5 Wrestling Movies You Need To See

#1 Ready to Rumble

Ready To Rumble definitely falls in the so bad it's good category.

Wrestling was quite arguably at the peak of its mainstream popularity when Ready to Rumble came out in 2000. Produced in cooperation with WCW, the film stars legitimate movie actors Oliver Platt, David Arquette, and Scott Caan alongside a cast of WWE luminaries that included top-shelf stars like Goldberg and Diamond Dallas Page.

Rarely has a movie about wrestling been as overtly illogical in its storytelling than this mess of a major motion picture. The film readily blurs the line between understanding wrestling as a form of entertainment and as a legitimate sport, casting Arquette and Caan as morons for being marks, while also ultimately coming down to legitimate fights in the wrestling ring to reestablish their hero.

The film sees popular wrestling stars recast as generic villains, and the actual actors left to try to make sense of a profoundly dumb movie.

This film makes the list because it’s just over the top enough to register as historically bad, and indirectly important to wrestling history for laying the groundwork for Arquette to get in the ring and have his infamous reign as WCW Champion.

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