The Rise & Fall of ECW (2004)

Actors: Dionicio Castellanos (actor), Terry Brunk (actor), Mark Calaway (actor), Richard Blood (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), A.C. Connor (actor), Chris Candido (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Steve Austin (actor), Bill Alfonso (actor), Chris Benoit (actor), Kurt Angle (actor), Scott Bigelow (actor), Shane Douglas (actor), James E. Cornette (actor),

Genres: Documentary, Sport,
Taglines: E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W a chant still heard in arenas around the world.

Quotes:

Tommy Dreamer: If you watch early ECW, Paul Heyman was pissed off and hell-bent to... take down WCW. I believe when Paul had left WCW, he was actually supposed to come here and wr... do the whole Paul E. Dangerously in WWE. But he was just waiting, and then he started with the whole ECW thing. Paul had painted Eric Bischoff and WCW as... the most vile people and organization that you could ever, ever work for. You were joining the Taliban if you went and joined up with WCW and Eric Bischoff. Eric Bischoff was Satan.::Paul Heyman: It just... I-I didn't like them, and they didn't like me. I didn't like the way I was treated, they didn't like the way I treated them back. I pretty much told them to go fuck themselves when... they were treating people like shit. And I don't think they enjoyed that. This was during the Bill Watts administration. And Bill wasn't really a people person.::Tommy Dreamer: I think why he started ECW was because he hated WCW so much. He didn't have any beef with WWE. He *hated* WCW. And everything that they stood for. He had a bitter... contract dispute with them. Um... they screwed him over, and he wanted to do nothing but take them down.

Tommy Dreamer: Paul never lied to the fans. He lied to the wrestlers, but he never lied to the fans. Anything that the Internet or any magazine or story that got out, Paul alloted time to address. And he would do it by going to the ring and telling them.

Lance Storm: I had a couple of bounced checks. I was working on a verbal contract at the time. And... he had put in a clause of, um... if there was a breach in the contract due to pay, he had thirty days to correct it. And I told him that was okay, but I wanted a "three strikes or you're out" rule where if he did it three times, I could walk. And on the third one, I went to him and said "We're on a verbal contract, I'm verbally breaking it. You've striked out three times. I'm no longer under contract. I'm not quitting, but if I have another check bounce, I'm leaving."

Mick Foley: I believe, uh, Paul E. is one of the- one of the greatest minds in the history of wrestling.

Jerry Lawler: The Philadelphia fans are some of the most vocal and, at times, most violent.

Tommy Dreamer: Around that time, Michael Fay was convicted of a crime in Singapore. And it was a big deal here in the United States; he was gonna get caned, and how could America let someone get caned. We had the Sandman, who walked around and he was drinking beer and smoking cigarettes coming to the ring. In the early stages of ECW, I was labeled a pretty boy, and Paul came up with the idea of a Singapore cane match. And the loser of the match, uh, had to get caned. And I lost. The first time he hit me, boom, I went down; the place cheered. Second time, he hit me, the place cheered again. The third time, he hit me so hard, they could start seeing my back start to bleed. I remember the first couple of shots, they hurt like hell. And then after that, adrenaline kicks in. No matter how much I hurt and really wanted to stay down, there was nothing that would have made me. I remember fans telling me to stay down. I remember two girls crying, just telling me to stay down. People I... I didn't know. I just kept getting up and getting up. It-it was brutal. And ECW preyed on human emotion with a lot of angles. Paul made that "Rocky"-type of story. I remember facing off with the Sandman after that, and his lip was quivering, 'cause it was so emotional, and he was like "Oh, my God", you know, "We're living this great moment right now." That was a turning point in my career, but it was also a turning point in ECW, where it was a form of redemption to violence forming, and to the fans. It's the best drug in the world, that rush from the fans. And it's amazing. And that's... that's what always kept me going. Pretty much the fans.::Paul Heyman: We did a lot of things with the Sandman and Tommy Dreamer that-that broke a lot of taboos. We did the thing where Tommy Dreamer had a cane match with the Sandman, and Dreamer knocked the cigarette in the Sandman's eye and then caned Sandman in the other eye, and Sandman was blind. And-and we tore down the dressing room wall, and you saw both the good guys and the bad guys co-mingling over this hurt wrestler. And Tommy Dreamer saying "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt him." Which was *really* taboo back then. And then the Sandman, to his credit, stayed at home for a month. So that nobody saw him around town. So that you didn't say "Yeah, they're doing this thing, with the Sandman blind." He stayed at home. He never left his house, he never answered his door. His wife answered the door. It was unheard of back then for somebody to-to stick to the storyline to this degree.

Tommy Dreamer: When Taz broke his neck in Florida, he finished his match. And he just kept on saying "Damn, my neck is... my neck his hurt." I walked him into the hospital. And... we just, you know, we would always travel together and... they asked him "How'd you get in here?" He's like "I walked." And, uh... they're like "There's no way you walked in here." He was like "Yeah, I did. I walked in here." And they're like "Well, sir, you have a broken neck."::Taz: I was out for, actually, about nine months. And Paul paid me every single week of our agreement in my guarantee. I didn't have no contract with the man. I had a handshake with the guy. And he stuck to that, and I will never, ever forget that.

Paul Heyman: Creatively speaking, I think the "anti-hardcore" promos that Mick Foley did in 1995 were the most creative and best-performed interviews in the history of this business, bar none.

