This Crossfit movie feels like it's constantly building toward a sad event? The music playing over athletes celebrating an event win or a clip of the crowd cheering is muted under a melancholic soundtrack. Instead of hearing fans cheering and the excitement and buzz and nerves of a Crossfit event, let alone THE pinnacle of the Crossfit season, you feel dragged down with every passing minute.
Dissapointing display of fitness and the fittest people on earths highlight of their season with a pretty doom and gloom feel. Top it with a rushed feel to every event as if they're trying to speed through the whole weekend like they couldn't wait for it to finish. The tone is so depressing throughout when you compare it to prior Crossfit years and I don't think it is because of the athletes, it seems to just be the way the movie is produced and pieced together. Prior years, there was such a good build up of the atheletes persuits to getting to the games, the behind the scenes in the lead up and then recounts of the events with actual excitement around the chase and race. Really sad to see a movie trying to celebrate "The Fittest on Earth" and it feels like we're watching 40 athletes go through a weekend of pain and struggle only to get to the end and feel like its the last year of the sport?? Why would they intentionally try to remove the fun and excitement out of the Games and the atheletes with a slow, sad and down right depressing movie that makes you want to stop watching with every minute that passes.
Please look at some other sports on how to make production level films about a sport more exciting especially to try to attract more people to the sport.
