopics like this

Which is a pretty impressive claim considering the John Belushi biopic also exists.

Not only was Kanyon not WCW champion, but I believe that title is the 91-94 WCW Heavyweight Championship that they had to make because of Ric Flair shenanigans.

@ComicBookGuy420

3 ай бұрын

Kanyon choreographed the wrestling matches that's why he's there RIP

I watched this in high school and the line about Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones as the only thing I ever remembered about it. Even back then, I was like “What does that have to do with anything?” 😂

I remember being 15 watching this. And that opening scene where I saw hundreds of Wolfpac shirts in the crowd, the Nitro set, and the caption says "1984" ... that when I knew this was going to suck. By the time they reenacted the Montreal Screwjob, I was done.

@jesusperez-arteaga5437

2 ай бұрын

Just like Brian Zane when he reviewed it

I will never forget the night I watched this. My father let me stay up to watch this in order to make up for me missing the Pay Per View that the WWF was doing. Right after this movie ended, the news came on and it was the report that Owen Hart passed away due to the tragic accident.

@AllisonPregler

3 ай бұрын

that is definitely an insane night

@jonothanthrace1530

3 ай бұрын

What a fucking wild coincidence.

@rainydayjules

3 ай бұрын

the fact that that came on right after the joke in this movie that wrestling doesn't actually work is crazy

@jonothanthrace1530

3 ай бұрын

@@rainydayjules My reaction to that is somewhere between laughing and wanting to puke.

@CorbCorbin

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@rainydayjules What do you mean by “wrestling does not work?” What joke, and work how? As an actual martial art? I’ve never seen it, so I’m wondering what you’re referencing.

You can tell how much influence OSW has had on you two with the constant uttering of "The WDW"

That stinger was just amazing. Walks out with the Liberty Bell like it's nothing. :-D

My conspiracy theory is that Goldberg actually went back in time and killed Vince McMahon in the 60s, that’s why the timeline is all fucked. This is basically Terminator Genesys.

I will never get over the stunt granny scene. It's like the producers watched Pro Wrestling Secrets and said "Hey, that's a good idea!"

The stupidest thing is that Ventura really has had a remarkable life. They didn't need to make stuff up.

Now this is extreme kayfabe.

I love he is calling fucking Nitro with Gorilla Monsoon! The guy so associated with WCW

Given how every wrestler is prone to exaggerating and just flat-out lying to burnish their reputations, this movie somehow feels like an unauthorized *auto* -biography.

@PowerPackers90

3 ай бұрын

thing is Jessy even complained about this. during the build to SummerSlam 99. Jessy cut a promo on RAW and took some shots at the documentary in the promo.

@cowboyquebecanimations3068

3 ай бұрын

Hogan's the worst man tried even steal Machos life by saying g he was going to pitch for the Reda

@U014B

3 ай бұрын

Imagine writing a story about yourself so wildly exaggerated that even you don't approve of it.

@theitfactorjameswheezer2852

3 ай бұрын

Not every wrestler, this mostly applies to mostly hulk hogan

@blkmamba31

3 ай бұрын

This is why it’s so funny when everybody gets on hulk hogan for doing it. They literally all do the exact same thing. He was just better at getting ahead doing it. But they would’ve all done exactly what he did it they have a chance. And if you listen to them, and they all lie through their teeth. They will re-tell a story with different people there or something different happening. Most people “hate Hogan” because they think it’s it’s the cool thing to do.

Special guest appearance from Bret’s rope!!

@littleblackcat2273

3 ай бұрын

"Bert's Rope' :D

I'm surprised this unofficial biopic actually referenced Jesse's time as a Navy Seal in Vietnam. Because yes, Jesse Ventura is an actual Navy Seal, meaning he knew Demo Dick Marcinko

@mossena

3 ай бұрын

As voiced by Mickey Rourke!

@LaNoLaCola

3 ай бұрын

@@mossena How can anyone forget such a classic vocal portrayal? Fucking ninja style...

@ComicBookGuy420

3 ай бұрын

Jesse was a navy seal but never went to war

@Tareltonlives

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if he met Mitch Buchanan

@tylers1996

6 күн бұрын

He technically wasn’t a SEAL either. He was an Undewater Demolitions Technician, which while it did eventually get folded into the SEALS in the early 80’s they were distinct trades when Ventura was in. And no he never saw combat.

