This movie was pretty damn entertaining. Since the film was a critical and box office success, why didn't The Crow gimmick turn Sting into an international gigastar?
>>21440574Cuz normal people think pro wrestlers are a joke.
>>21440574>Since the film was a critical and box office successNo it wasn't. The Crow was a cult hit that gained an audience through rentals. The only reason people saw it in theaters was because they wanted to see Brandon Lee get shot.
>>21440574The Crow released in 1994. And a big reason it was such a success was hype around Brandon Lee's on-set death. Sting didn't get the Crow gimmick until late 1996. Too late to cash in on the film's success. But he was very popular, appearing all over TV in commercials and guest spots. Definitely top 5 most mainstream wrestlers of the late 90s.
>>21440574fryboy and archer
>>21440574I wonder if there was ever a time for Sting to go back to surfer sting. Hogan went back to the red and yellow, so its not like Sting couldn't go back to the surfer paint.
>>21440574stink's popularity was entirely based on the crow gimmick and nothing else - he didn't have charisma, a great physique, good mic skills nor wrestling abilitymost overrated faggot in the history of wrestling.
Brandon Lee was a good looking dude
>>21440678Surfer Stink was also over
>>21440574>international gigastarWCW actually had notoriously shitty international reach from what I knowYou wouldn't guess it from a modern perspective, as Canada and the UK became important markets for later alternative feds in TNA and AEW
>>21440961So none of the japanese or lucha filler slop nobody cared about was worth it loool
>>21440574we love sting on /pw/!
>>21440971Nah, you do.
>>21440621this. it's a pretty shitty film overall, it's a comic adaptation, after all, and the director absolutely hates it. it can be enjoyable though, but the more you watch it, the more you see it's failures. Brandon Lee wasn't a good actor, it parallels Eddie dying
>>21441025So does everyone who isn't a seethin bitchola. Sorry you're in the camp that is.
>>21440574pretty sure this thread only exists cause i mentioned this movie in the /wwr/ general a few days ago
>>21440971>Ultimate Warrior's jannetty
>>21440574If Sting didn't get international gigasuccess with The Crow (resisting the nWo) gimmick, why are you still talking about the gimmick 30 years later, why was it such a generational success that his son is able to capitalize by catapulting his own wrestling career by association?
>>21440934Also Joker Sting.
>>21440963>none of the japanese or lucha filler slop nobody cared about was worth itthat stuff wasn't going to move the needle in Canada or the UK either way, it was Bret Hart they wasted money on without capitalizing on the two specific countries he was a big draw in
>>21440678okay zoomer>>21440918he was. sad passing
>>21440574He didn’t have the aura of Brandon
>>21440934>>21441062>using the arbitrary and specious term 'over'when he was surfer stink, despite being heavily pushed many times, was cheered simply because of how he was positioned, but he was never a draw, nor was he ever a draw as joker stinkthe only time he ever made an appreciable difference in the business is during the period of his debut as crow stink to starrcade 97>>21442039there's a good chance i'm older than you, and i also watched 90s as it was unfolding, and it's why i know that stink sucks, because i'm not little kid likes you who likes wrestlers because they're told to like wrestlers
>>21441041>it's a pretty shitty film overallIt's a dumb action revenge movie with some supernatural elements. It's fun slop.>Brandon Lee wasn't a good actorI think the kid is the only one with a worse performance than Brandon. The guy who played Top Dollar steals the movie for me.
>>21440574>Brandon Lee was killed in the exact way his father's character in his final film role diedAlways found that spoopy
>>21440574Hes literally on most peoples mt Rushmore of wrestling
>>21442468Bullshit. Only the most delusional revisionist would have Sting on their Mt. Rushmore.
>>21440574The real reason was that WCW booking absolutely did not allow Sting to finally get one over on the NWO. The biggest appeal behind Sting was the idea that he was the guy that was going to beat the NWO and it never happened.
>>21440667He's only given a shit about the money and he literally charges 5k more on appearances to put on the facepaint. Aint saying he didnt earn it but hes always been a faggot to the industry
>>21442468Brother hes not in my tp 50, the fuck? Hes in the same genre as Nash for me, dude barely did fucking anything but somehow was a goddamn megastar for decades, fucking baffling. Barely okay ring skills, fuckin awful promo skills, decent look. Bro is the luckiest piece of shit ever beyond even Maria Kannelis who is STILL getting paid to do jack and shit other than get pregnant and be injured
stink vs booker thttps://youtu.be/7LykSojNfEs?si=H2H4DWsLhmEd8arw
>>21440574The paint sure got over with the fans after he started using Seek and Destroy.
