WWF: Mick Foley Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops

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 Popstakes a look at the man who helped popularise “Hardcore” wrestling, raisingthe extremes to which a man will go to put on a good show, despite lookinglike an Irish folk singer on the front cover.

I’ve done several WWF DVD reviews online to date already so you know the drillby now – and if you don’t, there’s a summary of those online at the bottomof 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-minutepiece with the big bushy-bearded man himself introducing various bouts in thering 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, CommissionerFoley, Mankind, Dude Love and Cactus Jack.

The section on Mick’s Favourite Knocks is a DVD-exclusive extra thatfocuses on five of his preferred bouts such as when he took on Stone Coldat “Raw is War” in November 1996, The Rock at “Halftime Heat” in January1999 and against Shawn Michaels at “Mind Games 1996”.

Presented in a 4:3 ratio, the picture has been converted to PAL and hasn’tfared too well looking like someone’s removed every other frame to give it aslightly stilted look.I couldn’t determine the average bitrate on the disc.

The sound, in Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround), gives English dialogueonly and is as loud as it needs to be.

There are 15 chapters for the main programme, plus one each for the four musictunes and the five ‘Knocks’. Subtitles are absent as usual, but the menuscontains animation and music with one of Foley’s theme tunes.

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