Oh man, the 'injured commentator being counted out by a ref' should totally get brought back

@Joe90h

3 ай бұрын

It would have probably been in poor taste that time Jerry Lawler had a heart attack at ringside, though.

I remember that like a month before this movie came out there was Michael Jordan: An American Hero biopic movie that released on Fox Family? I'd imagine they made this schlock to ride on it's coattails without really putting any big effort. Like the MJ movie sucked but it got a few things more right than this. I personally remember Nils Allen Stewart as one of Dorian's henchman in The Mask, crying and then confused reacting to the Mask's hammy fake death and awards show nonsense were priceless. Also was on the receiving end of the botched "Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru" moment in the live action Fist of the North Star.

@goranisacson2502

3 ай бұрын

Man, THAT was Nils? For some reason that scene is so etched into my memory despite being such a small part of the movie- it was just the exact kind of absurdity I adore. Now I wish he was known more for comedy work than... this.

If they adapted the Hulk Hogan autobiography, even in the hands of a competent director, would end up looking something like this: full of inaccuracies and ridiculous

i really like these new duo reviews, you two really know how to YesAnd each other.

Dude, the look uou gave him after the rewind.... It's the look of small child being like "Hey, you want to try this candy? I swear it's not a super sour trick candy. Promise".

Like Faulkner's Benjy, Jesse Ventura remembers the experiences of his lifetime simultaneously!

Weirdly, as someone who isn't a wrestling fan, or American, I think I first heard of Jesse Ventura because of the Conspiracy Theory show. I either randomly caught it on TV at some point, or I just peripherally know about it through internet memes.

Nils Allen Stewart was also in Fist of The North Star, one of the earliest anime adaptions that was so bad it's good and I loved it growing up.

What a wonderful Easter present from Phelous and Allison. Talking sbout the greatest wrestler of the WDW Champion.

The blonde hair on him is messing with my head. I really only know Jesse Ventura from The Running Man, Predator, Abraxis and then as governor of Minnesota.

What a lovely way to start Easter Morning. :D

What does Montreal Screwjob have any thing to do with Jesse Ventura?

I remember Brian Zane of Wrestling With Wregret suffering through this. Not exactly the 'valentine' to Jesse this film had been pitched as.

And to make it worse, it aired side by side with Over the Edge on NBC.

OMG - my two favourites together reviewing this "doco"! ... I can't wait!

@littleblackcat2273

3 ай бұрын

.. and it turned out to be a spectacular review! Thank you! :)

Ah, Nils Allen Stewart. When he's not being a goon in The Mask, or Abobo in Double Dragon, he's doing his best Jesse Ventura in one of the very few movies where he's the star. And it's a TV movie, too. 😂

You two are so enjoyable to watch talk about this stuff, even though I don't know anything about wrestling. Please please PLEASE do a video on Freddy's Nightmares! And one on The Late Shift would be great too.

It would have been MORE Tasteless if Bret Hart played himself, with Raven playing as Shawn Micheals.

I love when you two review anything crazy together. Even better when it's wrestling or wrestling adjacent !

Ass Clowns constipated: this gives me flashbacks to a scene from Killer Klowns from Outer Space where a clown jumps from the U-Bend

Loved this thank you for making me smile! Subscribed!

You should see The Buster Keaton Story (1957). It didn't even TRY to tell his life story, and Buster knew it from the start. There is not one moment depicted in the film that has anything to do with his biography. Buster helped with the stunts, but star Donald O'Connor (really miscast) admitted being terrified to attempt most of them. The weird thing was, Buster, even at his advanced age then, could still do most of the stunts, as he proved on several variety shows from the 1950s. The movie depicted only one wife played by Ann Blyth (Buster had three wives), and they made sure that Blyth's character had no resemblance to any of Buster's real-life wives. Which didn't help when Buster's second wife sued Paramount's asses off, even though I understand the case went nowhere. The only good thing about the film, Buster would remark later, was that it paid for the ranch that he lived in with his third wife Eleanor until his passing.

19:43 Because nothing says 💥🦅🇺🇸 _AMERICA!™_ 🇺🇸🦅💥 quite like two English bands.

