Steamboat Ricky
WZCW's Living Legend
Last year, the week before Wrestlemania 28 gave us this little gem:
For me, the documentary was great. Inspirational, feel-good...really sold both Rock and Cena (if they needed sold, at that point) and the match itself as a big-time, "Once in a Lifetime" spectacle. The build and feelings leading up to last years' match were great. The documentary made you buy into the encounter and Wrestlemania itself as something more than a wrestling event.
This year...it just felt lazy. Both from the performers' stand-point to the writers and creative backstage. It felt like I was supposed to care simply because it was Rock and Cena again. But I didn't, really. I wasn't emotionally invested. After the match was over, I realized that they didn't do the documentary like they did last year. I remembered how much I liked it and how connected I felt to the match after watching it.
The lack of emotional investment in the match seems to be a trend with those who didn't want to see the match again or felt that it didn't deliver. Would some documentary around the theme of "Greatness v. Redemption" have helped make this match feel like a bigger deal? Would we have been ultimately more satisfied in the end result if something like this could have made us more emotionally invested?
For me, the documentary was great. Inspirational, feel-good...really sold both Rock and Cena (if they needed sold, at that point) and the match itself as a big-time, "Once in a Lifetime" spectacle. The build and feelings leading up to last years' match were great. The documentary made you buy into the encounter and Wrestlemania itself as something more than a wrestling event.
This year...it just felt lazy. Both from the performers' stand-point to the writers and creative backstage. It felt like I was supposed to care simply because it was Rock and Cena again. But I didn't, really. I wasn't emotionally invested. After the match was over, I realized that they didn't do the documentary like they did last year. I remembered how much I liked it and how connected I felt to the match after watching it.
The lack of emotional investment in the match seems to be a trend with those who didn't want to see the match again or felt that it didn't deliver. Would some documentary around the theme of "Greatness v. Redemption" have helped make this match feel like a bigger deal? Would we have been ultimately more satisfied in the end result if something like this could have made us more emotionally invested?