Beyond the Mat
This documentary focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers Terry Funk, Mick Foley (Mankind), Jake Roberts (Jake the Snake) and Darren Drozdov (Droz). As the film progresses, the story of their lives unfolds, as we also learn how the wrestling industry is not the plastic-weapons fake-slap sideshow that many have perceived it as. We are shown how moves, although not actually injuring anyone, are not fake, and extreme training is required to be able to perform the stunts without being harmed. We are also treated to interviews with the family of Mick Foley and what it is like for them to know their father literally puts his life on the line every week and how it feels to have other children call their father a "fake". Vince McMahon, owner of World Wrestling Entertainment, also makes a few appearances, responding to criticism on various wrestling situations, including, once again, his real athletes, very real organization being called fake by sources such as USA Today and various news programs.
This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17. It contains one or more of the following: graphic violence, explicit sexual content, or crude indecent language.
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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 47mn
Size: 19.7 GiB
Video
Codec: h264
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 24.0 Mb/s
Audio
#1: English 2.0ch FLAC @ 649 kb/s (FLAC Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 649 kbps / 16-bit)
#2: English 2.0ch FLAC @ 1 048 kb/s (Commentary by director Barry W. Blaustein and wrestler Terry Funk)
#3: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by director Barry W. Blaustein)
#4: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Scene-specific commentary by wrestler Mick Foley)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Release notes:
Source #1: AUS Blu-ray - (Video, Audio, Commentary)
Source #2: Unrated Director's Cut NTSC DVD - (Named Chapters, Commentary)
Source #3: Ringside Special Edition NTSC DVD - (Subtitles)
Blu-ray Comparisons:
Director's Cut, Theatrical Cut: Show comparison
Information on differences between the theatrical cut and the director's cut can be found at Movie-Censorship.
In director Blaustein's commentary, he mentions that he was pressured to remove any re-enactments for the theatrical release.
Named chapters were sourced from the NTSC DVD and synced to scene changes/I-frames.
OCR'd the English subtitles from the NTSC DVD (Ringside Special Edition) to create SRT subtitles and a non-SDH English subtitle track.
The rest of the DVD subs were kept in their original VobSub format.
Mick Foley's commentary is only for two parts of the movie, with the rest being the regular movie audio.
The beginning of each part of his commentary is labeled in the chapters.
The first part begins at Chapter 8 (34:50) and goes for ~9 minutes 'til the next chapter.
The second part begins at Chapter 14 (1:22:38) and goes for ~21 minutes and finishes at the epilogue.
- Beyond the Mat 1999 Directors Cut 1080p BluRay REMUX AVC FLAC 2 0-BLURANiUM
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