@gracekim25

3 ай бұрын

I guess I’m American now🤣

“Bert screwed Bert”

This movie acts like Ventura stumbled randomly into politics when he had been an activist and mayor of a city in Minnesota for a while before he ran.

I watched this when it aired, while a friend of mine did the same from his own place...God help us. It was bad enough that we still crack in-jokes about it today. Both of us, to this day, cannot begin to understand why this was made at all, let alone the way it was.

Well, it's still more accurate than the backstory they give the Hulkster and Macho Man on Baywatch! Sorta. M-maybe. ...eh, not really.

If you haven’t, you should check out Brian Zane’s review of this movie on Wrestling with Wregret. He had one of if not the funniest moments of his show when he got to the bit about the Screwjob.

18:26 “it looked like an SNL sketch of Jesse Ventura’s life”……. So basically Jesse Ventura’s life 😂

I don’t know much about wrestling but being able to learn about it from you guys is always a real treat 😊

Your intro is dope.

Jesse the Body Politic Ventura's Early Years:

The Venn diagram of Allison Pregler fans and wrestling fans I would have thought would look like two circles minding their own business... I just had to look up the Montreal Screwjob on Wikipedia😅 Oh well, I'm here for it!

My dad watched wrestling and I was pretty young so I only vaguely remember the scandal with the Montreal screwjob (we're Canadian so my dad was LIVID). This review made me look into the whole story and it was great so thank you!

Who better WDW Champion than KANYON?!

Context: Bret Hart was a Part of the WCE Roster in '99 when this Movie was made.

1. that babe tshirt is everything 2. it's like someone saw churchill the hollywood years and didn't get the joke...

Raven is "these people." That's some Louis Theroux BBC2 wrestling journalism right there

@gracekim25

3 ай бұрын

I understand that reference 😂

14:50 couldn't they have got Harry Shearer to do his McBain voice for the scene!

Everybody gives Kenny Omega crap for wrestling a nine-year-old girl in Japan. But nobody ever held Jesse Ventura accountable for fighting eight-year-old Little Billy Goldberg on "Nitro" in 1974. Double standards much? Damn IWC tribalism!

I never heard of him - wrestlers I know include Hulk Hogan, the Undertaker, and of course the Ultimate Warrior plus those who had a movie career like the Rock and John Cena. But him, I never heard about. Just weird that guys like him, or Arnie, could become governors despite not really being suitable for the jobs.

I remember when this came on tv. This is when wrestling was so mainstream almost everything had a wrestling tie in to it. That Seventy's Show, SNL, and nonsense like this

I for one am just glad there were no pompuadored vetrinarians in Hawaiian shirts shouting "ALLL-RIGHTY then!" in this movie.

I wonder if he was on the radio with Frasier Crane 😂

Man I can't believe this exists, i've listened to many interviews with Jesse Ventura and he must disown this!

I know you've already mentioned the movie in passing...but it would be VERY funny if you did Abraxas next.

WDW 4 Life!!! Thanks for this. I think...

As a wrestling fan, who has been watching since 1992 (including my dad's old VHS tapes)... what?!

Wait they have Mortis AND Kanyon?! double payday brother brother

This is the most petty request ever, but I love falling asleep to Movie Nights and the old Obscurus Lupa playlists. The only thing is, Movie Nights is in backwards order. Is that easy to reverse?

@AllisonPregler

2 ай бұрын

You should be able to manually drag the vids on the playlist into the order you like, I don't think you can do it in one click though, sorry!

OSW!!!! So what bar is Bert Hert?

the commentator/judge wearing the cheese hat better have the wrestling nickname *HEADCHEESE*

7:29 "Who bettah..." 😢

Great video. Another review of the period said " This movie is at least entertaining but almost nothing in it is true." It's really bad.

I know nothing about wrestling but am looking forward to learning all about this one piece of wrestlng history

I remember watching this as a kid on TV in Minnesota. It was a big deal at the time as a made for TV movie, we all knew how bad it was at the time even. It came out pretty quick after he won the Governor race.

You missed them duck hunting in the Woods. Not sitting in a duck blind n the water. Then finding the duck laying in the woods

You know you're off to a great start when in your biopic about a man with a very distinct gravelly, Upper Midwest-accented voice, you cast a guy who not only doesn't look like him, he doesn't even bother trying to sound like him.

