WWE: The Attitude Era [Blu-ray]

Complete Listing
Here's the complete listing for this 3-disc DVD set and 2-disc Blu-ray set (the Blu-ray contains extras not found on the DVD edition)

Disc 1 - Documentary - The Birth of Attitude

Entrance Music

D-Generation X

Austin vs. McMahon

Long-Arching Stories

Innovations

New Demographic

Critics

Expansion

Comedy

Wealth of Talent

The World Was Watching

Watershed Period

Disc 1 Extras:

Jim Ross interviews Goldust & Marlena - Raw Nov 3, 1997

Steve Austin Throws the InterContinental Championship Off A Bridge - Raw Dec 15, 1997

Soldier of Love - Raw May 4, 1998

Mr McMahon Presents Mankind with the WWE Hardcore Championship - Raw Nov 2, 1998

Jim Ross Interviews Triple H - Sunday Night Heat July 25, 1999

An Evening At The Friendly Tap - SmackDown! Jan 20, 2000

Mae Young and the...

Pretty Dissapointing
I had very high hopes for this release, especially after last years holiday release for Stone Cold. I am pretty sad to say this release is a major letdown. To have a documentry on the most exciting era of wrestling ever at a shallow runtime of 57 minutes is a joke. I can tell this product was rushed with little planning. The documentry was not very good at all. Did not explain much, just some random attitude era clips.

I have also watched some of the bonus features, which are good. One problem though is you can not play all. You have to wait for the disc to load back to main menu. This gets frustrating since most of the clips so far have been 2-5 minutes. I don't want to go back to main menu after every short clip. Let me play all till I get tired.

All in All the content is good, but the product is not. It has very rushed feel, which is sad. I would like better documentry and ability to play all special features at once. WWE did not put much thought into this...

A Review of Attitude
I'm only gonna talk about the Documentary itself, because let's face it, we're not buying this for the extras. To me, this seem more like a quick review of the Attitude Era instead of a real in-depth documentary that we all wanted. Instead of behind-the-scenes interviews that reveal what went on behind the titan-tron, we get superstars talking about how great certain matches were and discussing the how great the wrestlers were at that time. Sure, you get a few behind-the-scenes tidbits here and there, but I feel that they were too scattered.

Instead of telling the Attitude Era from start to finish, they chose to talk about varied subjects in what almost seems like in random order. Throughout the entire less-then-an-hour film, the superstars are constantly saying how they were too edgy, and how they weren't for kids, despite admitting several times that they weren't marketing towards kids at the time.

Overall I feel this was a quickly put together film that's...

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