Personally, I did not remember that Foley went to high school with Kevin James. Even more so, what the film does well is that it lets even the most fluent an expert in Foley a chance to rediscover some of his life for the first time.
Foley took a beating that night, and the fans' opinion of him turned into a more popular one in the process.įoley brings his typical good humor fond on his TV interviews and books into the film easily, and the mix of home video and sit down interviews combined with a dusting of still photos makes for an entertaining film. This was crystallized during his feud with the Undertaker, specifically in the Hell in a Cell match when Undertaker threw Foley (as Mankind) off the top of a cage onto an announcing table below. He evolved from a preliminary worker (or ‘jobber') in the WWF before moving to other promotions to hone his craft both as a worker and talker, before returning to the WWE, his reputation of doing crazy things in matches preceding him. The film is narrated by Foley, and includes a slew of interview participants including his friends, co-workers and family, as Foley talks about his youth, his attending of WWF shows at Madison Square Garden and watching the steel cage match with Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and Don "Magnificent" Muraco, when Snuka leapt from a cage 25 feet in the air onto Muraco. But once you get past the packaging (the sock is admittedly a small chore to get off of the case) and into the discs, that is where the rewards lie. Socko,' the sock puppet Foley used to help try and help pick up the spirits of WWE owner Vince McMahon on-screen during his feud with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in the ‘90s. The set comes with a sock and a face drawn on it, covering the disc packaging. Before diving into the film, let us talk for a minute about the packaging. Going from memory, but I do not think Foley's previous multi-disc DVD set included a film or general career retrospective other than the matches, so this film was a nice refresher on Foley's life before and after wrestling.
The feature is set up similar to other recent WWE releases, with the film's subject on one disc and the matches on any additional ones. Now as Foley embarks on a stand-up comedy(!) career, the desire to revisit his life to date in For All Mankind is done. The first two books were autobiographical tomes, subsequent works have been a mix of fiction, more autobiographical work and children's books.
A wider audience still came to know Foley from his bestselling works as an author. A wider audience saw him in the documentary Beyond The Mat, where he was handcuffed, taking shots to the head with a folding metal chair while his wife and children sat at ringside, horrified. If you are like Randy Miller III or myself, you remember Mick's time from the ECW or even WCW days. Enforcement and resulting bans from these acts will be under discretion of moderators.Mick Foley has gone through many personas on and off the wrestling scene through the years, and it is entertaining to see where people first picked up on the Foley train. Please, no personal attacks, trolling, or spam (posting about tapes you want to sell is okay). External Links Everything is Terrible Found Footage Festival Lunchmeat VHS VHS Collector VHShitfest Related subreddits /r/Betamax /r/cassetteculture /r/CED /r/8track /r/HDDVD /r/laserdisc /r/ObscureMedia /r/VHScoverART /r/vintagevideo /r/vinyl Guides Digitize Your Tapes Fixing Moldy Tapes VCR First Aid VCR Troubleshooting & Repair Do you trip over a stack VHS tapes in the morning? Do you look through bins of old movies at the thrift store? Do you have a VCR connected to your HDTV? You're in the right place.Ī subreddit for VHS and associated video.