The Price of Fame

We arrived early and were surprised to find extra clips before the movie. There was also an extra interview after the movie. It was good to see two men (Ted Sr. and Ted Jr.) walk away from money to be with family. It is also good to see men proclaim their faith without fear. It was enjoyable, at times heartbreaking, but in the end, positive and a blessing.

This documentary brought up so many interesting points about the evils of fame and money as the older wrestling generation deals with religion, family, and health. Unfortunately, the documentary devolves less than halfway through into a reality based tv show about Ted Sr.'s grown sons' emotional daddy issues (Brett's scenes were ridiculous, staged, and cringeworthy). The best parts (and we started fast forwarding through the sons) are the interviews with the old school wrestlers. This film would have been a grand slam if it had stuck with the old schoolers and provided their life lessons learned and testimonies. It is one in a million to have a stepfather like Ted Sr's. It is too bad we didn't hear more about Ted Sr.'s life (he was a college athlete???) and his wrestling career. At least half of the film is about Ted Jr and his brothers. Honestly, I never heard of Ted Jr as a wrestler until today. This reality show was a totally missed opportunity.

Apart from the mum, zero integrity shown by either Ted. Pathetic self serving waste of time. I'm told they're both going to prison now for embezzlement. Ted jnr is a real chip Off the old block as they say.

They sit around saying how much they love each other and God yet have both done terrible, terrible things. From drunk driving to cheating on partners. The thing is normal people don't even consider doing that when drunk or sober, no matter what about actually doing it.

What a waste of time. Terrible movie. The poor wife / mother. This is why i say religion is a crutch as it's all she has keeping her marriage in 1 piece.

An emotional heartwarming introspective piece about a Wrestler's life, beliefs and the human condition. Sappy but true to itself. If you know anything about the Million Dollar Man the faith aspect shouldn't have come as a surprise. Solid doc! Give it a chance.

Ted Dibiase brings his shopworn tales of overcoming adultery and being guided by his dad, living a life of avarice and excess blah blah blah.

This was so pitiful in so many ways, Ted has made a living on telling his trite tales, I can't tell you how many times this shameless man has shopped his pathetically underwhelming sins around.

Him and his weepy progeny ruminate about the same stupid adultery transgressions throughout, also if you love close ups of Ted's giant squinty eyed orange face, you won't be disappointed, almost every scene is with Ted's Robert Z'dar sized cherub giant face in it. I also had an unbridled love of men weeping but even I was daunted by how much gratuitous weeping and moaning was in this mockumentary.

It was cloyingly excessive blubbering and it was uncomfortable, the braying and hawing did not engender sympathy from me, rather disgust, I saw weak men that pretended to be strong and they mewled on and on about stuff that was so innocuous.

The only parts that were good were the Super 8 home movies but they were too fleeting and sparse to make a difference..