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WWF: Mick Foley
Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops
Distributed by
Silver Vision
- Cert:
- Cat.no: WWF 1009
- Running time: 206 minutes
- Recorded: 2000
- Pressing: 2001
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 24
- Sound: Dolby Surround (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Languages: English,
- Subtitles: None
- Fullscreen: 4:3
- 16:9-Enhanced: No
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £17.99
- Extras: Pop Music, Mick's Favourite Knocks
Mick Foley: Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops
takes a look at the man who helped popularise "Hardcore" wrestling, raising
the extremes to which a man will go to put on a good show, despite looking
like an Irish folk singer on the front cover.
I've done several WWF DVD reviews online to date already so you know the drill
by now - and if you don't, there's a summary of those online at the bottom
of this review - so I'll move on swiftly to a breakdown of the DVD's contents.
The DVD contents total almost 3½ hours and start with a 78-minute
piece with the big bushy-bearded man himself introducing various bouts in the
ring taken from Royal Rumble 2000 and Wrestlemania 2000, to name but two.
The rest is technically the extras but it forms part of the total running time.
Pop Music is four pieces of music for Foley's alter-egos, Commissioner
Foley, Mankind, Dude Love and Cactus Jack.
The section on Mick's Favourite Knocks is a DVD-exclusive extra that
focuses on five of his preferred bouts such as when he took on Stone Cold
at "Raw is War" in November 1996, The Rock at "Halftime Heat" in January
1999 and against Shawn Michaels at "Mind Games 1996".
Presented in a 4:3 ratio, the picture has been converted to PAL and hasn't
fared too well looking like someone's removed every other frame to give it a
slightly stilted look.
I couldn't determine the average bitrate on the disc.
The sound, in Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround), gives English dialogue
only and is as loud as it needs to be.
There are 15 chapters for the main programme, plus one each for the four music
tunes and the five 'Knocks'. Subtitles are absent as usual, but the menus
contains animation and music with one of Foley's theme tunes.
The following is a list of all the The WWE/WWF DVDs and games review online to date :
2002 WWE Raw
2000
DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV
connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and
played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