Paul Heyman: [about ECW's financial straits] The wrestling business at that stage became almost like the... the dot com industry, in that it was an inflated bubble. It had to burst. And... the pay scale just went off the chart. And it became very difficult to afford talent. And these guys are turning down... hundreds of thousands of dollars to go elsewhere just to stay with us. And there comes a time where that's not fiscally responsible to your own family. So we had to step it up. We had to get licenses, we had to get advertisers, we had to get sponsers and the only way to do that is to be real enough to be on national TV.::Matt Hyson: It-it was a struggle. I mean, that was when we... a lot of the guys were starving, you know? That was when you were eating tuna and then rice seven days a week. Uh... so it was tough because the veterans that were there, uh, that couldn't put up with it quit. And these were the guys with the... the rest of the locker room looked up to. And, you know, here I was going "What the hell? Bam Bam Bigelow just walked out." Because he says this place, you know, isn't worth it. And I'm going, in my mind, I'm thinking "Is he right? Am I, you know, trying to stay on a sinking ship? I mean, it's obvious my checks are bouncing. Why should I be loyal to this guy now?"

D-Von Dudley: [about ECW's demise] It just died, at the end. I think Paul E. just gave up.::Bubba Ray Dudley: Paul did things his way. Paul was gonna live by the sword and die by the sword. He lived by his ways and he died by his ways. And that's why ECW's not around today. Because of... mismanagement is probably the best word I could give it.

ECW Guilty as Charged 2001 (2001)

Actors: Rob Van Dam (actor), Matt Hyson (actor), Jonathan Rechner (actor), Joey Styles (actor), P.J. Walker (actor), Mikey Whipwreck (actor), James Maritato (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Terry Gerin (actor), Yoshihiro Tajiri (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), Steve Corino (actor), Paul Heyman (producer), Jasmin St. Claire (actress),

Plot: ECW Title (Tables Ladders Chairs & Canes Match): Justin Credible vs. The Sandman vs. Steve Corino, Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn, ECW Tag Team Titles: Amish Roadkill & Danny Doring vs. The Hot Commodity, I Quit Match: Tommy Dreamer vs. C.W. Anderson, Balls Mahoney & Chilly Willy vs. Simon Diamond & Swinger, Yoshihiro Tajiri & Mikey Whipwreck vs. The Full-Blooded Italians vs. Kid Kash & Super Crazy, Nova vs. Chris Hammerick (special referree Spike Dudley), Cyrus & Jerry Lynn vs. Joey Matthews & Christian York

Keywords: hit-with-a-chair, professional-wrestling, wrestling
Genres: Action,

ECW Anarchy Rulz 2000 (2000)

Actors: P.J. Walker (actor), Rob Van Dam (actor), Jonathan Rechner (actor), Paul Heyman (actor), Joey Styles (actor), Yoshihiro Tajiri (actor), James Maritato (actor), Bill Alfonso (actor), Steve Corino (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), Matt Hyson (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Jerome Young (actor), Mikey Whipwreck (actor),

Genres: Sport,

ECW Guilty as Charged 2000 (2000)

Actors: Dusty Rhodes (actor), Paul Heyman (actor), Scott Levy (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), James Maritato (actor), Joey Styles (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Steve Corino (actor), Bill Alfonso (actor), Matt Hyson (actor), Terry Brunk (actor), Terry Gerin (actor), Lance Storm (actor), Rob Van Dam (actor), Yoshihiro Tajiri (actor),

Genres: Sport,

ECW Hardcore Heaven '00 (2000)

Actors: P.J. Walker (actor), Bill Alfonso (actor), Lance Storm (actor), Yoshihiro Tajiri (actor), Rob Van Dam (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Joey Styles (actor), Jonathan Rechner (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Terry Gerin (actor), James Maritato (actor), Steve Corino (actor), Jerome Young (actor), Mikey Whipwreck (actor),

Genres: Sport,

ECW Living Dangerously '00 (2000)

Actors: P.J. Walker (actor), Rob Van Dam (actor), Dusty Rhodes (actor), Terry Gerin (actor), Lance Storm (actor), Joey Styles (actor), Jonathan Rechner (actor), Steve Corino (actor), James Maritato (actor), Scott Levy (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Bill Alfonso (actor), Jerome Young (actor), Michael Bucci (actor),

Genres: Sport,

ECW November to Remember 2000 (2000)

Actors: Mikey Whipwreck (actor), P.J. Walker (actor), Joey Styles (actor), Jonathan Rechner (actor), Yoshihiro Tajiri (actor), James Maritato (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), Matt Hyson (actor), Terry Gerin (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Brian Heffron (actor), Steve Corino (actor), Jasmin St. Claire (actress), Jerome Young (actor),

Genres: Sport,

Extreme Championship Wrestling: Heatwave '00 (2000)

Actors: Terry Gerin (actor), Rob Van Dam (actor), Joey Styles (actor), Yoshihiro Tajiri (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), Dionicio Castellanos (actor), Jonathan Rechner (actor), Steve Corino (actor), James Maritato (actor), Brian Heffron (actor), Tom Laughlin (actor), Bill Alfonso (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Mikey Whipwreck (actor), P.J. Walker (actor),

Genres: Sport,

J'en suis! (1997)

Actors: Claude Fournier (director), Claude Fournier (writer), Roy Dupuis (actor), Micheline Lanctôt (actress), Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew), Arielle Dombasle (actress), Christian Fluet (miscellaneous crew), Martin Thibaudeau (actor), France Castel (actress), Xavier Dolan (actor), Jean-Guy Bouchard (actor), Guy Nadon (actor), Jean-Robert Bourdage (actor), Denis Papillon (editor), Patrick Huard (actor),

Plot: In order to make money fast to put his company back on track, Dominique finds a job as an antique dealer. But soon he realizes that the only way he will keep his job is by pretending he is gay, slowly breaking his marriage and stirring weird emotions from his mother...

Keywords: exclamation-point-in-title, homosexual, male-bare-feet, male-full-frontal-nudity, male-rear-nudity, punctuation-in-title, sherlock-holmes
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: J'en suis... en serez vous?