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July 4th, 2020, 8:08 AM
#1
Cinematic Matches
A quick thread on the trend of WWE using cinematic matches lately. Do you think they are overdoing it lately or is this is now more a thing and WWE should keep doing more of them? I love matches like the “Boneyard Match” but personally I think they’re overdoing it lately and the novelty is starting to wear thin. I think they need to scale them back and keep them for special occasions like Mania.
Thoughts?
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July 4th, 2020, 8:15 AM
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Like everything they do, they've quickly done it too often so nobody cares anymore. It's not that they don't stand out and it's not that they aren't good, but the best part about wrestling is getting hyped for something, and it's a path of diminishing returns if they're doing a cinematic match every month. HOWEVER, everything is so repetitive in the COVID era, same building, same set up, same crowd, that I can appreciate them doing something to change that if just for half an hour.
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July 4th, 2020, 8:43 AM
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I could understand changing it up when there was no fans but now that they have “fans” again I fear that they are going to overplay the theme like a good song on the radio. Also they’re not always relevant to the theme.
Take Edge vs Orton recently for example. I liked it but was the cinematic feel really necessary? For one hyping it as “The Greatest Wrestling Match” ever was a mistake in itself and it didn’t need the bells and whistles and the retakes. They could have simply achieved an effect just having a normal match where Orton bested him leading to a rubber match. Edge could have avoided being injured if they didn’t have to re-shoot everything.
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July 4th, 2020, 10:06 AM
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too big to fail
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