I'd love to see your take on Slacker or Waking Life

As a Minnesotan, I knew of Jessie Ventura first as the governor (who was a wrestler) and then learning more about him as a person as I got into pro wrestling was...*baffling*. And of course, this movie confuses things even further, given what absolute nonsense it is.

5:14 To be fair, he didn't say the guy would be good, just that he would be desirable. That's not the same thing.

The thing is, there's some actual interesting stuff they could have used regarding how WWE screwed Jesse over. Like how he was trying to get the wrestlers to unionise and Hulk Hogan was the one to rat him out to Vince McMahon, or how he was lied to about royalties on video tape sales for his commentary and ended up winning in court for a decent sum. If they had taken these events and turned the dial up a little on the dramatisation, you wouldn't need to have the Heartbreak Kid Johnny Flamingo use Bret Nart's famous Nartshooter against him to steal the win.

@angelriverasantana7755

3 ай бұрын

Oh and the Sega Genesis game incident that was the last straw for Jesse to leave the WWF

@goranisacson2502

3 ай бұрын

@@angelriverasantana7755 As someone who's very unaware of Wrestling AND European, but very into videogames, what was the Genesis game incident?

@angelriverasantana7755

3 ай бұрын

@@goranisacson2502 Jesse Ventura made a deal with fledgling game publisher Dream Works and developer Human Entertainment to be the star of a game called 'Jesse The Body Ventura: Wrestling Superstars.' When Vince McMahon found out about Jesse making that deal while still under contract, he fucked off outta the federation, tired of Vinny Mac's crap. And even outside of the WWF, there was trouble, cuz the game was cancelled outright. The game would get completed and come out in Japan as Thunder Pro Wrestling Retsuden. A ROM of the partially completed Jesse The Body game was leaked online.

@angelriverasantana7755

3 ай бұрын

@@goranisacson2502 Genesis wrestling game, "Jesse 'The Body' Ventura Wrestling Superstars" was being developed while Jesse was still under contract. Vince McMahon finds out about it and gets p****d at Jesse, who rightfully quits the fed, but even with that, the game got canned. The developer, Human Entertainment, would finish their work and release it as Thunder Pro Wrestling Retsuden in Japan, bereft of Jesse's likeness. And a partially completed Jesse Ventura ROM was leaked online, too.

@Joe90h

3 ай бұрын

@@goranisacson2502 Jesse Ventura was set to license his name to a port of a Fire Pro Wrestling game, which Vince put a stop to likely because it would be competing with his own company's licensed games. Apparently it released in Japan without Jesse Ventura branding, the ROM of the Jesse Ventura version exists online, and reportedly it's a dreadful game.

Anyone else exited for the Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth.

70s Goldberg and his 9 million match streak (except for all those high profile losses to time travelling Jesse Ventura)

They taped one of the scenes/matches w Chris Kanyon and Faker Ventura duing the monday nitro i was at in Toronto

@AllisonPregler

3 ай бұрын

You witnessed history!

I know absolutely nothing about Jesse Ventura beyond vaguely recognizing his name, and I couldn't give a single flying fuck about wrestling, so this movie could fly his utter horseshit right past me without me noticing - but why are they trying to appeal this movie to people that'd never watch in a million years? Obviously, the only people that'd watch this are people that like Jesse Ventura. What, were they trying to make shit up to attract new fans or something?

@littleblackcat2273

3 ай бұрын

I too, am baffled as to who this was meant to appeal to. Even the most gullible of wrestling fans would identify the obvious BS. So that leaves it to politician fans? Not sure such people actually exist! Jesse did try to form a wrestler's union, so maybe communists? But he never imposed communism in Minnesota (more's the shame).

@gracekim25

3 ай бұрын

Hmm 🤔 hard to pin point i guess 🤷‍♀️

I don't know anything about wrestling, but you guys have so much fun I can enjoy it just the same.

Wow 😯

So, this is basically The Babe Ruth Story of the late 90s.

I think the ref counting out someone in the match is a really funny joke. Too bad its in a biopic lol

So it's basically Weird: the Al Yankovic Story, but without the input of the central character?

The Jesse Ventura/Head Cheese angle finally launched Steve Blackman to the superstardom he deserved.